June 2008
Seattle
Things I will do:
1. film my daughter at our friend’s mindfullness/meditation camp for kids
2. see my old apt. (where my old 4runner was stolen)
3. see my grad school
4. see where I met my wife
5. see where I picked up street skating again
6. watch the fireworks over Lake Union
7. drink the best coffee in the entire world at caffe vita
8. revisit the defunct highway bridge I jumped...
July 6: Seattle Tumblr Meetup!
daryn:
Sunday, July 6th, 4:00pm King’s Hardware ( map )
That’s right, we’re having our first Seattle meetup on Sunday the 6th! Come join us at King’s for delicious food and drinks, an excellent jukebox, and a sunny patio (and they have skeeball!)
So far, karion, suitep, and daryn will be there, how about you? Reblog and spread the word!
(photo from The Kozy Shack on flickr)
I probably...
2 tix to Modest Mouse House of Blues Myrtle Beach
wanna buy them from me? can’t go.
:#(
Now I will open that Blue Moon Honey Moon beer.
Just stabbed myself in the finger trying to hit some pineapple in a plastic earth fare container.
Eurotunnel
caleparks:
Driving our car onto a train, traveling underwater, from France to England
What? I totally have to do this.
“Lightning or something must’ve struck and took out your carbon so I...”
– AT & T man regarding why my phone line (and DSL) was down.
Hungry Like The Wolf?
If you have a pressing desire to know which music videos were airing on MTV on any given week between 1980 and 1998, then http://www.Grabb.it/TV will make you very happy. Power pop videos galore.
The first music video I ever saw was Owner of Lonely Heart by YES on MTV at my grandparents house in Omaha, Nebraska. It blew me away of course. It was thanksgiving and I used my wooden Burton Backhill...
In the news: John Legend is constipated.
Alchemy Coffee is playing John Legend. Not good. He kinda reminds me of Redd Foxx on metamucil. “Jus’ tryin’ ta git reggalur, man!”
Iceland Airwaves music festival, Reykjavik →
I’ve wanted to go to this for the past five years. Package deal, people? Maybe this year? Hello, God it’s me, Margaret….
On another note my last name is derives from a Norse myth and I am pretty sure there is a large monolith of some kind made of volcanic rock with my name carved in it in Iceland.
and another thing...
oh yeah. i forgot to mention i saw Vampire Weekend, too. I guess that tells you something. they sounded like Buddy Holly mixed with Paul Simon (who I used to like at some point).
bonnaroo is a goofy name
bands/artists/performers that I saw this weekend in order of most enjoyable performance (best at top):
M.I.A. (so confident and in tune with the crowd—my new crush and hands down one of the best shows I have ever seen) Battles (as much as it pains me so, I didn’t get to see them because we had some RV generator issues in ATL but they probably woulda been here if not at the top) Sigur...
