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WE ARE THE FUCKING STORM!

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announcing the release of

THE STORM GENERATION
God's Open Nerve, We Are The Fucking Storm
streetzine


volume 1 issue 2
August 2008
52 pages
free

includes prose, poetry, photographs, paintings, graphics, announcements

available on Bardstown Road ( earX-tacy records , Wild n Wooly video, Carmichael's books ), the streets of Louisville , and round the world. soon available on new www.thestormgeneration.com website.

produced by The Storm Generation member Helina Marie Berryman and co-founder (w/Iceland's Olafur Gunnarsson) Ron Whitehead

2nd issue includes work by 36 contributors from round the world: Kari Gridley (North Carolina), Steve Dalachinsky (New York), Michael Dean Odin Pollock (Iceland/Kentucky), Charlie Newman (Illinois), Gui Sedley Stuart (Kentucky), Gidget Tincher (Kentucky), Sean Callahan (Ireland), Colin Shaddick (England), Andy Cook (Kentucky), Birgitta Jonsdottir (Iceland), Robert M. Zoschke (Wisconsin), Maria Ines Mogaburu (Argentina), Jen Burks (Kentucky), Marcus Maraldo (Kentucky), Olafur Gunnarsson (Iceland), Elizabeth Jasper (Mississippi), Sherman Etherton (Indiana), Jake Boone (Kentucky), Lisa Sullivan (Kentucky), John Joseph Petrolino III (New Jersey), Lee Troutman (Kentucky), Lance Detrick (Kentucky), Divinity Rose (Kentucky), Johanna Hjalmtysdottir (Iceland), Kara Hockenbury (Kentucky), Piper Robbins (California), Rani Newman (Kentucky), William McKeen (Florida), His Holiness The Dalai Lama (India), J.B. Wilson (Kentucky), Helina Marie Berryman (Kentucky), Ron Whitehead (Kentucky)

for more info and to submit creative work and/or event announcements please contact

The Storm Generation thestormgeneration@yahoo.com

if you live outside Louisville, Kentucky and you'd like to receive a copy for usa please send $5 and for overseas please send $15 to

Helina Berryman
The Storm Generation International Headquarters
1520 Cherokee Road #10
Louisville, Kentucky 40205


Special Thanks to J.B. Wilson, Karla Diehl & Art Ecology for helping to make this project possible!!!
Check out Ron Whitehead's 5 Art Ecology Classes he's teaching this fall. www.artecologyllc.com

I'm Tapping My Own Phone!!!

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Photo By Kory Johnson


The Storm Generation Manifesto

by Olafur Gunnarsson and Ron Whitehead

 

we tip our hats to the lost and the beat

we go our own way

we are the storm generation

we are the fucking storm

we are a new generation of artists

we are poets writers painters sculptors composers musicians singers dancers playwrights filmmakers

we are creative expression

we blow away lies and injustice

we are graphic

we are honest

we tell it like it is

we are fierce

we are brutal

we are compassionate

we are gentle

we are kind

we have soft hearts

we are free

we are spirit

we are sex

we dwell in the realms of the creative imagination

we are the creative imagination

we know that the shortest distance between two points is creative distance

we pay attention to the long forgotten wisdomed voices of the forest

we vanquish the overtly materialistic greedy who intentionally destroy mountains

we honor mountains and oceans and eagles and wolves

we cherish mother earth and all her terrible beauty

we are non-violent spiritual warriors

we are lightning

we are thunder

we are songed poems

we are fearless visionary poets

we have wolf eyes

we are more than the eye of the storm

we are the fucking storm

we refuse

we will not bow down

we will never give up

we are God's open nerve

we are The Storm Generation

 

copyright (c) 2008 Olafur Gunnarsson and Ron Whitehead

 

The Storm Generation was founded in Iceland in May in the year of our Lord 2008 by Olafur Gunnarsson and Ron Whitehead.

The first Storm Festival will be held in Iceland in 2009. From Iceland and Kentucky the storm will spread and sweep the globe.

 

AHA

june 19, 2008

hello folks!

jb_ron1 (101K)

Photo By JB Wilson


hello folks! Helina and I have made the decision to not get married. 

personality differences, doubts, i'm too intense etc. several important reasons.

all good. Helina's a beautiful wonderful person and we'll remain friends and do 

some work together. we may even continue living together, for a while.

