MORE FUN THAN AN OPEN CASKET FUNERAL

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This "mysto" sandbar is dead and gone, but was fun while it lasted... Here's an indulgent look back at the mid-month session that the PIPE ORGANS for THE IDES OF MARCH sequence came from.
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It was a tight fit of people on a small take off boil, but on this particular day it seemed everyone was buzzed and giddy enough from the special occasion of this temporary creation that it felt less like a jockey for position battle, and more like a party atmosphere in the lineup:
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Party Balls... Everyone got a turn at the spigot of strange brew...
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Always a gas watching friends getting tanked...
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And the rug pulled out from underneath 'em...
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Lots of weird, random, sloshers inbetween sets...
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Standing and stalling had its rewards...
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But a couple of the older, more experienced in the crowd proved that the best way to score with this little bitch of a wave was the more layed back, conventional approach of missionary position...
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R.C. on inflatable mattress:
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And Jason Hall sportin' his "Lil' Yellow Dode" (home foiled plywood) and...
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getting a deep little in/out on the thing:
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Intoxicated vulgarities, lost Dode retrieval later in the session...
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And back out for more full moon fever...
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CORROSION O.C.

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Once upon a time... in 1984...
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Track 20) Cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Green Manalishi" @ 5:05 minutes into 17-20 clip.
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Corrosion of Conformity (C.O.C.) was formed in Raleigh, North Carolina by bassist and vocalist Mike Dean, guitarist Woody Weatherman and drummer Reed Mullin in early 1980s. Their hardcore punk-oriented 20-track debut Eye for an Eye—the only album featuring the vocalist Eric Eycke—was released in 1984 (later re-released by Caroline Records during 1990).
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WORLD'S BIGGEST NECKLACE

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I was thinkin' about turquoise, I was thinkin' about gold
I was thinkin' about diamonds and the world's biggest necklace
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I said, "I got no money," he said, "That ain't necessary"
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— Excerpts from Dylan's "Isis"
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The richest of jewels await those who paddle when sky is still bruised by night. This one is for all the dedicated bruisers out there.
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ST. PATTI'S DAY / ST. PAT'S DAY

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PIPE ORGANS for THE IDES OF MARCH

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Like grapes dropped into the mouth of Julius Caesar, this sure to be short lived little beast of a wave was eating both young and old alive this weekend and spewing its own guts all over the place.
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WHO AM I on SATURDAY THE 14TH

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HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH with ROKY, SKETCHY LANDINGS & BOB

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CAPILLARY BED

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CAPILLARY BED, 2009. Shell grooves (Eroded? Or possibly/partly made by a predator... from the radula of an animal such as a Whelk?) with dyed bees wax inlay.
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ALIEN ALOHA

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Gavin "The Alien" Beschen
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Above frame grabs taken from the short video documented peek, below, into The Alien's life here on Earth. End of the vid contains 2.5 minutes of his ever unique style in the water:
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IT AIN'T CITY MUSIC

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A fine documentary film link passed along... Thanks Ian.
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IT AIN'T CITY MUSIC is a light-hearted celebration of grass-roots America and its music filmed at the National Country Music Contest at Lake Whippoorwill in Warrenton, Virginia, in 1972. The people interviewed in the film speak nostalgically about their rural origins, their folks, the Depression, and hard times, but now many have left the hills and farms and moved into suburbia, and into the city. Increasingly the themes of country music songs deal with the complications of life away from the farm. "Any country song you hear nowadays, the guy's either in jail or just got divorced," notes a man who continues, "but it's their lives and they write songs about it."
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