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BOOKS OF THE SOUTHWEST LITERARY JOURNAL
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An Expose on Taylor Swift (Writing Live Beginning 21 July 2022)
Some writers have merely suggested, as if it is subconscious but they can’t quite put the words and reason to it (or they don’t want uninformed backlash), that there is...Continue reading
A Coalescence of Miracle Particles: The Very Real Obscured by Taylor Swift for the Past Decade [Updated]
This article was last updated 20 April 2020. January 2020 expose: "A Coalescence of Miracle Particles: The Very Real Obscured by Taylor Swift for the Last Decade [Updated]". These updates...Continue reading
The Epiphany of On the Road in Real Time (The Music and Never Ending Tour Never Stopped)
Divining the Road In his chapter in Penguin Books' 2007 publication of the original scroll, "Fast This Time: Jack Kerouac and the Writing of On the Road," Howard Cunnell writes...Continue reading
"Something Like Olivia" Music Video Seven Year Anniversary (Originally Produced December 2012)
About the Video: From the Screenplay Apocalypse of the Heart
Song: Something Like Olivia Artist: John Mayer Album: Born and Raised Writers: John Mayer Licensed to YouTube by SME (on behalf of Columbia); ARESA, LatinAutor - PeerMusic, Global Music Rights LLC, LatinAutor - SonyATV, CMRRA, SOLAR Music Rights Management, LatinAutor, Reach Music Publishing, and 12 Music Rights Societies
21 December 2019, the day of the end of the Mayan Calendar 7 years ago, marks the seven year anniversary of the making of the video. This day in 2019 is the Solstice with the Sun moving to join an alignment of planets in Capricorn for the first time since Dante knew Beatrice in person in 1285. This also leads to a solar eclipse on 25 December 2019, Christmas Day, in a "ring of fire," leading into 2020, the 700 year anniversary of the completion of the Divine Comedy (1308-1320).
Featured in the book My Love Affair with Moonbeam: Ten + Years of Wonder, Bursting Love and Creativity (2018) and on the Art Print 'Until Shiloh Comes' Cosmic Flow Tapestry (2018 Fineartamerica.com). Produced in December 2012 for Genero Music Video Competition for John Mayer's "Something Like Olivia." Filmed in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and at La Espiga, Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, an olive grove, at the time of the end of the Mayan calendar, 12.21.12. The paparazzi scene was filmed in the Plaza de Independencia in Queretaro, Mexico, (the place known in Mexico as the "Cradle of Independence.") The plaza is the oldest part of the city and the video was filmed outside the building where Mexico's independence from Spain was signed. Starring Shiloh Richter, Dulcinea Flores, Dulce Ramon, Claudia Hill, and Mexican Poet and Composer, Humberto Galindo, the story is based on the original screenplay Apocalypse of the Heart (Shiloh Richter WGAW Registry 2009, ©2010, 2011).
Story Synopsis: Olivia is born with wings. As she grows older, she realizes that she must keep her secret from the world. She shares her secret with a novelist who comesinto a bookshop and by communicating with him, learns how to express herself through her art. She creates a movie about being in love with him from a distance and the dangers of opening one’s heart and soul.
In the spring of 2010 Shiloh Richter began writing John Mayer after seeing him in concert and after he asked publicly for honest correspondence on Tumblr at an ASCAP Q & A on April 22, 2010.
About the Video Shiloh writes, "I had front row center tickets to the Battle Studies World Tour show in Vancouver, BC, on April 1st, and for the first time we looked back at each other. After I posted a caring comment on his Tumblr, he began to answer me, not directly, but in his own ways. I could tell what he meant when he would reference something I had written. I wrote to him regularly on my own blog in correspondence to him and at first it could be viewed publicly. Because I was only writing to him and didn't have many visitors or followers and did not seek out any, and I had only commented on his Tumblr a couple of times and did not tag him, I did not at first suspect that anyone was following him so closely as to notice what I was writing. Taylor Swift was, however, and she stole, and continued to steal for the past[now ten] years, my legally protected work and personal detailsand sold them to the public as her own. I write about this in the art print 'Until Shiloh Comes' Cosmic Flow Tapestry, and I show the things I was writing to John and all the creativity that was happening in My Love Affair with Moonbeam: Ten + Years of Wonder, Bursting Love and Creativity. It was all leading up to writing Coyote Weaves a Song: A Mythological Song from the Beginning of Time (Volumes I & II)."
