'Impatient Bill of Nights'

The new Aiko Planetarium LP! My band, solo-project, etc. This one has been a long time coming. Get it at the Japanese Alice blog, here.

sequels

Christina Carter's 'Texas Blues Working'

I have been listening to this album all day,
walking in the rain, at school, in a library
writing, on the bus, back in the rain, home
by a fire. It's incredible. I've had it for a while
but it finally hit me today. It's like this space,
but also a feeling.

Christina, you are brilliant.
(See also her site many breaths)

This album was released on cassette and is
unfortunately sold out. I was turned on to it
by Jonathan Mayhew (aka bollo).

November Mixromix

(cover photo courtesy James Greer!)

mixromix two

01. stove - eric's trip
02. hurricane - thinking feller's union local 282
03. these days - times new viking
04. heaven's stranger - eat skull
05. catholicked - dum dum girls
06. dickshaker's union - surf city
07. your will - gun outfit
08. getting out of bed - hospitals
09. i'm just a person in this roomy verse - broadcast
10. leavin' here - ramleh
11. false jesii part 2 - pissed jeans
12. the crawl - mayyors
13. good clues - gary war
14. the trees grew emotions and died - cold cave
15. soft return - labradford
16. sunlit - woods
17. water on the boater's back - tobin sprout
18. i.s.w.y. (lavender edition) - ai aso

(also, if you missed it... mixromix one)

Tonight (etc)

(picture by Theodore Kittelsen)

Today I wrote a cover letter and submitted my new picture book to a children's book publisher. In a few months I will know what they thought. This is my third picture book, that I've submitted, the first two had enough rejections that I decided to rework them.

On another note I had two poems rejected, er, sent back, tonight. Which was a bummer. But, they were my first poetry submissions in ages and so I don't feel too bad, well I do but I know I shouldn't. I have a few other poetry submissions I'm prepping, so hopefully, something something.

The essay I said I had finished I had until I came across some old diaries from the time period the essay focuses on and realized I wanted to do more with it. So it looms...

The second and third Aiko Planetarium LPs are in progress, with the second being basically done, it just needs a few little touches... The third is mostly demos at this point. The second in something I'd started years ago, the third is something I started at the end of this past spring.

Aside from that someone offered to make me a Szechuan dish, which is great and sweet of them. Lest I let the fruit rot on the vine, as my friend put it.

My body image issues are so out of whack and I feel very horrible in that arena... Luckily a good friend of mine who is beautiful and as it turns out has experience in this mire has lent an ear and friendly advice.

Also, I'm sure that this path I have found as a writer is more difficult and strange than I had ever imagined.......

That said I went on and did three personalized promos for Japanese Alice releases (my itty-bity virtual label which has released the great Pacific Blush debut and will soon release the even more amazing follow-up!)... hopefully they'll see what I see if not more........

"tiger mountain" calling...

October mixromix

mixromix one

1. cold cell - coil
2. chinese song - nancy sit
3. leo, are you still jumping out of windows
---in expensive clothes? - my little airport
4. why do i feel - the shaggs
5. 好き好き大好き　- jun togawa
6. what grows - lotus plaza
7. straight to heaven - papaya paranoia
8. the bloodbells chime - current 93
9. white nights - psychic tv
10. lotus rain (live) - syzygys
11. maternity blue - ni-hao!
12. love and anger - kate bush
13. united - throbbing gristle
14. more than this - electrelane
15. spirit lake - coco rosie
16. あいがあふれる - nikaido kazumi

"If you want to count me, count me out"

''Oh, the snot has caked against my pants,
--it has turned into crystal…''

This album put me in a special place tonight

Map Ref 41°N 93°W