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A good portion of the Vincent B. Rain collection is published here with many more writings waiting to be fitted into the site. The poetry and song collection is the biggest section with over fifty pieces. In the near future, many photos from the Rain photography archives will be added. A few of the poems & songs already have photos. |
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Drunken Boat/Pray for Him - new song April, 2011 |
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Rimbaud Journey At the end of May, I departed Paris headed by train to spend ten days in the combined towns of Charleville and Mezieres. Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville and that's where he is buried. He often wandered into Mezieres with his friend Paul Verlaine. He also visited a friend in the publishing business there. I explored places that Rimbaud lived, walked, found inspiration and got into mischief. I snuck up to the top of a steeple where Rimbaud allegedly dropped flower pots to scare fellow churchgoers. I made inquiries and wandered far beyond the usual tourist points of interest. My photography and video work was focused on capturing actual locations, mostly around beautiful waterways, structures and fortifications where Rimbaud wandered including an area that allegedly inspired his work Illuminations. My longtime interest in Rimbaud was preceded by a strong interest in exploring the dream state and the world of visionaries through planned films, poems and writings of my own. Rimbaud has fueled that vision. In the third segment of my journey, I wandered further into eastern France to meet my relatives for the very first time. It was a wonderful union that took me back into old family history. They also honored my request to take me to the birthplace of Joan of Arc where my mother had visited around 1932 as a schoolgirl and my father had visited as a soldier liberating France 1944, through no connection to each other. (My parents first met yesrs later in America). My interest in Joan of Arc is somewhat independent of my parents and partly rooted in her visions, final experience and power over tyrants. Thisinterst came about lahgely through Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith.. Currently, I am living a somewhat austere life in my van and searching to buy low cost mountain land in Colorado. Life in a van can be difficult. But being close to the outdoors provides a vital intimacy with nocturnal dream life. I sleep better and often dream better. The experience is also allowing me to keep more money invested in stocks while others prefer to burn money for their landlords. I hate giving vast piles of money to people called "Lord". Money is very much a promising tool for any creative person with hope. When you get some you must make it into a positive factor in what you do. And you must make it grow by any reasonable means. We are all enslaved to money or liberated by it or both. In due time, I hope to begin posting photos of my Rimbaud journey once I am more settled. I returned from France on 8 July, 2011 Within the coming year I hope to be living on land of my own and creating my first writer retreat to live and work while hopefully making further journeys to Paris every few years. I am also hoping to find cheap rural land within 75 miles of NYC in order to expand my working horizon as a writer, photographer and screenwriter/film aspirant.. |
Specs of gold - Rolling Boulder |
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- New section called "Another Damned Dream" is tentatively planned. It would be a page of dreams that Vincent has either recorded or remembered over a lifetime. The page was inspired when Vincent experienced an extremely fierce and warm wind, looked toward downtown Denver and saw skyscrapers burning ferociously. Things were catching fire much closer as well. And there was no longer any place to run. People were freaking out, realizing it had come to this. There was smoke everywhere. But Vincent woke up and realized it was just the smokers in other apartments down the hall.
- In the near future (2011), Vincent hopes to be traveling to northeastern France on a research project as fodder for a slowly emerging literary work expected to take many years. Can't speak French? No problem.
- Plenty of material is yet to be added including poems and some photos by Vincent and of Vincent. Some of the photos are aesthetic. Others portray Vincent in youth and in recent times.
- Vincent is looking for good musicians who might be into backing him up as a poet singer. Just about any instruments might work. All songs in the VBR collection have melodies but most of them need arrangements.
- There is also a plan to scout for hard-to-find bargain rural land in the upper Hudson Valley, New York or Connecticut, that might enable Vincent to have recurring access to New York City to explore specialized poetic groups, literary groups, photography and possibly a rural home sound studio.
- The site is being gradually resized from the old common standard of 640 pixel width, to the new standard of 1,024 pixel width (like this page).
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Visit the Vincent B. Rain Myspace page at: Myspace.com/VincentBRain |
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Site launched 2002 March 30 Saturday