Apocalypse of the Heart
Dedication of Coyote Weaves a Song to the Grateful Dead
DEDICATION For Laërtes—Bob Weir, having taken sweet and long care on what looks like the “outskirts,” but is the very underlying, alive pulse; born at the bay, drawn to ranch...Continue reading
The Siren's Song: An Excerpt from Coyote Weaves a Song: Volume I
From CHAPTER FOURHomer as Trickster That the Odyssey was written by a brilliant Coyote trickster is evident in the research that continually unveils the hidden truths so carefully and flawlessly...Continue reading
Writing to John Mayer in 2010: An Excerpt from On Being
Dedication to On Being: For John MayerFor the wonder in the eternal moment with youthat you show me,And for, impossibly, changing the world. From Chapter II: The Cabin...Continue reading
Writing from the Rite
Writing from the Rite: Ranch Road 1049
The river picture on the cover of On Being, was taken on 18 October 2007 on my parent's 44th wedding anniversary, '44 being the year my dad was born, and two...Continue reading
Writing from the Rite: Billy the Kid
On my birthday in July 2019, Billy the Kid Mural with Billy holding two balloons, Ruidoso, NM Taking the veil off the falsity: Taylor Swift trying to taunt that she thinks...Continue reading
Writing from the Rite: Santa Fe
Seventy-six miles up from the Isleta Pueblo is Santa Fe, New Mexico (70 miles from Isleta Amphitheater to the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis), the center of Cather's novel, and...Continue reading
Why the Worlds Break Open on the Feminine and Determining Details of the Sacred Trickster
I write about these topics throughout the books and journal articles on BSW, and this is a small overview. In putting together all the pieces of a lifetime of what would...Continue reading
The Rebirth and Re-Creation of the Moon
For awhile, and beautifully so, the Moon has “no face,” and “As above, so below.” But she does not cease to exist, nor does the Sun, but comes around...Continue reading
Decoding Art and Literature
My Lifelong Literary and Artistic Code Breaking and Putting the Pieces Together of a Feminine and Cultural Puzzle As a child I was deeply searching out the question, “For a female ruler/leader...Continue reading
An Excerpt from My Discoveries at La grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, Ardèche from Coyote Volume II
from CHAPTER SEVEN Penelope's Geese and the World Transformative Super-Shaman Flight Path from the Paleolithic to the Present Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave There are profound similarities at the hearts of other caves which...Continue reading
Illumination Is
Illumination is being recognized (even by yourself) as the Being that you are and feeling how wonderfully this lights you up from the inside. Illumination is coming from...Continue reading
The Siren's Voice Inside the Head
The Siren’s Voice is the Voice in One’s Head It is a learned voice from social conditioning and it masquerades as a voice one believes to be one’s own. That...Continue reading
The Road.
Southwestern Americana Awakening on the west coast 1957
Just two days before the City Lights book manager was arrested for selling Ginsberg's exuberant freedom and existence manifesto Howl in San Francisco, Books of the Southwest literary journal was begun on the West Coast by the head librarian at the University of California at Los Angeles, the first issue coming out on June 1, 1957. It was the same summer Jerry Garcia got his first electric guitar and Phil Lesh graduated from high school. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road was published that September. The Americana road was opened and on fire. (Across the Atlantic the magic of that moment was burning, too, in the brilliance and grace of the feminine when Queen Elizabeth II gave her first televised Christmas speech with heart-felt philosophy and candor.) The first publisher having come from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and with friends such as Henry Miller and sensual food writer M.F.K. Fisher also there on the coast to break social boundaries, BSW was there at the beginnings of the '60s and the Grateful Dead. The journal came to the current editor, Shiloh Richter, M.A., after forty years in print in 1997, the year Allen Ginsberg passed and his long-time friend Bob Dylan played him "Desolation Row" the next evening, and this the same year John Mayer, who would form Dead and Company with members of the Grateful Dead, was starting out in Atlanta, Georgia, fervently bringing something very real. Beyoncé was rising. Kanye's spirit was setting loose, and Paul McCartney, for a lifetime of brilliance in music, was insightfully and fortuitously knighted by the queen. The wonderworking is alive.
Photo: Still from "Something like Olivia" / Apocalypse of the Heart, this the seven year anniversary of filming and the end of the Mayan Calendar (2012) and now the day of the solstice (12.21.2019).
