Music is getting better as I age. I've gone into this major spree of listening to WWOZ New Orleans which plays all kinds of excellent funk, soul, hip hop, country, blues, jazz, zydeco, etc. And it's amazing. The more I listen to that music the more I am hear how pretty much all the music I listen to is drawing on similar sources. I've been ( Read more... )

Went for a hike along the Capilano River today, starting at Capilano Lake and the Cleveland Dam. Now there's a striking place. The lake is right in front of the Lions, and much closer to them than we are in the city. I've been having a good time spotting those peaks from different angles lately. Last time I was going to the coast I saw them from ( Read more... )

This is an excerpt from chapter 9 of the Kalevala ("Iron and Blood ( Read more... )

tomorrow-morrow-morrow and friday-eyeday-eyeday


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i'm good at opening sentences and bad at titles

remember, expressing myself in the rich and full way i see the world FEELS GOOD

when it comes to my own projects, i am a daily stabber. i find i luv doing a little *HUUUUHH!* every day, but no extended period of that necessarily... (i'm talking the real juicy-making creation, not the mundane steps also required to bring a project to fruition) as of now i have a nearly complete first draft. i'm submitting it on monday, and some ( Read more... )

my new favourite thing is riding in the back of pickup trucks. yesterday we did it so crazy-style. there were three of us sandwhiched between two tarps, hidden from the cops that have come back to the island. we were playing accordion under there and getting bloused whispey. lying on the rumbling truck bed under the blue glow of the tarp, trying ( Read more... )