Wildflower, for Foster (song with Mikael Lewis, 2018)
A song for a brilliant fella who’s flame burned out too fast (21 y/o) decades ago now but a conversation […]
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Healing Ramble
Healing: hospital day with doo-wop, muffin, and a rock
At a café awaiting hospital appointment, scribbling postcards // they’re playing doo-wop music which reminds me so much of dear
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Riff: Joe Strummer, Silver & Gold
Joe Strummer (Mellor) died around this day 17 years ago, not too old but old enough to leave an exceptionally
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Collections of Artifacts, Music / Rock
Artifact: Bad Wougar album, 2014
Bad Wougar is/was a hard rocking band in Vancouver BC with four fine gentleman who practised diligently in a room
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Subpop HQ: photos, stickers, posters, wall collages etc / Seattle, 2010
Yeah i know the pics aren’t great but just to document my trip to Subpop HQ, Seattle (of course)… in
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Collections of Artifacts
Artifact: AOT sticker on boombox, 1985
This boombox travelled far, abandoned like most of my possessions of the time in beloved VW bus “the Earthship”. AOT
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Music / Rock, Portraits of the Artiste
Memento: with Tegan and Sara, Vancouver, 2012
Note: Tegan and Sara performed a special promo gig for a Vancouver radio station in Dec. 2012 to which i
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Kinfolk + Pals, Music / Rock
Artifacts and Birthday Greetz to Dan Mangan, 2020
Musician and pal Dan Mangan shares a birthday (april 28) with my sweet wife Ryoko (he’s a year older) and
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Collections of Artifacts, Music / Rock
Artifacts: Rock shirts, vol. 1 (1980s Bowie, Clash, REM)
While sorting through archive in the kura/barn studio, came across a mighty bin of t-shirts from bands/tours, mtn bike races,
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Collections of Artifacts, Music / Rock
Artifacts: DIY cassette goodness
To me, there is importance in preserving the efforts of “small time“ artists putting their goodness out into the
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Personal Musings
Diary: Garden sprouting, yard evolving, rocks to move (still)…
Since we planted this patch of garden a week or two back, rain fell a few times in between stretches
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Personal Musings
Diary: More Rocks, also Herbs + Bocce Dreams (with time lapse fun)
As noted recently, we put in a fresh garden plot in the front yard area of our house in Tsuchida,
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Improving Campsite, Personal Musings
Diary: Moving Boulders, Laying Bricks, Planting Seeds at Tsuchida Cottage
Quick notes: relocated these three big old foundation boulders using a tripod and pulley to make a little ring around
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Music / Rock, Personal Musings
Concerts: assorted, annotated, alphabetized
Notes (yes i overthink things): resisted urge to list how many times (or at least “once, a few, several, loads),
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Music / Rock, Personal Musings
Annotations re: The Clash’s London Calling turning 40
A few sundry/spontaneous remarks about London Calling, The Clash’s remarkable album, turning 40 as well as a few miscellaneous annotations
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Static Montages, Tracks on Tracks
“Rock Train” Cross-Canada, 2012 / mixed media collage
June 2012, i boarded a VIA with 11 bands, a doc film crew, CBC radio 3, a bushel of photographers,
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