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clairechenette

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clairechenette Elastic Waltz

Day 01

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clairechenette Flocking Together

Day 02

Setting from Birds and Words by Charles Harper: Flocking together as summer wanes, a brigade of bachelor Red-wings swings into the southbound lane, where traffic's backed up to the Arctic Circle. Guest percussion and vocals from Miriam and Jon Chenette Comments (6)

clairechenette Stuck in New York

Day 03

flight to LA cancelled twice for "snowstorm" Comments (5)

clairechenette TheBath, BestWestern, Bozeman, Montana,USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Uni, Verse

Day 04

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clairechenette Shades of White

Day 05

At home pink bursts from green and oranges hang from the backyard trees. The sun sets bright agates into the silver band of ocean Stuck here, we treasure crystals one cannot hold in one’s hand that cover every feature a thousand shades of white, white, white Comments (5)

clairechenette You A Comet

Day 06

I flew over a place where the ocean glistened red And the highways blistered like baking loaves bread The stars pin pricked the pink a pillsbury dough sky And I drank my weak black coffee as I left you sweetly behind As fibers of wool, as peas on the vine We were as sweetly separated as happily entwined I drank that sweet dark liquor you drank a cup of light I Got a belly full of midnight you a comet burning bright Comments (3)

clairechenette Skretch

Day 07

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clairechenette The Day The Sun Rose Twice

Day 08

I saw the sun rising as I left la Flew into night Back to the polar yesterday Delirious drinks offered me by charming ladies Rendered me out sweetly snoozing on a nearby knee Cotton ball bits puffing out of my blanket Wrapped around cozy over the black pacific We took on arace challenged by the bear in the sky Neck in neck with Mars as Orion flew by Cassiopeia stumbled tripping Gemini Venus tried to cheat and was disqualified We were flying fast and almost muscled in front of hydra When all of a sudden the pacific ran right into china Flying over china I saw the sun rise Thats the story of day the sun rose twice Comments (4)

clairechenette Snow and Stars

Day 09

poem by Wallace Stevens (apologies, Wallace) cowritten with tigerx Comments (0)

clairechenette How the Rose Grows

Day 10

The rose grows totally oblivious to how he looks He promises a sickeningly Sweet love affair But he lies I wouldn't fall for that vein bloom if I were you He tosses his pink petals as though He couldn't care that he'd caught your fancy don't you see what made him like this so Callously elegantly superficial All he wants is the touch of a bumblebee And he'll bewitch any number of lovers to get it He couldn't care for the pleasure of your eyes or your nose or your bumbling admiration or your dumb appreciation any more than he cares for the bricks his roots have broken Comments (7)

Zunk: Whoo, a favorite from the first line - bravo. So very Mellotron'ishly delicious, too.** - Sesame St.

Zunk: ... second time through, awesome. It has this Electrelane fog to it (solely from familiarity, and first to mind), but with the uneasiness a lot of those tracks were going for... not trying to pigeonhole anything with that, I just really, really dig this track.

Zunk: Kings of Convenience, a little later. I forget about these things until I'm reminded... I'll get those records out later. - Ugh, the composition on this track is brilliant to me - I would love an mp3 of it to share. This sound right here is what I've been missing, and what I have a hard time trying to find. That's all.

eoj: awesome! love the end vocal/woodwnds part.

claire: Zunk, I can send you an mp3! And thank you! I will have to check out those bands.

archiecarey4: wowee zowee a choir of double reeded claires. love it

Zunk: Awesome! - zak.freed@gmail.com

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clairechenette Three Crows

Day 11

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clairechenette Thoughts on a chord and his friends

Day 12

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clairechenette Skin So Raw

Day 13

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clairechenette Engine and Caboose

Day 14

Toot Toot. Comments (5)

salperta: Them's some nice multiphonics! Not to mention a beautiful song to boot! Needs to be in a Western. Post lyrics?

marshweed: omg, so cute!!!

claire: I’ve packed up my bags and I’ll wait for my train I ain’t got a plan or a cent to my name İf you coulda loved me I woulda stayed But tomorrow your cold face will be far far away I’ve traded human love for engine and caboose I’ve traded human sounds for a steam whistle toot toot So goodbye

Rufus Dumont: multi*fun*ics

Zunk: That is an awesome goodbye.

