Up the Tree

  • This weeks Fluckd Flicks from Flickr is Aulala’s photos.

    Anime Girl

    A bizarre mix of anime gone real life fetish… I wonder if this is the Japanese equivalent of a renaissance fair people. I think this proves that even the workaholic Japanese have too much time.

  • Dear Diary,

    It’s over. The job that wouldn’t go away has gone and the good news is it was a huge success. It cost me hours of sleep and took a few days off my life, but it’s finally done.

    Okay, now where was I? Tracks Up the Tree.

    Tracks has been taking a little sabbatical as I struggle with the overwhelming pressures of work, but I finally feel like I might have a chunk of time coming up to record a show!

    THANK THE HEAVENS!

    I haven’t talked to Josiah for almost a month and it totally sucks, but with a little ingenuity we might get a show up for next week… almost a month after our last show?! We can’t do that again, but then again it was our one year show, so I guess we did deserve a vacation.

    In other words we are nearing showtime again, just keep your iPods tuned!

  • iTunes Logo

    So, it looks like the quality control over at iTunes has finally learned from their most egregious of errors and has included Tracks Up the Tree into their music store. (Thanks Seth for the heads up)

    Of course it did take submitting the site through 3 different names to get in, ultimately through my LibSyn account, but I won’t tell them if you wont.

    I’m kind of thinking that they will bounce us after a few days once they realize who exactly they have added, but we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it. The next podcast is a little behind schedule due to more work bullshit, but we hope to be back soon for another two parter.

    Thanks for all of you who tuned into our anniversary show, you guys have made this show possible and we hope to be around a lot longer – iTunes or not.

  • Laura Viers - Year of Meteors Year of Meteors
    :4 Stars:
    Nonesuch 2005

    There are just some artist that can break into your head through your ears and churn up deeply hidden memories with a well placed lyric. Jeff Tweedy, Sufjan Stevens, Nina Nastasia have this ability for me. Each of them delivers an unaffected honesty to their music which breaks through my tempered walls to my soft gooey middle.

    On Laura Viers’ latest album Year of Meteors she manages to construct a dizzying barrage of heartfelt down-tempo melody. Although, I am new to Ms. Viers and have only recently started listening to her back catalog, this album seems to be the fruition of her past exploits. The sound is exceptionally mature with a solo breathy soulful tone.

    Year of Meteors is a fantastic record with some incredible songs that paint an unforgettable picture of a melancholy landscape.

  • Somewhere in the back of my mind I still remember the things that I used to do. Improv, play music, paint. These things have been replaced by… well I’m not really sure. My time just disappears. I go to work at 9, stay until 6 and find that the rest of the evening flashes by my face so quickly that it seems that I have no life outside of my work. I’m kind of confused how this has all happened. When did my professional life eat away at my personal life and how could I have let it happen?

    So, I’m putting together a powerpoint presentation of ways I can get back to the things I love.

    I’ll have it on your desk by Monday.