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Durability redux

jlegler — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:00:04 +0000

Well, yesterday I was able to go 2 miles before my other leg started bitching at me. I changed my gait and focused on keeping my head from bobbing. That seemed like an improvement so I went out again this morning despite my sore legs and did the same 2 mile course again. I got back to my house and felt good so I did 2 more with some hills and then I quit because I was legitimately tired. 4 miles in 36 minutes. Those are the slowest miles of my life, but the only things that hurt are my calves which is fine with me. I am getting the start of a blister from my vibram 5 fingers on my arch which annoys me. It’s happening because they are too wide, despite the fact that I bought the women’s version. My feet are as narrow as they come. The shoes also have zero traction off-road. I slipped and fell on my ass on a flat patch of grass in the middle of a park I was running across. I don’t think anyone saw but it was a yard sale. I hit so hard my glasses flew off… I’m going to try out some different shoes.

Anyway, following my run I went to the farmer’s market (the final one until March) and bought veggies and eggs. I had a breakfast salad today with a hard boiled egg and some grapefruit juice. It was pretty good. I’m telling you, “Born To Run” is an incredible book and full of little ideas like the breakfast salad.

What I am finding is that a lot of my general down mood lately may be attributed to a sedentary lifestyle and me not taking enough time to do things that let me unwind. Running seems to make me feel better. Working on music on a more regular schedule will help too. Anyway, I’ll keep running and keep this updated with my results.

I am the night

jlegler — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:43:49 +0000

I am the night

This is perfection to me. You can see all of this guy’s artwork here. He gets it. I don’t know how else to say it. I first saw one of these years ago titled “No One Wants To Play Sega with Harrison Ford.” It cracked me up then and it was still awesome when I saw him featured in Newsweek recently. I hope this guy makes a mint. Pop art is a tricky game, but he’s a master.

Here is what he says about it:

“Remember these weird plastic Halloween costumes? When I was a kid, I had a Transformers one, and it just had a picture from the show on the chest. It’s like, ‘Hi, I’m Transformer Metroplex, and you can see that because I’m wearing a picture of him,’ ” Bird says, laughing. “With Philip Seymour Hoffman, it’s kind of hard, because a lot of his characters should just never, ever come close to kids. Like, a Love Liza costume? Magnolia is weird, but not that bad.”

Colorado, I miss you and your inhabitants.

jlegler — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:24:42 +0000

So I went back to Colorado last week for 3 days for work. I landed at 9am, drove through Boulder to a campsite outside of Gold Hill, and hung out with my buddy Aaron. The I drove to downtown Denver to see my friends Shane and Ramon. Shane cooked, introduced me to his fiancé, and showed me his studio. Ramon made vuvuzala noises. And then I went out with a bunch of old friends downtown. That was all in a single day before I drove home to Wyoming and I took a few pictures and am now adding this update via my iPhone. If this works it will be awesome.

Radiohead, White River Amphitheater, Auburn WA

jlegler — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:41:08 +0000

Ok, everything I got is online now. I got video for a total of 9 of the 25 songs they played; however, the end of All I Need is chopped because my memory card filled. I really wish I would have got Thom’s screwup and attempt at Faust Arp/Tell Me Why but I wasn’t recording at the time.

Basically, Thom screwed up the lyrics and bailed on the song, half-assedly covered “Tell Me Why” by Neil Young to the laughter of the audience (he didn’t know the words) at which point Phil came out and threw some money down as if Thom were a street performer. Thom and Johnny tried again and screwed up again, Thom yelled “Fuck” and stopped playing again, only to start again from where he screwed up and finish the song. It was really funny. The band was in good spirits for sure. In Limbo was also badass because Nigel came out and played tambourine. It was a fantastic show.

I am posing the set list below with song names in yellow I have video for. They are all on youtube and embeded here. Make sure and check out the videos in high quality mode on youtube so you can hear everything in stereo and see everything more clearly. The actual video I shot is at a pretty decent resolution and youtube doesn’t do it justice; however, I don’t have the bandwidth to post 9 500MB files. Anyway, the show kicked ass. It was the best show I have ever been to. I hope you enjoy the pictures and video.

Here is a slideshow of the pictures I took. If you want to see bigger versions of them go here.

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15 Step
Reckoner
Optimistic
There There
All I Need
Pyramid Song
Talk Show Host
The National Anthem
The Gloaming
Videotape
Lucky
Faust Arp
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Climbing Up The Walls
Dollars and Cents
Nude
Bodysnatchers
How to Disappear Completely (Encore 1)
Arpeggi/Weird Fishes (Encore 1)
Idioteque (Encore 1)
In Limbo (Encore 1)
Street Spirit (Encore 1)
You And Whose Army? (Encore 2)
No Surprises (Encore 2)
Everything In Its Right Place (Encore 2)

Ryan Adams in Salem OR

jlegler — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:40:29 +0000

I went to a Ryan Adams show in Salem last night. I shot some video and took a handful of photos before my battery died. The show was incredible. They are all great musicians/singers and as a musician I was awed by their skill at not only playing their instruments and singing, but also at managing a pretty demanding crowd. It was awesome.

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I’m working on getting video up. I got some footage of the band dicking around with the crowd and I got all of The Sun Also Sets. I’ll bolt it on to the end of this post when I get it.