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| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | | 8:06 am |
Miss you Dan
Dan was killed two years ago yesterday. I'll always think of him as a great, intelligent, cheeky, whimsical, fun man who really loved life. I am better for having known him. I will post a pic later on from home. Rest In Peace, Dan. Current Mood:  thoughtful | | Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | | 10:15 am |
Halloween costumes
As promised - pictures of our Halloween costumes! We were the two lead characters in the movie "Eagle vs. Shark" starring Jemaine Clement from Flight of The Conchords. It's a cute indie flick about outcasts in New Zealand... The real characters:  And us!   Today: off to work on the Corvallis house. Tomorrow: DEVO in Seattle! Current Mood: busy | | Monday, November 2nd, 2009 | | 5:13 pm |
Gah!
Where am I gonna have my 40th b-day party?! !@#$%^&* Current Mood:  irritated | | Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | | 4:54 am |
You can't know how much I miss my parents | | Friday, October 16th, 2009 | | 2:56 pm |
Look, I can Facebook on my LJ
..but in the first person. I just ate lunch at Giovanni's in downtown Beaverton. Absolutely fucking disgusting. Never again. I can haz go home now? Getting my dubstep on thanks to Silphers mix. Current Mood: bitchy | | 11:32 am |
Want
Someone give me about $5,000 to spend here please -> http://www.synthtech.com/OK since I can't have that, I'm going to go try to find some Korean food. TGIF! Current Mood: hungry | | Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | | 4:31 am |
Relaxed
I'm going to be 40 soon The Roots | | Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | | 11:42 pm |
Well daaamn that was a fun 1st Thursday
Got off the train after a kinda shite day at the orifice... rode my bike down to Ping (in the old Hung Far Low space) and got some freakin' awesome food - that place is on. They are doing something really new and fresh here. Making food with a great complexity and depth of flavor. This town needed it. It's sort of pan-Asian, but not in the hotel bistro sense of the word. You can tell Andy Ricker (of Pok Pok fame) has been spending some time and effort to go overseas and really seek out the best spices and ingredients, and puts them together in a working, creative way. I got the spicy mama noodles, which is basically Thai instant ramen doctored up, with handmade peppery pork meatballs, prawns, a type of bok choy, tamarind, fish sauce, lime, a poached egg, and cilantro... freakin' awesome. After Ping I tried to locate Humper at PNCA, to no avail. Checked out the student art, which is always fun times. Some genius, some so-so stuff. Went by Blue Sky (a photo gallery I always like to stop by) and was more impressed by their drawers, where you can pull out a drawer and see any of PDX's best (?) photogs prints. Neat stuff in there. The main exhibit was a lot of Israeli/Palestinian conflict pictures in one room, and in the main room photos of pudgy hindu men at the beach. Hmmm, they were nice photos, not sure if I'd plunk down $2500 for a huge image of a potbellied Punjabi splashing around, but hey - what do I know about art? Then it was off to the Everett Lofts, where there's esentially a skater-run gallery every 15 feet. Literally. Mixed bag there, not super impressed. Off to Stumptown where Dave Neevil killed it with photos, paintings, and sculpture. They guy is very prolific! Then off to Valentine's for beers and chats w/a whole mess of people I wound up knowing :) Then I took the surprisingly crowded MAX to 60th, mere blocks from my house (did I mention I love having the train right there?) Off to bed. Zzzz.... " Current Mood:  happy | | Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | | 6:59 pm |
| | Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 | | 10:01 pm |
Flickr
I hit 3,000 views on Flickr. Yay?  Current Mood: calm | | Friday, May 29th, 2009 | | 11:08 am |
Rest In Peace, Joe Bailey
I just found out that my old high school / college friend Joe Bailey died yesterday in Bend, Oregon. He was epileptic and apparently had a seizure and aspirated something. He was my age, had a wife and kids. Very sad. You will be missed, Joe. You were a really great guy. I can't beleive I was just drinking beers with you at Kennedy School a month ago. Glad I got to see you one last time. Something else I forgot to mention is that last Saturday was the one year anniversary of my father's passing. Rest In Peace, Don Unger. I love you and miss you.