I thank each and every one of you for your support and your friendship!!!

as all of you know, regardless of anything and everything, i'll continue my 

creative work, which is growing catapulting avalanching at light speed. 

in midst of gazillions of new creative projects. my fire growing stronger day 
by day night by night. so please stay tuned.

thanks!!!!

your friend always

Ron

who is in creative hyperdrive

crosseyed yogi whirling dervish madman public hermit


SOUTHSIDE has been reconfigured. we've added several new members. new SOUTHSIDE includes

Ron Whitehead and SOUTHSIDE

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Photo By JB Wilson


Outlaw/Trouble/Hard Times/Resistance to Authority/Americana/RocknRoll/Spoken Word/Soul

3 new CDs: SOUTHSIDE LOUNGE, WFPK Live Lunch,

PUNKS AIN'T DEAD

Scott Mertz (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Sarah Elizabeth (vocals, guitar), Andy Cook (percussion, drums, didgeridoo), Kelly Wilkinson (vocals, guitar), Lightnin Luke Powers (electric guitar, vocals, harmonica), Erica Jones (bassoon), Scott Moore (electric & acoustic fiddle/violin), Yoruba Kikiloma-Mason (vocals), Lee Troutman (guitar, vocals),

Ron Whitehead (vocals).


"I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson

www.tappingmyownphone.com

www.southsideoutlaws.com


"Waylon Jennings meets Beck...and Whoops his ASS!!!"

www.myspace.com/mertzartist


"Sarah's voice is deep and seductive, stunning and gorgeous, majestic, elusive power, with literary sensibilities, a true Kentucky original." Stephen George

www.myspace.com/barefootsongbird


for more info and to book contact Ron Whitehead email ron@tappingmyownphone.com, phone 270 403 6941, official websites www.southsideoutlaws.com and www.tappingmyownphone.com

upcoming SOUTHSIDE shows include

August 8th @ Skull Alley. Lisa Worley opens. doors open 7pm. show starts 7:30pm $5 cover. (add Skull Alley address & contact info, which i can't find. fuck!). plus many upcoming fall winter spring SOUTHSIDE shows.

big news! October will see release of 2 new SOUTHSIDE CDs: SOUTHSIDE does Live Lunch!!! plus PUNKS AIN'T DEAD. that's right, SOUTHSIDE will have 3 new CDs out in 7 month period!!! Are We Crazy?! you better believe it!!!!

plus. Ron Whitehead and SOUTHSIDE will be performing at world's largest poetry festival in Nicaragua mid-february.

LOUISVILLE poem project

friday September 26th 5 to 9pm unveiling release of Ron's new city of Louisville commissioned LOUISVILLE poem project which is gonna be huge. 14 artists included in this massive project. the unveiling will include Ron reading, exhibit of work by all 14 artists, plus DJ. event happening @ Gill Holland's The Green Building, East Marktet.



Side Notes

make sure and pick up copy of 2nd and probably the last edition of

The Storm Generation streetzine. hitting the streets 1st week of August.

also.

4th Hangoutology Happening will be saturday August 30th here at International Hangoutology Headquarters.

also. check out all the new youtube videos now available www.tappingmyownphone.com Video Section plus check out Argentina's Maria Ines' Spanish translations of many Ron poems www.tappingmyownphone.com Writing Section.
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I am the Fucking Storm
Photo by Birgitta Jonsdottir

