(all photos credited to KAZAR)

friday night noise toy jams with john, eli, gyr, sleeper and sarah(who broke all the beer bottles).

totally a northern song.mp4
inpector gadget.mp4
beer collection.mp4

a small group of polaroids from my polaroid project that found themselves scanned and online. at one point i was in the middle of having all 100+ polaroids of friends and strangers online but a crashed cpu ruined all that. suppose one day i'll get around to it again.

i wanted to share with everyone something i wrote to a friend regarding a news story about a bald eagle carrying a deer head in alaska. somehow this bald eagle got exhausted during his flight and crashed into powerlines, causing power outages in juneau.

anyway, here:

ok...
i am sorry but i must put everything else on hold while this eagle/deer head incident hovers over our heads unsolved. i feel it is trying to relay a message to us. something beyond normals means of communication.

to tackle this task, i composed a series of graphs in metaphysical form. following along the lines of traditonal alchemical symbology, i believe i have brought us one step closer to the light(i've been studying too much about this stuff so i have to get it out of my head some how).

ok, now to begin with, i assigned all symbolic objects in this conflict with one of the four elements. fire, earth, air, water. and also they are arranged as to what they mean according to developing a psychological understanding of the incident. the eagle is air and conciousness, the deer is earth and unconciousness, the electrical pole is fire and the unification of the two others. where is the last element? i'll get to that in a bit. so the eagle wishes to make himself concious of all his dark thought dwelling in his unconcious mind so he brings the deer head to the electrical pole. well then if you arrange these three existing elements together you get a triangle. now you can also relate this triangle to the holy trinity in the bible. but where is the balance in this? the electrical pole needs an opposite like the eagle has an opposite(which is why modern christianity by itself is flawed). so the eagle fails and burns up in a ball of fire.

so then you you have to add a new object to the mix. you add the last element, water(the philosophers stone, the magical element that brings about transformation), to put the eagles burning wings out.

so there... now the eagle has succeded in unifiying himself with the deer head and becomes the prima materia, the answer of all questions.

so there... i think i solved it? im not sure. my head hurts...

hotel electro
Segundo Chomon
1905



the devil's ball
wladyslaw starewicz
1933



dimensions of dialogue
jan svankmajer
1982



the cabinet of jan svankmajer
quay brother
1984



sober
fred stuhr
1993

daily life just keeps getting weirder and weirder but in the best ways possible

ralph steadman was at books & books in the gables on friday having a slide show to promote his new book the joke's over.

he mumbled most of the time. occasionaly broke out in song. i got him to sign one of his books "to elk master, ralph steadman". one fellow presented to ralph his tattoo of the words "fear and loathing" writen on his arm and a copy of one of his illustrations tattooed on his leg. ralph questioned if he then wanted him to sign his cock.

for a while i've had this strange fixation on the 1920's and 30's jazz movement. i suppose a large part of my interest stems from the curiosity of rediscovering a culture that existed at the dawn of modern society and noting its relation to current trends and movements. its amazing how we like to think life changes but in reality, deep down at its core, its always the same.

anyway, i've been building up a collection of music from that era. i figured it's about time i shared some of it with everyone.

trav's jazz age mp3 mix:

the temperance seven - sahara
bob haggart, ray bauduc - the big noise from the winnetka
duke ellington and his orch. - caravan
clinton ford - fanlight fanny
al bowlby - bei mir bist du schoen
bubber miley and his mileage makers - black maria
paul whiteman - charleston
clyde doerr and his orch. - suez

i recorded this a few months ago when i was in up-state newyork. cant remember what the band called themselves. really good show though. if only miami had barns to play in...

band in a barn mp3

the sound quality isn't very good but i kind of like it that way

this is how grandma would have wanted it
i can still hear her laughing

love you grandma

r.i.p. florence swain
1912 - 2006

i'll get around to posting the audio recordings from algonquin soon but for now i just want to share an old favorite:

why our plane didn't take off.mp3

this is a short recording of the pilot to my NY flight trying to explain, in technical terms, why we had such a long delay to takeoff. drunken comments by ashley.

thats our lake. the only camp site on the whole lake. forgot the name of the lake though.
cant find the damn map i had.

more photos to come as soon as i get them from michelle.