i’m working on my dirt.
it’s been raining and the ground is oh-so-moist. god how i love the smell of worms and microorganisms feeding on decaying leaves and other detritus. i’m digging and turning and adding compost and seeding with a cover crop and did i mention that i tripled the size of my garden today while wearing a blouse, plaid wool skirt, knee-highs, mary-jane birkenstocks, my favorite blue sweater-vest, and a tie (well, sort-of… actually just a piece of random fabric rigged to look like a tie)? in the pouring down rain? don’t worry, i wore a hugemongous rain-ish coat belonging to (but never used by) bradley over the top of it all. but my hair did get wet (as the picture might show).
did i tell you about the quince i found? did i tell you about the quince paste i made out of them? or about the raw milk chevre i am going to make to go with the quince paste? did i tell you quite how much i really love fall? life? love? armando’s new-almost-complete album?
get yer own.
spent my lovely, lazy day in a bathrobe, eating my way through 18+ hours of disorganized boolar music from the past two years or so (and a plate of leftover persian deliciousness).
keep in mind now that these are only those tracks which, by some stroke of luck, have already made it into the digital world (there are also boxes of tapes brimming with waiting-to-be-rediscovered potentialities).
what to do with this music? one plan is to start a podcast. the other is to make several collections. with any luck (or lots of effort), i’ll see both to fruition.
i spent today categorizing tracks by time and place made, instrumentation and approach, feeling and atmosphere. there were many instrumentals driven by moody, noisy guitars (think roy montgomery and flying saucer attack); playful hans-joachim roedelius, steve reich and/or “love you” era brian wilson influenced electronic sampler keyboard based tracks; folk pop numbers, some with julian swales or robin guthrie psychedelic guitars, some with jangly peter bucks, others all john fahey finger-picked; a whole grip of ambient noise drone beauties created from guitars, pianos, keyboards, you name it, with and without rythym tracks; and the best of all, those tracks that combined all of the above influences (and many, many more), which went into one of two playlists: the one named “unable to label”, or the one called “boolar for melanie.” i’m a gonna get to work on turning those ones into my new favorite songs.
i owe thanks to bamboo john, liham, and joshy-you-a-tree for the lovely evening which led to this lovely day.
have i ever told you how much i love the rain? the cold, the wind, not so much. but the rain…