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I took the weekend to clean up my "new" living space and work on some new music. 

I did a lot more of the cleaning and organizing than I did the music making. 

I have some ideas for songs. All the words are written out, but I haven't been able to make the appropriate music to go with the words. I acquired a mic that plugs into the usb port of the laptop, but I just haven't got it down to what the particular songs to sound like. 

Here is a song I made. You can download it if you want. I hope to post more soon. I'll let you know when I do.

-abc

Shifts

October 1st: 

Hung out with my good friend, Jackie Jones. We met in Portland when I first moved here, but she lives in Lynnwood, Washington now. Also present that day were Eric and Ally.

We played corn hole and ate kabobs that Eric made on the grill: steak, onions, peppers, and tomatoes. So good!

And there was Luarelwood pumpkin beer because Eric works at that brewery. That is actually the only pumpkin beer I've found that's not overwhelmingly sweet to myself. 

Also there was pumpkin pie and pumpkin rolls! Thanks for the hospitality friends!

October 2:

I helped my friends Darcie and Reed move some stuff into there new apartment and Darci and Steve helped me move my things into my new spot. My new spot is the same spot I lived in 3 or 4 years ago. I'm still trying to determine the exact year.

I do know I was really hungover during the move in and highly suggest if you are reading these words. Never drink liquor that tastes like peppermint. Even if it's offered to you for free. It'll make you feel like a yuck the next day.

Anyway, moving into the house I once in lived in before. Back to NE Portland between MLK and Williams. It feels good to be back in these hoods. 

October 3:

It should be noted the leaves are turning yellow and falling down to the ground fast.

I had a couple drinks after work yesterday afternoon with a great friend, Alan Page. After which I bought Palo Santo for purifying/cleansing the energy into moving back in to the Graham House. 

I started vacuuming and unpacking at the new spot. Mostly I got my bed set up and moved other things around that I wasn't sure what to do with yet.

October 4:

I just got out of bed about 2pm. That's about an hour ago. I'm eating a breakfast bagel with veggie sausage and got a coffee from Goldrush. This is one of my favorite coffee shops to sneak away, too.

It's been interesting walking the streets I use to in a different head space than before but it also helps me remember the things that were so important to me when I was here.

That's the little bit of what's been happening for me. Smoggie Catt moves back in soon. I need to clean a little more properly / have things more solid before she comes back. 

I need to post my Sleepwalking Moment and check in with my bank balance and clean up the new space now.

be free

-abc

Happy October

This is my favorite month of the year. I'm just realizing it's here.

it's a rainy, crispy grey outside
with hints of blue peaking through as I type

My friend Jackie Jones is in town for a few moments today.

I'm attempting to finish this cup of coffee and pay homage to my favorite month.

Focus.

I like October because the air is more crisp. The rains come back and make your hair look a lovely mess. The leaves turn yellow and red! Sometimes very quick. So keep your head up. Inhale the cool, autumn wind. Oh and layers! and warm coffee is even more yummy. And did I mention the smells? and pumpkins! and halloween! and candy corn! and acorns galore! 

Okay.. update outside. there is a definite steady pouring of rain in the happening. 

I love the rain. I wait so long for the rain. I don't have my raincoat presently on myself. But it comes in patches and has already slowed to drizzle again.

my coffee cup is almost empty. and I need to wander to see Jackie before she leaves. 

Happy October // Be free

-abc

Sleepwalking Moment SW973

Sleepwalking Moment SW973

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the tug to pull

the patience to break it

and heal, and feel, and ache  

wonder how long it'll take 

before the realize the revolution began

 

whistle or whisper  

doesn't matter  

 

take time to wander, friend

don't forget again

i try and i try

 

no one asks to sing

 

i stopped by  

as i said i would  

i wrote some words and i'll walk on

 

blasphemy! 

rock n' roll deserves better

better hair

and better air time, too
 

do do do 

la de due

 

no one saw this coming

they were lost in their mirrors

 

i don't like this feeling 

nah, nor the whistle

 

i'm sorry, mate

it ain't so simple

 

is that right?

rock n' roll is better shared?

 

three dead trolls 

sitting by a fire

who was their god?

why did it matter?

 

"they don't like a revelator"

can i ask a question?

is that guitar solo yours or was it stolen?

 

Inside Outward

Inside Outward is my most recent songs I've created. I have been using a Korg R3 for the sounds. I recently came across a mic that plugs into the usb port on my computer. 

I was really excited to sing over some songs, but it didn't quite come as organically as I thought. I kept trying and not liking what I came up with. So I decided to throw some distortion on my voice for the beginning and the outro track.

I like the final result. It feels honest. It has an upbeat, over the top beginning and end with a dark center. The 3 songs as a whole are my attempt to share life as I feel it lately. 

There is a bounce in my step. I am working 2 jobs and selling art fairly frequently. I am falling in love. I am making more music. My art is even surprising me where it's going. 

I'm still looking for a place for Smoggie Catt and I to live. I still need to finish putting together my book "Fragmented Realities" for people to read. I still worry about climate change and politics have never been more insane.

I'm saying I'm alright. I have my fears and uncertainties, but I don't let them get the best of me.

I embrace the "awkward". I acknowledge the moment as they are and that takes keeping an unclouded perspective. 

It takes practice. It takes patience. It takes love. It takes honesty with myself and others.

I think these tunes show those waves of the soul and how I feel about life currently.

If you have a moment, give them a listen.

I'm going to quit rambling and clean up my belongings and get ready to go to work.

Be free fellow Earthlings,

-ABC

Hello Fellow Earthlings

Hello Friends,

My name is A.B. Corduroy. I started this .com/blog/whatever in 2013 when I changed the name I call myself as a way to promote a change in head space. 

As an entertainer/artist I wanted name that was more unique than my birth name. I wanted a way to track, if nothing more than for my own self, to track what is happening in my life.

It's a subtle to remind myself that self sanity and self entertainment are most important in my life.

I changed my name to A.B. Corduroy as a reminder to take life one moment at a time, A to B to C and so on. Corduroy because it's tougher than cotton and though life gets hard sometimes, but ya got to keep taking it one moment at a time. There are infinite moments happening at a given time, acknowledge that and take it one moment at a time.

I'm currently listening to Childish Gambino. It makes for good typing music.

This is my renewal to share more. 

The difference in A.B. Corduroy and the person you may have known before is I have no fucks to give. I am me, I do not pretend to be anymore. If I am to be a rockstar or successful artist than I want it to be from an open and honest space. I do not hype it up, it's all genuine.

Sometimes that is fun and exciting. Sometimes it's dark and feels helpless. I will do better at sharing all those said experiences.

For the last few months I've been homeless. I have a friend that offered a roof over my head. I am grateful for that, but meditating hard on getting Smoggie Catt and I a proper home base. 

I've also been falling in love with an amazing individual. I could ramble on that for a while. Not now though. I will not ink her name at this moment out of respect. 

rambles, rambles, rambles. I also posted some art for sale under my interweb store. I'll post more and take them down as they are sold. They are selling more frequently these days and I hope the interweb store makes that more effective. 

I need to brush my teeth and clean up my belongings so I'm going to stop typing for now.

Be free fellow earthlings,

-ABC

 

.com back online

it's been too long, but i'm back online.

  • more frequent blogging to follow. 
  • adding new art in the interweb store very soonly.
  • site needs some updating, for sure.

but now i must go to work from 5pm to 12am.

be free fellow earthling.

<3 ABC

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