The skunk

Last night, I had a dream that Matthew was chasing a cartoon skunk! He chased it over rivers and through the woods, all over Manhattan, down a beach in the Keys, through a parade in LA... and it just kept blinking at him with it's small little cartoon eyes.... *blink blink*

So I woke up and I drew it in photoshop... what do you guys think? It is pretty friggin awesome, right? Yea, Pepe' La Peu... take that!

SXSW 2010

SXSW just happened here in Texas. Downtown Austin was shut down for four days while 2,000 bands took over. Multitudes of free parties, free music taking up every few feet of space (even the restaraunt supply store across the road had a band playing). Bill Murray was pouring drinks at the Shangri-La, Neutral Milk Hotel was playing on a street corner... even GWAR was here! GWAR was giving away free prizes for whoever got covered in the most blood at their show....

We crammed four guests into our house - Dru, a gorgeous female music artist from Brooklyn, Pat's friend Johnny Wright who is studying Music Law in Detroit, my model friend Barbadoes Pearl from Dallas, and of course, Matthew - Lots of nights of Apples to Apples, partying till we stumbled home on the bus, lots of sing alongs in the apartment - it has been a really fun week. 

As for SXSW - I cannot stand lines! SXSW is FULL of lines - they are everywhere. I kept trying to see "big" "wellknown" bands for the first half of the week... Artists like Band of Horses, She and Him, Muse - but those lines will drive a person MAD! All that standing and doing nothing, standing and not moving - By Friday, I removed all the large bands from my schedule.... Matthew and I trekked over to the East Side, far far away from 6th street.... Visiting small venues, full of talented unheard of musicians (which I think is more of the spirit of SXSW anyways) - Bought all kinds of CDS - Been importing them into Itunes for the last hour....

Matthew.... my best friend, my other half, my outdoor Burning Man pal.... is visiting me until the end of March. I am trying to convince him to leave Syracuse and to move to Texas to live with me ... In order to convince him to leave upstate, I am going to show him all the wonders of Austin. 

Twestival 2010!

Hanging out in Atlanta - Part 1

Headed to Jamaica! Whoot!

Travel: Make sure you have your passport and that it is signed. This is not the 80's when you could show a driver's license and get by, no passport means a quick flight home. (You have all traveled so no long diatribe).... The obvious rule these days is make sure that anything you cherish or need is carried on you (ie: computers, medicine, cameras etc). Your checked bags will be searched several times and things get lost/stolen all the time (Just ask London!!!). The less you carry, the faster Customs will be. Oh.....and by the way.....if you carry more than $10,000 cash you have to declare it.........I know London always has a bunch of money wadded up....he he he........... :-)

Jamaica general: You are all consenting adults (well..let's not get too crazy!!!) so no long safety lecture. If you have never traveled to this kind of place before it can be a bit odd. The resort areas will be lavish and wildly nice. The island will be lovely but the inhabitants basically live in poverty so there is much petty thievery and drug peddling etc. So the official advice we have gotten is to just be aware, pay attention and never travel alone.

Food: Food is one of the nice things at these places, but some basic food safety is smart. We have been advised not to drink the tap water even at the resort. This would also include ice machines too. Also if you order stuff like eggs cooked to order for breakfast make sure they are not runny etc. A story not to scare but a girl I work with in her 20's went to a resort in Jamaica last October and ended up in the hospital for 10 days with Salmonella. These occasions are rare but just be careful.

Resort: We have 3 rooms booked at the resort. One for us, one for Pat and London, and one for the rest of you. If you see a ball cap hanging on our doorknob don't knock!!! We are not sure if the rooms will be together or not as we have run of the house which means whatever is available. As we have already said it is all inclusive. This means all the food,drinks etc. All of the extra activities like spa, or whatever are extra. They serve breakfast,lunch and dinner. There are several choices for food a couple of which are restaurants that require reservations. The water park is free and is a part of our resort. The golf course is on site but costs extra. There is all kinds of entertainment on site and for you nite owls it ends by 2300.

General: There are shops all around us if you wanna use them so bring some cash (London usually has a wad of $100's crumpled up in her pocket if you need some). The dinner we will have on Monday nite will celebrate several Birthdays and any pregnancies that may exist.
Rules that may or may not be tailored to individuals...

• Tops are optional for girls!!
• Bottoms are required for boys!!
• No sexual activity unless you are married (unless you are legitimately attempting to conceive a grandchild then by all means get to it!!!)
• No JAVA,OS SCRIPTING (OR ANY SCRIPTING OF ANY KIND),PYTHON, LINUX, NO HACKING OF LOCAL WIRELESS NETWORKS, NO COMPUTER USE AT ALL UNLESS REGISTERED FULL TIME IN COLLEGE (IE: STUDYING JAPANESE ETC.)

Snowing in ATX

Perrydactyl w/Hamster-friend