Been doing a lot of landscaping this morning... came up with an idea after seeing a snap dragon's stem which reminded me of a heart and re-channelling all the aggression from the whole Clippers debacle...
Opening scene:
"I reconnected the heart valve to the intestines..."
Ridgeback Dogs [retrievers mix?] keep watch while Surgeon watches some victim gasp for air...
cut to next scene:
Victim is sculpting in the backyard...there is a pool...
The pool cleaner comes...
Ridgeback dogs are heard barking from the pickup...
Sculptor is now smoking pipe tobacco as he greets the pool cleaner...
"if you were making a movie, and the villian was some kind of evil surgeon, what would he say to his victims?"
"you mean how would he get 'em?"
"i'd introduce them to my ridgeback dogs..."
"thank you"
cut to next scene:: before the pool cleaner enters...
Sculptor in garden is making a rock sculpture... he has placed a dead plant upside down so the roots are showing and it resembles a volcano with an egg on top...the egg is a white rock.."
looks almost like a habitat for a corn snake
Petstore scene:: sculptor is looking at the snakes...and hissing/communicating with them...
Old guy who looks similar to the pool cleaner passes by with a strange look at the sculptor...
Old guy has reserved fish in a tank with a skull...
TV transition from fish tank:::
Fuse blows while the news is on...
"I dont dig that..." says a familiar voice....
spotlight turns on and hones in on Surgeon who is about to kill the sculptor...
Ridgebacks bark loudly as the surgeon's Ridgebacks near the fire place start moving toward the pool cleaner..
short dialogue ends with the pool cleaner saying...
"Its how you raise them..."
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
warm-ups...
Ah... magic rules.
Ran thru an impromptu hour and a half non-stop warm-up to start prepping for playing some shows... and kinda impressed myself...
Earlier that morning, I did something I've never seen done before...which was also impressive...just didn't include any depression or impressions...ah, but it was a slight progression...or a transgression... whatever...it might end up being a good suggestion to any artists who just aren't "feeling" like doing the same routine...
There's this Tool album I hadn't heard for a while, Salival...[www.google.com] bought it a long time ago at Border's in Emeryville when it still existed... so I ended up using the entire album as sort of a backing track...Merkaba was the intermission..however, I played with a differently tuned guitar and made the album into an almost completely personal experience...simply myself reacting to this album - not just "some sort of psychedelic experience..." but it sounded almost like that Jeff Buckley cover of Genesis' Back in NYC... with an album being consolidated into a Warlock song...and it sounded so beautiful to me... glad I didn't record it at the same time...
Then, there was a break in the storm outside...
Then, I ran thru 20 songs [must admit though, did 3 Radiohead songs, an Elliot Smith song, and some covers...so more like 13 completely original songs and 5 reinterpretations from a living american's perspective...] with my acoustic plugged into my bass amp running thru a guitar cab and me singing through my smaller amp...
the songs I played were:
half-ass improv [tuning and 30second warmup]
box [aka pandoras box]
needle in the hay [cover 1]
costume
invisibility
wizard [aka driveway]
obelisks
wind drag [aka ixchel... fyi: who would name a song ixchel...]
20 [aka skeletal roads]
(switched to some patriot songs)
yosemite
motorboat
puppy girl
(back to warlock)
reckoner [cover 2]
a2d security (shorter version)
videotape [cover 3]
not what i needed [all i need cover....4]
breathe/welcome to the machine/little wing [5,6,7]
halflife
Recorded it to listen for any areas of improvement...
[did this on 4-1-14]
Anyways, yesterday, watched two of the best films ever made...
Enter The Dragon
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0070034%2F&ei=V2Y9U7-9I4KGyQGQ6oDoBA&usg=AFQjCNFYt5Ovk-YMxbPIY3gxKFkmHfgJog&sig2=F9IAJ-1NDrfdPVLHB20w4A&bvm=bv.63934634,d.aWc
and
The Man Who Knew Too Little
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0120483%2F&ei=OmY9U4PUK6SbygGCp4CQDQ&usg=AFQjCNFDFGxKKmxcz2JVn0Kr6l47z2UnwQ&sig2=wWBhmuDznsZ-UuOMUF4PmQ&bvm=bv.63934634,d.aWc
that's it for now...
I will run thru another 20 completely different songs...and then 20 more completely different songs...etc. when I feel the urge again...but this time I'm going to use an electric...the next time..a different electric... etc.
The point is to get as eclectic as possible... like oil... or Oakland... where I am...but with a stabilized sort of organization lingering above... like clouds...
BTW, "I've looked at clouds from both sides now"
Ran thru an impromptu hour and a half non-stop warm-up to start prepping for playing some shows... and kinda impressed myself...
Earlier that morning, I did something I've never seen done before...which was also impressive...just didn't include any depression or impressions...ah, but it was a slight progression...or a transgression... whatever...it might end up being a good suggestion to any artists who just aren't "feeling" like doing the same routine...
There's this Tool album I hadn't heard for a while, Salival...[www.google.com] bought it a long time ago at Border's in Emeryville when it still existed... so I ended up using the entire album as sort of a backing track...Merkaba was the intermission..however, I played with a differently tuned guitar and made the album into an almost completely personal experience...simply myself reacting to this album - not just "some sort of psychedelic experience..." but it sounded almost like that Jeff Buckley cover of Genesis' Back in NYC... with an album being consolidated into a Warlock song...and it sounded so beautiful to me... glad I didn't record it at the same time...
Then, there was a break in the storm outside...
Then, I ran thru 20 songs [must admit though, did 3 Radiohead songs, an Elliot Smith song, and some covers...so more like 13 completely original songs and 5 reinterpretations from a living american's perspective...] with my acoustic plugged into my bass amp running thru a guitar cab and me singing through my smaller amp...
the songs I played were:
half-ass improv [tuning and 30second warmup]
box [aka pandoras box]
needle in the hay [cover 1]
costume
invisibility
wizard [aka driveway]
obelisks
wind drag [aka ixchel... fyi: who would name a song ixchel...]
20 [aka skeletal roads]
(switched to some patriot songs)
yosemite
motorboat
puppy girl
(back to warlock)
reckoner [cover 2]
a2d security (shorter version)
videotape [cover 3]
not what i needed [all i need cover....4]
breathe/welcome to the machine/little wing [5,6,7]
halflife
Recorded it to listen for any areas of improvement...
[did this on 4-1-14]
Anyways, yesterday, watched two of the best films ever made...
Enter The Dragon
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0070034%2F&ei=V2Y9U7-9I4KGyQGQ6oDoBA&usg=AFQjCNFYt5Ovk-YMxbPIY3gxKFkmHfgJog&sig2=F9IAJ-1NDrfdPVLHB20w4A&bvm=bv.63934634,d.aWc
and
The Man Who Knew Too Little
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0120483%2F&ei=OmY9U4PUK6SbygGCp4CQDQ&usg=AFQjCNFDFGxKKmxcz2JVn0Kr6l47z2UnwQ&sig2=wWBhmuDznsZ-UuOMUF4PmQ&bvm=bv.63934634,d.aWc
that's it for now...
I will run thru another 20 completely different songs...and then 20 more completely different songs...etc. when I feel the urge again...but this time I'm going to use an electric...the next time..a different electric... etc.
The point is to get as eclectic as possible... like oil... or Oakland... where I am...but with a stabilized sort of organization lingering above... like clouds...
BTW, "I've looked at clouds from both sides now"
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