Saturday, September 30, 2006

Turning the Corner

Friday was a long night, what with the Ham BBQ and then a stop at the First Amendment gallery opening. Anna said that there's a duplicate of her and Shad's house a block north of their place that's for rent but I'm thinking I'll probably try to stay closer to work and Uptown next time back as it'll more than likely be snowing by then. In the morning I realized I still had the Rapid Park card and stopped at Dave's to drop it off, and ended up chatting for an hour or so about Ham.

And here I am again, back in Chicago, covered in cats and typing into a little window on a computer screen, organizing my trip photos and notes. Here's one of the doodles I made while the more dedicated were making their twenty-four page comics:

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Love You In The Fall

I don't know if it's just a Minneapolis thing but they're playing "Love You in the Fall" from Paul Westerberg's new soundtrack album quite a bit, and I'm liking it a lot. I also heard a new song from Sonic Youth while driving today and liked it. It seems like my late 80s/early 90s favorites are producing some nice new music.

It was to say the least an interesting night last night. I hung out at the "More Than 23 But Less Than 25 Hour" comic event at Book Arts, then off to Jamey's party which was a very nice party, then around 3 am back to Book Arts. Then back home for a few hours sleep. Then back to the Book Arts - I arrived at about 9:15 and most of the cartoonists had gone off to sleep. Adam and I picked up Rita and had breakfast at Bryant Lake Bowl - delicious potatoes but the Eggsadilla wasn't anything special.

It's been a busy week but this next week looks to have a few late nights at work. I'm seriously thinking about going back to the mac camp after a number of years favoring windows. That'll complete the Beetle/iPod/MacBook trifecta. Probably no more posts for a while, have fun wherever you are.

Thursday, September 14, 2006

The Stars of Track and Field

It's one of those clichéd Belle and Sebastian mornings plotting my trip to Minneapolis. With any luck I'll be able to stop frequently on the drive up to take photos. It would be even more super super if the parts to fix my powerbook arrive today or tomorrow so I can bring that along. Hopefully my back will be fine again mid next week and my rusty old knees will be able to handle a bit of running - if I can find a track I'll probably start on that so I can get a sense of where I'm at with my endurance.

Monday, September 11, 2006

More Songs

Probably shouldn't have started recording again but here are a couple of decent recordings of a couple of standards from the ol' Donn Ha Music Conglomerate catalog:

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Porn Star