"It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen."
--Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Truth and Lies Experiment, a Keith Kimmel, the art of kEith, production (c) 2005, 2010
http://www.theartofkEith.com/truthliesblog.html every day in May 2005, Fort Collins, Co.
it was indeed EXPERIMENTAL. i STILL remember the glorious KUDOS i received direct from BABS of the sky pilot club. BABS being the right-hand man to the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey, and his merry pranksters. I still prank to this day.
But there was nothing like that time in Fort Collins in '05. We started it actually FOR THE RECORD in 2000. I followed a girl to that city, isn't it always the case. Long and the short of it is, I met Joseph Rouse through Ian Tyson and The AVO's band o' misfits, hobos, bohemians, friends ....
I was the inaugural art director and WRITER for the first OFFICIAL issue of the Rocky Mountain Bullhorn, a modest independent weekly with a heart of GOLD, published by Mr. Rouse. This was before JOsh Johnson, and Jay O'Farrell and Bethany (hot) and the rest of that 2005 crew ...
But anyhow, in 2000 I left the paper after only working on a couple of issues and then went to San Francisco where I met EV the bloke who started blogger and twitter, and I tried to sell him on Jeremy's Prophecy Dot Com, http://www.jeremysprophecy.com ; but he wasn't biting ...
money went tight so i sped across the divide back to Illinois to meet my (beloved) at the time, who was busy busy busy (as always) .. with earning her degree. we shacked up in Western Chicago and I FROZE my ass off for a year, I ate all kinds of hot dogs, and basically slept ... I slept and slept.. ... exercised a fever .. and slept some more .... finally, i think somebody gave me some speed pill ... YUP, it was adderol (there i said it) and SLAP BAM BANG i was on my way back to colorado.
i started back at the bullhorn again as an assistant graphic designer, the bullhorn was now rather established, and cruising along in the SPIRIT complex, the building just off of mason street, south of EVERYDAY JOE's, across from the LAMDA COMMUNITY CENTER and OF COURSE next to Wil's Massage Studio.
Now there was no FUCKIN way i was going to be doing graphic design my whole life, but there i was the assistant to some skateboard dude with big old holes in his ears! Jeremy's Prophecy Dot Com, the novel, was in bookstores all across the country, but wasn't selling very well ... and I have to be frank, I wanted to jump off a bridge ...!
and it was then, THEN when I was sitting in Avo's with Kate, having one of their renowned TEMPE burgers and Fries that I put down my FORK and said I have got to do something. And that was when, after that meal, that I was walking back to work, that I discovered EVERYDAY JOE's, a church, disguised as a coffee house. And there, sweeping the floor, like a humble maid was ... Suzzane, the woman who gave me the entire month of May to experiment with .... wherein i painted and wrote and made music and had shows, and performers, and magicians, and mad hatters, and ....
the results are hard to describe, but the reality is in the ETHER! this blog, this blog here, offers some of the the nitty gritty.
The OFFICIAL unofficial Truth and Lies Experiment BLOG--> http://www.theartofkEith.com/truthliesblog.html a Keith Kimmel, the art of kEith, production (c) 2005, 2010
