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August West

999,000 goodbyes don't make one hello; you gotta improvise

About Me

Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandanna, Like a one-eyed cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack. A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle, To a double-E waterfall over my back. Comic book colors on a violin river crying Leonardo words from out a silk trombone. I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls, In the eagle-winged palace of the queen chinee.

When this crazy lady takes off on the fiddle about 5 minutes into the song, I think that's about the coolest thing in the world! This kind of love can never be destroyed.
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My Interests

Japanese literature, world literature, politics, mountain biking, recording and performing live music.

I'd like to meet:

There's a family growing. I've seen it with my own two eyes. There's something that we're all knowing. I hope it's spreading like a wild fire, back to a place one might call home... .. .."http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/s wflash.cab..version=6,0,0,0" width="550" height="525" id="draw" align="">..........

Music:

The Grateful Dead, John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Donna the Buffalo, The Flaming Lips, Pharoah Sanders, The Roots, The Bleachers

Movies:

The Muppet Movie, How To Get Ahead In Advertising, Life of Brian, Shaolin Soccer

Television:

I don't watch too much tv.

Books:

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Dance Dance Dance (Haruki Murakami), Runaway Horses (Yukio Mishima), Kangaroo Notebook (Kobo Abe), The Famished Road (Ben Okri), VALIS, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, The Divine Invasion, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Phillip K. Dick), Slapstick, Galapagos, Cat's Cradle, Timequake, Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut), Pale Fire, Despair (Vladimir Nabokov)

Heroes:

Ghandi, Robert Hunter, Mickey Hart, Killgore Trout, Kermit D. Frog, Fat Albert, Buddha, Martin Luther King, Jesus, Jerry

My Blog

Sandbox...

Hey hey! I've got a new recording of a song by The Hard Goodbye on my profile. Tell me what you think. I play keys in the band, and my brothers Joey and Mike split bass, guitar, and vocal duties. My c...
Posted by August West on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:46:00 PST

Tell Me Where Have You Been

This is my current favorite song I've been listening to. Mourning Flies by Railroad Earth. I think I've been to the place they are singing about:   what were you dreaming? . . . that made you swe...
Posted by August West on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:37:00 PST

Families Are Delicious

My brother Joey's homework assignment from school: 9/5/06 "What Inspires Me"     Trashdigging inspires me. I guess it's because of that old parable, "One man's trash is another man's treasur...
Posted by August West on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:55:00 PST

The Bleachers' Madhouse

The Bleachers' Madhouse is populated with a multitude of crazy and/or dangerous characters. Billy Jack can often be seen kickin' the crap out of drunken biker gangs, while a couple of mustached police...
Posted by August West on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:50:00 PST

Falling In Love With Drums All Over Again...

Listened to disc 3 of The Dead 8/14/04 on the way home from work and it melted my face off. That's the way drums should sound! I wish more of my music friends knew what I was talking about, but all th...
Posted by August West on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:42:00 PST

Etzel and Marius...

I made a trip to the Lake Mead and Rainbow Borders bookstore this past weekend, and I was stunned when I saw my long-lost heroes Etzel and Marius from Clevermeat hanging on the patio. Marco, Joe, and ...
Posted by August West on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:39:00 PST

Rhythm Devils

Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman are at it again with The Rhythm Devils. They are touring this month and playing a show at Vegoose on October 29th. I found streaming audio of three new songs with lyrics...
Posted by August West on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:31:00 PST

Jokerman Dance To A Nightingale Tune

Been digging on some Bob Dylan lately. Current favorites include "Precious Angel," "Jokerman," "License to Kill," and "Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight." A lot of his early 80's stuff. Been trying to de...
Posted by August West on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:28:00 PST

Brilliant Works of Art

I would like to express my appreciation for all of the brilliant works of art that have graced my page over the past few months. I know much of this inspired art was created by Captain C., who's depic...
Posted by August West on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:34:00 PST

Back On The Moon Base

This blog entry was originally posted on the Bleachers Moon Base blog site, located at http://bleachersmusic.blogspot.com. Please visit this site, as Joe, Marco, and I will be posting many blog entrie...
Posted by August West on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:48:00 PST