Bumbershoot '97: The Seattle Arts Festival; Tom Robbins

tj audacity to shoot arts festival is proud to honor tom robbins the writer in agreement with the gold an umbrella ward from nineteen ninety seven to celebrate his artistic achievements and contributions to the spirit of the arts in our community this program was made possible in part by mr in assistance from the ocean and those who support public television like you a fishing fishing fishing is like your adventures eventually became so the province called an icon that he is an important part of our culture cameras cameras is best known by these books selling hundreds of thousands and people line up out the door to see him into resigning

attempt to finance a wholly original is wild playful outrage is what is up with that you just worry that i would say the womb are books is air pollution agenda an aphrodisiac a mood elevator an aide intellectual garage door opener and metaphysical trash compactor they'll do everything is that rotate your tires i was and to actively attracted to the northwest are still in and sell because i thought could hear and feel the reigning from there my internal climate is a rape and i

think i've always been raining in my head for and here in the deepest darkest part of the winter when the scar resembles ben banana baby food for months only and in the witch measles a meteorologist called rosalee grain rations and a land folks all around the sink into a dismal far many are depressed you actually suicidal and i and on the clinton strategy meetings what's so hard about the song is sun beams are a lot like turrets and cheering when they don't belong to promote an autism or spectator of a raindrop introverted pharoah the clique who behaved as rich a stadium when rain composes music

for the scythe whispers and super mario rain will print the bus the savings so in every real and are made in every color with his income or a family on the series for the satirical the main floor for days and sees people line scream no miner wants no way a disorder and hair raising this is you know the snake in world languages on the freeways fishing boats services and only in america since celebrations yes and here when anwar last in the repair bill maher was

known couples thurman's camp beneath my school oh my epitaph to read it rain on his parade and he was black power tom is a wickedly wise and he's a wizard of words and day out putting prognosticate are and a you're eccentric and a snappy dresser and he's also i think of my taste one most important american writers have any time i think he's written some of the most amazing sentences ever committed to preventing which language he has this way ever since i was earlier books of just describing the landscape north west which are not come across or couldn't write about reigning northwest and i don't know if anybody has done this as well as tom

robbins and now i think it just tells him this this out this kind of landscape with an energy and he's from the south and that's a very different kind of there very different landscape but come a lot of cops and preachers a look at the comment i have to divest myself well why did you decide it registers that wore her know really remember was five years all of the time so get this for fifty five years my penmanship left a lot to be desired in age five cy dictated stories to my mother but been frustrated writer herself she would sometimes michael changes what i have detailed and she would read it back to me and i always near future and so much as a single word and i would for temperamental issue traced back the way i had it and i told

this story to my editor the new yorker some years ago and he said my god robin gm a change in forty years i spent on time on i had a completely secret intellectual life which a young male growing up in small towns and rural self had to be secretive about saddam on the sly and then i went on race as mattel as possible with only a redneck clan brats but i felt repressed there and i looked at the map and solvency of fear and far from mf and i drove into town friday afternoon saturday the next day i went down the times on saturday and an engineer was there and they introduced myself we're

speaking with this bill thank you what finally gave me my voice after many years of writing and reading was the phenomenon of the cultural the sixties knew it was time to talk when i am nutella carter was a hard working little town in which a number of quite confident artists live because it's here for a peaceful quiet city you

can post a distant third and fourth right my first novel was set in this desert valley because i've always been attracted to the landscape and i thought it would make the perfect backdrop for roadside sues chief attraction was the mummified body of jesus christ is our ally religion is an attempt to organize spirituality and spirituality does

not lend itself to martin on spirituality without killing vivier in terms of divine this pantheistic i suppose because i think they're in their gods everywhere was to sell or inhabited by guards in those clouds of rocks a member of that divide you are he says he is and they're layers of energy

you can hear from that sound so is making life his own singing it and they had his own is dancing for re airing just the delights <unk> he just truly does there isn't anything that he's ever done that i know that hasn't in the end of it no matter what the circumstance or hasn't had a humorist a bar or a hopeful note is not being a pollyanna way but in a way that would remind to fly spirit basically i mean general hassan until to one another how fun it has these drone tells the life is a lot more work and a joke than we think it is and i think i had a plan for the fish it's fantastic the big as the most intense of vegetables the radish admittedly is more

favors with the fire of the radishes a coal fire the fire discontent not passion tomatoes or lust enough yet their answer tomatoes an undercurrent of free fall it beats are deadly serious solid people get their physical characteristics from potatoes their smoldering in quietude from radishes their seriousness from beets the big was rescued and favorite vegetable you could see it in his eyes in europe there is grown widely a large beat they call the mental virtual perhaps it is man offers all that we see and rescued and certainly there's mango verse on the music of wagner although it is another composer whose name begins b e e t of course they're wide beats feat

city's sugar water instead of blood but is the red tape with which we're concerned the variety that bush's and swells order him ride a hemorrhoid for which there is no cure it's been a day i think the value of psychedelic say foreigners is that medicaid count is this is there are no cigarettes no coffee no a pipe no english sheepdog know you're right wife in the

next room writing a dissertation on the symbolism of hair color and in alexander pope no props no computer no typewriter just then ballpoint pen watch it so can the wood pulp it's bleak one way the time and now we're at the playboy who are always sits down to write the hangover wears off our work every day in an extremely disciplined you have you have to grow ours are immature my handwriting resembles the nearest the

