Wednesday, December 01, 2004

The cold continues. The sniffly nose kind with occasional sneezings and coughs. I'm figuring lots of things out, though. Kind of. Rock Ridge Records does want to sign me. My friend Jack Norton does think it would be a good career decision to move to Minneapolis or St. Paul this winter. Ike Reilly does want me to open up for his band in February. My friends in Olympia do want to support me while I'm there with odd jobs and couches to sleep on. My grandpa does want to teach me to train horses. My parents do want to support me in any ways they can (I already knew this). I do want to grab life by the horns, wrestle it to the ground, and tie a knot in its tail. I do want to delve deeper into cowboy poetry. I do want to write a book of some sort someday. I do want to record about fifty unrecorded raps, and at least one collection of children's songs. I could go on and on. Basically, the knots that life have tied in my tail are finally loosening. I feel a small weight lifted. It's a tentative thing, though, this shedding of skin. There's no telling how close we are to the morning until we actually see the first fractal of light reflected off a pigeon's tiny pizzle.

The flyer for the Slippery Goodstuff play is done. 'Twas created by the genius, Nashville-to-Olympia artist, Giles O'Dell. If you'd wish to see it please leave your email under the "comments" section of this blog, and I'll send it to you. It will amaze you.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, this is Giles. People can see the flyer at http://www.zoonbats.com/slippery_small.jpg

Anonymous said...

Wow. It's beautiful!

Anonymous said...

that's a great poster.
It'd be great if you moved to MN for the winter! (Contingent on you playing at least a few shows for those of us in the land o'lakes who are diehard Sandman fans, so that we might bring our friends and accquaintances to your preformances and spread the rapping cowboy love.)

Chris Sand said...

I finally figured out how to post images to the journal!!! (see Dec. 3rd entry for Giles' flyer)