Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
The stuff about me and my life. The “diary” side of blogging.
90’s rock group Soul Asylum gave a free show at the Pike Place market on Thursday morning, and Prairie and I headed down to see them. While we were waiting for the show to start I took a few random people shots around the gathering crowd. This shot is by far my favorite of the morning (the rest are here).
“Comfortably Numb (ATOC Extended Edit)” by Scissor Sisters from the album Comfortably Numb, Pts. 1 & 2 – Single (2003, 5:39).
For the past few months, Prairie and I have been the kind of customers that Netflix must pray for. We’ve been busy, and we were getting movies from a queue I put together a long time ago, when I was living on my own and therefore choosing films that I was interested in, not films that we were interested in (and while there’s some overlap, there’s also a lot of disconnect between the two). So, we’d ended up getting movies that we just weren’t interested in, and they’d just sit here in the hopes that some night, they’d sound right.
Of course, the longer they sit, the less of a good deal that $20 a month is.
So, on the verge of just canceling the Netflix account, we decided we’d take a little time to brainstorm a bit and put together a queue that we’d be more likely to enjoy going through. I completely nuked the queue I had built up, we found three basic ideas to start from, and got a new queue set up. We’re pretty sure that the result will carry us through for the next few months rather easily.
Of course, the final result might provoke a few laughs, or at least raised eyebrows. But it’s one that works for us.
“Opening Night” by Bryn Dowling, Meg Gillentine, Ensemble from the album The Producers (Movie) (2005, 1:46).
Finally…another entry in the Vegas weekend! I just keep getting further behind…
Update: Xebeth reminded me that I’d forgotten a key part of the evening — Bite, the topless vampire show! The end of the post has been updated to correct this grievous oversight. Believe me, the erotic rock angels should not be forgotten!
Okay. Pictures are starting to work their way up to my Flickr account and will eventually be all in a Vegas Vacation set. While those go, a rundown of the trip — behind the cut as I tend to ramble. ;)
I was hoping to get one post for everything, but that’s not happening. Something about not wanting to devote my entire time to the ‘puter, and instead splitting the day between working on photos and enjoying the day off with Prairie. Imagine that!
Thursday, then….
We’re back! It was a wonderful trip — three days having a lot of fun bouncing around Vegas with Xebeth. I’m working my way through the (tons of) pictures I shot while Prairie naps (a multi-step process: import two flash cards of shots, one full 2Gb and one partial 1Gb; find any multi-shot panoramics and run them through Calico to assemble the final shots; name and tag all the photos as accurately as possible; sort through to determine which are worth uploading to Flickr and which aren’t; and finally, upload the final pics to Flickr).
I’ll get more ramblings up eventually (I’ve got a good start down already, actually, I just need to break away for little things like dinner)…for the moment, though, it’s just good to be back home.
It’s vacation time — a full five days off from work. Incredible!
Tomorrow morning, at some horrendous hour, Prairie’s sister is driving us to the airport where — after the requisite two-hour wait, mile-long back-and-forth line up to the security checkpoint, body cavity search, and so on — we’ll board a plane to fly down to Las Vegas for three days with Xebeth! She’s quite familiar with Vegas, so she’s got a full slate of entertainments lined up for us…most of which she’s determined not to tell us about until we’re there. All I know for sure is that we’re going to be staying at the Stratosphere, seeing one of the typical Vegas shows (the only criteria being “whichever one has the most breasts”), and apparently at some point parking me outside of the M&M’s store and not letting me go in until I whimper (or something like that).
We’ll be returning to Seattle late Saturday night (or early Sunday morning, technically), after which work was kind enough to give me two days off. Apparently, they’re expecting two days of recovery for every three days in Vegas. From some of the stories I’ve heard — and given that it’ll be just me with two gorgeous women — they may be right! ;)
Pictures, of course, will be posted all a-plenty after we get back. For now, I’m off to eat and pack (or, more likely, continue procrastinating until the very last moment, then pack).
As some barely-known, two-bit hack of an entertainer once said…Viva Las Vegas!
“Land Of 1000 Dances” by Wilson Pickett from the album Forrest Gump (Disc 1) (1966, 2:26).
“Limo Wreck” by Soundgarden from the album Superunknown (1994, 5:47).
We noticed this (not so) lil’ guy crawling along the counter at work today. Having a mild case of arachnophobia and being a camera buff, my reaction was pretty predictable: “Ugh! Eww! (cringe) … Where’s the macro lens?”
“Take the Skinheads Bowling” by Camper Van Beethoven from the album Telephone Free Landslide Victory (2004, 2:32).
“Glory (Exploitation Dub)” by K.M.F.D.M. from the album Glory (1993, 4:01).
I suppose it was only a matter of time before Seattle started getting hit by the summertime heat.
Okay, so it’s not the 100-plus that other parts of the country have been getting, but still. Ugh. Yesterday was a record-setting 97, apparently, and it felt like it. Every fan in the apartment is going strong, and we still don’t really want to move any more than we have to.
Just had to add my voice to the chorus of “it’s hot” whining. ;)
“I’m Wishing/One Song” by Various Artists from the album Disney’s Princess Collection (1996, 3:08).