I was pinned under a waterfall one time, stuck on the floor of the river for ten minutes or more before a shift of the torrential current had the mercy to spit me out. Maybe it wasn’t ten minutes, but with terrifying excitement and oxygen-empty lungs I told myself while it was happening that ten minutes was a conservative guess. I remembered the guide talking river danger before we cast off in our rubber boat, and specifically about how easily a person could be sucked in by the strength of the currents, pinned to a rock, or wedged under a fallen tree, and easily drowned. He told us horror stories of dead adventurers that only made the upcoming trip down the wild river more exciting, and made all of us want to fall into the frothing water and survive. I was the only lucky one. Continue reading ‘Richie vs. The River’
Monthly Archive for June, 2007
So, Rich sent me an email earlier with a clip of the Tone Rangers which made me laugh til it hurt. So while I wait for huge tarballs of backups to untar on my new hard drive, I’m killing sometime on youtube and came across this (painfully) funny gem:
Wedgie Jackson. Tonight at Echo in Red Bank. 9PM.
This week I’ve been listening to Loscil. Cool ambient electronic IDM stuff. Hypnotic spacey and locks in the pocket all at the same time. Headphones are good for this instrumental stuff. Enjoy.
Apologies for lack of posting and for appearing to ignore all of your emails. On Monday afternoon, the hard drive in my MacBook stopped spinning. The machine is currently at the Apple store in Freehold. I’ll supposedly be back in commision by the end of the week. We’ll see.
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