holiday pix

here's some pics o' big basin adventure...

jen next to the trunk of 200ft of fell redwood, look up past the charred center of an ancient tree surrounded by young trees not more than a hundred years my senior, me startin' fire.

good times.

update, nice weekend..

a few adventures this weekend... nice jen's family event/memorial bar-bee-cue in hayward at the decieced's house, a house party later that night with takeshi/nicole/kevie where a godawful folk performance was followed with a pleasant if maybe a tad undercreative set by lenni(singersongwritergameboypop). Then on sunday, away to a tent cabin at big basin state park, made it our temporary home and banjo/guitar jamsession studio.  Grilled campfire wieners, mallows, wood stove in the cabin.  Much fun getting fires started with lighter and papertowels. A pretty water fall and tremendous trees that been growing since before columbus sailed the oceans blue.  Some picks of that later.  Meanwhile, picks(dark,fuzzy) from that show last week.   And something beautiful we passed on the way home from fruitland.

and some links

best art site

myspace.com/leenimusic

Went to a show last night.  Weird venue, the terminal, in Fruitvale, sort of a converted lower floor former storefrontish space, generally empty with some chairs and a cute coffee table.  One side of the room was a pile o' amps and mischenany. Four bands, religious knives from NY (i left early and missed them), crystal village(Greg Kowalsky under a pseudonym, from Oakland and lucky(skilled) enough to be on Kranky, suprisingly tender sounds considering the night in general, some bowed cymbal and bell and computer drone, short and sweet),  Frlgrnd (jen's friend josh+1, drummer mixing freejazz and doublebassed metal i guess{okay} and josh playing a ton of pedals and guitar with much loudness and looping, ebbed and flowed, great tone) and cotton museum (from detroit(?), tall long hair hovering over a table of pedals, kinda boring and par for the method.)

all in all a great night and it seems more and more of these are washing up here in Oakland. Will post pictures later.

got my processing patch to load images from flickr. rad.

some links:

religiousknives.com

gregkowalsky.net

processing aka rad programming language

new blag

and here's my blog.  future location of data on music, art, cooking, chess etc. many knots.