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one of my christmas gifts last year was a book of easy crossword puzzles from the new york times. they print their easiest puzzles in monday’s paper, and then get tougher each following day. sometimes a puzzle will force you to pull something out of your memory that you didn’t know was stored away. they can also help you think outside the box:
Q) a socially correct goose in boston?
A) propaganda

i used some christmas cash to purchase the korg monotribe (that black box thing pictured above). it’s a drum & synth sequencer that is reminiscent of bands like the alan parsons project, grandaddy, and emerson lake and palmer. here’s a track i call night wobble featuring the monotribe. i imagine it being in a movie where someone is driving at night, and something bad is about to happen.

i realized that it’s been close to a week since i updated this blog. i’ve followed enough blogs to know that without regular updates these things wither and die. i’ve been reading a book of selected letters from charles bukowski. he was someone else who followed other people’s work and corresponded with many authors and friends. he also worked at a post office until he was able to make a living as a writer. it was a lousy day job, and bukowski described the letters in this book as a way of “screaming from my cage.” i have 3 jobs, none of which are lousy… and this blog is my way of mumbling from my futon.

i found this pic on retrohound.com, a website that is dedicated to “digging up the coolest stuff ever mass produced.” the group in the pic above are members of the son messengers, one of many gospel bands from the 1970′s that dared to immortalize themselves on vinyl. just seeing the images on this album is like finding a time capsule from the jimmy carter years.

this weekend we visited with our friends kevin and victoria. they have 3 kids. one of those kids is nathan. he made this lego plane. nathan is 10 years old. i used to babysit him, his brother alex, and his sister kimberly. nathan emailed this pic and gave me permission to post it on my blog. thanks man.

mojo is our cat. he was bored last night so he managed to get his 14 pound body inside a loose cloth aldi bag. we took a few pics, and this was the best one.

last friday was the one year anniversary of mondo beep, the sound experiment that takes place every first friday on 18th street. i was disappointed when the cold temps kept pedestrians away, even though i brought a decent sized coleman heater that kept us from freezing. laura charged her smartphone and looped some crazy carnival sounds that kept us entertained. afterward we went to YJ’s, and then the screenland arcade.

mondo beep will be one year old this friday. over the last 12 months we have:
-shared over a dozen instruments & effects with innocent bystanders
-played amidst jazz, hip hop, surf artists and fire jugglers
-discovered kindred spirits
-appeared in the pitch
-recorded audio and video to prove it all happened.
we hope you’ll join us this again this friday night on 18th street between wyandotte and baltimore around 6-ish.

i was singing this song to myself when i walked to homer’s this morning to open the shop with kelly. i felt like the only person on the planet. happy new year.