November 27, 2006
Moving experiences
Something with a sonic vista, from a little film I scored over a decade ago.
My life is a-flutter with about a zillion (round number) preparations that are involved in moving people, cats, and assorted physical stuff a thousand miles north. This exercise is not for the faint of heart. But it’s great fun. Just to keep things interesting, we’re juggling multiple escrows at once: sailboat and slip in Santa Barbara, sailboat up north. Malibu house, island house. Not to mention movers, inspectors, RV and house rentals… I’ve organized countless large-scale events over the years without batting an eye, but I admit that this move is making my brain ache.
So what to do for an aching brain? Well, my answer is to either play music or play in the sand. There’ll be plenty of opportunity this coming year for me to share the beauty of the San Juan Islands on this blog, so I’ll refrain from posting too many recent photos from up there for the time being. Instead, here’s a great place to play in the sand, just north of Malibu’s city limits: the Great Dune. Not too long ago, Charles and I decided to climb the damn thing, and for all our huffing and puffing we were greeted at the top by a gorgeous expanse of ocean and coastline.
Moving, in whatever form, offers great rewards.
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Steve Layton said,
November 27, 2006 @ 6:42 pm
Get as much sand-playing in as you can; as I write this there’s 9 or 10 inches of snow sitting on top of Friday Harbor…
Alex Shapiro said,
November 28, 2006 @ 9:16 am
Yeah– friends have been emailing me beautiful photos. I can’t wait to be in it! Remember, I grew up in NYC– I know snow! And I’ve missed it.
Of course, remind me of this inane glee a year from now, when I’m cursing about having to clear ice off the helm of the cockpit…
😉
Bobby said,
November 29, 2006 @ 7:16 pm
Well Alex – I feel bummed your leaving us… all the right reasons to leave though. If I had the choice right now – BYE! 🙂 So they got 4 seasons up there eh? Ah I miss snow, snowball fights, snow caves, snowy holidays – oh yeah that’s gonna suck. You’ll have nice composing weather there, the boat ride looks quite pleasant to me – rough weather makes me feel more alive than the perpetual sunny days.
I guess I’ll have to point my musical questions to you from afar, when they present themselves.
Thank you for your kind words,
Bobby
Maria Lj said,
December 6, 2006 @ 8:10 am
Alex,
All this talk of miles and northern islands makes me confused, since I have no idea what that means in kilometres, and the most part of the US West Coast is even in theory a Terra incognita for me!
I have to check a map to understand where you are moving! Malibu was at least a place I have heard of before, so I could imagine that I knew what sort of world you were composing and playing in (in the sand and the studio).
Kind regards & good wishes,
Maria
Alex Shapiro said,
December 6, 2006 @ 1:19 pm
Here’s a wonderfully simple map:
http://www.san-juan-island.net/map.html
And I’ll be exploiting this blog to show lots of photos of the area, and entice all the progressive, creative folks I know to come up here, too!
Alex