Aix-en-Provence in the South of France is well known for the sunshine and wind. These last natural resources have to be handled carefully because too much sunshine is not good for the skin. Too much wind is not good for the buildings for example.

I recently watched Flicker a short film on the Canadian network Bravo. The film was about The Dream Machine which was created by Brion Gysin. Gysin was an artist, poet, and visionary. He was a member of The Beat Generation. He was a person whom I admire greatly. However, I did not know that he spent the early years of his life in Edmonton Alberta. Living close to Edmonton for the past five years I have not heard one person even utter his name. I find this a little concerning, since he shaped Post Modern culture in so many ways. Had Gysin not lived the world would be a completely different place. Edmonton can name a street after a hockey player that settled here, yet Gysin gets nothing. Here is my initial reaction to this realization.

The best of Kanye.

One a state; one a state of mind.

A quick preview of why you should not rule out modern, “yet good old fashioned fun”.

If I had a window to the Western skies…

This is a poem relating to nature.

Answer the call of the west.

Western dreams.

As the Smoke was leading a group of pilgrams into the west, a group of bandits stampeded their camp and thought they killed everyone but little did they know they missed the scout and as he tries to find civilization. As he was looking for civilization he stumbles into a camp of lawmen chasing the bandits.