11-20-2011

Don't let this really hip drummer fool you. We're at the Beachland to see my favorite bluegrass band. For real bluegrass with lots of cowboy hat wearing and yes, I have a favorite bluegrass band. This isn't my favorite bluegrass band. They're the opening act but they were still very good, and even sang songs about bears.

When I saw Trampled by Turtles last year (11-6-10), I was a lot closer to the stage and got better pictures. This time I was shooting though heads, so I didn't take as many shots. I really like seeing live music though and I always wonder why I don't do it that often anymore.

11-19-2011

Look, Nicole is wearing crazy shoes again, and this time she's carrying a ladder. What could she be up to? Whatever it is, it apparently involves this very suspicious caulk gun and putty knife. Actually, she's not doing anything at all, because I won't let her do sketchy things like climbing on the roof since she's know to be "whoopsie" prone. Instead, I climbed my own clumsy self up on our sketchy roof to pretend that I'm a good and responsible homeowner. If you've ever read this blog before, you know that this is not true. Regardless, I could no longer put it off, and set on an expedition to find why water has been leaking though our walls and into our basement. This crack looks like a viable culprit. I did this which probably would have fixed it, but since I was already up here and had a full tube of nasty smelling sealant stuff, I did this to make sure I won't have to go back up here for another hundred years. Hopefully it works.

I wasn't sure if it was in bad taste to post about this on here, and it kind of creeps me out, but I think it's really crazy so I'm doing it anyway. Today while we were out doing stuff, we saw all sorts of police lights and people searching in the woods by a broken highway barrier. As always, I was curious to know what was going on, and always have my camera with me, so I took some pictures. The weird thing was when we got home, we googled to see what happened and if everyone was ok (so far they are), and came across this picture on a news site. If you look closely at the last two pictures, the guy in the yellow jacket is leaning into the car in both shots, and I'm pretty sure that little blue guy and I were taking pictures of each other. Creepy.

11-18-2011

Tell me I won't leave the house in a wool duffle coat, reflective running tights and Vans slip-ons to drop my broken car off at its sleepover. I'll make you a liar.

11-17-2011

Peep kicks.

11-16-2011

So back when I was in college, one of my friends started seeing a girl that liked to go to bars with her dad. In order to see said girl, my friend would have to meet up wherever said dad chose to be that night. No big deal. But wait, said girl's father happened to be gay and logically enjoyed going to gay bars. Gay bars with male exotic dancers performing on stage. This frightened my friend. As such, I was enlisted to come as "backup." I'm not really sure what exactly being "backup" entailed, but whatever, it was something to do that night right?

In any case, the reason that I'm telling this seemingly random story is because since my time in college, said gay bar has turned into a divey punk rock bar, and my friend's band was in town to perform on the same stage that I had previously watched a dude wiggle around in a thong on.

This band had a kick drum graphic that was pertinent to Nicole's interests. My friend's band was selling real records.

11-15-2011

It really sucks that the sun goes down before I get out of work every night now, and I don't normally post pictures like this, but it was really pretty tonight.

11-14-2011

Often when people ask me what exactly it is that I do for a living, I'm forced to take a long pause, chew on my inside of my lip a little bit, then summarise that I work in advertising and quickly change the subject.

11-13-2011

Some things will undoubtedly make you faster automatically. Being Kenyan, being chased by a bear, getting elbowed ten feet from the finish line etc. None of these things will automatically make you as fast as Nicole's new crazy colored shoes will.

11-12-2011

We saw a lot of cool stuff today. I thought that this buck narrowly avoiding death in traffic would be the coolest, but it wasn't. Since I'm still on break from running, we went hiking on this path to enjoy whatever is left of the pretty fall season. I took lots of pictures of Nicole in nice light while we walked around beautiful scenery. It's also pretty cool to see horses, but that wasn't the best thing either. On pretty much any other day of my entire life, this would be the coolest thing I would see all day, but I'm still having a hard time declaring even the living icon of America the winner.

This is Sheldon. It sounds like the setup for a joke, but tonight at our favorite creole restaurant/bar, I watched Sheldon taking orders, serving drinks, and busing tables. You might be thinking that's not so weird right? Well, Sheldon doesn't work at said creole restaurant. Sheldon is a shellfish eating, beer drinking rabbi, and I'm pretty sure the coolest thing I saw today.

11-11-2011

I'm not even good enough with Photoshop for this to be fake. Can we at least have a vote on this or something? I haven't had even close to enough of fall yet. This is all just a very bad joke.

This was an incredibly hard shot to get so I'm posing it on here. It doesn't mean that I like snow. I just means that I think it can be pretty.

11-10-2011

If you didn't read my post from three days ago this won't make a lot of sense, but beyond the treasure trove of black and white film my coworker had developed, he also has a bunch of this stuff. Exposed but undeveloped 120 and 35mm color film that calls for E-2 processing (which I had never even heard of before). I'm pretty obsessed with the painted, real metal containers, and the lack of ASA/ISO speeds since "daylight" or "flash" were enough to distinguish back then. I'm really hoping he goes though with sending this all off to get processed. I'm pretty sure if he hurries he can make the "Develop Before" date...the film still says it's new so it should be good right?

11-9-2011

I didn't really want to say anything at first, but you might have noticed that our Halloween kind of sucked this year. As people who at the very least pass out candy, but normally go so far as to dress both ourselves and our cats up in costumes, this year was rather lackluster. But since we had so much other stuff scheduled at the same time, I sort of resigned to celebrating Halloween the same way the Religious Right does. I did have a major regret though. In this off year, I didn't get any candy.

All I really wanted was a peanutbutter cup and any sort of the many variations of gummy candy. I even verbalized this regret to Nicole and she somehow managed to procure a peanutbutter cup for me. I was so excited with this gift that I stuffed it into my camera bag to save for the right time, and sort of forgot about it. Well today at work, over a full week after the date, a Halloween miracle happened. Look closely at the picture above. That gummy worm and (slightly smooshed up) peanutbutter cup are hard evidence that dreams do come true.

11-8-2011

Nicole is down to eat way weirder stuff than I am, but I'm down to eat way more. To the point that our visit to an all you can eat buffet has left me in more physical pain than our half marathon. Taking a few days off from running is mandatory after a big race, but I had better start again soon or I won't be able to even walk if I keep eating like this.

11-7-2011

So this is a really cool story. The other day, a coworker and I were talking about old cameras and film and stuff since I'm a nerd and those are the kinds of things that I like talking about. Well, he told me about someone he knew in the 80's who bought a house, and found a box full of medium format and 35mm film. The film was exposed but undevolped and dated as far back as the 50's. Out of curiosity, my coworker had some of the black and white rolls developed. The pictures ended up being super awesome, cheesecakey pinups and nudes from what looks like the late 50's to early 70's. On top of being cool just because they're old, they're really well shot photos. I'm assuming they came out of the kind of vintage Hasselblad or Rolleiflexes I'm always hunting for judging by the image clarity. I don't think I'm allowed to post the scans on this blog 'cause there are boobies, but they're seriously by far the most awesome thing I've seen that someone found in the basement of an old house. It's kind of crazy to think of the grandmas out there that would totally trip out if they were reintroduced to these photos from their glory days.

I'm changing my mind and posting one of the scans here because it's super artsy and cool, plus you can't really see any "objectionable" bits. I'm totally obsessed with these pictures.