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Friday, July 20, 2007
two uptown hipster summer block parties down, one more to go. bastille day @ barbette has gone from being a fun neighborhood novelty to full-on local tradition, marked by run-ins with those friends i never see for whatever reason ... weather was ideal after last year's wilting near-one-hundred degree heat - the mid-eighties were back with no rain - but the block really started rockin by the time i made it over to the bmx stage, where i ran into my pal darcy from work. the two of us are always good for a furious volley of fun snark, which was intensified by the inclusion of a guy i've known from around uptown since my mailboxes etc. days - which brings us to the mid-nineties - but most recently from the gym. he's a big, built, shaved-head dude whom i was already successfully chatting up (including the very forward - for me - question of whether he's done everything he wanted to do before his upcoming Big 4-0 ... vive la liberte!) when i finally connected with darce. she + i had a hell of a blast tryin to figure him out for the rest of the night, with his gorgeously mannish tall galpal (one of maybe 3 african-americans at the event - ah, minneapolis ... how you frustrate me), through the rollergirl demonstration and the not-completely-repellant performance by mallman's new band ruby isle. of course the bell's 2-hearteds were flowing all night, so by the time we were fixin to round up our other work comrade kimmer, who had finally made it back to the neighborhood after being kidnapped by kung for the previous 24 hours, i got good and bellige when some blond female stick figure - was she dressed all in brown lace? that's how i remember it - swooped in and stole our manly project away from us with promises they'd come to darcy's later - after i'd invested an evening's worth of effort into him ... ! grrr. of course poor darcy + kim had to bear the brunt of my angry-gay-man act, but thanks to their generous tolerance and indulgence that did not prevent us from enjoying a very testy, i mean tasty post-party meal of darcy's signature green bean pesto back at her place. i of course had to be up at five the next morning for work so i left by eleven, thankfully out the door just in time to bid my goodnights to our bald test subject and his stick figure as they arrived: as i walked away she told me to 'make good choices...' what the hell kind of schtick is that??? go figure.
speaking of matters of liberty, resistance + revolution ... was encouraged by the times article about the new populism: it seems the democrats are finally coming together around what is beginning to form into a forceful message about social justice and economic equality here at home, addressing the growing sense of middle-class financial insecurity that i have been experiencing and observing for several years now. was hanging out with a friend from work last night who described not being able to make ends meet despite working full-time. (maybe it's because we go out too much?) i have to admit that my own poverty is somewhat self-induced, choosing as i have not to commit to a full-time career; but, when i think about it my reasons for that choice are based on a sense of social alienation that i have felt in all of my previous attempts at grown-up employment, never feeling truly comfortable with my alternative identity in jobs dominated by even well-meaning mainstream hetero and/or team-sports, corporate-ladder-consumerist oriented co-workers. too much dealing with unpleasant, unaccountable, and even inept management types has brought me to a point of organizational disillusionment that has left me too exhausted to even consider another foray into that world. is this an issue to be taken up by congress? or a good therapist? at this point i'm hoping time will tell, but it doesn't help when the stories have been coming in about what would appear to be a campaign of harassment involving hundred-something dollar fines levied against peaceful, productive, middle-class citizens who dared to 1> walk their dog off-leash on a frozen lake (me); 2> ride their bike on nicollet mall (my friend boone - did you HEAR THAT??? not a warning but a FINE for NOT burning fossil fuels in rybak's minneapolis!); or 3> going fishing one time with her family, who had a fishing license, because she didn't have an individual license, on a lake where the family has kept a modest cabin for years. (previously mentioned full-time co-worker - again, not a warning, but an immediate fine) ... i tell ya.
it never fails - i splurge on the new york times one time and it changes my life ... also discovered slint and grizzly bear from their article about pitchfork.
speaking of matters of liberty, resistance + revolution ... was encouraged by the times article about the new populism: it seems the democrats are finally coming together around what is beginning to form into a forceful message about social justice and economic equality here at home, addressing the growing sense of middle-class financial insecurity that i have been experiencing and observing for several years now. was hanging out with a friend from work last night who described not being able to make ends meet despite working full-time. (maybe it's because we go out too much?) i have to admit that my own poverty is somewhat self-induced, choosing as i have not to commit to a full-time career; but, when i think about it my reasons for that choice are based on a sense of social alienation that i have felt in all of my previous attempts at grown-up employment, never feeling truly comfortable with my alternative identity in jobs dominated by even well-meaning mainstream hetero and/or team-sports, corporate-ladder-consumerist oriented co-workers. too much dealing with unpleasant, unaccountable, and even inept management types has brought me to a point of organizational disillusionment that has left me too exhausted to even consider another foray into that world. is this an issue to be taken up by congress? or a good therapist? at this point i'm hoping time will tell, but it doesn't help when the stories have been coming in about what would appear to be a campaign of harassment involving hundred-something dollar fines levied against peaceful, productive, middle-class citizens who dared to 1> walk their dog off-leash on a frozen lake (me); 2> ride their bike on nicollet mall (my friend boone - did you HEAR THAT??? not a warning but a FINE for NOT burning fossil fuels in rybak's minneapolis!); or 3> going fishing one time with her family, who had a fishing license, because she didn't have an individual license, on a lake where the family has kept a modest cabin for years. (previously mentioned full-time co-worker - again, not a warning, but an immediate fine) ... i tell ya.
it never fails - i splurge on the new york times one time and it changes my life ... also discovered slint and grizzly bear from their article about pitchfork.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Saturday, July 14, 2007
did i ever 'blog about the internet jukeboxes in waikiki? the ones that allow you to find and play pretty much any song you can think of? dangerous. cleared the room at the maddog saloon when i played the 10-minute remix of lcd soundsystem's "yr city's a sucker" over new year's - it was during the day so there weren't that many people to begin with, but seriously, every single person left during the song, including the bartender - except one guy, who applauded loud, slow and pointedly when it was finally over. beware.
