Friday, February 21, 2020

re: the beast

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

it's nearly the end of February and I have to ask myself, who the hell blogs anymore? haha. it seems so digitally archaic and old fashioned now. the modern equivalent of a pen and quill and ink. I still do blog I guess, sporadically at best and neglectfully at worst.

This year I'll try to hit it again and a lot harder than I have in the past.

I hope you've been well and good. It's hard to believe I started this blog 12 years ago! What the hell? how does that much time pass and how much can a person change and still not really change that much at all?

I've spent the past 5 or 6 years really working on my guitar sounds only to realize I'm basically back where I started way back in the 1990's when I had a digitech DSP 21 or whatever it was called, a rack mount guitar unit and pedal I used to use on the road and in the studio. To think that I've been on the road over and recording songs and albums over 25 years is hard to fathom.

To be sure, I never got rich, but here I am nearly 50 and still not growing, I mean giving up. Youth truly is wasted on the young. haha, another thing I've come to realize as I reach half a century in age. I think it's important to find mentors and people to help you along the road and if you stumble blindly along the road, people will recognize skill and talent and implored to help you along the way. Sometimes for their benefit and sometimes for yours. Experience and time will help you define the differences between the two.

In many ways I think my best work is to come in the next ten years if I don't give up, which I'm not planning on doing anyway in the first place, so I hope this year will be full of excitement and shows and forward movement not just for myself, but for you too!

cheers,

CB.












Wednesday, January 15, 2020

re: happy new year!

Hello loves, friends, fans and foe,

happy new year!

it's 2020! I can't believe it!? where are the flying cars and cool and gross cities like we were promised in Blade Runner?

It's an interesting time to be sure, but I'm not sure where I fit in all the madness haha. So, that's the last of the free bits of the new book "N'shaytkin" I'm going to load up,  you can buy yourself a copy here: http://www.batteryoperabooks.com

Please do!

Battery Opera Books is an extension of Battery Opera, a dance/performance company that I've been working with for about 5 years or so off and on. They are wonderful, amazing people to collaborate with and I can't say enough good things about them!

This is the year I return to arts and academia!

What else can I say, I've missed it and after some time off the road I'm ready to get back into it older and wiser.

Last month in December we did 5 days of performances and I think 7 shows/readings in that time space and it was fun! We reached new audiences and made new fans but it was exhausting because I've been away from the stage for so long. I also take a long time between projects now, I don't crank things out like I used to, that pace can't be kept up. I always took years between books because each book could be promoted all across the country and anywhere really because Indigenous literature is still so new.

The art stuff was all a matter of timing, the right place, the right time and the right content. Then finding exhibitions and people to tour with for shows. Same with the films and music.

I also learned to quit trying. haha.

What I mean is quit trying to get people on the road and or quit trying to get people to see what you've seen because if they haven't done it, they don't have a frame of reference and it goes in one year and out the other. haha.

Plus, some people or a lot of people just don't want to do it, so quit bugging them and get on with it.

Life is for learning and living, so get out there and do the best you can people!

aight, peace out for now!

CB.
ps: here's a link to the mini-tour! photos!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisbose1/albums/72157712445639392