Minutes

The worst night of insomnia in a while. I tried to play my way back to bed. I wrote this to my writer's group: The man woke up at 3am, dull heat coursing through his veins but refusing to escape through his porous skin holes. He sat up in bed, spine straightening in time to his heartbeat. This is a new kind of pulse, bigger than he felt three years ago, when he was last adrift like this. That...

Am I keeping the pulse on this guy? I hear, play, let my thumb take over with the pulses, and things drift a little. In the moment it feels tight and hypnotic. Link to the post.

Reposted from July 17, 2025: I'm thinking alot this week of things that come naturally to my muscle memory. Maybe these next few weeks will turn into an inventory of sorts. Studies I've written, little bits I've shedded over and over, they're all in there (looking at my hands) and haven't come out so clearly until I started this minutes practice. This 'feel' is somethin...

Reposted from July 16, 2025: Thinking about Oud and playing this line posted a few days ago, for new Medicine Hat tune Acha. Fun to play. Link to the post.

Reposted from July 15, 2025: Noodles with the Ebow on new Medicine Hat tune Acha. Link to the post.

Reposted from July 14, 2025: Happy birthday to my sweet queen. Link to the post.

C'mon C'mon in the studio at Eric Eagle's, a marathon day recording... 11 songs I think. No audio of this yet but coming soon. Link to the post.

C'mon C'mon finally playing again for people. Link to the post.

Jacqui and Wyatt rockin it at the Bilstad's backyard summer concert. Link to the post.

Reposted from July 10, 2025: 1 minute of the Dawn Chorus this morning in Olalla. Link to the post.

Finally playing Theme again. I can't believe how much I'd forgotten about this tune - took me a day at least to get it back into my corpus. Link to the post.

Sean's tune Dirty Little Secrets - everyone thought this was super-proggy, and the proginess was solely my doing. Guilty. Here's me being a control freak at the top. Link to the post.

Office Song - 1st time in 15 years or so. Such a good one. Link to the post.

Starting the C'mon C'mon reunion practices. Just feeling so grateful for these friends. Link to the post.

For the first two weeks of July, we're getting my beloved band C'mon C'mon back together, prompted by brother Robert making the trek out west from Ashville. Most of the journal centers around that this month, but in the background is another project - I'm working through an arrangement of Leo Kottke's beautiful piece... let's call it like this youtube poster did: (Formerly)...

Fireworks. Our new Olalla neighbor spends > $10,000 a year to fire a 1/2 hour display just downhill from us. Link to the post.

Civil disobedience in Pioneer Square - a demonstration against Hilton. Challenging beats made it very attention-getting. Link to the post.

Reposted from July 2, 2024: As we're moving houses and I'm uprooted from my studio space etc, I'm listening to recordings made around my last two Chapel shows, working out tracks for a record. I'll be dropping the needle on these until later in July. Link to the post.

Reposted from July 1, 2024: As we're moving houses and I'm uprooted from my studio space etc, I'm listening to recordings made around my last two Chapel shows, working out tracks for a record. I'll be dropping the needle on these until later in July. Link to the post.

Reposted from June 30, 2024: As we're moving houses and I'm uprooted from my studio space etc, I'm listening to recordings made around my last two Chapel shows, working out tracks for a record. I'll be dropping the needle on these until later in July. Link to the post.

Reposted from June 29, 2024: As we're moving houses and I'm uprooted from my studio space etc, I'm listening to recordings made around my last two Chapel shows, working out tracks for a record. I'll be dropping the needle on these until later in July. Link to the post.

Reposted from June 28, 2024: Last night's highlights - an explosion nearby, and some morning coyotes. Link to the post.

Leesa was listening to this while we were having morning coffee and it scared the shit out of me. Brave woman! What would I have sounded like if a Grizzly Bear was chasing my dog and I. Link to the post.

Reposted from June 26, 2024: As we're moving houses and I'm uprooted from my studio space etc, I'm listening to recordings made around my last two Chapel shows, working out tracks for a record. I'll be dropping the needle on these until later in July. Link to the post.

Reposted from June 25, 2024: As we're moving houses and I'm uprooted from my studio space etc, I'm listening to recordings made around my last two Chapel shows, working out tracks for a record. I'll be dropping the needle on these until later in July. Link to the post.