Seasick Sailors On A Ship Of Noise

clothes on the line, drying in the sunwind of Saturday afternoon

get the Grasshopper/Twistycat split tape from Abandon Ship Records

incredible music, great label

sometimes like "He Loved Him Madly" by Miles

Sudden Oak, Radiant Husk from Bezoar Formations

dudes on the parking lot level in the Bay Area

improvising, stretching...

Id M Theftable & Jay-Z from Mangdisc

one of the best drone/ambient tapes I've ever heard, Endless Caverns

these folks record, make, & sell their own music

please be cool, check 'em out

some o' my own elastic trackin'

Smaken der Kraken (rubber band & electronics)

Kulu Se Mamas are Way Cool

there was a record fair in Portland today

best thing I picked up was a copy of Coltrane's Kulu Se Mama

(makes sense, Mother's Day & all)

made me think of another 'Trane tune that seems appropriate

for celebrating all that my Mom does/has done/is doing

selflessness

the architecture I'm taking in with my mind

Greil Marcus has an incredible new book about Van Morrison out now

's called When That Rough God Goes Riding

it ain't really about facts or even "criticism"

more like a shared sense of wonder, the mysticism of music

my friend Willie says Astral Weeks is his desert island disc

I suppose that's true for many people, in fact, most who've ever really

heard it...

first time I did, I was working in a library

it still kills me every time

& its near equal, Veedon Fleece, is another Van Morrison album

I just can't do without

had to wait years for it to become available on CD

I remember the day I got a copy, I'd been up for almost 24 hours

soon as I heard it, I was totally AWAKE!

spent many nights out at sea listening to both of 'em in rapt detail

one day, after hiking through San Francisco, years behind me

finally found Veedon Fleece on vinyl

the maguffin waiting for me to find

my Astral Weeks LP not so lucky in the backseat of a California car in the afternoon

warped, it still plays and I guess if I were stuck on a desert island

I'd hear it anytime I wanted even if I didn't have a thing

'cause I carry that music in me, with me

thank you Greil, and thank you Van Morrison

here's a few of my humble sketches, studies of masterpieces-

Astral Weeks

Who Was That Masked Man

Slim Slo Slider