Typing Aerogrammes (ambient, in the kura barn studio)
Typing Aerogrammes in the kura barn studio – Really, that’s it, typing aerogrammes on an Olivetti Lettera 34 at a […]
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Music / Rock
Vinyl Records – Japanology Plus | NHK #video
Vinyl Records – Japanology Plus | NHK brings an enjoyable program (in its own quirky way) presented in English about
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Collections of Artifacts, Records
Vinyl: Japan pressings of REM, D. Bowie, The Beatles, M. Tyner (and “collecting” notes)
Recently another batch of vinyl by post, with brief annotations: First off: REM’s “Reckoning” & “Fables of The Reconstruction”, original
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Vinyl: lots of (mostly early) Bob Dylan + Syd Barret, Ornette Coleman
Oh no, oh yes! More vinyl arrived! A new stash of Japanese pressings of (mostly) early Bob Dylan, plus the
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Collections of Artifacts, Music / Rock, Records, Writing Life
By Post: Jack tribute CDx2 & Bob’s Distortion LPx7
Recently by post: Jack Kerouac “kicks joy darkness” double CD. All songs/spiels about/dedicated to Jack by various artists. ¥401 delivered.
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Beat Sushi: Jack Kerouac spins for “Brian Land”
From a kura barn in provincial Japan, DaveO kicks off “Beat Sushi” by sending greetings to Beat / Deadhead /
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Notebook poetry scribbles, new keys & records (in the kura studio)
In bed sick a lot these last weeks/months #MECFS, which means I scribbled a lot in my bedside notebooks while
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Items: record shop stop (feat. BTO Japan Tour)
yesterday, report / diary: Finished medical appt and somehow a magnetic impulse pulled me into a tiny record store –
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Personal Musings
Diary: Tsuchida station grounds projects, various
Busy around the house, now the construction is “done”, doing some garden, yard, landscape, and kura/naya jobs… the glorious mundanity
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Records
Evidence: More records in the Kura (Gord Downie, Big Thief, Bob Dylan &…)
Ummmm accidentally on purpose ordered some more records. Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Astrud Gilberto, Suzanne Vega,
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Post’d: Coffee break with fountain pen, Hey Rosetta & Mr Bragg
Construction outside, coffee service delivered for the workers, now giving my ears and brain a bit of a break by
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Kura Cultural Curation – Japan Cottage Musings
Kura Cultural Curation – Japan Cottage Musings Riffs about home reform with new rooms, woodstove and tea ceremony area (thoughts
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Personal Musings
Diary: Records and Books in the Kura Studio / Music Mode = On
Continuing with chronicling collections of Collections in the Kura Grain Barn turned studio (needs a new name) / now featuring:
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Personal Musings
Diary: Getting a handle on the Kura “sort-ganizing” project
Round-up from the kura barn/mixed-media-creative-studio-in-process… Next up, going to attempt to carry up a big shelf cabinet – then, hopefully
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Personal Musings
Diary: Suitcases sorted with scraps and books
Update: each of these majestic suitcases now carries a specific subset of collections, ergo: one has dossiers and scraps and
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Personal Musings
Diary: Unpacking the Kura, day one (collections of collections, vinyl, books, suitcases, typewriters…)
Notes from the kura barn (day one): As I opened up dozens of boxes today to kind of do a