Hey everyone!

Things are going to slow down here except for announcements about completed projects so that I can keep my website (idiophonebox.com) up to date.

I’ll most likely still be reading your posts and I hope you’re still interested in reading what I’m up to. Thanks for following me!

-Catherine

I’m working on my first series of ink/block prints and am finding the tips on Geninne’s art blog to be very helpful.  Luckily I ended up with the tools she reccommends.

Everywhere I read about the particular linoleum cutter I have, it is pointed to as a great beginner tool.  If I had continued with my Swiss Army knife, a pair of gloves would have been added to the mix so I didn’t lose anymore blood.

I found this after I developed the concept for the series, but it’s inspired me to keep going:

Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation

HOW should the world be luckier if this house,     
Where passion and precision have been one     
Time out of mind, became too ruinous     
To breed the lidless eye that loves the sun?     
And the sweet laughing eagle thoughts that grow            
Where wings have memory of wings, and all     
That comes of the best knit to the best? Although     
Mean roof-trees were the sturdier for its fall,     
How should their luck run high enough to reach     
The gifts that govern men, and after these     
To gradual Time’s last gift, a written speech     
Wrought of high laughter, loveliness and ease?

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939).  Responsibilities and Other Poems.  1916

You can read Yeats’ “explanatory note” from chapter 3 of “Yeats and the Logic of Formalism” by Vereen M. Bell online here.  The whole book is great.

I need to stop collecting things or I’ll be poor very soon.  Someone, buy me this.

Elvis Costello’s distributors need to get organized.  I’m waiting for  “Secret, Profane & Sugarcane” on vinyl before I buy the album and nobody has it.  It’s “back-ordered” until the end of the month.

Elvis had more pull last time with “Momofuko” actually released on vinyl before CD without a digital download available.  The “Secret, Profane & Sugarcane” vinyl will have a digital download, so I’d like to think the delay is due to Elvis sticking to his guns and arguing against it.

Don’t tell him I digitized the vinyl “Momofuko” and put it on my ipod.

update: no digital download!  I may have imagined reading that or Elvis prevailed.