http://www.boontdusties.com/journal Urban Shamanism Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:29:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recipe: Smoked one small corn cob of a mugwort blend containing mullein, kinnick kinnick, yarrow, elephant's head. Drank one cup of mugwort tea right before bed. Smoked yet another corn cob of mostly mugwort & a little bit of peppermint. The tea tastes great - familiar. The smoking blend with peppermint was better ... http://www.boontdusties.com/journal/2011/10/06/mugwort-dream-experience/ Tweets for today: - And now, a cosmology of Mario World as understood by the main characters and channeled by myself at 5:00am this morning. - Luigi: "Death is easy to understand. You squish up into a tiny ball, then simply fall OFFSCREEN." Mario: "Any other idea is pure fairy tale" - The ... http://www.boontdusties.com/journal/2011/09/27/mario-world/ America Online Unwelcome Houseguests (Part I) by My Printer Broke, This is a serious course of action; manifestos manifesting great arcs of being, the whole "I was just born" deal, as if to say - something a little comes along alot this way. I forgive my parents and thy trespasses. I don't believe in the ... http://www.boontdusties.com/journal/2011/07/26/america-online/ One Christmas my mom made a garden stepping stone that had my name on it with the word "writer" beneath it. For a short time I wore a ring I had made in Tijuana that said "POET". I've felt guilty for a long time that I haven't maintained that role. ... http://www.boontdusties.com/journal/2011/06/24/apparently-i-was-published/ Acid Rain - new Seattle Power Violence band from Garrett Kelly on Vimeo. Esther C. Morgan, veteran Seattle music scene hipster, is fresh on the warpath w/ new Power Violence band Acid Rain. Although currently entertaining record deals from the likes of SubPop, Barsuk, and Thrill Jockey, Acid Rain will always ... http://www.boontdusties.com/journal/2011/03/23/acid-rain-new-seattle-power-violence-band/ Merry Christmas to me! I've got a new iPhone App to add to my slowly incrementing list of secular software to misuse for mystical purposes. Some of you may remember my post about Dragon Dictation, a speech-to-text iPhone application which I used in order to create algorithmically inspired poetry. (For that ... http://www.boontdusties.com/journal/2010/12/21/word-lens-next-in-my-arsenal-of-unintended-iphone-divination-apps/ Sent to me via email. Thought I would share: 1. Volume is your friend, rely on it to play the instrument for you when you can't think of anything, 2. Feedback is cooler if the instrument is in direct contact with the amp, 3. Use at least 2 distortion boxes, ... http://www.boontdusties.com/journal/2010/09/29/recipe-for-crazzy-ass-sounds-by-john-beezer-of-the-thrown-ups-stomach-pump-etc/ Amber says I am going through my 'art' phase now. http://www.boontdusties.com/journal/2010/09/02/my-printer-broke-a-break-into-breaking-my-head-open/ “Ice water in restaurants”. "That pain in your jaw when you blow up too many birthday balloons" "The moment in the morning when you wake up and your ego thinking takes control" What can you come up with on your list? Always been struck by this 'vision' I had and ... http://www.boontdusties.com/journal/2010/08/20/collegejournals-things-that-i-will-miss-when-i-am-dead-underlined/ http://www.boontdusties.com/journal/2010/08/20/using-dragon-dictation-app-to-script-nonsense-animated-cartoons/