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Jan. 8th, 2006 01:15 pmFor the progheads out there in LJ-Land, an article and video of Robert Fripp in the studio recording sounds for Windows Vista (Windows Media video, natch)
Brokeback Mountain has finally opened in local theaters here. I hope to get out and see it soon.
I found a pic of me from about 20 years ago, when I bought the piece of land my house is currently sitting on. The plot of land originally had a house on it many moons ago, but it had been abandoned for some time and was eventually burned down. The land when I purchased it had been totally overgrown, but had remnants of the past owners still in place; a stable-like building that was falling down, some fences (also falling down) and several old-fashioned apple trees. The trees were quite productive and until I built the house, left in place and harvested from for a few years. Sadly, most of the trees had to go since they were in the area where the house was to go. I managed to leave a couple intact, which still produce some of the best 'cooking' apples. A huge maple tree here was overgrown with poison ivy. I had a friend come around with a big A-C wheel loader to help me clean things up. Here is the pic, with me hoisted up in the loader bucket. The green you see is just a portion of the poison ivy. And yes, I am shirtless and handling the stuff without gloves. By now you can tell that I dont get poison ivy:
And yes, it's the days before the beard, I think at the time I had my meathead fu'chu stache. And almost a mullet. And a lot less belly.
EDIT: Due to requests (and my own curiosity), I rescanned the picture to a much higher resolution, cropped and adjusted the levels to see exactly what I looked like back then. I believe the pic was taken in '86. The cheesey stache came later in the year, it's fairly 'normal' here. Bleah.
( Scary picture ahead... )
Brokeback Mountain has finally opened in local theaters here. I hope to get out and see it soon.
I found a pic of me from about 20 years ago, when I bought the piece of land my house is currently sitting on. The plot of land originally had a house on it many moons ago, but it had been abandoned for some time and was eventually burned down. The land when I purchased it had been totally overgrown, but had remnants of the past owners still in place; a stable-like building that was falling down, some fences (also falling down) and several old-fashioned apple trees. The trees were quite productive and until I built the house, left in place and harvested from for a few years. Sadly, most of the trees had to go since they were in the area where the house was to go. I managed to leave a couple intact, which still produce some of the best 'cooking' apples. A huge maple tree here was overgrown with poison ivy. I had a friend come around with a big A-C wheel loader to help me clean things up. Here is the pic, with me hoisted up in the loader bucket. The green you see is just a portion of the poison ivy. And yes, I am shirtless and handling the stuff without gloves. By now you can tell that I dont get poison ivy:
And yes, it's the days before the beard, I think at the time I had my meathead fu'chu stache. And almost a mullet. And a lot less belly.
EDIT: Due to requests (and my own curiosity), I rescanned the picture to a much higher resolution, cropped and adjusted the levels to see exactly what I looked like back then. I believe the pic was taken in '86. The cheesey stache came later in the year, it's fairly 'normal' here. Bleah.
