these two always go together for me...

From Meddle - brilliant Floyd album, and i like the song "Seamus" too, so there.

Just watched "Sleep With Me" and loved this song. Parker Posey in the flick is so fun to watch. This song would be so fun to sing!

nasty nasty naughty not nice...that's why we love it

Lucinda Williams ... sweet!

sweeet!

beer and wheaties = breakfast of champions

some of the most alright guys are still self-centered louts ... but somebody loves them

i think i'm on a run ... i'm seeing Todd on Thursday so revvn' up for some serious stompin' fun!

my future ex-husband... (audio raspy but the Slash story is worth it)

I helped him play a song on THREE basses once ... my job? holding 3rd bass. does that make me I Don't Know ?

creepy-good cover ... i love you, Fred Drake

actually, I'm saving for my Tardis

a modern Morrissey?

thanks Timmmi for breaking my brain on the Playa in 2005

he was really wonderful at GAMH a coupla weeks ago

So here we go... some vomiting of previous drama and then on to the good stuff (I hope!) And i am putting them onto the appropriate DATES using DATE OUT OF ORDER so that they are collated properly.

the are all tagged Heart Broken... but some are available only to my friends, for obvious reasons

A FakeCrack Easter Egg
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I started riding in 1983

Thrak is my 2nd Triumph Thunderbird Sport. The first, Flick, was a 98 - one of the rare 800 yellow ones brought into this country. I LOVED that bike.... when i woke up from a month-long coma after totaling myself and the bike (run off the road by a drunk driver) I was reportedly asking about my kitteh and my bike. And sobbing when i realized Flick was gone.

In May I bought Frak, (my 7th bike) a 99 ... red (bleah) and i will paint him yellow when i can scrounge $500. I have no idea what they did to the engine, there is no difference in the Triumph Tbird Sport 900cc engine from 89 - 99 (and it is the same engine as the Speed Triple) but it's so fast i have to make sure my pants have some sort of traction ! The test ride was the first time in two years I'd been on a bike again. It's bliss. But i dropped it at a standstill and broke the right footpeg, and the mirrors it came with - clip ons, SUCK so i am trying to find another left mirror. CA BMW Triumph gave me a free right mirror. And a left that doesn't fit - yet. And when switching the nifty but oh-so-Ducati single seat back to the café racer double seat, i left a couple of brackets off and need screws to put it back on (that didn't come with). that's all - it runs! i have bored out one of the footpegs from my 2nd Honda for temporary function. And then the rear lights went out and i am hopeless at electrical. For now.

I do all the work on Bike #2. Even dropped the engine from Mercy, 2nd Honda which is now just parts, into Justice (below) in 2004 by myself. Using a shop manual written in Japanese, badly translated and meant to be a reminder for mechanics who have already done it. And built with chopsticks - so i'm lucky i have small fingers ... heh

Bike #2 is my 3rd Honda Nighthawk S 700 shaft drive. This one is now an Art Bike...
Justice... a flame-throwing motorcycle dragon
http://www.pureeviltm.com/justice/playa/2002/pages/playa_draka_2002.htm
http://www.pureeviltm.com/justice/playa/2002/pages/IMG_2793.htm
http://www.pureeviltm.com/justice/playa/index.htm
http://www.pureeviltm.com/justice/decom01/index.htm

she does tricks....
http://www.pureeviltm.com/justice/playa/2002/pages/justice_chrishardt.htm
http://www.pureeviltm.com/justice/playa/2004/index.htm
http://www.pureeviltm.com/justice/decom01/pages/113-1340_IMG.htm

Motorcycles ... they're in your blood, or they aren't

it's true... so enamored have i been to FakeCrack that I have temporarily abandoned my favorite BLAB forum. Blah blah blah ... i'm back.

I have been keeping journals and writing random crap while i've spent the last 10 months rollercoastering between insanely happy in the company of my friend I met in Dec in Baja, and realizing he's "Not in Love with me, and never will be" as he declared on the Playa this year at Burning Man. Heartbroken.

But we are best friends. And want to be that. And trying to get there with him in constant company was clearly not working. So we agreed to cease and desist until I can be his friend and be in the company of his new girl (he met on the Playa) and stop pining for the fjords.

How long is THAT gonna take? Wisdom says until i find another love / lover. But I'm so damned picky and naive that *that* ain't likely to happen anytime soon. So I have emersed myself in projects (posters, my still-unfinished book, website design, motorcycle maintenance and a little bit of zen) until i get my heart straight and my head back in balance. I'm getting there. Been working on it since Burning Man. But when he stayed at my house for 2 weeks or more at a time since then, i kept falling mroe and more...

