167. Sure, We Got Beaches or You’re Such a Beach

DAY ONE-HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN

Jocelyn Mackenzie constructed this starfish house for the tiny star fish we saw in the tiny tide pools on the beach. I’d live there for sure.

Look at those beaches!

BEACHES! On beaches there are shells that have been picked up by birds and dropped on the ground to get the food out.  These shells came from near Biddeford, ME the last time I was there with Pearl and the Beard to play a show at Hog Farm.  We spend the next day at the beach, and it was wonderful.  I have put them in a glass vase where a few of them have broken into little pieces.  Here you can be witness to their debut in the 365.

I have an arsenal of favorite sounds.  Just a few of them are:

Someone else’s keys dangling from the ignition

Walking on Lava Rock

Seashells clinking together

Record scratches

Someone else’s really old windshield wipers on their really old car

Old people’s voices (really old people)

Thunder from far away

Hard heeled shoes on all different textures of pavement

Beans being sorted on our kitchen table by my Brazilian roommate in Pittsburgh

Long nails on a keyboard

Fountain pens scratching on paper

Sure, We Got Beaches (Or You’re Such a Beach)

And you?  Since I had a birthday, I thought I might include just 2 of my favorite sounds into a piece for you to hear.  It hypnotizes me, but it certainly doesn’t have to do the same for you.  What sounds do?

81. Illegitimi Non Carborundum (Garageband Samples)

DAY EIGHTY-ONE

Sometimes you just need to put some beats together, you know?

Total composition time: One and a half hours.

Instrumentation: garageband samples.

Perfect: No.

Fun: Yes.

I am including some pictures from Pearl and the Beard’s Rebus McEntour 2010 for your perusal.

Much love to you today.

Illegitimi Non Carborundum

EHP

Jocelyn brushing her leg hair (she is growing it out for a year to show support for me and the 365)

Kelly Neel showed us how to eat crabs in Baltimore. Jeremy's opinion of it was definitely mixed.

We had places to stay in almost every stop but Memphis and one other town. Here, you can see the sweet, sweet Motel 6 bedspread. And Jocelyn is trying on Jeremy's shoes and showing them to the camera.

In Austin, Jocelyn and I went to dinner and found a spaghetti place where you can ride a horse for fifty cents. I did partake, much to the chagrin of on-lookers waiting imaptiently to be called to take a table, in the bucking of the bronco, however disappointing. Rock on, Austin.