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With my trusty gopro this weekend we did some timelapse on the drive. Gorgeous drive, rare occasion where there's no one in front of you at all.

How are you?

Our weekend was a long, well spent drive deep into the psyche of New South Wales. It's quite the trip.

I find it so compelling, I wish you could be there to get from it what I get.

See what I mean.

If your world is in part, defined by your environment, then we inhabit a kinder world than many.

It's almost as if the edge of reality, the part that is free from some self imposed version of anxiety, is there, but you have to catch it like riding a wave. It takes awareness and a little balance. Fortunately for me, I have a few friends to steady me when I lose my step. We should all be so lucky.

We have Team of Garry, Jackson, Corine and Chris to thank for their help this weekend. So thank you.

On the way down, between Nowra and Bega I got some great time-lapse go pro footage for a video but I can't figure out which song to use. That's what we'll be doing while we careen the vessel, scrape the barnacles off and take a bloody well earned rest for a month. Except for Theo because he just doesn't quit.

2016 has been good to us and to those we love. I see a lot of online anxiety but I visit a lot of places that live at a different speed. It encourages me that there's more to think than we imagine.

Inside the stormcellar, we talk of Weather Patterns, Tides and Orbits. Chaotic and/or complex interacting systems. It's not certainty. Bummer huh?

But we're ok with High Variability, because we believe it's always been highly variable. Sometimes you just can't see it; sometimes it's very much easier not to see it. Pattern and coincidence. Agency and Randomness. 

For us, there's solace in the work. In the company. In the doing. To quote the master, Harry Manx, your tears reflect the world you make.

The act of kindness to one another seems too weak a force on a global anxiety level, but it's a very strong personal force. It binds us to one another. Each part upon part and so on. Yeah I know, Zen and the art of Harmonica, but as Doc Span says "don't try to the be the best'un, just be a good 'un" and that echoes in everything else.

For us it's some well earned rest. Mixing SC9. Working on songs for Jo, and others beside. Trying to crank out a few more vids, just 'cos.

 We come back on deck in Jan, but we've got fun things to do between now and then.

You take care of yourself and pop by for some chill out time when you need it. you know what we'll be doing.

I got a message from a man at an airport on his way back from Iraq to tell me National Public Radio in Kansas City did a feature interview with DC Bellamy about Kansas City Gold and spun a bunch of tracks.

That means we've been on the ABC of the USA, which is NPR, but is not the actual ABC of the USA. It's more like our ABC here. NPR that is, not the ABC, in the USA.

Clear?

Let me help you out

ABC - Australian Broadcasting Commission, AU Public broadcaster, descended from the BBC

NPR - National Public Radio, US equivalent government/public funded non commercial network

ABC USA - American Broadcasting Corporation - large scale 20th Century TV broadcaster

Right,  I'm glad we had this talk.

I treasure these south coast runs, what a way to spend a weekend.  

Yeah expect FB pics of pretty tree's n-stuff on the way down, you know what to expect.

Jackson Fisher will be our guest at both shows

Friday night 25 Nov, Commercial Hotel Bega

Saturday night 26 Nov, Eden Fishermans club

Greetz folks.

SC9 is moving towards mixing and I'm feeling pretty pleased with that.

I get a lot of comfort from what we do, a lot of fellowship and a lot of good vibes. It helps me to deal with my world a little more easily.

We started this Blog back in the day, when Roscoe, Big Daddy and 'Classified' were overseas. I was told that for folks in harms way, or just far away, seeing some reminder of the mundane, 'normal' world was a good thing. Emails that I'd receive told me that they'd been following our progress. So in a way, we were a form of social media. Just a small group :-)

Having a useful function pleases me. Think of us as your Mental Backscratcher. For when you just can't get that spot!. John Stuart Mills approved!

Regular 'cellar dwellers might get the sense of peace we get from the travelling. I live-blog more to pics to FB these days due to convenience and the differing usage patterns we see naturally arising from...oh...sorry...ahem....err...we go pretty place, make nice picture! Smile!

I like trees.

On the porch of the hotel at Dubbo, at 3am, as Flame Trees died away like the final notes of Last Post from the Jukebox, we sat in a pretty safe, calm place and called Indiana to talk Mixing and cos we knew AJ would get a kick out of such a call.

We were discussing the pro's and cons of getting a new desk mix or jumping straight in to track by track mixing.

There's no right answer, or maybe a series of right answers. AJ was in the same superposition.

And that's where I stop talking about the mixing and note that it's a nigh on a miracle that we get to do this stuff :-) Can't fault the gratitude.

We'll spend the next 3 months at least, messing about with an album, working with a good dude, going back and forth within the band.

It's a good thing in and of itself. When you need a moment, a time out, come down into the stormcellar with us :-)