We are now in Palos Verdes visiting my mom's parents after 3 days in Beaumont with grandma Theresa. While we were in Beaumont Bonnie and I went on a hike with my dad and his brother Dale to the Morongo Wilderness Preserve. Here is a picture of Bon and me that Dale took while we were on the hike.
We are going back to San Francisco on the 29th and it is supposed to start raining again in the middle of the week so hopefully our flight doesn't get delayed again like it did coming down!
Sunday, December 26, 2010
LA
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Family Vacation
Tomorrow we are flying to LAX to visit the grandparents. We will first drive to Beaumont to visit Grandma Theresa and spend Christmas with her, then we will drive to Palos Verdes on the 26th to spend my mom's parents' wedding anniversary with them. I think it will be their 79th anniversary, give or take a few.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Seattle, again.
I went back to Seattle last weekend to visit with my friends at the Yellow House. It was a real good time. Among other things we: got me a library card, made footprint reindeer decorations, made a gingerbread house, got a pizza, ate burritos, put up christmas lights, and made a cake. I am in San Francisco for a week until we all fly down to LA for a week. Here is a picture of Rosie putting up lights that my friend Emily took:
Thursday, December 9, 2010
No One Was Like Vermeer
I came back from Santa Cruz! Only without my bike helmet. I went to Jonathan Richman at the Great American Music Hall with friends Andrey and Elizabeth. It was a good show, a bit sillier than last February in Brooklyn, more dancing less sing-a-longs. I think that one thing that was the same is that both times he didn't even get all the way off the stage before he came back for the encore.
Then I went to the MOMA with Bon yesterday, we saw the 75th Anniversary exhibit and then we walked around some other stuff. It was the once a month free day but it wasn't that crowded except for the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit which I also saw in New York during the summer. We briefly walked into the wine exhibit but decided we were in over our heads. Bon said, "Are you gonna blog about this?" I said, "No." Then I said, "Yes." Then Bon said, "Blog."
We were going to work in the garden today but it rained all day instead. Maybe we will tomorrow. I am going to plant squash everywhere.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Bon and Pat have fun all day long.
I have been in San Francisco for a while now. Things that I have done are clean the room (mostly), fix the computer, ride the bike to West Portal, go to Mariah's choir concert, get burritos (2). I am going to Santa Cruz tomorrow to visit Stef, we're gonna have a great time but I can't stay long because I have to be back Sunady night to go see Jonathan Richman at the Great American Music Hall!
Friday, November 19, 2010
We made it
We arrived in San Francisco late last night after a long rainy drive from Portland. It is nice to be back in the city but unfortunately the rain followed us down the coast. Erik is here for a couple days and then he will keep driving down to Ventura County. I am excited to be in SF for a little while and see how different it is. I already don't understand how to ride the bus.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Seattle
Monday, November 8, 2010
Idaho and new pictures
We are in Northern Idaho, in Dover which is near Sandpoint on Lake Pend Oreille. It has been raining on and off mostly on but only a drizzle, sometimes more. Because we crossed into the Pacific Time Zone on Daylight Savings Day we are frequently very confused as to the time. Tomorrow I think, or the next day we will drive to Seattle if the weather is nice. I have some more pictures now, they are all on flickr but here are a few:
Christina in Big Bend, TX and everyone in White Sands, NM:
In Albuquerque, NM:
Christina outside her new house in Santa Fe:
Friday, November 5, 2010
Yellowstone
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Wyoming and Grand Teton
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Congratulationss Giants!
Monday, November 1, 2010
Utah
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Colorado
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Santa Fe
We are still in Santa Fe, the weather is cold! Two days ago we took a drive up to Taos and it lightly snowed on us. The first day of winter! We will probably be here for a couple more days while Christina looks for a place to live or decides whether or not to stay. Santa Fe seems nice but there don't seem to be very many young people around.
Next Erik and I will try to drive to Seattle, we're not sure how cold it is out there. The roads into Yellowstone close on November 8th so we hope to get there before then, but they also might close earlier if the weather is bad. The route we thought about will take us through every state in the West except for Arizona and Nevada, which is exciting!
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Santa Fe and Albuquerque
Update: Pictures are actually up now. And on all of them are on Flickr.
