It’s snooooowww! I’m excited! Love watching it accumulate on the branches of trees especially. It’s so fluffy and annoying when it get’s in your eye, yay! Here’s the traffic cam north of town; shows how ridiculous I am for getting excited over this dusting. So California 
Don’t know at this point whether or not I’ll be doing the radio tonight. Depends how it looks for going over the hill. I’ll edit when I know more . For now, it’s time for some play.
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So I’m gonna attempt over the hill; seems like good enough weather on this side at least. Amplified Mixtape it is! 10 pm to midnight PST. Streamed here (clicky clicky).
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M. Ward – To Go Home – Post-War
Electrelane – The Greater Times – No Shouts No Calls
Ida – Blizzard of ‘78 – The Braille Night
Neil Young – Out On the Weekend – Harvest
Neil Young – Harvest – Harvest
Retsin – Duck Out – Moon Money Moon
Elliott Smith – Coming Up Roses – S/T
John Lennon – Jealous Guy – Imagine
Devotchka – Such a Lovely Thing – How It Ends
The Geraldine Fibbers – Kiss of Fire – What Part of Get Thee Gone Don’t You Understand?
Tom Waits – A Good Man Is Hard to Find – Blood Money
Scout Niblett – Lullaby for Scout in 10 Years – Kidnapped by Neptune
Cat Power – Rockets – Dear Sir
Smog – Say Valley Maker – A River Ain’t Too Much to Love
Calexico – Crooked Road and the Briar – Even My Sure THings Fall Through
Willard Grant Conspiracy – Another Lonely Night – Mojave
Wilco – Should’ve Been In Love – A.M.
Bob Dylan – Shelter From the Storm – Hard Rain
Neutral Milk Hotel – Where You’ll Find Me Now – On Avery Island
Justin Potts – Quid Pro Quo – Eohippus
Sleater-Kinney – What’s Mine Is Yours – The Woods
Mountains and Rainbows – Knock Me Out – 7″
His Name Is Alive – Sinner Man – Nice Day
James Brown – I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On – Roots of A Revolution
Nina Simone – I Love Your Lovin Ways – Wild Is the Wind
Soft Location – The Rescue – Diamonds and Gems
Shudder to Think f. Jeff Buckley – I Want Someone Badly – First Love, Last Rites Sdtrk
Took it real slow and easy over the ridge; bunch of flurries and tons of white. Seeing those Caltrans trucks there on the way to and from the station really put me at ease. Had a torrent of water come down while at the station.
The ants are taking over every indoor area I’ve been in today. Here at my house they’re bigger and sporadic and kinda drunk on the heat, at the station they were small and in the hundreds and on swarming the paper towels in the trash, and at work they were coming out of the ethernet port and it was kinda neat.
good luck on the roads – time to try out that new car’s traction! music related, check this out (via the Voice):
“…there’s a new Breeders album imminent, Mountain Battles – and I’m sure that will make up for any lingering disappointment (Stuff I Haven’t Regretted, Vol 3091). The new music is fantastic: it lingers and pauses and breathes deeply of the intoxicating scent of the new and familiar; it sings of love and hate and social vagaries; it sounds like The Breeders without sounding remotely tired or old: it smells of dew-laden fronds and Scout Niblett’s battered discarded snare drum: it wallows around inside pop and Spanish glissandos and the joy of discovering an even holier way to play guitar; it soundtracked a seven-hour flight from Detroit to Gatwick and surprised anew on every listen.”
I never even knew it ever snowed in Mendocino County, California. The snow around here usually stays for weeks of from mildly cold to bitterly frigid. (Why would anyone want to live in a climate like this?). It’s so . . .
seasonal here. From very freezing and sunless wnters to miserably humid heat for what seem like an insufferably long time in the midst of sweltering summer. But the lovely springs and blazingly gorgeous autumns make up for everything elsewhere that the weather throws at you here. And so, people stay around all year. Your yesterday’s dusting of white stuff must be a rare weather thrill! All the time I lived in S.F. I never saw anything that could be considered “snow.” I’ll look for it when I’m out there in a couple of weeks (of course, I’d rather not find any) Everyone I know in S.F. came from somewhere else. Drive carefully on those after midnight hilly country roads up there.
Ooo yay! New Breeders album!! I’ll be sure to polish my dancing shoes!
So the traction turned out to be rocking, least I’m still here, but I didn’t take any chances, I drove sooooooo sloooooooow. We get snow but usually a lot higher up; for it to come down to the Ukiah Valley floor which I think is 500ft and to have it stick is just freakish. Someday I’ll see one of those blazing gorgeous autumns you have over there in the east. We get some pretty beautiful color in the footfills of the Sierra. I particulary remember a drive in Plumas County along the Feather River (I think) that my mouth was just hanging slightly open the whole time. Going to S.F. eh? Have a lovely time, say hi to my love Amoeba Music for me
I’ve been to Amoeba in the East Bay and in S.F. and of course, I plan to check it out for rare audio treasures again. Going out there for a friends son’s bar mitzvah, of all things. It seemed like a good time to go out for a visit. It’s happening at the Albany Community Center on the 22nd. That’s Albany, CA, Edith F.’s new hometown. I wish there were some live music I’d like to go to see & hear during my week of wonders in my favorite city in the country (Chicago and Neuva York are close, but not where my heart resides) I’ll look into what’s coming up, 2/16-2/24.
Yay Clay!! That sounds like it’s going to be a fun trip. Took a gander at the calenders for that time frame and nothing jumped right out at me but I haven’t been keeping up with new unknown music to me in the area so I’m betting there’s gonna be something interesting in the mix yet! Don’t know my East Bay well (Albany is East Bay I think, right) but I do love how same name places have spots all over the country; it just tickles me
Albany has the Pierce St. exit off I-80. My friend Margery, a painter and knife-sharpener { her biz website; and } her art website. She lived right off that Pierce St./Albany exit at the top o’ the hill at 760 Pierce St. back in the late nineteen-eighties into the late ’90’s, before she moved backeast (but scores of her paintings on 4 ft. by 4 ft. Masonite boards are still stored at a self-storage place in Emeryville, a coupla exits west, from Albany, past the Berkeley exits, on the way to the Bay Bridge. She’s also flying out for this ocassion.
Since it’s been five years since I’ve been there, I’m thinking about it every day. Like a kid anticipating a trip to somewhere they’ve been before. Familiar, bt also different, because places & things change over five years. In my case, it’s somewhere I’ve lived a long time before. Made many trips out there over the years, revisiting friends and places.