Sj ‒ Reflection (ft. Anna Pancaldi) [Official Music Video]
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you have your questions written down uh yes I do i did just add some too okay uh whenever
you're ready to begin just going to go through the normal stuff so can you tell me so i know
that you were born in long island uh can you tell me a little bit more about your background,
where you're from and how you grew up? i was born in green port long island in 1955 uh
its a small peninsula on the end closer to new london than it is New York. uh i uh my
father was an artist and a movie manager uh so i was raised in a movie theater as a kid
i went to perokial school uh survived through high school. didn't particularly like it uh
and uh from there kind left pretty much my home town uh for all intensive purposes the
day after i graduated from high school i got on a jet and uh flew to california and started
traveling from there. I was back and forth for all intensive purposes that was the end
of that so why did you hate high school so much? I don't think it was a an ideal hating
it i just particular didn't enjoy the experience. and uh i wanted to be doing other things.
so what was your earliest memory that you can recall. My earliest memory is a looking
at a fire down below out of a window in a shipyard. i was told that i was months old
and i was either in my mothers or my fathers arms. it was at night and it was in an apartment
on top of a hardware store. so my earliest memory is of a shipyard fire. alright so what
was your childhood like? what kind of relationship did you have with your family? oh fine. you
know i think that like a lot of kids i was the only child until i was 8 or 9 and then
my two sisters came along that was some adjustment to play outdoors to spend time with my father
uh lots of friends, liked sports, liked music a lot and eventually became very interested
in art and writing and things of that nature. but it was a fairly traditional. okay so um
on your website you mentioned that you were so on your website you mentioned that you
were baptized on spot with coca-cola? well that was my, my mother never liked that comment.
um no i was just like some extended kind of fantasy thing. of being born into the world
of images that are very early age and influenced by the films and the characters that i saw
often quoted in saying spartacus was my babysitter if you know who spartacus was. umm and uh
year the usher looked like bobby darren if i remember thats what i said. he was a popular
50s star first smells of popcorn and the feel was the carpet on my ass. actually as far
as it goes if you wanna be attitomically correct i was a c section snd slightly premature.
i
like a lot of abstract as a matter of fact i like all of it. abstract, impressionism,
cubist, surreal art, dada, deco pretty wide range of visual expression but i have to admit
my father was an artist sang he did a lot of very early impressionist things patterned
after jackson pollick we talked about that and picasso. um the art pieces that are on
your website are those... my fathers that are? yeah. thats all of his early jazz related
theme that he did in the 50s and in the 60s he went through all kinds of styles and then
kind of came back around to that towards the end of his life but he did kinds of different
things his lowoflast, steam engine and stolipes, and pen and inks and historical landmarks
so yeah but at first and i incorporated all of those as covers into the books and cds
that i produced over the years. no you said that you sell your CDs and books internationally?
yeah you know when anybody interested you know these days you have a virtual store.
uhh they're available through the usual channels and on barns and nobles i do cd baby, iTunes,
just if you go in any incory its usual disbursle my stuff online.
nope he didn't own it he was just manager. well it looked like a good way to live because
he just worked at night. he was home during the day. and he was around i liked his nights
off. and i thought he had the coolest job in the world which was to manage a movie theatre
i spent a lot of time, i worked for him, as i got older and uh you know i come back to
town and need a few dollars. he lifestyle influenced me greatly i mean between. listened
to a lot of jazz, a lot of music, a lot of classical and uh he was very well read uh
so he was my first teacher. and i admired very much the was he seemed to navigate his
life he's a good guy. oh absolutely the sensibilities. absolutely. in terms of what i was familiar
with, even at a very early age. and then as you get old of course the context changes
because you understand more. of the people that created it. and the history behind it
and what it meant. culture at the time. it varies, it almost always starts with the written
word with this. I've been c trying a notebook around for all of my adult life if I'm not
leaving them on am track trains along with my books which i did this summer its terrivles.
outside of yonkers i put it in the luggage rack over the top and walked away from it.
but it always starts with the written word. and then evolves from there. particular some
of the things that are used, music is a big part. I've been able to work with a lot of
very talented musicians and friends. i love collaboration of that sought. well that particular
gengre yeah, i have a lot of written stuff uhh i refer to it sometimes as taking emotional
stagnomotry. uh it's always pretty visual. it hss narratives. they're stories, memories,
and a lot of times snapshots of the stream of conciseness which happen to be in the terrible
now. a portion of it is annedocal and biographical in terms of many of the times I'm talking
about either i experience first hand as a younger man or i got older the experience
of becoming a father and becoming a teacher and then aging and the perspectives changed
at the different periods that your life reflects, different stages. why johnny can't think yeah
that was kind of lifted from a my old man was always sending me things. he sent me a
list of pharmaceuticals at the time back in the 90s that were being given to kids were
some really kind of funny sarcastic kinda like variations on the phycotrophic and drugs
that were be given in riddle and and became something else. yeah that but then i go back
to greek methology big thing for that and in which latin a lot of different influences
i like language a lot and other historical periods because there really isn't anything
new under the sun and its kind of resynthicized . its new skin for an old ceremony. its a
loner colen quote from one of his albums who i like very much. yeah no I'm as good as doing
phones-bolognus in the cyber vanity mirror as well as anybody i figure what the hell.
