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KU: (verb) look!
YAH: hear, or here
origin: Jamaica patoisworldview
"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face." Albert Camus
Ku Yah! roots
the original Ku Yah! started in May of 2006 on Blogger. it's still there.Recent Comments
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Author Archives: ras
transmission interruption
being that I’m a donkey sometimes, I find myself inna place for action -real visceral action. having been unemployed for most the year, I’ve come to an impasse. I will be taking a little time off the interwebs and this space to focus on non-virtual activities. things like, knocking on prospective employers doors, calling contacts, [...]
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#prose: Brooklyn remembered
watching from a afar, like window shopping with empty coffers, I see it all slide by. once a participant, now a voyeur. life can be measured in many ways. we measure from within as they measure from without. the numbers never match. the bookie is out and can’t be reached. so I walk down to [...]
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surfin is fun: knost, dane, droid and alex gray
shoots. RT does it again with an edit to remind us that surfing is fucken fun man. ride whatever the hell you want. ride whatever waves are at hand. pull into closeouts. laugh with your friends. laugh at yourself. what else is there? if don’t know RT, now you know.
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#identity part VI: this is it
summer comes to an end and so does the time spent hanging off ladders with brush and paint helping Picasso work on his livable canvases. what now? there was a time when I was naively carefree. I would go about my days without any intentionality and never felt like something was amis. those days are [...]
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#GYPSOPHILLIA and grit
I once took a guitar lesson from a guitar player of Halifax based Gypsophilia. in a small cramped room filled mostly with a piano along with an assortment of music related paraphernalia, we talked about reggae and dub for most of my lesson. at the end he gave me a disk with a dozen or [...]
Posted in DIY, ego, halifax, music, social commentary Tagged grit, gypsophilia, jazz, vies 1 Comment
style: David Choe
the incomparable David Choe. he is easily one of the best artists of his generation. I copied all images from Choe’s website. for more on Choe go here and here.
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#interview
I have an interview this week for a job like one of my favourite writers used to have. so I thought it’d be good to quote from his novel Post Office. this one is loaded with implications about our dull lives of tryin to make it. “The streets were full of insane and dull people. Most of [...]
DeLuxe No. 20 and cliffside peelers
I find myself plying the depths of a sunday afternoon for something worthy of holdin onto. meantime Moe digs the old Roller Derby DeLuxe No.20 outta the closet and starts surfing. the clay wheels on the old oak floors frighten me but he seems to have a sense of the danger he’s into so I [...]
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PS I Love You
I thought I’d add this worthy reply from R. the Mountain Goats
enjoy the momentary rain
today -a deluge. our basement wet in that low corner where the hill meets the high side of the house. out at the seaside it was all wind and a foggy mist. Picasso and I added the last few strokes to the livable canvas. the finished piece a cornucopia of colour like south coast Jamaica. [...]
draw bad card
rain washes away a summers grime off the streets and into the harbour. out in the open ocean a swell is rising with the sun. through the mist and rain I can see the Tufts Cove red and white towers. they stand there like sentinels watching for the new ships which will soon be exiting [...]
#poem: imma gonna paint a house tomorrow morning
you know how everyone always says that every action has a reaction, that you gotta know there are consequences for your actions sometimes you put your head down and think -fuck the consequences sometimes the consequences come with long repercussions. like aftershocks after the big quake I still don’t know what will become of some [...]
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jettisoned by the “rocket queen”
was painting with Picasso today. we sat atop a bluff overlooking a blustery ocean. with wind gusts upwards of 30 knotts outta the south, the ocean looked as welcoming as a bed of nails. to make light of the situation, Picasso ran us through some music of yore. Glenn Danzig carried us for a while [...]
blue hues and silver linings
under gray skies, I painted. first silver. the eaves. the fascia. silver specks covered my face. my hands looked like the tin mans’. but I had heart. so I climbed up the forty foot ladder. a gust of wind blew leaves in the parking lot below. I felt a tinge of my fear of heights [...]
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change begets opportunity
recently I was asked if I felt like my writing was moving forward. while I replied with an answer at the time, the question lingers and I can’t help but wonder if perhaps I am indeed stuck. the thing is, creativity requires a few things to come together. adversity, whether internal or external, is a [...]
Posted in ego, prose 6 Comments
#lifekook 1.0
life kook: 1. lifetime ‘fail’ surfer poser -I.E. “wow look at that guy’s whack style. he’s totally a life kook.” 2. one who never makes the takeoff on a set wave- though he always paddles “to the top.” 3. one who posts a video of himself, riding his home-shaped board, and thinks it’s cool.
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a sad day for surf writing: @Rottmouth quits
Blasphemy Rottmouth has posted his final thoughts in the form of an interview. Why was his blog important to surfing? The following passage sums it up: If you could sum up Independent Blogging in the surfing world with a few words, what would they be? Andy Irons. Simple. The handling (or mishandling) of that story [...]
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three Canadian surf films from #CSFF2011
first up is Dean Petty’s It’s all Bueno. Dean is one of those ride-anything type dudes. this one includes some login and twin keel surfing from Dean as well as a couple of comic interludes. IT’S ALL BUENO from Urban Peace Division on Vimeo. next we have some high performance surfing with Pete Devries, Nico [...]
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few things I’ve learned