One Quarter Blind

A River Blah Blah Blahs It

Ez, Mijo and I went to the JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab) yesterday.  The last time we went there, it was September, the river bed as nearly bone dry, and beset by the effects from an arsonist's fire and some other natural issues.

Now, after a few months of raining, things have changed a little bit.

Some pictures ...

Dirty as shit, but still cool.  Water>dry.

The second picture is one of Ezzie, she loves this place.

The river as running deceptively fast.  

  

Mijo had other ideas.

 

Some asshole ...

More Ez.

 

lee

Earthquake!

Well, maybe it doesn't merit that exclamation point.

We had one about a hour ago, 4:04 a.m. It was a 4.4 quake, not enough to do any real damage, but it was prominent enough to wake us up with after an audible boom for about 6 seconds.

I turned the TV on and all the local channels are talking about it. The epicenter was determined to be at Pico Rivera, maybe 25 miles south from our house.

The annoying part is that I can't fall back asleep.

lee

Jaco

I was on Facebook yesterday, and saw that my friend Juan posted this killer Jaco Pastorious picture.

 

So, naturally, started listening to some of the Jaco stuff (I have a ton), and I realized that I invariably go to one track, "Crisis," which isn't really his most popular, but nonetheless, it's the best one for me. 

That song is the first track on the Word of Mouth album and starts with a pulsing, cascading bass line, which quickly becomes something a kin of a out of control subway track.

There are others I love ... "Okonokole y Trompa" ... "Kuru" ... "Portait of Tracy" ... but "Crisis" is the one.

lee

  

Stuffs and things

My friend Justin has been hooking me up with some cool new music, some heavy and caustic as fuck, and some of it pensive and moody, like Ida.  I'm liking this one track, "Little Things," duo vocals, no drums.  Read a little about them that they used to play with Codeine and Low, and that makes perfect sense.  It also reminds me of Lori Carson's music, especially songs like "Snow Come Down." 

Carson was part of Golden Palominos in the mid 90s ... the second of the two, Pure, was outstanding, probably the best thing they ever did, although Dead Inside was a close second.  Amazing musicians, like Bootsy Collins (on guitar, no less), Knox Chandler, Anton Fier, and Bill Laswell, a really facile bass player.  Fast dub lines, so cool.

For a while, I was listening to Phillip Glass' Einstein on the Beach.  Especially "Trial 1" ... it clocks in at 21:26, frenetic as hell, reminds me a disc skipping.  The intensity required to play AND listen to this is exhausting.  When it was introduced originally in 1977, it was a marathon concert, something like 5 1/2 hours.  No remissions, people were free to come and go.  Eventually, it was pared down to "only" 3 1/2 hours for the CD.  

Non sequitur time ...

Had an MRI on Friday.  No change.

So I've got that going for me.

Rudnick wants to do the next one in 6 weeks, as opposed to two months and change.  Since that I'm off Temodar, he wants to make sure that we are staying on top of this.  Personally, I'd rather ignore it completely and hope for the best.

(And yes, for people that follow these things on Facebook, that was a lame joke.)

lee

 

10 year anniversary of a total beat-down

Pure awesomeness ...