ARMED AS UNARMED 11/18/09

The Slickers: Johnny too bad. Dardha Rrumbulake, The Horse Thieves: Wake Up & Wait. Amon Tobin: Slowly. Andy Hayleck: Gong/Wire #2. A Hawk and A Hacksaw: Portland Town (live at All Saints Church in Cambridge). King Geedorah feat. Mr Fantastik: Anti-Matter, Landless Farm: Deep Cover. Team 9: Sign of the crazy times. Dardha Rrumbulake, Rain On the River preview, Anne Mersereau teaching me a Mariah Carey song in the Red Barn studio. WC & Nate Dogg: The Streets. Beth Bahia Cohen teaching violin in the Mendocino Woodlands. Chris Clark: Holiday as Brutality. Do you want to dance?, Buffalo Springfield: Broken Arrow. The Dirty Projectors: Time Birthed Spilled Blood, The Cure: A Forest (live in Japan 1984.) A Hawk And A Hacksaw And The Hun Hangár Ensemble: Zozobra. Wake Up & Wait, Chris Clark: Empty the Bones of You, Cam Stevens and Brian Eubanks live at Hotel in Portland, Almeda Riddle: Rainbow ‘Mid Life’s Willows. Bobby Freeman: Do you want to dance? Beth Bahia Cohen teaching violin in the Mendocino Woodlands. Neutral Milk Hotel: Holland, 1945. Edith Piaf: Autumn Leaves. William DeVaughn: Be Thankful For What You’ve Got.

DEVOTION & FLAW 11/11/2009

Audient: Last Thursday Live at SCS, Tender Forever: My Love (Inrocks Session 12), Bob Dylan: World Gone Wrong, Quasimoto: Come On Feet, Under Mountains: Three Years in Fifteen Minutes (compilation of live performances), Last Thursday Live at SCS, FA Turopolje Amateur Tamburitza Orchestra with Meri Barisic: Zaspo Janko. Gouseion: Let’s Crush (Graintable Remix), Joan Baez: Here’s to You, Spirits Rejoice. Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris: We’ll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning. Two Can Win, Three Years In Fifteen Minutes, My Lady Story, Here’s To You. Brother And Sister Walker: I Can See So Much. Berwyn Street: Walking With Bells, Gypsies of Rajasthan: Musafir. Albert Ayler: Divine Peacemaker. The Black Angel’s Death Song, Soulja Boy (Cousin Cole Remix), My Lady Story, Three Years In Fifteen Minutes, Here’s to You. Junior Kimbrough: My Mind Is Rambling, An Bichwi: Hoeshim-Kuk (Confession Song for the Buddhist), Three Years In Fifteen Minutes, Last Thursday Live at SCS, Calexico & Jim James in I’m Not There: Going to Acapulco.

WERE YOU THERE? 11/4/9

Sharp Building: Drinking Fountain/Photocopier area. Short Wave Radio (?), Devin the Dude: Doobie Ashtray. Tandem: This is when we went to the beach and it was cold. Recollect, Were you there? Kitimat: 52N126W. Ordre Chazali: Al-Insa, Seebell Kennedy: I just can’t keep from crying. Western Soundscape Archive:  Oregon: Nye Beach, this is when we went to the beach and it was cold. Henry: skillcheck5.  ???????? 2008 “??? ????? ???????” ??????? ?????. David Tudor and John Cage: Rainforest II/Mureau, Kate Wolf: Early Morning Melody, Al-Insad.  I’ve got to get that dirt off my shoulder.  Short Wave Radio (Ivo Papasov & Maria Karafizieva, ?). Early In The Morning.  Rainforest II/Mureau, The Deer Knives: When The Sky,  Early Morning Melody, Arrington on jaw harp @ the Empty Bottle.  Kate Bush: Cloudbusting.  Henry: Recollect.  Yoko Ono: she gets down on her knees (demo).  Omarion: Icebox.  Stagga, Babylon System: The Bad Dance, Get on Up (from Solar Life Raft). This is when we went to the beach and it was cold, Don Cherry: Resa, Nye Beach.  Kitka:  Zaspo Janko.  This is when we went to the beach and it was cold, Nye Beach, Chicago: Jackson Red Line station.

my new life has an estimated 4,900% increase in elevator rides per month.

In August 2008 I moved from Nehalem, Oregon (pop. 203) to Chicago, Illinois on a train, Amtrak’s Empire Builder.  that vacuum sound when the doors open between cars, wandering around the Spokane station in pajama pants at 2 am, drinking Heinekin and eating stale sandwiches, knitting, writing in my notebook, falling asleep with moonlight traveling along my face, crook in my back, listening to midwesterners coming home from their summer vacations at Glacier National Park (“great scenery up there”), reading Where I Was From by Joan Didion, splashing water on my face in the aluminum sinks, crossing the Great Divide

I dreamt we set the place on fire, the huge house where I was steward, in part by birth even, with R too, & others- many friends and strangers. It was I who made the decisive action in the end. I crawled under the foundation and poured diesel fuel everywhere, and I lit a match. Only then did I decide to climb to the attic, where my corner for dwelling lay in disarray, to gather what I would take away from the fire. All the friends and strangers were doing this with me, in their tents and pallets and hammocks, interim intimacies webbing the great halls, and we had infinitely generous time for our task

Photograph taken of the screen at the Capital Theater in Olympia, Washington, during a showing of Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, accompanied by a live orchestra playing Chaplin’s original score