chrysalis

i've added some more poems. in other news i moved. i'm now living at the corner of 14th and division in SE portland. i like it. also, the band has a couple shows coming up. march 9th is the most soon to come. in other news, existential crisis is going well. currently completely numb and experiencing intermittent connectedness with the rest of the universe. woohoo. beyond that, check out the links section for some new pertinent sites.. my tea business, my band, and a new URL for this blog! now it is officially www.chrysalisemerging.be . enjoy.

i added in the RSS2 feed plugin today, to make it easy for all you wonderful readers out there to keep track of me. enjoy!

i have begun writing for a local newspaper called "Salem Monthly" and possibly selling advertising. i wrote an article on a local native american celebrity, Chief Quinaby, which may or may not be appearing in the December issue. i'll post it here soon. the newspaper is a very exciting place. the owner is a completely independent runing it out of his own pocket. he lives in a spare room of the second floor office for the news paper. the staff is small and vastly underpaid. the content is great and filling a huge gap in the media for the area. i'm excited to be part of what they are doing, in whatever capacity i am able to. want to buy an ad?

well, i'm happy to say i found a band. last saturday i met up with matt brown and little joe and we jammeth. it was a good time. it was a short time, because matt brown had to go to work, but we will practice again soon. they are a cool group of guys and the music is right up my alley. settling neetly in the indie genre if we were the indie from the early to mid eighties. something like the replacements, or the pixies. more info to come. l8r sk8r.

ooo.. halloween. i went to a costume party as a kandinksy painting on saturday. this inspired me to speak all night in senseless phrases intermixed with shouted chinese and other sounds not intelligible to the portlanders around me. this also inspired me to start work on three new paintings. i have planned and drawn with coloured pencil three pictures, destined to be painted in the next month or two. the first is the poignant scene from Albert Camus' "The Stranger" where Marsault kills the arab on the beach. the second is from Jen-Paul Sarte's "Nausea", and is a collage of imagery from the book. the third is entitled "Building Engulfed By Cat", and fatures two abstracted buildings on fire, with a cat wrapped around one of them and an a mandolin supporting the other. they will all be 3' by 4' canvases. feel free to place your pre-order now. (: then sunday, richard and i spent all day tromping around in the woods hunting mushrooms and deer.. our weapons? our wits and our steely resolve, and i found a stick and whiddled it to a sharp point. you know, it's hard to catch a deer on foot.

well, i bought a cellphone today. woohoo! very exciting. these things keep getting more and more complicated. flippy flippy, camera camera, message message, talk talk. now i can call my sister, and she can call me. wow. unfortunately i don't have any other friends in portland. >sigh< soo... if anyone wants to call me my number is 503.984.2658. bye!

i added some poems today. hopefully i will have a reasonably complete list soon. this morning is a chilly dim day that has people huddling. as autumn begins here people are slowly acclimating themselves to it. todays shivers will be tomorrow's warm days once the winter weather comes. the barista was terse, a spanger asked for a cigarette instead of money, and there is just a general quietude to the whole city this morning, as people hurry on to thier destinations. hope i can stay awake through it.

here is my greyspace. my cerebral outlet for the small set of public that wishes to consume it. i used to often say that i wished i had a biographer running around behind me to catch everything i said and did, so that when i died, they could publish it and someone might understand. well, i guess that burden is all my own, and i should start catching this stuff up somewhere, so here it is. this is primarily for my benefit, but i'd be a real asshole to suggest that it is not also meant for others, because i could just keep it in my journals if it was only for me, which of course, is what i've been doing for years now. this is half an organization tool for me, since notebooks get lost destroyed or just aren't very organized in the first place, and half a way of disseminating this information easily to those who want it. enjoy.