we/are/warren

Seattle lighting

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:03:26 +0000

Slowly the evening sun returns. False spring weather ensues.

In Toungues

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:30:58 +0000

Iron Giant

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:28:57 +0000

Friday night movie night …

In Rotation

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:58:23 +0000

Household top play artist list for the last two months … good demographics for the marketing inclined. I find it pretty funny …

Various Artists – this is anything that’s a compilation or soundtrack. The Bleep top 100 was in the mix since it came out. The sound of music OST is on almost daily.
No Artist – Who knows.
Joe Hisaishi – Composer on most Ghibli films
Recess Monkey – A surprisingly good kids band. Lifts a lot of ideas from old late 80s rock/pop and newer indie music – but in a i-won’t-die-if-my-kids-listen-to-this sort of way. I think they might be day job teachers?
Four Tet
Washed Out
FaltyDL
Foster The People – guilty pleasure …
Radiohead
My Neighbor Totoro
Memory Tapes
Michita
M83
Com Truise
Sepalcure – one of the best records / team ups in years
Levitatorz
Sully – 2step …
SBTRKT
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX – Jamie XX is the british RZA. Kid has a bright future.
Spank Rock
Tropics
Disiz La Peste
Egyptrixx – Amazing detuned spacey electro … set was choice @ Decibel
VA – Same as Various Artists …
The Chipmunks
Seekae – for those starved for a new Boards of Canada record.
Walt Disney – yep.

SnOMG

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:49:36 +0000

The largest amount of snow since the 50s just fell. Power on and off. Oh yes, the gov’ner just called a state of emergency. Crazy ice everywhere. Like clockwork, no one can drive.

So we head for the streets with sleds and bikes …. Snow is like Christmas yeh? The kids love it, we love it.

We’re of the ‘this is awesome and only happens like 3 days a year’ school. North-westerners and their classic passive aggressiveness typically create what we call “snow grinches”. Yeh it’s cold, sure I can’t get any work done without power – but I just made a jump out of snow and rode my snowboard through all of the neighbors yards. Any other day …. like if we did donuts @ on their lawn … well, that wouldn’t end well. So embrace it, have fun and end the day with a good bottle of wine and the heat cranked up.

Finally

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:22:44 +0000

Finally we can sled …

DJ

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:49:50 +0000

Della has taken a strong liking to riding off the trail. We were on the long Sammamish trail over the Summer frequently and you’d turn your head to find her up above dipping into the ditches of the dirt trail. I needed to get a good dirt friendly build together so I could share that with her. She rode enough distance road rides … time for me to roll with her.

All of my other bikes have tiny 700c road tires or components that aren’t off road friendly … Riding in the dirt is possible, but that would quickly tear up the bike. Well, right as I was about to build up some sort of dirt jump street bike from scratch, I scored a near-new single speed Specialized P Street. The prior owner had barely used it and gave me a great deal – the chain was still shiny. Crazy luck ….

So, we hit the nearby park and did some dirt riding. Super fun to be able follow her around. It’s totally a hooligan bike – which makes it even more fun. Already have some good bruises and misses to show for it. There’s a good dirt park in Issaquah from what I hear …

I’ll let you know when we reach this level …

Yo DJ! Play that back.

Words of wisdom ….

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:12:48 +0000

Dinosaurs were real one time, but now they’re mechanical. They put their old bones in the mechanical robots.

We live on the earth, the earth is our home, earth is in space. Where are all the aliens? Where are all the robots?