Marshal

The First is a Ceremony at Rockaway Beach on Saturday the 3rd.

On Saturday the 10th of February there will be a celebration of Jet closer to town.

On Saturday, January 27th, Jet passed away.

Many who were regulars at Ember's or Mary's Spot back in the day may have known her as Dawn.  She was simply one of the most beautiful, compassionate people I could ever hope to meet.

I am at a loss for words.

self portrait @ Someday Lounge 12/07/06 gallery

It felt like I didn't stop working right up to the very, very end of the year.

In early December I assisted  in So Cal again (flew into San Diego this time) capturing images for for a campaign we delivered much of just yesterday.  I'd been working M-F at the studio, and then spending my Saturdays selling microphones and guitar strings at Trade Up and practicing with Jess and Charlie on Sundays for more weeks than I can remember.

Spent Thanksgiving and Christmas eve with my family.  New Years eve I had to work, but was happy to see David for a while, then hang out at Jonathan's before meeting Jess at her work for the customary midnight kiss.  New Years day we caught a flight down to Tuscon, where we stayed for about a week.  We hadn't seen her family since our wedding nearly two years ago.  It was wonderful to reconnect, and to recharge ourselves in the desert sun.  I hope to post some snapshots soon.

Last Sunday we returned to PDX, and Monday it was back to the studio for me and to school for Jess.  Though it was a bit of a shock going each way - and technically not a "vacation" -  the trip helped me gain some perspective and avoid feeling I could get completely bulldozed by my obligations here.  Last month I made arrangements to drop my one day a week at Trade Up.  Five workdays a week is enough.  This is the first Saturday I've had to myself in quite some time, and I LIKE IT.

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On the cab ride home last night our driver was eager to get into a political discussion.  First it was about construction on the bus mall - how it's going to screw everything up, and it better not raise his taxes.  I said I'd rather spend my (tax) money on a bus mall than on Tomahawk missiles.  He said we have to keep the population down - that's why we're at war.  "Not that I'm a racist or anything," he said, "but you know what continents are having the most babies..."  And on and on about people who are different from and/or inferior to him, who apparently have no right to jobs or justice, much less to reproduce and consume the worlds limited resources.  And of course they have no right to his money.  I told him I'd seen plenty of white Americans who who aren't "where they came from" and should avoid breeding.  And tipped him anyway.

Which brings me to the Marshal Plan for solving the "Immigration Problem:"

Lower the minimum wage to $0.75 a day.  That would provide a disincentive for corporations to expatriate production and jobs to countries that have an unfair surplus of laborers willing to work for what Americans currently consider pocket change.

Seriously, it pains me that anyone would blame immigrants for labor shortages, when everything they spend their money on has a label on it saying it was made somewhere else, by someone who could afford to work for beans.

;)

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I leave at 5:30 for Orange County to photo assist for a new client.  I wish I could bring toothpaste.

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First I was gonna go to this shoot with Jonathan.  He was feeling sick and decided to stay home.  Figured I'd forget about it.  Then Sean calls a half an hour before and says he'll come by and pick me up... so I charged the batteries for my camera.

The only disadvantage to getting a ride with the director is that you end up being the last to leave, after the cameras and lights have been put away.  It wasn't such a big deal though - I have to say they assembled a great group of people to hang out with.  The PBR was flowing, and a good time was had by all... that is, all who stayed to drink PBR. 

Can't wait to see what Sean's doing for this.  He's become quite the pro.  It's hard not to be inspired by his motivation to see these projects through.

These are pix from Gekikai at Someday Lounge last Sunday night:


Some nudity.  You've been warned.

Been a crazy couple of weeks.  Seems like I have so little time!  I've been working on someone else's project every day for more days in a row than I want to remember.  That's just me I guess.  I can't complain.  I've got it good.

Spent all of last week assisting in the production of a documentary about the production of an opera centered around the life of neoromantic composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold.  One day I'll get to edit 20+ hours of footage down to.... something much shorter than 20 hours.  Saturday before last Jess and I invited a few people over for a "party."  It was great fun... though I often feel I do a crap job of letting my friends know about these things.  Somewhere in there I also managed to see a show at Doug Fir, and a performance art event at Someday Lounge.

