re: day 3 song of the 5 day song challenge!!!

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

it's day 3 of the 5 day song challenge it's safe to say i'm kicking it's ass. haha. 

so, here's the 3rd song and video, and i don't really plan this out, it just comes together.

i woke up this morning at 5:30, made some tea and picked up a guitar and played this riff. it's an old one, i wrote it about 20 years ago, but it hasn't found a home yet. maybe now it has, it's kind of somber, kind of beautiful, kind of introspective and relaxing. when i added the video, i started dropping in travel stuff from across canada. being an artist/musician/author and filmmaker in a small town means you have to travel A LOT!!!

traveling takes it's toll, you miss loved ones, your home, your bed, and so on. but it is also awesome, and exciting, you meet new people, see new places, learn new things and it's good for the soul. it's a cruel catch 22. when you're on the road too long, you miss home and everything about it, but when you're home, after a few days you can start climbing the walls wanting to be back out on the road. perhaps they'll never reconcile themselves. haha, and i'm okay with that, i crave new adventures and stories, so i'm sure i'll never stop as long as i can. 

anyway, peace out, stay tuned for tomorrow's song and video!!

cheers,

cb

re: final night of "crawling, betting, weeping," at the Unit/Pitt.......

Hello lovers,

how i've missed you. here are some performance flicks from the final night of the "Crawling, Weeping, Betting," exhibition, performance series, and so on. it was amazing and i bet we had about 100 people there or so. each one was wild and unpredictable, full of energy, madness and fun. i never want to do an exhibition the same way as long as i live.

and to think this all started out because david and i couldn't find a sober clown. so we figured we'd create an opportunity for a sober clown to appear but it didn't happen. so now, we focus our energy on europe. we figure there's some 500 million people on the continent, or so, and better chances of finding a sober clown. plus, you can tour canada ten times, and it gets to be the same old same old after awhile. i haven't been to europe for some time, so it is time to do some research and development for a new series of shows. wish us luck.

and thanks for coming, i missed you dearly,

cb

on the left is 

max murphy

 saxophonist extraordinaire. 

baritone sax. 

heavy metal. 

david mackintosh 

singing the blood song

to get the blood flowing

and the drinks moving

a friday night ritual

that launched the cabaret

it got better and stronger 

by the end.

and he loved it

i think. 

captain, booze enthusiast, author

raconteur, scoundrel, and a man

born at the right time

and the wrong time.

max givn'r on the sax.

there were also two drummers that night.

epic.

sommelier david mackintosh

free booze was given 

on the friday cabaret nights

based on the stories told.

veda hille was storyteller

the last night

and she's in front of dave sitting

slightly to the his left.

she told a great coming of age story

of her daughter. 

as a father of 3 or 4 girls

i can relate.

on the opening night

we had most of vancouver legends

"the sons of freedom,"

and it was rawk!!!

special thanks to david mackintosh

for inviting me to collaborate 

on this amazing project

he said it was something he's been

wanting to do since the 1980's.

and special thanks to all who participated

the dancers

the storytellers

the artists

the musicians

the people who came again and again

thank you

it was an amazing experience.

chris bose. 

re: unit/pitt and battery opera show continued.....

hello lovers,

ahhhh winter, it's still snowing in kamloops, bc, and we still have snow on the ground, but the sun is shining and we've got that "golden hour" of light as i type this out. the kids are eating and i thought i'd take a minute or two to type this out.

here are some more flicks of the vancouver show with david mackintosh.

the final night of performances, music and stories. it was amazing. i was there for the opening night and the closing nights. how it worked was thursday night, 11:30 to 12:30 was a "witching hour" solo performance opportunity for an invited guest artist. they would do what they wanted for an hour inside the unit/pitt at 236 pender, un-interrupted from the audience, who had to stay outside and watch voyeuristically as the artist did their thing.

friday nights 10 - 12 pm, were a cabaret style performance opportunity with guest musicians and a storyteller sharing some story of their choice as well as dancers performing reinterpretations of the 12 stories/poems david and i told in the book published for the event, "crawling, weeping, betting." which were based on our experiences in vancouver, bc.

saturdays, 12-5 pm were guided tours throughout the vancouver based on the 12 stories in the book we published. they were amazing. i was told people wept, or got emotional when the guides took them on various routes through the city and read or told the pomes and stories from memory.

it was an amazing experience, one i'll never forget, and one i wish to repeat now in europe.

gotta go, the kids are done breakfast and demand attention. haha.

kids.

cb

Various Vancouver, BC, photos from the end of February 2014

while shutting down the exhibition at the Unit/Pitt gallery.

