Saturday, June 18, 2005
seattle sleeps tonight
seattle is a wonderful city. if you have good shoes. my sister and i went there several weeks ago, and my god it was cool. we packed so much into a short time. in fact, i'd like to say that our trip to the gorge to see, well, the awesomest show ever, was perhaps the highlight of my young life. i have a newfound love for the arcade fire, and seeing modest mouse being twenty feet away from me was orgasmic. it's the dream of any indie/scenester alaskan to see good music.
in other events, my car cd player was stolen a week ago. as it turns out, my wallet was in the back of the car, and i had two (yes, count 'em, two) cameras in the car. the criminals didn't take any of that. just my cd player. i guess that's what one gets for leaving their car door unlocked in their own driveway. theft. so now i'm in the market for a new cd player. doesn't need to be fancy, it just needs to be able to play all my beloved songs.
currently listening to: dredg - eighteen people living in harmony
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in other events, my car cd player was stolen a week ago. as it turns out, my wallet was in the back of the car, and i had two (yes, count 'em, two) cameras in the car. the criminals didn't take any of that. just my cd player. i guess that's what one gets for leaving their car door unlocked in their own driveway. theft. so now i'm in the market for a new cd player. doesn't need to be fancy, it just needs to be able to play all my beloved songs.
currently listening to: dredg - eighteen people living in harmony
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Saturday, June 11, 2005
can i graduate?
it's funny how i never really thought that a day would come and i wouldn't get to go back to the joy of highschool. as it turns out, that day has come. i graduated. this photo was from senior fun day. i find it strange that the magnitude of my graduating was not really actualized by me until i neared it. strangely enough, for a person who lacks sentimentality, these events did it for me. all of the events surrounding graduation left me in a state of fear, fear of the future.
i still am afraid of what lies ahead. i still have no concrete plans for next year. my two options seem to be staying at home and attending college for no monies at all, or i could go away to columbia college chicago, spend thirty thousand dollars a year, but go to the school i want. the only problem is, there is no certainty surrounding the question of "can he make money being a photographer?".
i don't think i care. money can't stop me from doing what i love, right? i have no desire to live a life where i hate most everything i am. that's not the life for me.
currently listening to: the arcade fire - funeral
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i still am afraid of what lies ahead. i still have no concrete plans for next year. my two options seem to be staying at home and attending college for no monies at all, or i could go away to columbia college chicago, spend thirty thousand dollars a year, but go to the school i want. the only problem is, there is no certainty surrounding the question of "can he make money being a photographer?".
i don't think i care. money can't stop me from doing what i love, right? i have no desire to live a life where i hate most everything i am. that's not the life for me.
currently listening to: the arcade fire - funeral
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
playground graffiti
there's something neat i find about this image. sure, there's the fact that it was taken by yours truly, making it infinitely interesting in itself (wow...you can call me the alliteration king). but, i just like the idea that something so vile (well...not really that vile, i hear it quite often in my everyday life) was left in a park, a park that is frequented by many small children. something tells me that there are some parents out there that don't allow their children to go to this park for the sole reason of the words "fuck you" being written on the playground equipment. perhaps that's a good idea.
currently listening to: the beatles - abbey road.
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currently listening to: the beatles - abbey road.
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Thursday, April 21, 2005
junk.
i think there's something to be said for abandoned items. especially great big ones. items that nobody even wants anymore. items that take up space. so is the case with this trailer, as well as a schoolbus, and other various trashful items i found in a place a friend of mine calls "hobo village." being here made me feel as if i were in some documentary about homeless junkies in the 1980s during reagan's war on drugs heyday. yeah. that is exactly how i feel.
i think it would be an incredible thing to spend a mere night as a homeless person. how must it feel to have no warm blankets to sleep in? no alarm clock to wake you up. no job to go to in the morning. i would probably view my life as wasteful, and perhaps even pointless.
currently listening to: the postal service.
