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Reposted from September 2, 2025:

Jeff and Andy's birthdays, and they're big ones: 50 and 80. We've been in Medocine and Boonville for Andy's, coming home for Jeff's. These distant harmonies coming across the shortwave from Mexico get me everytime. This 3-eyed bear staring at me from a beverage ad weirded me out.

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Reposted from September 1, 2025:

There's no foghorn in Mendocino anymore, but there is this low pulse you can hear from a buoy offshore. Just a small atmosphere here, based off a sample of that buoy. In a fit of synchronicity, my waterbottle struck the same pitch when I knocked on it! This is the universe talking to me.

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Reposted from August 31, 2024:

Metallica hit town just as we were heading off for 2 weeks in Croatia - Rob and Brian at work went, which sparked a whole conversation on what is good/bad metal from their blossoming and what constituted 'good' Metallica. They have been lost on me for decades, but there was a time when I heard sounds on their records that felt as.. what's the word for recasting your context? There are moments on Kill em All and Master of Puppets that shifted my musical point of view in the same way Stravinsky, Ligeti or Varese did. A new beautiful sound that I had never heard before. So much of it was tied up in the sound of their records - the production of Fleming Rasmussen on MoP in particular - that I have a hard time still resolving it with the drek they'd go on to make after that record. The entrance of the electrics + drums about a half minute into Battery is still one of my favorite moments. Here it is in a series of meditations on why I like the sounds they made. It got me reflecting on the different sounds from these first few records that have become part of my DNA - I need to figure out what I want to extract from them. So often in my guitar music I write something with a palm mute and a chunk gesture of some sort and think I'll evoke something like this sound, but not the case - I need to listen a bit more consicously, and maybe this cataloguing will help?

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Reposted from August 30, 2025:

Medocino AM 1550 collage - couldn't find any info about this station.

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Reposted from August 29, 2025:

Boonville audio collage - distant music, crickets, draining tub, light, footsteps.

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Reposted from August 28, 2025:

Last weekend acoustic time playing Medicine Hat's Breaking with Jason. Joe makes an appearance on vocals, I think.

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Reposted from August 27, 2025:

Joe says I've given my dad the Bill Laswell treatment. Thank you dad for your gift of song!!! Seriously: my folks are so awesome, and they always leave us these great messages. We are so lucky.

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Reposted from August 26, 2025:

We got married 25 years ago today, and our band name is the Unstoppable Force.

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Reposted from August 25, 2025:

The night before our anniversay - our first night in California. I am so lucky to be with this woman.

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Reposted from August 24, 2025:

Friday before Mike and Anna's big Aquarium shindig, we're reliving the early 2000s with Joe watching the first season of Lost and drinking every time Walt's dad says "My Boy!". We have tons of crickets, going day and night - here's the shadow of one crawling the sliding glass door at sunset.

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