gonna come down and blow it all away”
From my 1988 one man band, rubberfish, comes john-lennon-wannabe-with-a-cheap-casio-and-a-rhyming-dictionary cheery apocalypse, perfect for today, with tornadoes, floods, landslides, fires, and elections. Remember, the big wind’s gonna come down and blow it all away, anyway. recorded on 4-track cassette. remind me to tell you the story of Rubberfish some day.
I just found the link to Richard’s award-winning short film of his “amplified poetry.” That’s me playing my digital guitar setup underneath the vocals and over the drone of Richard’s Moog. If you are curious what a digital guitarist is, take a look at my YouTube channel of the same name. I am pretty sure I also did the mastering for this track.
From Richard’s Vimeo:
Screened live at the 41st HawaiĘ»i International Film Festival (November 4 – 28, 2021); an Official Selection and Award Winner for the Best Shorts Competition in 2021 (La Jolla, CA); an Official Selection Semi-Finalist for the 2021 Munich Music Video Awards (Germany), and screened in person during the International Poetry Film Festival in Venice, CA on April 30, 2022, Richard Hamasaki’s film and amplified poem features concrete poet & artist Thad Higa & digital guitarist Rich Rath. “I AM A PLASTIC” was originally published in Read Water: An Anthology (San Diego: Locked Horn Press, 2020).
RIchard Hamasaki