After celebrating the Yankees loss to Texas last night we drove to Albuquerque today to bring Jess to the airport so she could go back to work. The car feels empty with only three people and three people's stuff in it. Now we'll hang around Santa Fe for a while and hopefully go on an outing with Zoe tomorrow on her day off. We're thinking Taos or Los Alamos.
I got my camera developed today, here are some pictures, more on the sidebar, the rest I'll put on flickr when I can (I got 2 old ones from NOLA up before I ran out of library time).
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
A storm approaches in White Sands!
White Sands
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
UFOs tonight
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Big Bend
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
¡Bienvenidos a Mexico!
Monday, October 11, 2010
Christina faces her fears at THE ALAMO!
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Goodbye Austin
We're leaving Austin tomorrow morning! We might go first to San Antonio to see the Alamo, maybe not! Tuesday night in Del Rio? Wednesday night at La Loma Del Chivo again makin' papercreate for a day or two! Then off to Big Bend, hopefully we'll see a dinosaur!
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Packing up
Monday, October 4, 2010
Lake Belton Camping
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Today we are graduate students
Friday, October 1, 2010
Texas!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Leaving Tomorrow!
Everything (almost) is all packed up and we're leaving tomorrow. We have a few stops around the city to make (cassette tape store, snow balls) and then hopefully before it gets to late we're outta here! We're gonna stay in East Texas, very close to where I was when I wrote this post, in Big Thicket National Wilderness Preserve. Then it's on to Austin where will we stay for about a week. Hopefully we can fit all our stuff in the truck!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Swamp
Erik and I took one last trip to the swamp over the weekend to test out Erik's camera, here are some of the pictures he took. We are all packing up the apartment and planning to leave on Thursday morning for Austin either on Saturday or sometime next week depending on how long we want to take getting there. Hopefully everything fits in the truck!
While Erik took this first picture of the swamp I dropped my sunglasses into it (the swamp). Fortunately the water is not very deep and I was able to retrieve them.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Camera Pictures
I got my disposable camera pictures developed. I got prints made this time but I found out that most places I can just get negatives made for only a few dollars so I started experimenting with taking digital pictures of the negatives. If I want clearer versions I can always scan them too but I like how these turned out also. Here are a few, you can see the rest on flickr.
Me and Bowen, Maggie and Lesley at my goodbye party:
Christina in the backyard, Pam at work on my last day in NY:
Me and Erik in Jackson, MS at the capitol building:
Sunday, September 12, 2010
September
We have about three weeks left in New Orleans before Erik and Christina's lease is up and we head out. Now that I have finished recording New Morning I hope to be able to finish writing and recording another record before we leave. I'm excited becuase it's probably only gonna be guitar, it's fun to record many tracks with all kinds of instruments but at a certain point it gets really tiring playing all the tracks on a song. If you haven't listened to New Morning yet the best song is probably "Sign on the Window" so at least give that one a listen.
Erik is driving his car back to California at the end of the month and Christina and I are going to go with him at least part of the way, we are going to take our time camping along the way and hopefully make it up to South Dakota and Idaho.
I also need to finish writing at least the words of my new book by the time we leave and hopefully lay it out so I can figure out where illustrations would go. This is all a lot to do because our friends Zach and Martin are coming to visit next week and my friend C.J. is coming to visit his brother right after! Busy days!
Saturday, September 4, 2010
This must be the day when all of my dreams come true
Haven't written anything for a while, sorry about that! I would like to feel confident in my ability to write something compelling and coherent but since my camera broke I feel like nothing is quite blog-worthy. At first when it stopped working I said to myself, "Good! Now I will write about things instead of just putting a bunch of pictures of stuff," but . . . I'm still scared to bore anyone with a giant block of text.
Today we drove across Lake Pontchartrain to Mandeville and then rode our bikes a few miles over to the Abita brewery and we took the free tour. There is a rail-to-trail bike path that runs along the north shore and it was surprisingly nice to ride a bike on a path with neither traffic nor potholes. Any street in New Orleans is a pretty bumpy ride so it was a nice to be able to ride a few miles without getting all rattled around.
Before going on the causeway I was really excited about it for some reason but it turned out to be pretty boring. It's almost 24 miles long and you can't see one side from the other at least on a semi cloudy day like today.