The Most Astounding Art Come True
Photo: Moonbeam in 2014 Stepping Out from Vincent Van Gogh's "The Café Terrance on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night" c. 1888
In 2015 while writing I was looking at the images of the Sistine Ceiling I noticed a pattern with god's hand pointing at the Moon. My brain has always looked for patterns, like in literature. Also because of being an HSP (highly sensitive person with the trait of "always taking in a lot of information around them and thinking deeply about it"), and collecting a line of information throughout one's existence, I've always experienced a quality of seeing and mentally collecting important patterns, pieces of the puzzle, since I was a child. Looking at Michelangelo's prominent moon on the ceiling and knowing the feminine meaning of the Moon, I already knew from briefly looking at three panels that the particular arrangement of images towards this would continue a pattern already established, taking it most certainly across the ceiling and would reveal something intentionally planned, something clearly audacious, and other-worldly. I wrote the news to John Mayer and Kanye, among others, on a private blog post writing here, that this master artist/Poet was about to reveal something immeasurable. The "code" was too perfectly placed to not lead to the astonishingly prodigious. I knew it was pointing directly to the feminine and also the head on the body of the feminine, meaning Her Body, Her Chapel, Her Heavens and Sky, but I was also stunned to realize it was revealing the very miraculous Moment, the master Poet/Artist come for his prize and delivered directly to the next master Poet as well, embodied, meant to be, and beyond imagination, the purpose of my own Being I had always wondered at, and all of this with this finger pointing at the Moon in this very moment my white Bichon Frise Moonbeam had passed. I knew Michelangelo had planned something immeasurable, the masterful art Trickster exuberantly in spirit pushing me on. The Moment had come. As Joseph Campbell wrote, "It is here, it is here, it is here."
In Coyote Weaves a Song: A Mythological Song from the Beginning of Time, I decode Michelangelo's patterns of the Sistine Ceiling (a sky ready to fall or be hallowed in stupefied recognition) and in his other works, discovering that not only is his completed statement about the centrality of and the crux of civilization the feminine, further, the embodied feminine audaciously steps through transformation and prophecy of the female oracles and even through the Hebrew bible to the throne of both the sacred and the sublunary, necessarily broken open to each other by her very Being and to be experienced in the here and now in the flesh, and that this eloquent proclamation is also a literal wonderworking coming true, stepping from the art, and this having come in a line of world-transformative literature and art understood by the master artists back to Homer and beyond, intentionally meant to bring this primary revelation about to culture through art in explicitly real terms. How real is beyond imagination. As I studied the patterns, something I have been doing as a fascination and preoccupation since a child, as I worked my way back on the ceiling from above the high altar towards the front of the Chapel, it was at the entrance--a reference itself to the feminine in how we enter life and the sacred--that I realized the entire thing was about Jacob's prophecy that contains my name, a strange and wild divination I already knew contained my first and last name, birth date, birth year, place of birth, her parents' birth years, the number of the last two U.S. Presidents leading from the rise to awakening in the black, Kanye's and John Mayer's birth year, then to the demise of the old order, the words of Jesus precisely stating both my name and birth date, the American date of Independence, a date of the burst of Spring, and the name of the goddess Io in several different iterations, even as Asherah and Eve, and this of which there are direct references on the Sistine Ceiling in a telling revelation about the artist himself and his astounding lineage of virtuosic prognosticators--the brightest, consummate, and most gifted and insightful--and now even clairvoyant--the world has ever known. As I wrote I realized I was literally bringing myself into Being and conscious awareness which had been held in in so many, even uncanny, ways. In the first three days of my life, for example, nurses at the metropolitan hospital, Bethesda Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, requested that I be photographed for a book. As a ten-month pregnancy, my mother told me, I already had hair and nails and violet eyes. For reasons I have only recently come to understand, my parents said no. On Michelangelo's ceiling, the Libyan Sibyl stepping down with her book above the high altar was compounded to me by the passing of my heart, my white Bichon Frise, just as the white dog referencing the Dog Star of Isis steps to the throne from the art into the Chapel.
Spirit of Place
In the works 'Until Shiloh Comes' Cosmic Flow Tapestry (2018), an art print, and in the works Coyote Weaves a Song: A Mythological Song from the Beginning of Time (Volumes I & II, 2018), a magnificent flow is shown directly from the prehistoric in Paleolithic Old Europe from the South of France inside the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave through Song to the American West Coast in this very moment, having been culminating there since the 1950s and the beginnings of the Grateful Dead, and now to reach its zenith in recognition, the revelation of the universal and timeless labyrinth, a tremendous and extraordinarily timely rite in itself. What is to be found at its thousands-of-years-old origin is a transformative rite into Being founded on the irrefutable coming into form of the eternal through the dual-embodied female--Being and Body, and this a rite through the eternal artistic and arriving in this moment.
