Buses, hospitals and records #Diary
Timestamp, waiting for bus, usual routine, switched up outfit to *slightly more* autumnal duds but sweet holy heaven, sky is […]
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Vinyl Dreams & Woodblock Echoes: A Japan Room Scene
Bob Dylan loves Japan, Japan loves Bob Dylan I’m trying not to buy vinyl these days cause well, we’re a
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Field Notes: Tepemok Record Fair in Ushimado
Feb. 2, 2023 Ushimado, Okayama, Japan: as it goes, we learned about a record fair at a unique community creative
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Batches of Records – indie rock, much Canadiana + awsum musical women
In my Kura barn studio (wearing a zip up cardigan) some months after returning from a trip to former home
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Vinyl Time Capsule, 1991 (so much 1980s wave, punk, world & soundtracks)
Vinyl Time Capsule from 1991 (so much 1980s wave, punk, world & soundtracks) Flipping through a big box of vinyl
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Records, Show and Tell
Bonanza Box of Records, Games, Books & Ephemera
Bonanza Box of Records, Games, Books & Ephemera “Beat Scene” book full of photographs (by Burt Glin), letters, and artifacts
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“Like to Rock” Books & Records in the Kura
“Like to Rock” Books & Records in the Kura Hang out in Kura Barn studio with a batch of books
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Records, Show and Tell
VanBC ~ SLC ~ OlyWa: Records & Gigs storytime
Connecting the dots with stacks of records, gig flyers, set lists, maps & legends: from Vancouver to Salt Lake City,
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Rock Records & Books, video preview – *maybe*
I always have things meaning to tell you but recently barely getting out of bed but, was out in kura
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Japan Life/Travel, Portraits of the Artiste
Me in my place, at peace
Amongst all the hospital visits and dental appts and other “stuff going on behind the scenes which not ready to
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Collections of Artifacts, Records
Items in kura, inventoried: (scrapbook poetry, letters, wallets, records, map)
Rare hang out out in the kura barn (while wife’s band rehearses inside so a bit too much commotion for me) So instead, I’m putting away books and *trying to* tidy up stacks of scrapbook materials, ephemera, maps, passports, other treats / so much goodness! But first need space on the Workbench
What follows are artifacts, mildly documented, in situ, with brief annotations:
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Records
Vinyl: eclectic assortment – punk, wave, folk-pop etc – from UK, by post
Yes, I love to buy records… I don’t get hung up on the “collectibility” or the rarity, but I am partial to quality, variety, but mostly… I’ll admit it, nostalgia & i buy em to play em. Sure, I’m always trying out new bands, but there’s a sweet spot from the 80s and 90s (hello Gen X) which has a tractor beam on me.
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Downtown + West End Vancouver and Stanley Park / #BCInvasion flashback, part 2
Moving north across the Fraser river to downtown/West End, Vancouver, settling into a kitchenette hotel for several days, enjoying tea ceremonies, hotel picnics, coffee times and pleasant times with friends, plus our initial foray into Stanley Park.
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Personal Musings
Diary: Stumbling towards new year – ad-hoc annotations about records, boar, medicines & #io
So wiped out from the last few days… Tea ceremony, hospital checkpoints, another tea ceremony, garden visits, photo studio, preschool
Paint + Collage + Craft, Postboxes
Kintsugi-esque Postbox Haiku refresh – on a Goat Farm Visit
In the spirit of Kintsugi (usually meant for repairing busted ceramic pottery items with gold – and gluey goop but you
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Post, pals and figuring *it* out (together, alone) – Japan Cottage Musings
Back from seitai with kindly sensei & feeling spun and bit blue / confused or some combo and wearing a
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