A Positive Sanctuary
"Happiness...can come from work and pride in what you do"
Mohatma Gandhi

"The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”
Carlos Castaneda

A farm for HIV+ Artists to live & thrive.
patrick at leatherslings dot com

CURRENT MOON

Music

My experimental band, circa 1995

Usually about 4 people per jam, this project took off in January 1995 and lasted a few months. Ariel Gomez on lead bass, myself on effects bass, Bill Gibson on effects guitar, Jim Miller on lead guitar, and a strange guy named Steve, I never got his last name. The music is off the cuff jam, and Steve does his best to provide some vocals at times using poetry he used to write. To facilitate his writings he took a job as a graveyard-shift cab driver in Madison WI just to find out of the way lonely spots to park and write under the street lamps. Then one day he was gone. I intend to build a nice studio in time, soon as I have the land. I want a new bass & rig, maybe a drum set too. But I might start out with an acoustic guitar, I’ve never had one of those.

It probably helps to skip the first several minutes of these, as the “songs” take shape