Chris Vreeland @Devils_Rancher@octodon.social
Devils Rancher is an anagram. Musician, Printer, Father of Erin the Spaceship Builder, photographer, Mac, Adobe guru chrisvreeland.com... Austin, TX #MeFite
"Found" (buried in Lightroom) a roll of film from 2012 that I'd never put on line. Here's the view from the McDonald observatory looking east, towards Fort Davis, Texas.
Jesus, what a week. 58 hours on the clock, 2 band rehearsals & four hours last night working on new songs with the headphones on, & now I’m feeling guilty because all I’ve done all day is balance the checkbook, pay bills, walk the dog & grocery shop. When is it ok to be done?
So I’ve picked up a gig in June, playing... Disco hits of the 70’s? It’s weird, trying to get a groove going to songs I viscerally hated when I was a teenage freak, but there’s some good stuff in here, too. Superstition, Right Place Wrong Time, & Saturday in the Park by Chicago, which has a surprisingly adventurous progression & arrangement. I’ve had the set list since Sunday at 1 pm & the first rehearsal is tomorrow. I know half the set. Yikes!
So I spent about 3 hours this afternoon making a somewhat amateurish but fun band poster: https://octodon.social/media/NrcpbDfQIxhIKAXRpQ8
So here’s a song by the one band I’m in that actually has a gig - everyone got to contribute parts, so the writing was a group effort:
https://m.soundcloud.com/buzzie/do-you-feel-buzzie-2015?in=buzzie/sets/buzzie-tracks
I am having the hardest time not turning my tax return into musical gear right now, despite being almost utterly dormant. (1 band has 1 gig in May!) I really want a year’s salary in savings more than anything right now, but it looks like it’s gonna take 5 more years for that to happen & I’m an impatient consumerist.
Austin: from sleepy little college town to “Kabul on the Colorado.” I work across the street from a fedex hub and we have 30-50 boxes delivered by them or UPS every day. I’m getting an uncomfortable feeling.
Bomb found at FedEx near airport linked to Austin explosions, authorities confirm
http://www.kvue.com/mobile/article/news/local/bomb-found-at-fedex-near-airport-linked-to-austin-explosions-authorities-confirm/269-530142883
@Devils_Rancher damn, I know I attached a pic to that... https://octodon.social/media/TLOHXV-0uNwpxZ4b2aE
One from my string of "A photo a day" pics before I fell off...
Full moon through clouds 3-1-18
Trying to turn my mind back towards photography- I have a backlog.
Enchanted Rock Nov 2013
I’m rolling down the hill to the hospital in a couple hours, my step daughter is having a baby via C-section at 9:30. Hugely excited about the kid, somewhat whelmed about the notion of being old enough to be a grandfather.
I made a screen printing blog post for the first time in nearly a year!
Jesus walked on water. Jesus turned water to wine. Lord, let the whole damn sea be wine.
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
"He Tells Her" is the poem I think of any time someone wants to "debate" whether trans people should exist:
HE TELLS HER
He tells her that the earth is flat —
He knows the facts, and that is that.
In altercations fierce and long
She tries her best to prove him wrong.
But he has learned to argue well.
He calls her arguments unsound
And often asks her not to yell.
She cannot win. He stands his ground.
The planet goes on being round.
- Wendy Cope
5 more days of the Comprehensive CD Ripping Project & I find myself firmly mired in the M's. I had maybe half? of my collection ripped? This is crazy.
I haven't taken a picture of my workspace in quite some time. There's a distressing lack of artwork on my walls there & a distressingly large pile of unprinted shirts on the receiving dock outside my window. I don't use the PC for anything except one Pantone matching ink mixing formula system. https://octodon.social/media/EmD1bPViD9sS9PZWtOg
@Devils_Rancher tonight I only made it through J-K. This is slow going, but I now have 5 Robert Earl Keen albums in iTunes instead of 2 so that’s a win.
27 February 2018 Winter Moon https://octodon.social/media/0Rklll7-54g6pXQP190
I've been at this for a week in my spare time & am now on the J's. Gonna finish it first before I load up my new iPod classic with an after-market SSD. So looking forward to having album shuffle back.