Now i have a chance to be a friend - forever! yo! unlike his girlfriends who never seem to last more than a year - if not just a few months.

if they won't talk to you, refuse to see you or respond when you need a friend & now say that hanging out with you is BAD for them ... then what makes this a friendship? The pit in my stomach begs to differ... spinning again... Thank god there's GELATTO!

There's a pit in my stomach that reaches up to my heart. I feared that it would go this way right from the start. There's plenty of songs that say it better than me. When they've traded up and moved on past and leave you down on your knees

alas, i know the answer ...

just a few ...off the top of my head. One-hit wonders don't count.


Hold Your Head Up - Argent

Stuck in the Middle with you- Steelers Wheel

Oh Daddy - Adrian Belew (LOVE him with Bowie, Crimson, whatever, but as a solo artist he ain't all that)

Africa - John Coltrane

Whiter Shade of Pale - Procul Harum

The Matter - Boom Bip (Timmmmi can tell you more, but Boom Bip leaves me cold... while this song broke my brain in 2005 when Timmmi played it on the Slug)
there was this one song by Al Stewart i loved, but it wasn't anything ever played on the radio

Tales Of Brave Ulysses by Cream

A Horse With No Name - America

Avenging Annie - Andy Pratt

I'm a Believer - the Monkees

Alberquerque and I Think I Love You by the Partridge Family

"Behind the Sun", Breaking the Girl, and rollercoaster by Red Hot Chilli Peppers (i am SOooo over them)

Mmmm Mmmmm Mmmm Mmmm, by Crash Test Dummies

Palace of Versailles - Al Stewart

Forever Young (not counting the covers he did - which accounted for most of his hits)
(that said, RevCo does an awesome version of "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" and after hearing Tom Waits' original Downtown Train, i could live without RS's version)

Crazy Horses - the Osmonds

500 Miles - Proclaimers (not that i've ever heard ANYTHING else they've ever done)

Don't Come Around Here No More- Tom Petty (shuddup, Bishop)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7gWzWqJu1k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRf-nHH_63g&feature=PlayList&p=FBC45F9F1428F747&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=37
I Go Insane by Lindsey Buckingham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc80X4ecnjw
Live - Lightning Crashes
I wasn't impressed with the band until I saw them live at the Warfield (free tix) ... they were totally PUNK and the lead singer had his shirt off, and his glasses off and he was HOT. he looked like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKy8OCxa0UM&feature=related
and come to think of it, i love this song too
ok, nevermind, this should be removed from the category of Band I Hate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_daJjRrv0A&feature=related - now they moved to überCool



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY8APrYU2Gs
um... ok, i'm even embarrassed to say who this... don't go here: really (i had only AM radio for a couple of years when i was little ... i was od-ing on Time in a Bottle and the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald... this was different)

Sorry I was absent from here for so long... i fell into a serious and continuing FakeCrack addiction :) But I have decided to come back and start spewing here where it's a bit quieter. Expect drama - but hopefully this will die down from an inferno to a smolder before too long.

Paul was granted Parole, unanimously, after his hearing on Monday, June 8th. His friends and his family, with some brilliant and generous editing help from his lawyer, Mark Vermullen, wrote letters to the Parole Board over the course of the month leading up to the hearing. Four people - which includes one friend, Dave Cherry, and the stenographer - met in Carson City, and Paul attended on video from Las Vegas, where he is in a work program.

Paul stated his parole plan: he has work lined up as an auto-emissions inspector in Vegas, and only when his time is up, in February 2010, will he return to the Bay Area. And for how long, it's unknown, but I think his heart is on traveling.

According to Dave Cherry, "the entire procedure took only 15 or 20 minutes. Throughout the whole thing, Paul was polite, respectful, and matter-of-fact, showing none of the defiance or residual anger that seemed to be present at the sentencing hearing. As to the commissioners themselves, it was hard to gauge what they were thinking, but they seemed to me like even-handed, civilized women who were only after the truth and not out for blood."

So it went well and we hoped for the best, which we were rewarded with by his Parole being granted. So unlike his first hearing, which occurred in absentia — and didn't even let him know the exact date ...until it was over !!

Turns out they denied his parole on some erroneous and slanderously insulting information that no one was there to even question and negate. (They claimed he had a conviction for something pretty nasty.) He has NO previous convictions. Unless you want to count possession of fireworks out of "season" and taking a red dot marking off his toy gun to play laser tag. The SFPD were embarrassed enough that they had to have even that pathetic concession after keeping Paul in custody on false charges for over 7 months.