"Bitch please,

I'm fabulous!"

a strange toy figure

in the display case at

"Golden Age Collectibles,"

on granville street. 

great comic store.

i also like "lucky comics," 

which is way down on main st.

the "loose moose," downtown vancouver, just off granville 

towards the granville street bridge, it's a heavy metal

bar and i drank with the band "children of bodom,"

a few weeks ago here. it was awesome, 

they drink like champs.

pretty much a great hidden gem in vancity

always blasting great music

and all food is less than $6.00

fuck. yeah.

re: new posts....

hello lovers,

it's been quite awhile since i've been here. many hectic things have prevented me from posting as well as a general laziness i can't cop out on. haha. i think i psych myself out more on posting than the time and effort it takes to post new stuff. plus, sometimes i feel no one reads this stuff anyway, so why bother? haha. but when i look back to stuff four or five years ago, it's interesting, to me, what the heck i was doing back then. i've got a shitty memory. i'll admit it. so i think blogging is important that at least.

well, the kids are still asleep, it's 6:45 am and i'll post a few pics from the past few months or couple months at least. i had a really big show with David Mackintosh, co-found of Battery Opera, at the Unit/Pitt galleries the past couple months, and i've been trying to kick start contracts and generally get paid. check it out here!

http://www.helenpittgallery.org/exhibitions/past/crawling-weeping/

some flicks from that show!

i sort of snuck painting on the walls

of the Unit/Pitt early one morning.

David had no idea what i was going to do

(i think!)

but i got the keys to the gallery and arrived at about 8 am

and started painting.

it's an allegorical painting. 

this part shows my throwie style

and leaving kamloops, bc

running away to vancouver, bc back in 1986

that's my little silhouette leaving the mountains/valley of kamloops, bc

with the owl pictograph watching over me

as i enter the forests.

moving through the forests i go through a charred and burning

landscape, the desert, or semi-arid desert of the interior

plateau of southern british columba. 

it's bloody hot here and kind of looks like new mexico.

i enter the blue and white mountains of the coast

hitching all the way down to vancouver, bc

and descend into the city.

which i painted gold, silver and copper to represent 

the wealth and promise it holds

but for the most part is a lie.

as the exhibition/performances/dance/music and booze

went on for 7 weeks, we invited artists and guests to attack

and paint on the wall. so all the other stuff you see

was added by guests.

it was awesome to paint on the walls of a gallery

even though i probably wasn't allowed. haha.

i also found their beer stash and drank about 8 beers

in the 4 or 5 hours it took to paint the walls. haha.

i don't think keith or brynn really cared about that. 

well, the kids are waking up and i was right

this is a pain in the ass to do

just this little part took half an hour. fuck.

i'll add more photos later. 

adios,

cb

re: upcoming show.

hello lovers,

a new film for an upcoming show at the Belkin Gallery in Vancouver, at UBC. 

Savage. Heathen.

Something i've been called many times in my life, and now that i'm overcoming all that hate, slander and racism, as well as impossible odds, it feels good. damn good. to finally be able to take over cities and kick ass. all that work, endless nights of making music, or writing or making art, are finally starting to pay off. where it all goes, we'll have to see. until then, i've got more work to do.

i'm exhausted, but there's more work to be done.

until next time lovers,

cb

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the above film is at the above gallery. 

re: the maiden.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i bring you the maiden.

until next time lovers,


cb

re: sin will find you....in vancity! hahahaha!

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

i'm in vancity, unceded Coast Salish territory for 1 day for the gig in the poster below. i'm hitting my favourite comic shops, doing the gig and going back to the mountains before sin finds me. muhahahaha.

until next time lovers,

happy VD day.

CB

re: vancity show

happy new years friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i spent the past week in Vancity, as i've had a show at the UNIT/PITT gallery in 15 East Pender, as well a book launch in conjunction with the show. my good friend Cease Wyss curated the show at the gallery, and was a super awesome host, taking me around the city, showing me cool art and giving me a annotated sense of the history of vancity. it's been awesome, got to spend more time on the rez in North Van, and check out the community garden she's got going on on her reserve.

so, it's been a great week for my headspace and the show was great fun, the launch went super, a lot of people made it, and i also read at Cafe De Soleil on commercial drive with my good friend Anthony Metvier, who added a performance art element to his reading by destroying his book at the end of it. haha, it was awesome.

well, a lot of people really helped out, and i'd like to thank Keith Higgens at the UNIT/PITT Gallery, Cease Wyss for curating it, my friends many who made it to the launch and were great sports and good to see, as well as everyone else who made it to the show!

i've included some photos for you to enjoy,


cheers,


cb.

vancity at night from stanley park

at UNYA

cool!?

my friend cease wyss

dragonfly

shell

vancity by day

bracken

culturally modified tree in stanley park!

i love this orca!

my friend Tania's info for her art at Stanley park

her work. 

my chapbook.

just saw this on commercial drive, thought it was cool.

somewhere in van.

beets i helped harvest.