updates?

Well... I'm thinking about moving to uptown.
I have some options that I am looking in to, the trouble is mostly financial security. Why make the move and what not and not be able to pay the moment I get there.
Still the place I went today has a nice location and is a pretty nice place, living with and within blocks of friends. Artistic people.

I started trying to plan out the weeks for my class coming up. Friday I meet with the other staff. Monday we start.

Tomorrow I am seeing Stomp With illy and her boy and her mom. Super sweet!

Last night i went to a great show by A Night in the Box
way entertaining.... way too late into the evening.

I don't know what to think right now. I feel sort of excited and confused. I feel sort of torn really between what is probably good for me and feeling guilty about other people's situations.

I haven't been artistic in a long time.

Or really much of a writer...

reading a book called stupid history has a lot of funny facts and misrepresented ideas from history.

Ina Mae and the Sea Arrows

A Conversation (if I remember it correctly):

Person A: Yeah she said I could replace you in the Sea Arrows! (Jokingly)
Jered of Ina Mae and the Sea Arrows: No way, that sucks.
Person C: Couldnt you both be in the Sea Arrows?
Jered of Ina Mae and the Sea Arrows: No theres only one Sea Arrows.


Anyway follow that link for crazy cool music made by some friends at Morris. but maybe I have already sent you there.


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In other reflection:

There are many differences between some of my friends at morris, at least the ones who graduated this year. (last years crop were more like my friends at home)
Anyway, they are super creative geniuses.
Not that my friends here dont have gifts in different areas... but these kids are performers... and I havent had that around since high school... unless you count my boys and I goofing off around camp fires and in petes basement.
Anyway that was something I realized I would miss when everyone graduated...
There will probably be more updates on these people when they get all their shit online... but also... here is

Huck

I absolutely love it when a piece of music moves me. tears at me, makes me shed a few, makes me convulse, makes my heart pulse, makes my knees shake, makes my shoulders ache, urges me to participate, stretched bare to the invisible sky, asking God why, in my mind's eye, I could be so blessed to experience bliss, for just one moment like this, how my blood surges how my spirit urges to connect forever this way, so bound and so free, solitary yet connected to thee, with color and spirit, with energy movement with compassion and passion, unsure what is real, what is dream, and if this is true it would seem that I'm in love again and wishing this song would never end.

I have found that the live version of the song "King Without a Crown" by Matisyahu (shown on video here) is a great way to wake up.

I have to finish some papers. You're amazing.

CDs I highly recommend and have been listening to non-stop lately (the spring CD mix). The songs I choose here… are just the ones I’m especially enjoying now… later I’m sure I will switch and like other ones..

The Plastic Constellation’s We Appreciate You

This is the final CD from the local band and its pretty sweet. It is definitely TPC sounding… favorite tracks include “Perched on a Porch” “Disastrophe” “So Many Friends” and more… if you don’t like the TPC sound, you won’t like this CD… but there are a few songs that I think people could appreciate parts of.

Atmosphere’s When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint that Shit Gold

I really appreciate this CD from atmosphere however it is a slight departure from some of the last CDs which had a more powerful sound, more production, more beats and sound… this one is stripped down like an acoustic version of atmosphere and I love it. Slug tells stories on this CD similar to Lucy Ford, which I’m still partial to. Fav songs… really I like a lot of em.. but I think I like the second half of the CD more… “You” “Yesterday” “Guarantees” “Wild Wild Horses” “Cant break” “the waitress” “In Her Music box” the whole second half is superb… the first half is good too though… I will probably be more into that half in a week… that’s the way I work.

A Night in the Box’s The Hustle, The Prayer, The Thief

This CD is excellent.. The first song sort of encompasses the sound of the band, starts off with a wild jam, then settles into harmonies and some banjo. The sound is simultaneously the sort of folk/bluegrass and rock that I’m sure people out there like me be craving. “Don’t Do Me Wrong” “Can I Bleed?” “The Hustle” “Tom Sawyers and Lawyers” all sweet.

Doomtree False Hopes (2007)

Doomtree always does me right what can I say… This CD is pretty fun right from the beginning… I mean you got so many different MCs, DJs and producers that your pretty much covered… I really enjoy Sims and Mictlan’s cooperations.. Their stuff just works together… Dessa is always impressive she has a song called “If and When” that is simultaneously really creepy, beautiful, sentimental… totally creepy again.. Cecil’s remix for “A hundred Fathers” is incredibly beautiful. P.O.S you gotta love, lyrics and emotion, I dunno… I really cant imagine ever disliking a Doomtree CD, this one just grows and grows on ya. Even the instrumentals are kind of nice… and they remind you that this is a group with influences from everything… in short every track is awesome.

I'm really glad I bought this cd... its amazing. Strangely there are parts of it that sort of remind me of cirque du soleil and quartetto gelato but since I love both of those too... well es perfecto for doing homework to, or for falling asleep, or for rocking out if you pump it.

I sort of love certain types of world music, and I think this is a very western friendly introduction as well as beautifully produced and performed.