yesterday i got up at an ungodly hour (6:30 am) and went to pick up my wanna-be-art-car from one repair shop, and drove it 15 miles to another repair shop where they’re allegedly going to fix it. on the 15 mile drive from one repair shop to the other, the car almost overheated, and smoke [...]
Also tagged banda gozona, bbwp, ganesha the car, house stuff, hybrid elephant, ocf, players, spoonsi am totally exhausted from SACBO and surrounding festivities, and i’ve been pretty depressed most of the day (the morning after blues?), but i’m slowly coming around. it rained pretty much all day sunday, and there was at least a bracing dampness to the air all day saturday when it wasn’t actually raining. fortunately it [...]
Also tagged banda gozona, bbwp, bssb, depression, doggles, ganesha the car, moe, pictures, players, SACBO, spoons, summer solstice, wedding anniversarylast week, monday i had a fremont phil rehearsal, tuesday i had a sousa band rehearsal, wednesday i had a players rehearsal, thursday i had a banda gozona rehearsal, friday i had a BBWP rehersal, saturday was the banda gozona performance at the seattle version of guelaguetza, and today i had a rehearsal of the [...]
Also tagged banda gozona, bssb, links, ocf, pictures, players, SACBOthe new Ganesha The Car is back in the shop because of a fuel leak. it should be ready today (ETA: it’s ready, i just have to go pick it up). i drove it for two days and went through a tank and a half of gas before i figured out what the problem was. [...]
Also tagged ganesha the car, getting old, moisture festivalthe busy season started about 2 weeks ago. i’ve had a rehearsal for the fremont philharmonic, and a rehearsal for the fremont players every week, plus i’ve had a banda gozona rehearsal every other week, plus i’ve had a snake suspenderz rehearsal and/or performance about every other week (next performance is thursday at smokin’ pete’s [...]
Also tagged banda gozona, bssb, ocf, players, snake suspenderz, web designthe shows went amazingly well this weekend. i’m getting the hang of playing my saw with a bow, but i’m not that good at playing actual notes yet. it may take a while for me to be that good. we went to the bobs show last night at the triple door. because of the fact [...]
Also tagged players, the bobs, x-masnow that the second weekend of performances are over, i can catch up on my real life… while the servers were down, i got a business card in the mail from Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC… yes, that kevin mitnick. in order to get this business card i had to send him, among other things, my [...]
Also tagged fez stuff, host services, music, pictures, playersthe first weekend of alad’din performances are behind me, and i now have a few days free until next week’s performances begin, which will most likely be filled with projects like finishing the insulation on the workshop, working on xmas gifts and other artistic projects, picking up my business cards, doing laundry, washing dishes, random [...]
Also tagged banda gozona, bssb, musici’m getting fed up with the VEWPRF (primarily xmas) hype early this year. fortunately now i’ve got a gadget in my car that i can plug my music player into so i don’t have to listen to the radio. when i’m not listening to my own music, i usually listen to the classical music station, [...]
Also tagged articles, evolution, i am a terrorist, intellectual property, jeezis, links, rantsnow that i am not intensively, obsessivly scanning pretty much everything in sight i can sit back, listen to mozart and catch up on my more mundane life before i disappear into the workshop for extended periods of time in an attempt to work off some of this horny creativeness that has been plaguing me [...]
Also tagged house stuff, pictures, sketchbook, workshopstuart is quitting the fremont philharmonic. this could mean the end of the fremont philharmonic as we know it, and here’s why: stuart is the leader of the band, and if he quits the band, we’re going to have to find a new leader: someone who is qualified, inspired, motivated, enthusiastic, and will be able [...]
Also tagged snake suspenderzi’ve accomplished about as much as is possible for me to do without help… and possibly a ladder. the insulation is left over from an igloo stage-prop that was a part of a movie that jeremy was a part of producing last year, before i went to burning man. he wrote a message to cirquechat [...]
Also tagged links, malfunctioning computers, music, ocf, pictures, the battle of the computer, workshopsnake suspenderz today (thursday) at the queen anne farmers’ market, 3:00 pm until (potentially) 7:00 pm. SACBO, friday, saturday and sunday. busy. not posting anything unless it’s outstanding and amazing. we’re not sure because they’re still deciding whether or not it’s going to include us, but at this point it looks very much like the [...]
Also tagged hybrid elephant, SACBO, snake suspenderz, wedding anniversaryfor a holiday weekend this has been pretty much a total bust. i hope that i’ve gotten all of my hardships out of the way for this summer, otherwise i’m going to be a very unhappy camper indeed. i had folklife gigs with banda gozona on friday and the BSSB and simon’s birthday party with [...]
Also tagged banda gozona, bssb, ganesha the car, ssdi, web designhappy 4/20. i’d be consuming more holy vegetable, but i still am terrifically short of breath and coughing a lot as a result of being sick still. i’ve been vapourising a bit and even that has been causing me to cough. i suppose i could probably make some ghee or something… they’re putting on a [...]
Also tagged doggies, fremont sunday market, ganesha the car, house stuff, hybrid elephant, incense, web designi’m still sick. i went to see a doctor (i am uninsured, so it cost two arms and half a leg!) today. the good news is that i don’t have pneumonia, but i do have bronchitis, so now i have an inhaler (which cost the other half a leg) which is good for 20 days. [...]
Also tagged banda gozona, bizarre, snake suspenderzi met ukulele dick at the moisture festival the other day. his “real name”, acording to his schtick, is Banjo Penis. i traded him a copy of serpentine for a copy of his ukulele dick cd and a copy of his “Dick Dujour” cd, Music to Scare Children by. i’ve been listening to them on [...]
Also tagged as, brain injury, depression, hybrid elephant, malfunctioning computers, moisture festival, music, snake suspenderz, the battle of the computer, web designwhen you’re unemployed/unemployable/disabled, you get to a point where it doesn’t matter whether it’s the weekend or not. for me it comes down to working and doing what i do anyway, regardless of what day it is, or facing the possibility of even deeper depression because of the fact that i’m not really doing anything [...]
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