lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed!

Just got in a Nez Perce Indian zine by J. Gerlach from microcosm.  Looks awesome.  Can't wait to read it.  And my huge anti-coal poster from the Beehive Collective!

Lightening is flashing up the sky and I can hear the train rumbling by our windows.  Along with a jet plane overhead. Is it ever quiet here?  My ears rang like crazy when I was in the whisper room recording music today.  It felt like the earth was pressing in on me and wanted to destroy me.  The cicadas have a soft buzzing too.  I wonder if I will see june bugs in Kansas City.  I'm trying to finish recording an album with Jesse but I have so little time before I leave for Oregon.  Before it wouldn't have been a big deal, but we have raised the bar for recording quality and are checking out the best equipment available at the school.  I almost feel like my voice is better with layers of lo-fi distortion though.  

It has been hard for me to be artistically inspired in Chicago. Probably ever since I came here 3 years ago.  I am searching and meditating to find what it is that I need that I am not getting here that will make me feel that wild life energy... I thought maybe it was the supernatural feelings of awe I got when I was little and believed in aliens, so I got into all of that stuff again... but now I've freaked myself out, by getting too swept away in unprovable superstitions.  And now I'm thinking I need to orient myself more towards nature, this is what my therapist told me is my fuel; but there's no easy answer.  Being here I become a little schizo sometimes, and for this reason I thought it was best to return to the NW at least for a semester.  I move in August to Vancouver!

I've still been creative though.  Stickers for sale later this week!  And new comic book in the works.  Along with a an album release in the coming weeks/ months!

<3 kira