Wednesday, March 30, 2011

re: on a soundcloud......

hello friends, fans, lovers and foe,

my apologies for being away, been sort of busy doing this and that, mainly living and learning......plus i'm in another city, off the road, and adjusting to life off the road......it hasn't been easy, jeez, i spent two years traveling, and then as soon as i get off the road, end up sick off and on the past two months.......and finally am feeling better......

in the meantime, i've been combing through stacks of hard-drives and dvd's looking for an album i did in 2009 and DIDN'T release!!!

and now i want to, but of course, i do not have a copy, and trying to find one or someone i sent it to has been pretty much impossible......sigh......

i also cannot seem to figure out how to download my own songs from this account.....

http://www.myspace.com/paganmachine

but what i meant to tell you, is i found a disc recently from an album i recorded back in 1992-94 and decided to post on soundcloud!

and the tracks are FREE and available for DOWNLOAD!!!!!!

http://soundcloud.com/chris-bose

so get it on it!

have a listen! download! love it! share it!

i think these are interesting songs because they were recorded at a strange, transformative time in my life.....plus it was the 500 year anniversary of Columbus and all that insanity......i also discovered a booked call "INdigEna" based on the catalogue from a show at the National Gallery of Canada on new art from First Nations artists.......

these are artists who became huge influences on my life, carl beam, jane ash poitras, jim logan and more......

a milestone time in my life, and the music that i recorded in that era is something i'll probably never be able to recreate again.....

in the meantime kids,

i miss you and love you,


cb

Saturday, March 26, 2011

re: oldie but a goodie of a film......

hello friends, fans, foe, lovers and supporters.....

here's an old film i found amidst a stack of old storage drives.......geez, i think this is about seven years old?

anyway, dig it and i'll be back soon with some new art or something......

hugs,



mr. bose.




this just some of a lot of touring, when i was on my own and younger and greener than now......old, jaded fart.........haha! kidding!

my first national tours as a solo artist, filmmaker, author and some time musician......when the gig or someone called for it.......i remember the "e-meter" guy was in toronto at the scientology building on yonge street......ten or twelve story building full of people being broken down into little bits and being built in the image of L. Ron Hubbard. nutbar. whatever.

last fall some time, i did a tremendous amount of flying back and forth across the country, and invariably, i got to sit beside a lot of people, some cool, some not, some fun, some weird, and sometimes, airline pilots......who i asked how often do they fly, and then they told me the safe, allowable amount of time you should fly, compared to what i was doing, because apparently when you spend about 15 days in the sky a month, you are exposed to more radiation than normal, you should stay on the ground for a while. this means it is not safe. and plus, stewards and stewardesses begin to remember you, and give you that look and say to you, "oh, you again....." causing you to cringe and try to recall what the hell you did 40,000 feet above the ground at a skybar.........or what have ye.....

i mean, this was at a time when i spending about 40 hours a week on a jet going to places.......it's okay if i never have any more kids, coz i've got five, at least, so what the hell....?

and i still fall under the emerging artist category for grants! ha ha!

anyway, much love, i miss you lots and will write many love letters while we wait to see one another,

hugs and kisses,


cb

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

re: reading on monday!


Hello friends, lovers, foe,
so, here's a poster for a gig i've got on monday, do come and check it out! a free gig! 

cheers,

cb

re: more art and my new look.....



keep it real playa's! enjoy my new look, and a new artwork i've been chipping away at.........

re: lovage......


hello friends and lovers,

i've been holding back some art lately, dunno why, but here you go......

there's another one i'll post when i find it......

cheers,

cb

re: old songs made good?


i made this short film a few years ago, jeez, i think it was in imovie, and anyway, i flickered around with it and thought i'd upload it for your perusal.......this seems like a lifetime ago......i remember many of those beautiful moments like they were yesterday......alas, they are not.

all the bets,


cb

Thursday, March 10, 2011

re: vancity.....

so, i'm in van right now, and it's funky smelling, kinda of like the air has been saturated with nacho cheese chips......it's brutal.

just took a walk around east broadway and main, and it's raining......

lame.

but i'm happy to be here, as i've got a reading tonight at emily carr university, do come and check it out! it's a free event and here's the addy:

a reading by Chris Bose
7 pm, Thurs, Mar 10
South Building Room 406
Emily Carr University
Granville Island, Vancouver
Coast Salish Territories



all the bets,




cb

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

re: new stuff

hello friends, fans, lovers, and foe,

here's a piece i've been chipping away at for a while.......this is by no means complete, as i plan on adding text........also, i haven't been feeling tops lately, under the weather a bit......

hope this lovely art update finds you well and all that......the image below contains an old photo of what some say is my great grandfather.......this is up for debate, but if it is, who has more right to it? myself to use in art as a direct descendent or the person who took this photo who is surely gone in the otherworld and this is an estate thing? art has so many pompous debates, that sometimes, it's ridiculous........almost like politics..........


also, i've been listening to some of the old back log of Constellation music's stuff, the first full length album by Frankie Sparo, called "wecome crummy mystics," and the Godspeed You! Black Emperor album "Yanqui UXO" both of which i discovered back in 2002 or 2003. i hosted a variety of radio shows at Thompson Rivers University the past decade, so i was always exposed to new music at the campus/community station......

