Alert - Energy present. Playdablooz

Well, i might be clearer than mud on this one ...
or it might just be winter solstice.
But i want to drink.
There is too much energy in the air not to.
Not my energy.
Not this time.
But i resonate like an open string. You know what I mean.

We're building a studio so I can vent this without killing.
Anyone
Anything.
 For now....steam - punk. Channel it on the edge.
 Rock -n-Roll;

Either or both? All of the above.

Cranky again.......that stuck, unproductive feeling.......My two personal spaces (trailer/cabin)  reflect the ongoing war inside me - the quiet spacious natural simplicity of Japanese wabi-sabi vs. the crammed-with-pretties hippie/gypsy wagon exuberant explosion of color and texture....... i guess this is why neither space is finished or being used as intended.
Just now -  New idea --- make the Ham(trailer) fully the hippie wagon, and the cabin/porch a plain, natural, rustic quiet place with workshop..... don't tell me sitting here writing about stuff is not useful. I just solved a huge aesthetic/creative knot there....... and today it is not raining and I COULD finish putting the shingles on the cabin ...... or at least finish a sentence.

From my other blog - go check it out.

http://oneroomlife.blogspot.com/2011/11/tyranny-of-stuff-ho-ho-ho.html

Girl heroes in pages of my youth

1. Laura Ingalls - (Little House  series)
2. Ramona Quimby - (Beverly Cleary's series books)
3. Francie Nolan ( A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
4. Katie John Tucker  (Katie John)
5. Jeanette Walls (The Glass Castle)
6. Menolly  (Anne McCaffrey's "Pern" books)
7. Carrie White (Carrie)
8. the unnamed Black girl character who has to stay with the white Mallory family (The Almost Year)

Can you spit a stream with your teeth shut?

 Jemaine Clement, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Laura Love,  Arlene the Cat ......and many more including lil ol nonfamous me... . Called all kinds of names and teased for funky gappy, big teeth, i reflexively covered my teeth when i smiled, ....even as I was attracted to guys with gaps.  Now it's in style. Oh puhleeze......
http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-the-gap-toothed-trend-leads-some-to-get-their-teeth-gapped/

Careening into the sunset - post equinox, somewhere in the wetlands...

....like a drunken clown on acid. Mein Gott, I am this old, this high, this many turns, and I grok and know my cyclical nature, enough to know that I cannot really ever control it, even with the little blue and white pills and all the willpower i think I ought to have. Difference is, now i don't feel like a defective for my differences. rather a detective on a dangerous mission..... the pills are a new development, a tool for my rest and comfort and longevity. No membership in the 27 club for me. I'm a shaman orbiting in a lifelong learning curve. Ordinary rules do not apply ....but the rules of Nature and Spirit always do, Even more so.....Hang on, we'll try not to hurt anyone on purpose. We never do. It's just that largeness by its very nature knocks things askew. I am feeling very large. Can i thread the needle, or will i poke myself in the eye?

Here it comes again.

Fall mania mania mania mania mania mania mania  mania mania mania mania mania mania.................... dear god let me not fuck up.

Building the stage for TRKFEST ELEVEN

Meet my latest lover ....

I'm so sorry for ignoring you guys. The Facebook universe glitter has had me sucked in to the extent of my attention span for written words, but I'm edging back into the blogoverse, i have too much to say. Sure, I'm still on FB, it's a good place to keep in touch with my 147 fans/friends/family members, but I can't really let the shit out over there, dig? But, if they DO find their way over here, well then that's OK, there is a content warning to get through after all. :)

Welcome. Have a beer, eh? Ninkasi. Definitely the Ninkasi.

So, the latest project has been turning cheap short scale basses into rock&roll juggernauts.
the latest was a "J Reynolds" $100 7/8 size cheapy I bought on Craigslist for ...... thirty bucks. Needed a few things.........strings, a nut, a knob, a pot........ so with the massive help of RH and BH  I turned it onto a tiny punchy peachy P-bass.
Kahler bridge and Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders...

and it needed a name. Much gnashing of orange and peach stuff, but the official name of this bass is ...............

Melba.

The Melbass.

My friend Mel, who is a bass player, contributed unconsciously to this meme. In Manthing we trust. :)