Bento Box - Part 6

6Sep/110

Musiks

Some songs I've been listening to these past few days.

The Cure - Underneath the Stars.

This song was made for stoners to listen to outdoors. Explains why it was played at Sasquatch when I was there. Just remembered I posted about this back in 2008, as a 'rediscovery'.

Lyrics are incredible:

Floating here like this with you
Underneath the stars
Alight for 13 billion years
The view is beautiful
And ours alone tonight
Underneath the stars

Spinning round and round with you
Watching shadows melt the light
Soft shining from our eyes
Into another space
Is ours alone tonight
Underneath the stars

And the waves break
And the waves break

Even the way Robert Smith sings 'and the waves break' sounds like a wave breaking. The Cure has a solid spot in my top 10 favorite bands.

Green Day - Paper Lanterns

So when are all my troubles going to end?
I'm understanding now
That we are only friends
To this day I'm asking why
I still think about you

Catchy, simple song - reminds me of my friends' troubles with the 'friendzone'

Slaughterhouse
I'm late on this. The beats and creativity is awesome on this. Slaughterhouse is a hip hop supergroup consisting of rappers Crooked I, Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz and Royce da 5'9". They are currently signed to Shady Records / Interscope Records - Wiki

Microphone

The One

and a bonus: Eminem rapping over the Microphone beat

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5Sep/110

Crabbin’

Went crabbing at Dash Point. Off the dock - we set up chairs and it was pretty much camping 2.0 + Kathy. Sat in the sun all day and did some reading - occasionally getting up to check the traps.

Had to throw a bunch of small crabs/females back

This guy had a huge sea star in his crab cage

Our final catches of the day. 1 Dungeness and 1 Rock crab.

more pics here

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4Sep/110

Arboretum Kayak

John and Michelle in the distance

Strava doesn't have kayak as an activity so I set it as ice skating. About 4 miles of upper body workout. Need to figure out how to avoid hand blisters next time.

Crabbin' tomorrow

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3Sep/110

Trek demo day

I made it my personal goal to 'do something worth blogging about' every weekend. John Luk from my HS days came up to visit Seattle and we (and some other friends) went to a Trek demo day at Duthie Hill. Rode bootcamp a few times, twice on a Trek 29er hard tail. Hydraulic brakes gave me trouble at first but I learned to adjust. The bike felt very fast even though I'm slow as shit.

Went to Pat's BBQ afterward - me and Pat won the cornhole(!) tourney. Pretty fun BBQ game.

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31Aug/110

Ommmmm

This is the manliest yoga bag ever made. Manduka Mat Sak. It's got pockets up the yin yang, buckles, mesh, more pockets, and comes in a macho 'charcoal' color. The only way to make this bag less manly is to bedazzle it in sequins and glitter. It fits my Jade yoga mat and yogitoes towel with lots of room to spare.

My late summer regime has been mountain biking/yoga/weights. Come winter I'll swap biking for snowshoeing and get back into kickboxing again. Life should be a balance of physical, intellectual, and emotional health/interests. Juggling activities that cultivate these three have been keeping me busy. Lately it's been feeling like another Reinvention of myself- as hard as I work to be productive, it feels fucking awesome to let loose too #feelsgoodman Why wait for News Year's Resolutions? Fuck that. 4 MONTH HEAD START.

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29Aug/110

Clipped in

Went for a short ride at Soaring Eagle. I swapped pedals and went back to SPDs. After going from SPDs back to platform and now back to SPDs - I can really tell the difference in efficiency of pedaling. Not having my feet leave the pedals on bumps really helps with powering through some trickier spots.

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28Aug/110

PAX 11

What happen. So jaded this year - last time I was excited and grabbing free t-shirts/schwag - this year I casually walked around and didn't even play anything. Looking forward to a bunch of games coming out: CounterStrike:GO, SFxTekken, RAGE, Dance Central 2, new Ass Creed. Most fun had was playing Warsow (quake 3 clone) with buddies in the PC Free Play room. I played some CSS on LAN and rocked - still got the skills.

More shitty pics here

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25Aug/110

Bag Raiders

Bag Raiders = awesome. Short set though. I think they only played from 10:30 to 11:30. That was the longest and shortest Wednesday night ever. The bouncer with epic moustache at The Croc was so nice.