score also the melee walz well mongolia monster boys and we just need a change of venue years oh something i wrote when i was a sometime a scholar yale for a day it's a mile says as its fundamental flames liberation transformation and celebration i'm pretty much convinced that were in this life to enlarge the sole one up the brain and liberate the spirit the challenge for me has been how to reflect this purpose or contribute to this purpose and novelistic fiction without producing work that is fluffy abstract or corny what timezone center sends out well and to myself because you rightly year's lows iraq a sublime

picture orlando also have to hear a row is also lets us extremely important to me that its silence and the metered correctly know what people own warner cable's banana on to mix fantasy spirituality sexuality human or os isn't uncommon missions that the same premise fb is by the police

i just have to copy my work every day and month put the extra copy in the freezer in prison compartment where for their case the house burned down and then i found out that in a house fire they're afraid because of the gases in the refrigerator it was someone there in the backyard and i guess in that mars mayor of the world that could be referral referred to as a walk on arrival of scared of alan grier only one my novels was set in scattered valley but several have been set in the city of seattle factors i think their scenes from seattle and almost every book ever written though for the sale world's fair in nineteen sixty two the pacific

science center remains one the most reps hansen's to mess with us reflecting pools and soaring praised ben and arches of swan like delivery the science center resembles the taj mahal at the taj mahal and the need in a way from inside by trillions of marble even termites so that only a lace and shall remain aligned itself its own reflection snowing honeycomb mainly riding reigning are now the sciences more than on their monolithic most iowans that would appeal not to the taste of delicately inserts an o huddle think of myself as a northwest writer or even necessarily think of myself as an

american rider my bricks or become the distant past two years quite popular abroad i have very strong clairvoyant skills abilities that i was born and i used to work with individuals and businesses it is at interview time i think thirty so twenty five i've been married for three years we've been together for seven i mean people do get older and you know they're all there it caramelize them a homemade it still amazed at ninety oh i guarantee that iran of a gatekeeper i had a very very long secession killing three year

relationship end the fact that i've been with alex for over ten years had nothing to do with me finally settled in dale what it had to do with was made in in my met named saul made me and someone that it was just a good bill ago i was also now is no longer in the kitchen release program i think people need to be told that their lives are not as limited as they think they are that all things are possible and love really works the parallels between the pistons but is one reason

says because whenever you make a sandwich a typical male is amazes my favorite fruit fly at least one week sometimes a corps retired so much managers are listening to the mayo clinic your essential a risk that what's going on within the management they discuss marriage and no wrong then so much nikki you have to cover every square centimeter didn't get the edges two corners you know the secret ingredient can't see of course is a cat is an onion and garlic picoult and brian aged was a korean dishes on the national dish in korea isn't quite pungent meet the stuff

you breath run a train weekend we could close power plants in this country of his home of people in connection with the mild generators so in order to match in a way that changes is that that can shape our own to two now that's a national debt or one fifth is her thumbs that we remember it is her thumbs and set her apart ultimately those monsters who haunted otherwise undistinguished pair of hands if you were to become her glory her triumph a personal super bowl a private grand canyon an intimate world trade center whose twin towers admits only the miraculous

yeah baseball's to pretend that never caused her misery or generated shame if the new sophisticated sensitive closed any notion of freakish deformity even new in the final analysis in the sanctuary of your own minds i would be forced to regard her thumbs as an intrusion on the exquisite lines of an otherwise graceful thing here as the leonardo had left a strand of spaghetti that time from the corner of mona lisa smile the general republic takes me wonderfully the sale literati an hour and once the minot there's a huge amount of india i think toward my success that's that's probably a fair criticism i think the whole town he always starts its own the reason tom would have been that critics would have difficulty with cheers because the

campaign and down the main problem with robin's for me is that he's still perfectly captures the moment of nineteen seventy in a lot of ways i think a lot of his characters in his recent books on are still sort of searching for the same things they were back in nineteen seventy and thirty years the past a lot of things changed i think the problem with with its truly serious you know the eggheads about his work is as today and entertaining i think where that gets in trouble with the critic says his views are he's got these he's just fantastic services and i think they tend to sometimes overwhelm the plot they visit these places and thought patterns and and that bit take you away from what sent you would call the

plot but why you're going away at the other party was saying and how it fits into the story and as always a striking a chord with a lot of people i would love to make one of these films are always felt i wanted to pay even cowgirls get the blues and that job properly as they call them has more directors who pass through one or sniffed around it and i think any single broken and in recent times have come in and said did the film and you don't get to get runny cheese the pain he can to

put off but it's been the film in the retailers that the blues from a it was an entirely positive experience i still think it's better than its critical reception i'm not an actor how can i be with his voice in my voice sounds like it was staring through daniel boone underwear but i have appeared in four of five feature films and small parts in my most recent stand before the cameras was

part of a documentary that to really young women completed recently called anthem end of a trial around the united states speaking to people whom they thought hand me a vision for the future of america it's been nice if you're young person today looking for radically change society for the better i think the golf in his stock lending families limiting procreation and stop thompson

has been playing he's head of the piece saying saying it