Tag: Arizona

• Digital Dadaism (aka Phoneistan)

  

  Take a look around you, or look up from your phone…do you see (as the late great Tom Petty proclaimed on his final album release), the “Hypnotic Eye?” Damn near every hominid in the western world has been overtaken by the ubiquitous so-called smart phone. Flat out in this digital dadaist age. It’s so sick. […]

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  March 13, 2022

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  311, 311 Day 2022, 3rd Eye, AI, Analog, Apple, Arizona, Artificial Inteligence, Attention, Bidenstan, Clouds, coke, Conversation, COVID, COVID-19, Crackberry, Dada, Death, Decorum, Digital Age, digital dadaism, Discipline, dodo, Dopamine, Etiquette, Excuse Me?, Family, Fully Completely, Get outside, God, Her, Hiking, Hypnotic Eye, I ain't bored I got my phone, Information Age, iPhone, JL, Joaquin Phoenix, JZ, Keyboard Economy, Kindness, Life, Life is short, Love, Manners, Maynard James Keenan, Meat Puppets, Metaverse, My phone!, Nature, Politeness, Put that away!, Read a book, Real Life, Reality, Robocalls, Sedona, Self Control, Self Governorship, Slot Machine, Slots, Slowdona haha, smart phone, Smartphone, Smartphone Addiction, Steve Jobs, Sundays, Surrealism, The HIP, The Tragically Hip, There’s Always An Excuse, Third Eye, Tom Petty, Tool, Tourists, Vino, Where is my phone?, You cannot be serious

• Disconnections & Reconnections

  

  During this pandemic, reconnections have been made. Especially with those old past times which fell by the wayside. The simple things. Reconnecting with an old friend (and Lover) from a distant era. Hanging with a friend. Reconnecting with our families – sharing meaningful time and laughs together. Listening to old records (albums!) through headphones. Knowing […]

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  July 27, 2020

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  23 beers, 4th of July, AA, American Militia, Anarchy in the USA, Android, Arizona, Bills, Chinese Virus, Commitment, Cornoavirus, COVID-19, Discipline, Disconnect, Double A, Exercise, Fucking Telephones, General Election 2020, God, Hard Work, He Double Gobbled, Headphones, Hiking, Home Cooking, Hot out there, I Foley’d It, I googled it, Independence Day, iPhone, Jams!, Khruangbin, Law and Order, Lockdowns, Long Plays, Lord Jesus Christ, LP’s, Mezcal Quarantine, Music, My Old Flame, New Discoveries, New Horizons, Oh you mean bite me?, Prayer, President Donald J. Trump, Reading, Reconnect, Records, rush, Smartphone, Social Distancing, Spike Jones, Spike Jonz, Summer of 2020, Summertime Blues, USA, Vice President Joe Biden, Vinyl, We Support our Police, Writing

• RESET

  

  Read Time: 2 minutes, 23 seconds. Renew ~ Evolve ~ Start Over ~ Expand ~ Take a Chance re-set: 1. To set again or anew. 2. To change the reading of often to zero. Everyone deserves a sabbatical, time away from the usual to bring about a Reset in your life. Time to undo bad habits and begin new and […]

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  January 18, 2020

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  7, Abandon Ship, Analyze, Animal, Another bite of the apple, Arizona, Atomic Habits, Axl Rose, Bad Habits, Bail, Bail it, Beers, Begin, Begin Again, Climb, Climbing, Cold Fire, Colorado, Commitment, Crank It, Dead End Government Jobs, Dead End Jobs, Deny, Deny Yourself, Desert, Desert Sands, Dig Out, Discipline, Down in a Hole, Evolve, Examine, Existence, Expand, Experience, Eyedropper, Fearless, Fight, Focus, Fuck, G n’ R, Get into something new!, Ghost of a Chance, Ghost Rider, Go Away, Go For It!, Good Habits, Great Sand Dunes, Ground Zero, Guns N’ Rose, Habit, Habits, Habituations, Halfway there, Henry Rollins, Here’s your hole, High Time, Integrity, It’s cool to be so tough, It’s tough to be so cool, James Clear, Kid Gloves, Kill, Let the chips fall, Life is short, Locomotive, Locomotive (Complicity), Long Haul, Make it Happen, May as well go for it, Meat Puppets, Mindfulness, More than Halfway There, Neil Peart, Never look back, No U-Turn, Nothing begets nothing, Or run away, Phoenix, Phoenix rising from the ashes, Pink Floyd, Play a bad hand well, Precious Time, Pull the ejection handles!, Push comes to shove, Real Estate, Renew, Renewal, Reset, Reset your life, Resilient, Ride that Rockin’ Chair, Roll the Bones, Rollins Band, Run Away, Run Like Hell, rush, Sabbatical, Say Goodbye, Se7en, Sedona, Self Aware, Seven, Stan Ridgway, Start over, Take a chance, Take a Sabbatical, Take Another Shot, Take it on the chin, Take the hit, Take your licks, Tenancious, The Void, Time, Uphill, Use Your Illusion, Void, Walk Away, What the fuck, When push comes to shove, Wilderness, Wilderness Days, Wilderness Years, Years, Years and Beers, Zero

