see ya there

Treading water is hard. But once you've been doing it for awhile, it gets easier. But it's boring, I'd rather be swimming, making progress. I'll be swimming for awhile.


peace

Peggy Lou

found a few things and decided to take the time to get some banjo pictures up here. The sound is better than it looks...boy she can sing








i woke up with a headache today for what seemed like no reason, until i checked the forecast online a couple minutes ago... could be a factor, but who really knows? it's been raining for awhile but the sun is out right now. i took a greyhound bus to Raleigh, NC on Saturday and got a truck thanks to my good friends over at USAA. Now, i can go up into the mountains when it's snowing and not blow a radiator! And i sure as hell won't hydroplane on a wet road going 35mph. it's a 2003 GMC Sierra SLE Extended Cab




I also recently set up a snowboard...

tomato paste with potato taste

i've been doing a lot and doing a lot of nothing. this summer was really eventful, and probably the longest summer i've ever had. Scratched a few things off the bucket list but there's still more left on it than I know. I still need an external hard drive. I've been taking banjo lessons. about 5 of them, i think. my teacher said that my talent was genetic and that i catch on quick. i thought that that was cool because he's played with Earl Scruggs and knows Bill Keith personally. I also have the chance to go play with Tony Trischka and learn a few things down in North Carolina in October. Tony taught Béla Fleck how to play the banjo. Recently received a new banjo, it's a Recording King R80 and it sounds better than it looks...not that i don't like the way it looks. with that a whole bunch of books to learn. it's becoming a wonderful thing in my life, and I'm happy to have so much to help me along the way. maybe i'll get an external hard drive that works and i'll be able to start this thing back up again with cooler posts...



shit happens






still dreaming of western countrysides

here i am

i found my flickr account. trying to set up this external hard drive so i can use my computer again, i can't do anything with it man, and it's giving me all kinds of problems setting up the external space. but needless to say, i guess once i get it all set up i'll share my collection of photographs. think the first one dates back to Summer of '06. promise i got some good shots for ya


might be in Virginia for another year. ya never know, man..


in the meantime, look at this for awhile

Neil Young

can be found

here.

row row row your boat while you still can...

In roughly 5 weeks time there has been little to no change on the situation in the Gulf of Mexico concerning BP's disaster of managing an oil drilling operation. I've heard several things but I've read just as many and a general consensus is that BP claimed that there was only 5,000 gallons of oil gushing daily, so don't freeaakk the fuck out it's only 5,000 gallons of oil a day. But chances are it's upwards of 6 million gallons of oil out there just ready to fuck shit up. I don't know about you, but this shit still pisses me off man. This week Obama finally had some motherfuckers go check it out and look at what its like. Granted, there are no instilled provisions of preventing such a catastrophe, so don't worry about cleaning that shit up. Right? I mean WTF are we doing? Louisiana isn't even that worried (government officials anyway) about stopping off shore drilling anytime soon. How much is it going to take to figure out that oil is not such a good thing? We probably could use something else by now, I don't get it man. I just don't know man, I just don't know...

row, row, row your boat

listenhere.

May 22nd, 2010. Still have no plans for this summer, i have some ideas but nothing is set in stone ya know. Having no commitments means I have the ability to do whatsoever I please, which is pretty awesome. Although I've come to terms with this awesomeness it's beginning to dawn on me how much longer it will be like this (it's been about a year, now). I've done a lot of wondering but not a lot of wandering, and I know what time it is. Still hasn't really hit me that I have no clue when I will be back in Virginia again after this summer. I've got about two and a half months to have as much fun and save as much money as possible, or two and a half months to try and balance those two things... Oh, an interesting site I found today: thunderbolts.info --it's really got some cool things, and enough to have you thinking about it all for quite awhile, i'm sure. Gonna be in the OBX for about a week here shortly, looking forward to that. All Good is coming up, that should be a lot of fun. Oh, yeah if you haven't ever heard of GrooveShark, you should check it out, it's pretty nifty. As much as good as technology does and is so-called "good for" I often wonder if the pros outweigh the cons. Maybe I'm just too nomadic to know. Or wish that I was. Who knows? I'm going to block party. I love my dog. & cat. Over the course of having this blog I've come to a conclusion that people might actually read this shit, if you're reading this now you should go do something you've always wanted to do, because that's what I'm about to do. People everywhere are doing it, it's something everybody should and can do: pursue happiness; whatever happiness is for you, obtain it, cherish it, live with it, what more can you do?


these

are

old

what's happenin'!?

Didn't get accepted to Colorado State, go figure... my performance academically wasn't exactly at its greatest the last year I was at VCU. So, I'm off in search of new horizons. There are endless possibilities as to what I can do, or so it seems, so as soon as I figure out what it is that I want to do and am going to do, I'll do that. And maybe I'll tell you or maybe I won't... Happy Mother's Day

workin hard, hardly workin...

today put a new meaning to that phrase for me. my appreciation for opposable thumbs has grown, too. i was also reminded of how hydrogen peroxide feels along side of supreme frustration. grrow..

Holy Stones, Batman! That's a heavy track..

Oh to have been able to hear all of their music
around the time of Exile on Main St.

100

+

=
What doesn't that equal?

I was elated to find these events documented and for the world to see on YouTube. It'd be a shame for people not to be able to see those videos. I have been playing my banjo more these days, minus a sprained wrist it's more fun than ever. I'm really getting into the tone, it feels great. Once my wrist heals I'm probably going to be spending a lot of time with my banjo hangin' on my shoulder. Couldn't be happier about that. I've also been reading a lot of naturalist writings, including a whole bunch of works by John Muir. Also, I've been reading guides of birds, trees, insects, edible plants, etc., etc.; the most important thing being that I now have an atlas of the entire United States of America and intend on using it to its fullest potential this summer. I still don't know my exact route or destination, all I know is that it's going to be an adventure of a lifetime.

Dragonflies used to be much larger...

Colorado

I'll be going soon. Supposed to visit this week, we'll see how the weather permits.
I'm so very happy.
It's hard to describe. I will miss all the great people I have met and come to known, but at the same time I have to move. It's time to get on with it. Nothing against ya'll.
I really don't have much to say, I'm not leavin' til August so that gives me some time to kick back some more... Going to All Good Music Festival, Moody Blues on the 25th, skatepark opens early April, workin' a whole lot and making time for refreshments... Call me, we'll make it a theatre on Friday, April 9

Port O'Brien

is one of my favorite bands from the past decade. Threadbare is extremely good, take time and listen to







...and we shall be free...

people write their own destiny, fate chooses if it is in pencil or pen

Different types of weather generates different animals, so at what point do we as humans look beyond the weather and find what binds us in the universe?


just as small waves disappear into the sand are our thoughts that are not recorded; nature never lets anything go unrecorded; those thoughts have fulfilled their purpose of making us who we are whether we remember, know or care at all




Silence is white.





the stillness of a lake, the quiet
growth of a tree. How long will it be
until they are no longer silent and placid?



"...to any place that is wild..."

Volvo V90 Wagon

been working hard and saving monies like it was my job. Finally saved enough cash to purchase my first car. it's pretty damn comfortable. And green. There was a lot of green, so much i confused it with red way too often to mention... Have to get my own license plate and jump all those hoops at the dmv to make it official, pay some taxes, and then it'll be all mine... just payin' insurance. gas.. whatever else comes along the way... let the good times roll


...one step at a time...