[we missed it but we're thinkin if we party w/ him later we still might get a chance 2 check it out ... ]
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Sunday, December 10, 2006
so like i mentioned - the irony is that i'm getting better wireless here at the beach house, on the north shore, in the country - than i'm getting at the condo in waikiki, like i want to be sitting around 'blogging while i'm here, but i'll try ... the highlights: fun bonfire w/ nice local boys friday night w/ a full 'good game' round of handshake introductions, bodysurfing waimea yesterday, pipe masters contest down the beach today - jamie o'brien cruized right by us on the way to + from his heat - so close i could have reached out + grabbed one of his love handles! [the source of his powers?] that started a regular parade of surf rock stars marching past us - slater paused right in front of us to put on his rash guard then hit the water w/ a superstar standing shred before he started to paddle, tom-a-hawk's new crush mick fanning cruised by a couple times before + after his heat [uncle kenzen tells me word is he likes to get drunk, get naked, and show off his other talent], surf hero of the people rob machado came by smiling, local blondie nate carroll cruised thru workin da crowd, never saw andy irons up close but saw him catch a few out there ... in their heat slater + o'brien were the ultimate showmen w/ simultaneous takeoffs: first slater taking pipe [left] + jamie going backdoor [right], then coming back w/ o'brien going right + slater going left. mick was sportin some hot b+w psycho stripe new wave board shorts, but i noticed that bruno santos, the surfer from brazil in his heat [not this guy, but - WOOF anyway] committed the faux pas of wearing the same shorts - hav to say that bruno filled out the seat of his trunks a little better tho...
in the absence of surf mom dirkdirkdirk, who just moved back to da mainland, we have all stepped up admirably in the cooking department - i even made dinner for the 4 of us on thursday nite - my [famous] linguini w/ clams. mc kicked it in yesterday incl. fresh bread - several times a day! Stevie's preparing the traditional surf club beach house pork tenderloin as i write ... after narrowly avoiding being sucked into a portal to another dimension by our surprise visitor - the ethno-botanist from maui - on friday night, i'm happy to report to jake, who unfortunately had to leave yesterday, that i've had a clear view of my chips all weekend.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
[wanted to make sure i saw one last show in minneapolis before we left - i saw 4 ... i work well w/ a deadline. silversun pickups were the perfect band to see at the entry w/ my uptown yw rocker girl co-worker kimberland, and my plan for it to be my last big show would have worked perfectly if it hadn't been for the noxious fumes someone near us kept emitting - shame on you whoever you are ... then i heard that a local band i'd been wanting to hear for 3 years on the basis of their name alone - coach said not to - were playing at a new venue i'd been wanting to check out since lori barbero told us to - the nomad world pub (in the old 5 corners saloon building on the west bank) the day after thanksgiving. liked the venue, but the coach said not to girls should have listened to coach. good thing the band that opened for silversun pickups - solid gold - were headlining and they have a decent sound so that saved face for me since i brought my sis + nephew along ... i had known for weeks that brazilian girls were coming to the fine line and i kept on telling myself i wasn't gonna go even though i knew i'd end up going ... kung called the night of the show all excited about devotchka, who were playing a few days later, and since i have no interest in that band i talked him into going to the brazilian girls show that night - we went w/ danny + alana and ended up partying w/ the band in a south minneapolis basement until almost four a.m. w/ one of our party waking up on the tour bus in chicago. pussy pussy pussy! ... took me a couple days to recover and i thought i'd had my fill until i heard about the big doomtree blowout (incl. p.o.s. !) at 1st ave last saturday night. it was so obviously the big deal of the season that i bought 4 tickets from fifth element before i even know who i was going to take. sold out show w/ a fully hyped b-boy/girl break @ intermission was the perfect final send-off for tom-a-hawk (plus it allowed kim + me to redeem our 1st ave experience - fragrance free!) ... but that didn't stop me from running through the hot party crowds on frigid 1st avenue after the show for a few final drinks w/ kung as he finished up his shift @ sawatdee (where they were just zipping up a takeout order for g'n'r ! rock'n'roll !!!), then to an art department dance after hours in the warehouse district that would have been quite lame if it hadn't been for the drunk skinny gay boy dancing around in his jockstrap ... i know i should be finished but i can't let go until i also mention that i heard solid gold again, live on the current's sunday night local show, the night before we left ... like i said, i work well w/ a deadline.]
