item number one: today was the first day of my piano technician/tuning apprenticeship/job shadow. i'm excited! the person i'm learning from also does it by ear, which is really rare.
item number two: i wish i was in montreal.
item number three: doing a bit of research to get ready for the workshop. picked up a little light reading at the library: modernity and the holocaust; history of the idea of progress; everyday stalinism; invisible punishment: the collateral consequences of mass imprisonment; cadillac desert: the american west and its disappearing water; and seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. oooo how cheerful!
item number four: i drove on the interstate for the first time! (i have a phobia...)
item number five: the other week i went to short mountain, that queer commune in the middle of tennessee that i've mentioned before. i harvested sweet potatoes, pole danced, got ogled by lesbians, gave a boy my copy of bachelard's poetics of space just because he played "oneiric" in a game of scrabble, fucked up some hippies' drum circle by playing polyrhythms, gave away free massages at a temporary autonomous spa, and witnessed a man intentionally get a bee to sting his nipple. among other things.
item number six: i wish i was in montreal.
item number seven: i should think of some gimmick or fancy outfit for busking in montreal. or is a pretty girl with a shaved head wearing a skirt playing shostakovich music on a cello gimmick enough?
item number eight: i think i have pool shark potential.
item number two: i wish i was in montreal.
item number three: doing a bit of research to get ready for the workshop. picked up a little light reading at the library: modernity and the holocaust; history of the idea of progress; everyday stalinism; invisible punishment: the collateral consequences of mass imprisonment; cadillac desert: the american west and its disappearing water; and seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. oooo how cheerful!
item number four: i drove on the interstate for the first time! (i have a phobia...)
item number five: the other week i went to short mountain, that queer commune in the middle of tennessee that i've mentioned before. i harvested sweet potatoes, pole danced, got ogled by lesbians, gave a boy my copy of bachelard's poetics of space just because he played "oneiric" in a game of scrabble, fucked up some hippies' drum circle by playing polyrhythms, gave away free massages at a temporary autonomous spa, and witnessed a man intentionally get a bee to sting his nipple. among other things.
item number six: i wish i was in montreal.
item number seven: i should think of some gimmick or fancy outfit for busking in montreal. or is a pretty girl with a shaved head wearing a skirt playing shostakovich music on a cello gimmick enough?
item number eight: i think i have pool shark potential.
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ninadelamorte:
I planted sweet potatoes recently but I think my garden knows I'm leaving it, everything keeps dying...
charley:
Yeah in the UK, down south in the warmer bit. For now at least, I'm considering moving to Scotland but I don't know. This whole place isn't big enough for me!! xx