BATTLES show on wednesday rocked - went stag, which i think was the key to its success, allowing me to bike hardcore down lake street / up cedar and to enjoy the show on my own time / terms. the fact my now-legendary 7th-caller skills got me in for free courtesy of radio k probably didn't hurt either. (did you hear her shout out congrats to 'tom-A-hawk in uptown' ??? i think it helped that i paid into my karma by giving $20 for their emergency pledge drive june 29th...) smoked up before the show and was psyched to discover POS' punk outfit BUILDING BETTER BOMBS was the 1st opening act! i bet kdogg was jealous =) someone actually asked pos where they were from. i wish i'd told pos to ask that person where he was from. next up was SINGER, who fed my recent psychedelic jones with heavy jammy rawk. ducked out to smoke up again before the headliners went on and pos walked by, lookin at me like he knew what i was up to ... BATTLES dominated with their solid, stoney wall of math-noise (one of them is from don cab - the main guy who played his guitar frets and keyboard simultaneously), their hit 'atlas' was a joyous, transcendent, almost levitating experience. whoo!
so al franken's fundraising has made him a force to be reckoned with in the senate race - regardless of whether i think he's carpetbagging or not, i support him if only strategically, as a democrat who actually has a chance to oust bush lapdog coleman; plus, i witnessed franken shake my birthday bro kevin's hand at this year's gay pride parade. there was something about that moment besides the obvious that made me wish i'd gotten a photo of it - it was probably kevin's poise and just-so hair, but it seemed iconic, like that classic shot of a young bill clinton shaking hands with jfk...
it's been a full-on 60's revival around here the last few days: got csn/y's 1st album and 'so far' plus a best of buffalo springfield collection, all on vinyl, and was cranking them last night, followed by my entire i-tunes joni mitchell collection bringin me into the 70's. also got me down to cheapo's relatively new vinyl basement for the 1st time, which is kind of like going back in time itself, mainly because of the prehistoric environment they built around the stairs, but i have to say i was impressed with their refined curatorial approach ... it was rolling stone's flashback 1967 issue that got me goin, learning more about the era and the bands suddenly brought all this music, which otherwise had all seemed so cliched and almost depressing to me, vibrantly back to life - a welcome, exuberant, earnest, EMOTIONAL alternative to my splintered, cynical indie dance/rock exhaustion. maybe also at its root is the undeniable similarity between our times and the vietnam era ... stop, children - what's that sound? love is coming to us all.
while i'm catching up on odds + ends, and to follow up on posting my new musical creations, and speaking of lcd soundsystem, i realize i never posted the short film my myspace bud aj inspired me to make right before the world came back to life this spring:
BATTLES show on wednesday rocked - went stag, which i think was the key to its success, allowing me to bike hardcore down lake street / up cedar and to enjoy the show on my own time / terms. the fact my now-legendary 7th-caller skills got me in for free courtesy of radio k probably didn't hurt either. (did you hear her shout out congrats to 'tom-A-hawk in uptown' ??? i think it helped that i paid into my karma by giving $20 for their emergency pledge drive june 29th...) smoked up before the show and was psyched to discover POS' punk outfit BUILDING BETTER BOMBS was the 1st opening act! i bet kdogg was jealous =) someone actually asked pos where they were from. i wish i'd told pos to ask that person where he was from. next up was SINGER, who fed my recent psychedelic jones with heavy jammy rawk. ducked out to smoke up again before the headliners went on and pos walked by, lookin at me like he knew what i was up to ... BATTLES dominated with their solid, stoney wall of math-noise (one of them is from don cab - the main guy who played his guitar frets and keyboard simultaneously), their hit 'atlas' was a joyous, transcendent, almost levitating experience. whoo!
so al franken's fundraising has made him a force to be reckoned with in the senate race - regardless of whether i think he's carpetbagging or not, i support him if only strategically, as a democrat who actually has a chance to oust bush lapdog coleman; plus, i witnessed franken shake my birthday bro kevin's hand at this year's gay pride parade. there was something about that moment besides the obvious that made me wish i'd gotten a photo of it - it was probably kevin's poise and just-so hair, but it seemed iconic, like that classic shot of a young bill clinton shaking hands with jfk...
it's been a full-on 60's revival around here the last few days: got csn/y's 1st album and 'so far' plus a best of buffalo springfield collection, all on vinyl, and was cranking them last night, followed by my entire i-tunes joni mitchell collection bringin me into the 70's. also got me down to cheapo's relatively new vinyl basement for the 1st time, which is kind of like going back in time itself, mainly because of the prehistoric environment they built around the stairs, but i have to say i was impressed with their refined curatorial approach ... it was rolling stone's flashback 1967 issue that got me goin, learning more about the era and the bands suddenly brought all this music, which otherwise had all seemed so cliched and almost depressing to me, vibrantly back to life - a welcome, exuberant, earnest, EMOTIONAL alternative to my splintered, cynical indie dance/rock exhaustion. maybe also at its root is the undeniable similarity between our times and the vietnam era ... stop, children - what's that sound? love is coming to us all.
while i'm catching up on odds + ends, and to follow up on posting my new musical creations, and speaking of lcd soundsystem, i realize i never posted the short film my myspace bud aj inspired me to make right before the world came back to life this spring:
Friday, July 13, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Monday, July 09, 2007
was feeling very laurel canyon this morning, playing my acoustic guitar and singing as the cool summer sun fluttered leafy shadows on my shuttered white window blinds. thinking about the two neighborhood house parties i attended this weekend, like david crosby going to joni mitchell's, wandering from the hot + steamy art geek dance party friday night at darcy’s-on-the-mall, to saturday night’s dudewarming for the 24 year old rockers who just moved in next door ... slept for 15 hours last night, a nap that continued through the evening’s storm + rain, which led to my early morning wakeful trance and sank back into sleep again, creating amazing dreams before i rose ending with a snippet of a diva dance song i unearthed from my subconscious, an angelic voice gently waking me with the words don’t waste your time ... open your eyes to me ... echoing through my head as i got up and started to walk around sometime before 8 a.m.
rode my bike down to the east shore of lake calhoun to see fireworks on 4th of july, the minikahda club does the main display from their perch on the west shore; plus hopkins, saint louis park, and edina’s shows can also be seen from north to south right above the same treeline. very smalltown-in-the-city, very neighborhoody, very nice.
barack obama worked out at the downtown yw (where i work - and work out - sometimes) in a surprise visit 1st thing in the morning a couple saturdays ago - i was not there to meet him, but my co-worker na’il, who was subbing for that shift and pissed about having to work so early, got to shake his hand. and i got to shake the hand of na’il ...
maybe the laurel canyon vibe started when i recorded a new song recently w/ baby: a dirty, scratchy, grungy version of my most recent original ‘at the foot of the mountain theater’ - it’s a folkie americana-inspired bit of revisionist patriotism that you can hear, along with my 1st mac recording ‘self is just a concept’ at my new myspace artist page ... ! please keep in mind that these are very rough drafts of the type of music i would like to make, so tell me what you think - and be kind...
