We fall astray when we deny nature. 74. Living on a small island in the Philippines.
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Power of the Trinity
AKAE BEKA
watercolor, los angeles, 2017
Once upon a time you were floating in a warm sea of amniotic fluid, dreaming.
watercolor, los angeles, 2017
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recent drawing
pencil drawing, Calbayog City, 2025
Beauty and love remain undefined.
And that's best.
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I Don't Know Anything
MAD SEASON
Mad Season live at the Moore Theater, 1995
Mad Season: Barrett Martin, Layne Staley, John Baker Saunders, and Mike McCready
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colored pencil & pen, Los Angeles 2016
I'm a big admirer of Paul Klee.
I don't think Klee ever used this motif but as I drew this I was thinking about him.
Embrionic Journey - Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane)
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midnites
watercolor and pen, westwood, 1985
I used to have bad insomnia. I'd toss and turn in the middle of the night and finally, in frustration, I'd roll over and draw. I kept a drawing lying next to me just for this purpose. In the middle of the night I'd drawn until sleep came. The above drawing is one such piece. Slowly drawn in the wee hours of the morning during bouts of insomnia.
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Dust in the Wiind
KANSAS
pencil drawings inverse color
Calbayog City, 2022
I loved this song when it came out. I loved it as an existentialist. That life is it's own meaning. And even that meaning is transient. I loved it as a deep thinking 26 year old.
Let me tell you, this song hits way different at age 74.
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drawing
pencil drawings, Calbayog City, 2024/25
I try to draw a little bit every day. It's good for the soul. And it's free.
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Of Mice and Men
black sharpie on beige paper
Rosemead, 2011
This drawing is actually petty big. About 36 inches in length. I spent some time on it.
Let me tell you a story.
A year or so after I made this drawing, I met a guy who loved my art. He told me he had connections in Hollywood. He was friends with a guy who owned a gallery. He was going to arrange for a showing of my drawings. This, of course, sounded great to me, so I went out and had six of my best pieces professionally framed, including this drawing.
And then... the guy went crazy.
Seriously.
The guy had a complete mental break down.
Babbling crazy kind of breakdown. Dude!
The last I heard about the guy he was being taken to his family's home in New York where he was going to be committed to a mental hospital.
I still have the pieces framed.
Kind of funny.
I made a few nice inverse color prints of this drawing.
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Cans
watercolor and pen, los angeles, 2015
These will look nice here.
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Purple Haze
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
In 1967, when Jimi Henrix appeared out of nowhere, it was like an apparition from some other world.
We were all thunderstruck.
Jimi Hendrix
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the mind's eye
The river and the moon
colored pencil and pen, Los Angeles, 2018
If I could only show you my dreams. Listen to me, I dream in deep blue. Deep deep blue.
Visceral, almost violet blue.
And reds.
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Perfect day
LOU REED
pencil drawing, Calbayog City, 2025
Today is my birthday.
I'm 74 years old and it's a perfect day.
Live long and prosper my friends.
🖖
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Sleep
watercolor, los angeles, 2016
When I can't sleep I close my eyes and visualize drawing. Sometimes I visualize drawing with the pencil. Other times I see the brush laying down pigments. At some point my mind becomes interested in the drawing and I begin to dream...
watercolor, los angeles, 2016
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Black sharpie on paper
Los Angeles 2015
I like this drawing.
I know the signature is upside down.
But so is the drawing.
Destiny - Zero 7
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Snails
pen drawings
Los Angeles 2017-2018
Do snails dream? And if snails dream, of what do they dream?
Do snails dream of wet clover and fresh lettuce?
Do adolescent snails have wet dreams and leave little snail nuts on the morning grass?
So cute.
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a curious snail
watercolor
Los Angeles 2018
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Angel from Montgomery
JOHN PRINE
I am an old woman
Named after my mother
My old man is another
Child who's grown old.
If dreams were lighting
And thunder were desire
This old house would have burnt down
A long time ago.
