Holy Wood
while we were at Coachella, we dubbed this - The Autumn Tent -
Angels on the sideline again.
The Robot makes nifty noises when you bag on his various Robot parts.
This is Tool Live at Coachella 06' in the middle of the Desert in Palm Springs
This is what we look like while watching Tool in the middle of the Desert in Palm Springs
The Tesla Coil
Dr. Victor Von Frankerstein's Basement Lab Generator
This small water park was the shit! Nancy and I had so much fun running around on the various platforms, soaking all the little kiddies ... trying to be sly by filling the giant rocket with water, only to end up setting the whole park off and getting soaked ourselves in the process. One of my fondest memories of the whole trip!
Nancy vs. Spiderman
Steve vs. Hulk
Another favorite memory of mine. This classic shot happened just after the quarter was placed in the slot for the Shoe Massage
The Man! JAWS!!!
ALSO THE MAN! KING KONG!!!!
Mmm ... Ton Hanks' Balls
Daft Punk!
Poor Fishy Mammals
Bowling at the Hollywood Bowl
My Father used to hold me up to this arcade game when I was only 3-4 years old. I hadn't seen it since, and there it was! So awesome!
Bunny Bush
Tyler says, "Oxygen gets you high!"
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah!
Outside the Magic Castle in Hollywood
Ha! Got caught on this like 2 seconds after this picture was taken. The guy was real nice about it.
Fuck You Charlie Heston!
Christopher Walken for President in 2008!
How you enjoyed the picture show, cause there's actually going to be quite a bit more in the following days.
The trip was absolutely fantastic. There were some bumps in the road along the way ... but the fact remains that when it was just Nancy and I together ... we had the time of our lives. This trip had done a lot of good for as it taught me quite a bit about Nancy and I. I love her, and I don't just mean I love her and we're happy ... I mean, that sometimes couples go away together and things come out. The situation of being in a foreign place sometimes brings out hostilities in people and they end up making a crappy time for themselves. Not us, the one thing that proved true throughtout the whole trip for me ... is that I could be anywhere with this woman, and we just make a great time for ourselves.
Palm Springs is NOT all it's hyped up to be! Trust me when I tell you, that you'd almost be better off going anywhere else. And if you have to go there NEVER EVER a. go with friends. b. stay at the Desert Palms Spa Hotel = this place equals some pretty fowl shit.
As far as Coachella goes ... the thing about it that's totally awesome is that ... it is so huge, and so easily to get lost, that the broken group ends up having so many different experiences and everyone has their own personal story to tell according to who they watched that day and where they were. This part of the festival is fantastic, as well as the back drop for it - once the sun sets that is, the place is brutal during the daytime - I loved just walking around with Nancy and not having to be concerned with meeting up with people. Once we had figured this out, things had gone much smoother. However, don't be fooled! Coachella is just like any other aggravating to navigate festival, only really really fucking hot, and much farther away. We both had such a great time taking in the sounds of Tool, Digable Planets, Daft Punk, Massive Attack, Madonna (sucked) Matiyahu, Wolfe Parade, Ladytron, Depeche Mode, Damien Marley, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sigur Ros, My Morning Jacket, TV on the Radio, Colette, Eagles of Death Metal, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Magic Numbers, Coldcut, and Coheed and Cambria - at least that's what I remember seeing. I'm sure there was more that we'd passed.
Unless the lineup was absolutely INSANE and we made the trip entirely ourselves, I don't really know if I would go back. Though, the more I think about it, I would, but only if I was phoneless (yes, I lost my cell phone the second night and have not yet been able to retrive it) and the only person I had to worry about and enjoy it with would be my partner in crime ... Nancy. No offense to anyone who might want to meet up there in the future ... but you'd have to be pretty fucking special for me to make the plans to meet at the Tela Coil before whatever. and BRING WALKIE TALKIES NEXT TIME!!!!!
Los Angeles ... what can I say? We want to move there. I want to pick up everything I have, and just go! I'd never been anywhere, except for maybe parts of Pennsylvania where I just felt so calm, and in my place. The rush of the city didn't phase me, the bright lights and stars didn't shock me that much, like it was almost comfortable and familiar, and the pacing of the day in Hollywood is just insane! I"ve got more pictures coming soon, more fun times were had ... perhaps I will go into more details about where we were and what we had done ... for now, this will do.