I posted yesterday and erased it because it was too bleak. I was in a blue mood and don’t feel that way now. Its this blogging–I start feeling bad for not writing here and decide to just put something down for the sake of putting it down. So I woke up this morning and decided to self-edit.

I went to Wolf Eyes on Friday night and it was a nice little sonic experience. I say “little” because it wasn’t exactly what my doctor had ordered, but close enough for it being here in town. One fun thing about the show is that they were heading to the town of my origin (Toledo) the next night and then to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit on the 18th to open for Black Dice (careful, the video below may make you dizzy, sick and you might have a small seizure)

What the doctor did order was some Sunn O))), live and in the flesh, but we’ll settle for live Wolfies and recorded Sunn. They give a good explanation of their latest release (Monoliths & Dimensions) “We took an approach concentrating on more of allusion toward the timbre of feedback and the instruments involved, so the piece is really illusory, beautiful and not entirely linear…That said it’s probably the most musical piece we’ve done & also the heaviest, powerful and most abstract set of chords we’ve laid to tape.”

The “doctor” is my unsatisfied mind. Dovetail is feeling the recession a bit, but we’re convinced that the show in Philly this summer will right the ship. But beyond that, is Dovetail scratching the itch that always gets itchy after a bump? Well we’re thinking about staying the course but also about what new directions to take to “keep it fresh”, but not just fresh–make it, ugh, deeper?, better. Things can pretty much always be better. We just don’t want to rest and gather the moss. The sonic booms of some loud, live music helps clear the moss.

Another way of clearing out the cobwebs is to go fast:

On a skateboard or a motorcycle. This is Jason Lee’s commissioned Falcon. He had Ian Barry build him one of the coolest looking bikes I’ve seen. I like Jason Lee as a skater, I’ve seen him act a little, but he’s always been a skater in my mind. I found out about Barry and this Falcon in the latest Garage. The editor starts out the magazine with a letter in which he says something like “I’ve always seen the world as full of those who can weld and those who can’t” and that basically if you can’t weld, you might as well lay down now.

But, he forgot to mention that “weld” could be substituted for “do”. DO anything you want, do it well, get satisfaction from it. If you act (like J. Lee) it affords you the dollars to pay people like Ian to earn a living “doing” what he loves (welding). Without the actor to pay, the welder has a lot of welded stuff laying around which is only “cool” stuff if he also has food in his belly. Admittedly, Ian Barry looks “cooler” in this scene than Jason Lee because he’s the “doer” here. But that’s not fair to all that Jason has done.

Jason Jesse (a completely different ex pro skater) does it all though, so what happens to all this theorizing of “cool”? A satisfied mind, he doesn’t have. He is cool though:

But, mercy. So much about “doing”. And “cool”. I gots to hold on to “Being”. And being with a satisfied mind. Usually that comes from giving and putting aside self for the sake of others.