2023
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April 14th, 2023. Earping Hard.
Wednesday morning saw me meeting up with visual artist Shanye Huang and his wife to document his thoughts and process in advance of his installation at the Sandy Spring Museum. I like moving my body when I play. Not dancing. Never that. I step on people’s feet and fall over when I dance. But I…
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April 12th, 2023. Heat pumps.
Mmm. Fossil fuels. (this little guy was just sitting on our sidewalk and was unrelated to our battles) Probably about two decades ago, or possibly one billion years, I wrote a Journal entry menioning a loud truck going down Belleville, Illinois’ main street. We were staying in someone’s apartment above the bar we were playing…
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April 11th, 2023. The Spark with Nicole Belanus.
Tonight t’was the Spark. You know the drill. With featured artist Nicole Belanus from… here! We do this every Tuesday. Signup before 7. I start at 7. 7112 Willow Ave. in Takoma Park, MD. robsopenmics.ilyaimy.com for more information. Tonight we were joined by rob (me) Bryan Steve Cutts Jay Keating (Know1Else) Greta Ehrig Frank L Susan Rowe…
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April 8th, 2023. Damn. I needed that too.
It’s been a really good week, but a really exhausting one too. Every morning we’ve gotten good news / bad news about the house process and it’s been exhausting. Every morning I’ve had to be onsite setting up and filming for Sandy Spring Museum far earlier than I would’ve liked. And that’s been exhausting. And…
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April 4th, 2023. The Spark w Michelle Swan.
Before hitting the Takoma Spark tonight I went to the Sandy Spring Museum and continued filming the Book of Styles pop and lock tutorials. This week, with early-morning load-ins in Sandy Spring, MD followed by gigs almost every day of the week is going to be a bit brutal. Add in that if Monday and…
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April 2nd, 2023. Camping.
I dreamt we went camping with the band. And in my dream I DEFINITELY conflated Heather and Kristen, as my wife does NOT have the camping savvy that my dream wife did. And for clarity, I merely mean the wife in my dream, not the wife that I’d dream of – cause I’m absolutely fine…
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March 31st, 2023. Money.
My work with Sandy Spring Museum has been a big part of having money recently. I hope it continues. Sunday afternoon I went and documented their monthly Bluegrass jam and was pleasantly surprised to run across a lot of known entities. Frank in the middle there, Ethan Mendick on the side there. A good collective…
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March 28th, 2023. Boom, Like That.
Wednesday night’s Live from the Lair with the marvelous Jeff Miller. Always a pleasure to have him. Wish we didn’t ALWAYS feel cramped for time! If he gets rained out on Saturday, we’ll see him again then. I’m trying to slow down. Stop the sense of hurtling. On and on pressing the little blue “signature”…
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Flawless.
Written for one of our VOM songwriting challenges… I think this was “a different success than you were planning” Re: the weird illustrations. I’m enjoying adding Stable Diffusion graphics for things when I’m just brainstorming. Throwing it the word “flawless” returns a LOT of images of women in dresses. Interesting. Let it be known, according…
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March 28th, 2023. The Spark with Dalton Potter.
It’s always SOMETHING with me, isn’t it? Two weeks ago wind blew the power out. Last week everything was green. This week I forgot to bring a battery for my camera. S’truth. I’m just a wee robbish disaster! In any case, tonight felt like we were back to our normal rhythms, plus or minus that…