With Apple Towson unionizing, the movement has had a massive boost of forward momentum. I'm in an international discord channel for unionizing efforts at Apple and when the news was announced the chat was ---popping---
bandleader just sent me this flyer he made for an upcoming gig
Thank you! I started painting four years ago, and transferred over from the realm of jazz composition (my undergrad is as a jazz bassist). With music, especially jazz, there’s much less of this sense of “stay in your lane” as there is with visual art. This sense of exploration, along with no formal visual art training, has provided me the comfort to feel free to do whatever I want visually.
I just kind of improvised the base design, the stone was asking for it. I used a file almost all the way through to get them this thin, which took so much time. One disc did break off though near the end :(
I read your comment a few days ago, and it's stuck with me. While I agree with some of the comments already posted about how Jefferson's acts are likely beyond anything shameful any of us have done, your general sentiment with cancel culture is one I very much agree with. Note, I'm now talking about modern day cancel culture about those who are alive and not so much the specific Jefferson situation. "There currently no room for growth for the living in this culture." I like this line you wrote a lot. When a person is cancelled today, they're tossed to the garbage, left to either rot or figure out their growth on their own. I could certainly imagine an idealized version of our culture where when a person is called out on their past infractions, their community comes together to re-educate this person, to help them dissect any childhood experiences or traumas that would have shaped them to be a person who's behavior would result in the harming of others. Either this or some sort of center where a person could go to learn. The premise of these ideas is essentially that any group/culture/society is only as strong as its weakest link, so why not focus repertory energy on those in need of the most assistance? Often when a person is cancelled, it's done so in a public way in which the person being cancelled doesn't have the ability to offer their perspective, or even to apologize/address all those that are now aware of a person's past mistakes. I was recently talking with a friend about this, she is a self identified Christian and practices her faith. She proposed a theory that cancel culture could be exacerbated by the decline of Christianity. She was saying that Christianity places a strong importance on forgiveness, and as the decline of this tradition increases in the US, more people get cancelled. I'm aware this talking point brings up a whole separate can of worms (let it be known I do not identify as Christian and broke ties with those grows after growing up in a Souther Baptist church) but the main point here is that people are finding it easier to extend an accusatory finger instead of a helping hand.
steve thank you for the kind words, they warm my soul I would imagine as a dad yourself you may be forming your own unique connection with this piece
yeah, Joe Dart is rad, but have you checked out Aron the Bassist????
One of the best Salsa tunes of all time
insert prayer hands emoji haha, thank you, just letting me Universe flow through me
Mount Tabor Go to the coast (Cannon Beach) and rent a surfboard In the SE check out Hawthorne, Clinton, Division, and Belmont Sts In the NE check out Alberta and Mississippi Sts Smoke a lot of weed and drink mead at Skidmore Bluffs If you're there on a Monday go to Colonel Sumners park in the evening for Monday Funday Watch a show at The Goodfoot (free on Tuesdays)
Wooo! The Goodfoot takes payment at the door, I believe it'll be $7. We've got a killer band opening for us
Challenge: dump dinners from the dumpster
I knew I could count on you. Thanks man for the advice, I appreciate it a lot.
A vast percentage of their tunes makes me melt every time. I'll check out the albums you threw out.
I'm not too big a fan of Black Radio 2, but I imagine that's because as a Hispanic I can't relate to the Black experience.
Hargrove, also killing. Yeah man.
Incredible speech. Are you going to school for free, or is it being paid for you? If not, I really truly want you to consider what getting into debt does, and maybe to seek conversation with those who have a large amount of student debt. Also, we're still very young (you more so than me, but we are still both very young). You are not culpable for changing your focus in college. Plus, liberal art schools are the shit. Take as many classes on things you've never of before. It's really fun and you'll find out after a while that you may have accidentally received a minor.
Forgo skepticism and read it objectively, embracing the possibility that maybe there's something to it. There may not be anything to it, but there might be. Try for yourself. I tuned my bass and guitar down to 432. I haven't noticed too much of a difference with the bass, but there is a very noticeable difference with guitar. But yes, they should have reconsidered that font.
Isolated bass track
I really appreciate you reaching out and am honored that Papa Hubski is interested in the goings on of my life.
Living in Oregon has been incredible. I'll try to sum it up as much as I can.
A week after I graduated, my fiancee Kathryn and I packed up and drove West. No plans, no jobs, no housing. We stopped for a bit in KC (where we grew up) to see family and friends and continued on. We stopped in Cheyenne (which I don't recommend, Sketchiest place I've ever been) and in Boise before arriving in Portland the next day. It was as we pulled into a hotel in Boise that we received a call that we'd have a place to live for July. The housing market in Portland is very saturated and it was only because someone dropped out of a sublet that we had a place to stay. The day after we arrived Kathryn had an interview at a Montessori school in the SW where she nabbed a position as an assistant guide (in Montessori they're "guides" not "teachers").
We had a few days to spare before moving into our sublet in SW Portland so Kathryn and I went to camp on the coast for a few days. The Oregon coast is unlike anything else I've ever seen. It's so ominous yet majestic. I highly recommend seeing it.
We moved into our sublet and had such a great time hanging out with our new roommates. We were taking the place of a med student who was going to Peru to study a specific bacteria and our roommates were two med students and a recent transplant from Ecuador. Kathryn got a job for a few months working at Sur La Table (where she had been working weekends in IL) and I got a gig working at a cell phone repair shop in NW Portland. Since I had done that for three years when I was in school it was a cinch to get the job. It was about a 15 minute bike from the SW sublet through downtown Portland to the cell phone shop. Biking in Portland is awesome. There are so many bike lanes and cars are very aware of bikes. Biking is the fastest mode of transportation in Portland, unless you're going from one extreme to the other.