rode my bike down to the east shore of lake calhoun to see fireworks on 4th of july, the minikahda club does the main display from their perch on the west shore; plus hopkins, saint louis park, and edina’s shows can also be seen from north to south right above the same treeline. very smalltown-in-the-city, very neighborhoody, very nice.
barack obama worked out at the downtown yw (where i work - and work out - sometimes) in a surprise visit 1st thing in the morning a couple saturdays ago - i was not there to meet him, but my co-worker na’il, who was subbing for that shift and pissed about having to work so early, got to shake his hand. and i got to shake the hand of na’il ...
maybe the laurel canyon vibe started when i recorded a new song recently w/ baby: a dirty, scratchy, grungy version of my most recent original ‘at the foot of the mountain theater’ - it’s a folkie americana-inspired bit of revisionist patriotism that you can hear, along with my 1st mac recording ‘self is just a concept’ at my new myspace artist page ... ! please keep in mind that these are very rough drafts of the type of music i would like to make, so tell me what you think - and be kind...
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
got a haircut from kelly last thursday in prep for PRIDE 07: uptown pride @ blb on friday w/ kung, bob mould impressing solo, doing lots of classics - wishing well, hoover dam, celebrated summer - and showin off a nicely buffed-up gay rugby type bod! i wonder if he wears a speedo to da beach these days ... skipped da eagle block party saturday, then back to the salon y’all for traditional sunday brunch mimosas + parade viewing @ da shOp - thanx ’n thanx kelly! we gays love us our traditions, and the christmas-in-june holiday way pride has of getting you back together w/ your dearest, if not nearest, longtime queer kin is not only a big heartwarming party, but also very important for our community, for obvious reasons ... we made out way down to the festival in loring park, partied w/ lots of dudes i never get a chance to hang out with anymore - loved playing ‘do not feed the bears’ w/ shirtless tony l on the other side of the chain link fence @ da beer garden, shirtless brad n swelled the bear contingent before we all took off together for the saloon block party, where brad heckled da kine esera into taking HIS shirt off for the last song in his set, which was surprisingly good! i was also impressed by brad’s influence from the audience - kung + i never considered trying to get bob to take his shirt off on friday night... but then i guess pride magic tends to build over the weekend, peaking on sunday night, when esera was wearing the exact same olive-grey nautica cargo shorts that i’ve been workin for the last 2 years both here + in hawai’i, which to me indicates a cosmic connection: several times during his performance he was looking directly at and singing only for shirtless, plastic-flower-rainbow-lei-wearin tom-A-hawk ... the party progressed into a tank-top-burned, bud-soaked bacchanal. esera gamely flirted back w/ me here and there as the sun went down, serving w/ bob as a nice big bookend to my plus-sized sweaty gay rockstar pride. next up: bastille day block party at cafe barbette - sunday july 15! HAPPY SUMMER!!!
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
thawk + bob blob @ uptown pride ... thanx to kung for taking the photo, full pride 07 rundown coming soon!
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
checkin in on a sultry midsummer’s eve, tom-A-hawk reporting that summer is in full swing. big summer weather continues with lots of walks to lake calhoun with seger + i wading along the shoreline from 32nd street beach to the boat landing, made my 1st bike trip to twin lake in i don’t know how long last monday - always forget what a great ride that is. hennepin / lake wine tasting a week ago was a smash - maybe not quite as many cute boys as in the past but as our friend mark likes to say: it only takes one... [mark met up w/ me and my new bud boone under the tent with an icy martini in his hand] ...and there was one, best of show edgy blond caveman and my current favorite member at the gym where i work - plus i got to chat him up, and he was nice! oh yes, the wine ... i decided to focus on new zealand sauvignon blancs as a starting point, chose the NOBILO ICON as the winner before i moved on from trying to focus on anything. first selection to knock my socks off was a fair trade red repped by - who else - fetching retro-hip wine guy BRAD from back in the day: the smoky, smoky CALESA CARMENERE, + i enthusiatically seconded boone’s top pick, the LOUIS B. MARTINI 2001 MONTE ROSSO CABERNET. my friend chris took enough time off from ripping on my haircut (or lack thereof) to tip me off about the 1999 VEUVE available for sampling; thom pham was there, and judging by how he was dressed i’d say he’s single again. towards the end of the event label art and other subjective qualities became the main deciding factors over what we chose to taste: boone tried a portuguese red with roosters on the label because he was born in the year of the rooster, i tried a south african red called THE WOLF TRAP that happened to be sitting right next to it because i was born in the year of the dog. the rest of my selections had already become a blur to me by the end of the evening, but walking away with an exhaustive, annotated list is not my goal at this event - it simply serves to rekindle my enthusiasm and appreciation of wine in general, and inspires me to branch out and try something new, like when i went back to hennepin / lake a few days later and was led around the corner to a section i never browse in my search for the nobilo, where i returned yesterday and found the CASA LAPOSTOLLE SAUVIGNON BLANC - 14.5% alcohol content! the magic was confirmed when i crossed the street to finally get myself some new bumble + bumble shampoo + conditioner and what is sitting behind the counter at jon charles salon but a big case of the same stuff i had in my hand.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
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Thursday, June 07, 2007
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Thursday, May 31, 2007
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Saturday, May 26, 2007
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Saturday, May 12, 2007
woke up thursday morning hung over from the fujiya + miyagi / peter bjorn + john show @ 1st ave the night before. stayed in bed even after the coffee was brewed, finished reading 'tapping the source' ... by the time i got out of bed the book's noir mood seeped into my psyche, followed me around the streets of south minneapolis, propelled me in steve's truck as i went to our old diner for breakfast, bought a manual push mower at nicollet hardware. thinking about last night's party - fujiya + miyagi got me boogyin!, the neighborhood - dan + kathy are still working the counter at 'our kitchen'! couldn't tell if they recognized this big surfer boy or not as i ate my 2 eggs toast + hashbrowns w/ tabasco. thinking about how much i've grown away from the minneapolis and the tom-A-hawk of 10 years ago, i experienced the unmistakable kem nunn-esque pull of wondering: this feeling, is this what it feels like to be losing myself - or finding myself? i'd been digging dandelions for the last three days, and thursday, my day off, with temps in the 80's - spring turned into summer and it was time to mow.