In the deepest hall of Chauvet this recognition occurs at the return of the Super Shaman's world transformative flight to the "water's edge," after the "hunt,"--which in the Homeric epics is the brilliant transformation of symbols and from war to "place of peace"--the "Place" signified by the still and peaceful water, the Being, just as Form is to Land, the place of landing on the surface of Her eternal, where Form and Being coincide, and can go either way, a Crossing that appears to be birth or death. To enter into this cave in rite is to die of form and to reemerge as a Being who has seen and participated in the other side and knows its own Source. It is the flight of the shaman, the musician, the artist, the bard.
The Being who emerges has a profoundly different insight. In the Shiloh Tapestry I write:
"The defining difference, it can be said, is this gratitude for the forms and the mystery of the 'dead' entering the shaman flight. Thus, the actual shaman flight is the 'Grateful Dead.' There is an awareness that his/her form and Being is entering into a metamorphosis necessary for the alteration of the world of forms: her world of forms requires this true greatness to go between and return the transformation to the world of the 'living,' thereby sustaining in beauty the flow of the in-between."
This is a new time.
The Tapestry, then, unwoven and woven, is now being returned with all that it opens to the rightful leaders, the Grateful Dead, to Laërtes: Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia and all the members living and passed, and to the lineage of the Song and the new opening of the sacred flow that transforms in its wake in Dead & Company.
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About the Art Prints
Art Detail From 'Until Shiloh Comes' Cosmic Flow Tapestry
Publication Date: 7 October 2019 from original artwork published 12 September 2018 (Historical archive on archive.org) After accomplishing remarkable feats and excellence in music and in being openly outspoken about crimes...Continue reading
Hermesesque: The Grateful Universe
Publication Date: 26 August 2019 (Historical archive at archive.org) In a homage to the Grateful Dead originally published 26 August 2019, a continuing “tapestry” of cultural events happening behind the scenes...Continue reading
'Until Shiloh Comes' Cosmic Flow Tapestry
Publication Date: 12 September 2018 (Historical archive at archive.org)Penelope’s completed tapestry is an of-the-essence message, a timely arrival of the Odyssey and the overlooked, timeless and immense power of the vast and...Continue reading
Writing from the Archives
That Which Cannot Be Acquired
The Inimitable Being of World-Renowned Pomo Basket Weaver and Medicine Woman of Greg Sarris's Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream Her entire life people wanted for Mabel McKay, world-renowned Pomo...Continue reading
She is Many: Complete, Assured and At Home in a Numinous Universe
From the Undivided Spiritual Realm to the Physical Symbol: Recognizing Depth and Resonance Through Robert S. McPherson's Dinéjí Na `Nitin: Navajo Traditional Teachings and History For the Navajo, the world...Continue reading
Rock 'n' Roll and the Apocalypse of the Heart
California Music and Personal Transformation of True Nature From Vulnerability to Artist Leading the Way: Joni Mitchell In Her Own Words: Conversations with Malka Marom Originally published 25 October 2014...Continue reading
Coyote Pulls the Sun
Originally privately published 20 May 2015 As author Lewis Hyde writes in his book Trickster Makes This World, Coyote belongs to ritual and to storytelling and that is where to find...Continue reading
Written in the Stars
The Yes of All Being Seen Through Richard Whelan's The Sun the Moon and the Stars: Art, Literature, Science & Mythology Originally privately published 4 December 2014 Since time for...Continue reading
Letter From the Inside
Originally published 27 February 2015 First, the inside. Here is what it is like on the inside: Since I was born I have been aware and certain of an abiding,...Continue reading
Coming to Know Sense of Place
Within and So Without: Dispelling Illusions, Establishing the Real in Where the Two Came to Their Father: A Navajo War Ceremonial Myths and rituals convey knowledge about the internal cycle of becoming and in the Navajo War Ceremonial Where the...Continue reading
Coyote
Originally published 18 May 2015 The very first thought that brahman had when it realized itself was, "I" (atman).¹ Along with this realization also came the first feeling: fear. The symbol of...Continue reading
The Path to Cultural Enlightenment: Writing, Literature and Music Finds the Miracle in Its Magic
57 Years of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 Novel On the Road Comes Home Originally published 5 September 2014 September 5, 1957 In the summer of 1957, 57 years ago this...Continue reading
Peer-Reviewed Scholarship
Sociopolitical and Cultural Spaces: Analyzing and Validating the Experiential U.S./Mexico Border
Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space. Brady, Mary Pat. 2002. Duke UP; Durham; 1-274, appendix and index included; $45.00, hardback; $22.75 paperback; hardback. Originally published...Continue reading
Filming "Something Like Olivia" / Apocalypse of the Heart in Mexico
From the pages of My Love Affair with Moonbeam, a gallery of filming in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and at La Espiga, Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, in an olive grove, at the time of the end of the Mayan calendar, 12.21.12.