i do for the sake of argument i do have a number of things on there that were written
by other people. colleagues or
you know poets
first on is my son. never thought id see that id become a father until i was 30 years old
he was a major influence of changing life in perception my best friends, still is at
31 years old now so i would say that other accomplishment is the ideal of being able
to teach for a living. work with all kinds of people with different points in their life
and what they're lerarning and i value that very highly and certain other experiences
that are personal they're not that extrordinary but they made an impression upon you that
taught a lesson either positive one or in sometimes one that you really needed to pay
attention to so that didn't happen again. but to put it in to anything cathartic or
catharsis you know there have been moments but its recognizing the ordinary. what happens
today is just as important as something that you would point to and say that was the best
or that was the worst and this has value as well.
get away. i wanted to get as far away from where i was as possible. i accomplished that.
thats as far as you can go cause the ocean. i didn't know anybody i didn't know what i
was doing at all. i wanted to get on the road. like a lot of the heroes I ready about find
out what experience life was like first hand in a totally new place. that was the news
classroom. and i would have never came back into the classroom if i didn't have to find
a job. because i like that better. i had my share, at this point here its more directed
towards specific goals if i have a reading down in New york cause I'm from down there
go see my mom or go see my son or something like that. but believe me if somebody came
up with an itinerary that paid i think id be gone tomorrow.
i mean through my twenties i did just about every kind of unskilled labor there was and
at some point it dawned on me that i needed a profession of something i might be able
to do so i said well, what the hell i could be an english teacher because i like literature.
no, i mean it would be nice.. to be honest with you i would love to have a collective
of younger artist, musicians, actors and actresses, dancers, people in the arts and then have
a ongoing concern they could get paid to work on various projects. to me that would be a
dream job. that would be to go into then you know work with the artist on the art work,
work with the musicians on recording, work with whatever it was and try to help them
find their voice and god forbid to be where they can make a little money off of it or
be successful or recognized cause i think thats very important.
it would be a collective of different disciplines you know some visual, some audio some performance
it would be very much of a variety of expression based upon the subject matter and whoever
you are working with what their strengths seem to be, what they were the best at.
i think theres been a few but like i said before i would have to point to when my son
was born on october 14th 1986.
oh of course he's down in brooklyn i have a daughter too. I have a daughter your age
in oswego. she came along about 8 years later. and you know but saw him 2 or three times
this summer. we do a lot together.
i don't know theres been a lot. id have to say one of the most surreal ones was teaching
at the chatuagua county jail for 17 years for boces. adult education with GED epreparation
high school equivalency and basic computer skills being in a lockdown situation with
individuals that had one reason or another put themselves in a pretty diehr situation
and then at the end of which you did on a day like today being able to leave and get
in your car and drive home and have a nice dinner while they went up to f-lock i think
that would qualify pretty good.
i was called an adult program professional. so its adult education.
i like it its usually things that i like to start my day anyway and i write a little bit,
look out the window, and basically hopes it sets a calm sort or laid back mood. cause
everybody starting their day at the same
time so.
in
terms of the days on campus up at 5:30 get myself going just my own routine. here usually
about 7:30 in the morning, set the classroom up and always have a plan about what you want
to do the day and go through the varies classes as best you can. usually finish up between
5 and 8 oclock at night. the actual intrusction time i probably put in class to 18/19 hours
in two days and then the rest i get to work out of the house which is a good three to
four hours a days of grading papers and lesson plans. i work every day. i early, do i ever
have a day unless its the summer where I'm not involved in planning for a class, doing
papers... so some days and thats probably one of the things i appreciate most is of
being my own boss and knowing what i need to do and not having to answer other than
you know normal job performance things.
Usually i do what i want. which is being able to travel thats kinda when i get booked for
the readings down in new york city area because then i at the time its much more difficult
to arrange it during the school semester time so during the summer yeah i worked during
this summer for example i recorded thirteen new sonic landscapes with dan burban out in
austin spa which I'm going to release digitally here in october through CDbaby. ill put together
the finishing touches on a new manuscript of poems and pros which is going to be published
down a line and other assortive projects. thats the time where i get to pursue i mean
I'm always working on it in the back of my mind but thats the time when i really get
to concentrate fully on that because lets face it your first job is to make a living.
no I'm usually i have in the past i did a couple up here that went pretty well. but
no usually I'm contacted by ongoing series of poets and organizations down in new york
and you know they sort of sign you up as a feature. and you basically just go there and
do your thing and be a part of their program.
you know, i kind of like them all. i do you know i do like being able to combine audio
stuff and music. i do like to combine visual with it very much and I've got a bunch of
visual stuff that i want to combine with it still. i do like the multi media and i like
collaboration with other artist, very very much other artist, writers, and musicians,
and whoever else is feeling creative at
the moment.
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