Archive for the tag "albany ca"

• Hi! Sorry! I’ve been on the phone. What? #
• The new Morning Recordings album can be previewed in full over here (“Songs from a Hotel Bar” is my time to shine) #
• I just called my mother “dude”… #
• @biz: wtf?! I live in Albany and I’m home, you need backup assistance over there? #

• They’re gonna use one of my pics on “Ice Cream People”, how funny. Reminds me of Happy Ham on Flickr. icecreampeople.blogspot.com #
• Confusing Words
• Going to Jodie’s for a Nothing with Something, or more likely a Something Different. I’m always getting the Something Different lately. #
• This means nothing to me. Oh Vienna… #

• Another CC-licensed photo of mine used without permission, with no linkback this time. Starting to think maybe CC isn’t for me after all. #
• The fine print: You can change/revoke a CC license anytime, BUT all previous downloads keep their original licenses. That seems reasonable. #
• I just uploaded my 1000th photo to Flickr! #
• My pics from the Du Nord last night came out horrible. I gotta get those camera settings back to where they were before I fuckered ‘em up. #
• There are FOUR airplanes dragging ad banners over Albany right now. I HATE THEM. #
• Twitter, the new design is nice enough but are you getting the message that people aren’t liking the fonts? They aren’t liking the fonts. #
• Handbags of Horror (via Metafilter)
• Think pink and do some good (via Flickr Blog)

• Unfollowing somebody for being a hater. #
• Lazy Rock Star? Gibson Creates Self-Tuning Guitar
• Dunno if I like mixing twitters in with my blog posts. Too awkward-looking. Want to fix that, and also mix in Flickr/Reader/delicious feeds. #
•  Shot after breakfast at the Royal Café
• Getting ready to go see the Invisible Cities at the Du Nord #
• Faced with an all-consuming desire to get my paws on that box from Levenger. Should be later this week. #
•  Bay Bridge tunnel at Yerba Buena Island
  
• The Invisible Cities at Café du Nord
  

• I wish I were one of those people who gets a good night’s sleep in this world. I’m not, though. Never have been. Oh well. #
• All songbirds report to Albany for morning warmups! #
• I sang backups on this Morning Recordings video #
• Please purchase party pianos from Petaluma Pete! #
• BART sounds like the Tardis #

• It’s Daddy’s birthday today, just talked to him on the phone. Off to the Stroll now #
• At the annual Solano Stroll in Albany CA…
  
• Wil just Craigslisted himself a gorgeous blue Crafter acoustic, and I am so very jealous. I’m the one with the blue guitars in this house!! #

I just experienced my first California earthquake.  Scared the living shit outta me.  It sounded like a big explosion from the back of the house, I didn’t know what the fuck was goin’ on!  I thought the water heater had exploded, or, like, a giant meteor had smashed down in the backyard.  But it was none of those things, just a little quake and everything seems to be okay.

A few years ago I blogged about an earthquake I felt in Chicago.  The one tonight one was scarier though.  It was just a jolt, but a pretty strong jolt compared to the Chicago one, which I only noticed because the floor-lamp was trembling.

Yay!!  I finally have internet, it took three weeks for them to turn it on.  What’s going on?  What’d I miss?  Eh, who cares.  Life has been very very nice since I got here, I haven’t even missed my web-life that much.  I have a lot of European tour dates to post in the next few days so please bear with me…!

It’s taking awhile longer to move to SF than I would’ve liked, but I am getting there.  Still in Chicago at the moment but the stars have been very much in my favor; I have a PLACE out there now and a lease and a move-in date, yayyy!  Not in the city proper but over in the East Bay… that was mainly a budgetary choice, similar to one I made when I moved to Brooklyn instead of Manhattan.  Anyway… so I now have less than one month to get my ass and all my possessions out there.  EEEEKKK!!!  I’m kind of in a panic, but it’s a good combination of scared and excited.  Excited because I really do love that place, and for that and other reasons I really can’t think of anyplace else I want to live right now.  But it’s a little scary because of course I can’t be entirely sure I’ll find my niche and adapt well to living there… and naturally the move is pretty nerve-wracking in and of itself.  But it’s cool, I know the drill.  I keep doing this over and over — San Antonio -> Austin -> Guadalajara -> Austin -> San Antonio -> Austin -> Brooklyn -> Chicago.  It doesn’t freak me out too much.  I do feel like I’m getting too old for this shit, but I was probably saying that when I was 12 years old.  ;-) And now I’m getting really bad deja vu that I’m just rehashing shit I’ve already said here before, so I’ll stop the bitching.  ;-)

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