revolting queers party at the organ house [< hey look it's tom-A-hawk!] a couple weekends ago. was a scene: plenty of minneapolis art school scenesters, all riding their skinny road bikes, rows and rows of them all locked together, like amsterdam. saw THREE great bands between 11-1: reverse church, a band in the amityville horror room in the basement - maybe 1st communion afterparty? teen eagle? then mute era back up in the living room - tha kids were moshing! there was crowd surfing! didn't get right into the pit because i was like at least 1.5 times as big as anyone in there, so i guarded the perimeter, stomping away, sometimes holding up the whole crowd from falling over all by myself. missed gay beast cuz i had to be up early for work.
last weekend was high spring with trees covered in nothing but blossoms, lilac liqueur filling the air for the mayday parade. had kim over for pasta party dinner saturday night, had kung over sunday morning for a pre-parade brunch w/ mimosas (1/2 italian bubbly, 1/2 fresh-squeezed oj, w/ a splash of pomegranate cherry mmm ...) and a frittata. mayday pics up on my flickr...
revolting queers party at the organ house [< hey look it's tom-A-hawk!] a couple weekends ago. was a scene: plenty of minneapolis art school scenesters, all riding their skinny road bikes, rows and rows of them all locked together, like amsterdam. saw THREE great bands between 11-1: reverse church, a band in the amityville horror room in the basement - maybe 1st communion afterparty? teen eagle? then mute era back up in the living room - tha kids were moshing! there was crowd surfing! didn't get right into the pit because i was like at least 1.5 times as big as anyone in there, so i guarded the perimeter, stomping away, sometimes holding up the whole crowd from falling over all by myself. missed gay beast cuz i had to be up early for work.
last weekend was high spring with trees covered in nothing but blossoms, lilac liqueur filling the air for the mayday parade. had kim over for pasta party dinner saturday night, had kung over sunday morning for a pre-parade brunch w/ mimosas (1/2 italian bubbly, 1/2 fresh-squeezed oj, w/ a splash of pomegranate cherry mmm ...) and a frittata. mayday pics up on my flickr...
Friday, May 11, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Monday, May 07, 2007
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
checkin out the sunny lunch hour crowd from dunn's nicollet mall ... sending good vibes out to mr. dusty, who is probably right now crossing from the north american coast out over the vast pacific. i talked him into buying one of those cheap tickets to honolulu to stay with steve at the condo for 10 days. (i almost went too but i really can't afford it yet - i'm on the last day of a 12-day work marathon right now.) so he gets there on mayday, which is lei day in hawai'i, and will be there for boy's day (may 5), and if that isn't perfect enough, looks like the first south swell of the summer, which i believe is known as the "mother's day swell," is rolling into waikiki as we speak. almost four years after buying the condo, one of our friends is finally going to visit ... e hele holoholo hawa'i kane!
Monday, April 30, 2007
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
[written on sunday 4/22, just getting around to posting it today - i'm in the middle of a 13-day work marathon...]
following the spirit of kdogg's advice on my myspace comments ... the radio k top 7 is rockin my solo sunday brunch. hearing all kinds of early-90's sounds in 2day's hitz: belly, velocity girl; and, literally, low. but the real music for channeling spring magic is animal collective and their side project panda bear.
last saturday at work mary the maintenance lady came to the membership desk to show a polaroid she had taken recently of a wild turkey that had wandered into her yard in minneapolis' gritty, urban phillips neighborhood. this did not prevent kung and i from being surprised that monday - the day of the virginia tech shootings - to see a tall, grim-reaperesque turkey trotting nonchalantly through the grounds in front of mctc on hennepin avenue downtown. in all our years in the twin cities neither mary, nor kung, nor i had ever heard of wild turkeys in the urban core. the following days found me surprisingly affected by the shock of monday's news, and i KNOW i know i know that this is only a coincidence, but that knowledge did not prevent a chill from going down my spine when i learned that virginia tech's mascot is a turkey.
following the spirit of kdogg's advice on my myspace comments ... the radio k top 7 is rockin my solo sunday brunch. hearing all kinds of early-90's sounds in 2day's hitz: belly, velocity girl; and, literally, low. but the real music for channeling spring magic is animal collective and their side project panda bear.
last saturday at work mary the maintenance lady came to the membership desk to show a polaroid she had taken recently of a wild turkey that had wandered into her yard in minneapolis' gritty, urban phillips neighborhood. this did not prevent kung and i from being surprised that monday - the day of the virginia tech shootings - to see a tall, grim-reaperesque turkey trotting nonchalantly through the grounds in front of mctc on hennepin avenue downtown. in all our years in the twin cities neither mary, nor kung, nor i had ever heard of wild turkeys in the urban core. the following days found me surprisingly affected by the shock of monday's news, and i KNOW i know i know that this is only a coincidence, but that knowledge did not prevent a chill from going down my spine when i learned that virginia tech's mascot is a turkey.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
e komo mai spring! finally hit yesterday w/ temps in the high 60's, literal CROWDS of people on the trails around lake calhoun when i walked down there w/ seger, who is so very happy. the feeling of lightness and elation grew today as i dusted + busted out my bike, got my taxes in the mail and cruized the DUDES in uptown. took seger back to the sparkling lake where we both dipped our feet in the clear, cold water. uptown hipsters were out in force on alt bikes, wispy mohawks and the like fluttering in the breeze of motion, wan hair finally breathing free after a cold season of confinement under quirky caps. today is the day steve would usually be home from hawai'i to do his taxes, but he and his tax guy figured out a way to do them over the phone to allow him to stay and keep working on that awesome remodel job - so he can make some money to pay taxes on next year. so we're sailing into a new era of tom-A-hawk solo. spring has also brought renewed pangs of missing kdogg, but lo + behold i return from the lake to find a fresh spring mix from kdig hisself sprouting out of my mailbox! [incl bole 2 harlem, the ponys, ghostland observatory, homeliss derelix, amadou + mariam, and illinois ... thanx K!!!] as the world thaws magic is flowing, the bunny has returned to the garden and i am even somewhat overwhelmed by it all. to celebrate and channel the mana, the traditional tax day party will go ahead in stevie + kdogg's honor: this time w/ kung + his boyz @ an open bar party tonite @ temple. c u there!
