Pods + Songs – Dave Olson's Creative Life Archive

A 55th-birthday audio diary from Kurohime, Nagano — ukulele in hand, heart on sleeve. Reflections on breakages and rebuilds, gratitude for friends who’ve stuck around, and apologies where due. Dreams of parallel lives, flashes of déjà vu, and notes of creative persistence through the years. Originally released as a photo-filled slideshow from the past year

Reading poems from Muriel’s Journey and beyond—small box of cereal, alchemist confer with hypnotists, Osaka Afternoon—free-verse reflections from the caboose on poetry, community, and finding home in Japan.

Remember when we all wore disguises? and made sourdough starters, send letters, did needlepoint, crafted casseroles, laid out charcuterie plates, […]

Riffing about earthquake scars, zen temples, sea swims, scrapbooks, aliens, dinosaurs & 7″ records while rain falls in an engawa […]

Chauffeuring admirals to revitalizing mountain villages with drum circles, counter-culture festivals with hemp history and poetic vibes — hitchhiking and […]

Poems on hotel letterhead, resplendent with stamps – crafted in mountains, on tracks and seas, while finding ways to be […]

Analog loops, guitars, feedback and poetry about impossible alleys, 8 seat bars, villages with book shops, woolen scarves, Fado, Kathmandu […]

A song for a brilliant fella who’s flame burned out too fast (21 y/o) decades ago now but a conversation […]

A Hungarian habit of recollection from creative endeavors to life admin, communiques and campsites, flowing in freeform from Kura barn […]

Andrew McLuhan, noted poet, scholar, punk rock guitar player, projectionist, hockey dad, and keeper of the scriptorium, {and The McLuhan […]