thought i’d share the video i made for lenny for our one year anniversary. two year comes on august 8th, 2007.
made when i was working at the city of kent — i basically took time out of every lunch break (1 hour) to make the video for a couple weeks. i like it. hope you do tooooooza.
also enjoy the giant frozen snapshot of the rewis fish.
hail social’s modern life & death cd sounds good…
get a real good laugh, why don’t you, because it’s so humorous to make fun of me while you continue to do only the most basic and simple of things not for our gain, but for your gain — so that you can look good in the eyes of others. get a good laugh. my opinion means shit. my opinion means nothing.
it kind of blows my mind a little that the film “an inconvenient truth” makes such a huge difference on people’s lives. don’t get me wrong — it’s a great thing… but i just wonder like, haven’t these people ever heard of this shit before? is global warming really that foreign a concept to everyone? cause that’s really kind of sad! i wonder if they teach kids about this stuff in school these days. do they?!
the other day i was over at my friend’s house and i’m like, a fanatic about recycling, and i have been for a while. so i was looking for a recycle bin and was saying, “do you guys recycle here?” and his roommate piped up and said, “of course we recycle. it’s seattle. actually, i just started recycling after i watched an inconvenient truth.”
there are a couple other examples of people changing their lives because of this film. and a lot more i don’t know about.
it’s cool that the film actually makes a difference in people’s lives. very cool, actually, because the thing with these kinds of films and stuff like the “live earth” concert series are that you don’t REALLY know if it’s making a difference. but then hearing people’s firsthand testimonies is kind of cool, because you know that people’s thoughts really are swayed by these things and in this case, actually results in action. it’s still weird, though.
speaking of global warming, a larouche supporter tried to jive with me on larouche the other day, primarily using the “i am an asian girl — you are an asian girl… we should be political because not enough asian girls are political.” it’s a very true statement, but no way in hell would i support larouche. i wonder if larouche followers all believe everything he says. it seems that they are very fanatical about their devotion to them. apparently, they all live in the same house on lake city or something.
anyway, she gave me this pamphlet and the entire thing was bashing al gore, talking about how global warming is not a real thing and al gore made the whole thing up. lol, like al gore was the creator of the myth of global warming. it’s not like it was the brainchild of al gore, sir. what makes it even worse is… what’s the point of even bashing al gore? lol, even if you don’t believe in global warming, is that really such a bad thing for him to work towards? it’s not like treating the planet better is doing any NEGATIVE. maybe if you don’t believe in global warming you don’t think it’s doing any positive, but certainly planting a few more trees isn’t going to HARM anyone.
she tried getting me to go to one of their meetings, saying some shit about how russia and china are building magnet train tracks and how we need to get together and talk about how the u.s. should have that and that’s why i should attend their meeting for that week… HUH!?!?!?!!?! i don’t see that sitting around talking about it is going to do anything, but okay. why not take all this energy you are using to try and convert people to actually do something that results in people seeing what you’re doing and then following suit? oh larouche, how have you so much power. i want to meet him. pick the brain of the man. and come back a larouche follower probably :0
that and attend one of those scientologist reform things. i filled out one of their dianetics things a while ago and they called me up and stuff, but after reading all these stories online about how they try to steal your money and brainwash you (and this is particularly difficult for me since i am pretty much incapable of saying NO), it seems a little too scary >__< but then again, it seems like a fun experience going to a scientologist and having him tell you exactly “why you are fucked up and need scientology.” HMM decisions, decisions.
12:45pm
music: greg packer - drum n’ bass mix (live), ez rollers - retro, solar stone - speak in sympathy, bt - animals, robin fox - i see stars, rank 1 - airwave.
oh man, i am so not okay.
anyway, went to montana this past weekend with lenny… cynthia and alex were supposed to come too but then alex got foot rot so cynthia didn’t want to go anymore 
it was good. here are some pics and fun things.
saturday, june 30th.
took a nap and left our place circa 3:00am. we had rented a chevy aveo from enterprise. let me just say that the trip at enterprise was the most hilarious thing ever. see post below.
anyhow… we drove through the night and since we were going east, so the sun came up as we were driving…
the drive to montana… 
check those clouds… lots of passing through small two-lane freeways. it’s cool — in montana, they have signs up which tell you exactly how much federal/state/local money goes into every freeway. very cool. what’s not cool is that everyone there drives these huge ass fucking beastly cars, but ben says that without those cars there you can’t really survive the winter. i bet. montana is basically a repeat of itself everywhere you go — lots of bars, casinos, fireworks sellers, etc. etc. etc. fireworks are dirt cheap there — you buy $10 and you get $10 free, and the base price is already a buttload cheaper than washington’s base price. and wow, SOOOOO many mountains. it’s insane. according to the map i had, the second biggest city, misssoula, only had no more than 10,000 people. i’m not sure if that map is accurate or not, but what the fuck? it did look really small.
entrance to glacier! the west side, which unfortunately is supposedly the “bad” side. sigh.
one of many clear ass rivers to be found in glacier national park.
mi nueva lens de camera. 17-50mm sigma lens…………………….. it’s a little too big and causes a shadow sometimes, which kind of sucks, but i like it overall. takes nice pics.
this restaurant had an all-you-can-eat pizza deal, what the fuck? this is where we went to eat lunch on the first day. we got a bunch of shit and split it.
