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I am watching Sun Ra videos at 7 in the morning. I think this will give me a positive
spin for the day. Watching this stuff really makes me want to find other musicians who want to make this kind of music. I don’t necessarily mean “jazz” or just chaotic noise. I don’t want to just emulate the sounds, I want to be inspired by the same spirit that is driving them. Communal playing, listening to each other, getting lost in the “joyful noise”, etc.

This is one of the best live performances I’ve found:

If you don’t know anything about him and his Arkestra, I recommend checking out the documentary bits they have on Youtube. He was a total genius.

For some reason at band practice the other night I made a joke about bear traps. Just raising the mental image in my mind forced me to think about that idea, and I actually prevented practice from continuing while I contemplated my navel and dwelled on the cruelty.

Late in the evening tonight, I made a joke about how Amber secretly makes compelling delicious dinners that require many plates/bowls to pull off, and does it in such an aromatic way, I quickly succumb to my desires and share in the meal …. only to be served the task of doing the dishes. My roommate said “Garrrett, you’re sort of like a mouse easily swayed by the cheese, or a bear quickly caught in a trap.” I told him he may be more right about that than he knows, and that at that very moment his little random side comment could actually be the universe speaking through him directly to me.

I don’t outright feel this way, but it keeps coming up so I am trying to look closer at my life to see if there’s something I am missing.

Before going to bed, I read about this art exhibit in a myspace bulletin:

In 2007, the ‘artist’ Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved him to death.

For several days, the ‘artist’ and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful ‘masterpiece’ based on the dog’s agony, until eventually he died.

A big thanks to Daniel Jalkut from Red Sweater Software - He helped fix my problems with MarsEdit so that I can use it once again to update my blog! I’ve been absent from writing because I’ve been too lazy to actually navigate to the old fashioned way of posting using my gnarly web-browser. Yikes!

I feel a little sheepish, as all I had to do was update my Wordpress install and now I have returned to my sweet blogging bliss. Ta-da!

Not this blog, just blogs in general. Instead of dreaming of blogging I dream of going outside and walking and picking shit off the ground.\r\n

I consider this a positive sign.\r\n

Random Christmas Card

Originally uploaded by boont dustie

I just got in my work mailbox from people I do not know who live in Alabama. WTF?

Question:

When you are presented with a country option selector like this:

Are you pissed off when USA is not at the top of the list? Do you think “C’mon, we’re the greatest country in the world, shouldn’t we be at the top above the rest of those loser countries”? I don’t mean that you feel it that strongly, but isn’t there a little inkling of that in the back of your head?

Discuss.

We’re just listening in the basement, but you can tell that this guy is quite the showman. Here’s a picture just uploaded to the Vocoustics house gig picture page. We’re streaming live and listening to him crack anti-Seattle jokes. Ain’t technology grand.

The Scotland show is going strong now … we just interviewed Peter and Kevin and some random party girls about their paranormal encounters. It’s been a ton of intercontinental fun. This is a rare treat, because this sort of thing doesn’t happen very often Scotland ….

You can even hear cars nearby, and people trying to be so quiet in a house completely rigged up with mics. It’s freaking beautiful.

More pictures here

We’re broadcasting the Scotland house show right now, and the unsuspecting guests are “shooting the shit” in the mic-rigged house. The show will start soon, as soon as the rest of the guest arrive. More pictures to come….

Kitchen ? Live at the Vocoustics house, originally uploaded by hollowearthradio.

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So my sister’s boyfriend is trying to get a job in Portland. He went to LaborReady and had
to take a five question test in order to qualify.

1. Do you do drugs recreationally?
2. When you get mad, do you punch people?
3. Have you stolen from work before?
4. How much have you stolen from work (in dollar amount) ?
5. Do you believe it’s okay to drink on the job?

He said that 3 people failed this test.