My new record which is a cover of Bob Dylan's album New Morning is done but we haven't taken the picture for the cover yet so it will probably come out sometime next week depending on how the photo shoot goes.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Rollercoaster Fever Ride
It was probably too much to ask to try to hit the ground running when I got to New Orleans, I guess my body decided I need a break. I'm on my way to being better but I was pretty sick for a while there, the weird thing is that the whole time my fever would come and go unpredictably, one minute 98.6, wake up two hours later from a nap 102.3!
Around Tuesday I decided I just had to start pretending I was better because laying around waiting didn't seem to be doing anything. I think the walk to go get a snowball, trampoline badminton and nighttime swimming the last few days really did more than all those days of trying to sleep.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Made It To New Orleans
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Checklist
I have a one way ticket to New Orleans on Wednesday night. I've been super busy getting everything done, I shipped my bike to San Francisco last week, I went to the beach (twice!), I moved out of my apartment into a temporary Andrea-shaped vacancy at my friends Pam and Naomi's house, but there's still so much to do -- bind books, ship books, read (library) books. It's hard trying to fit everything in but it's nice knowing that by Wednesday night it won't matter what I got done or not.
My camera seems to be broken. On the first trip to the beach it started displaying "lens error" which I've read a little about and seems to be the dying gasp of many a digital camera. Right now it's resting on the floor of my room and maybe it will decide to start working again but in the meantime I got a disposable camera which I have been taking a picture a day with and I am pretty excited about.
My friends Darcy and Becca were here at the end of July, along with Darcy's brother Eddie and his girlfriend Laurel from Philadelphia for the weekend. Then my friend Nathan was here at the beginning of August.
Here's a picture Nathan took of Me and Chuck in the store, click on it to see Nathan's other pictures from NY, Philly, France, Armenia...
Once I get to New Orleans I've got plans to finish a children's book I've been working on for a while, record a cover of Bob Dylan's album New Morning and record another album inspired by New Morning.
Monday, August 2, 2010
And The Possible Gets Larger
My new record is out! As you can probably see above it's called And The Possible Gets Larger which is a quote from an unreleased Everything In Pen song. Download it/listen to it/remix it/make fun of it:
http://patrickweaver.bandcamp.com/
I made a few cd's but not that many, if you think you want one maybe there is already one with your name written on it!
I made this record very quickly and I don't think that I like it as much as Jonathan Richman but it was nice to be able to make something quickly and I think that it is at least pretty fun.
It has 12 songs:
1. Thunder and Lightning
2. Don't Walk That Line
3. This Show Costs Five Dollars
4. Forever
5. In Alaska
6. From Out Behind The Clouds
7. Firecracker
8. Takin Off
9. My Heart Still Beats
10. Same Make, Same Model
11. When I Walk Among The Giants
12. A Chance Like This (Just Once In A While)
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Positively Bleecker Street
I wrote a children's book with my friend Jess! It's called Positively Bleecker Street and is about walking down Bleecker Street and the things that happen there. The first printing was 10 copies but I think I've already gotten more requests than that so we'll probably be making some more. Naomi helped me bind the first ones today with a stab binding, which looks great. Let me know soon if you want to buy one, they cost $15.
I don't know when the next ones will exist but you can read it right now at positivelybleeckerstreet.com! (Link works now!)
Here it is in the store:
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Roof Show
Here are some pictures form the 4th of July show on the roof, I played the "Jonathan Richman/Roadrunner/Sister Ray" medley with The Nuclears again, it was fun!
Photon Dynamo and the Shiny Pieces:
The Nuclears:
Monday, July 5, 2010
Thunder and Lightning
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Thunder Thunder Thunder
I'm making a new album. I usually write the whole thing and then record it over a few days after all of the songs are written but this time I wrote and recorded one song first to be the single so that my friend Juan could make a music video for it. I'm probably gonna record the final vocal take on that tonight or tomorrow along with a "b-side" to release as a single maybe on Sunday or Monday and record the rest of the songs over the next week or so unless I decide over the weekend that half the songs aren't good enough and start over. While I was making "Jonathan Richman" I was thinking that after that I would make a "country/folk" album but once I finished "JR" that idea seemed less exciting and I began making a "60's girl group" album. After writing those songs for a while I became more excited about "rock 'n' roll". The album, which may be called "When I Walk Among The Giants" or may be called something else, is sort of a combination of all three of these ideas although some parts might not seem to fit. Also since I haven't recorded it yet it could turn out completely different. The single is called "Thunder and Lightning", watch out!
Saturday, June 19, 2010
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