By Dibson on 2010 March 9
When I was in Berlin last May I got to be in a band called Space Rainbows. After returning to the states, Space Rainbows Berlin continued to work. Here’s a video of them performing the song “Shamona”.
Posted in Videos | Tagged berlin, fourtrackonstage, shamona, spacerainbows
By Dibson on 2010 March 8
I played tons of video games as a kid; one of my favorite themes was from the Nintendo game “Metroid”. Here’s the theme if you don’t know it. It gets good at 30 seconds if you want to skip.
8-bit Nintendo video game music charms me still. The Nintendo could have five channels [...]
Posted in Writings | Tagged bach, fugue, metroid, music, nintendo
By Dibson on 2010 March 5
Weeks ago: friend Jon and I walk up 2nd Avenue, and I tell him of a fantasy I have of moving to the woods. Walden comes up, and I say I had difficulty reading it. He recommends Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, saying it holds more relevance to our generation since it’s [...]
Posted in Writings | Tagged anniedillard, definitions, pilgrimattinkercreek
By Dibson on 2010 March 5
A Jean Baudrillard quotation, from Fragments: Cool Memories III
If everything can seem indifferent when you have encountered the most beatiful of things, why don’t we regard the opposite situation as equally fateful: having read the worst book, having seen the dullest landscape, having met the stupidest, ugliest woman? There should be a perfection of [...]
Posted in Quotations | Tagged baudrillard, useless
By Dibson on 2010 February 23
Photos from my mobile phone while I lived with Rose in Ridgewood. Rose is now very happy in Hudson, NY.
Posted in Images | Tagged cat, rose
By Dibson on 2010 February 23
On Saturday: Deenah, Dan, Daoud & I wake up in Indio, California. We drive from our Motel 6 to Joshua Tree National Park. I’ve never seen a Joshua Tree before. After driving through miles of flat space, coming upon a Joshua Tree feels like an encounter with a god.
Before I acknowledge the [...]
Posted in Images, Writings | Tagged cactus, danfishback, daoudtylerameen, deenahmoffie, joshuatree, rock
By Dibson on 2010 February 18
Sunset, 2010 February 7
In Los Angeles, I climb the hill on Occidental College campus. At the top I meet a stranger who tells me to take a photo of these birds because they’re a rare site. For his whole life he’s lived near the hill we stand on, so I believe him. [...]
Posted in Images, Writings | Tagged california, losangeles, sun, time, travel
By Dibson on 2010 February 16
Ok, this one’s not a tree.
Posted in Images
By Dibson on 2010 February 15
I think these are from Feb 06, first weekend of being in LA. Matt hadn’t yet arrived because he was trapped in DC in the huge snowstorm.
Here is Dan at the breakfast table:
Sara, pondering her soon-to-be-cut hair.
And Kevin reaching for his soon-to-be-shoed foot.
Posted in Images | Tagged danfishback, kevinkelly, sarakelly
By Dibson on 2010 February 5
The room I slept in last night. Last night it was like this but darker.
Today you could see outside. It’s like this, but lighter.
A store with lots of living friends. Bunnies. Don’t touch.
Birdies. Can you see them?
Posted in Images | Tagged birdie, bunny, cage, losangeles, room
