Christine Lukasik

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Yesterday two people close to me, in reference to music, demanded? Exclaimed? with great vehemence that I needed to experience what I’m going to call a ‘broader spectrum’ of sound. A DJ friend had the most amazing mashup I’ve maybe ever heard playing on his jaw-droppingly good car system from Benchmark, popped the CD out of the player to give to me. I resisted….– “No, you’re listening to it…..can’t accept it…I’ll BURN a copy and give it back to you ” and he responded with something like “NO keep it and listen to your music uncompressed for a change!!”. Quite. I accepted and thanked him.

 

Onward.  

 

A few hours later in the midst of a deep telephone conversation about (thank you Shel) the brilliant Bon Iver’s “For Emma, Forever Ago”  my friend was shocked that I have yet to listen to the album on headphones. I was surprised to realize it, too. I’ve listened to it more in the 6 months I’ve had it than possibly any album I have ever owned in my *life*…. yet only in the car, office, or at home but – never on headphones. The friend described some amzing bits at the end of re: stacks that you can prolly only hear with phones…. I’ve my studio monitors at the ready and am looking forward to it already.  Check.

 

This morning I put these two incidents together under the “broader spectrum” umbrella. For a variety of reasons I’ve spent some time/moments/days/years feeling quite “shut down”  - maybe not really terribly “alive” in the alert and experiencing sense. When I have felt better, I’ve described it as actually feeling like I’m “living” or able to live & it’s been lovely…This morning I realized I have levels yet to go to. Above merely “living”  - which heretofore was really really good and progress for me – and that I’m totally ready to “listen uncompressed” and “with the headphones” to take in a broader spectrum.

 

Thanks for the stimulus friends!

Indeed

....The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Republic Steel Vintage School Lockers

Spotted at Area 51, Cap Hill. Having grown up in Ohio, it's hard to say how many of my friends or their family members worked at Republic Steel at some point. Most probably. If you look very closely under the 95 you can see the “Industrial Products Division, Canton Ohio” stamp. This undoubably means that someone I know worked on or made this locker. Wow. Republic steel can surely be found all around the world but seeing this certainly sure brought up fond memories.

Dad and daughter

Happy birthday Dad. Wish we could share a beer and a laugh.

Springy

Don't know what the weather is doing where you live, but sunny Seattle weather has me feeling downright springy. Bit of extra pep now that it’s not dark when I leave the house in the morning :-) 

Stuff I’ve been enjoying recently:

Super fun girls day out with Carrie - here testing a vintage typewriter at Area 51 in Capitol Hill. 

We walked around, shopped, and talked all Valentine’s day continuing late into the night joined by other friends. 

Aimless, relaxing, laughter-filled & lovely.

 

 

“The Big Day”

which I picked up

this weekend at Blue Bottle in Seattle.

See more of 

Pittsburgh-based artist Strawberry Luna's

prints here.  

Shopping at Monster in Ballard a couple of times in the last few week -  not one but two amazing hoodies – ‘cause you KNOW if there’s one thing I need it’s more hoodies. Sshhhhyea! Oddly both from Portland designers. One, from The Darras, nearly identical to this one with the excellent skull sunflowers. The other by the amazing Isaac Bauman of Portland-based Antic. Mmm.

Jared Rue’s peaceful and cool feeling “Distant Mist”. I nearly passed out from the beauty of seeing this hanging a while back at Vivace in Seattle.

Peter de Lory’s lovely photography – particularly “Lone Cottonwood”, “Rocky Mountains, Falling Star”, “Fog Trees”.

Whatchoo been doin'?

MRI

MRI to compare to the one I had nearly a year ago. Lumbar discs def still herniated, question is whether they've gotten worse. We'll see what Neno (doc) says when I see him tomorrow. Oh, and I should note that this is a pre-CrossFit condition. Battling a combo of several years of LSD (long slow distance) running and heredity. My Dad had a terrible back – 7 days in traction, surgery, etc. Ugh. None of my injuries are CrossFit related –that I have been able to train through injury and healing is a great testimonial not only to CrossFit as a training protocol but also, more importantly, to the mad skilz of coach Street.