Dorien was reminding me Monday:  The longer we know people, the more we will see them go through changes.  The older we get, the faster these changes happen.  It's simply dizzying sometimes.  And sometimes it makes your stomach swirl.

I realized very recently that I've been avoiding a broken heart.  Who wouldn't?

I'm the kind of person who needs a day off every once in a while.  Not today though.

I've been working on galleries for a bunch of stuff I've witnessed in the last... uhhh... going on two weeks I guess.  I hope to post some more tonight.


Stalking Jane plays with Dahlia at Doug Fir 09-27-06

My aching head tells me I had a severely good time last night.  PBR was $1 a pint at Noir.  Dangerous.
So good to see Kristin, Kiisu, Johnathan, Jeff, Derek, Roger.... of course Paul, in for the week from California.  So many people were out, my head will not let me name them all.

Sometime around 2am bartime Jonathan, Paul, Jess and headed to NE for the tail of Don's b-day party - where the booze was still flowing freely.  5am cab ride home, and into work here at Trade Up at 11am.

I hurt everywhere.  I had so much fun though!

Had band rehearsal last night.  Afterward we headed out to Someday Lounge for the 2Gyrlz Bon Voyage Party.
This was one of our first nights out since returning from NY.  Nice to see some good friends.  Love that space.  Feels like we are once again right at the beginning of an exciting era for PDX.
Tonight it's Noir for Oubliette.  Camera in tow.

Jess and I arrived back in Portland yesterday (sunday) afternoon.  So nice to be back home!

We both left NY at around 6am - but from different airports.  I had purchased a round trip ticket -  she decided to come back home with me once we met up in NY and was unable to book a seat on my flight.  So we saw the Prids perform at the Annex we grabbed our bags from HiFi's and took a cab to the subway.  I got off at Union Square, and she continued on to 14th St. & 8th Ave.  The last I saw her in NY saturday night at 2:30 am as she was waving at me through the back window of the cab.  Both of our flights had layovers - hers was in San Fran, mine in Minneapolis - so after some 15 hours of subway trains, taxi cabs, airports, airplanes, light rail and Tri-Met buses we were back together here at home.

Other than a nap here and there on our flights, we were pretty much up from Saturday afternoon through Sunday night.  Just now getting over being so spun by the whole experience!

Thursday we stumbled down to Moo Shoes, where we couldn't afford a thing.  They did let me photograph the cats for free.  Took the N train (then the R) to Brooklyn to see The Prids play with Bell Hollow and Moto:Rosa.  There was an "after party" just down the street...

Wednesday Kristin arrived in New York.  The Prids had a radio interview on the Joey Reynolds show at 2:30 am downtown on WOR radio.  Something like 8 million listeners.

Tuesday we walked across the Williamsburg bridge into Brooklyn and ate at Foodswings.

Pix from Monday, 08-21-06.  Jess and I ventured downtown to meet with my friend Scott, who I hadn't seen in many years.  We went to high school together, and he played guitar in my very first band.  We walked around, saw the World Trade Center site, and bunches of other stuffs.

I've kinda fallen behind with my picture posts....  Of course, I'm ON VACATION, so there.  This is a gallery from last Sunday.  Mostly pix from the Museum of Natural History...

Saturday we spent most of the time recovering from Friday.  As soon as we could function we hiked down to Remote Lounge for the monthly dance party "Contempt."  Mistina & Eric cut out early...  Hillary, Jess and I closed it down (4am) and then had late night snacks with Samantha, Zelda and her man.

Lots of blurry pix in this one.... there's NO LIGHT to speak of in a dance club.  Lot's of self portraits too.

Yesterday we had yummy vegan slices at Viva Herbal.  Awesome.

The big event was partying on HiFi's rooftop.  We all had vertigo getting closer to the edge, but after a few drinks....

Because there was no one in the apartment to "buzz in" guests, HiFi attached a front door key to a string which she would lower down to party-goers who would call on her cell phone.  Cool.

Drank A LOT.