AWARE

I wrote a book! Over a period of two years, closer to two and a half...but let's call it two.
 The name became "AWARE" An Inquiry Into Consciousness... http://www.brandonearlbristow.com/

Book #1 in a series I'm calling,  "Congratulations You're A Robot"   (the original working title).

I'm also exacerbating preexisting search engine trigonometry by adding "a psychonaut adventure" to the top of this thing.  Why? Because that's exactly what it is.

Sometimes you've got to get wordy and there's no way around it.

  I'm sort of a proud papa about this book, and truthfully I'm a little caught off-guard as to how to present it to the world. SO.... here goes...

           AWARE (above)... The banner ad. Good for websites, magazines and the like (so they tell me)

               & THE COVER! (below)  ....  Front and back...  Sweet eh? ...  

 
 SO... I finished the first draft in April/May...ish... and by June, Julia (my wife) and I finished the editing process. It took a little over a month to design a proper cover and convert the Microsoft Word files into something print-worthy. It was NOT a breeze, but now that I'm through it, I'm already acting like it was easy as falling down.

So I baked a website into existence... http://www.brandonearlbristow.com  fresh and functional.

Then I made a sacred pact with AMAZON (secret handshakes and blood) Amazon AWARE

I had a word with KINDLE    
AWARE @ The Kindle Store

and even rubbed elbows with B&N (ooooh) I know right?
Barnes & Noble

I realized with a sting that you don't get to be on Apples iBOOKS 'till you own an Apple computer.
Maybe later I suppose... then again, maybe not.

So where does this leave me?  Someplace between the first real attempt to advertise my novel in earnest and the strong urge to sit down and focus on the next one before I forget what I wanted to say in the first place.

 Grab a copy today and tell me what you think.

 I really want to know.

Peace, B

 

Surf movies 2008 - "Live" and "Longboard Habit"

Music of Brandon Bristow is currently featured in the newly-released surf film “Longboard Habit” – A Burnt Toast/Katz Eye Production.








Also featured in the newly-released Dave Parsa surf film “Live”



Live – A Music and Surfing Experience

BrandonBristow.com



Peace,
BB

Hello, my name is:

My name is Brandon Earl Bristow and this will be my brief attempt to be clear. After which, all bets are off.

Straight ahead story telling is almost an impossibility for me.
(I blame the English language at least partially)
Any idea that has an ounce of grace or insight comes up straight against it with a loud hyper suppressed clang!

and there we are....
goddamn forced into poetry.

Well here I am, knee deep in blog land and I am already questioning my agenda. Do I have one?
I would suppose that I do.
I make up songs.
generally they are words set to music and I record them. I have become a producer for lack of a better word, purely as a means to an end. I love music.

My first intention was simply just to post my song lyrics here to avoid dealing with my website                        ( www.BrandonBristow.com )
Maybe this can be something more unique than that.

Hope to hear from ya~ More soon, B

a crack in the sidewalk

A CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK (RIVERMOUTH) 2007

words and music by Brandon Earl Bristow

there's a crack in the sidewalk
and I'm taking it up as a good sign
roots in the water
it's about time

take up your pickax
I'll take up mine
bring down the walls and let the water down river
maybe the world will forgive us in time

hey lonely mamma, well tell me do you feel it?
they take when you give em'
so don't you let them steal you away

see all your children, playing in the street
you'll tell them your story when you're oh so old
see the tears roll down their cheeks
their crying freedom, so called freedom
you're all american in back of a gun
with you're reason, so called reason
look into your heart and pick yourself a one love

there's a crack in the sidewalk
and I'm taking it up as a good sign
roots in the water
it's about time