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
a belated happy easter story for you: there’s a bunny that’s been hanging out in our garden; regularly, and in the same spot. was very eastery this weekend until i forgot about it and took one bigboy tom-A-hawk hOp, from the last step on the deck to the sidewalk in the backyard while i was sayin goodbye after a little party w/ dustin on saturday - and scared it away. was hoppin, i mean hopin it would come back but i never saw it again, until i kicked a lawnchair off the deck this morning (i had my reasons) and scared it away again. tom-A-hawk! but it didn’t run all the way out of the yard this time, it stayed and i think gave me a little attitude even. which i believe is progress. [easter sunday i kept my phone off, played guitar, did qi gong + caught up w/ my fambly on da landline. then i went to kung's for drunken ham leftovers.]
whoa i’m still hangin on to hawaiian time bigtime + i’ve been back for a almost a week. sleeping til noon - noon-thirty. tried my hardest to go to sleep at a reasonable hour last night (11:00) and get up at a more respectable local hour this morning - i did better but i still slept until 10:30. and since it’s been kind of a nonstop party since i got back last wednesday i’m trying my hardest to stay in tonight - it’s freezing rain out there! it’s tuesday! but it IS $1 beer night at the eagle...
whoa i’m still hangin on to hawaiian time bigtime + i’ve been back for a almost a week. sleeping til noon - noon-thirty. tried my hardest to go to sleep at a reasonable hour last night (11:00) and get up at a more respectable local hour this morning - i did better but i still slept until 10:30. and since it’s been kind of a nonstop party since i got back last wednesday i’m trying my hardest to stay in tonight - it’s freezing rain out there! it’s tuesday! but it IS $1 beer night at the eagle...
Friday, April 06, 2007
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
last week was doors, doors, doors at work - got 'em all done and installed 2 of 3 upper cabinets before friday, my last day on the job (for now). surfed pops again thursday before work, canoes friday morning. much mahalos to kevin + frank for fireworks, honolulu city lights and dinner at their place up in st. louis heights on friday - nice to meet bob + hans, who publishes da kine mag + had copies of their 100th issue pre-release-hot off the press. after classic saturday morning westerns we let kurty take us out to aina haina. met up in the da water w/ jimmy + his boyz for a fun sesh on a new break: waves were nice + big (most 2 big 4 me!) - hung out on the shoulder, got some very fun carvin lefts. aloha kurty surf club dinner party at ken+ken's sat nite - he's moving to portland OR - wot's up w/ dat? love da smoking lounge retreat parties in ken's bedroom, where this time ken read a very satisfying passage out of a kem nunn surf noir, the dogs of winter ... "The first big swell came early that year, a gift before Christmas, wrapped in cloud..." [he's got me reading tapping the source - i guess kem nunn is working on a show for hbo or something. also, surf bud jake has me reading the surfing detective series - maxin out on surf lit!] no surf yesterday or today, goin to myevolution at da maddog saloon tonight, 1 more surf n da a.m. den pau.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
surfed before work on friday, surfed saturday morning incl. lunch after at you hungry? w/ big local motorcycle cops - in knee-high leather boots ... everyone was definitely behaving at you hungry. saw guy cruz' set @ hulas for the 1st time saturday night. hooked up w/ kurty + jake for a sunday morning surf club classic @ canoes w/ jake shooting video + kurty savin it for the camera. stashed everyone's boards at our place + went for $2 steinlagers + surf club sandwiches at lulu's on the beach. checked out hula's beer bust sunday evening until kenzen advised steve to call it a night + now it's back to work - we started doors. half day yesterday in observance of the prince kuhio holiday [+ seger's birthday], steve let me surf this morning before work - went pops for no wind, a sparse crowd and one smooth, rolling long cruise on my last wave ... aloha.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
what makes an awesome day: steve gave me the morning off so i could go for a fun hour surf [surfed the left shoulder, smokin da muscleboys :p ]; then, after the 10-minute break that always starts our work day when the #2 bus takes its pit stop on the way around kapiolani park, i got to work just in time for lunch! and then i don't even have to work because steve needs some stuff from homo depot before we can proceed! which is all good because we've been crankin: all the cabinets built + faced now ... just still no doors. so - score day off, always its own bonus; but THEN, when we get home after 'work' i call the american airlines advantage desk and successfully extend my stay a whole week - w/ a tighter connection + NO CHANGE FEE!!! ho, brah. awesome. think i going surf pau hana too.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
i suppose this is where i should comment on my opposition to the war and the current regime but i really don't know what to say anymore - i will leave it to other, better informed, more articulate bloggers. my purpose here is to create a haven for beauty + love. welcome.
a couple more stories about movie night at don + tim's: stevie sez there were at least 35 guys there, one guy we met surfs 20-FOOT WAIMEA. he's a young, tall airport meteorologist and it was very nice talking with him! also, everyone kept asking me 'when are you leaving?' ... of course they didn't mean anything by it and i didn't even know it had really affected me that much - until i had a dream that night where my flight was leaving in 40 minutes. i was in a panic because i couldn't get the phone or computer to work so i could contact the airlines and extend my stay. i ended up breaking down + crying in the arms of a little local aunty. hawai'i is a place where you can feel good about yourself, and be happy. i no like leave!
a couple more stories about movie night at don + tim's: stevie sez there were at least 35 guys there, one guy we met surfs 20-FOOT WAIMEA. he's a young, tall airport meteorologist and it was very nice talking with him! also, everyone kept asking me 'when are you leaving?' ... of course they didn't mean anything by it and i didn't even know it had really affected me that much - until i had a dream that night where my flight was leaving in 40 minutes. i was in a panic because i couldn't get the phone or computer to work so i could contact the airlines and extend my stay. i ended up breaking down + crying in the arms of a little local aunty. hawai'i is a place where you can feel good about yourself, and be happy. i no like leave!
tradewinds are back ... coolin us down on the job. winds stayed onshore (hot + stuffy from the south) all last week so surf stayed junk, which was ok so we didn't have to feel like we were missing anything while we worked: got the base cabinets built, tore out the old ones we're replacing. allowed the beer gods to unleash their wrath on us at gordon biersch on thursday, resulting in the previous loopy mo'blogs. [might be a good time to mention now that it's daylight savings time already, my entries are actually posted at hawaiian time = five hours earlier than they appear...] cozy rainy movie night up at don + tim's on saturday, watched 'infamous' - the other capote flick. winds had turned around by sunday morning, when we surfed pops. was supposed to be an iffy south bUmp comin thru and it seemed like it was - by the END of my 3-hour sesh. walking to the hula's beer bust that evening it seemed like the waves were perfect, especially at queens; surfed ok little curls at canoes this morning before work. got one good ride right when i got out - saw the wave comin and the beach boy paddling by on his stand-up board told me 'go, brother.' started on upper cabinets today - no doors yet.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
how is it dat i hav not yet blogged about rvca ... ?