2nd warm-up sesh out @ canoes this morning ... not quite as good as yesterday + a few more dangerous kooks but plenty cute boys - still good fun!
amazing to make the pacific passage, the transition from living in the middle of a continent to living in the middle of the ocean ... just like when i flew out this spring, i crossed from land to sea over san francisco: last time at a relatively low altitude right over the city w/ an incredible full color view of golden gate park and the big red bridge; this time impossibly high and to the north, with a view like the space shuttle, of the sacramento river emptying into the bay, marin, the lighthouse on the tip of point reyes, the east bay w/ thin fog in the berkeley hills and, connected by wire-thin bridges and looking like the master computer chip in the center of an endless organic circuit board, the city. it is bio-electro-magnetic to me that place, + i could feel it connecting to my nervous system like a wireless signal, lighting up my cells, realigning my molecules, drawing me back.
amazing to make the pacific passage, the transition from living in the middle of a continent to living in the middle of the ocean ... just like when i flew out this spring, i crossed from land to sea over san francisco: last time at a relatively low altitude right over the city w/ an incredible full color view of golden gate park and the big red bridge; this time impossibly high and to the north, with a view like the space shuttle, of the sacramento river emptying into the bay, marin, the lighthouse on the tip of point reyes, the east bay w/ thin fog in the berkeley hills and, connected by wire-thin bridges and looking like the master computer chip in the center of an endless organic circuit board, the city. it is bio-electro-magnetic to me that place, + i could feel it connecting to my nervous system like a wireless signal, lighting up my cells, realigning my molecules, drawing me back.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Monday, December 04, 2006
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Friday, December 01, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
Friday, November 24, 2006
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Monday, November 20, 2006
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
Thursday, November 16, 2006
2days's txt msg exch:
From: kung
G mrng thwk. Can't
join u guys on friday.
I have a date!
From: thawk
good 4 u ! is it w/
dat girl from da 'live
links' commercial?
kung:
Don't know that
commercial. I told u
briefly about him.
thawk:
if u watch south
park u kno it - she's
da girl who covers
the phone w/ her
hand + sez "i'm on a
date!"
kung:
O Her! My date is a bit
hairier.
thawk:
o so u r actually
gonna BE da girl
from da 'live links'
commercial - fun!
kung:
Yes! Should be fun. I
have to practice
saying 'I think I
know what I want'
From: kung
G mrng thwk. Can't
join u guys on friday.
I have a date!
From: thawk
good 4 u ! is it w/
dat girl from da 'live
links' commercial?
kung:
Don't know that
commercial. I told u
briefly about him.
thawk:
if u watch south
park u kno it - she's
da girl who covers
the phone w/ her
hand + sez "i'm on a
date!"
kung:
O Her! My date is a bit
hairier.
thawk:
o so u r actually
gonna BE da girl
from da 'live links'
commercial - fun!
kung:
Yes! Should be fun. I
have to practice
saying 'I think I
know what I want'
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Friday, November 10, 2006
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Monday, November 06, 2006
i went to a qi gong class today. i have my instructor's dvd + have done it a few times - the last time, fairly recently, me + baby did qi gong together! - but i haven't been to an actual class for about a year. they don't offer it at the yw anymore, but now my instructor leads a free class in the loring park park building, mondays at 1:15 pm ... the new location is amazing: a huge room with rows of arched windows looking out over the park and the lake w/ its flocks of birds and majestic, classical architecture in the background. before the class i was thinking it was a pretty dreary day. afterwards, i marveled at the exquisite beauty of it.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Friday, November 03, 2006
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
Friday, October 27, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Monday, October 23, 2006
skyway news from babyG: Hawaiikiki (733 Marquette Av. S., Minneapolis) is throwing its own version of Hawaii's annual Aloha Festival from noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 27. The skyway-level shop, which serves Kona coffee and shaved ices [sic*], will feature live ukulele music, hula dancing, hula lessons and more. [*it's 'shave ice']
i know it's kind of old news by now but i know at least a few people are still going to ask me so i think it still applies: as far as we know, our condo is fine. the first guests to arrive at our hot tub party last sunday gave us the news that there had been a big earthquake in hawai'i - i jumped online and concluded, since the center was just off the west coast of the big island and the news didn't say anything about it, that they hadn't really noticed anything on o'ahu (where our place is) other than the power going out. so i returned to what was now an earthquake party. people asked me all week how the condo fared and i assured them nothing had happened on o'ahu. then i finally got around to checking surf buddy michael's 'blog last week, and after slogging thru the acres of youtube clips and arcane cocktail knowledge i finally learn that yes, indeed, michael - who lives one neighborhood away from us, in kaimuki - was woken up at 7 a.m. by an earthquake, and that even for someone who has gone through a few 'fun' tremors like mc, this one was kind of scary! i guess it just kept going... so our little concrete box on the sixth floor did get a shake! no one lives there when we're gone so after being assured by the building desk staff that everything is 'back to normal' at the kuhio village it remains to be seen if anything fell off a shelf and broke - we get there december 4 so i'll let you know. [kind of cosmic in my mind that in the week following the quake the waves started going off all over the island and my plane ticket to go back finally came through...]
