Kiss
Originally uploaded by cleartrampoline
Isn't love grand? Took some photos at my friend Martine's wedding last weekend. Still have a few more to go through, including a really awesome photo of her parents dancing. Yay for fun times!
23 June 2010
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08 June 2010
Top 5 Albums of All Time
Picking your top 5 favorite albums of all time.
This is a hard, near impossible thing to do. I could give make a list of favorite songs pretty easily, I think, but albums are tricky. They have to be cohesive. Every song has to have its place. Sometimes you might think that an album is your favorite, only to redirect and realize that no, just one of the songs on there is your favorite.
It is super hard for me to pick ALL TIME favorites, because I feel like it's a growing, ever flowing thing, one's relationship with music. There are many albums that meant a lot to me at one time, and nostalgically (is that a word) still do, but they aren't in heavy rotation anymore, so where does one place those on this list?
I posted the following as a comment on a friend's facebook page. A top 5 favorite albums list, compiled after 1 hour of deliberation on June 8th, 2010.
This is hard. I have soooooooooooooooo many favorites. You know this is true because of how many o's I used in the last sentence. Here is what I came up with in the last hour:
Radiohead - OK Computer
This album is where I fell in love with Radiohead, and they've been one of my greatest loves ever since. I had a near spiritual moment with this album while skiing once...
Weezer - The blue album
This album basically changed my life in 8th grade when I got it on cassette tape. It is the perfect cassette tape album. To this day I can pop this album on and listen to it all the way through, there is not a single bad song. Too bad that can't be said for anything Weezer came up with post Pinkerton. Single tear.
The Cure - Disintegration
This is another one that got a hold on me when I was young and never let go. Listening to it is like, a time machine, and a cigarette, and a long drive, and a favorite pair of shoes all wrapped up into one.
The Beatles - Abbey Road
They were my first favorite band, and basically I can't let go of them, as cliche as that is. I have a hard time choosing between Let It Be and Abbey Road. They are both just so amazing, and my favorite Beatles song of all time 'Across the Universe' is on Let It Be, but Abbey Road kind of nudges itself ahead because the whole second half of the album is so amazing, I mean, so it the first half...it's a real album lovers album.
Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
This is a rather new album, as in it's from 2008, but it's a solid listen, and when I was working at Sydney's it was pretty much in constant rotation. So many amazing songs, and it just feels real, you know what I mean?
Runner Ups: Beirut Gulag Orkestar, Belle & Sebastian Boy with the Arab Strap, TV on the Radio Desperate Youth blood Thirsty Babes, Led Zeppelin 1, Damien Jurado Rehearsal for Departure, Van Morrison Astral Weeks, The Shaky Hands eponymous album, David Bazan Curse Your Branches ...
UGH! Where do I stop? :)
This is a hard, near impossible thing to do. I could give make a list of favorite songs pretty easily, I think, but albums are tricky. They have to be cohesive. Every song has to have its place. Sometimes you might think that an album is your favorite, only to redirect and realize that no, just one of the songs on there is your favorite.
It is super hard for me to pick ALL TIME favorites, because I feel like it's a growing, ever flowing thing, one's relationship with music. There are many albums that meant a lot to me at one time, and nostalgically (is that a word) still do, but they aren't in heavy rotation anymore, so where does one place those on this list?
I posted the following as a comment on a friend's facebook page. A top 5 favorite albums list, compiled after 1 hour of deliberation on June 8th, 2010.
This is hard. I have soooooooooooooooo many favorites. You know this is true because of how many o's I used in the last sentence. Here is what I came up with in the last hour:
Radiohead - OK Computer
This album is where I fell in love with Radiohead, and they've been one of my greatest loves ever since. I had a near spiritual moment with this album while skiing once...
Weezer - The blue album
This album basically changed my life in 8th grade when I got it on cassette tape. It is the perfect cassette tape album. To this day I can pop this album on and listen to it all the way through, there is not a single bad song. Too bad that can't be said for anything Weezer came up with post Pinkerton. Single tear.
The Cure - Disintegration
This is another one that got a hold on me when I was young and never let go. Listening to it is like, a time machine, and a cigarette, and a long drive, and a favorite pair of shoes all wrapped up into one.
The Beatles - Abbey Road
They were my first favorite band, and basically I can't let go of them, as cliche as that is. I have a hard time choosing between Let It Be and Abbey Road. They are both just so amazing, and my favorite Beatles song of all time 'Across the Universe' is on Let It Be, but Abbey Road kind of nudges itself ahead because the whole second half of the album is so amazing, I mean, so it the first half...it's a real album lovers album.
Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
This is a rather new album, as in it's from 2008, but it's a solid listen, and when I was working at Sydney's it was pretty much in constant rotation. So many amazing songs, and it just feels real, you know what I mean?
Runner Ups: Beirut Gulag Orkestar, Belle & Sebastian Boy with the Arab Strap, TV on the Radio Desperate Youth blood Thirsty Babes, Led Zeppelin 1, Damien Jurado Rehearsal for Departure, Van Morrison Astral Weeks, The Shaky Hands eponymous album, David Bazan Curse Your Branches ...
UGH! Where do I stop? :)
07 June 2010
Grass 5
Grass 5
Originally uploaded by cleartrampoline
I love going to the Oregon coast. It is my happy place. I also love to take photos of fields of grass, or whatever you call this tall stuff. Is it wheat? Hay? I don't know for sure. It's pretty though.
03 June 2010
Shoot Out in Tombstone
Shoot Out in Tombstone
Originally uploaded by cleartrampoline
This photo is from August 2009 when Eli and I went to visit his parents in Arizona. For some reason I had gone through the first set of photos from this trip, but not the last set. I get burnt out when I'm like, half way through a photo set, and then never finish it (thus the whole point of this experiment, edit a photo a day).
This is from the day we went to Tombstone, the infamous town. It was so much fun. They do live re-enactments in the street, which is covered with dirt, much to the chagrin of the locals. Can you imagine living in a town like Tombstone? I mean, I though Hood River was a touristy town, but dang. Shoot outs on the street. Good times.
02 June 2010
popcorn
popcorn
Originally uploaded by cleartrampoline
I take a ton of photos. Too many. The problem is I never have enough time to go through them and pick out the ones I like and edit them in photoshop and share them with my friends, let alone get prints made. I'm going to try to rectify this. Today is my first attempt. This was taken February 1, 2010. It is a photo of my popcorn popper doin' its thing. Enjoy.
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