Imagine...

Having dinner with Jonsi from Sigur Ros AND Bjork, Cerebral melt down of everything that is reality, but fun, real fun.

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Fork Fest!

Fork Fest is a FREE festival that is happening in American Fork, UT. Pretty excited about it really. My band will be playing on the Main Stage around 3pm. And again the best part about this whole this is that its free, coupled with unbelievably good weather and friends, you really cant beat this.

On top of the killer music there will be local artists and artisans who will be selling and displaying art all around the area.

again, i'll bring the otter pops...

Here is a list of the preformers:
Joshua James
Fictionist
Imagine Dragons
Desert Noises
Parlor Hawk
Shark Speed
Isaac Russell
Night Night
The Vibrant Sound
The Devil Whale
Cory Mon and the Starlight Gospel
Book on Tapeworm
The Archers Apple
Jay William Henderson (Band of Annuals)
Code Hero
Norther
Dandylyon
Sunflower
Paul Jacobsen
Future of the Ghost
Mudbison
Ferocious Oaks
David Williams
Location Location
Allred
sayde price
Cody Rigby
Gypsy Cab
Michael Gross & the Statuettes
Seve Vs. Evan
Marley & Hayley Hernandez
Ryan Innes
Matt Ben Jackson
Jennifer Blosil
Emily Brown
Cub World
Shady Chapel

The Suburbs

love it

So good.

Neva Dinova & Bright Eyes - Tripped

My dad taught me about positive distraction...

Family came down for the 4th. Ima' a huge fan of my family. Sister Amanda just had a baby named him a mans name, Henry. We just hung out and watched henry do his thing. ate food and enjoyed one another's company. a good 4th to date if i do say so.

Part of me is glad that we now have infants to keep us occupied at family gatherings. Its always comforting to know that we have something to distract us from getting into drawn out, long discussion/arguments about the current state of our economy, how BP affixed a new cap on the Gulf oil well,how GOP's Snowe & Brown back Wall Streets overhaul bill, or how Kelsey Grammer reportedly dumped his wife of 13 years via a text message. Needless to say Henry and Owen couldn't have come at a better time, when you start preparing for a case and point argument about how old militants in Pakistan are starting to create new alliances and how this effects The good ol U S of A three weeks in advance, you definitely need something to distract...

Buns of Steel Down the Coast.

So i am home. Pretty epic trip. Met a load of good people and had some crazy experiences like being homeless and sleeping in a city park with a bunch of homeless people, meeting two NSA and CIA agents, riding for a week and a half in the worst storm that Washington and Oregon has had all year, a few broken bike parts, the best farmers tan ever, and legs disproportionate to the rest of my body... all in all a good time. I will probably try and type up some of the better stories later so look for them!

So i got wicked good with the timer on my camera.

Redwoods

Meet Duluth:

Somewhere in Washington or OR...



and on a completely different note, this is Rock 'n Roll at its finest.

Nor Cal it hurts...

Just got into Crescent City last night in torrents of rain. This rain is running me down, slowly but surely. Looks at the weather coming up though and i dont think i have ever been more stoked to see a weather report in my life. The weather for the next few days of my trip...


But! things are going well for the most part. My welcome into California was a broken seat post... i must be pounding to many carbs, or all my gear is suspended from my seat post you can choose what to believe. which is rough i was afraid that i was going to have to fork out a load of cash for a new one but when i went into this TINY bike shop in Crescent City the dude just gave me one he has just recently salvaged... so rad.

I have met some rad people as well. Last night i was suppose to stay with a friends oarents here but things didnt work out for some reason. Anyways i met these guys on the road yesterday. and retired secret service dude, when i asked what he did he gave me the classic answer of if i told you i would have to kill you and i am tired so i am just not going to tell you. and the other a buddy of his from the military. super cool guys. They baught me dinner and let me stay with them in there hotel room which was epic considering the weather. we also met up with this dude who has been hiking the coast he stayed with us too. good people for sure. a little strange but good.

my time at the library is almost up so i am out for now. I am alive and doing well...

Cello

Just got our firt review for our album, check it out!

Rhombus Magazine

first update. Seattle Washington

So..... first Bike log. 3am.

Bad news. So final preparations for the trip down the coast. We are at Carters house doing a final check on all our gear when from the other room, I hear Dave quite calmly proclaim that he needs to go to the hospital, with no hardcore ugency in his voice i thought it was joke till i walked in and saw this:

minus the paramedic...

the night progessed to this:



THen to this after an hour of sewing up arteries and cleaning it...




So, sadly i will be riding for the most part by myself. Dave goes in for surgery to fix the tendons that were cut(x2) on wednesday. I will leave on friday a little ways down the coast.

So Dave was cutting open a box with our brand new pump insided when the knife which was much sharper than he had expected slipped and lodged itself into is hand cutting through two tendons and one artery. It was pretty epic (we had to clean blood off of the ceiling!) when it happened though, just getting done with the MCAT he was giving us very specific instructions on what we needed to do when he passed out, which he did, and also what we needed to do when he woke up again(which he also did.) Paramedics came a little after he woke up and took it from there. crazy. no lost fingers which is good!

Pretty epic first update i'd say.

I've sold my soul to Robert Redford

I spend way to much time up here. I've realized that i am a much better at keeping this thing updated when i work a lot and its the off season at Sundance.

All things aside I consider my self very lucky to work in a place that is so absurdly beautiful, that despite how long i have worked here i still rubber neck when i drive up this canyon.

And now for something completely different.

I got a new bike which i am super stoked on, i have always road biked, and downhill Mountain biked. So i decided to broaden my horizens. So now i can bike up the mountain then ride down it. this may sound terribly simple and obvious, but so appealing.

Barack the Barbarian

From a NPR article this morning.

"Sometimes, plans change at the last minute. Wednesday morning the president decided to hit the gym in Des Moines. Reporters waited next door at a coffee and comic book shop. That's where we spotted a comic book called Barack the Barbarian.

The cover showed a shirtless Obama, abs rippling, holding a battle ax in one hand and an elephant tusk in the other. Sitting on top of the elephant was his nemesis, Red Sarah, laughing maniacally. I bought the comic and some of the White House staff asked to see it.

Back on Air Force One, when we were done with the serious questions, I decided to ask spokesman Bill Burton about Barack the Barbarian. He'd seen the comic book. "I liked it," he said, "because it had few words and lots of pictures, which made it easy to understand."

thats rich coming from the spokensman for the president...

My Bike trip Blog

Check it out, I'm riding from Canada to Mexico come the end of May. I am super stoked on this. 1900 miles+80 per day+camping for a month+good company+beautiful coastal/redwood scenery+complete and total self containment=pure and unadulterated goodness...

Van life is the life for me.

My good friend Madison Pope made a lil' documentary about all the different places people will live at in Jackson Hole, and Seth and I are in it. its amusing. take a look.

Jackson Hole, Summer Housing

So its Offical

We will be mixing with Bill Moriarty who produced Dr. Dog's latest albums. Pretty crazy, we are all pretty excited at the prospect with working with him and getting his input on things. Seth gets on the plane to philly towards the end of March to spend a week finishing things up so i will keep you all posted.

This is the final product.

Provo Acoustic Session

So recently my band (The Archer's Apple) Did a pod cast for a group that showcases bands from Utah, this turned out to be a lot of fun, and met some cool people in the process. I will update soon with the video they recorded. should be cool.