Make me an angel
To fly from Montgomery
Make me a poster
Of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
That I can hold on to
To believe in this living
Is just a hard way to go.
-- John Prine
John Prine
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Next door
pencil drawing in my moleskine
Calbayog City 2024
"Our lives are what we do while we're dreaming about doing something else." John Lennon
Massive Attack - The man next door
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Visions of Johanna
pencil drawing
Calbayog City 2024
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet.
We're sitting here stranded though we're all doing our best to deny it.
-- Bob Dylan
Visions of Johanna- Bob Dylan
pencil drawings
Calbayog City 2024
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Feel Good Inc
Happy New Years to everyone on Earth.
I'm lying here recovering from four days of bing excess. The Filipinos like to stay up all night eating, drinking whiskey and singing karaoke and God bless them.
Whew.
I've been on Tumblr for a year now. Thank you everyone for all your likes and follows. Here is a recap of some of the drawings I have shared. The dates of the pieces range from 1977 to 2024. In no particular order.
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
"The best is yet to come" - Frank Sinatra
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Cigarettes after sex - Apocalypse
colored pencil and sharpie
Calbayog City 2024
The Tao is an image that has no form - Lao Tsu
There is danger on either side of pink - Anon
My 5 yo daughter asked for a drawing with pink in it so I drew this. She says she likes it but I think she likes her Legos more which is reasonable.
My brother, on the other hand, said he liked it more when it was unfinished and still had some white areas.
Maybe..
Luckily I took an in progress photo.
Time for coffee.
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Like a Stone
AUDIOSLAVE
The past and the future don't exist. They literally don't exist.
What does exist is this thin sliver of a moment that we call now. Just now, wedged between a past and a future that aren't even real. I know this. I know this..
But tell me, why is the past so real in my dreams?
I woke up. Outside in the distance I heard roosters crowin̈g, and I remembered where I was. I felt my dreams vanishing into nowhere. Kind mercy.
Dim morning light gently poured in through the curtains casting gray shadows across our bed. I stretched out my legs and gave my entire body a deep stretch, squeezing out the last of the demons. I looked up at the clock. 5 am.
We sleep together on a huge bed. My wife and myself with our two young kids nestled in between us. Piled together. Filipino style.
I quietly made my way over to my wife's side of the bed and climbed in with her.
Early morning is our time.
Time is real. I know it is. But it plays with me.
Time is something that happens on the outside but on the inside. inside our minds, there is no time. On the inside there is only now.
Now, is eternity.
It's all we know.
Wedged in between a past and a future that aren't even real.
Calbayog City 2024
pencil drawing in my moleskine
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Hail the King
AKAE BEKA
Time passes slowly here in the provinces.
Each day I read the news coming out of America and I thank God I got out of there.
Calbayog City, Philippines, 2024
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Blaze Foley - If I could only fly
black sharpie on paper
Monrovia 1996
Almost felt you touching me just now
Wish I knew which way to turn and go
Feel so good, then I feel so bad
Wonder what I ought to do
If I could only fly, if I could only fly
I'd bid this place goodbye
to come and be with you
But I can hardly stand,
I got no where to run
Another sinking sun,
one more lonely night
- Blaze Foley
black sharpie and colored pencils
Westwood 1986
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Rasta no born
SANG HUGH
My drawings are what I did while I was drawing.
Various 1986 - 2024
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Space Oddity
DAVID BOWIE
Live at the Ivor Novella Awards, London, 1970
David Bowie
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Infinite Ovum
black sharpie
Los Angeles 2013
Did you know that the ovum that went on to become you was quietly resting in your mother's overy when your mother was a fetus inside your grandmothers womb?
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Black sharpie in my moleskin
Earwax cafe Chicago, 2000
Is the Earwax cafe still open? Anyone in Chicago? I used to go there and drink esspresso coffee and doodle in my moleskin.
Sipping a warm cup of coffee while just outside there'd be a raging cold midwestern blizzard. I loved Chicago.
Earwax Cafe, Chicago
from my moleskine
Earwax Cafe, Chicago 2000
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