Lately, I have been really into ‘Rounds’ – I was introduced to them by Moondog on his album ‘Moondog 2′ – an album with 24 original rounds. a round is simple on its surface but technically complex to write a good one. an example of structure:: a 4 line poem has four singers who sing…

This saturday Melissa and I took a sabbath to extricate ourselves from endless to-do. I felt like my creative self had been neglected. By running from project to project, I had not self reflected or made any music or done any doodling. I could feel that neglect starting to affect my mood and my self-satisfaction. …

Do you doodle? Do you have some default things you doodle out in the margins of notebooks? Mine has historically been snails! I had a pet snail in 4th grade (hermy) and my friend Asia and I got obsessed with a cartoon snail named Mr. snailey bailey. I have notebooks full of snailey baileys in…

Happy Hollow’s Ween! Built the shed today with Melissa! Got the doors on but we made a measurement mistake and they are way too short! Will finish soon here!!!!

Treachery of Images A famous painting from the surrealist movement is “Treachery of Images” by Renee Migreute: shown below: Beautifully – it says “this is not a pipe”. images and words are an abstraction of “thing”  – from an art history point of view, this is kinda a statement about how “realism” in painting and…

Made a drawin’ Feeling really deflated at the moment, but I got a lil’ drawing done.  Here is the outside of our last house from memory over the inside of the house also from memory. 

The Wall 2 days of digging, stacking and packing I am feeling very grateful this weekend. It blows my mind that anyone would have wanted to help me build a wall, let alone 4.  It is validating to me that I must be doing something right as a person on this earth. I also had…

Making a lamp Meli and I went antitiquin’ at EPIC antiques in SODO. We ended up picking up a really cool lampshade with no base for $30. Looking around I couldn’t find a base, so I decided I could make one!  The business next to my work left a bunch of shit behind when they…

Ruminations:  Are you Nostalgic? What are the histories in your life that are past present and growing as time carries on? As Melissa and I nest at the Norman House. This house is now, in my mind, the ending place, the last home. I never want to move again.  We have made many homes along…

Thoughts, Ideas. Summer is ending, and change is soon coming. I am frantically trying to wrap up all the things I need to do before the weather turns.  This week was a bit stressful for several reasons. One is that my mom is unable to get vaccinated and is coming to visit here in about…