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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
6:59 pm	Latest roll of Holga stuff Portland and Wenatchee, WA. Fuji Velvia 100, cross-processed. Current Mood: creative (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
10:01 pm	Flickr I hit 3,000 views on Flickr. Yay? Current Mood: calm (Comment on this)
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 (Comment on this)
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 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. (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
2:30 am	My mother has been gone for 2 years I love you and I miss you, Susan. Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
3:33 pm	The pilot episode of my new travel show is finished!! It's called "Hey Look, I'm In The Middle Of Nowhere In Vietnam" (Comment on this)
11:29 am	Patriotic videos from Vietnam I shot this in my hotel in Hanoi while I was sick... Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
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 (Comment on this)
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 (Comment on this)
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 (Comment on this)
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 (Comment on this)
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 (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
9:20 pm	Where you from? When you come back you buy my drink... I want to be one of those cool backpacker guys with my cool scarf. I don't exactly which scarf you are supposed to have. Some Cambodian silk seems to be OK, or one of those cool Palestinian scarves. Those are awesome. Except that you are not Palestinian. You are from fucking Denmark. Either way, if you have shorts, Tevas, a backpack, and a high-end DSLR, and you have a cool scarf wrapped around your neck, you're a cool backpacker guy! Hehe... OK I do go on. Day 2 in Siem Reap rocks. I like this place a hell of a lot better than Vietnam. Just saying. I'm burnt to a crisp from being at Angkor all day with no sunscreen. My driver "Jim" is a nice fellow. If I'm not careful we might end up being e-mail friends. What else? My hotel is $10 a night, awesome building, salt water swimming pool with a waterfall and restaurant/bar next to the pool. Yeah! Best meal on this whole trip so far - "amok with fish" at a tiny stall by Angkor. Relatives of my guide. Amok is a type of coconut curry. It had slices of some small white fish. Excellent!! OK I need beer and or bed! Current Mood: amused (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
2:07 pm	Sea Legs Greetings from day five of Asia Aventure Number Five! Things are going pretty well overall. I had a down couple of days (like, what the fuck am I doing back in SE Asia) due to some illness... not the barfy poopy kind but more like some stomach discomfort + general malaise. I finally did what all backpackers do and walked down to the local pharmacy and bought a bunch of Cipro and started taking those this morning. I'm drinking a beer in the airport right now, so there must be something to it? So far I have: Gone to Halong Bay. Awesome. Stunning. Why didn't I book the overnight boat?? Got too drunk with some Aussies and some friend-of-friend locals. Eaten pretty decent food. Seen the water puppets. Checked out Pagodas and temples. Watched Vietnamese soap operas on the plasma TV in bed while drinking my excellent coffee in the morning. They are subtitled in English for reason. They sell this stuff here (over the counter) that is like Alka-Seltzer only it's a mix of acetomenophin and Codiene, and gets you kinda fucked up. I wish I could bring a couple of boxes back. Vietnam reminds me Thailand, only dirtier and pushier. Thailand seems to have better food. I am off to Cambodia now. I have no plans at all after that. Fly back to somewhere in Vietnam, hopefully with a beach. I have yet to get my beach on. How is that I keep going to beachy countries and not ending up at the beach? I'll work it out. The weather up in Hanoi is awesome. 70 degrees and sunny. Some of the locals have expressed concern with me walking around in a T-shirt and jeans. :D There are 9,182,793,207,208 tourists in Vietnam. Luckily, it's not hard to figure out where they are located, because they cleverly wear T-shirts and hats that say "VIETNAM" on them. Thank goodness! Current Mood: optimistic (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
8:39 pm	Cross-processing is fun! Some shots from the Holga, around the Rose City Park neighborhood. Fuji Velvia 100 cross-processed. ( More... ) Current Mood: creative (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
3:07 pm	New toy My new bass arrived! It's a Fender / DeArmond Ashbory bass. This strange little bass was first released by Guild back in 1988. I think they never got that popular and were discontinued. They're now being reissued by Fender. Only $240, and I've always wanted to have one for playing around at home. I'll try to post an audio file of me playing it so those who are interested can get an idea of what this instrument sounds like. The sound to me is a bit like an upright bass. Anyway compact, light, cheap and fun! 18" two-octave scale, fretless, with silicone strings. Active piezo tranducer with volume/treble/bass controls. Current Mood: excited (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
8:03 am	Gah Sun Kil Moon's cover of the Modest Mouse song Tiny Cities Made of Ashes is I think my favorite song right now but it's so longing and sad that I probably shouldn't listen to it too much. I get all choked up thinking about those who have left... sigh. Lovin' the nice weather... and either I've had a low-grade cold for a week or the allergies are still around. Annoying... Current Mood: awake (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
4:12 pm	I like expensive animal guts We finally made it out to dinner at Le Pigeon down there in ever-hip LoBu. It was really tasty! I finally got to try sweetbreads , with clams and a great tarragon dressing. Good stuff! Very rich and mild, like foie gras. Speaking of, I also got to try the dessert profiteroles with foie gras ice cream, caramel and salt. Tasty also! A bit funky, too. I'll stick with the more standard desserts, thank you :) Today I was supposed to go to the work picnic, but traffic was so totally fucked that I had to give up and stay home. Boo-hoo ;) Been doing yard work and now I'm strongly thinking about cracking a beer... I was such a good boy last night and all (one glass of nice pear cider from Normandy). It's nice out! Off the computer! Current Mood: full (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
2:55 pm	There's something you don't see every day... Here at work we have windows all around the building, with walls that go up about 3'. On the outisde, right where the glass starts, it a ledge about 4" deep. The only birds we ever see on this ledge are the occaisional crow who will hang out for a bit. Well today after lunch, a small red-tailed hawk decided to hang out (for quite some time) on the ledge! That was cool :) Current Mood: impressed (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
2:24 pm	New digs @ work I just got moved into my new cube at work and it rocks. Nice big windows and lots of them! I still need a few ergonomic tweaks and some decorating. For your consideration, a truly sketchy panorama of my new cube: I don't know what's going on this weekend. Anything happening tonight? Saturday? We're playing at Ron Tom's on Sunday night at like 9pm (bleah). Late Sunday show = annoying. Current Mood: impressed (4 Comments |Comment on this)