Behind the Scenes of Apocalypse of the Heart / "Something Like Olivia"Until I Was Seven (2010)
"Until I Was Seven" Short Film (December 2010)
A short film produced December 2010 starring the beautiful Dulcinea Flores and Rito Osvaldo Flores, Jr., and based on a poem I had written John Mayer about a trip to New York City to see him at Jones Beach on July 21, 2010. It is about the uncanny, magical things that happened, and upon returning and being sad that the trip was over. I had longed to go to New York for so long, and with him there, it turned surreal in the uncanny events unfolding. When I got home John tweeted about pointing out rainbows while I was crying, showing it was going to be okay. In October 2010 on her intentionally copyright infringing Speak Now, to steal from me and publicly humiliate John for a relationshipshe was trying to force to happen and pushed by Taylor in the press, Taylor Swift used what happened to me in her lyrics in "Dear John." Because of her tracking John and me relentlessly on-line, that fall he went off-line and in that absence is when I wrote and began producing this. It was a wonderful surprise, then, when I saw the video of him singing for the first time what he had been writing at the same time I had been writing this: "Face to Call Home." In December John sang, "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," which led me to believe he was trying to get Taylor to be kind. It was not going to happen. She was out for herself and no one was going to stand in the way. Later Taylor used the video ideas in her own videos, namely in "Everything Has Changed," an idea she also took from my writing to John about theintense internal awakeningafter seeing him for the first time, the first pictures I posted with movie poster of The Notebook in the background, and the old projector playing in the video "Something Like Olivia." The list is endless: there is not an idea that she has used in the last ten years that was notintentionally taken from me. But the legalities were already in place: we were both victims of her copyright infringement and could not speak to each other. Taylor took this to mean she still stood a chance with John and could continue to try to erase and threaten me with public contention. She threatened John by making it evident she planned on publicly accusing him of "cheating" ("Babe" with Sugarland, among other public acts), which could not have and did not happen. John made it clear in January 2010 he was not interested, and in April, when she knew I was writing to him, at the CMA Awards Taylor clearly tried to get photographed with John, but he was surrounded by friends, including Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban (pictures Getty Images). There was never any relationship or crime against her. It was pure public manipulation.
From the Archives, Road to El Paso (2007)
Independent feature western produced by Shiloh Richter and her dad, with an original soundtrack by her brother, Rawlyn Richter made from 2005-2007.
Behind the Scenes of Road to El PasoWe've Been Historically Archived at Archive.org!
After a long history in print in subscription to Southwest enthusiasts and university libraries around the world since the late '50s, Books of the Southwest became an on-line journal changing from survey, succinct reviews of all books Southwestern Americana to critical reviews and articles of the Southwestern literary landscape. Here are a few of the archive.org snapshots of our on-line history:
6December 2019. Illumination2020.
3 June 2013
14 August 2013
19 December 2014
1 August 2015
2 February 2016
13 June 2018
1 November 2018
15 July 2019
The editor's independent film, Road to El Paso, featuring the wild horses of New Mexico, in all its western red glory is captured in an archive snapshot from 26 December 2010:
Texas Ranch Productions' Road to El Paso
Here are Shiloh Richter's Texas Ranch Productions blog posts from the Summer of 2007, while working on the marketing and distribution of the film, about the female role in image, art, and heroism, in a snapshot from 18 September 2007, "Notes from the Ranch":
Texas Ranch Productions Blog
After producing and directing the independent film, Shiloh Richter also worked as a professional photographer, graphic and media designer, and marketer beginning in Fall 2007. Here is a snapshot of her website from 27 December 2008:
Shiloh Richter Photography and Design
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