Update:

I just heard from Johnny Voltik that his debut album, "The Red" is almost finished.  And word on the street is that he may be performing a show sometime soon in Boston with his old cronies, the III Kings.


Stay tuned....

I suppose the first blog is the most difficult one to initiate, as this one is proving to be a pain in my arse.  My feelings and thoughts aren't really anybody's business - I hate talking about myself and I'm rabid about my privacy.  Who's going to read this?  Who the hell cares about what I think?  I know I don't care what you think - so what prompts me to do this blog?

I dunno....Isobel Music Society needs to be in the game.  We need to participate.  The US has elected a Black man as president - that means the world is officially changing.  Josh, Renessa and I have sat up, yammering through the night about how the world needs a change, how we want to help be the change and how we were going to live wild pink angels - that is, intoxicated by love, art, work , community and innovation.

You can't do that half-assed - my dad once told me...aha!  It doesn't matter whether or not you know what my dad once told me.  I know what I must do.  I know Renessa and Josh do too.  So look to for us on the horizon; we are the voice crying out in the desert.  Our work and art and community will speak louder than words and louder than bombs.  Magenta bullets of love whizzing by your ears - Isobel Music Society & The Isobel Center For The Arts.


To hell with it:

Go listen to Rufus Wainwright's "April Fools".  After that, listen to Bruch's Romance in F Major for Viola.  I would follow that up with Jimi Hendrix's "Izabella."

....You will know what I mean by Wild Pink Angels. 

G'nite,

~Chuck

Yellows are the sunniest, happiest and most childlike personalities in the color-spectrum. "All I want to do is have some fun!" is a song which is a wonderful representation of Yellows and shows their easy going, light and sunny character. These playful people have a wonderful sense of humor. They love to laugh and intimately enjoy life from many different angles. They advocate relaxation, the pure joy of life and live spontaneously. They are always reminding other people to not take life too seriously and to always look on the bright side. Life and work should both be enjoyed.

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In harmony Yellows are very creative. They love to work with their hands and enjoy doing such things as writing, painting, repairing things or sculpting. They know how to enjoy mental-creative and physical reality with all its variations. In balance Yellows are happy and content personalities. They inherently know how to accept whatever is happening in their lives. Yellows are the most child-like personalities in the color spectrum and they never want to grow up. As a result they generally look younger then they actually are. They love to travel, to see the world, to relax on a wonderful beach and have fun dancing all night long. You will immediately recognize if a Yellow is happy, sad or feels uneasy, because they emit unusually strong body language. A Yellow body never lies. It always shows the truth. They are sensitive and intuitive through their physical bodies and also through their touch. Therefore, Yellows are often found in occupations such as healing or massage. They love to be around people and they enjoy helping people. They have healing hands and a healing, light attitude towards life. All these qualities make Yellows excellent healers or therapists.

Yo...
Which one of ya'll went to the inauguration?!?!?!?
I didn't go see it live..damn..but...ok...check it
I went to the gym to do my run and watch it. I conveniently got on a treadmill next to this fine ass women I would always see at the gym right. I started with a walk at a speed of about 3 mph. Boom Aretha came on. I payed my respects "my country tis of thee". Sing it Aretha!!!
She took the 's' off of "land where my fathers died" and everything. At this point I sped my run up to 4.5. Oh yeah before that, all of the elite came out and that was where I sped up at. What a special thing this was. As I am jogging I began to wonder if i would see my sister gemeem or my mother. I kid you not 2 minutes later I see her in the crowd. I tapped the girl on the other treadmill and said "Holy shit!! Thats my moms!". While I was watching this i was doing a run to increase speed which means speeding up every quarter mile then going back to neutral. When president Obama was being sworn in I sped my pace to 7.5 miles per hour which is fast for me right now. Don't you know I ran that speed for about 2 miles. I was so inspired and things really started to set in. Part of me feels like there is some sort of trick going on. Maybe that is just the residual of past disappointments. This time around people really stepped up to the plate and got involved in govt.
Remember in in one of my first blogs I put we are stepping into the renaissance period. It is here!!!!

Today I saw Notorious!! I love Biggie all over again. I was totally inspired by his story. He became a man at the end before his life was cut short. I wonder what he would be saying right now man. The music industry is in shambles. There are alot of artists that are not coming totally from the heart. What would Pac say? Fuck that what do YOU say? Man the fuck up! It is 2009 we have a president that represents the people. The bar has been raised. My home girl KiKi Breeve Life was like "there ain't gon be no more hollaring at dudes and them dudes be like 'Im on the block ma' there will be no more of that shit "  All the artists that are not true artist are going to have to find another way soon. Everyday the playing field is getting leveled. The dark ages are over. Yeah that shit was dope, yup...(keyword "was"). "Stop it if you think your gonna make a profit". Now as I write this, I think my mixtape is at the tail end of the dark ages. There are a few glimpses of what is to come. Now don't get it twisted, I wish to make a hansome living off of my art but my goal is to inspire the greatest good out of life.

I am working on some mind boggling shit where people are gonna be like "wtf? I love this!". I read an article from Ghostface (again) he said artists don't write from the heart anymore, arists write from the mind. I aspire to bring that beautiful union where heart and mind become one. Science and instinct act together. As far as style, Pac was heart with some mind. Biggie was mind with some heart. Toward the end of there physical lives, Pac's lyrics became more clever, Biggie's lyrics displayed more virtue.

(I maybe reaching for this one but) In a way Barack represents that balance. That brilliant heart, a poised fire, calm conviction. His thought is married to feeling. If there are people out there still living in doubt, develope yourselves. Through that developement dreams are made physical. Practice fuels faith, it is the alchemy by which visions come to life.

Impulses are like clay, when sculpted by the mind they are made into masterpieces. Johnny Voltik
Shit where was I?

Check me out live "Rock Star Arena" at the Bowery Poetry Club Feb 5th 2009 10pm, 5 beans to get in...
Grease

Whats hood, whats hood, whats really hood?

YO!!

More quotes I love,

So yeah...

So the time is here. The other night at precisely 6:23pm, on the Eve of Election Day, in the heart of Harlem New York, I Johnny Voltik got the Missile Factory Mixtape Vol. 2 duplicated. The Release date was Election Day, November 4th 2008. I was talking with my fellow execs at Isobel Music Society and they told me I was firing the first shot. Suddenly my mind went to "Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers". You know the part when the soldier fires the first arrow as Saron's army lines up to destroy Helms Deep. (if you don't know look it up). Thinking from my imaginative mind, I feel like we are the fellowship of the ring. Is Barack Aragorn? hmmmm..