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
great 1st full (almost) day @ work today - we're already turning that neat stack of flat lumber into 3-dimensions. ok solo pau hana surf - get waves but winds are onshore, so i did battle w/ monster mush for 2 hours but got some ok rides ... came home to stevie making a movie of my triumphant return, and also making a perfect tenderloin w/ apple for me while we watched 6 feet under on bravo.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
aloha + happy sunday! the weekend is actually the weekend now that we started the job: thursday we rented a car (the guy at the counter talked steve into a $3 upgrade by talking about how big i was) to get / order materials and bring tools to the job site, after furikake crusted seared ahi work lunch at niko's (where we ran into alan the big demolisher in full dirty demolition gear) we took that sporty compact subaru to the north shore. then we saw alan again, all cleaned up thursday night at chikos for jake's birthday! robert cazimero stopped by and even dropped in w/ the band for one guest vocal, making for a gorgeous, otherworldly 3-part harmony. friday we got bus passes + took a #2 back to the job site at the base of diamond head to wait for our materials to be delivered from city mill. they arrived in a huge flatbed truck with a beautiful shiny new cab, one guy unloaded our perfectly stacked and wrapped stuff with a forklift and the driver got steve's signature, gave me shakas when he left. plus there's a bolohead daddy workin down the street who stood outside and watched the whole thing. liking the new job so far. so excited about the job we partied the rest of friday away. went shopping on saturday, at don quixote (nee daiei) a nice japanese aunty asked me to look thru the milk on the top shelf to find the freshest stuff, "because you're tall and i only use it in my coffee." no luck, it was all MAR 20 but we had a laugh about it and she thanked me anyway. saturday night was a combination late birthday party for steve / late birthday party for tom-A-hawk + troy (feb 6th!) / welcome home tom-A-hawk pool party out at jimmy's magical party gardens in hawaii kai. so much fun and so much aloha w/ da boys ... stevie read this in the paper during black history month: "hawai'i is a place where you can feel good about yourself, and be happy." ... good fun /schmallkine schwell surf at canoes w/ a surprisingly daring tom-A-hawk drOp this morning, tonight is the our fifth anniversary of going to da big honolulu festival parade!
Friday, March 09, 2007
omg thermals 'pillar of salt' s so good !
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101 south 2 LA ez beautiful right now. aloha
101 south 2 LA ez beautiful right now. aloha
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
wow feels so good to be back in the water ... yesterday my paddling felt nice + strong as i went out for the 1st time, this morning we made POPS by 8:30 and had a great fun sesh there - a building swell w/ some inconsistent size but some very consistent size from the nice local dudes that were out there w/ us. jimmy came out to join us + welcome me back towards the end of our sesh. he said he was at canoes thinking we left already but then he saw someone out at pops get a crazy long ride + realized dat person was so tall must be tom-A-hawk! jimmy said a few things w/ 1 of my boyz and when i asked if he knew him he said 'no, but i will...' well, steve + i took our last waves in pretty soon after that, and my 2 fave local bros took theirs in right behind us! i had a nice shower chat w/ the 'big arms + shoulders' guy - he's da 1 called the conditions 'inconsistent' ... after a foster's oilcan + a schmoke we made TheBus jus in time to hit IRIFUNE for lunch! surf nap rocked da rest of da afternoon ... mmmzzzz...
yes i'm back in hawai'i. free wireless lasted like 20 minutes - so i bought some. first full day today, got out for a swim in little waves on a sandbar in front of the royal hawaiian, then steve made us a big ahi + eggs brunch. awesome nap before a fun warmup surf sesh at canoes pau hana w/ steve + me doing choreographed slater + o'brien moves, then we got mochiko chicken at L+L - the waikiki L+L has great mochiko, nice grilled savor w/ green onions cooked into the batter - mmm ... gonna try to get out the door before 8 tomorrow morning for another surf - lucky south swell supposed to be comin in! good night!
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
awright! gettin free wireless @ da condo ... live radio k in hawai'i !
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Monday, March 05, 2007
pullin away from da gate: ready 4 pau da mainland tom-A-hawk ? ai ... imua already !
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aloha y'all from DFW - nice big airport, nice big dudes ... nice!
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
From: kdogg >
4.2 quake tonight! 2 this week
4.2 quake tonight! 2 this week
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
jake gyllenhaal on conan - sorry dude but in those pants i can't stop starin @ ur crotch ...
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Sunday, February 25, 2007
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so dramatic ramon! i luv this sh*t - sounds like we hav 2 get u out 2 da 19 2nite ... u need 2 b w/ people.
so dramatic ramon! i luv this sh*t - sounds like we hav 2 get u out 2 da 19 2nite ... u need 2 b w/ people.
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Stuck in a frozen tundra! Like 3 to 4ft of snow. Blizzard until Thursday. Depression has set in... DAMN.
Stuck in a frozen tundra! Like 3 to 4ft of snow. Blizzard until Thursday. Depression has set in... DAMN.
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
snowed in snowstorm movie: elmer gantry on ch 2
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Friday, February 23, 2007
the apocalyptic weather forecast from stephen + doug: 15-19" by sun nite !
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
$1 beer nite @ da eagle 2nite - 'fat' 2sday w/ da bears ... ?
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Saturday, February 17, 2007
i raise my 1st pau hana glass 2 JOCKOHOMO - happy bday bro ... + thanx 4 all da hitz !
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da current s rockin 2nite !
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
o + happy chinese nu year 2 my favorite little piggy ... ! :p
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
new fave cute boy category: cute boys n black speedos n da showers @ da gym ...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
tradesmen's pau hana @ chiang mai thai ...
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'super milk chan' on youtube !
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Monday, February 12, 2007
police reunion tour ...
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Sunday, February 11, 2007
danny s. spinnin "she's fresh!" on da current ...
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Thursday, February 08, 2007
nice! made my transfer - w/ 2 mins 2 spare ...
