re: new poems

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

here is a new poem, i've begun working on a new series of writing that i may or may not publish some time down the road as a book. we'll see what happens. it is funnier poetry i think, mainly because i feel better and at peace with things in my life. or trying to at least, understand things in life and cosmos and to just let them be instead of trying to control them or be frustrated by them.

anyhow, here's a new poem for your consideration:

The party is over:

It hurts where I used to play

I’ve become invisible

To women of a variety

Of ages

As I let myself go

Here and there

Spilling out of my shirt

And sides

My orgasm sounds have become

My pissing sounds

Whereas a few years ago

I was enjoying the field

Now I enjoy watching

Marathon episodes

Of new comedies or

Action thriller series

I no longer think

About relationships

Or maybe “this one will work”

Or anything like that

I don’t want to share my time

With anyone anymore

Time is precious

I don’t want to learn to deal

with idiosyncrasies

Or live with anyone

Or listen to their bullshit

Or neurosis

No I’m content to putter

About my home

Make art

Play guitar

And parent my children

As I prepare

To enter the third quarter of my life

I’m cool with it.

re: clouds and the city.......

hello lovers,

i bring you some cloud porn. i love the blue skies and clouds. hopefully you will get off as much as i do with these photos. haha. 

and then some flicks from last summer in vancouver, at english bay with my kids and then one of those little boat tours in vancouver that takes you to granville island. i don't post a lot of photos of my kids because of personal and privacy reasons. 

i could live in vancouver, but it'd have to be downtown and i'd have to be a millionaire. that city is fun, but expensive. 

there you go,

cb

re: T'kemlups pow wow arbour statues......

hello lovers,

i hope you're well, these are some flicks of the T'kemlups Pow Wow arbour statues......they're massive and imposing. 

go check them out yourself if you're ever passing through town.

until next time,

chris bose. 

re: the loops at dawn......

Hello lovers,

some flicks i found while going through assorted files looking for art. it's funny how this blog occasionally turns into a journal. these are some photos of sunrise, i would guess last spring, on an ipod i've lost. this is something i'm an expert at, losing ipods, phones and other expensive high tech shit. and the last two photos are of my friend shealagh rocking out on a couple of my guitars and my stack. loud.

well, i'll keep posting photos and i hope you enjoy them. i think the sunrise photos show the beauty of the loops. 

until next time,

cb

re: nice weather a couple days ago, then it snowed.

hello lovers,

ah, weather be damned, it was nice the other day, blue skies and weird showers, then it snowed. argh.

just thought i'd show you some flicks.

until next time

c.

i have a large collective of art magazines

and books, mostly low-brow stuff as

it is tended to be called

but it's what i love.

so i guess i'm low brow. haha

anyway, that's my juxtapoz magazine collection

in comic book plastic

because i've got kids that spill

stuff all the time.

a rare selfie

i took recently.

i also cut off my hair

it was quite long.

a bridge remnants

or logging boom?

i know we've had 2 other bridges on the

south thompson about 100 years ago.

this abandoned penguin

struck me as sad

because it was along

a sketchy part

of the river 

where homeless people

set up "bum camps,"

and live for about 4 or 5 months

a year.

crazy isolated showers

are common here, this is looking East 

up the South Thompson river.

I turned around

and caught this other isolated storm

looking West on the South Thompson river

on the Red bridge in fact.

re: coming home.....

hello lovers,

ahhhh, so you have seen the photos of the wild and crazy "crawling, weeping, betting," exhibition, festival and shows in vancouver, bc at the Unit/Pitt gallery/projects space. i'm not sure how many people were involved? 50? a 100? a 1000? it seemed like it at time, but it was brilliant. and damned.

so, after such a high, i have to come home to my smallish city in the southern interior of BC. kamloops, bc in fact, and it's quiet at night. painfully quiet. i'm often bored. and we've had very long winter, it started in October of last year, and we've had snow until the past week. imagine that. 6 months of snow. it drives you mad. plus the short days. booze helps, but even that turns against you after awhile. haha. 

but now that it's warming up, i'm out every day, hiking, walking, doing art outside, reading, taking photos, anything to get out of the house. it's a strange place, kind of bleak, not much art stuff going on unless you make things happen, which is why i started the arbour collective back in 2011 when i moved back from Kelowna, BC. 

i like it here though, something about this place, not sure what it is yet. 

it does fuck with your head though, traveling to other major centres in canada and then returning home to the silence. i've got my kids here, which is probably the main reason why i'm here still. i'm undecided about that one though. it's nice to return home and chill out and get outside in the hills or along the river, or going for drives. that's why when i'm in the cities, i rarely sleep, i'm out walking the streets, looking up at the towers, or down alleys, or wherever, seeking adventure, and stories. when i get home from touring i'm exhausted and often takes a few days to get back to normal. so now you see what i see when i get home. 

as it is getting warmer, i'll post some nicer photos tomorrow. 

until next time lovers,

c,

re: marvin strange.....

hello friends, fans, foe, lovers, leavers, winners and sinners,

above is a collaborative artwork. the skull is a photograph from fellow kamloops artist Marvin Strange. we have an exhibition together this year at the Arnica Artist Run Centre. he has a very, very cool website. it's the kind of website i actually wanted, but when i first saw, i wasn't jealous, i was impressed and felt no ill will towards this strange man. as you go through the website, change the channels and click on the image to make them larger. i know it seems like common sense, but we do live in a world where common sense is regarded as pure genius.

click on the link to go to his website: http://marvinstrange.com/

a screenshot of his website.

do check out his website and read his strange story and buy some of his art. it's from another world. literally. he even can make you custom game controllers. his work is both sculpture and machine. a post-apocalyptic hybrid demon bringer, this guy is is definitely strange. help adjust your own reality and check out his work. 

stay tuned for some more collaborative images, if you are interested in purchasing any images, email me  and i'll send you the info for the wire transfers to my swiss bank account in zurich. you will then receive instructions on where you may receive your artwork. passwords, safe words and directions.

until next time lovers,

cb