i went on a trip. i came back awhile ago and just realized that this never posted on this account, so lets call this catching up with y'all.
Colorado: day one
Train ride. Ottumwa to Denver.
Ahhh. Tutumwa scumwa nasty little mumwa. I had forgotten about the beaten down brick buildings away from target and over by the school. Its yucky really, however the idea of wandering and taking pictures there with film is amazing. Marc drove me and bought me dinner at the Chinese buffet next to the triple x theatre and cracked pavement. It was pretty banging, and then on to the train where I proceeded to index and make a mixtape for the next 12 hours. Again appreciated the green of the Midwest until it got dark and everyone slept and snored and I indexed and was bitter.
Colorado: day two. Actually day one.
Kayla and KT met me at the train station. before I got to them I rounded the corner into the actual station to find the security guard with a smile holding a sign with my name welcoming me to Colorado. This is why I knew those girls would be friends. Yes!
The day involved indexing in my pjs on KTs bed. Being given a 10 minute warning to get ready for the DNC kickoff event. Luckily in the hopes of a fake/real business meeting dress up party with Kayla in rural Wyoming I had packed a dress. Albeit a longer black long sleeved dress, but DNC appropriate all the same. So in our outfits we marched to the parking lot outside of some stadium. Met some man who owns some radio station who hooked up the VIP tickets - minus one, snuck Kayla in and then stood on the concrete in the burning fucking sweating ridiculously hot sun for an hour. Then we left. Good times. Never actually went into the event, however watching the political folks (folks is a good word for people when youre talking about politics me thinks) squish together under one small patch of shade while their makeup and stiff hair melted was pretty funny.
Spent the rest of the day meeting Kayla's dad, indexing (pure hell), thai with the twins and my Katie, drinks at the other KTs wine bar, getting lost in Denver, finding the venue, seeing coolzey's show, loving shang's moustache, drinking too much, telling so many strangers to get lively, finding a bodega that smelled like Chicago, going home and cuddling with the fam on the living room floor. adore my sister.
Next days mixed together: found out my mom was coming to Colorado, stayed and hung in some sort of spa and drank some amazing wine, went to Wyoming, worked worked worked. Kayla and I met cowboys in bars who cooked us gourmet meals and then we slept and did nothing but work.
Denver again. It was kt rice's birthday which involved softball games, reee-dic clubbing, very strong men doing the running man, ayni in rare form, and then buying a ticket to leave for vegas the following day.
Vegas for about 18 hours was incredible and exhausting and we'll leave all of it right there except mention that the drive to LA with ebeth and nards afterwards was spent in silence and then every 5 minutes one of us mentioning how we "didn't feel so hot". Total burnout maneuver but I think worth the fun J
Anyway, on to LA where Zac Sluser hooked it up, fish taco's, air conditioning, pool parties, and maybe some ayni procrastinating going to SF. Eventually though after a killer coffee session with arek reeder I went up to the city I used to call home and had a whiskey filled slumber party with ken, slow beers with britt, keys to sara and jivan's, a little bit of a dance party and moved all my belongings into a trailer hitched to the pathfinder.
Left sf at 7pm. Left my phone in a gas station bathroom at midnight. Realized it at 2. backtracked until 3:45. ran out of gas on the side of the road until 7am. Put on a dress and boots out of boredom. Restarted the trip at 8. engine ceased in the middle of fucking nowhere at 11. stood with dust to my ankles flagging down truckers weird dress blowing in the wind until 3p. got towed to elko's biggest casino's parking lot at 4. gambled my only dollar at the slots. Made an old man buy me a gin and tonic and cried.
All in all it worked out and I no longer have a car but I have bought a bicycle and after falling under my mattress and getting stuck for a bit I managed to switch all trailer belongings into a truck and drove straight the rest of the way.
Im here now. I love it. I love taking my marker box to the park and drawing postcards on pieces of wood someone threw away. Having date nights with Joanna and generally causing a small ruckus. I should be working one of my 3 jobs at this moment but instead letting you know that I may have become one of those people that desires to live everywhere she goes. Thus a poppy seed in a really big bowl.
Going to share now...
WINNER OF THE WEEK! And by winner I mean winning nothing and totally my favorite:
BOOOMBOOOM.
His Polaroids are amazing. Which reminds me if youre not already perusing it you should be: poloanoid.net
if for nothing else then that their tagline is:
This is the slamming comeback of Instant Photo Fun.
