Ink Mathematics

Hi,

It’s so strange, just over a week ago we had some heavy-duty wet snow laying all over the trees and now the sun is bright and my brow is consistently soaked. Montana is all over the place. It’s amazing how much the weather affects my mood. I didn’t really realize this until a couple years ago, but now, man, I feel like a king on a sunny day and a serf on a dreary. Our precipitation / snow-pack levels are higher than average this year in montana, so hopefully we will forgo hell on earth this summer and remain smoke-free in August. Hit the hills a few times over the last week or so, but mostly I’ve been bombing around like a monster on my new bike. It took me a second to find the right bike to fit my modern needs, a comfortable commuter with balls, but I found exactly what I wanted and on sale. A couple days a week I have work at 4 in the morning and I have taken a vow that I will not break down and drive on those days, but will stay true and heft myself onto my bicycle. I live up in the mountains, so on these early morning days i start off with a lengthy dark downhill that gets my heart going. It’s real country dark at 4 in the morning, and my petzl headlight barely makes a dent in the darkness as I ride. A couple mornings ago, when coming around a corner silently, I came across a fox and a cat standing there together. They both froze for an instant as my headlight hit them and then I was gone around the next corner. What was going on? Was there to be a rumble? Do foxes hunt cats? Perhaps love was in the air?

Bye,

Collin

From radio show last week Artist / Album / Song / Pump it!

Paul McCartney / McCartney / Kreen - Akrore

The Charlatans / The Amazing Charlatans / Alabama Bound

Simon and Garfunkel / Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme /A Poem on the Underground Wall

The Rolling Stones /Between the Buttons / She smiled sweetly

Smog / Strayed EP / Strayed

Andre Ethier / Andre Ethier Featuring Pickles and Price / She will never be your girl

Harry Nilsson /Nilsson Schmilsson / Jump into the fire

Hi-

I have been neglecting you and the spring weather is to blame. I know you’ve been hungry for a new post for quite awhile and I am sorry to have starved you, but now I am going to redeem myself, and I am going to overfeed you while I’m at it. So, let’s see, I’ve got this new hot 60’s psyche post all queued up (just in time for summer) and I’ve got a few others cooking in the back of my brain, so hopefully the nice weather doesn’t sway me away from my internet duties.

There is a cat living in my house now and I call her, “Picklesworth”, and my other roommate calls her, “Bigglesworth”, but her real name is “Zoey”. She is a good cat, stays to herself mostly, but will take time out of her day to wander over and say hello. In a couple months I will be the only one living in this house and it’ll be good to have Picklesworth hanging around.

I’ve been watching the american version of “the office” a lot these days. I’m watching all the seasons out of order, but it doesn’t seem to make any difference, I catch it all. I watched all of the british version of the show a year or so ago and I loved it, but when I tried the american version I found myself entirely unfulfilled, but now it seems to be clicking and I can’t get enough.

Tonight I am going to watch The Maltese Falcon. Humphrey Bogart is the best, I really can’t get enough of him. I watched, “the treasure of the sierra madre” the other day for the second time and was totally blown away yet again. Watch this trailer and tremble.

Bye for now, there will be more, promise, collin.

Artist / song/ album

Nirvana (U.K) / Wings of Love / The Story of Simopath

We Five / You Were on my Mind / You Were on my Mind

The 13th Floor Elevators / Splash 1 / The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators

Pink Floyd / The Gnome / Piper at The Gates of Dawn

Question Mark and The Mysterians /96 Tears (alternate) / More Action

The Who / Leaving Here (alternate) / My Generation

The Mojo Men / She’s My Baby / Why Ain’t Supposed to Be

Tim Buckley / She Is / Tim Buckley

The Fugs / Carpe Diem / The Fugs Second Album

Hi,

Yesterday while I was riding my bike up Pattee Canyon here in Missoula I happened to glance over to the shoulder of the road and saw the words, “Mom Only” showing on an envelope that was half-buried in gravel. I don’t usually stop riding my bike to check out garbage, but for some reason I did this time and was surprised to find the above note within the envelope. Finding the note is all the more strange considering that I found it near where I live, in Pattee Canyon, and there is a good chance this girl is living, or lived, in the forest somewhere near me. There is a magazine which collects found notes, pictures etc.. called, “Found”(www.foundmagazine.com), and I’m thinking about sending this one in.

I’ve been planning on posting this song by Can for quite awhile, but for some reason it has taken me longer to do so than I originally intended. This particular song, Yoodooright, is a favorite of a friend of mine and she cranked it up for me one day and knew I’d dig it. From Wikipedia:

Yoo Doo Right” is a song on Can’s 1969 debut album, Monster Movie, which had been edited down from a six-hour improvisation to a mere twenty minutes. The song features a pounding, tribal-influenced rhythm section throughout, along with singer Malcolm Mooney repeatedly reading excepts from a love letter in an almost mantra-like manner. During the song he develops a frog in his throat.

bye,

Collin