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She almost died of some illness that’s not been heard of affecting humans over in Aotearoa for like 20 years, erysipeloid…. fronted crazy crowds with her axe despite (or maybe cause of, who knows) aspergers syndrome, today plays as many as ten instruments and you can read more of that biographical stuff on wikipedia for better or worse… but here’s the thing that I actually wanted to get off my chest:

It was when I first heard her riffs on Two Lane Blacktops 7″/EP when I fell in love with overseas alt rock… hell, let’s say rokinrol after all! Not to forget that back then I found my all time favorite 1971 drag racing movie (though this description doesn’t really do justice to the film). That enough? Then check out Pip Browns upcoming solo effort and let it be the thing that drags you out of a grey winter day:

››› Ladyhawke ‹‹‹

In terms of hot and sunny-dry days this summer was said to be way short over here. But I keep it in mind as a long and sometimes ecstatic phase with a rare abundance of special gigs and fests under the open sky! The above is my housemates very own contribution to the particle filled nightly summer air.

Trying to do too much stuff at once at a way too high beat can sometimes kick you back more than it might bring you forward. So I started lookin’ at this matter in a new, fresh way. Instead of seeing it as some bothersome inability to finish off rather cool works or projects in the realms of visual creation, right now I now see it as the almost simple wrong choice of speed. Maybe even a misled sense of setting priorities: Not really sticking to one of them things but rather lose the temper or patience and most importantly the focus for each one of ‘em.

The law of momentum doesn’t only reflect in arts and constructive projects.. it rather applies to the whole time we live, love and breathe! Take a simple thing like doing (personal, not industry or money driven) sports and if you’ve ever been wondering why it takes you so damn long to get anywhere – why not concentrate on one thing, one discipline at a time? Of course to live it up all at once can give ya a good and positively exhausted feeling at the end of the week. I tried that, taking the cruiser deck to work in the mornings, dipping feet into water over lunchtime, then pop in at the skatebowl or try to ascend some decent climbing wall and finally firing up the guitar amp on the weekends for some hours of loud fun ~ alongside the every day digital work load.. all good and fine, but in retrospect things seem to take the wind out of each others sails. At the end of the month each activity was still craving for some little piece of overtime – which you really need to get better, faster, higher or just more comfortable – but I simply wasn’t able to give that back to it ’cause all the other cool stuff’s waiting to be done.

My mind was clutchin’ at a quick call to some phantasmal crazy world industry leaders to ask just one favor, let’s invent a timeslowing machine willya?!! – but the better, the real solution is easier to find in your very head: Find my own speed!

B-side: Just recently a good friend sketched me her view about people having their diverse ways of approaching this talked about momentum. It’s not only about ideas and creative brews.. but to an even greater degree simple life situations like e.g. the ir/regularity and rhythm between sleep and work, relaxation and drive. In an ideal coexistence every single person should be able to live through the day according to their own notional and bodily rhythms, ensuring good health while still functioning together as a unity of friends, aficionados or workers. “two people can have such different rhythms of living through the day and not even realize it while coacting almost 24 hours a day”…it quite struck me that I never thought of it that way. Cause there’ve been quite a bunch of good people around me that seem to be able to do a thousand things at once. And in the end, they even seem to be getting there. At long last this just backs up that you have to find your own speed, maybe a bigger and more inconvenient quest than one might think it is. So once you got it, stick to it. Just then you’re able to merge with other speedos and create cool things without bumping each others dampers, wasting a lot of time and energy to get back to that good feeling of breathing the art of momentum.

Just recently I re-listened to an improvised tune of denis jones and remembered a quite special, beautifully melancholic but trippy night at tankstell. I think he doesn’t have any new recordings out yet, still, make sure to check if you get a chance to see him live buskin’ it with hands, feet, wood and some electronics.. just the man himself. good stuff!

Strange coincidence.. the above nite is as long ago as when the last snow fell over here, while denis jones will be playing under the sun just one week from now at hohen raetien, cheers!

Anyone who’s into riffs and hasn’t heard Tia Carrera’s newest fully improvised live taped…ehm…”thing”, should really give it a listen – it’s made to be sucked in a zillion times!

Bold color on concrete concaves, who doesn’t like that?! And even if you consider it more as a form of vandalism than art, you simply cannot deny the beauty of a devotedly patchworked bowl painting assembled by local skateboarders, artists and some good-for-nothings over the years.

But hey, saint city skatepark has now been around for more than three years and apart from that small aesthetiker tag on the vert wall, nobody dared to taint the smooth surface… until one day.. some dumb-ass name taggers with no hunch for curves at all didn’t have nuthin better to do than spray their own crap abbrevs all over the place. well, thanks. at least there’s an invitation on one of the walls now “to all skateboarders, go paint all over this place!”.
That said, at least some fellas set themselves to start drawing with real paint and during the sunlit day, at least trying to do something real. now it’s out.. everyone visiting the skatepark at st.gallen should have a tube of krink squeeze marker on him- or herself and paint the shit out of these shiftless no-hopers :]

Locomoted reel 2 – Filmed on 16.12.2010 in Taiwan. Soundtrack (intro) by local band “Handsome Boys” ( ~Village Alcoholics ;) Thanks to Taitung Surf Shop, East Taiwan Tropical Surf and all surfers ( taiwanese & japanese & foreigners & pro Akeo! Check out his blog: http://ameblo.jp/kakousaikou )

Taiwan westcoast travelling, healing, surfing. This is the beginning. soundtrack: “FEBRUUM” by Alexander Boyes
url: http://opsound.org/artist/alexanderboyes0/

Hey! Guess what, lowsand is back online.. it took aaages, now here it is, a new clean and flexible site/blog with a little built-in jQuery magic, flickr and vimeo. all wrapped up in a classic design by mihhaller.com

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