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At 10:32am on March 18, 2009, Shivablack said…: kiss kiss..

At 10:22am on March 18, 2009, Shivablack said…: I love it..told you! Is it "Beck" that smooth my ears (some songs on the cd..?) Can you send me a playlist?

At 5:56am on March 13, 2009, Carla Cryptic said…: Hiya, Test! I got a missive from Heebie Jeebie Land yesterday - thanks so much! I'm working on something to send you on that theme and it should come your way in the next week or so now that I've finished the documentation for the Nudity show. It turned into a 46 page chapbook! Much more involved than I'd originally planned for but worth it in the end. :)

At 11:31am on March 11, 2009, Shivablack said…: of course we will..!!

At 9:22am on March 10, 2009, Shivablack said…: Dear friend,
I´m happy to tell that the 4th dimension had entered with great tunes..
love it all..need to liste to it again now..
kiss
Shiva

At 10:41pm on March 8, 2009, Rachel Freeman said…: Hi Test Tower
I got it! I have been on the road for the last few weeks and I have been really slow to catch up with my mail art correspondence...I will be posting your most excellent mail art on my website tonight with others

Thanks so much....the 4th dimension rocks!

At 6:35am on March 6, 2009, Carla Cryptic said…: So funny - I worked on Bush St., just below the entrance to Chinatown. :) Yeah, Top Dog is still around and still good, though the one I have been to most recently is at 51st and Broadway rather than in Berkeley. There is still one in Berkeley, but I think it's on Northside, not on Durant anymore. I love the Paramount! I've seen some great shows there over the years and it got restored really beautifully some years ago. What a cool job you had - though I can imagine how creepy it might be to go into those old theaters with a flashlight and no one else around. :) Wow, the old Pussycat Theater - I haven't thought of that in years!!! Lol...

At 10:19am on March 5, 2009, Shivablack said…: thank you..!!

At 9:47pm on March 4, 2009, Servane said…: Hi Test.... I do like your Island paradise !

At 5:14pm on March 3, 2009, Dewi said…: Good morning test, nice to hear from you. I took at peak at your island paradise this morning, let my mind float a bit and I see what it comes up with.

At 10:03am on March 3, 2009, Shivablack said…: But mine isn´t there allready..?? I sent it a week ago to your place..?? It´s slow :-(

At 10:01am on March 3, 2009, Shivablack said…: thank you so much..

At 6:40pm on March 2, 2009, Carla Cryptic said…: Lol... not boring at all. :) I did notice you didn't say you lived in Berkeley, sorry, just being sloppy while typing (SWT... could become a great addition to online communication! :) My Swedish boyfriend was in People's Park when that whole debacle occurred. He couldn't believe it. In those days, Sweden was my utopia. :) Yep, yep, yep. Where did you live in the city? I spent a fair amount of time over there, too - mostly in the Haight and then I worked in the financial district for a while before I went to Sweden, for Ma Bell. :) I wrote a song about taking the bus over the bridge every day once. LOL... those were the days when I was still singing in public. :) Now I'll stop and try not to bore YOU. :) I'm sending you something also. Mail is a good way to communicate the visuals and the intangibles - ironic and iconic. :)

At 6:13am on March 2, 2009, Carla Cryptic said…: BTW, until you told me you'd lived in Berkeley in the 70's and 80's, I was tripping on your picture 'cause you look so familiar. When you mentioned Berkeley, I figured that must be why. :)

At 6:12am on March 2, 2009, Carla Cryptic said…: Oh, yeah, I totally know where you're talking about and even which building. That weird white church (actually a chapel) is where I sang my first operatic recital (long story!) and I'm sorry to tell you this but Cody's closed its doors a while back. They were a landmark I really hated to see leave. Almost all of the old independent booksellers are gone now. I got drunk (a true rarity!) in Kip's once after class (I was doing an intensive Japanese course and we all went out with our TA one evening and got plastered) and literally fell under the table (!). I miss the Orange Julius - they made the best burgers but they're long gone too now. Sigh. It's really fun to be reminded of other times in Berkeley - it's not the way it once was but it's still pretty. I still have my PO Box there because of growing up there and then working there for so many years but my husbnad is the only one who still works at Berkeley and even my Mom (she LOVES Berkeley) lives in El Cerrito now. I live in Richmond and love it. I grew up hearing it was terrible (and it does have some rough areas) but it's more comfortable living here because there are neighborhoods where people have lived forever and there are places to park and you can walk or cycle to the grocery store without someone holding you up or panhandling you. The gap between rich and poor isn't as in your face as there now either.
I think we're lucky that we lived there when we did. It's still close enough to visit but I'd just as soon not live there anymore. Such is the way of the world I guess. :)

At 10:41am on March 1, 2009, Shivablack said…: yes..I´m better today.. ;-) and I´ll take my ass out of the house in a few minutes and go to the nature for breathing resh air..here in the city it´s a bit hard to do..
ShivaB*

At 1:49am on March 1, 2009, Carla Cryptic said…: Love the heebie jeebie land stuff! Will definitely send something in.

I know the area you speak of VERY well. In the 60's, 'cause that's where we kids hung out instead of going to school, in the 70's I was focused on studying Chinese and living in Hong Kong, in the 80's I was working on campus in Women's Studies. I had a Friday afternoon jam in my office there for a few years but that kind of humane activity ended, as all good things do. I am wondering, now, which building exactly 'cause I'm sure I'd know it. :)

I didn't originate black is a yellow shoe (is that right?) -must have been someone else. Did you ever make it to Eat Your Art Out? My Mom and I did that a few years in a row. I started doing mailart in the mid to late 70's and almost always did collage postcards and rubber stamping (till I learned how to carve my own - then I was obsessed with that). Anyway, it's great to remind someone of a great time in their life. I'm glad my address did that for you. :)

Did you go to Berkeley High? We came to Berkeley for my Mom to go back to school and my first year here I was at West Campus.

At 12:18am on March 1, 2009, Medwolf said…: well thank you amigo and yuppers already on my way for the second visit..keep smiling

At 3:04pm on February 28, 2009, Shivablack said…: wow the beach..how nice..I´m in a bad feeling today..only physicall..I was out yesterday with a bunch on nice people..and we had much fun in a bar..but unfortunally I had too much fun in drinking.. :-( So I´m sick today...lol

At 2:48pm on February 28, 2009, Shivablack said…: hey Test..how are you today?

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