249 - 21 Oct 1998

[sketchbook]

I don't remember anything about this day.

It was a Wednesday.

It looks like a Wednesday picture.

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Friday 13 October 2006

[sketchbook]

This picture is made up of a couple events from that day. The cattle is taken from a picture of a cattle drive that happened right outside our office at 11:30. Some cowboys and cowgirls in the spirit of the American Royal thought it would be grand to drive the cattle up Wyandotte in downtown Kansas City. We all took the opportunity to leave our desk to cheer on the effort. The people in Spain do it right when they run with the bulls. This cattle drive was anti-climatic and was over as soon as it started...but I would watch it again - every year.

Later that evening after my soccer game and after we put the kids to bed, I met up with BB to see a dreampop band from New York play at the Record Bar. It has been a while since I have been to a show. We had a great time, Asobi Seksu was really good and really loud. By the time we left our ears were ringing and we smelt like cigarettes.

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wednesday, october 11, 2006

So, looking back at my old sketchbooks has put me in the mood to try be more mindfull of the 3 or 4 half empty sketchbooks that I have lying around.

I did this quick sketch for the "beagle" series of paintings that I have done. Maybe I will paint it next.

246 - October 15, 16 1998

245 - September

It's time to look back at the new music, dvd's, and books that I got involved with in the month of September.

My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me the Workhorse
Shara Worden has an amazing voice and I am not quite sure where to place it. This so called head cheerleader for Sufjan Steven's Illinoisemakers can fit within any genre, but this hauntingly beautiful album fall somewhere in the "arty" realm.

Viva Voce - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
...experimental pop from the Robinson's.



Starflyer 59 - My Island
...Jason Martin creates another amaizing album. My Island is more upbeat and bass heavy, but still maintains the SF59 sound.

Hem - Funnel Cloud
...It has been a while since I got a new album of songs from Over the Rhine or the Innocence Mission, so I thought Hem would fit right in for my smart pretty music with organic leanings and well crafted lyrics mood that I get in. And it did...a very pretty album (minus a couple countryish twang songs in the middle.) Good music to fall asleept to-as there seems to be a lullabye meets introspective broadway musical vibe.


U2 - ZOOTV - Live from Sydney
This is probably the greatest show I've seen live right up there with all the other U2 shows I've seen since ZooTV. This was the first "big" show I ever saw and by big I mean bigger than 1000 or so people. ZooTV came to Kansas City my freshman year in college back in 1992 and the ideas of that tour were begger than my 18 year old mind could comprehend on an intellectual level. I didn't know what postmodernism was at that time, let alone how to view critique and irony of postmodernism. This show was multi-media before multi-media existed. There is so much about this show - this blade runner, cyberpunk world- that was a commentary on culture and where it was going that as you watch it today, you see all the predictions were correct.


Looking Around - A Journey Through Arcitecture by Witold Rybczynski
I still have few pages left on this book that is a critique of Architecture and Theory as it explores different areas from the history and ideas of home to public buildings with modern and post-modern thought. It is a very facinating read and has a lot of content to soak up, so I am not a speedy reader with this book.

244 - old sketchbooks

Last week, we were cleaning out our basement and I ran across a box with some of my old sketch books. There were a series of books that I did for a few years in a style of "sketchbook journaling"...if that is a real word or style? Every night before bed, I'd try to put a creative pause on the day with anything that might of resembled itself significant - a left over ticket stub, flyer to a show, menu, business card, newspaper, etc.

It was fun.

I should pick that back up again on a more consistant basis.

But for now, I'll leave you with some of the images.

Tuesday 13 October 1998

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I just had a thought...an old thought...thoughts come and go, ya know.

I admit I can become a bit cynical. I try not to be, though. My check is...other cynical people. Although, they can lead me down the road of cynicism, usually they serve as someone I don't want to be like.

Usually it's later that I look back on a conversation and go...ewww, that made me feel dirty and when did I become so negative. And I realize the person I was talking to is usually always negative and cynical about life.

And that is when I use that person as a model or a benchmark. So, that I don't become like this person and that my family doesn't become like theirs.

On the other hand, I am reminded about good traits in other people and their families. I see loyalty, faithfulness, and support. I want me and my family to be modeled around those traits.

It's too easy to snicker and complain.