johnny_west raze 080925 ... razey rust oh no! unmasked! incidentally, i kind of like the fact that right now yesterday/today says: johnny_west both_lovely_and_terrifying 080925 ... jane i think it had already been done, but this looks like more of a cross-referencing effort. 080925 ... auburn Thank you for my mail box surprise. To this date, your compilations remain the only melodies I can frequent while studying. 081118 ... past sir, thank you for the cd. i've almost lent it around a few times, but always hold back, to listen to it more myself. one day i'll be less greedy with sound (and remember to respond to kind gifts with greater speed). 081119 ... past i just popped the cd into the computer here at school (second track just started as i type this), and the line "this album is for anyone who's walking around feeling like an exposed nerve, looking for a connection and feeling the urge to run from it at the same time" definitely speaks to me at this point in time. thank you. 090210 ... raze you're quite welcome. it seems like things have been strange and less than optimal for a lot of us around here lately. i wish that wasn't the case, but it is kind of comforting to know i'm not alone in my current state of emotional weirdness. what's odd to me is that i wasn't really a mess until i had finished working on the thing. but now i listen to it, and things that didn't mean much of anything at the time or were just random bits of brain-spill suddenly seem pregnant with meaning. funny how that happens. 090210 ... thorn the cd came yesterday. i love it. 090210 ... unhinged me too. mine too. i am jealous of your piano. 090210 ... raze and my piano is jealous of you! it says, "she should sing with me! why won't she sing with me?" and i explain the concept of geographical proximity, and how it tends to always work against me. but the piano doesn't want to listen. stubborn thing. but i'm glad canada post is being all efficient and speedy. at least there's one thing that's working out in my favour right now. hooray for snail mail, i say. 090210 ... jane has a very nice voice 090210 ... jane (in addition to other humbling talentry) 090210 ... raze why thank you. we've always had kind of a hate/tolerate relationship, the voice and i. but these days we seem to get along fairly well within the "grudging acceptance" realm. we struck a bargain; i don't scream anymore, and in return for that consideration my vocal cords don't remind me of what happened that one night in paraguay when i spiked everyone's coffee with vodka and ended up drinking it all myself, since no one else was in the mood for coffee. 090210 ... jane eek. ups_and_downs. don't mix em. 090210 ... jane funny, i meant uppers_and_downers but i guess the former worked better... 090210 ... auburn I cook furiously while listening to your latest contribution to my life. I want to bake you something. Although, I don't know if mailing food is safe. 090219 ... PeeT bon iver's skinny love came on the mix and so my wife goes,"is that your friend, johnny?" 111112 ... unhinged how the fuck goes it? 111112 ... raze i think some people probably thought "chicken angel woman" was inspired by "for emma, forever ago" when they first heard it...which is funny, because i never heard anything by bon iver until some time after "chicken angel woman" was finished. but there is a somewhat similar sonic thing going, on with the vocal multi-tracking and the somewhat-lo-fi acoustic instrumentation, isn't there? it goes. 'round and 'round it goes. i almost sent you the last album a while back, nic, but then it occurred to me that a bitter breakup album might not be the sort of thing you'd want to hear. better to enjoy the good things sometimes, instead of being reminded of the bad. and then there wasn't money anymore to send mail to anyone anywhere, so that took care of that... 111113 ... leif Autumn is taking a strong hold of my heart. And as the frost takes up settlement on my bone-frame, your music moves through me in its promised way. 140916 ... raze i got scared for a second when i saw my name-name show up in the "today" column, thinking someone from outside of blather who i'd written some cryptic or not-so-cryptic things about might have found me here. but no. 'tis you. i'm the glad the music continues to move in ways that aren't disruptive. also, check yon email. i'm still not sure which recent-ish albums you don't have, but i'd like to at least send along the one i'm working on now once it's finished. it should be ready in time for fall's deep curtain call. 140916 ... raze good god. "i'm the glad the", alright. suddenly typos are kicking my ass again. 140916 ... leif Sorry to incite panic! 140916 ... raze oh no, it's all good. a little panic helps to keep me on my toes. 140916 ... flux funny, i remember you. i'd not yet connected the "you"s. once sent me an email, a decade ago. 140916 ... flux apparently "a decade ago" was "a year ago". once again demonstrating that my memory doesn't acknowledge time.. 140916 ... raze time is a slippery thing sometimes best unacknowledged, someone_somewhere_somewhen_sang. maybe it was me, in a grocery store. or maybe it was someone wiser than me, in a dream. 140917 what's it to you? who go blather from