A Board Bag!

     The fact of the matter is this: that every person is at the center of their world, in other words: self-centered. You inevitably see things from your viewpoint, a viewpoint backed with your experiences and your beliefs and your being. No matter how hard you try and imagine you see something from a different point of view, I from yours or you from mine, you are imagining that persons viewpoint from your self: you are still the center imagining you are seeing it from another's center, but it's still yours. You are the center of your world.
     This fact occasionally leads to unfortunate and inevitable instances of inadvertent selfishness, and this is one of them. I realized the other day that in all the hooplah (sic?) I made about 004 being completed and being happy with it and all that, I forgot to include this bit of information: Jeannine made me the above board bag even before the board was finished. She made it out of canvas and some felt-like material with lighthouses and seabirds on it. Here's the pattern:

     It's pretty cool, and does the trick in keeping the sun off the board, and even offers some protection from minor whacks against things. It will have a drawstring on the end, but the needle broke on her sewing machine. So yeah, apologies for my self-centeredness.

     Been busy trying to get the shed ready and get things together. The lack of waves of any real substance has been killing me, but at least I have my Sunfish in the water so when it's windy I can cruise the Bay and get my salt-water kick. I've already had it out once in some pretty strong winds and nothing broke, so that beats last years Sunfish Sailing record of Nature:1, Me:0.

 Now that's strange flora!

 

     I just finished watching "You're Gonna Miss Me," a documentary about Roky Erickson, best known as one of the lead guys in the band that coined the term "psychedelic rock," the 13th Floor Elevators. If you've never heard them, hear them. Anyway, that's not what this is about. The documentary really interesting and very well done, it really shines some light on the troubled life of this excellent musician. He suffered from schizophrenia most of his life until recently his younger brother gained custody of him and got him the help he needed. As a result, Mr. Erickson not only released a new album this year, with Okkervill River serving as his backing band, but was able to tour (he played two shows in the area, both of which I regretfully missed, the reason for which escapes and mystifies me).The above song is the title track off of his new album, True Love Cast Out All Evil, and below is track number three, "Goodbye Sweet Dreams." ENJOY!