It Was 28 Years Ago Today
…a weird little soul known as me came bustin’ out onto the scene, and the world never was quite the same.
In other news:
I spent the last week on planet earth (mostly), hanging out, ‘chilling’ and other stuff with my super cool cousin-in-law who I’d never met before. We’re like long lost twins! It’s madness. We saw a surprisingly good local band, threw a cupcake party, saw some cool movies, wandered some cool wilderness, took some awesome photos (gradually making their way to my flickr page), bla bla, etc., fun times.
Also…
I must give much thanks to the kind, lovely souls who prayed for me that I might be given that job I was hoping for. It was indeed given unto me, and so it is that I now officially work for the Lord. More accurately, and also more adorably, I now work for three very cute and feisty old Catholic ladies. I will be paid by the hour to blow their minds with my amazing technological wonder-skills. I will also be paid to edit the hell out of their churchy publications, research churchy stuff, and possibly make them a new churchy website.
And what better day to start than on my f’in birthday? Actually I don’t mind. I’m a nerd and not big on birthdays. So, with that..
How To Play ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’ by Smashing Pumpkins
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CHORDS & LYRICS * MP3 * Album: Rarities and B-Sides
(Chords: Em Em7 Dsus2 C G6)
GUITAR DEMO/COVER ON YOUTUBE (by me)
Interspecies Love: Lion Reunites With Humans
If this doesn’t warm your heart, it’s possible you have no soul. You might want to get that checked out.
“This lion was reared by the guys in the vid,he was then released into the wild in africa but a year later the guys returned to see if he was doing OK. Check out the look on the lions face as he realises-”thats not food its my MATES!!” Whats mad is the wild lions hes friends with never met the humans but they are totally passive towards them.” LINK TO VIDEO.
(I tried embedding the video in the post and it broke my website. Please follow the link though. This is not something you see everyday.)
Post-Internet-Fast, Pre-Weekend Update
I has a portfolio. I will be adding more to it soon. So far, everything in it is stuff I did between 1997 - 2006. A long span for such a small amount of work, I know. A good portion of work from my more prolific art school years, I never photographed, and then gave away in a fit of non-attachment. Thus most of what’s here is smaller scale stuff I’d scanned at some point or kept stashed somewhere and forgot about. In other words, weird little collages, sketchbook drawings, digital design stuff and film stills from an unfinished stop-motion film project (which I do intend to revive and make something out of one day. Maybe music videos?).
Moving on. Internet fasting rules! I got so much done this week. I wrote some songs (rough sketches of songs anyway), made notable improvement in my drummin’ skillz, nailed several job interviews, applied to a bunch of art/design contract jobs (because while I may have nailed those interviews, they did not terribly impress me… much as it is my dream to become a full-time, underpaid secretary)… What else… made the art/design portfolio, read a great book called The 4-hour Work-week, recorded some new youtubes, plotted and schemed a cool idea with Joe to pool our complimentary mad skillz and become a freelance designer/programmer team, in hopes of freeing ourselves (sooner rather than later) from the evil clutches of the man. Eventually the plan is to get to where we can travel, wherever and whenever we want, working remotely (and minimally) from anywhere. Word… I’m learning Javascript this week.
Generally, the thought-vaccuum left when I stopped reading the internet lead me to do so much more creative thinking, creative creating, and tuning into a deeper well of energy, cool ideas, realizations and numinosities. It also left me with a daunting pile-up of emails, myspaces and youtube messages to catch up on, but it was worth it. (Though, that said, expect little more than a one-or-two-liner if you’re awaiting a reply from me. It’s nothing personal, I’m just trying to keep up my Brooke-mentum with minimizing internet time. Life’s too short, y’know?).
Oh, and I discovered one of the cooler benefits of diligently watering your lawn every night. Lush green grass attracts wild beasts!
How To Play ‘Stray Cat Strut’ by the Stray Cats
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TAB * LYRICS * MP3 * Album: Stray Cats
(Chords: Cm Bb G#7 G7 + G# Cm)
A NUMINOUS COVER ON YOUTUBE (by me)
(UPDATE: here’s that cover on MP3)
I call this a numinous cover for what happens at the end. What is that black thing bobbing in and out of the shot? Why hasn’t that ever happened before and now it happens while I’m singing *this* song? I guess it’s ‘just’ one of those numinous things you can’t explain - but can’t quite ignore either. At least, I can’t. (Why would I want to)?
(numinous \NOO-min-us; NYOO-\, adjective: 1. Of or pertaining to a numen; supernatural…).
And hey look, numinicity within the numinosity. I would expect nothing other from the Tim. (I was merely looking for his bit about “understanding the numinous”, but will you look at how he begins the post)…
“This Isn’t Really About Cats
“A cat meowed outside my window this morning. Twice loudly. It must have known I was in here…”
Numilicious! But here’s the part I was looking for…
“Understanding” The Numinous
“Jung in his work talks a fair bit about something called the “numinous“, which I think is a beautiful word. From my own experiences, I would describe things that are numinous simply as things that are so weird you simply have to notice them. Usually you don’t know why they are weird exactly, and may jot them down or mentally save them for later to tell a friend about. And then they will be like, “so what?” … Synchronicities of course fall distinctly under the category of numinous…”
For the “sane” among you who are just here to learn the damned song, fine. Here:
AN ACTUAL GOOD DEMO ON YOUTUBE, WITH SOLOS & ADORABLE BACKUP BAND (by strat2caster)