i spent the bulk of the afternoon and evening in SF today, putzing around the embarcadero, waiting for the show to start. i devoured a goodly portion of Another Roadside Attraction and my pants had an unfortunate run-in with the leftover soy sauce from lunch. brown stains are never attractive, so i tried to clean it off with water, which of course ( Read more... )

to the sending train. i figure i'll start of with the good news. three days, two comps, and one day-long session at castle rock. in addition to an assload of goofy eliminates and repeats, i did the direct version of waiamea arete today. grandmaster loh figured out the beta, and a couple of us jumped on the sending train right after him ( Read more... )

on a long standing recommendation from, as i recall, tom boardman, i watched garden state today. i must say i was pleasantly surprised. and it makes me wish there were more girls like natalie portman's sam in the world. craziness can be a lovely thing. the whole east coast thing reminded me of choate. heh. if they could see me now.

we like to think it was better once, that it meant more. that depth came standard, and that love was just something we did. as we age we lose our ability to see color - we start tinting our own photographic past before it's past ( Read more... )

which is something i may have noticed for the first time today. perhaps this daylight savings time is good for something. besides fucking up your internal solar clock for lord knows how long. i'm really not sure what time it is now, except for what the bottom right corner of this display tells me. time is a constant except when it's convenient. and ( Read more... )

all music is ultimately generic. regardless of artistic merit or poetic quality, it invariably represents and transmits emotional information that is universally human. the content, then, can be understood by just about anyone. while i cannot claim to be an expert in either world music or psychology, i would venture a guess that similar emotional ( Read more... )

is it release or termination? catharsis or thanatos ( Read more... )

the problem is fitting your face inside the frame ( Read more... )

maybe instead of the Big Crunch, the universe will, if the theorists that state the universe will eventually begin receding (we're going to draw a boundary line; the universe shall be herein be considered a finite resource), lay itself down in a more orderly fashion: a Big Paper Crane, if you will. a world ending in origami ( Read more... )

first off, i'd like to thank the planet granite kids for getting me a little more psyched on climbing. it's always great to climb with those guys because they're so bloody enthusiastic about everything. playing add-on with them is hilarious. so, yeah, when climbing starts getting really fun again, i figure things are going well ( Read more... )