deneb

Yesterday at around 5 p.m. I arrived in Vernal, Utah at my brother’s house. I had left Dearborn at 5:30 p.m. the previous day, eastern time. 1500 miles. I did all the driving. Fucking ridiculous. Probably a terrible idea, but I made it and was rewarded with steak, corn on the cob, and sleep. This morning my brother and I went fishing:

Captain, our guide.

Guiding.

Trolling.

Stuff.

More guiding, and stuff.

Das boot!

Captain’s favorite passtime: swimming to sticks thrown in the water and bringing them back!

A dinosaur footprint! Roar.

So sometime late tonight I will leave to drive the rest of the way to Burning Man. Wooo!

Have you ever had to bend rebar? It’s fun! You can do it with a workbench and a big ass pipe. What? Why was I bending rebar? For Burning Man of course! I was making some better tent stakes:

so my little tent:

doesn’t blow away in a dust storm out on the playa! Yes, for those of you that don’t know, tomorrow I am leaving for Burning Man, which will probably will be the craziest thing ever. I am really excited for it! There is going to be so much to see and do there. At this point I feel like I am pretty much as prepared as I can be having never been to it before.

My next update will be from the road…I don’t think I’ll be able to get an update out from Black Rock City. Afterwards, it’s who knows…stay tuned.

when the devil came…

peace and loce…I mean loce..I mean love.

Austen lookin PIMP. Austen if you don’t use this for your senior picture…

Greg and fur: a wonderful combination.

what is this life…

Well Greg and I decided to go up north to Alex’s one more time.  It was awesome!  The photographic highlight was clearly when we decided to have a fashion show with clothes we found in his grandparent’s attic.  Awesome.   We also did a lot of dirtbiking which was badass because I rode a bigger, faster bike than I usually do.  Unfortunately, I took two nasty falls though.  One resulted in me landing on my FACE, and for the other one I slammed my head into the ground really hard.  It hurt a lot and still does, but at least I didn’t break anything. Instead I just have a headache and a ton of bruises and scrapes.  I think every once in a while it is good to go out and do crazy things that are somewhat terrifying and leave you sore, dirty, and with a bunch of bruises and scrapes.  Without stuff like that, life would be pretty dull.  Am I right?

Up norrrrth! Goodbye!

…scattered thunderstorms indeed.

It is raining. I don’t really mind it I guess, but I kind of wanted to go on a bike ride. Oh well.

deneb150: dude
deneb150: ok
deneb150: i had this fucking crazy dream last night
deneb150: it was you and me at first
deneb150: we were trying to like break into this senator’s house or something
deneb150: to take pictures of stuff?
deneb150: i dunno
deneb150: anyways
Arcticsungt: yes!
deneb150: for some reason we had to like, bury these futuristic space helmet things in his back yard
deneb150: in some corner
deneb150: so as we were working on those
Arcticsungt: what…?
deneb150: like pounding them into the ground
Arcticsungt: go on
deneb150: …for whatever the fuck reason
deneb150: we notice a security gaurd has come up behind us
deneb150: so we freak out, bust open the fence and start running
deneb150: only the security gaurd is faster than we are
deneb150: but we have a secret weapon!
deneb150: somehow, and i realize this makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER
deneb150: we can text each other on our phone the number 1
deneb150: and out cell phones will make us invisible
deneb150: our
deneb150: so you do it first
deneb150: and you disappear
deneb150: and the gaurd is slightly confused
deneb150: but he figures it’s just becuase it is dark out
deneb150: so he starts chasing after just me
deneb150: and i’m trying to text you the number 1 so i disappear
deneb150: and i finally get it to go through
deneb150: …but nothing happens@
deneb150: !
Arcticsungt: this sounds like the greatest disney movie ever
deneb150: lol
Arcticsungt: do you get caught!?
deneb150: so he’s all running really fast at me
deneb150: like way faster than i can run
deneb150: and all of a sudden i run behind this curtain
deneb150: at this point i wake up again, for like 20 seconds, then fall right back into a dream state
deneb150: and behind this curtain is DC’s auditorium
deneb150: and there are people just chillin around, kinda like stage crew before a dress rehearsal or something
deneb150: and chris is there
deneb150: he is part of the cast, and he is playing guitar next to some other kid with a guitar
Arcticsungt: hhahaha, yes
deneb150: except he is also kurt cobain at the same time
deneb150: so he’s standing there next to this kid
deneb150: giving him like all this wisdom and advice about life and playing the guitar
deneb150: like he is some strung out genius
deneb150: and during all this he is also shooting up with heroin
deneb150: and he keeps getting more and more distant, making less and less clear sense
deneb150: eventually he passes out
deneb150: and he has overdosed
deneb150: and he’s dead
deneb150: then i woke up
deneb150: and i was like
deneb150: holy motherfucking shit
deneb150: what the fuck
Arcticsungt: chris/kurt cobain dies in your dream
Arcticsungt: awesome.
deneb150: yeah
Arcticsungt: thats some pretty intense shit
deneb150: yeah
Arcticsungt: im more interested in this invisible thing
deneb150: i know!
deneb150: like
deneb150: we couldn’t do it at the same time
deneb150: we forgot to test that!
Arcticsungt: hahaha
deneb150: how could we be so overconfident
deneb150: that’s what i was thinking in the dream
Arcticsungt: that new technology lends itself to that

my shuffle is being good to me right now http://www.last.fm/user/deneb150

two flashes went off here. weird.

My apologies to anyone who tried to access my site yesterday. Chris was moving his server and it was down most of the day as a result. I’m sorry, I should have warned you. Everything appears to be fine now though. Whew. I am getting really frustrated with my job. I don’t think my boss even has my phone number but he keeps telling me that he’ll ‘call me back’ every time I call him. Also, why do pictures look different (less contrast-y, and slightly desaturated) when viewed in Mozilla as opposed to when I am editing them in Photoshop? It’s kind of annoying.

The past week has been pretty good. I went to the West Side for a bit, hung out with people, went to the beach and went on a nice bike ride along Lake Michigan. Saturday was a Paragon show in East Lansing. Greg played drums pretty hard despite having a torn up elbow due to a biking accident earlier in the day. Hardcore! Now I am back at home. Alex spent two grand on a bike so hopefully this week will be filled with many bike rides. Oh and Chris and I were born 22 years ago on Wednesday. Wooo. Alright.