gone camping in northern mexico

bye bye

ROBERT FRIPP

THIS IS A GREAT CLIP WITH FRIPP USING HIS FRIPPERTRONICS SYSTEM AND GIVING SOME FANTASTIC INSIGHTS.

TO DO LIST, 4/8/2008

1) Sit on my ass
2) Check email 10 times
3) Cook some food, don't do dishes
4) Drink 10 espressos
5) Smoke some pot
6) Worry about what a waste my life has become
7) Flex arms in front of mirror
8) Listen to the Grateful Dead
9) Quote-along with "Blade Runner"
10) Plan an elaborate concept album I will never record
11) Dump out my "change cup;" search for nickels and dimes; use money for a slur-pee
12) Check email again
13) Write a to-do list
14) Throw all my dirty clothes into a single pile on the ground
15) Think about all the stuff I could be doing
16) Potato chips

"SUCCESS" MAGAZINE

THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME HEADLINES / ARTICLE TITLES I WROTE DOWN FROM THE LATEST ISSUE OF "SUCCESS MAGAZINE:

"INSTANT INCOME"
"WHEN TO BUY AN OFFICE CONDO"
"FINDING E-FULFILLMENT IN LIFE"
"WE DO THE WORK SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO"
"TEXT MESSAGE SUCCESS"
"CLICK N BUILD"
"TURN YOUR WEBSITE INTO CASH"
"SUPERSIZE YOUR START-UP"
"THE 7 WEALTH SECRETS OF THE RAINFOREST"
"YOUR ONLINE SOURCE FOR SUCCESS"

THE FOLLOWING ARE TITLES OF ARTICLES DISCUSSING CHARITABLE GIVING:
"COMPANIES THAT CONTRIBUTE ARE FINDING THAT GIVING PAYS OFF"
"GIVE IT TO GET IT"
"OFFERING UP YOUR GOODS, SERVICES, AND MONEY CAN PROPEL YOUR BUSINESS TO A NEW PLACE, ONE THAT'S A LITTLE LESS LONELY AND A LOT MORE PROFITABLE"

THE BORDER FENCE

Can we all just chime in now and agree this fuking border fence in the Rio Grande Valley is an idea far beyond bad ?

Hmmm... let's think of all the great walls in history and how well they fared.

If we can be honest and just admit the real goal of the fence is to get somebody re-elected,,,, then perhaps this construction boondoggle could be construed as "successful."

Read this if you want to know what I'm ranting about :

A National Treasure That May End Up Without a Country

some thoughts on departures

it's been really crazy ever since i left texas. just driving, driving, more driving, beer, women, 100 foot trees, snow-capped mountains, cold breezes, incessant rain, rare shine, scalding coffee, parties where i know nobody, random sadness, random elation, relentless rejection, days without showers, holes developing in my jeans, angry rednecks, plaid clad lumberjacks, lost toothbrushes, elvis presley on the radio, a meatball stain on my t-shirt, thrift store hunting for cold weather gear, 6 days without changing socks, cheese and bread for every meal, fresh apples from roadside fruit stands, being scared of strange noises, marveling at snow covered mountains, sacred time with my girlfriend, long talks about being scared or alone or the future, marveling at the fresh air and clean sky and stars and everything just flying by- days, hours, towns, miles.

EXCERPT FROM TAO TE CHING, VERSE XX

The multitude are joyous,
As if partaking of the t'ai lao* offering
Or going up to a terrace** in spring.
I alone am inactive and reveal no signs,
Like a baby that has not yet learned to smile,
Listless as though with no home to go back to.
The multitude all have more than enough,
I alone seem to be in want.
My mind is that of a fool - how blank!
Vulgar people are clear.
I alone am drowsy.
Vulgar people are alert.
I alone am muddled.
Calm like the sea;
Like a high wind that never ceases.
The multitude all have a purpose.
I alone am foolish and uncouth.
I alone am different from others
And value being fed by the mother.

* T'ai lao is the most elaborate kind of feast.
** going on an outing

2 AMAZING FILMS

ADD THESE TO YOUR "NETFLIX" QUEUE...


"FANNY AND ALEXANDER," BY INGMAR BERGMAN.





"LA JETEE," BY CHRIS MARKER

RAYMOND SCOTT

UNDER APPRECIATED 20TH CENTURY GENIUS
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CLICK HERE FOR THE RAYMOND SCOTT ARCHIVES.