weird ass little rodent. i’m not sure what it is. we think a mixture of squirrel and groundhog or something. it kept standing up like that and making these peeping sounds. we were looking out the window at them while eating lunch. at one point, like 5 of them came out of the hole, stood up like that, and made peeping sounds in a group. i’m not sure what the point was, but it was funny/weird. at first we thought they were hiccuping. lol.
we rented a 8mph speed boat on the lake. what i really wanted to do was ride a horsie, but whatever. :/ it was sunny when we started boating, but then the waves got really big, and at some point it was like, hard to control a little. boats made me sleepy. i wanted to sleep. something about the combo with the sunshine. the guy who rented us the boats was quite friendly. i got a gross ass life jacket with like, sticky white shit on it. puke or suntan lotion or something, i have no idea. filthy. anyway, it sucked that we went boating that day cause the next day the water was like 100% still. sigh.
waterfall… this is on the hike from our campsite up avalanche creek to avalanche lake. about a two mile hike each way. way there was long and boring, way back was quite the quicker. luckily for us, at this time of year, it literally doesn’t get dark until 10pm, making things quite very nice for the summer hike.
restoration area. pwnt.
our… sexy… car?
lenny is a giant amongst these dwarf trees…
this guy’s wife was taking a picture of him standing in this hollowed out tree, so i told him i was taking one too. he’s so happy. awww.
teh forest. gg my lens.
a tree wrapped in its own death shroud. i dunno man, half the trees at glacier were like, dead. not really sure why…
avalanche lake… it’s this lake up somewhat high in the mountains in between these other mountains. kind of a cool location… lenny tried fishing briefly but to no avail. and it was getting late, since we got up there at like 9pm.
that night we slept in the tent, and it was cold as SHIT. it was warm at first and i normally wake up from sleeping in tents sweating and shit so i wore a tank top and froze to death. unfortunately i was freezing in my sleeping bag and there was a jacket in the tent but i was too afraid to be even colder when i got out of my sleeping bag that i never got the jacket. lol. finally lenny got his shirt for me and that was a brief rescue. man, it was cold. it gets cold really quickly in the mountains… it was really warm during the day.
the next day, we drove eastward because i thought logan’s pass was open. motherfuckers. logan’s pass was NOT open. we could NOT go to east glacier (the good side). assholes. we still drove about 20 miles from our campsite eastward and got to see some junk, though, so that was cool i guess.
cool waterfall we stopped by on the side of the road…
snow with a waterfall flowing through it. i swear, rivers and waterfalls are the weirdest shit. how is there enough water for the entire year! I DON’T GET IT! anyhow, seven years ago we went to glacier in june and it was snowing so hard that we couldn’t even get into the park. here’s what the snow is like now. pathetic. thank you, global warming.
took three tries to get this right.
a horry marmot.
waterfall through the mountains…
mountain goats, moo!
more river. stuff.
driving.
teh sun, it blindz!
hungry horse is a city.
after leaving glacier, we drove to an indian reservation that ben had recommended. lol.
foot-made ripples.
this is what people in montana do. paintball and shoot up signs. like, all of them were shot up.
someone hacked a couple trees all the way around with a chainsaw, which i guess kills them.
that night we went to bed and had instant mountain house food which is dehydrated and you just add water to. it was pretty good, actually. everyone who was at the location in the daytime left by nightfall, and it was kinda weird because it was like, “aah! we’re the only ones here in the middle of nowhere! animals, me oh my!” and stuff. we went to bed and i kept hearing sounds because these spit bugs would be dripping water out of a tree and it sounded like animals walking around. finally i got to sleep but lenny woke up because the moon was HUGE and really bright. it was coming out of the horizon like the sun comes out when it rises, and its reflection on the lake was beastly. we thought being in the middle of nowhere, we’d be able to see the stars, but we couldn’t, because the moon was so fucking bright. insanity. there were no cities nearby but still, it was impossible to see the stars… anyway, at some point these guys who were drinking at a campsite up the hill got their truck stuck in the mud. finally, 8 hrs later, they got it out. and guess what the first thing they do is? drive by our tent and scream into it, “WAKE UP!!!” two seconds later, we hear this loud crash. what was it? they had flipped their truck over. luckily, no one was hurt. i was like, “should we help them?” lenny was like, “nah, they’re okay.” they were okay. fuckers. karma is a bitch, asshole. they left, and we packed up and left too because i didn’t want to be there when they came back. i just don’t trust unstable drunken assholes. really. maybe retreating was a bit pansy, but whatever, you know.
it was about 3:00am. we drove to garnet ghost town and got there at about 5:30am. i wanted to get up early. we got up really early. there was a 10 mile road on dirt, one-way, leading to garnet. took a long drive to get there. saw many little bunnies. it was super cold at 5:30, so we took a nap until 9:30am and then went out to see garnet ghost town. montana state takes care of their ghost towns and had an entire staff. very complete place, garnet was.
view from the top of the trail leading down to garnet.
old time beer.
three spot loo. hell yeah.
old time stove.
these are images from inside the largest building there, the three story hotel. there were a lot more buildings, but they got burned down by fire.
inside the general store.
mining cart.
inside a smokehouse in wallace, idaho. lenny’s head looks HUGE hahaha.
the gorge in george on the way back. werd.
and that’s the trip. fin.
july fourth yesterday was not particularly eventful — went to bellevue park to see fireworks and then went to lewis‘ house to watch fireworks. it was cynthia’s last day here before she leaves for work at hood river, oregon, so we hung out. werd.