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[sounds] Stripped State: Laurel Canyon Recordings

April 20, 2018

From January to June 2018, my wife Cat costume designed the series adaptation of the podcast Homecoming that shot in L.A., so we decamped Brooklyn for a 1930s cottage aerie perched halfway up Laurel Canyon. I bought a knock around Seagull guitar at the perfect scaled All-In-One guitar shop in Koreatown, and figured I’d have the Gentleman of the Canyon adventure I always dreamt. Over the six months, I took a trip back to my own songwriting time zero, stripped down and raw, to that place where I just sat and thought and wrote and strummed. And listened. And learned, embracing every mistake as an intention…

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[img] this falls on 20180818

August 9, 2018

this falls on 20180818
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[music video] This Canyon Drive

August 2, 2018

Figures that living in Laurel Canyon for six months would inspire one of my best tracks. Special place. Will return with more permanence someday.

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[dispatch] laughing algorithms

August 2, 2018

Laughed out loud to myself the other day, offline, listening to vinyl, thinking the algorithms were at bay, but then Alexa on the shelf between the speakers laughed along.

— ../westy (@westyreflector) August 2, 2018

August 02, 2018 at 06:16PM
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[track] The Space In Rain

July 28, 2018

Rainstorm / 20170717
Bridgehampton, NY
Close friends’ house, Cottage bedroom
improv on a 44-key upright Grieg piano, un-tuned, sticky keys
iPhone w/ a Shure MV88 lightning condenser sitting on a windowsill

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[dispatch] 20180721.2115

July 21, 2018

"Not gonna lie," always implies "(this time)."

— ../westy (@westyreflector) July 21, 2018

July 21, 2018 at 09:15AM
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[img] barrels + bootlegs 20180718.1945

July 18, 2018

barrels in bridgehampton b/w bootlegs in brooklyn pic.twitter.com/CRN70MY0Yx

— ../westy (@westyreflector) July 18, 2018

July 18, 2018 at 07:45PM
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[img] washed up zero

July 17, 2018

A zero washed up on the beach today. He said, “I’m looking for some one who wants to get even.”
July 17, 2018 at 11:34AM
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[img] Provoke a plover, run for cover…

July 16, 2018

“Welcome to Eyewitless News. Our top story: A pissed Piping Plover is pooping on posh people, and politicians and police are powerless. Our Penelope Pepperpane is positioned for a play-by-play. Penelope?”
“Thanks, Preston. They say, ‘Provoke a plover, run for cover.’ Well…”
July 16, 2018 at 11:41AM
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[dispatch] 20180715.2245

July 15, 2018

She was a Dusky Shark. Conservation status: Vulnerable. Signs she was giving birth when she washed ashore. No visible trauma. Total mystery. Sad.

— ../westy (@westyreflector) July 16, 2018

July 15, 2018 at 10:45PM
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[img] shark’s circle of life

July 15, 2018

“There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins.” – Alan Watts pic.twitter.com/DqtQRaPD4S

— ../westy (@westyreflector) July 16, 2018

July 15, 2018 at 09:58PM
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[dispatch] 20180624.0445: Rainbows End

June 24, 2018

A six month + five day journey west ended today with rainbows at every turn. Next stop NYC. pic.twitter.com/RwiAh4ijX2

— ../westy (@westyreflector) June 24, 2018

June 24, 2018 at 04:45AM
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[dispatch] 20180623.0543: Lili ‘Lele

June 23, 2018

Meet Lili, short for Liliko'i (Hawaiian passion fruit), built in Maui of mango wood by @MeleUkesMaui. "I am a child of ocean and mountain," she says, "and I will quiet New York City for you." pic.twitter.com/xanDYzhlln

— ../westy (@westyreflector) June 23, 2018

June 23, 2018 at 05:43AM
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[img] one of these surfers need not worry

June 22, 2018

one of these surfers need not worry about getting rag-dolled by a shore break
June 22, 2018 at 03:31PM
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[img] “California’s been good to me…”

June 15, 2018

“California’s been good to me / Hope it don’t fall into the sea / Sometimes you got to save yourself / It ain’t like anywhere else…” – Tom Petty
June 15, 2018 at 04:07PM
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