CLICK HERE FOR AN ILLUSTRATED INTRO.

SHAKESPEARE, SONNET XXX

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.

JAZZ WOLF

Verse 13, "Song of the Open Road"

"
Behold through you as bad as the rest.
Through the laughter, dancing, dining, supping, of people,
Inside of dresses and ornaments, inside of those wash'd and trimm'd faces
Behold a secret silent loathing and despair.

No husband, no wife, no friend, trusted to hear the confession,
Another self, a duplicate of every one, skulking and hiding it goes,
Formless and wordless through the streets of the cities, polite and bland in the parlors,
In the cars of railroads, in steamboats, in the public assembly,
Home to the houses of men and women, at the table, in the bedroom, everywhere,
Smartly attired, countenence smiling, form upright, death under the breast-bones, hell under the skull-bones,
Under the broadcloth and gloves, under the ribbons and artificial flowers,
Keeping fair with the customs, speaking not a syllable of itself,
Speaking of any thing else but never of itself.

"

By WW, 1881

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

THIS MAN IS BEYOND.

THE ORIGIN OF MY NICKNAME.

OK, TIME TO FESS UP. I STOLE MY NICKNAME ("LOBO") FROM THIS FILM, "DON'T TELL HER IT'S ME" (STARRING STEVE GUTENBURG AND SHELLEY LONG). MY FRIEND MIKE HAD IT ON VHS A FEW YEARS BACK.

THIS ALSO HAPPENS TO BE THE BEST MOVIE PREVIEW EVER MADE.

CONVENIENT DISPOSABLE COMMUNION SHOT GLASS WITH BUILT-IN WAFER AND WINE

RECEIVED THIS IN THE MAIL A FEW DAYS AGO.

"Communion is as simple as 1,2,3..."

The wafer is built into the top of the disposable communion shot glass! I received this as part of my order from Kingdom.com, where I've been ordering my tape manufacturing supplies.

"Never fill or wash communion cups again !"

COOLEST BOOK COVER EVER

Glowing City

david lynch

"PINK CLOUDS"

An album's format most definitely informs the listening experience. I enjoy LPs because they're really huge, for example. I like big artwork and big discs I hold in my hands.

On the flipside, a cassette tape suggests a wide variety of styles (a la mix tapes) and a certain degree of intimacy. Albums are taken as a whole, and after many listens, contradictictory styles blend and begin to make sense.

They are also the ideal music format for a car, as they can be tossed on the ground and in piles with no scratching or quality loss. In the van, we only have a cassette player and somehow it feels just right. Tapes allow leeway for the messiness of the road.

I chose to put out my latest release, "Pink Clouds," on cassette for those reasons.

This cassette is one in a series of steps towards a larger goal. But like my Dad used to say on road trips, "half the fun is getting there late."





The album will be released by Autobus.

TRINIDAD // ONION FEATURE // "AMBIENT ADDITION"

A re-worked song of mine is going to be featured in an upcoming movie entitled, "Trinidad." You can read about the movie and its director, PJ Raval, here. The movie's working title was "Best Kept Secret."

From the website:

" Located on the Santa Fe Trail, where the Rockies fade into the Great Plains, the one-time mafia-run, coal mining town of Trinidad, Colorado, is an unlikely destination for the 6,500 transsexuals who have gone there to align their bodies with their minds. Trinidad examines the complexities of identity through the eyes of three transgender women who have recently moved to town, and the locals, who for thirty-eight years have called the "sex change capital of the world" home. "
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I did a feature interview for the Austin edition of The Onion. You cannot read it online, but I scanned it and you can view that by clicking on the scan below. I like the part where they call the music "acid-fried." Have you ever tried frying anything in LSD? I have, and it's fantastic. I like the brown-acid sweet potato fries. Instead of ketchup, you dip 'em in pig blood.

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I was recently shown something amazing by my bro-in-law Cameron Campbell:

AMBIENT ADDITION


It's basically an Ipod that makes music of the sounds happening around you in real life. Instead of isloating its user, the user engages with the world in previously unimagined ways.

I think this could be the future of music. It's a little disturbing to me from the standpoint of one who's read "1984," "Brave New World," or "Harrison Bergeron," imagining all reality filtered through a machine or computer.

But as a musician, it's a whole new way of composing, and the most exciting thing I've seen in years.