in public, the glare!

i am pleased to see that just over the weekend i have gotten a lot of visitors to the site here

i am finding its easy to put this stuff up and i'll try and keep it regular

one of my main objectives is to have a place to put up music i am working on, for sale or free i'm not sure... the whole problem of making money from music now is just too weird 

its always been that but for different reasons... the formula used to be that the tour promoted the record now that equation has completely reversed itself and the record supports the tour... i dont think of too many other things that have totally flipped like that

i put up some new pictures, well ones that havent been up here before, amongst them some shots of Goldfield Nevada... that is a place that we passed through a couple of years running while driving from Vegas to Burning Man outside of Reno Nevada... in 1890 or thereabouts Goldfield was a boom town of more than 30 thousand souls, the Goldfield Hotel was the biggest hotel in Nevada... but the mines fizzled out and now its a veritable ghost town with just a few hundred people living in and around... its beautiful in its bleakness though; the main street has brand new building standing next to abandoned ones that look like they have been empty for decades... the hotel is notoriously haunted, every one of the various 'ghost hunter' tv shows have done a segment there but the locals say that its all bunk

 the scenes from 'Vanishing Point' of the radio station apparently were shot in the Goldfield Hotel... gee i see now that the hotel has a Myspace page... 

i frequently think about retiring to Goldfield, theres something wonderfully barren and slow about it... its just so damn hot 

 also i put a different picture on my Cormac McCarthy quote page, its a sort of swamp near home here

then here is a punk orange