Dog Eaters

Detoxing is simple

Posted on 01.19.25 under Uncategorized

Day 2 of the Malcolm Wong Detox: green juice, coffee plus alpha, eight big swallows of water an hour, 8 hours working on the lot, and dinner. (maybe a banana or two on the sly).

Best results seen over at least one week and up to a month.

Emerge

Posted on 10.22.24 under Uncategorized

Run and hide

A candle in the dark

There’s a storm outside my door
The long cold night descends
Thousands of miles away
The senseless wars never end

Why, why

The battles rage but I stand aloof
My soul they can’t coerce
Though bullets fly missiles explode
I won’t be thrown off course

We’ll keep hope alive
For you

Please keep the fires burning bright
Through the whispered horrors of the night
And shield the dying candle of hope
Emerge from darkness into the light

Loose chains of guilt, cannot restrain
The lure of amoral gain
Greed’s hunger feasts on precious dreams
And turns them into schemes

Why, why

Still I run and you hide
In the light we cannot see
Through the dark, we will find our way
As the twilight fades to day

We’ll keep hope alive
For you

Please keep the fires burning bright
Through the whispered horrors of the night
And shield the dying candle of hope
Emerge from darkness into the light

A candle in the dark

credits

released October 22, 2024
Written, performed, recorded by Malcolm Wong
Sax stylings by Jason Gay

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Glass for the Object Show

Posted on 10.14.24 under Uncategorized

@suchas_gallery

Blue Net Poi Pounder & lamp
Clocks
Planetary-X mkii-2
Planetary-X mkii-2
Illuminated Poi Pounder

Mark of Can

Posted on 09.30.24 under Uncategorized

Lost in a time beyond memory
Long before the documentary
Called back to the world we left behind
Back to the prison of our minds

Please feel this again
Again

It’s all a mystery

Help us erase the Mark of Cain
Primal sin is an endless chain
The lust for more driving us insane
Turning pleasure into pain

It’s all a mystery

Revise the stories of our lives
Tales of shame and emotional strife
Ten thousand years seems like yesterday
Ten thousand demons we must slay

Please feel this again
Again

It’s all a mystery

We can’t erase the Mark of Cain
Pushed from the start to insane
Run the race to hell in pain
Help us break these heavy chains

It’s all a mystery

released September 30, 2024
Written, Performed, Recorded: Malcolm Wong
Alto, Tenor, Baritone Sax: Frank Southecorvo

Photo and photo collage: Malcolm Wong

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Remembering Gloria Lee Wong

Posted on 08.25.24 under Uncategorized

At the Martha’s Vineyard Campground Tabernacle in Massachusetts, Dustin Wong re-created this song from scratch, building layers of atmosphere on his pedals. For years, my mother wanted Dustin to play on Martha’s Vineyard. It took her passing to make it happen…

I’m Malcolm, the oldest of Gloria’s five children and the father of Dustin, her first grandchild. I was known as Stephen when our family first starting going to the Campground in the 60s. At that time, my mother was identified and self-identified as Mrs. Backman Wong.

After my father passed on in 1995, she sold the family hom and built a house in Vineyard Haven, moving permanently and year-round to Martha’s Vineyard. She started a second life as Gloria Violet Lee Wong, widening her horizons. Part of the process was assisted by traveling. She embedded and engaged meaningfully with the people she met.

In her later years, she traveled with companions and even had plans to visit with us on Maui in March of this year with Uncle Rob. Just two years ago she went on a road trip with Dustin, driving down from Vancouver to San Diego, dropping in on friends and relatives, just the two of them.

Her 90th birthday was celebrated in the Bay Area. She travel there with someone that I hadn’t heard about before, so the usual questions were asked: How had they met? How long had she known her? What did she do? Her age, etc. G’ma Gloria said: “Oh, she’s old,” and when a 90 year old says a person is old, well the next obvious and natural question is, “How old?” The answer: “She’s retired. She’s younger than you!”

That was Gloria Wong, telling it like it is and keeping it real.

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