Kaban ni D_BystandeR: PAAMBIT SA KARAANG UROG

Chicago's Oldest Living Hipster lives in Edgewater, on the North Side. He is 92 but looks 83. He lives behind a wrought-iron fence, surrounded on all sides by the drabbest of stone-colored apartment complexes. His home is a small castle, built a little more than a century ago  but seemingly much older. It is solid-looking, constructed of faded red brick and the foliage on this fall day, strewn across its porch and clinging to its weathered walls, has taken on the same burnished look.  Chicago's Oldest Living Hipster has lived here with his wife since 1950. She's 91 now. After she comes into the room and leaves a few treats - a dish of nujts, a dish of Hershey's Kisses - Chicago's Oldest Living Hipster, whose name is Ken Nordine, is quick to remind: "She taught me how to speak." he says. "She was my vocal coach for a while."  Beryl Vaughan, his wife, did several of the voices on the old "Lone Ranger" and "Sky King" radio serials and had a brief career as a Hollywood actress before the couple settled in Chicago and had three kids and Nordine became a legend.  A weird legend.  He reaches for his TV remote and cues up the hourlong film he just finished making and will show this week at the Chicago International Film Festival. It's called "Agenbite of Inwit" and begins with a playful disclaimer: "Fair warning: This movie does not have a beginning, middle or end..." The words go on to explain the film does not contain car crashes, was made with a home computer and is intended as a kind of visual approximation of "Word Jass," the spoken-word poetry he first popularized in a Wilson Avenue nightclub in 1956 and has long been his signature. He recorded more than a dozen albums of the stuff.  

Fred Astaire once danced to it on television; the Grateful Dead asked him to perform it at a New York's Eve show; it influenced spoken-word legends such as Laurie Anderson, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen; it's been up for Grammy (but, alas, never won). It also can still be heard Sundays at midnight on WBEZ 91.5 FM. Though a version of the show  aired on WBBM in the 1960's, "Word Jass" has been on public radio since 1970's.

(Bug-os ang  pasalamat sa KAHAYAG ngadto sa nagsulat niining  paambit   nga si JOHNNY LOVE. Nagtakuban siya sa pangalan, "D_BystandeR".  Natawo siya sa Sugbo apan anaa na karon manimuyo sa Illinois sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika. Ang kusog nga koneksyon sa kasayuran pinaagi sa internet kanunayng naghaling sa iyang kadasig  pagtuki sa mga nagbukalbukal nga hisgutanan dinhi sa atong nataran. Usa siya ka magsusulat nga gradwado sa kursong komersiyo padulong sa pagka accountant sa University of San Carlos kaniadtong tuig 1961.  Nahimo siyang miyembro sa usa ka hugpong sa mga batan-ong magsusulat nga gitawag ug STUDENT PRESS.  Nahimo usab siyang   Associate Editor sa basahon  USC-JPIAN sa tuig 1962-63. Magtatampo usab siya isip magsusulat sa nasudnong magasin,  "Philippines Free Press" ug sa mga nag-unang peryodiko dinhi sa dakbayan sa Sugbo sa lunhaw pa ang iyang pangedaron. Nahimo siyang mamumuo sa usa ka pribadong kompaniya sa dakbayan sa Sugbo, ESCANO LINES, sulod sa napulo ug duha (12) ka tuig  dayon niyang tapon  ngadto sa NAPOCOR  ug nahimong kawani sa kagamhanan  sulod sa bayente dos (22) ka tuig. Niadtong tunga-tungang bahin sa tuig 2000, nilalin siya ngadto sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika ug sulod sa napulo (10) ka tuig, nagtrabaho siya sa  buhatan sa kagamhanan sa nasod sama  sa  UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (USPS).  Karon sa pangedaron nga 67,  gihuptan gihapon niya ang walay pagkutat nga kadasig ug walay busganan nga kaikag sa pagpaambit sa iyang nahuptang abilidad  ug kabatid sa panulat.  Dili niya mapugngan ang kaugalingon sa pagpaambit sa iyang mga hunahuna labi na kon molambigit kini ug hisgotanan nga makadani sa iyang mga mata. Kinutlo kining paambit gikan sa pamantalaan Sunday Tribune sa isyu Oktubre 21, 2012)