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There's a warrant out for my arrest....
I sent a check in to pay for the speeding ticket, but i guess they didn't receive it in time, so i'm an outlaw.
We were on our way to play Good Folk Concerts in Fayetteville, Arkansas for Emily Kaitz's birthday party and we had a great time. Of course the ticket was for 9 dollars more than what i made at the gig, and with the warrant it's a whole lot more now, but of course, one doesn't play music for the money.
When I played out in San Francisco in August, I got a parking ticket and that sucked because i came out more than 50 dollars in the red on that little venture. But it was good to see Guy and Sofia whom I'd met in Okemah last summer at WoodyFest. And they had come over from Santa Cruz so that was cool.
On our way to Fayetteville we stopped off in Tahlequah to see a friend, Bill Erickson. He has a ton of great songs, and one that we want to cover he put on a CD for us to take. Which also really came in handy because Emily has so [...]
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For a number of years, my dear friend, Jim Tilly, used to produce the Holiday Harvest CD which was a compilation of seasonal songs from artists around the region. Proceeds went to the Community Food Bank. It was a really wonderful tradition he had going. ....One year I wrote a Hanukkah song for it with the traditional Ma'oz Tzur liturgy. My Hebrew's not so great, but here it is:
So, last night I made a fire for the Winter Solstice.... thankful the days are growing longer now, finally.... (there's something to just plain and simple paganism. Especially this time of year ;-)
But religion is great and useful, (...unless, of course, you're killing because of it,) and just after my Boss RC-20 Loopstation, it's my most favourite tool, I've done some form of Yoga all my life, and probably the best thing i've ever read are The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. (Andrew, my Ashtanga Yoga teacher gave me the book a long time ago.) But, I was happily raised [...]
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c'est les autres.
~Jean-Paul Sartre
There have been at least a half a dozen earthquakes in Oklahoma in the past few weeks. A geology professor here says it's absolutely not from fracking, that the quakes have appeared at depths significantly deeper (approx. 3 miles) than deposits where fracking takes place. But who knows really? Even though he does study the Earth, it's not like he's spokesperson for the Earth. After all, it's all just one big rock that we live on top of ...and he does work at a university that's in partnership with the petroleum industry.....
Last night i had a dream that we were having another pretty big earthquake.... it was very real... but then when i woke up and checked the USGS site~ nothing.
Maybe there's still a big one yet to come....
I wrote the following in September, which, now that we're having these earthquakes so frequently, is kinda funny in hindsight....
Evidently there was an earthquake in Red River when i was playing out there the other day. Something like 4.5 on the Richter Scale. [...]
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