a day in the life of piano monkey

during iceland trip, i decided to look for a last minute booking for rental car, hoping to get out for a last chance to catch the northern lights. i decided to rent through a third-party brokerage company, rentalcars.com.  however, the weather turned seriously threatening and i had to leave early. *btw, real posts about the trip will be up in near future. the trip itself was absolutely amazing. on way back to town, i had about 30 min to the pick-up time. the company does not have phone lines open on saturday or sunday. without smartphone, i could not even try to get on the web to cancel the reservation.  so i called the actual rental car company directly to cancel. they cancelled it and said they have not received any part of the payment and is unlikely to see any of it, and that i am probably not going to see it either. and they were right. you can only cancel your booking online, only up to 48hrs to the pick-up time, it was all in the small prints. they are selling p...

(one of my fav shows ever, 'o' @ bellagio) it seems that end of 2014 is star-studded, literally. and yes, i thank the universe for giving me the chance to look up and see the beautiful space we live in. yes, space. this morning, the orion project launched and returned in success. almost faultless. here's nasa's brief explanation of the scope of the orion project. http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasas-orion-flight-test-and-the-journey-to-mars/#.VII9ORbWbx4 that's right kids, we are returning to space! 20 july 1969, three men- brave, probably nuts and extremely capable, went up and landed on moon.  six hours later, they left bootmarks on the moon.  the mystical moon became a brief reality- and it was so different from what we have pictured for the entire humanity up to this point.  a place with its own love (gravity), bit smaller and starker than our own home, but nonetheless, a familiar face. however, things then slowed down. nixon axed the space prog...

and just like that, the way to the north has been paved. fuelled by jazz gig i went to last thursday eve (in-your-face-beat-up metal jazz), the little blocks fell into place, no gaps- hyper-real tetris game. chasing after a feeling over and over and over again, in obsessive manner, decisions simply take shape. it was made already, somewhere, long ago, now catalyzed. i build a collage. i build a ship. i build a door for my cage. confluence. each time i travel, there's something to find. sometimes, with people. sometimes, alone. but always in flux of confluence.  tossing self out of the 32nd floor concrete nest, i always find something. something that was waiting for me- for how long, i may never know. at the local gear shop, kind salesperson who was helping brought up the idea of solace in desert.  his was the mojave desert. mine, volcanic steam vent desert of kerlingarfjoll.  and now, to ice desert. the desert is a place of solace, because it is not barr...