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August, 2009

August 22, 2009 - 4:13pm

has it really been so long?

yesterday was the two year anniversary of the day i arrived home from india. and i totally forgot.

i'd been meaning to pay attention, to note the formal end of the narrative arc from the past two years, though its actual end was sometime before and soaked into me with no clear documentable pattern, like water into the ground days after rain. instead of noticing, i slept for 12 hours, and woke up next to jarett, who has been here so long and so completely that i can't remember when he wasn't here. i went into the office and did some drupal at my new gig which is so good. i came home, we went to north beach, and we walked up to coit tower, which i'd never done before which seems CRAZY but is true. you can see both bridges from up there. i had no idea.

August 25, 2009 - 2:18am

Lucifuge Rofocale

August 27, 2009 - 1:34pm

one of my favorite things

i wish i had a recording of akron family doing "i know you rider" as they sometimes do for an encore at shows. i could probably find one, but i always end up going to find this video instead.

i went looking for other versions of "i know you rider," and found a couple of grateful dead bootlegs, an alright hot tuna version, and a joplin version. i don't really like any of them as much as the akron family's rendition, but maybe that's a generational response. my dad would probably prefer the HOT TUNA (though i did send him this video, to which he responded 'yup, pretty good'). and of course there's an elaborate page about the grateful dead's performance of this song, though they didn't write it, they probably are responsible for it being known.

nothing else to report. life is good, things make sense, i've been deeply content. i started a tumblog about san francisco but it feels like a throwaway thing. it just makes me want to post actually thought out things here?

August 28, 2009 - 1:00am

today's sky was a thing






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