West with the Night

An EP for driving East then West

1. Generationalists - When They Fight, They Fight
2. Sugar Billy - Super Duper Love
3. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
4. New Order - Love Vigilante
5. The Clean - Thumbs Off
6. Styles Infinite - Aquarian Mind

Right-click, save as if you want the songs on your computer.

Self-portraits with monsters

Monday I interviewed a lady who has been in the costume business since before I was born. Over the last 30 years, she's collected (or sewn) about 9,000 costumes. But after this Halloween, she's going to sell off her collection. I had a good time combing through all the looks, talking to her about the way the business has changed and what it means to part with something (or 9,000 somethings) you've had for three decades.

Here's an excerpt from the story, but you can read the whole thing on Oregonlive if you want.

Two women had traveled to the store from Oregon City in search of a quality Santa costume. For years, Pam Flohr said, people have told her husband Russ that he looks like Santa Claus. He has the pink coloring, the full white beard. Last year, he decided to make a little extra money off the resemblance.

But breaking into the Santa industry isn't easy. You have to have a nice outfit. And the good ones go early, the Flohrs learned. The same principle applies for Easter Bunnies, Hayes said. Those should be sought out in early winter.

Get teenage kicks right through the night

Last weekend, Ryan and I went down to LA to shoot a music video for our friend Kate's band, Basement Babies. It'll be a little minute before we can edit it, but here are some behind-the-scenes sneak peaks.

City of Angels

I took a brief dip in Los Angeles. This is a photo of my friend Kate.

Leaving rope burns, reddish ruse

The city I cover has spent the year draining one of its two reservoirs so that it can repair a pipe. Right now, the 20,000-acre-feet reservoir is nearly dry, so the water department invited me up to "see the exposed glory hole."

The reservoir still has some water in places, though most of it is just exposed clay that has been hiding under 120 feet of water for more than a decade. Workers even found an old road still in tact.

Pardon my excesses here.






















If you are still curious beyond this large amount of photos, there are more in My Flickr album.

Every chorus was your name

no day is safe from news of you.
walking around africa, maybe, but thinking of me.

These pictures are supposed to be looked at while hearing this song

Tap on your windowpane

Things are getting a little self-referential in here. One last swoop around --