Camel's Hump?

yes this is a camel residing in VT. I don't know if he lives in Richmond or Bolton technically.

or

Usaj's new camp

Amazing. I don't think pictures could do justice for the inside. It really is beautiful.

May 28, 07


around July 4th, 06

the Three H's in May?

hazy hot and humid

what it looked like driving over to Putnam from Montpelier on Friday

the Adirondacks are over there, I swear

what it looked like driving back to Montpelier on Memorial Day


yep.

Round Church

...
If I pass out take me to the round church
where echoes resound
and my spirit is found
and when I float high
take my arm and I'll fly you by
the outskirts of town, to a garden that's round
...
Phish - Round Room



Round Church, Richmond, VT

At Home

I came home to mom and dad's last night. We were up at the Carney's partying as Mairead and David were up and headed to a wedding for the rest of the weekend. Plus the Usaj's are here and we unloaded a bit of furniture for their new lake house. I also got a table, for the dining room I'll have some day, from my grandmother. Good deal.

The weather has been incredible for May and we were up over 80 again today after having high 80s the last few days. It might border on a little too hot for me every now and then. As usual Lake George and home are beautiful. Sometimes I feel like I don't realize how truly amazing the area is since I've spent all my life in it. Every now and then I actually sit and realize how lucky people are to live here.

On a side note here's one of the last pictures I ever took in Canton, NY. I was on the little river trail walking around at sunset. Thinking about my upcoming move to Montpelier, VT. It was just some sort of moment of reflection and realization that in several more weeks I'd be in a totally new place starting a new life. So far so good!

Reid Genauer - 40 Reasons

Ray Lamontagne - Hold you in my arms

I tried to find a live version of this song as well. Same issue either shitty audiences or bad sound quality. No matter, the pictures of mountains and clouds are much more pleasing than some of the other videos I've found featuring this song. Great lyrics.

Ray Lamontagne and Damien Rice - To Love Somebody

Damien Rice has a great voice, but here Ray steals the show. Far and away.

Ray Lamontagne - Trouble

Great voice, even better lyrics.

if you're going to San Francisco

So let's see. It was October 05 I guess that I got to go out to San Jose and San Francisco. I had an Informatino Technology dork conference out there. Flew in a day early so that I could go up and visit Liz and Brennan in San Fran. So I checked in to my hotel and bolted for the public transportation. Got to San Fran somwhere around 9pm. Liz and Brennan picked me up and we went to dinner at an excellent Indian place.

Next day we got up and toured San Francisco some. We went down Lombard Street which is in tons of movies and was certainly the curviest street I'd ever been on. We hit In & Out Burger, I had to considering The Big Lebowski is one of my favorite movies.

Then we did some other touristy things like go over the Golden Gate Bridge.

Here's Liz and I.

ALO - Girl I Wanna Lay You Down

It's the music video which isn't what I wanted to put on here. But most of what I'd found has either poor sound quality or assholes in the audience who don't know when to shut up.

Aaron and I went to see these guys and Brett Dennen a few weeks ago now at Higher Ground. Great show. Another band I'm really getting in to.

Phish - Fee 1989

This is why I love You Tube. Man this is an oldie!! They look like kids.

Phish- Waste

Great Phish song. I miss these guys.

Lake George - 4th of July 06

Boz and Ben drove up for 4th of July last year. Good times no question. There was some serious amounts of stupidity, drunkenness, and some phenomenal fudge. Thanks Nahum!!

Look at these two fine bitches!!

I miss my brother!! Oh yeah that's my dad's head in the lower right there, I see my future hair line. Or should I say I see my future lack of hair line.

Here's Dan the Man. This is his parent's lake property in the pics. Where they kindly allow us to keep our boat, and play whenever we want. Thanks Usajs!! They also just built a brand new lake cabin there. I'll get some pics of that this weekend while I'm home. Word is we'll be moving some furniture. I don't know what Dan has in his hands, but from the look on his face, it doesn't appear to be pleasant.

Here is the torn down lot where the old lake cabin use to be. I think the new one will officially qualify as a lake house. I'll make sure to get a pic of the new house now, since I've got this one of the open lot. Oh look the Teal Hawk is in this picture too.