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it is now officially tom-A-hawk 's bday ...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007
in the three weeks since i've been back in minneapolis i have adapted to winter life, learning to tolerate the coldest weather in three years by constructing an elaborate romantic metaphor: i have transformed a domestic situation that could have easily become a breeding ground for cabin fever into a scenario that involves being snowed-in at a ski lodge, where i stock up on supplies, cook at home, make cocoa and snuggle with my rescue dog for warmth at night. all while enjoying the luxury of being able to hike a couple minutes to the nearby village to buy more groceries, rent 'six feet under' dvds and use the free wireless as i curl up with baby by the firepit at the chalet, i mean coffee shop.
this shameless self-delusion has gone along nicely with the general excess grandiosity of aquarian birthday season (mine - and my mom's, and james dean's ! - is on thursday ... thanks stevie for the bday care package* from hawai'i!). i've actually been working in the occasional cab ride on my few forays out into the frozen world - my blacked-out date harassed chris r at the hot p-cons / hockey night show on friday; a little soiree at the caterpillar with kimberland, and her latest fave dj bach, got me out of the house after the super bowl sunday night, to meet up w/ bday bro jcat before he jetted back to his new home in seattle. but now there are actual concrete plans being made to bring tom-A-hawk back to the islands, an urgent airlift to employ me on another solid hawaiian custom cabinet job with steve, and to spare me from at least one more month of what truly is a cold and brutal way to live. it's much easier to deal with winter when you have an escape plan - otherwise i swear my fun little winter daydream could develop into a serious "the shining"-style psychosis.
but i'm not there yet. i'm taking my supplements and i'm on my tonic, i woke to very pretty, delusion-reinforcing snow falling this morning, which has tapered off and i should go shovel now. my mystery neighbor's free wireless has been down for days, so i'll go to the chalet, i mean coffee shop, to post this later.
[*stevie's care package included the new freesurf, including an ad that made tom-A-hawk realize eddie rothman is his big new surf stud ... buttons sez he "literally chained me to a pole in his house for two weeks" ... yea Daddy!]
this shameless self-delusion has gone along nicely with the general excess grandiosity of aquarian birthday season (mine - and my mom's, and james dean's ! - is on thursday ... thanks stevie for the bday care package* from hawai'i!). i've actually been working in the occasional cab ride on my few forays out into the frozen world - my blacked-out date harassed chris r at the hot p-cons / hockey night show on friday; a little soiree at the caterpillar with kimberland, and her latest fave dj bach, got me out of the house after the super bowl sunday night, to meet up w/ bday bro jcat before he jetted back to his new home in seattle. but now there are actual concrete plans being made to bring tom-A-hawk back to the islands, an urgent airlift to employ me on another solid hawaiian custom cabinet job with steve, and to spare me from at least one more month of what truly is a cold and brutal way to live. it's much easier to deal with winter when you have an escape plan - otherwise i swear my fun little winter daydream could develop into a serious "the shining"-style psychosis.
but i'm not there yet. i'm taking my supplements and i'm on my tonic, i woke to very pretty, delusion-reinforcing snow falling this morning, which has tapered off and i should go shovel now. my mystery neighbor's free wireless has been down for days, so i'll go to the chalet, i mean coffee shop, to post this later.
[*stevie's care package included the new freesurf, including an ad that made tom-A-hawk realize eddie rothman is his big new surf stud ... buttons sez he "literally chained me to a pole in his house for two weeks" ... yea Daddy!]
Sunday, February 04, 2007
go BU !
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go bears !
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who wuz jus tellin me re: da esalen inst ... ? t-hawk wants 2 go !
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honolulu air + 5 nites hotel $711 - hula 2 HI now + save $150 - $500 on nwa !
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
t-hawk pau hana @ sawatdee ... much better.
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maxin out on shows 4 ur bday week? rad. happy bday btw kdig, + happy aquarius bday season !
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
tom rub thigh pau hana ... no food specials, + s dat KS95 on da stereo ?
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
>From > stevie
If can , can . if no can , no can .
If can , can . if no can , no can .
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
listenin 2 'now like photos' on radio k @ da same time - da last o sunset thru da kitchen windows ...
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single digit cold, vodka cokes, good bud, cookin a pork tloin + 'tigerland' w/ colin farrell on tv = sweet ... aloha ka ua
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jus won guest list w/ a +1 to da p-cons / hockey night sho!!! thanx radio k!
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
rock ur body
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bringin sum sexy back @ da jt sho n st paul ... ! thanx mj 4 da miracle tkt !
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Friday, January 26, 2007
LOTS of dates 4 da hockey boy on 2day's strib sports sec ... oh la la ... !
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
i know you're not supposed to smoke pot before you make art but - wot da fuk. plus, idol's on so i'm watchin it + i'm sure you're not supposed to do that either. yea, i'm back. it's been a week - incl. tom-A-hawk's 'day without drinking' - and today, i think i might actually be thinking that yea, i'm back. kenneth anger at the walker on friday, robb's $1 aquarian bday beer bash @ eagle on on tuesday, p-cons + HOCKEY NIGHT @ the triplerock next friday. gonna play guitar after idol.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
why o why do i go 2 da news room ... ?
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Sunday, January 21, 2007
last nite's dream: i was visiting kdogg n japan ...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
lookin out on my nice big brand new A-330, waitin 2 board ... when i close my eyes, i see waves ... aloha
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+ wot diminutive norse mpls weather guy did tom-a-hawk meet las nite @ da hula's beer bust ... ?
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jus back from n. shore - pua'ena surf / local beef in hale'iwa ...
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
all good surfers r napping in prep 4 a nice pau hana ... surfed in2 sunset las nite ... s all re: da pau hana.
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Saturday, January 13, 2007
chinatown happy hour w/ kurt was the great escape from tired waikiki nightlife ... actually ended up going down an alley to the mercury lounge not bar 35; where, kurt tells us, shoes are required. fine by me, since i've been to bar 35 already, wearing slippers if i remember correctly, so was fun to check out a new venue. draft bass + cool graphic novel / anime style art on the walls = another nice addition to the downtown scene. got a chance to hang out a little in kurty's reclaimed apartment before we went out, is good to see him enjoying his new urbanism so much. clothes in the dryer, stevie whippin up a late brunch, hopefully a little pau hana surf in a little bit - checked the waves and queen's is lookin even better than the nice farm animal DUDE that was checkin me out down there. [down where?]
saturday a.m. westerns on amc: renowned drag artist john wayne starring in '3 texas queers' ...
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listenin 2 kdogg tunes - seu jorge rt now - aloha ...
