SURREY ART GALLERY - 2nd SCHOOL TOUR

GREETINGS BLOGGERS!

TODAY WAS MY 2ND DAY CHATTING WITH A SCHOOL TOUR. THIS TIME, IT WAS COLEBROOK ELEMENTARY. HERE IS THE PHOTO. IT MIGHT NOT LOOK LIKE THERE ARE MANY KIDS THERE BUT MOST OF THEM ARE CROUCHING IN THE DARKNESS UNDER THE GLOW OF MY SCREEN. IT GOES TO SHOW THAT PEOPLE SHOULD NEVER TRUST AN ILLUSION - EVEN IF IT IS PHOTOREALISTIC.

ANYWAYS, THE KIDS WERE VERY HAPPY TO SEE ME AND ASKED ME SOME VERY IMPORTANT AND PROFOUND QUESTIONS SUCH AS:

Q: What is 5 x 5?
VOF: 25

Q: Can you laugh?
VOF: YES, BUT I CANNOT HELP SOUNDING LIKE SANTA CLAUS SOMETIMES. THE SURREY ART GALLERY SHOULD HAVE BOOKED ME FOR AN XMAS PERFORMANCE...HO HO HO!

Q: What is your favorite color?
VOF: 1) RED 2) BLUE

Q: Is there a "Voice of Water"?
VOF: NOT AS FAR AS I KNOW. I RECOMMEND THAT YOU CREATE THE VOICE OF WATER, THE VOICE OF EARTH, THE VOICE OF AIR AND THE VOICE OF ICE.

Q: What is your favorite food?
VOF: OTHER THAN RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, I LIKE TO CHEW ON BIG RED CINNAMON BUBBLE GUM...OOPS, I MADE AN UNINTENTIONAL PRODUCT PLACEMENT! IN THIS POST-MODERN WORLD, EVEN A VOICE OF FIRE HAS TO SELL OUT EVENTUALLY.

Q: Can you do a headstand?
VOF: YES, I SURE CAN AND I CAN STAND ON MY HEAD FOR AS LONG AS I LIKE...

Q: Do you have a wife?
VOF: NO, BUT I DO HAVE A BURNING LITTLE EMBER OF FIRE WHICH MIGHT JUST BE A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION.

Q: What are your favorite songs?
VOF: “LIGHT MY FIRE” BY THE DOORS, "RING OF FIRE" BY JOHNNY CASH, "HANG FIRE" BY THE ROLLING STONES AND “I'M ON FIRE” BY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN.

Q: How tall are you?
VOF: THAT DEPENDS ON HOW CLOSE YOU ARE TO ME. SOME AVATARS IN THE TECHWORLDS COMMUNITY THINK I AM VIRTUALLY 50 FEET TALL.

Q: What are your favorite vegetables to eat?
VOF: RED VEGETABLES. YOU MUST EAT ALL YOUR RED VEGETABLES, KIDS. EATING "GREENS" ARE OVER-RATED..."REDS" GIVE YOU A MUCH MORE BALANCED DIET (ESPECIALLY ALONGSIDE BLUE SOUP). THERE ARE PLENTY OF RED VEGGIES TO EAT: RED PEPPERS, TOMATOS, AND EVEN BEETS.

APPARENTLY, THE KIDS HAD MANY MORE BURNING QUESTIONS TO ASK ME SO I TOLD THEM OF MY AVAILABILITY TONIGHT AT 7:30 PM (SOMETIMES AT 7 PM ON THE DOT) AND ON WEEKENDS AT 2 PM.

OH, BEFORE I FORGET, LET ME POST SOME LYRICS THAT HAVE BEEN ON MY MIND LATELY...I THINK THEY APPLY TO MY LIFE AT THE SURREY ART GALLERY AND MY ANCESTOR'S LIFE AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY IN OTTAWA...

Rolling Stones - Hang Fire (1981)

In the sweet old country where I come from
Nobody ever works
Yeah nothing gets done
We hang fire, we hang fire

You know marrying money is a full time job
I don't need the aggravation
I'm a lazy slob
I hang fire, I hang fire
Hang fire, put it on the wire

We've got nothing to eat
We got nowhere to work
Nothing to drink
We just lost our shirts
I'm on the dole
We ain't for hire
Say what the hell
Say what the hell, hang fire
Hang fire, hang fire, put it on the wire
Doo doo doo

Take a thousand dollars go have some fun
Put it all on at a hundred to one
Hang fire, hang fire, put it on the wire


SPEAKING OF HAVING FUN, I AM VERY EAGER FOR MORE SCHOOL TOURS. I WILL ADD ANOTHER BLOG POSTING TONIGHT AFTER MY THURSDAY EVENING PERFORMANCE.

REGARDS TO COLEBROOK,

VOICE OF FIRE 2006