I had a wonderful bike ride in this morning. Sunshine and blue skies, T-shirt and shorts! How awesome is that :) The Subie needed to go to the doctor this morning, so I had to drop it off at SE Burnside and 7th and then ride my bike over the B-side bridge to catch the MAX train. All the bums on Burnside were waking up. Time to go make some ca$h for some 40's of Steel Reserve! Up and at 'em! Might head down to Ringler's Annex after work, we'll see... Current Mood:  contemplative | | Sunday, May 24th, 2009 | | 8:03 pm |
Sasquatch 2009
Since M's friend was able to get us in for free, and we had a place to stay in Wenatchee, we decided to head up and check out Sasquatch. We only went yesterday, and had a nice time despite the heat. Lots of great bands and comedy! Here are some pics: G + M  King Khan and The Shrines fucking rocked it! They did old school James Brown sounding garage funk. Super cool.  The sax player from King Khan doing "the tuck" (hi ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) catstab!) Note guitar player trying desperately not to look...  More King Khan - the cheerleader did not have undies on and apparently the front row got to see lots of cooter.  Looking for a miracle, maaaan...  Mark Kozelek from Sun Kil Moon. Abso-freaking-lutely incredible live. The only festival band I've ever gotten choked up at.  The Decemberists  My friend Chris Funk, who plays guitar and stuff for The Decemberists. Hi Chris!  Karen O from Yeah Yeah Yeahs  The Doves  The main stage  ...and finally bro-tastic nap time. By about four o'clock, the combination of $9 cans of Coors Light, hot sun, punching each other in the arm, and secretly wishing Creed was playing/secretly wishing they could make out with other bros, tired out even the most hardcore bro, and it was nap time. Everywhere you looked there were passed out bros with backwards baseball caps. They were practically in piles. Someone's going to have an ouchy sunburn tomorrow! Bro!  The end. | | Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 | | 2:30 am |
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| | Saturday, January 17th, 2009 | | 1:38 pm |
Yay Valetine's Day plans in the bag
We are flying to Vancouver BC for the weekend and staying in one of them newfangled modern-design-boutique type hotels! Woo! It's gonna be fun, and it actually wasn't that brutal on the bank! It's so sunny out. I really should go snap some photos with the Holga. We are buying a new sink fixture today. Old one hating it. OK stuff to do. What's going on tonight? Current Mood: excited | | Thursday, January 8th, 2009 | | 9:35 am |
New snowboard!
After riding my great Liquid Jim Moran 158 for the last 13 years (I know, looong time) I went out yesterday and bought myself a new snowboard! Last week I got some *very* spiffy new Burton boots. I got a 2009 Gnu Carbon High Beam model with "Magnetraction" (the sides are slightly scalloped for better traction on ice/hard stuff). The graphics are heinously fugly but I don't care about that stuff. Here it be:  In other news tonight I am going down to Quality Photo to check out a four person group show. Does anyone know if it's First Thursday today even though the real first of the month was new years day? I'll probably get beers later. Maybe not. Tam's birthday on Friday, should be fun. I got her a coooool present. Current Mood: excited | | Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 | | 10:26 am |
New camera / Christmas cactus
My new point-and-shoot camera arrived! It's a Canon SD880 IS. I had the 870 and it got lost by someone else. Whoops! I bought a Samsung NV24HD and it sucked arse so I sent it back and got the Canon. The Canon rulez. The Christmas cactus at my desk is blooming. This is the first time it's done this, as this is the first time I've had a bunch of windows. Pictures!   Current Mood: happy | | Saturday, December 20th, 2008 | | 11:43 pm |
I drove to the Gustav's in Clackamas tonight...