And don't forget that the instigation of that whole SF Grace Cathedral fiasco (and the subsequent effective derailing of an artist's career) - not to mention wrongful incarceration for 7 months!!! was the *fear* that Paul was a known arsonist. The SFPD passed Paul's mugshot from his prank at Burning Man amongst the squad sent out to search and seize Paul.

Maybe the BMORG's intractability and inability to embrace its roots in freedom of artistic expression and the spirit of the Prank, and its inability to find its sense of humour is ultimately to blame. Sigh ...

Last weekend, the group of people I refer to as Team Paul, the core support that work to help Paul, help his friends, and help each other get through the last 2 years, met (all except for Dee, Paul's mum) for dinner in SF with Paul's dad, Dave. it was great to finally meet the man, the myth, the legend :) And he was completely different than we'd all expected ! And probably for the same reason -Paul's negative portrayal of his paternal unit in an attempt to lay blame somewhere else. Happily, it was just delusional bullshit, and Dave is smart, funny, a charming and generous host, and very proud of his son, whether he understands or approves of his behavior or not. He loves his boy - and that Paul would ever doubt that or cause anyone else to doubt that saddens me still.

Paul's birthday is July 5th.

Lemme know if you want to send him a card, and I'll send you the address.

I didn't ride today - had stitches out of my eyelid this AM and didn't wake up from my "nap" afterwards til about now.

Yesterday, it was grey and windyt. Chrizz was really, um, "charismatic". He was scared of the trees.First time I've seen that. We rode for an hour, but he never calmed down really. I left the chin strap undone, as i put my martingale there, and his halter on the gate. My last bit of grooming and putting things away were interrupted by some loud banging, crashing, and the stampede and screaming of all the horses in the large pen.

I looked over the fence of the pen and by the trailer underneath the overhang, right near Chrizz's stall, a chestnut mare was down, on the concrete, with both back legs trapped in TWO partial fences surrounding the trailer. I can only figure she slid on the wet, poopy concrete, and slip into the fence. Every time she thrashed to get free, the horses (now all over the whole stable) started screaming and that frightened her more.

As soon as i touched her, she got off her front shoulder and lay down, flopping her head right on the ground. I petted her, gave her an apple treat, which she accepted. and then tried to figure out how to get her back legs untangled without getting kicked to shit.

I could get her top leg out but to get her bottom leg out safely, i needed to roll her onto her back. Get this - i had both legs in the air, and she wouldn't pick her forelegs up and finished the roll.
The kid who owns the Clydesdale came over to help, but was too scared to do anything. But freak her out more. So she kicked herself free and hurt her legs.

Anyway, didn't put Chrizz up properly. And didn';t ride today.

Oh yeah - and i lost my camera between the beach and the chestnut in trauma.

Drama drama drama.... sigh.

Cory McAbee, lead singer of The Bill Nayer Show is coming out with a new film: STINGRAY SAM!



The American Astronaut, a quirky, beautiful, surreal space cowboy tale starring McAbee, shot in black and white, and featuring music by The Billy Nayer Show.This low-budget brilliance is one of my favorite underground movies.


The new film, STINGRAY SAM will be delivered to fit "screens of all sizes." In other words, they are planning a release in theaters, as well as DVD, digital and mobile. Soon. Here's another trailer:



Here's more:
Their blog can be found at http://thesmalleststar.blogspot.com
http://stingraysam.com/

For recent reviews:
TWITCH
http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/imagine-this-stingray-sam-review/
Having never seen Cory McAbee’s previous film “American Astronaut” I had no clue what to expect from his latest sci-fi non-epic “Stingray Sam”. So as I waited for the venue to open its doors, I checked out the scores so far for the Silver Scream Award, which is the Imagine Film Festival’s yearly award based on audience ratings. Guess what: “Let The Right One In” dominated the chart as expected. But to my surprise “Stingray Sam” was in second place with almost the same score!
This made me very curious to say the least, as on paper this title didn’t look like an audience pleaser.

For “Stingray Sam” is mostly shot in black & white and on a below-low budget. It’s also allegedly meant to be seen on mobile phones as a series of six ten-minute episodes, and its director Cory McAbee even gave a masterclass during the festival on how to make mobile phone movies. It also features (gasp) songs.

The version of “Stingray Sam” shown at the Imagine Film Festival had a razorsharp image and good sound, but still… this was the movie that had a good chance of dislodging Alfredson’s much-heralded vampire movie from its first place?!? In fact, it DID reach first spot (albeit for a single day only).

