October 2009
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Califone - Funeral Singers
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reflections on a year of latitude
This past month marks the anniversary of a profound change in my life. A year ago I left my comfortable, yet incredibly boring office job in ‘the industry’ and decided to strike out on my own and follow the muse full time. It was an easy decision to make at the time; even though the job I had allowed me to live reasonably well, I had become desperate for more. The work was unchallenging,...
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something new
Okay.
So, as I outlined below a little while back, part of what I wanted to do here was force myself to post unfinished or in-progress work, which is something I’ve never been comfortable with - I don’t like the idea of all of the warts being on display I suppose. It’s important for me to start doing it more often though for a variety of reasons, and here’s the first go.
Below you’ll find the...
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A Quiet End - Makara (sketch)
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Why? - A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under
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stepping back
Waking up this morning was difficult. In essence it was no different from any other morning, but for some reason, I just felt more tired. I’m not a morning person generally, but this was a kind of excessive tiredness of both the physical and mental variety, which is accompanied by a little voice telling you that you need a break. It’s a beautiful, lightly rainy fall day, and something about it...
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eleven
It’s the first number that exists beyond the reach of counting with our hands.
The Flaming Lips - The Sparrow Looks Up at the...
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“This is the baddest shit you ever heard, and if you don’t think so,...”
– Miles Davis
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some things going forward
My intentions with the tumblr were for it to take on a variety of forms. Primarily, I’d intended to use it to document elements of the creative process, discuss the project(s) I’m working on, musical and otherwise. Post new works as they’re finished, and maybe ease into putting up some rawer, more unfinished things. I also wanted to sort of use it as a venue to hash things out that go through my...
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The Loom Pedal - Benoît Pioulard
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today, i love you
Sometimes I can’t stand Toronto. I think that often happens with the place you’re from and have spent most of your time. Sometimes though, that place can feel perfectly like home. Maybe it’s fall, but trekking across the city this morning, there’s nowhere else I could have imagined wanting to be.
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The Velvet Underground - I Found A Reason
“When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?”
– Allen Ginsberg
Soulsavers - By My Side
Jonny Greenwood - Prospectors Arrive
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“The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt”
– Sylvia Plath
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cross section
For some reason, this past week has been a fucking struggle, a constant barrage of unexplainable ups and downs. I’m certain it’s necessary somehow, but I’ve mostly had a complete lack of understanding about the root causes. While there have been a number of ongoing issues, I had the impression that I’d gotten a handle on most of them, and managed to not let them rise up all at...
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Yes, I'm afraid
It often feels like an impenetrable curtain, one that seems to hang itself in front of me every time I try to peer out at myself with a clear eye. Fear constantly shades us from the truth, behaving like the hammer coming down on our brightness that we encourage it to be; always chipping away the best parts of the things we most enjoy. A tight fitting swaddle that’s restrictive and strange in its...
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“Manifest your dreams before you manifest your fears.”
– Saul Williams
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now in my room
Oh my love
I found You again
I went out for a pack of cigarettes
And there You were
I bowed to everyone
And they rejoiced with me
I lost myself
In the eyes of a dog who loved You
The heat lifted me up
The traffic bounced me
Naked into bed
With a book about You
And a cold bottle of water
- Leonard Cohen
Some time ago, I gave this poem to someone I felt very deeply for - it made them...
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Grizzly Bear - Slow Life
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I want it now
Sometimes I find the world seems more and more like a place where things need to be done instantly; and everything has to be immediate in order to have value. By and large this doesn’t agree with my mode of being when it comes to creative work. It’s not that I’m slow, it’s that what I feel is required to get where I’m going often can’t be done in the course of a few hours, or days even. Sure,...
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“If you want to get to the peak, you ought to climb without giving it too much...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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A Quiet End - III
From Moods & Fragments, a...
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“The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to...”
– Oscar Wilde (via justanotheryesterday)
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Julian Plenti - Only If You Run
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Revision #1
Though course corrections are a thing constantly made, this is a moment of beginning again. It’s not that what came before, or existed elsewhere has suddenly become void, simply that adjustment was needed; and considering that the previous incarnation was never quite able to get itself up off the ground, revaluation seemed not only appropriate, but necessary.
What came before has certainly not...
