4-1-1
reminded of several influences / inspirations / tangents recently
and – how recording them has been an important step in all this
may be a bit scattershot – haven’t done one of these in a while…
common assets
common assets
swapped train tracks with Sam a while back:
i brought “Hunnybee”
‘Eugene Onegin’ – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
[2021-2022 season/The Metropolitan Opera]
set design by Tom Pye
with Ailyn Pérez as Tatiana
caught the live performance broadcast on KDFC a couple weekends ago – amazing!
c/o magick via Moderat
and this shadow, from a Craigslist curb alert
nice…
silly goose!
2022-01-13
gotchya! it’s not a goose!
it’s a North American Pipe Peeper… !
thought i might leave the foolishness aside, but i couldn’t help it once i saw it
some things are hard to un-see
like a googly-eye pigeon staring out a googly-eye pipe
jokes aside, some things are hard to process and move forward with – or, let go of
like…
what is that cone up to… ?
2022-01-17
ha!
still – feelin all sortsa feels!
silly > scared
bye!
no foolin’
what a week…
similar kinda deal a few weeks back
different place, different time
finding humor amongst it helped
“agent agent”
(ha!)
can come in unexpected ways – humor
help, too
unbelievable, even
as if the charm and serendipity of our cat enthusiast roadside mechanic wasn’t enough… he had a feline assistant riding shotgun!
Ed, Sam, and i stood and watched as this cat walked herself from her post in the passenger seat through the driver side window, over the side mirror, onto the hood over the family crest – the nerve!
there’s more:
we three continued to watch tickled (and, gotta admit sorta terrified) as Jesse made a brief parade loop around the Comfort Inn parking lot with Pixie perched – fearless and confident – on the hood-top
excuse me…
what is going on here?!
this really happened!
no foolin’!
!
tricks
fortune cookie freebie, tricks mix, and cover design from March 2021
tweaked the cover a bit last month, and wrapped the pair this evening
one year after the start, almost to the day
longer processing period than anticipated…
it be like that sometimes
clarity
a bit of “spring cleaning”
2021-12-14
inspired by Mark Simonson's studio tour
re-visited yesterday, 2022-03-19
and today, alongside My Clarity
2022-03-12
Control Issues on KALX 90.7 fm this morning
“El Divisadero (The Telegraph)” – Chris Watson
“It’s Obvious” – Au Pairs
“Kush” – Dizzy Gillespie
“Square Pegs” – The Waitresses
“Level Off” – Night Tempo Feat. Super Brass
“Roll With the Changes” – REO Speedwagon [via "CI" via Pop Goes the Weasel]
“It’s All Too Much” – The Beatles
and (some of) Duck Fat Soup, with LSS
“Pata Pata” – Somi
“Stay Away” – Charles Bradley feat. Menahan Street Band
“Gonna Be” – Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy
“Pleasewakeupalittlefaster please…” – Carlos Niño & Friends feat. Jamael Dean
“Last Night The Moon Came” – Jon Hassell
2022-03-11
“EASY PREY”
Moderat
directed by Cyprien Clément-Delmas
creative direction by C/O MAGICK [whose website was designed by Zweihundertkilo Studio]
[2022/Monkeytown Records]
2022-03-09
“Secrecy Is Incredibly Important To The Both of Them”
Yves Tumor
directed by Jordan Hemingway
[2022/Warp Records]