Now that the festival has ended, “Stingray Sam” ended in second place with an audience rating of 8.8 out of 10 which is freaking high. The reason for its success is quite simple: despite (or maybe because of) its humble origins, Cory McAbee’s film is almost insanely entertaining. When you see the audience clapping and singing along with the opening credits (which are replayed in front of every single episode) you know there is something special going on…

Space Cowboys! Bikini-clad Nightclub Dancers! Male Pregnancy Doctors!

QUIET EARTH
http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2009/03/04/Review-of-Cory-McAbees-postmodern-masterpiece-STINGRAY-SAM#extended
Who is Stingray Sam you ask? Stingray Sam is a stand up guy. Actually, he’s THE stand up guy. A lover of justice with a loyalty to his profession as entertainer, Stingray Sam (played by McAbee [musician/ writer/ actor/ provocateur]) is the man you want on your side. If you’re lucky he might even write a song about ya.

But, Stingray Sam is not just a person. Lest I forget, Stingray Sam is also a film. And, as a film, STINGRAY SAM bares a close resemblance to the man. It’s cool. It’s committed to its style. It’s self-aware without being self-assured. It’s a film you want to bring your new love interest too, because it’ll show him or her that you feel comfortable having your postmodernism smothered in hilariousness. It’ll prove to this new love in your life that not only can the avant-garde disturb filmic conventions, but also be kind-hearted and sweet, subversive yet caring and generous. This is not, however, some Ice Storm or Squid and the Whale coming-of-age whinery (though I did enjoy those movies, just not the seemingly infinite rip-offs), this is the wild galactic frickin’ West. Bring your gun. Bring your dancin’ boots.

CASHIERS DU CINEMART
http://www.cashiersducinemart.com
Stingray Sam (Cory McAbee, 2009)
Cory McAbee met and exceeded the high hopes I had for this new outing. Set in the same universe as his American Astronaut, McAbee plays the titular character, a lounge singer on Mars enlisted by his former partner in crime, Quasar Kid (Billy Nayer Show bandmate Crugie) to save a little girl (Willa Vy McAbee) from the clutches of the first male birth, Fredward (Joshua Taylor). Comprised of six smaller chapters, Stingray Sam is a modern serial with each section being a self-contained unit with a cliffhanger ending... and a snappy song!

Stingray Sam is yet another brilliant effort from McAbee. The only bad thing is that the soundtrack and DVD aren't yet available. I can't wait to see this movie and hear these songs again! In the meantime, the opening track, "Mars", can be heard on the Goodbye California EP.

I feel like a bitch.. i mean i am grateful but why is it when she does me favors are they always just "off"?

I am recovering from a rager of a night last night with Don, and she asks me to take her to work, but can see i feel like shit. So she offers me dinner from her restaurant. She called ahead to ask them to make me dinner before we got there. She asked me what I wanted, I said anything ... oh, and CHEEZ!!!

All i could think was the pecorino that i love so much. She has brought it home twice for me. Once she ate it all before i could get to it, and the second time I horded it for days, savoring it's peppery, granulated ripeness. God I love that cheese. I've begged for it for almost a year. So I knew she knew which cheese i was requesting.

She got off the phone before we got into the car and said they had chicken and pasta. Yumm! I thought. She went inside and returned, handing me two white to-go boxes and the chef himself brought out an entire wheel of cheese. It was the Petit' Basque that *she* likes. Nothing like the pecorino.

I opened the boxes at home. There was a very good pasta bolognese, and... salad. No chicken. Sigh. It's not like I need to eat any more! But ... oh well.

I will be doing several fill-ins in Mayhem. And hopefully two specials:


4/30 10p-2a - did that
5/8 10a-2p
5/15 10a-2p - I KNOW YOU KNOW ENO: Six Degrees of Separation from Brian Eno
he's had his hand in many projects, many bands, and I have his lecture from Long Now, back in 2004. It's amazing.
5/21 10p-12a
5/29 10a-2p - MOUNTAIN CON special - amazing band, just called it quits after a decade, and i will introduce you to them in time for their last release to be issued. Interview, giveaways, and just think! you can collect their catalog without worrying about missing the next release :)

As always, on KFJC 89.7 FM
as Rocket J. Squirrel

available via NETCAST at http://www.kfjc.org/netcast

Squeaking of Hugh Jackman [previous post's COMMENT]... the latest Wolverine is some kinda fun! and Hugh? well it's no wonder he goes shirtless (and at one point, pantsless) as he has hit the gym heavily for this role!

I wonder if he's on the "300" workout?

I can't figure out why I'm not losing more weight ... i mean i hardly eat and I contemplate this a great deal while on the couch. hmmmm ...

I have so frakking much to write about here but i haven't had the time. Back to doing battle with the IRS, Foothill College's Parking Nazis, and then to ride.