Sleep (Saturday Life #4)

At work blogging. Love the blogpress app. Now waiting for the bus. Listening to converge's Jane Doe. Shit is brutal. :). Heaven in her arms. Good stuff.

Running home for my bike and still planning laundry and flat repair tonight. Would like to get the record player going as well.


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Work 1/2 (A Look At The Weekend #3)

Well I work tomorrow for the first of two consecutive weekends. I am really tired.

I am hoping to get my bike flat repaired tomorrow. Then laundry, then enjoy my lone weekend day. Plans? Not sure. Listen to Converge, Animal Collective, read some Evopsych, etc.

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Music to grind your eyes out (music #3)

Listening to converge's Jane Doe, the music that inspired thousands of otherwise happily and gainfully employed serial killers to reconsider their career choices and opt for the difficult path of eternally touring, straight edge, vegan, sonic construction workers. Except for slipknot, who it no doubt inspired (I am pretty sure converge would rather this not be mentioned), who turned a relatively simple formula into a steaming pile of philosophical and musical masquerade mammon.

I am woefully ignorant in my knowledge of converge, despite a huge affinity for them. I am hoping to make it to Portland for their show 10/25.


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Saturday Life #3

I've seen several "comedic" musicians.  Jello Biafra.  Even Sage Francis.  I've seen Penn and Teller in Vegas.  Friends went to Bill Cosby (which I didn't) and one of the greatest mistakes of my life thus far is not seeing George Carlin.  I love Bill Hicks, David Cross, Bill Maher, Lewis Black, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert.  Tonight, Weird Al.

I haven't been to the fair in ages.  I remember helping my dad sell homemade pine boxes with paintings on the side that my dad did at some fair in Washington.  :)

Oh Lost Weekend (A Look at the Weekend #3)

Definites (in chronological order):
1. Trivia night! (5 out of 6 Fridays)  With Jenny, Marie, Dylan, Nick, Sandi, and I'm not sure who else.
2. Weird Al Yankovic @ Lane County Fair.
3. Sunday night dinner with Donnelle.

Possibilities (in random order):
1. VSOP with Bad Hat.
2. Moonrise Kingdom with Nancy and/or Paula
3. Brunch with Jim.
4. Jiro Dreams of Sushi with Donnelle/The Raid with ???

More music (music #2)

On the bus. Going to have laughing planet with Donnelle today and I am looking forward to that.

I would like to write about some music right now. Lately, I've listened to a good deal of modern classical, such as Anton Webern, Morton Feldman, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and others. I also shuttled through King Crimson's
Red 1.5 times and am impressed at how Schoenbergesque it is ("Providence" especially). Rise Against has become my biking staple. I know the tattoo I want on my left arm. "We've been tearing up the nails that hold up everything you know.". This will be around a railspike with a tribute to Blake Donner.
I pepper this with crazy stuff like Converge, Gospel, Mare - political punk like Strike Anywhere, Refused, Marathon, old Thrice, Thursday (even classics like Minor Threat, Misfits, Black Flag, and Bad Brains) - and some jazz like Miles' Bitches Brew and Ornette's Shape of Jazz to Come.
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Weekend Review #1

Chin-chin.
Let's begin our weekend review.
I found out today that Chris Marker passed away on July 29th.  Apparently he was sending film stock to Patricio Guzman to make his epic documentary, The Battle of Chile, thinking PG was crazy, but wanting to help him nonetheless.  The bonfire he started will burn on.
Friday night was trivia night and was a major blast.  Jenny, Marie, Nick, and Dylan all showed and we had a blast.  It's my way of cutting loose and has become a big part of my weeknd.  ;)
I walked home with Dylan and we had a good talk about meditation.  Be here now.  Focus.  Feel your existence in the most complete way possible.  We didn't evolved to consciously think, we evolved to act from the heart, and modern society has put a cage around that.  It is important to return to the well and recharge that part of our being.
Saturday morning, a new friend and I drove to the Three Sisters Wilderness in the central cascades and hiked to the Matthieu lakes.  It was incredible.  We had originally planned to continue on to Four-in-one cone, but I woke up late and it just didn't work out.  The lakes were both incredible though.  Wow, so beautiful and so warm.  I am a bit sunburned.  We finished it off at Sushi Ya.

What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)