In the mood for good Canadian Music?

Here is a really nice song by the Canadian band The Wilderness of Manitoba. I dig this song. Really really pretty.

Auditions, Doggy, Robots

July 14, 2009
Holding auditions for our new show SONIC TALES today all day. We are adding a character to the show. Auditioning is a trip. I know how it feels on the auditionees side. Stressful. But when you sit on the other side, you get an entirely different perspective. I appreciate people’s struggle. Their courage. Its actually really inspiring. Seeing people putting themselves out there. Just to show up is a huge act. How easy it would be to just call in and cancel. Or just plain not show up. In our audition we are playing with them. Jumping in and improvising. It’s fun and it challenges us as well.
My dog is sitting in her huge bed. She looks like a pad of butter on a piece of white toast.
I was looking at Japanese robots online this morning. It is so amazing.

The Gulls Playing King of the Mountain

Im Wondering about blogging… What makes it interesting… Is it that it refers to many other interesting things? Is it honesty of thought? Is it the resources that it gathers? Stories? Personality? Im wondering about it, because it seems like a popular tool. But it could so easily be uninteresting. Perhaps it is all about just doing and and finding the rhythm as you go.

Developments for myself as an artist… I am really trying to find something new in myself. Am I trying hard enough? When I look at the objects that I surround myself with, I don’t see so many new things. A lot of relics from the distant past. I used to collect matchbooks. I used to collect bottle caps. Sugar cubes. I just thought they were beautiful. Now I think about whether or not I have space for such things. Maybe I should start those things again. Collect them until they fill a given box, and then give them away as a set on Craigslist. Hmm… that’s a fun idea. I also havn’t been taking many pictures lately. I should start that again. Ok, Ill start attaching photos to my journals. And I can collect sounds as well. Perhaps that would be a good start. Take the MP3 recorder around with me and collect sounds all the time. Then I’d probably find way too many sounds and then I could find some amazing things mixed in there.

I am determined to speak Japanese fluently!!! I am thinking that the first step would be just getting through the text book I have. I have to finish the “This is your brain on music” book, the “Testing Computer Software Book” and then the Japanese text book is next. I want to awaken my mind! It feels sluggish lately. I’m trying to figure out if it is a lack of sleep? Vitamins? Stress?? I don’t know. But I keep forgetting names and titles especially. My habit has been to learn up to a certain point, get excited, then get busy, then stop studying, then get distracted from it, then lose 40% of it, then give up for a while. This has repeated for SOOOO long. Drives me crazy. I’m going to change this! Haruko has been sharing this book with me by Mogi Kenjiro, a Japanese brain scientist/writer. He said that the best way to learn is by finding a way to study that makes your brain excited. I found that If I make cartoons of what I’m learning, I remember and understand stuff way better. I think that’s the way I should approach my new learning.

There is a funny game that the seagulls play outside of my window. There are a few extremely tall telephone poles down the hill from us. One seagull will stand on the top and look around at the scenery (or who knows what they are looking at). Every once in a while, another seagull will fly over and try to land on the same pole. Sometimes the gull will fly away and let the other take his perch. Other times he will stand his ground and the invader flies away. This goes on and on and on. It s so fun to watch.