Kathryn didn't have too many hours during this time and I only worked two days a week so we explored as much as we could. I networked like crazy and really got to meet some cool musicians. Before moving I had contacted a guy on Craigslist about playing with him and the two months before I moved to Fossil him and I played weekly, performing once at an open mic at a hostel in the NW.
After our sublet in the SW ran out, we moved to a sublet in the SE. Again, the housing market is so saturated we interviewed the last day of our sublet, were accepted, and moved the next day.
Whatever notion you have about Portland is materialized on the East side of the Willamette River which runs down the middle. The West is suit-and-tie, the East is as free-spirited as it comes. At this new sublet, we lived with three rats, four cats, a rabbit, a dog, and six other humans (two of which slept on the back porch). They were a vegan household, which I’d have been cool to try out except that the cats were always on the counters, getting their tails on everything. It’s good to mention here that it was while living here that I learned I have an allergy to cats. Our room was sick though. It belonged to a couple with a son and the woman was a painter who had filled the room with her fantastic works of art. In fact, Kathryn got me one of her paintings we always admired for my birthday.
This new sublet was a bit further from work so it took me about 35 minutes to get to work each day. But man, was it worth it. My route took me along the Eastbank Esplanade, a beautiful path that runs right along the river. It was beautiful. It was on a bike that I realized, similar to in Paris, lovers put locks in the bridge. Later on Kathryn and I put a lock on.
Towards the middle of July, I got a call from a job I had applied for in May. I was to continue interviewing for a position with AmeriCorps teaching music in a rural Oregon town. Fast forward a few months, and I’ve now been living in Fossil, OR since August. I have K-8 (amounting to 32 students) Monday - Thursday (the school district is can’t afford to have school on Fridays). I teach private lessons to about 15 students on a variety of instruments I’ve picked up along the way. Working with kids is incredible. They’re so positive and so full of energy. What the school system does through their domestication is a true tragedy.
Living in a rural town is quite the experience. The population of Fossil, including those in the hills, amounts to about 475. Aside from my roommate, 30, and myself there are two other young adults in town. Having this amount of free time has resulted in so many new discoveries, both in talent and personal.
With all this time, you’re really left along with your thoughts. I most certainly had a fair amount of inner demons that I couldn’t have worked through without Kathryn’s support. Truly, without her love I may not have been typing this right now.
I’ve picked up many hobbies. I’ve rekindled my love of reading. I’ve dabbled in charcoal pastel and acrylic painting. I’ve written a lot of music, of which I recorded most when I went back to KC over Winter Break. Life is good when I allow it to be.
Over Winter Break, Kathryn and I did find a venue and set a date for our wedding. It’ll be on a farm right outside KC on July 19th of this year. In an effort to save money, her and I have been hand making our save the dates. They’ve really turned out awesome. We split the work and then swapped when we got halfway. Wedding planning takes a lot of work, but it’s so much fun.
I think that’s about everything since I’ve moved to Oregon. I may have left out a few details, but if you read this much you’ve got a pretty good idea about what I’ve been up to the past few months.
I considered doing this version with my students for their winter program. Realizing they wouldn't be able to do it justice, I chose I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas instead.
Water.
Very powerful words. Thank you. I can relate strongly to everything you said. One of the things I've been working on is loving myself as I do others. I realized one day that if I truly believe everyone deserves to be loved unconditionally, why would I exclude myself from the "everyone" umbrella? I do, just as much as everyone, deserve to be loved. It's the allowing myself to feel that that seems to be taking time. But, all things in due time. Why, if you don't mind my asking, do you hold yourself to a higher standard and what is the benefit of doing so?
Comparing the article and your version, I agree with cgod.
I was talking to a poet once about how he writes. He told me that he focuses on giving enough attention to just the right details. If you give too much attention to too much, no good. Too little attention, no good.
1. Hubski is the sort of thing you learn as you go along. I've always thought of it as a way to weed out those who might not contribute as well to the community. 2. Can you imagine what Hubski would be like if it has as many users as reddit? It's quiet intentionally. 6. Hubski a'int about fluff. We get straight to the point and discuss. A fancy webpage would distract from the point. 7. See #6. 8. See #6. But also, you get to know the others users so well and everyone develops a personality, you remember who everyone else is eventually. All those unanswers have been better answered already.
I moved to Portland a week after I graduated school in Naperville, IL. I'm not sure if it was the move or Portland, but I'm certainly learning to become a more open, loving, kind person. I learned that I was very self conscious and needed to let it go and love myself. I think an even bigger learning experience is coming up however. Tomorrow I'm moving out to Fossil, OR to teach music through AmeriCorps to K-12 grade kids. The town is extremely small and has less than 100 kids K-12. I'm not sure how exactly I'll grow, but it seems inevitable.
Hell yeah. Adventure awaits.
Thank you very much. I've already met a Hubskinite that's from there so him and I will meet up. If you're ever out there, hit me up.
Bill Evans is the shit.
About 5 years ago, her and I went to a park in Kansas City. We walked around and found a bench. I had been into her for three years prior, and this was the first time she told me that she was also into me. Shortly after that we started dating. About a year later, we went back to the same bench and carved our initials into the bench (I think we were about 17 at the time?). On Saturday, her and I were both in Kansas City. I had finished paying off the ring the day before, and picked it up earlier that morning. I took her back to the park (+1 swag for the stars being out), we walked to our bench, and after a few whisperings of sweet nothings to each other, I proposed. Why she didn't run away? No clue. She certainly deserves better. But I guess I'm doing something right.