“There is no textbook for the cutting edge of discovery & knowledge. We are becoming it with every purposeful breath. The fruit of our humbly attained wisdom, the poetry of our greatest song, is ripening yet on the tree of human reaching.” -My Ching-Paul Lawrence Johnson
I stood on the land and looked at the ocean when something inside said, “You better get going.” I said, “I’m not ready, I don’t have a ride,” and then an innertube surfed up on the tide. I said, “How can it be this is all there is for me?!”then something inside said to “Go …
Remember when we were at band camp,…And I starved myself, and ran.Knelt?! I’m not saying anything, not claiming anything… But I’ve got to show you this… Joseph’s gonna be ok!!! If ever, one were to believe, experience faith, on this front…There was some magic associated with specific proximity and herd force.
El Condor Pasa The Condor Passes from “Zarzuela El Condor Pasa” by Composer Daniel Alomia Robles. Written in 1913, according to Andean Folk Music from Peru… Performed by… Simon & Garfunkel Of course… Pass it on, like a baton, to EPB.
After 49 hours of no food, only tea & water, … I was a hot mess. So… I did what seemed ridiculous… I suited up for a two mile run. I grasped 3 iron railroad spikes in each hand and set out… The struggle was terrible, I couldn’t run anymore…so I walked. At one point …
The Dawn Ever creeping Awakened me with fright. The light emerging… Increased my sight. In the birth of my thoughts I examine my plight. And set my sails to navigate a new day.
I had a funny thought that I was looking to share with someone and the residents of East Portland were the first people that came to mind. Helter skelter, and Wabi Sabi oscillate in an edgy mitosis. Just listening to and watching a video of The Beatles writing said song. Seams they are pretty high …
Here is one of my first woodblock carving prints. Wanted it to have “color lift”! Hope it brightens you up! One of my dearest friends, Elizabeth Lyssa Magnuson, described it in this way: “Beautiful work! I like the way that it starts in blue calming turning its way to greens and blues with the beginnings …
Temptation gnaws on your mind like a dog returning to an old bone. One moment you’re distracted and the next there’s that bone again…tickling your brain, telling you lies, perhaps drawing you into danger. Quality temptation is relentless. It’s so good you may as well get on with it so life can move ahead. A …
Brevity with potency is efficient, and productive. Of this, we can all appreciate. So it occurs with this 117 page gamut by Darren McKellin. One need not be in sales to reap the harvest of fruitful practice that emerges from the accumulated detritus of McKellin’s learning, experience and mentors. Each chapter resonates with universally applicable …
Malarkey?Just heard it usedBeen awhileMight need to call NPR.A way with words How can we use the language we have, become the language we need?If it’s true you are captured by words, the implication is that words are like fences.Now- now we need to go into undiscovered territory and make our minds create new sounds, …
Like wacky ferrets attempting to consume a nut bigger than our mouths, my peer team has chewed on this EP a few times. We are not dogs returning to some sort of vomit. The situation is such that, you feel, you receive, but you know you don’t really understand. And that’s where this song #4 …
Ummm, I worked this morning and was grabbing groceries, etc. on the way home. The gentleman behind me in line insisted on paying for my whole cart. I said I still need to get ice. He said plz get two…
I am endlessly grateful that my input is solicited. And while Emecia is killing it in their own fashion, this genre- it simply is not congruous with my megahertz. My electrical panel may need an upgrade, I can accept that… Talented, driven group… Cheers to all art. Paul “The Legend” Johnson
I dig it.Ropa dopin a bit.Very loaded upon… the bitter edge of opportunity and being needed. Like a sword of Damocles, it is hovering… –Paul “The Legend” Johnson Melbourne’s Some Heard Trouble is releasing a blistering, hard-edged single called “Hivemind” and along with it, a fantastical video featuring VR, screaming underwater and growing ever closer to the …
Tucker Wetmore and “Kiss My A$$” is country porn that’ll moisten your boogie loins. He’s got a band that’s AAA and captures the reckless spirit of the redneck. “We’ve got a little bit of love, a little bit of God, a little bit of honky-tonk, and a little bit of alcohol,” Wetmore says of this …
Proposal are a fast emerging melodic hardcore band from Wollongong, Australia. If songs are like clay that show the evolving work of the Potter, “Clarity” reflects the highest form shaped thus far for this gifted and gut-blasting band of rockers. After listening to five tracks on their new EP, KINGDOM, it’s pretty clear what this …
Boy’sClub gets into your face and under your skin like a festering zit that begs for your attention. The mounting pressure of their sound and story erupt across the complexion of their fun-escent punky breakout, and it is as intriguing as a mirror. Dopey & Cobainesque, they turn snarling and burst the bubble of your …