LADDER OF FIRE

from big sur and the oranges of hieronymus bosch by henry miller

NEBULOUS

making some plans. reading a little. making some coffee.

NO YESTERDAY AND NO TOMORROW

over the past two days i have coincidentally entered into two conversations with friends discussing the importance of focusing on the moment you are in, allowing the past to be dead and the future to be unwritten.

SCATTERDAY

coffee lunch then work tonight. i am going to put some photos in a show at breeze block that my friend mark is putting together. more on that later.

ROMESH SHARMA

longest fingernail grown to 25.5 inches over 13 years. measured feb. 15th, 1979 (just missed the 30th anniversary).

as i spent a lot of time during my childhood perusing the book of world's records, this picture is very familiar to me.

TAXIDERMY CHURCH

so valentine's day was fun. here we are.

yesterday, i went to an abbey at mt. angel, oregon. it has a museum on the grounds

i doubt you'll ever see these three in church together again.

there is a monk playing the organ up there. joel couldn't help but pray. he is confirmed afterall.

i bought a copy of the 1981 guiness book of world's records at the abbey's library.

BURIED EGG

i once read in a book that much like burning sage to clear a space of negative energy, one can carry and egg around a room to absorb the bad vibrations. you must then take the egg outside and bury it. 

RIDDING

so we cleaned out a lot of stuff from the basement to make more room. a house with a lot of different people moving in and out over three years accumulates a lot of shit. like two extra tv's?

here's an old watercolor i mailed to a friend.

and i picked up this album, blood is clean, by valet at the library.

i hope tomorrow is as sunny as today.

DISCOVERY

upon scanning this page from a crispin glover book i was able to more clearly see the people on the right page. i like it even more now.

GOING FORWARD

VDAY

an early happy valentine's day! such a bull shit holiday for a lot of reasons like the need to buy gifts. i made something for my particular valentine in that box up there. unfortunately for some it does seem we need a nationally recognized holiday to signify a day to be as loving to one another as we should be everyday. tomorrow: a heart on every coffee drink.

 

someone loves you dearly. it is true.

"everyday the 14th"- andre 3000

COOL DUDE

i found this tape this summer of what looks like the middle eastern version of mc serch at the goodwill on grand. look closely...no red eye reduction here!

PLANE DOODLES

exquisite corpse drawings done by clea and me on the plane ride home from maui.

slow start today. stayed up late on this new toy of mine. tonight i reconvene with my friend dan with who i played some smoothed out blue-eyed soul under the name gianculi. 

NEW BEGINNINGS

a tax return means a new computer which means an opportunity for regular postings on here.

i went to maui and got back last week. here are some highlights.

western sunrise

paia

seven sacred pools

swimming at black rock

sunrise at haleakala

hiking at haleakala

bamboo forest

old oceanside graveyards

western maui sunset

iao valley

and camping for a week with this lady.

i still have art up at nationale in portland. check out may's lovely store. luckily i dodged the upcoming layoffs at the company where i work. i saw many good bands this weekend: dragging an ox through water, valet, castanets, eternal tapestry, date palms, some weird sin, tara jane o'neil. what a goldmine of shows with all but date palms being local bands. portland is a magic place.