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i think it would be an incredible thing to spend a mere night as a homeless person. how must it feel to have no warm blankets to sleep in? no alarm clock to wake you up. no job to go to in the morning. i would probably view my life as wasteful, and perhaps even pointless.
currently listening to: the postal service.
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Monday, April 18, 2005
money.
today is the day i am psyched out about one thing, and one thing only. a friend of a friend (whom i met only twice, i belive), has given me the gift of a pro flickr account. to commemorate this, i'm giving you an old photo from my early flickr days. i took it at our cross-country running region meet on october 24th, 2004. yes. we ran on snow. it was incredibly insane.
on a side note, i got a speeding ticket today. for 122 fucking dollars. yeah. that's a lot. apparently it's not okay to go fourteen miles per hour over the speed limit. my pocketbook shall suffer for my lack of good judgment. shit. hopefully things won't get too out of hand with the good ol' automobile insurance. meh. i'm excited but frustrated all mixed into one. is that the way things having to do with money are supposed to make you feel?
currently listening to: modest mouse.
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on a side note, i got a speeding ticket today. for 122 fucking dollars. yeah. that's a lot. apparently it's not okay to go fourteen miles per hour over the speed limit. my pocketbook shall suffer for my lack of good judgment. shit. hopefully things won't get too out of hand with the good ol' automobile insurance. meh. i'm excited but frustrated all mixed into one. is that the way things having to do with money are supposed to make you feel?
currently listening to: modest mouse.
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Sunday, April 17, 2005
double your pleasure.
hello loyal readers.
it's been some time.
i'm sorry.
i've been busy with this girl.
the one in the picture.
her name is holley ryan (yes, though we do share the same last name, there are no family ties whatsoever. we are not cousins, nor are we brother and sister. we are not already married. we just have the same last name. much like there are many joneses, smiths, chins, hernandezes, schwartzes, there are many ryans as well). i, in fact, love her. here, she is seen with gum in her mouth, blowing it, and creating a very interestingly shaped bubble. (it looks dirty if you ask me).
i think i've been holding out on the blogs until i had a good picture of her to show. things have been going quite well of late. the problems of the world truly seem to disappear when one is with a person they love. it's a beautiful thing.
currently listening to: wilco.
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it's been some time.
i'm sorry.
i've been busy with this girl.
the one in the picture.
her name is holley ryan (yes, though we do share the same last name, there are no family ties whatsoever. we are not cousins, nor are we brother and sister. we are not already married. we just have the same last name. much like there are many joneses, smiths, chins, hernandezes, schwartzes, there are many ryans as well). i, in fact, love her. here, she is seen with gum in her mouth, blowing it, and creating a very interestingly shaped bubble. (it looks dirty if you ask me).
i think i've been holding out on the blogs until i had a good picture of her to show. things have been going quite well of late. the problems of the world truly seem to disappear when one is with a person they love. it's a beautiful thing.
currently listening to: wilco.
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Friday, March 25, 2005
wash your hands.
i love carrying my camera around everywhere i go. this can sometimes become quite a hassle, as it's kind of a beastly camera. meh...i sometimes wonder if i should bust out my semi-good digital camera, but then i think again that i don't have as much control with it. i absolutely love the control with an slr camera (buying a digital slr is not quite an option at this point. i'm a stingy bastard).
anyways, this is at a local store cafe. kaladi brothers, to be exact (the one inside of new sagaya). the colors struck me.
i am going to the sasquatch festival at the gorge in late may with my sister. i think this is the one thing that will help me get to graduation day. among the bands i will see are: modest mouse, the pixies, wilco, kanye west, jem, the arcade fire, the frames. basically, it should be called indiefest 2005. rock on.
currently listening to: the good life.
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anyways, this is at a local store cafe. kaladi brothers, to be exact (the one inside of new sagaya). the colors struck me.
i am going to the sasquatch festival at the gorge in late may with my sister. i think this is the one thing that will help me get to graduation day. among the bands i will see are: modest mouse, the pixies, wilco, kanye west, jem, the arcade fire, the frames. basically, it should be called indiefest 2005. rock on.
currently listening to: the good life.
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