week in review

• brunch at carol's


• beer party at micah's


• menlo park, palo alto, fraiche, 27 dresses, home cooking, vino


• violin lesson


• fiery furnaces with brittany, food at Mel's (van ness)


• sex in the city with brittany

moby on moby

Check out Moby doing a director's commentary with his new album. He sounds genuinely sad the rave scene is done. I remember in Bolivia, the soundtrack to the TV news photo montages of 9/11 was Moby's concept album, the famous one Play. That was seminal. I also went to a rave in Bolivia but I don't remember hearing Moby. Anyway, rave on, dude. And do more punk covers like this.

Thanks for the link Brittany.

memorial weekend

Dort had me pull off 280 in Daly City as we drove south to the Peninsula. She wanted to pay tribute to her husband at his resting place.

We drove around the big military cemetery looking for the grave. Thousands of little American flags planted by Boy Scouts and larger ones lining the road for Memorial Day flapped in the breeze. The gentle wind, sunny sky and green grass sloped down from the top of the cemetery toward the Bay.

We stopped a couple places. Dort got out and read the names on the white tombstones. Everything looked the same. Finally she signaled me. They had removed the tree that used to show her where her husband lay. Only a flat stump remained.

Dort said she felt better that the tree was gone because the roots made her uncomfortable. I got uncomfortable hearing that, visualizing tree roots burrowing into Uncle Ski's casket.

There are women buried there, too. Dort said they were the wives of service members. I did not ask if Dort would be buried there. She later said the place is full, though, so that answers that question.

old friends, new toilet

I've got mucho news lately. I'm still picking law schools, btw.

• dinner with dad at Joey and Eddie's, used to be Moose's; used to be good.
  
• playing with video cameras at work. I covered a "truck blessing" at Port of Oakland and Burmese protest in front of Singaporean embassy. They're pressuring Singapore b/c they head ASEAN, which can theoretically help cyclone victims.


• locked out of apt. twice. saved by Dort.


• fish dinners at dort's, twice


• Numayr called as he walked home from a party in Manhattan. We agreed that we weren't suicidal, which means we're optimistic people. He asked whether I feel guitly for kicking Mike S. out of What Now My Love without proper notification. I agreed to apologize to Mike.


• Mike S. called on his last night in Boston, as he walked one last time to the train station or something. he was upbeat and perceptive. i was in a funk for some reason and he picked up on it.


• wandering Bay to Breakers, before meeting David and lunching in Darla's and shooting from the De Young Tower.


• dinner with Brian at Naan 'n' Curry after watching a performance by Ascend Dance, a mix of rock climbing and dance. They synced one male-female number to The Mission theme song :). B said he and Corinna will move to Germany in a year.


• saw performances by "scratch guitarist" The Genie and kid rock-ish The High Decibels.


• watched Spencer Nakasako's films Refugee and a.k.a. Don Bonus about Cambodian-American identity formation. boys cry.


• watched Gonzo, the Hunter S. Thompson story at the SF Int'l Film Fest.


• biking the Headlands.

Meshugga Beach Party at Bay To Breakers 2008

The Chosen Surfers rocked out on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park.

bay to breakers 2008 - USA!

these model citizens yelled "free tibet" after this discourse. then a firefighter made them get down and they didn't actually die doing it. I think that's a beer in the left one's hand.

death by street view

Top 15 Google Street View Sightings
Street View Fun
Blurs to come

Death lurks in my parents' driveway (I blurred the addy):

go green with me

my favorite Green-related musical ventures:

-The Moldy Peaches feat. Kimya Dawson and Adam Green
-Another Green World, album by Brian Eno
-"I'm seeing red" by Minor Threat (I'm colorblind)
-Green Day, natch
-"Moneytalks" by AC/DC

Jet Li and Jackie Chan

brutal, on court and off.

Tom Waits Press Conference

say hi to yr mom for me Tom.

harvest coming

word is, the orange trees in Menlo Park are coming into ripeness. time to pick. anyone want some juicy ones?

mother and son

mother and son
Originally uploaded by Monster Pete

mother and family spoke to Oakland mayor ron dellums after parents feared ICE would raid their elementary school.

ladies night

man i don't know what to say about this company: BigTime. maybe monster pete + the chiefs don't have enough ladies' nights and special reasons to see our band, besides our music.