Thursday, October 19, 2006
i guess it's only appropriate that i'm finally getting the chance to write my first real entry for the new site just an hour or so after getting my plane ticket to hawai'i for the holidays ... auspicious begets auspicious. i'm working for my friend mark - my longtime readers will remember that working for mark this time of year usually involves 'blog entries - and tickets to hawai'i...
o where have i been??? i've said it before - if it wasn't for the mo'blog i wouldn't have no 'blog at all.
after the blessed arrival of my new macbook - which i christened 'baby' - in june, without consciously deciding to do so i just ended up taking the summer off from long-format entry duties, using the time instead to immerse myself in superior technology and design, to reacquaint myself with mac speak, to relearn mac ways, and begin to know mac magic.
since then baby has taken me on many journeys and taught me many things, baby also traveled with me to the bay area a few weeks ago - baby's first trip! - where baby got to feed on berkeley's 'village main' wireless and almost 500 new songs from kdogg's new place. k + i went to see m. ward at the fillmore and lo who is opening but my favorite punk rock uncle mike watt, catchin him live in cali for the first time, hyped on his third gig with his new 'missingmen' lineup - m. ward was good, but the three of them were the show - felt like i was at a minutemen show ... the image i carry with me and treasure from that trip is the sight of watt's new drummer raul morales, looking like he might as well be george hurley's teenage son - workin, beatin, sweatin away back there but never once taking his eyes off watt - the whole set, he just kept watching daddy...
other scraps from the last 4 months that keep blowing around in my brain
...
show at circa gallery in june w/ kung, having the assistant pull selections from the shelves in the back room based on our preferences
...
100 degrees fahrenheit for the bastille day block party at cafe barbette in july ... them were some sweaty boys
...
steve + me crashing through the woods full blair witch style under the full moon after midnight to pull seger the dog out of the mud where he got stuck and started bleating like a goat after running away down the steep hill into the swamp below our campsite on madeline island in august
...
makin out w/ stevie in a skyride gondola at the minnesota state fair on labor day, actually more the gondola attendant telling us to behave ourselves as we climbed in
...
o where have i been??? i've said it before - if it wasn't for the mo'blog i wouldn't have no 'blog at all.
after the blessed arrival of my new macbook - which i christened 'baby' - in june, without consciously deciding to do so i just ended up taking the summer off from long-format entry duties, using the time instead to immerse myself in superior technology and design, to reacquaint myself with mac speak, to relearn mac ways, and begin to know mac magic.
since then baby has taken me on many journeys and taught me many things, baby also traveled with me to the bay area a few weeks ago - baby's first trip! - where baby got to feed on berkeley's 'village main' wireless and almost 500 new songs from kdogg's new place. k + i went to see m. ward at the fillmore and lo who is opening but my favorite punk rock uncle mike watt, catchin him live in cali for the first time, hyped on his third gig with his new 'missingmen' lineup - m. ward was good, but the three of them were the show - felt like i was at a minutemen show ... the image i carry with me and treasure from that trip is the sight of watt's new drummer raul morales, looking like he might as well be george hurley's teenage son - workin, beatin, sweatin away back there but never once taking his eyes off watt - the whole set, he just kept watching daddy...
other scraps from the last 4 months that keep blowing around in my brain
...
show at circa gallery in june w/ kung, having the assistant pull selections from the shelves in the back room based on our preferences
...
100 degrees fahrenheit for the bastille day block party at cafe barbette in july ... them were some sweaty boys
...
steve + me crashing through the woods full blair witch style under the full moon after midnight to pull seger the dog out of the mud where he got stuck and started bleating like a goat after running away down the steep hill into the swamp below our campsite on madeline island in august
...
makin out w/ stevie in a skyride gondola at the minnesota state fair on labor day, actually more the gondola attendant telling us to behave ourselves as we climbed in
...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
waves goin off all over o'ahu ... aftershocks
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