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clairechenette Jujube

Day 15

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clairechenette An accidental fire

Day 16

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clairechenette The true story of great aunt Mini as told by Steve Abrams

Day 17

At 45 her ailing mother grew with child A babe the last hope that the village doctor could prescribe The baby was born as the old woman heaved And slipped from the shtetl right into the grave Younger than her nieces and in her sisters house Brothers boxed her ears And ignored her hungry mouth At thirteen in a New York tenement The neighbors heard her screams rattle the cement A delirious child in a hospital room As The doctors sealed up her immigrant womb Mini set out to Toronto by train rejected at the border but she would not be detained She tore up her ticket and tied up her boots And continued in the snow putting foot in front of foot Facing earths meanest jaws before she reached 18 Mini took a chance and worked a leather machine Mini, free from fancy, with her toughened hands, Stitched jeweled clasps and Knotted tapered strands Mini made her fortune and bought the factory Married a man for love never had a family When mini joined her mother, she'd died a millionaire And a distant nephew wrote to the unsuspecting heirs Comments (5)

clairechenette ladoti falare

Day 18

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clairechenette one to rule the mall

Day 19

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clairechenette joy ride

Day 20

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clairechenette Nasty Loop Soup

Day 21

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clairechenette Breakfast meets James Klopfleisch, ends up in Honor Band Auditions

Day 22

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clairechenette As We Were Talking

Day 23

As we were talking, between your words a whole flock of pigeons took off in a flurry of feathers a thumping of wings against air. neither could one tell beak from body nor pick out the bead of an eye in the thrum of flock taking flight Comments (2)

clairechenette Pigeon Parking Only

Day 24

May the Pigeon Series Commence! Comments (5)

clairechenette: On a second story telephone wire in the middle of Los Angeles hangs a sign that says "Pigeon Parking Only". 19 doves through a dusty window every day line themselves up there compactly. I can feel a pigeon eye on me as I scramble for a concrete spot. The wind blows and 19 tails tick up and down. What do they do up there? Are they sleeping? Are they preening? Nothing but ticking up and down when the wind blows, and 5 times an hour suddenly their governor directs a flustering flocking off flying down before fluttering chaotic whirring back to the pigeon parking line to sit still man by man side by side up high, and they'll do it again tomorrow And they'll do it again the day after And us too side by side below in our concrete line Tails Ticking up tick down when the wind bloooows ohs ohs ohs blows blow wind blow!

marshweed: i like this bird thing goin on

Buddha: Lovely

tigerx: For some reason, I get Newsom vibes from this one, too. Love it.

Jeannie: Great humor.strong tonic dominant. Like the images in such ate one setting.

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clairechenette Watercress

Day 25

The most poetic herb Comments (1)

clairechenette For the Plant who Loved Life

Day 26

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clairechenette Reklam

Day 27

Poem by Sunay Akin Comments (0)

clairechenette Sleep

Day 28

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clairechenette My Head

Day 29

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clairechenette They Almost Roomed Me With the Brass

Day 30

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clairechenette This happened in the car, around 400 miles into the day...

Day 31

I take no responsibility Comments (3)

clairechenette Tacos in Tennessee

Day 01

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clairechenette Cars Tie Us Down

Day 05

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clairechenette Ant Infestation

Day 06

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clairechenette Tall Cactus

Day 07

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clairechenette For All of you Lefties with Parrot Friends

Day 08

Most of Earth's many creatures don't understand what it means to favor one hand. Monkeys and cats unlike woman and man are as likely with one paw as the other to grab. But favoring the right is a trait in this land for 9 out of 10 homo sapiens, while 9 of 10 parrots of left are a fan. For this interesting fact, thanks to radiolab. Comments (2)