• Hideaway(s)…

  

  Read Time: 1 minute, 47 seconds. Been hiding out and laying low, it’s nothing new to me…well you can always find a place to go ~ if you can keep your sanity.  -Guns N’ Roses, Out Ta Get Me, 1987 Sometimes in life you reach your limit, need a reprieve and gotta get away to […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  September 7, 2019

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  311, 311 Space and Time, 3rd Eye, Arizona, Arizona Skies, Attention Span, Axl Rose, Back to the earth, Blue Skies, Buy, Camping, Check Out, Circles, Climb the mountain, Consume, Consumer, Curt Kirkwood, Desert, Desert Southwest, Despacio, Dick’s Hideaway, Digital Domain, Digital World, Dining, Disappear, Earth, Enjoy Life, Family, Friends, Fun, G n’ R, Get Away, Get Lost, Go Outside, God, Guns N’ Roses, Hideaway, Hiking, Howard Hughes, I Foley’d It, Iggy Pop, in the moment, Joshua Homme, Leave your phone behind, Life, Marketing, Mental Health, Mindfulness, New Beginnings, Nick Hexum, Notifications, Outside, Phoenix, Positivity, Presence, Promotions, QOTSA, Queens of the Stone Age, Real World, Recluse, Reclusive, Refuge, Rejuvenation, Renewal, Retreat, Richardson Browne, Richardson’s New Mexican Cuisine, Screens, Sell, Slow Down, Slow Movement, Slowdona, Smartphone Addiction, Social Media, Solar System, Starting Over, Stay Positive and Love your Life, Sun, The Great Outdoors, The HIP, The Last Recluse, The Matrix, The Tragically Hip, Them Crooked Vultures, Third Eye, Time, Time Suck, Turn off Notifications, Vacation, Valley of the Sun, Virtual World, Vistas, Walkin’ Boss, Wander, Wandering

• 50 Years? 50 Beers!

  

  Read Time: 2 minutes, 41 seconds. Perhaps Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets exclaimed it best when he wrote and crooned, “Each year is a minute only full of the leaves in it.” Leaves Or as a colleague and great friend once remarked while working at a Phoenician Charles Schwab call center in the mid […]

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  August 17, 2019

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• Adrifting we will go…

  

  Run Time: 3 minutes, 31 seconds. ‘Adrifting We Will Go…’

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  July 1, 2019

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  2020 Sedona International Film Festival, American Southwest, Arizona, Colorado, Four Corners USA, New Mexico, Short Film, Time Lapse Photography, Utah

• Speakeasy Cocktail Chile Dining Bliss

  

  The Land of Enchantment geographically sits right next to us Arizonans, continually cross pollinating our cuisine. New Mexico’s critical ingredient of course is the chile. If you’ve ever been to New Mexico you know the chile’s reverence and near ubiquity in their state. Fortunately for those of us who live near (or in) the Phoenix […]

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  February 9, 2019

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  Arizona, Beer, Bliss, Bush 43, casadecalexico, Chile, Chimay, Cocktails, Desert, Dick’s Hideaway, Dining, Eric Johnson, Flan, Hideaway, John F. Kerry, Land of Enchantment, New Mexico, Phoenix, Phoenix New Times, President George W. Bush, Queens of the Stone Age, Restaurateur, Richardson Browne, Richardson’s, Richardson’s New Mexican Cuisine, Rokerij, Santa Fe, Seafood, Speakeasy, Tres Leches, Valley of the Sun, Wine