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Is Ben Bowen King the same guy as Ben Tavera King?

Paulsoup is confused.

Here's more information on the different names than you may want. When I started playing and recording I went by Ben King. But people automatically put a "E" in the middle and thought they were going to see and hear the legendary R & B singer Ben E. King. So I started using my Mother's maiden name "Tavera" to avoid any mix up. Most of the music I was recording had a Latino or Tex-Mex sound. And that's the name on several recordings and downloads. However, with the miracle of I-Tunes, Google and the internet in general I could tell there would be a problem when I recorded "Sidewalk Saints." It's gospel music from the 1930s and would end up lost in the listing with all the Latino music I had done. So I used my given middle name, Bowen. Obviously, it's all schitzy but it's worked out musically and people expecting to hear a Ben Tavera King CD aren't upset when they get "Sidewalk Saints" -- #4 on the national Roots Gospel Charts,

rlp-I really appreciate this audio file. Much of language reminded me of some of the questions and comments directed at me from my CPE supervisors this past summer in Oak Cliff. It would have been helpful if they had talked about Jung a little bit before using the language so much!

Gordon,

When I first read your essay, "My House," when you first posted it, it took awhile before I realized that it wasn't literal. It all sounded so normal. And then, I can't remember when, it became apparent that you were exploring your "inner" house. And I thought...ooooo, very Jungian. I'd been reading something by a Jungian psychologist on dream interpretation called, "Inner Work," so I was all primed to recognize the Jungian stuff.

Anyway, thanks for walking us through your "house." Most of us don't even want to take that close a look at our own inner dwelling, much less write about it, and then analyze it on a blog for the whole world to see, or hear.

Where did this idea come from? Did you intentionally sit down to write about something like this, and just let it flow? Or, did you do some active imagination or meditation first, and then write about what you "saw?" I'm asking because I think this would be a fun and informative exercise, and am just curious how you approached it.

D. Young
aka Quaker Lady

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the audio reflections about that great bit of writing. I read the essay a few weeks ago, in the usual place here in Cambridge, England. I listened to you read it and comment on it while walking half lost through the streets of Nice, France. Very cool stuff. I listened to the whole thing and didn't get the symbolism of the lever (And I usually have my mind deep in the gutter!).

Looking forward to more discussions about your writings.

Thanks for being willing to share yourself with your readers and listeners.

p.s. Great to hear how good you are at audio recording, even if your adimssions of being disorganized worry me about when/if you'll get around to doing a future recording project (^;

-Kevin from FirstPersonShow.net