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Hey all,

If anyone's reading this or anything else. I just found a pretty good contemporary poet, Kevin Young.

He's got a "bluesy" style that manipulates the use of off beat and off-spa(tial)ce endlines. I would explain my take (I stress that last bit) on his style, but I have to go to bed.

Anywho, here is a one poem from his work "To Repel Ghosts: the remix" a collection of poems that emulates the works and life of late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (aka SAMO(c)).

ANYBODY SPEAKING WORDS

Nothing can breathe
you back. Not
the long work

of drink, cocktails
at six, beer,
whatever, whisky,

Old Granddad, Crazy-
horse. SPORTS. The dull
sweet white whine taste

of morning. Nor
the eastward walk
past St Mark's

& Auden's marked
house, past
the park, skip

rope of streets no longer
numbers, into the Nix
the Nada--to cop

the coine-sized, -colored
bags. Squats. The poor tarred
streets, corners piled

with boys & beggars.
Smoke smoke. OPERA.
Your faraway father

in his suit
coat of silence. Your mouth
mock-moving on

its own, NOTHING
TO GAIN HERE. Gone,
nothing can stir--

congrats chris! man i can't believe you waited to write that till the middle of your post...I must admit though sarah ruined the whole thing for me since i checked my email first and read her comment before i read your post...doh...anyways congratulations to you and laura, I really think you will be great parents.

The One, Two, Three

Hey everyone. I saw our new blogger--Hey Robert--and I thought I'd post a picture of me and my wife Laura.

Robert, I think I remember you from Dr. Salting's Sociolinguistic's course, where you had a project that dealt with the linguistics of humor. I believe I also went to two, yes two, English Club meetings and you were there. The End.

So yeah, it seems that you are in kind of the same bind that I am in up here in Oregon. I have been searching for a career-related job to no avail. I guess I am not entirely sure about your status, but I hope things are going well in a foreign land.

A few things in my life:

1) I am currently producing a literary journal that will be a fundraising source for a dear friend's non-profit, Graceworks International, that I have already found a place to publish for free!!! I am pumped. I hope to splurge more details later...

2) I am in a band. I am the lead guitar. I like to play.

3) Laura's pregnant. or wait, I think it's supposed to go.....ahem, LAURA'S PREGNANT!!!! It's pretty crazy, unplanned, and well, crazy. He/she is due late Nov/Early Dec, and is currently growing arms and legs and now is the size of a grain of rice. Oh yes, our child has a heart, and it is the size of a poppy seed--see as I said, crazy!

So how's that 1, 2, 3?

Anyways, The Shins. Are they not from the NW? They are on the radio quite a bit up here, and I worked with someone at Powell's Books who loved them.

I am hooked on LoveDrug, Bob Marley (as per usual), and I am currently re-reading the book of Isaiah.

Good to hear from everyone.

Most excellent to see a new face on the blog (literally)! robert you are more than welcome here any time, you bring a good kind of new energy to the blog. The four of us have become rather like a quartet of old farts who've known each other forever, we all know where each other are at, (on the porch) what we're each doing (chewing snuff and swearing at little kids) and what we all like to do for fun (see previous italics). But really, it sounds like you have a nice set up in B-town, i was fortunate enough to travel spain for a bit but never made it to barcelona, its a beautiful place, i don't know why but even in the semi-arid desert between madrid and the coast i had the feeling that i could drop a seed and watch it grow. maybe all that would grow would be a story, i don't know. either way, I could see it being an excellent place to write.

I am in colorado now just finishing up the ski season here and getting ready to strap on my boots and dig some holes. I'll be running a landscaping crew here in steamboat this summer. I get to fly fish and camp, as well as drive to wyoming and get fireworks... but i've found little time to write. thats a lie i guess, I find time laying around my house like soiled underwear, i ignore it as long as i can until i round it up and stuff it in my hamper. anyways, good to have you here robert and i hope you stick around.

Sarah, i did not get your postcard yet. I don't receive enough mail to warrant even a weekly trip to the P.O. so instead i just wait until someone asks if i've received an item they've sent...

and robert, we did meet at school, i think i even had a class with you once, hmm, wards world lit maybe? anyways hope chris and kris are doing well
talk to you all soon.

Perhaps if it could be remembered in another way, maybe the stories would come out cleaner. There was a time when light was all around you, when pages would swirl and twist in the wind, only to come to rest in a frustrating order. You were young when it happened. The fleeting remembrance of your first dream left you shaking in the dark. Nothing made sense, but nothing was out of the question. You could still be fascinated by questions that had answers, and the answers left you dazzled by what they did not reveal. Too young to laugh at the impossibilities of life, but young enough to remember when they were never there at all. You saw your first zebra when you were three, clumsily thumbing through a tattered zoobook; saw then your first glimpse of black on white. Since then, have you ever seen anything else?

Beer

Hey Erik,

By no means am I inferring anything, when I specifically ask you if you have ever drank "Shiner Bock" beer, based out of Texas?

A buddy of mine here, who is from that area, introduced it to me. It's damn good.

Also, I am jealous of steps 1-4. You suck, and you should ......, well I'll stop there. I just got a glimpse of Mt. Hood today (the clouds were gone for once!), and Hood was completely white. Ugg.

Okay. More schedules, Sarah? Kris?

my usual day:

depends if I drank the night before...

if not then:

Wake up around 9 am
Catch the bus up to the mountain and go snowboarding until about 1
Come down get changed and a bite to eat
start work at 1:30 or so
work until 9 30
go home,
take a bath,
read a book,
go to bed...

If i partied the night before, then omit everything before Step 4. :)

erik

Curious

Hello all,

I am curious. What is a typical day for each of you? If there is no patter, what happened yesterday?

Here is mine:

Wake Up (7-8am)

Get ready for work, etc.

Drive to Salem for work (9-10am)

List things on ebay (10am-7pm)

Drive home (7pm-8pm)

Read, play guitar, chat, write, etc. (8pm-1am)

Repeat

I should note, those are my five work day experiences. My days off can be drastically different, and do not require 100miles of travel either.....

Peace.

In the pursuit...

Wow.

I feel quite boring, after I read everyone elses posts.

Although, I am not envious, because, I suppose that I have my own crazy path, including bills, eBay, loving my dear wife (who now blogs), the pursuit of wisdom, the pursuit of music (I am now in a band), and the everlasting pursuit of God (which encompasses everything in the former).

I wish I could elaborate further, but I am at work describing crappy antique silver bells (supposedly collectible).

Good hearing from everyone.

Peace.

hey everybody,

i'm back after a long sabatical (sp?). Finally got internet access here. Everything is good here, i'm chilling here in steamboat, snowboarding a bunch, sadly i'm still only working on my 360's. Thinking about going to the x games in aspen this weekend, its only like 2.5 hours away, and if i can get work off i'll be checking them out.
Sarah, my phone number is 701-367-5628 and no I've never been able to solve those damned rubix cubes. (I did take all the stickers off one and move them around to make it look like i did). hmm your capstone project....I remember it was a research project, and why do i get a sense that Feminism was involved? hmm other than that I'm sorry to say i can't remember the specifics. For all the work we did on those damn things, we didn't really go over them much as a group...
Kris, what is/was yours on?

Later
erik