Man, I have never ever seen so much snow on I-205!! It was solid white, rail to rail! Amazing. The driving was pretty slow and white-knuckle but we made it there and back. Staying in tonight. I wonder how deep it's gonna be tomorrow AM? Current Mood: impressed | | Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | | 4:33 pm |
Back early
Due to getting sick repeatedly getting sick (the last time with the flu, which I am still fighting) I decided to head back to the States early. I was tired of lying around hotel rooms alone and miserable. Fuck it. Also, Glenn could not meet me as planned due to those stupid A-hole protesters in Bangkok. I did get to see some of the major things I really wanted to, like Halong Bay, Angkor, and the floating villages on the tonlé sap lake, the biggest lake in Asia. In Vietnam I met up with some friends-of-friends who were nice enough to take me out to some cool "locals" spots in Hanoi. We ate at this place where basically 1/2 of the restaurant was out on the sidewalk. They had low plasic stools you sat on. They brought out this cast iron griddle thing, and stuck a puck of white Sterno type stuff under it and lit it. They then brought out a plate of raw chicken and beef and veggies, and you grilled them and dipped them in this tasty sauce of salt, sugar, lime juice and chili. It was tasty! I was drinking a lot of beer too. After that we went to a place called Le Pub in the old quarter. I got sick the next morning and was kinda laid out for a couple of days. I went to Halong Bay a couple of days later, which was amazing. The bay has over 2,000 of these limestone islands in it and you cruise along in a boat between them. There are also fishermen who live out there in floating platform houses. Also some amazing caves to climb through. They look like a movie set, it's nuts. I headed to Siem Reap, Cambodia after that. That place is a trip. It's got full-on little tourist strip, all these massive hotels. Everywhere else, it's dirt-poor. Everyone's trying to get you to buy something from them hahaha. The Cambodian people are so very nice and funny. Really great to hang out with. My driver/guide Jim was great. I need to email him. I did all the usual stuff, checked out Angkor, climbed up the one temple where you watch the sunset. It was amazing. Had the best meal of trip possibly at a little shack near Angkor. The local curry is called "amok" and I got the amok with fish - awesome! My hotel was great there too - $10 a night, perfectly clean, with an awesome salt-water pool and poolside restaurant / bar. Small quant place but extremely comfortable for budget. Sadly the next day I ended up getting really sick. I had been sneezing all day at Angkor and when I woke up I had a full-on cold/flu. My throat was on fire, I felt like I wieghed 1000 pounds. I laid around a lot for the next few days and finally decided to call the rest of the trip, as this was the second time I'd gotten really sick, and I was alone since Glenn couldn't make it. My driver did manage to roust my sorry ass to go check out the floating villages on the tonle sap lake. This lake is the biggest lake in Asia. It's so big that when you go out on it, it looks like you're on the ocean. You can't see anything but water as far as the eye can see. It's surreal. The boat we got hooked up with was super rickety and was piloted by two of the more hating it Cambodian kids I'd seen. They must have been in their 20's. One kid was a human skeleton. He had a peculiar way of walking where his arms would just swing and his shoulders drooped a lot. I don't know what was wrong with him. I had never seen someone so skinny walking around. He was adept at driving the boat, though. The other kid had more meat on his bones, but had one badly fucked up leg. It was as though it had broken near the hip, and never healed. It was like there was an extra joint, but with no support. So he could not put weight on it without sort of holding it in place with one hand. His foot was bare and kind of dragged. It was sad. They still kept a good look on their faces despite such hardship. I am even more greatful for my very, very privileged life in America. I headed back to the States on Friday. I was so sick, flying was lame but I was hell bent on going home. The Saigon airport sucks ass I fucking hate that place. The Tokyo Narita airport is the bestest airport evar. They have showers and day rooms you can rent. I got a day room for 2 hours and totally crashed out. It was great. The McDonald's in Narita has a little sink in the seating area where you can wash the french fry juice off your hands. I bought some smoked squid which I was able to get back here with no problem. I am happy to be back here. I love Portland, the winter, the dark, the food, my house, my Michelle, the cat, my fish, my guitar and bass :D Pictures soon! Current Mood: happy |
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