near death on The Viking Mountain and SOUTHSIDE Lives

hello family and friends!!! my most amazing Iceland visit yet!!! solo climbed 
The Viking Mountain. wind was howling at the bottom. snow ice mudslides steep 
climbs then it started raining. when i reached the top the wind got 20 times 
stronger and the rain began to pour. drenched to the bone. the giant boulders 
at the top were slippery. i could barely hold on. and the wind was pulling on 
my backpack. i felt like a toothpick with a parachute on my back. i could see 
myself being pulled hundreds of feet out into the air and the long fall. several 
climbers have fallen from here to their deaths. 3 times it nearly happened to 
me. then i crawled behind a boulder which blocked some of the wind. i rested 
there for 15 minutes. i had epiphanies. then i took my 1.5 liter red wine bottle 
out of my backpack and stood up facing the wind. i raised a toast to the fierce 
Norse Gods thanking them for embracing and accepting me. i took a long drink 
emptying half the bottle. i embraced the wind which blew all sorrow all Sarah 
right out of me. i said God bless Sarah and Wes and their baby. i let go of them. 
i let go self suffering. i claimed complete freedom, at all levels of being, 
for myself and everyone. 
i was healed. i made my descent.
so. entire trip amazing. climbing lava black snow capped mountains, hiking 
beside crystal clear blue water rapids mountains rivers ocean, swimming outside 
in geothermally heated pools, wanderings thru Thingvellir (sacred nature and Viking site), 
inspired performances, healings, visits with old and new friends. road warrior 
friend and fellow SOUTHSIDE member Scott Mertz was with me for over a week then 
he headed on to The Netherlands. this was Scottīs first visit to Iceland. he got 
to experience all the natural beauty (land and people) iīve described to him 
and others) for long time. we stayed (iīm still here) with Olafur Gunnarsson 
(Icelandīs leading writer, world class writer and storyteller, his work worthy 
of Nobel Prize in Literature) and his beautiful wife Elsa and sons Peter and 
Kolpee (great singers musicians). they are some of the most beautifully wonderful 
people on the planet. and their home (the house and its location out in Iceland nature) 
are inspiringly gorgeous. iīve loved every minute of it. and i also got to spend 
weekend visiting with my old friend fellow road warrior, and co-founder with 
me of The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue, Michael Dean Odin Pollock who 
happens to be one of the best musicians on the planet. Michael and i got caught 
up on all fronts plus we had long visit with his son Marlon who is one of the 
best rap/hip hop artists anywhere. we also visited with Marlonīs friend Poetrix, 
himself a new rap/hip hop star here in Iceland. i also got to visit and reconcile 
friendship with my old friend poet activist Birgitta Jonsdottir, and visited 
with her handsome sons Neptunus and Delphin. I went read and spoke with her at 
Free Tibet protest in front of Chinese Embassy. The Beat Festival at Stora 
Klopp/Big Rock received publicity from all Icelandīs top newspapers and radio. 
Icelandīs leading poets writers filmmakers publisher and cultural figures were 
in attendance. we were all lifted up and inspired. It was one of the best Beat 
Festivals iīve ever participated in. and because of its success there is talk 
that there will be another even bigger festival next year. 
Scott and I performed with Michael Pollock and Birgitta and Dean Ferrell and 
others. Thor, Icelandīs leading poet, gave a hilarious and poetically genius 
presentation. Olafur, who translated Kerouacīs On the Road into Icelandic, gave 
an inspired talk and his sons Peter and Kolpee sang one of their own songs which 
i guarantee you will become a #1 hit, plus they performed with Michael, Scott, 
and me. everyone sang Happy Birthday to Johan, Olafurīs publisher and Icelandīs 
leading publisher. a gigantic bonefire was built. hundreds of hot dogs were 
served. songs were sung. talks visits went on deep 
into the night. 
a few days later Michael, Scott, and I tore it up for packed house at BabaLu. 
Oli Palli, voted Icelandīs #1 dj and program manager for Radio Iceland, was there. 
he is now playing our new SOUTHSIDE LOUNGE cd on Radio Iceland. Oli Palli is a 
great guy. he has played Michaelīs work for years, with UTANGARDSMENN (voted 
Icelandīs Best Rock Group of the 20th Century) and all the other bands and 
musicians Michael has worked with for over 30 years. heīs also consistently 
played my cds, including the ones iīve done with Michael. 
hm. way too much to tell. oh. Olafur picked Scott and me up at airport in 
his baby blue 1968 Cadillac. what a sight!!! pure beauty. in coming weeks 
iīll write the entire experience down, probably in the new book iīve started 
which will be titled I AM THE FUCKING STORM: Godīs Open Nerve, The Storm Generation 
which yes will mention the Insomniacathons but will not be the official INSOMNIACATHON book. 
what i had hoped and prayed for has come true. i have been reborn into new inspired life.
thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!
i hope to visit with all of you soon!!!
your friend always
Ron
Stora Klopp/Big Rock
Iceland
p.s. Scott Mertz and I had many long talks including talks bout SOUTHSIDE. the good 
news for us is that SOUTHSIDE Lives. soon as we both get back to Kentucky weīre going 
to Powwow and dive into booking non-stop SOUTHSIDE shows and tours and shipping 
copies of the new SOUTHSIDE LOUNGE cd out for airtime and review. we are sending 
energies out for new female lead singer but in mean time weīre gonna continue 
booking and performing shows. yeeefuckinhaw!!!!!!! 
p.p.s. many Iceland photos and other photos and new film footage plus exciting 
announcements on the way.
Thanks for staying tuned.


jb_ron2 (70K)
the ART ECOLOGY/ART ECO Movement is the most exciting
arts movement since Edvard Munch painted "The Scream" and
birthed the Expressionist Movement since Marcel Duchamp's
"Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" and "Fountain" helped
birth Dadaism and Surrealism. I bring The Storm Generation
to the Art Eco Movement. I am The Fucking Storm. I will leave
nothing to the imagination save the imagination itself. All else
will be swept away.
                             Ron Whitehead, august 2008, AHA


stay tuned for much exciting news soon to be announced!!!
Thanks to All of You for visiting!!!
Ron
the wanderer
July 2008
aha


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