Pistachios for Bedouins – Items: Forgotten in Drawers (vol. 4)
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Consider the moon…
Consider the moon
again it grows – again it thins
not at once
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from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004
Download Hot Springs and Stubbed Toe (.pdf)
January hot springs…
January hot spring
snowy mountain top
cools burning toes
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from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004
Download Hot Springs and Stubbed Toe (.pdf)
Bill Lenker’s “West of 101” released by Archeology Records
Bill Lenker’s “West of 101”
From the Appalachian mountains of eastern Pennsylvania to the salty coast of the Pacific Northwest, Bill Lenker’s “West of 101“ tells guitar stories of a seeker wandering and roaming while finding balance between the present and the past.
A traditional stonemason by trade, Bill’s hand-chisels his original songs to feel as gritty and real as raw limestone or granite – sculpted with the proper tools to be strong enough to stand the test of time with flavors of bluegrass, folk, rock, and boom-chuck, performed with craft and soul.
- Bubba
- I Heard Your Captain
- West of 101
- Turn Out Your Fears
- Maya
- Whiskey Hammer
- Ages
- Hemispheres
Recorded at Olympia, Washington’s Moon Music in 1999, engineered by Scott Swayze (producer/engineer/guitar for Modest Mouse, The Dirty Birds etc.) and featuring violin by Tyler Reilly (also performs on Modest Mouse’s Lonesome Crowded West) and additional lead electric guitar by Mike Esparza (Chief), this authentic Americana album now digitally available via Archaeology Records.
Available via:
Dig along via Tw: @archeologyrecs + Fb: Archeology Records – for the endeavors of a music label bringing under-heard garage bands, buskers, outsider artists, and renegade musicians to worldwide audiences through community building and digital-fu.
“I’ve never been lonely…” – Charles Bukowski
Read in Postcards from Gravelly Beach Disappearing for Invigoration – Postcard #78 podcast, and shared here to read-along (for educational purposes), note: original source unknown.
“I’ve never been lonely. I’ve been in a room — I’ve felt suicidal. I’ve been depressed. I’ve felt awful — awful beyond all — but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me…or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I’ve never been bothered with because I’ve always had this terrible itch for solitude. It’s being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I’ll quote Ibsen, “The strongest men are the most alone.” I’ve never thought, “Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I’ll feel good.” No, that won’t help. You know the typical crowd, “Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?” Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn’t want to hide in factories. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have. Let’s drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski
Sunday on the Lam – Items: Forgotten in Drawers (vol. 3)
Gazing at the moon…
Gazing at the moon
in slippers – shivering
while dog pees
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from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004
Download Hot Springs and Stubbed Toe (.pdf)
Uncle Weed’s “Comfortably Lonely” EP released by Archeology Records
Uncle Weed “Comfortably Lonely”
Two tracks of spoken-song/poetry + loops – reminiscent of collaborations between Tom Waits and William Burroughs and/or The Clash and Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded in Little Bay, Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, 2014
- Humble Boys Club
- Change my Route (to think about the neighbourhoods)
Available via:
Dig along via Tw: @archeologyrecs + Fb: Archeology Records – for the endeavors of a music label bringing under-heard garage bands, buskers, outsider artists, and renegade musicians to worldwide audiences through community building and digital-fu.
Ballad of Empty / Full
Coarse carbon compresses
to become the finest gems
reflecting entire universes
gracefully from within
Sapphires and rubies
strong, rugged with a gleam
channeled from promised lands
we are the stories we share
tales of love and freedom
wrapped in mystery
The truth is only useful
if it sets others free
Have you ever wondered aloud
how it feels to be
fully empty?
A Circumnavigation of Sorts – Postcard #79
Float to Istanbul, Muscat and elsewhere, and check in with Cleopatra, Shakespeare, Francis Drake, Shah of Persia, Adam, Cain, Abel, Lawrence, Ataturk, Czars Nicholas and Alexander, Matt Harding, Russia oligarchs, well-fed stray cats, unidentified shortwave broadcasts, Abraham, Norman, Matt Harding, rowers, drummers, a blonde dog and you and me… finding the edges of the globe.
Set sail for: A Circumnavigation of Sorts – Postcard #79
(25MB, 18:09, 192k mp3, stereo)