Moving meant taking my efficient commute that was 5 minutes on highway, 5 on surface street and 10 minutes of walking and shifted it to a half hour twisty stoplight heavy trip through neighborhoods I wouldn't walk through after dark ( Read more... )

The summer of 2010 Part I, the house ( Read more... )

I have to remind my self that LJ isn't just a travelogue. I don't have plans to go anywhere until fall but I can still keep updating ( Read more... )

DId you know you could be in the water ballet? I know you have heard me talk about it because I'm kind of a bore and talk a lot about the projects I'm working on. This is your chance for awesome ( Read more... )

Another travelog from me. I do stuff that is interesting day to day but I am bad about recording it here. ( Read more... )

I don't know if it's a inclination of modesty but if you ask me what I am up to and I'll usually answer "dunno, not much". But really I mean "It's weird and complicated to explain ( Read more... )

Not so long ago I was doing experimental electronic music. It was fun, I played shows where everyone in the audience was in a band or was recording it and taking pictures for their zine. Once I played a 4am downtempo set in a foggy field in Delaware to a sleeping camp site. I was in a goth/industrial band and we played at shows with fetish acts. ( Read more... )

Like everyone else I know, I am Ukulele crazy. I picked up one at Appellation Bluegrass last year because I was in the neighborhood and I really like that shop and want to give them money. It's the mass produced standard Mahalo. It really isn't a great instrument. It is hard to tune and has buzzes and is dull/lacks any pop ( Read more... )

Also, DC is just kind of very awesome to bump around in for an afternoon. Got a good cappuccino, saw fish, wales, giant squid, mammals of all types, skeletons and more skeletons at Smithsonian Natural History. There seems to be a surprising number of colonial skeletons found in basements in St Marys. The botanical gardens are a warm humid delight ( Read more... )

Like most of my informative experiences if you ask me directly about mini bar I'd say that it was pretty amazing and just leave the topic hanging as I fail to know how to succinctly sum it up. If you eat with me any time in the next few months you will probably want to tell me to shut up about it as I tell you about the adjective/verbed course of ( Read more... )