i ate a rainbow

sometimes when i am sick and snot is blocking my breathing passages i like to remember the better, healthier moments when i felt like a stallion and grooved for 8 hours at Fog & Bubbles Dance Party Extravaganza 2011!!!!

i am glad its not sunny today

i wanna flox

(art by Flox)

i rode up to the mountain with a friend of a friend recently who was surprisingly out of control... i wont go into details but i was scared and i thought "dammit how'd i get myself into this situation". but the reality is i get myself into those situations all the time and normally things work out just fine, including this time, i was home safe and sound a few hours later. A little extra sore from a collision on the mountain (getting hit full speed by this dude). Aside from the minor uncomfortableness and lack of trust i had for this person, he was wonderful, full of great ideas and fun to be around, additionally he put into words something which i've felt for a long time "I have a special connection with birds," I asked him why and he said because he wants to be able to fly. I smiled and nodded, but inside there were small fireworks going off in my mind "me too! actually i think i am kind of a bird" but i didn't tell him this.

recently life introduced me to another person who has a special connection to birds and kind of reminds me of one due to the fact that he is incredibly independent, nests in rafters and seems to frequently migrate North to South. He blows my mind with his ability to create relentlessly. Makes me giddy inside that I made such a cool new friend during my brief stint back in Oregon.

I have twelve days left in USA until I fly to Japan, they are going to go by fast. I am so happy I came home, even if it was brief and fleeting its been full of romantic dates with my best friends, making memories with the family, exploring the free events around portland (please watch Y La Bamba video courtesy of Barbarapartment.com) all around a damn good time.

Y La Bamba — Dialect Of Faith from bar bar apartment sessions on Vimeo.

please enjoy!

i wasted over an hour of life watching a film i was really looking forward to "I'm Still Here" (destruction, waste & ignorance) and then luckily jeremy redeemed life by confusing the film title with a different film he thought i was talking about "i'm here" (beauty, love & paper mache rats- all set to a great soundtrack) in only 2o wonderful minutes.

oh robot love, you are so beautiful.

http://www.imheremovie.com/

too many boys

my rambling brought me to Bend, Oregon this weekend to visit manly men from my past... i haven't been surrounded by this many dudes in YEARS, it was hilarious and exhausting and made me feel like a wimp when it came to drinking, but i kind of appreciated being a wimp the next day anyways... cause I woke up to the most beautiful sunrise in the high-desert and got to sit outside in the peace and quiet reading "atlas shrugged".

there is a very drunk human being underneath these pillows, he didn't wake ever, not even when i dove onto the pillow castle.

please note the gorgeous buck in left corner!
CNS

Crosby,Stills, Nash & Douglas

today was fun

Portland looked like this:

So we went to Mt. Hood to snowboard:

and it ROCKED:

on the way home we drove through Hood River (oh how i love that place, brings tears to my eyes these days) anyways Huy skated at the sweetest li'l skate park I have seen since leaving NZ. He got butterflies in his stomach over the "hobbit hole" feature than did it, just like that.

well done mate.