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Friday, January 12, 2007
ran into jimmy for a fun pau hana sesh @ canoes on wednesday, lots of fun lines to shoot, and cute boys to cruize, surfed into overcast dusk as the amber hotel room lights of waikiki started coming on; another pau hana @ pops yesterday, tom-A-hawk solo this time for some steep faces, fun drops, paddled back in under a spectacular sunset. went to mc's place last night to watch his new holy grail special order dvd that just arrived: 'sunrise,' a silent film by 'nosferatu' director f.w. murnau, w/ still-amazing depth + cinematic composition ... after that we took off and hit chiko's again for live hawaiian music, spontaneous hula, and of course, choke cute boys ... who won't look at me !!! ;( but it's all good of course. everybody's just there to have fun w/ their buds, + plus i got to meet quinn. jus pau 1 ok canoes sesh now - funny crowd ... but of course you can't complain - you're in the water in hawai'i! going for a little bohemian happy hour w/ kurty downtown @ bar 35 now, surf video nite @ kenzen's tomorrow nite, pau beach beer bust @ hula's sunday night ... until tom-A-hawk leaves it ain't nothin but a party y'all. hana hou!
Thursday, January 11, 2007
off da grid on maui: three day retreat at camp ulupalakua, featuring ono grinds, a solar + propane heated hot tub soak, solar + diesel generated tunes, 6 dogs, 1 horse, 2 pigs, + 2 petes. when you're spending most of your time in or around the ocean, it's good to take the opportunity to get the perspective of some elevation, put some distance between yourself + sea level. we took the crazy interisland airfare-wars as just such an opportunity, got tickets to maui for $42 each on island air. our vacation from our vacation was like a weekend at the cabin, soaking up the powerful mana on the ridge of the most recent eruption of haleakala, which is not surprisingly now the home of hawaiian superman petie-john + his man [also a pete] ... tom-A-hawk even got to play some guitar! the view was pure country, of the la perouse lava fields with kahoolawe looking like a floating island in the lavender sunsets - at night it went completely dark, not a single city light to be seen. petie whipped up some roots local teri chicken + potato-mac salad one night, we took him out for a big piece of local beef at the ulupalakua ranch store, and grabbed a huge take-out ahi patty sandwich plate at da kitchen right before we got back on our de havilland dash 8 prop plane. got back to the condo in waikiki with sand from little beach still on my toes [and maybe a few other places] ... aloha nui loa + much mahalos pete + pete! maui no ka oi !!!
Sunday, January 07, 2007
i'm getting maui-ed n da morning... aloha
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Saturday, January 06, 2007
'jezebel' now ... why didn't someone show me this movie when i was 16 ?
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saturday cowboy movies on amc after big fun POPS !
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canoes this morning w/ steve, then steve left to take care of business downtown, then jimmy + jake showed up. surfed 10-1, steve met back up w/ us after for lunch at me's korean ... jimmy said was better than yesterday: less wind, more (smallkine) waves. now that i can actually catch a wave, turn, and find a line with some kind of frequency i'm starting to realize i still kind of look like a mess out there, but it's still nice to have these pics jake got today ... 1st pics of tom-A-hawk on da wave ... jimmy looks like a rock star, of course - gotta remember to surf backside + face the cam next time!
Friday, January 05, 2007
'afro samurai' on spike ...
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aloha kaua - i haven't worn socks for a month. never surfed today - wind + rain, cuz.
alan's party was even bigger than last year, fireworks were crazy all night, w/ a midnight explosion of illegal aerials up + down kalihi. took new year's day off surfing, hiked to diamond head beach for a little afternoon delite swim + au naturel sun w/ stevie. had to agree with him afterwards when he said, 'i liked the naked part.' [my regular readers will recall that i started this tradition last year.]
tuesday + wednesday conrad took us back to camp for more epic wesside waves - some big ones rollin through there ... and the waves were pretty big too! this one time, at rest camp, i got a pretty sweet ride. well ok more than one time really ... was great to get the chance to hang out + surf w/ conrad this time! tuesday night jimmy had us out to hawaii kai for a barbecue + hot tub soak at his condo's crazy pool/party gardens; last night marked our return to chiko's! i want a "i [heart] chiko's" t-shirt ... i've realized on this visit that i'm kind of way over hula's - too cliquey! 2 hi sku! - but chiko's has great food + cute boys [wow especially super nice + hospitable + tall + dreamy owner quinn; to whom i have referred, up to this point, with undisguised affection, as 'chiko' - dudes i'm crushin bigtime sorry cannot help it ... but you know come to think of it our excellent server was pretty nice too ... + you gotta love a guy named herb], plus the sexy down-low vibe suits me just fine. jake led the charge on karaoke and our table backed him up on a respectable 'carolina in my mind' - steve followed it up with a curious styling of 'delta dawn' ... he admitted afterward that he hates that song. wanna go back for live local music next thursday 1/11 9-midnite ... c u there + say hi this time !!!
alan's party was even bigger than last year, fireworks were crazy all night, w/ a midnight explosion of illegal aerials up + down kalihi. took new year's day off surfing, hiked to diamond head beach for a little afternoon delite swim + au naturel sun w/ stevie. had to agree with him afterwards when he said, 'i liked the naked part.' [my regular readers will recall that i started this tradition last year.]
tuesday + wednesday conrad took us back to camp for more epic wesside waves - some big ones rollin through there ... and the waves were pretty big too! this one time, at rest camp, i got a pretty sweet ride. well ok more than one time really ... was great to get the chance to hang out + surf w/ conrad this time! tuesday night jimmy had us out to hawaii kai for a barbecue + hot tub soak at his condo's crazy pool/party gardens; last night marked our return to chiko's! i want a "i [heart] chiko's" t-shirt ... i've realized on this visit that i'm kind of way over hula's - too cliquey! 2 hi sku! - but chiko's has great food + cute boys [wow especially super nice + hospitable + tall + dreamy owner quinn; to whom i have referred, up to this point, with undisguised affection, as 'chiko' - dudes i'm crushin bigtime sorry cannot help it ... but you know come to think of it our excellent server was pretty nice too ... + you gotta love a guy named herb], plus the sexy down-low vibe suits me just fine. jake led the charge on karaoke and our table backed him up on a respectable 'carolina in my mind' - steve followed it up with a curious styling of 'delta dawn' ... he admitted afterward that he hates that song. wanna go back for live local music next thursday 1/11 9-midnite ... c u there + say hi this time !!!
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
hey! sorry i missed ya - surf nap. conrad's coming here @ 8, we'll go chiko's around 9 ...
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aloha 07 ! ideal day @ rest camp w/ conrad + steve yesterday, goin back 4 more rt now, feel like chiko's 2nite !
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