Locust Bloom

Everything is in bloom! Even the homely locust tree, thorny and scraggly, like the Clint Eastwood of hardwoods, shows off it's beautiful flowers when the conditions are right. It's amazing! I love spring!

Bands I've Seen Live (Hey What Are Blogs For Anyway) :shrug:

An Ongoing List
-musical acts I have seen live, bands or dj's, in clubs or at festivals, the ones I remember anyway...

• Tool x 3
• Melvins
• A Perfect Circle x 2 or 3
• Smashing Pumpkins x 2
• Zwan x
• Fountains of Wayne
• Tori Amos x
• Ben Folds
• Rufus Wainwright
• Willie Nelson
• Gregg Allman
• Ani Difranco x
• Drums and Tuba
• Ween x
• Foo Fighters
• Queens of the Stone Age
• Primus x
• Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade
• Dark Star Orchestra x 2
• Jack Johnson x
• Tom Freund
• Kaki King x 2
• Citizen Cope
• Robert Randolph x
• The Word
• Allman Brothers Band x
• The Dead
• Aerosmith
• Jackyl
• Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Garth Brooks
• Spurge x
• Tricky
• Snoop Doggy Dog
• Failure
• Ziggy Marley, et al x
• Blind Boys of Alabama x
• Trey Anastasio
• Keller Williams Incident
• Galactic x
• Jane's Addiction
• Jurassic 5
• NIN
• Pierce Edens x
• 311
• Incubus
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• Talib Kweli
• The Roots x
• Radiohead
• Phil + Friends
• Sonic Youth
• Mars Volta
• Atmosphere
• STS9 x 20 or so
• Big Gigantic x 3
• Dubconscious x
• Collective Efforts
• Prefuse 73
• Aesop Rock
• Dinosaur Jr
• Black Moth Super Rainbow
• DJ Shadow
• DJ Vadim
• Blackalicious
• Gift of Gab x
• Lyrics Born
• Common x
• KRS-One
• GZA
• Burning Spear x
• Telepath x
• Glitch Mob x
• June Panic x 2
• Hammell On Trial
• Gruntruck
• Patti Smith x 2
• Lotus x 2
• Pnuma Trio
• Midnite
• Zakir, Bela, Edgar
• Bela, Edgar
• Yonder Mountain String Band
• Flaming Lips
• Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band x
• Xavier Rudd x
• Motion Potion
• Sasha + Digweed
• Beck
• DJ Vadim x
• Two Fresh
• Dieselboy
• Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
• GFE
• Alice In Chains
• Erykah Badu
• Beans
• Big Boi
• Disco Biscuits
• Bassnectar
• Cypress Hill
• Unified Theory
• Bob Dylan
• The Breeders
• Fear
• Liz Phair
• Daedalus
• Snake Oil Medicine Show
• Mike Relm
• RJD2
• DJ Spooky
• Donovan Frankenreiter
• Easy Star All-Stars
• Eliot Lipp
• Ana Sia
• Ep3
• G Love + Special Sauce
• Godspeed You Black Emperor
• Rasputina
• Gov't Mule
• Spam All-Stars
• Living Legends
• JFJO
• Arrested Development
• Lifesavas
• Toubab Krewe
• Afromotive
• Luciano
• Michael Franti + Spearhead
• Mike Doughty
• Soulive
• The Nightwatchman
• The New Deal
• Sonmi Suite
• Sub-ID
• Taj Mahal
• Telefon Tel Aviv
• Toots + The Maytals
• James Brown
• Rusko
• Emancipator
• Bluetech
• EOTO x 2
• The Smithereens
• Nosaj Thing
• The Wailers
• Papdosio
• Particle
• Conspirator x 2
• Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
• GalaxC Girl
• Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
• North Mississippi All-Stars
• Ozomatli
• Audioslave
• Mofro
• This is art
• Count Bass D
• The Lee Boys
• The Cranberries
• Corey Harris
• Welder
• Sun Ra Arkestra
• Break Science
• The Mahavishnu Project
• Laura Reed + Deep Pocket
• Kung Fu Dynamite
• DJ Bowie (Bowie Van Ling)
• T'n'T
• Eyedea & Abilities
• Matt + Kim
• The Broadcast
• Josh Phillips Folk Festival
• RBTS WIN
• Do It To Julia
• Aaron Wood
• Asheville Horns
• Bayou Diesel
• Supercollider
• Quetzatl

Drill, Baby, Drill

Thursday's post

I've been listening to a lot of Terence McKenna lately, through the Psychedelic Salon podcast. He's an enchanting bard, with great charm and style and vocabulary. Good stuff.
So I found out with a little research today that the Asheville City Buses will not be running on Earth Day. That's right. Asheville will not have public transportation available on Earth Day! What is that about?
I finished the fence. Whoah. I finished the fence. Hey now! It looks awesome, the dogs love it, everybody's happy. It took a long, long time, but I reached my goal, and that feels good. :)
I'll finish this with an original joke:

What do you call an unemployed rastafarian?


















Jah-bless