Well, if it was in the year 2003, which i'm reasonably certain it was, that was a year of fires here in British Columbia, especially in the Southern Interior.......I had been working as a farm labourer for 2 or 3 years, and was basically fed up with where i was going in life.......which seemed to be nowhere quickly.......

my peers were succeeding, scoring book deals, and touring, and i felt the art climate was stagnant and boring as hell, and I was creatively frustrated.......and i remember bitching about the status quo while pulling weeds in this huge field, with the sun beating down, and the air thick with smoke from all the massive forest fires around us, the sound of helicopters in the air, and just hitting the wall so to speak.

and as i was complaining, the kids who was working with me, looked up at me, i'm not kidding, and said, "are you chris bose?"

ha ha, i nearly shat myself, and sheepishly said, "yeah, why?"

and he told me he had read my 'zines that i was publishing and read an interview that was published by the local university magazine the "omega." i was all conspiracy theory and shit, bring down the man, kind of stuff......and he said it was cool to meet, and we stood up, shook hands, and i think i walked back to the house and quit that job.

it felt ridiculous, and i knew i had to change my life, because we had a kid coming, and so began the long process of pulling myself out of that existence into the current one.



now, seven and a half years later, i've gotten the book deal, have started having success as an artist and filmmaker, or, at least some recognition from my peers, and toured the country endlessly. now there's just the music thing to have a go at properly..........

but there's a price to pay for everything, and i'm not here without one........

anyway, listening to Frankie Sparo's song "city as it might have been" brings me back to those early struggling days of madness, hunger and such.......it's not nostalgia, because that's a dead horse, but it brings me back to our little apartment we had on the corner of 2nd and st. paul, and in many ways that was a beautiful, perfect time.......simple and clean.........

my ex and i were madly in love, and felt really united against the world, the system and the man........we had no phone, no teevee, no internet and were in this rare time in our lives where we were both super clean, straight edge, and shared ideas and moved in the same direction. it's strange the people you meet, and how many have come and gone in our lives........so many people i knew are no longer a part of my life, it's strange..........

alas, this semi golden era wasn't to last, but it was amazing while it did.......and now all these years later, you can see the mistakes you make, and how you could've avoided them.......well, life is for learning and living, and i keep on keeping on........i miss those times though.......and in many ways, my ex as well.......

but enough of that, just know i'm working on more art and some new songs and will keep on going, so in the meantime, check out some of these photos from the year we were on fire......




i totally remember this sight........it looked as though we had been nuked or something, and i was working directly across the river from that fire......the smoke was incredible.........i'll never forget that smell.......

that was the year my son was born, in the midst of all these fires, turmoil and struggle.......things don't always go as planned, but as long as you have a plan, i think that things will eventually sort themselves out.......

oh, back the music, on a final note, these albums were essential to my mental health and well being because i felt connected in some way, that i wasn't alone in the cosmos and the beauty and haunted sadness of these songs reflected my own in some way......i connected deeply with them and still feel that way, listening to them now takes me back to those days, but in a good way.........

enough of my meanderings, take care lovers, until next time,



cb

thee silver mount zion orchestra and tra la la band.......the album art caught my attention, and then the music rewired my brain! ha ha!

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Yankee U.X.O.
a deep, dark, brooding beautiful album..........

Friday, March 04, 2011

re: funny as hell......

okay, every now and then i find some really hilarious stuff online, this is but one of such things.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uwY3sjqYX0&feature=relmfu

dig!

cb

re: strange days......


weird monkey type creature eh?

the world and the web is full of weird stuff.....

anyways, keeping on keeping on people.......

cb

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

re: no quarter.....or pennies either.....

hello friends, fans, lovers and foe,

ack! i've been struggling on the art front, trying to come up with something fucking different.......there's plenty of ideas, but put into practice, they fucking suck.....haha! but i'll keep trying......

other news, well, the "Jesus Coyote TeeVee" film is done and heading out into the film festival world land and off to my distributor, Vtape in toronto..........and i've started working on my next film project, which is tentatively titled "Motherfucker Redeemer....."

and i've got about 8 or 9 brand spanking new songs with rough vocal sketches for you my sweethearts the drunkards in the audiences........

i'll work on them over the next few months.....polish them, spit on them, fight with them, get pissed with them and then maybe release them.......unlike the spoken word album i did back in 2009 and didn't release, lost the originals and now am fucked.......learn learn learn.......

there's always something fucking going on and i'm always fucking busy and why the fuck am i fucking swearing so much?

i'm not sure, i'm probably fucking pissed off about something, and goddamnit if i can't properly swear now and then, what the fuck?

ahaha!

kidding, well, here's a snippet of some thing i'm working on as well as some pics of my daughter aurora......and whatever music i'm listening to and how many layers in that fucking artwork i'm slaving over......until fucking next time kiddies,


hugs from uncle bad,


cb


and an album that never gets dull....