Shoegaze
Hre’s a link to the MySpace page of Chico shoegazer the Soul’s Release. I love the name of this genre, shoegaze. I imagine young emo’s staring at their shoes earnestly.
http://www.myspace.com/thesoulsrelease
Anyway I like the music. There are a few tunes availalble on the page and you can download it from iTunes if you are so inclined. Ran across the page on Craigslist, looking for a vocalist. Maybe you?
In a slightly unrelated matter, I hope to see you at today’s Blues by the River. And unrelated to that, here’s a photo of the base of Whiskeytown Falls I took a few weeks ago, but never uploaded. Suitable for shoegaze soundtrack (Fallsgazing?)
McDemolished
You deserve a break today.
The drive through is now a drive over. Oddly enough, as long as I’ve lived here, I never went in this building once. it’s not that I don’t like McDonalds or anything, but I was always kind of a PacOut guy when that was nearby, and now I live closer to the McDonalds in north Redding. This one always seemed for tourists. Out with the old, in with the new.
DMV sculpture
North Redding landscapers
Under a roofless mall……
Butch
After the fire
They opened the trail back up this morning so I went to see the aftermath of the recent fire. It smelled like burnt weenies, and the ash was still blowing into your eyes in the still-strong (still dangerous) north winds. It looks like most of it burned fast, and not too hot. I expect we’ll see a lot of the oaks return to life. It will be interesting to see the recovery over time. Fire is a natural cycle of events here, which is easy to say when it’s not BURNING TOWARD YOUR HOUSE.
I posted more photos at Flickr HERE
The local turtles seemed not to mind at all.
Fire on a windy day
I got that call you don’t want to hear at work. It’s a friend. “Hey, there’s a fire, and it looks like it may be near your house.” Sure enough, at about 11:30 and there’s a big fire in the north of Redding. You can get good coverage at Redding.com/scanners and listen to the workers and fire people. It looks like we are not in the path for now, but the wind is scary.
Looking southeast. Fire is a fact of life (and death) here, so is not to be treated lightly. I make sure the pets are rounded up and we are ready to go. I hope all others are safe. I hope no workers are injured. I always feel a little anxious, when I wake up to a windy day in late summer. This year the oak trees seem under distress everywhere, and are unusually brown for only August. They almost looks like they do in October.
