Still Windmills

Still Windmills, originally uploaded by harkathon.

Single cover, designed by Jack Hudson using a photo I took in Seattle. Check it- www.weareskylarkin.com/

Tour Not Bore

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SUMMER READING



















"...in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities. But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship's forest jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through...for refuge's sake forlornly rushing into her peril; her only friend her bitterest foe!
...But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing - straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!"
(from Moby Dick, included in The Black Veil by Rick Moody)

AKA, as our American friend and tour manager Ben would say, "Tour not bore!"
Or, in more testing times, "Don't you know tour is short for terror?"

(Ben, pictured below on arriving in Seattle after a 15 hour drive).

bow tie ben, originally uploaded by harkathon.

The Black Veil is one of many baggage-allowance-pushing finds that originated in Half Price Books, Seattle. Highly recc'.

P.38

"...I wish that I could remember more of this, that memory wasn't just a series of desires, a series of protective encasements for identity, like chain motels at the edges of canyons..."

bed

patty's

Central Cinema Seattle FTW.

Utili-kilts

I'm spending the next few weeks back in Seattle, I love this city but somehow forgot about its population of Utili-kilts. Utility kilts.
Today this bare-legged chap in Capitol Hill kindly reminded me.


















Met with universal disdain from all my Seattle-ite friends ("all three strikes"), these troubling garments would surely warrant a stabbing in actual Scotland and are apparently usually found wrapped around guys who work in IT.



Enjoy more eye-stabbing terror at http://www.utilikilts.com/
Prices range from $187.50 - $566. I shit you not.