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Flying Back To Reality

January 04, 2010

(Image courtesy of the Joseph X. Burke Michigander Archives.)Before I get into it, check out the author's name on that book. "Gary Barfknecht." Now that is a name. Got a good sound to it.- - - -Flying back to Portland today. Down to Chicago, then all the way out to Portland. I'm all juiced up on the iPhone, with a couple documentaries loaded up.Another great visit home. Not too much to mention other than a handful of very relaxed days around the house, hanging out with Mom and Dad. Needed it after that fall design season.I usually work while I'm back here. Not too much this time. Surfed the web a little, read some stuff, slept in, collected some inspiration for upcoming projects, and tinkered on a couple open projects. Off the radar, pretty much.When I get back, I'm going to go ape-shit and tackle all the open projects with a ferocity seldom seen in Southeast Portland. Watch out.- - - -DAYWRECKER WARNING: The Vintage Ad Browser. Dangerous stuff. I've been in and out of the 1960s and 1970s stuff all morning. (Jeremy Firth almost took down his whole January with that one.)- - - -THE KIND OF STUFF THAT KEEPS ME GOING: Uncle Tupelo's final album Anodyne on vinyl. Finally. This one never was pressed back in the day, and it's been a whole in my collection since I started hoarding records a couple years back. That hole is filled. Weird.- - - -OVER IN EUROPE, A COUPLE MONTHS BACK: Willy and Dan from Richmond Fontaine doing "The Boyfriends" in the mid-day Vienna sunshine. Pretty cool stuff.- - - -SERIOUSLY, IN THE LAST 10 SECONDS OF 2009: A+L. I can still see that flash when I close my eyes, some days later. Up close and hirsute.- - - -ON THE PLAYER:01. Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne02. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Year of the Horse03. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday

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