And last but not least, the house I grew up in. Home will never change for me and I can't imagine this house not being in the family. Too many memories to let something like that go.

And here's the view of Vermont and Lake Champlain from the deck.

how big was that starfish?

This is from March 06, when Ben, Nate, Nahum, and I went out to see Dan in LA. It was a great trip. Some parts I don't remember that's for sure. One highlight for Ben, Nahum, Nate, and I was getting totally hammered at Universal Studios where we were drinking long island ice teas out of Krafs. 2 of those each, several shots to which I don't remember the names of, and whatever else the bartender offered us lead to an extremely rough ride home. Dan drives a Pontiac Vibe, so just imagine 5 larger than average human beings packed in there. I remember Nahum dancing to some song but due to my drunken state it seemed as though he was only trying to push on me. We stopped at Chipotle, which is delicious by the way, and I'm pretty sure everyone had a half eaten burrito the next morning still.

Here we are in a bar on Venice beach. It wasn't long after this we wandered the shore and that's where Nate's pic is from too. By the way, I stole these from Ben.

Home endeavors

So I'm thinking about buying a house. I don't exactly know if it's the best idea I've ever had. But I do know that spending more money on rent is completely discouraging at this point for me. I might as well just take $7,000 and light it on fire. Cause that's about what I'm getting for renting. However, houses are what I would like to call.... ah ridiculously priced. When I was living in Canton I explored buying something but not too much. The same house apparently costs somewhere around 1.5x-2x more in Montpelier as compared to Canton. Discouraging.

The Hubbard Park Tower

Hubbard Park is Montpelier's 185 acre park and it's becoming my favorite place to explore.

There is a 54 foot tower within the park that gets you up out of the trees enough to see in every direction. And also allows you to get some phenomenal sunset views, as well as sunrise. However, I'm not typically up early enough to catch those, but it's a goal of mine now to accomplish. It also gets you a great view of Camel's Hump.

My camera only has a 3x zoom which makes it a bit hard to get some good shots. But here's one I nabbed of a recent sunset. Camel's Hump is on the left in this pic, if you can't pick it out. Well... I don't know what to tell you.

Joshua Radin and Schulyer Fisk - Paperweight

Brett Dennen On the Mountain Part 1

Darling Do Not Fear

John Butler Trio - Better Than

This is my blog's namesake.


All you want is
What you can't have
And if ya' just look around, man
You'll see you got magic

So just sit back and relax
Enjoy it while you still have it
Don't look back on life, man
And only see tragedy 'cause

You can be better than that
Let it get the better of you
What could be better than that?
Life's not about what's better than

You can be better than that
Let it get the better of you
What could be better than that?
Life's not about what's better

All the time while ya' lookin' away
There are things you can do, man
There's things you can say
Undo the, the ones you regret
When you're spending today
Get your gaze out tomorrow
And come what may, because

You can be better than that
Let it get the better of you
What could be better than that?
Life's not about what's better than

You can be better than that
Let it get the better of you
What could be better than that?
Life's not about what's better

Oh, I know, sometimes
Things can get hard
But you should know, by now
They come and they go so fast
Oh, I do, why
Look to the other side 'cause I know
The grass is greener,
But just as hard to grow

So all you want is
What you can't have
And if ya' just look around, man
You'll see you got magic

So just sit back and relax
Enjoy it while you still have it
Don't look back on life, man
And only see tragedy 'cause

You can be better than that
Let it get the better of you
What could be better than that?
Life's not about what's better than

You can be better than that
Let it get the better of you
What could be better than that?
Life's not about what's better than

John Butler Trio - Ocean

This is fast becoming one of my new favorite artists. And this clip is arguably some of the best guitar work I've ever witnessed. At about 3:42 on the count down this becomes amazing.

view from the edge

My brother left Monday!!

He's moving to Denver. I don't think he'll ever come home again. I just have this feeling once he gets there that'll be it. He'll love it.

We spent a huge chunk of February together and all of March while he worked on Aaron's house. And it was probably some of the best months I've had in my life since the end of college. It's not always easy to have your friends spread out all over the place and feel like each day you lose touch with them more and more.

I don't really know what I'll use this for yet. Kind of just getting started. There will certainly be a lot of music I'm into appearing on here in some form or another. Most likely pillaged from YouTube.