An Authentic Madman
“And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths."
-Antonin Artaud
The Blue-Collar Diaries
by justin john scheck
Artist/Producer/Musician/Filmmaker/Activist & Podcaster Justin John Scheck
The Blue-Collar Diaries
5 Concept Albums, a Podcast and A One Man Show
The Blue-Collar Diaries is a series of 5 Concept Albums, a Podcast and a forthcoming Film. The One Man Show and Film is entitled A Peasant's Voice: The Divided States of The Poor Working Class.
The Podcast, A Peasant's Voice, is Hosted, Written and Produced by JJS. He also Composed the Score for the Podcast and the forthcoming Film, and wrote, performed, Produced, Mixed and Mastered all the Albums.
The Concept Albums cover Romantic Love, Familial Love and the Meaning of Life, Mental Illness and Addiction, Spirituality, and End Times Fascism.
It is all a love letter to The Working Class, in honor of The Working Class, as told by a man who has lived a Blue-Collar existence.
It is a story that could only happen in America.
After 20 years on the safety net, 20 years of living in shame as a hermit, the Artist decided to reach out with Art, in hopes of quelling the violent divisions that so engross America today.
It is those very divisions which keep us from uniting in common cause that the Artist takes on directly.
As The Artist put's it,
"We don't need Prophets to lead us out of the darkness. We need Student's of History to remind us who's keeping us in the dark. Artist's are supposed to be the Shaman of the Tribe. If the Tribe is to be healed, the Artist must dance and sing while in a trance, and he must live his life out loud."
A Peasant's Voice: The Divided States Of The Poor working class
A Film by Justin John Scheck
(Trailer) A Peasant's Voice: The Divided States Of The Poor Working Class
A Peasant's Voice: The Divided States Of The Poor working class
A Film by Justin John Scheck
A Peasant's Voice: The Divided States Of The Poor Working Class
A Peasant's Voice: The Divided States of The Poor Working Class is a One Man Show and Feature Film Written, Produced and Directed by Author/Musician/Filmmaker and Activist Justin John Scheck.
The Film will chronicle the Artist's struggles with mental illness and the way in which it has shaped his life and informed his Worldview.
It was improvised 12 weeks before The Presidential Election 2024, and is a story told through music and through song. A story that could only happen in America.
It is an ode to The Working Class, in honor of The Working Class, as told by a man who has lived a Blue-Collar existence.
The Collection is an olive branch, and still but a prayer.
