and i love these people and i love this land
October 13, 2010
Usually I hand-write these things before posting them. The thought is that I can proofread and edit while typing them up. This one is just going to be written on the spot, if only because it’s been forever. I actually do have a post written up in my notebook, but even that’s two weeks old already and kind of boring. Also, the internet I’ve been stealing has, for whatever reason, decided to toy with my head and only work on every other website.
I’ve been mostly working, which has been good. There are several shows coming up I’d like to go to, but I work some of the nights they’re scheduled for. (See? Right there is an awkwardly worded sentence that I would fix with editing, but I’m just too lazy for it right now.) This Saturday is Pokey LaFarge, the 21st is Punch Brothers, the 23rd is DeVotchKa, Halloween is an Adam Stephens solo show, Sufjan Stevens is playing on Nov 14th and 15th, Cinematic Titanic on Nov 27th, and Weezer announced their Blue album / Pinkerton tour dates for NYC: Dec 17th and 18th.
Of course, even if I can only get to half of these, it’s a much more exciting schedule than anything in Hawai’i. Even the weather is more exciting. It seems like half the time when it rains there is also thunder and lighting. And hail. And a few weeks ago in Brooklyn there were two tornadoes and a macroburst. Storms didn’t get that severe even when I was living in Texas during tornado / hurricane season.
I also want to go out to Centralia, PA, again to explore the place more thoroughly. Maybe in a month or two when it gets cold and the steam can be seen in the air. I think I know where the abandoned hwy 61 is located now, not that I’m 100% certain I’d want to walk down it. Sam has a zipcar membership now though, so getting a car would be a lot easier than it was last time. Also, we’d have less trouble finding the place and hopefully next time a trailer won’t run over three cars causing a traffic jam of Los Angelian proportions.
Anyhoo, I’m at the library now and running out of computer power. Since publishing multiple pictures on these posts is usually a huge ordeal for one reason or another, be sure to check out my new tumblr (a link is in the sidebar). It gets updated about as often as this does and most of the photos already posted there are not from my time in NYC (indeed, a few were taken years ago in Hawai’i or on past trips), but I did just post two recent pics from the past week or two, so deal with it.
-amelia
