Archive for April, 2009
Let’s get ready for summer!
April 29th, 2009 • chatter
I know, this has been dead for a couple of weeks while I finished up school. The semester’s finally over and I can’t wait to start doing non-school things for a change. The weather’s been getting better or worse, depending on how you look at it. There’s been very little rain this spring, which is very odd, but the temperatures aren’t insanely hot like they were last year either. The motorcycle rides have been great but still, I wish it would rain so I could test out my rain suit.
Since school’s over, there are some camping trips planned and some motorcycle runs planned as well. Hopefully we can start frequenting some local bike nights at bars which should be fun. There’s one tonight but I don’t think we’ll be going just yet. However, camping should be happening much sooner than biker bars. I’ve got trip planned for Bahia Honda down in the Keys in the next 3 weeks or so and I’m stoked for it. Finally, we get to go to the Keys and fish and camp, should be AWESOME!
What else does the summer hold? I’m not sure but we’re looking forward to it. I’ve got some gardening ideas I want to try, along with some guerilla gardening ideas for our apartment complex. For as much money as this place makes per month, they do one of the worst landscaping jobs I’ve ever seen. The landscapers don’t come by as much as they used to — back when the place actually looked nice — and most of the sprinkler heads are broken which they don’t seem to care about. Maybe we’ll do something about that,.
I need to get back to work but this is hilarious: texts from last night.
Finally back from Chicago
April 13th, 2009 • chatter
Tags: chicago, repo, trip
Jess and myself went to Chicago this weekend for the 90 Day Delinquents shadowcast for Repo: The Genetic Opera. The shadowcast was a blast and was surprisingly better than I expected. There were some pretty good gags, you can see that in the videos posted @ Myspace.
Chicago was fun…and cold. Having never stepped foot outside O’Hare before this weekend, I did not know how windy that city really was. With all the downtown roads acting as giant wind tunnels, it certainly was gusty. We did as much tourist-y stuff as we could fit in on Saturday. Walked the Magnificent Mile, photographed Sears Tower, all that stuff. Since we were staying on Delaware Place, I was shocked at the lack of grocery stores and mini-marts within a few blocks of our hotel. I think I saw two markets within 4 blocks of our hotel. Hopefully next time, we can go and be real tourists and spend more time walking around — and not getting raped for taxi fares.
We did manage to go to The Alley, which has to be the store that inspired Hot Topic. It was all kitschy punk and goth stuff, but it seemed to lack emotion or conviction. To me, it felt like nothing more than a big Hot Topic. If that’s what a “real” punk store is like, I’ll just continue to not go to them. $90 for a Fender rockabilly shirt? Talk about robbery. Ah well, it was still an experience to see and at least the people working there were nice, albeit seemingly disconnected and bored.
Our photo shoot for 90 Day Delinquents did get quashed by our original effects artist not being able to make it and then the lack of a fixed location didn’t help any. The shots we did manage to get turned out well for what we had to work with. There’s minor editing that needs to happen to remove a glaring dust spot from our mirror but other than that, it’s minor levels and tonal adjustments that need to be made. I was kind of ambivalent about the whole thing since we ended up scrapping most of the original ideas in order to just get it done and over with.
