yes

i’m in love

WOW!

what an amazing day today — I signed up to go back to school in the spring (yes, I’m going to finish my degree, dammit!) and then when I got home I discovered I’d made my first sale over at istockphoto.com. Apparently, someone actually had use for a picture of a burnt hot dog.. hahaha!

nice! and it’s friday to boot!

angel island, ca

so yes, i spent a gorgeous afternoon on angel island last saturday, mostly to see what kind of imagery i might pull from that rather dry piece of rock jutting out of the north bay {gawd, did that sound pretentious or what?}

anyway, i did get a behind-the-scenes tour of the old POW barracks, and really enjoyed photographing some of the artifacts from that time period during the 40s when angel island was nothing more than a lightly disguised prison.

there is an aching tension in those walls, even now, and i wished i were fluent in japanese — there are poems etched deep into the wood here… painted over again and again, but still thoroughly legible. i find that quite endearing. the souls are long since gone, but their words remain.

the photo below is my favorite from the shoot, though i hope to post more here as the day progresses.

hope you are all well,
c

it’s friday

and a rather smiley one at that

:0)

a strange conundrum

it’s strange to me… how i’ve spent the entirety of the last two years trying to build a whole new set of friends (at which i’ve been quite successful actually,) but still, at the end of the day, despite the rather large number of local visitors that peruse this website every day, i spend most of my evenings by myself wishing i had some folks to talk to.

i promise you — i’m much more interesting in person.

i’m happy to say, we’re back…

Wow, we had a truly inspiring band practice this weekend!!.. see, we sadly lost two important members recently (stand-up bass and tenor uke) due mostly to other obligations, and I’ve been worried ever since that we’d have a hard time pulling off our current set with just the three of us.

So it was a big relief to realize that with the removal of just three songs we were able to make the rest of the set work just fine as a trio — in fact, it sounded pretty amazing if you ask me… on top of that, we’ve added three new songs, and we’ll be working hard in the next few months to build a really fat set-list before we schedule another show.

I can’t really express what it means to me to be playing and singing again. In the five months we’ve been doing this, new life has quite literally poured back into my heart, and that, of course, is absolutely priceless.

I’m hoping we’ll be ready to play in public again by the end of Summer, so as always, I’ll keep you informed. We’ll also be doing some recording soon, probably starting in August. When we’ve got something good I’ll be sure to post it here.

Hope you’re all having a wonderful Summer. Stay cool!
C