(with apologies to Greil Marcus, who no longer writes it).

In no particular order:

1. KDOX X-15 X-TREME RADIO

Mount Hood Community College, my place of distracted drudgery, has a little radio station, KDOX, which happens to have an online presence as well. When they're not yelping in frat boy cadences about "X-treme Radio!!" and broadcasting ( Read more... )

So, it's all over. The final Artist's Way meeting was last night.

Only it's not really over. Not only do I expect to continue my daily Morning Pages and weekly Artist Dates, and to pursue projects and creative whims as they arise, but gretchin has set up a listserv for all of her future cohort to check up and relay what the voices are saying, and ( Read more... )

The Revised Final Tracklist ( Read more... )

My first International Mixtape Project mix, with annotations ( Read more... )

I saw Sin City over the weekend, and I can't stop thinking about it. Or rather, I can't extract it from my cortex. Its images are stuck there like brain matter on brick ( Read more... )

What I've been reading so far this year. These are the ones I actually finished; that I didn't get bored with and put down halfway, or simply hurl across the room ( Read more... )

I feel like I have to lean down and verbally coax my fingers into typing. "Good fingers. Yes. Daddy will wash you, maybe find you some velvet ( Read more... )

I arrived at the library this morning and, while stepping into the bathroom to wash my hands, caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror ( Read more... )

What I really want to do, now that all that important spiritual stuff is out of the way, is talk about music. Like a big oily geek.

Two weekends past, I went to the coolest place in PDX, the Doug Fir Lounge, and lived. I contributed to the fire hazard (though not the philosopher's beard or magic scarf quotient) by packing myself in with a ( Read more... )

See what happens? I had no idea it had been so long ( Read more... )