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Archive for June, 2009

Wide Before Us

The man next to me says sorry he had a few beers before I got here but hey, I know how it goes, right? Look at us young people, everything spread wide open before us and we’re just drinking and laughing, oblivious to what’s coming. He tells me he’s 38, can I believe [...]

Morning Find

Finished Tracking

But I forgot to bring my camera so instead of recording photos, here’s a very encouraging spam comment I got today:
You know so many interesting infomation. You might be very wise. I like such people. Don’t top writing.
And a photo I took at the zoo last week:

Summer’s on.

Recording Tonight

Doug and I are heading over to Petro’s house tonight to try and finish tracking the first song as The Tree Ring.  Photos to follow.

Memories of Trees

Loud Neighbors

I can’t see you but I know you’re out there (tilt your screen and look closely)

Sasquatch! Photos

Disposable camera documentation of Sasquatch! Festival onSezio

Rest

They seem anxious for being so sure
I’m too tired to think ahead like that anymore
Being on my way to someplace I already know
Because I saw some photographs in a magazine
Look at me, I know as much as my parents and
Wealthy college professors could show me
Whatever I lived in and whatever explanations
I was told to attribute [...]

Planes, Trains, and a Corolla

Photographs from a week spent traveling solo to visit people around the Northwest

Ours and Ours Only

We’ve been talking too much, trying to take a lifetime of sensations and send them across the table. Trying to use written words to send feelings across the sea, feelings we ourselves don’t even understand. From a place behind these shutters that keep our eyes from drying to the place behind someone else’s. A house [...]

We Slept on the Porch

Jantzi Farm, Oregon