Year: 2017

At a US gathering. Sitting playing around with a short didge-just  blowing through it. Scott W. comes over and tells me I’m doing it wrong and takes the shakuhachi. I get up and get into a car. Get out, take the flute back from him and it’s all chewed up. I get on him about it and he just sits there in the car.

Going to sit down at a cafe with Jim K and someone else. The table is small and right at the entrance. I try to move over, but there’s no room. Sit down with my legs close by the table.

@30700, looking out from the deck. We go outside to make some pumpkin thing in a tall cylinder. Stuff it all in there. We’re also waiting for the cougars to come and kill the deer. The deer run around, but no cougar. It finally comes, but can’t kill the deer. Wolves come to chase it off. We start back inside, try to get the pot finished, and the wolves come on the deck and look in the window. The little ones are cute.

In the living room at 1023? There are spider webs around. There’s a small black one in a web. I go to trap it, but I see hanging threads, which mean poisonous ones are around. I tell Erika to watch out, and I see it. I go to stomp on it with my uggs, but it’s very fast and escapes. I chase it around stomping and missing. I finally get it, and the black one in the web has gotten very big. I look at it and think about getting a container to put it in.

Hanging out, some guy has some mescaline barrels and gives me one after I tell him I can handle it. I go oobe up, and it takes a bit for me to go high up, because it’s dark. I see stuff in the sky, and decide I want to go to the sun. I sink into the ground and come up in Australia. Go into a room and look around, then go high up. Can’t reach the sun, so I go past a soccer match. I try to sink back into the ground, but I can’t, so I’m stuck there. Worry about getting back home.

Trying to find the right subway station. Walk down a street to ‘In the Hill’. Turn the corner and see two boys beating up a Salvation Army Santa. Hurry past. The station is going to close unless the bully’s go away. We slip in as the doors close. They’re there harassing a kid, but he’s giving it back. I trap the other one.

In a house, waiting for the storm to end. The place is a mess. Go to leave and the landlord comes. Apologize for the mess and say I’ll clean it over the weekend.

Hanging out at Jerry J’s house. Someone is tearing around the yard in a big truck. We hide behind a bunch of trees as the truck goes past and goes back and forth in the yard. It runs into a house on the other side of the street and takes a huge hole out. I see a kid in there and the truck backs out. We climb a tree to see better. It backs out and runs into another house, this time plowing into it and almost out the other side.

On the freeway, turn the wrong way and go on another turn to fix it. Wait for cars to pass.

In the basement at 30700? Some lady needs to make a water whistle for Peter Gabriel. She plays the sound, and we arrange a plastic tube and a bucket full of water to do it. I fiddle around with levels and pitch, clamp the end and work on making the sound and mic placement.

In LB, skating around. Go up a hill and across at the top of an embankment.

At the end of a mile race. We’re all struggling and moving very slow. Come around the last in corner in 3rd place. Work hard to get to the line. Walk through a crowd.

In LB, walking through a park. There are swamps, we ask a ranger who manages them.

Get in a fighter jet, work on getting the seat right and canopy closed. Go to take off, but can’t cross the runway. Wait, go fast and take off. Fly around, land on the Laguna Hills. Can’t take off, roll through the street.

At school, girl is getting in trouble for not paying tuition. I tell her it happened to us too. Receptionist is mad because we asked a question. Ask her another one.

On a bus, waiting to go. It’s taking a long time, and I want to leave.

watch kids play rage, do poetry that I can’t hear at a school show

Trying to poop, stalls don’t close, tp all wet, people coming in, fix it with coat hanger

wife asleep, playing with her privates

I’m in a big car, driving. A girl in the back seat throws a big pillow at me. I get upset, and talk w/ Elaine Larsh about it. Try to get her disciplined.

Walking outside an office, trying to find my interview location. A small sign points me downstairs, and I talk to a lady who’s the recruiter.

Driving E & S to a park. I say it’s on the other side of town, but they say it’s closer. We see a tiny play area, but then more. I go over to a gathering, Wallace Shawn is giving a speech-he’s a sub, and talks about his project to crawl across every bridge. Watch him go over one, then a long one. I think about how nice people are, but C says it’s because we’re in the suburbs.

Practicing a Lou piece. We finish, and I leave with Brett. He says we have another gig and I don’t have my gamelan clothes. We walk through brush and a stream. It’s dense and hard to get through.

In a bathroom, trying to capture a tiny mouse. It’s crawling all over me and biting. I finally catch it and give it to the owner. Then another one falls out of its shell and into the toilet. I fish it out and put it back in its shell.

At US, walk across the hall for lunch, but I didn’t pay. Go downstairs to eat soup, Roger C, Rick K and a few others are wrestling. I sit on a couch in the corner and look at the kids lining up for lunch. Some teacher sees me and comes over.