>> CURRENT DESTINATION < Artkrush >
>> CURRENT EARFOOD < Graham Coxon >
05/28/03
>> Guiness sky clearing to a PBR by noon.
>> Back after a few days of server trouble.
>> Check out Artkrush, the Current Destination. Spend some time there and go to the Artist Archive in particular... hidden in there is the work of Manya Kato, among others. Beautiful.
>> Don Pendleton is having a garage sale... Bend recommends you attend. Don is also the latest Diurnal along with the mysterious, Mark Penxa (who is now in a 3-way tie for the most Diurnal contributions with Andrew Pommier and Tony Larson). There seems to be a clue as to Porous Walker's identity in the drawing, but alas, the girl who may know seems to be mortally wounded... you'll have to ask one of the PENs personally.
>> King Tofer has a site update. Bend suggests clicking on the big toe... his paintings are really interesting,
05/21/03
>> Clear as Corona.
>> Get back to work.
05/20/03
>> Humid cotton balls — burned away by 9am.
>> Kevin Windham (#14) puts a stop to Carmichael's 26 moto win streak at Hangtown. If Windham had RC's consistency, he'd be unstoppable.
Props to Giberson for that Windham photo at Glen Helen... wow.
>> I broke down and got an i-Pod. What's the concensus on the Apple i-Tunes Music Store?
05/19/03
>> Blanket of water on everything this morning. Loud, violent cat fight on my porch last night. Apparently, there is a new cat in town and he's a badass.
>> Lots of work this week.
>> Today's destination, the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler, was suggested by FOB, Tony Larson.
05/16/03 (afternoon edition)
>> This was typed at the bottom of some spam I received today :
alcoholic refurbishment comment
gunfire sport
>> While ordering a Bend/Luxuro lunch at La Gordita (it means "the chubby girl" -- remember that...) Mexican restaurant today, Tony Larson, Luxuro commander, found this stack of flyers on the countertop near the register.
Note : HUGE DANCE FLOOR.
05/16/03
>> It's really nice out.
>> Serrated Image. This site was linked on one of the popular design portals recently. Pretty amazing technique and cut nicely to a band named Capitol K.... who can tell me more about Capitol K? They sound really interesting.
>> I'm being buried alive in my office. I cannot keep up with the waves of clutter. It's getting embarrassing. To all of you that I owe orders and packages... my sincere apologies. I promise they will go out very soon.
In order to help alleviate this problem (I realize I may need counseling as well) I am going to start boxing things and mailing them out. Maybe randomly. But maybe we should do some contests? Something like Crailtap did with Mueller's box of shit.... I'll get back to you on this. Or, better yet, if you have any good suggestions for me, write.
>> Round #2 of the AMA MX Nationals this weekend near Sacto, California — Hangtown! RC could break Jeremy McGrath's record for most career moto wins. Last year was a mud fest.
05/15/03
>> Gray and blue watercolor ceiling covers the South Bay.
05/14/03 (afternoon update)
>> This just in from Scott "The Angry Swede" Hultgren, of Angry Associates :
Subject: Price Club / Costco
I was there today and they have an Eric B + Rakim Best Of for like $7.49 or something. Good stuff. Well worth the money. That's all. Enjoy.
05/14/03
>> Cloud netting over Torrance. Really.
>> Sign of the Fox now has a couple of downloads available from their debut cd.
>> Watt a Stooge. Yup...
>> New addition to earth. Friend of Bend, Johannes Gamble (seen here with AV Club partner Mr. Bucky) and his lovely lady Petita have a baby boy! Mingus Isadoro... now 3 days old!! Congratulations!
05/12/03
>> Stringy cotton clouds — you know, like when you pull a cotton-ball apart... and some wind. My left eye is burning. I may have damaged it here this weekend (photo by Kim Boyle).
>> Browsing in a music store this weekend I noticed the Loose Fur CD on the wall. I thought about the music and I may have grinned. Then, I saw an Uncle Tupelo CD with a big handwritten note on it -- TWEEDY'S FIRST BAND!! I thought about how much I liked Wilco and how I hadn't listened to them in a while. We went to the register and started to pay (Wayne Shorter's new one, Alegria -- tomorrow's Earfood) and the small effeminate black man behind the counter looked straight at me, then Kelley and asked if we knew Wilco had a DVD out. "No," I replied.
"Well, my friends, we just started carrying DVDs as you can see..." and his arm did an arching swing back and upwards to reveal a shelf of DVDs. He pulled down "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart — A Film About Wilco" and handed it to me.
Clairvoyant or observant? Either way, I couldn't afford the DVD that day, but I am listening to Loose Fur again and it gets better all the time.
>> This was posted on Fecal Face last week... aaaawwwe, isn't that special...
>> Rik Catlow's contribution to the Michael Sieben Question.
05/08/03
>> Upper visuals strafed with gray cloud forms. Chill in the air -- 97% chance of becoming clear and warm by 11am.
05/07/03
>> Interesting shapes in the sky. 37% chance of more.
>> The Online Sketchbook Conversation continues... Michael Sieben's rebuttal :
"I was just talking shit.
I love looking at online sketchbooks.
I just get self-conscious when I see somebody's entire sketchbook posted without any mistakes, abandoned ideas, or plain old shitty drawings. And then I make these wild assumptions that these people are somehow not using their sketchbooks for their intended purpose or some dumb shit like that.
Anybody who's willing to turn off That Seventies Show and sit down and draw something has a special place in my heart no matter what their motive.
And I see the irony of me talking shit about the internet and then sending that shit talk to somebody with the hopes that it would be posted on the internet. I just wanted to stir things up a little bit.
So in summary
A. I'm a hypocrite
B. Do whatever the hell you want to with your sketchbook
C. I love all of you...
Except for the people with nicer sketchbooks than
me. You can all piss off." —Michael Sieben
>> Great project by Todd Morrone.
05/06/03
>> Crystal clear horizons with whispering winds.
>> Responses to Sieben's envelope drawing question... here.
>> We wish James Stewart a quick recovery from his INSANE endo at the supercross finals last weekend. Glen Helen will not be the same without him this weekend...
>> The Bend Theory of the Seemingly Odd is as follows : "If you can think of it, it's either happened already or is about to."
BTSO Example #1: The Great Sasuke.
>> Quote of the week :
"Fuckin a man, I don't know how many times I've sent you stuff and lots of other people stuff and hardly anything ever comes of that — but there I am every goddam night at my desk..." Darin Bendall.
05/02/03
>> Overcast but somehow bright. 60% chance of gloom.
05/01/03
>> Sunny and clear with a possibility of finacial enlightenment moving through passive barriers, which may create a shallowing effect...
>> Michael Sieben brings up a good point on his newest diurnal drawing. Any thoughts on the topic? Write.
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