Yesterday, She and I broke out the Just Because Club book again. This time, we decided to head downtown to the heart of Eugene, OR for a dice walk. Without giving too much away, let’s just say it surprised both of us. The exercises in the book have a tendency to create an eerie ambiance. Continue reading →

Good Evening Readers! If you have been following this blog, you have noticed a lot of discussion around the Just Because Club experiments. Well, tonight I have a special treat for you, and it was a special treat for me too. Secret Agent 333 went to great pains to track down the creator of the Continue reading →

Today, I could not resist digging back into my handy-dandy brain-expansion kit, the Just Because Club: From this text, I have plucked many experiments. Today, the one I plucked suggested that I take a walk downtown, and whenever I approach an intersection, to roll a 6-sided-die. (you know, the square ones?) 1 or 6= go Continue reading →

Who Lives Here Anyway?

On 19 November 2008, in Creative Deconstructions, Experiments, by Garrett Daun

Last night, in addition to all the rest of the posts you saw appear here, I did another Just Because Club experiment. This time, the directions were to investigate my bedroom as if it were the room of a stranger, all the while deducing things about the inhabitants by the things in the room, the Continue reading →

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A Deck of Sparkling Moments…

On 16 November 2008, in Creative Deconstructions, Experiments, by Garrett Daun

Today, in addition to the last 5 or so posts I have shared with you, here is another one. This one is the initial post I intended to do for the day. Again, I opened up my faithful Deck of Captured Moments (click on the link to read the first post that explains the Deck Continue reading →

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Hmmmm, somewhere in my wandering the bardos yesterday I forgot to post this entry…Now, you’ll just have to deal with a couple extra entries for today. I went wandering down to the local coffeeshop and library, they both exist in the same vast parking lot and strip mall area here. On the way home, I Continue reading →

Collage: The Fractalization of Chaos…

On 15 November 2008, in Creative Deconstructions, by Garrett Daun

Setting out with a bit of inspiration from the vast and concise wordplay and in-depth consciousness investigation documented and performed by Eric Olson at his site, the Frank Olson Project. Further, he has put forth a praxis of self-examination, discovery, and transcendence that involves a method of collage. Explore this HERE. Tonight, I went through Continue reading →

Last night I slept for an extra 4.5 hours beyond what I had set out to do. I laid in bed stretching my face for about 15 minutes after the alarm went off at 6:30am, but somehow I fell back asleep until 10:30am. So, now I will resume the 30 minuts every 4 hours sleep Continue reading →

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Smells Like

On 30 October 2008, in Creative Deconstructions, by Garrett Daun

Late last night I dove deeper into the Deck of Captured Moments activity from the Just Because Club book. To read more about it, begin a few posts back and work your way back to the present entry. I notice an enhanced awareness of each of the senses in my experiences throughout the day. Since Continue reading →

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Thanks for joining me for another installment of my Just Because Club memory adventure! I do not know exactly just how this “Captured Moments” activity has jostled and messed with my brain just yet. Of course, as the activity deepens, my flow of memories throughout the day has increased and grown far more compelling and Continue reading →

It has gotten a little harder to tell the difference between what happens right NOW in the ever-present moment, and what has already occured. Once some kind of sensory data hits the brain and registers as sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell, the event that caused it has already passed on. So, every perception a Continue reading →

Choosing sides in fake-ass battles does not excite me. Watching people who vomit media feeds all over each other, however, does excite me. The near-total faith in elections, electoral politics, and media “coverage,” astonishes me every single day. Today at the local health food store here in Carlsbad, most folks at the checkout engaged each Continue reading →

In an empty bathtub all alone…

On 17 October 2008, in Creative Deconstructions, by Garrett Daun

Done. I made it just before sunrise. By the way, around these parts, I measure my day as the distance between two sunrises, not the arbitrary and illusionary “midnight” date change operations at play around me. I just got done sitting in the bathtub, with not water, with my clothes on….for one full hour. I Continue reading →

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Sit in an empty bathtub…

On 17 October 2008, in Creative Deconstructions, by Garrett Daun

Ok, tonight, no matter what time I finish my work for the evening, I will be doing a Just Because Club experiment. What will it be? I will sit in the bathtub for one full hour, with no water in it. I have typed in the full text of the experiment below. Just Because Club Continue reading →

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