August 2009
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high tide
Suggested listening: Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I) Keep hearing this song. Seems appropriate.
July 2009
15 posts
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avenue of the giants - northern california
It’s amazing how small you feel in comparison. But then again, these guys have been around for hundreds of years.
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north coast country
It’s my last day in Eureka, California. Tomorrow I’ll catch a ride down the coast to San Jose for the next portion of my travels. It’s been a refreshing and rejuvenating experience up in this small town of the western north country. Crisp cold air & breathtaking natural surroundings have me in an exaggerated state of awe. It’s a complete turn around from Austin’s...
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photo essay: westward bound
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Eureka!
Suggested listening: Little Joy - Don’t Watch Me Dancing Sixty-five degrees & overcast feels incredibly restful and refreshing. Flannel, jeans & boots. North country. I’m into it.
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new horizons
(via) (by Erin Poettcker via) The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom. We can enjoy our humanity with it’s flashy brains and sexual buzz, it’s social cravings and stubborn tantrums, and take ourselves as no more and no less than another being in the Big Watershed. We can accept each other all as barefoot equals sleeping on the same ground. We can give up...
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music from a tree
Diego Stocco - Music From A Tree from Diego Stocco on Vimeo (via)
organizized
One of these days, I’m gonna get organizized - Taxi Driver Whoa Google, new task feature in Gmail? Shit, son.
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Deer Tick at Waterloo Records
“Dirty Dishes” Saw these boys bring an intimate in-store to Waterloo Records last week. I have to say, these Deer Tick gents seem like really swell guys. It didn’t hurt that they opened with a Springsteen cover, though. I got a little choked up over my free Shiner. I’m not gonna lie, bros singing harmonies just gets to me. “La La La”
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The Last Pale Light in The West
Suggested Listening: The Last Pale Light in The West Finally got around to checking out Ben Nichols’ (of Lucero) solo album The Last Pale Light in The West, which he based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian. Really stripped down country feel & serious story telling. Love the album cover, too. Get into it.
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104 degrees, again
Suggested listening: The Drums - Let’s Go Surfing This brutal Austin heat seems to cause everything to slow down, which can be really nice.
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Federico Fellini discusses perception & LSD
Interview with Federico Fellini BBC circa 1965 “The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it...
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to the moon
(more info via) “For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars – pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time.” Henry Beston, The Outermost House
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sunday morning
(via) The Record Club (Beck & friends) have been releasing a series of Velvet Underground & Nico covers. I’m really digging this project. So far, this one’s my favorite.
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my new favorite
(via ) Pretty sure we’re both into dirt & having our hair brushed. Curious on whether Elizabeth the Austrian Mangalitza Gilt bahs or oinks. Both, preferably.