Last night I walked home in the rain. It was awesome, I’d highly recommend doing it if you haven’t in a while.
Then I watched Jaws 3. Which is totally tied with Jaws 4: The Revenge for shittiest Jaws movie.
and Ooooops I did it again. Pearl Jam and U2, December 9th in Honolulu.
It’ll be the first time I see Matt Lasagna since England last year. My favorite band. His favorite band. Driscoll Country Jr. is coming too. I can’t…..fucking…….wait!!!
Ween/Flaming Lips this weekend, Spearhead at Boulder Theater next week (it will be the SHORTEST distance I’ve ever walked to a concert. 2 blocks babies). Power to the Peaceful in September. Music….its like a phenomenan.
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One of my managers owns a Brewey/Restaurant on the East Coast. His head chef sent him this:
Check out these photos.
This is Marco’s (BBW Kitchen Manager Marco) reply:
Hey Rich,
Hope you’re doing well. It crawled on to my cement walkway, it appears to look like a snake. It moved slowly about 15 feet or so and then when back into the grassy area.
Marco
—–Original Message—–
From: Peg Fegley [mailto:XYX@XYXYX.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 1:30 PM
To: Rich Fegley
Subject: FW: PhotoCheck this out! Marco found on his sidewalk. 14 inches long No one knows what it is Love Mom
No one knows what the hell they are. Army worms don’t move in a group like that. Any bio phreaks out there hold the key to this mystery?
And here’s a failed digital camera-videocapade…..I didn’t shoot enough, didn’t have the energy to edit it in any interesting way, and the audio didn’t transfer for some dumb reason.
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This video is so incredible I just HAD to share it:
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tuesday night, i protected a highschool from zombie ghouls. they had someway of infecting people and would come everyday around 6 or 7. And I fought them off with a Kitana. At some point a bus showed up full of people I knew in high school. I had been holding it together and dealing with the zombie invasion until one of those high school friends told me her boyfriend had been killed. Then I cried.
I then had to go on some crazy secret mission down near the boiler room, and left some other dude with a kitana in charge. When I came back there was a massive war going on in the gym. Kitanas, guns, shovels, bats, all against zombie ghouls. Then I woke up and went to the gym. Best cinematic dream ever! Kick Ass!
Kick Ass in the same way that last weekend was. In the wee hours of the morning last friday I stuffed my duffel bag with some clothes and Snow Crash, and headed out to catch the bus to the airport. After a transfer at LAX, and nearly half of Snow Crash, I was suddenly landing at SFO.A few calls to and fro, and I BARTed over to Katie and Brian’s new place on mission near Balboa Park. After catching up, having some beers, and waiting for Dan, Melinda, and Lee, we took off to an Indian place over on 16th and mission. Daniel ‘the hammer’ Waldestein met up with us on the way, still groggy from his return from a year in Japan. As we ate, the infamous “Crotchathan” headed in our direction and tucked into a nearby bar.
After dinner we proceeded to join him. We were quickly joined by the adventurous Driscal County Jr., and the ever stunning Jen. After a few pints of fat tire, lots of catching up, and many many rants by yours truly about the incredible awesomeness that is Pearl Jam, we headed out to a nearby club.
Pretty sweet club, even if it was super packed. We got very lucky and managed to snag some seats on a very comfy couch. Jen and I had a lovely conversation at the bar during our 23 minute wait to order drinks. We waited so long, in fact, that I made sure to order doubles of everything so we wouldn’t have to go back later! After some ice tossing, and more amusing conversation on the couch, (I now realize how 
incredibly lucky I’ve been with housemates over the course of my life!) we headed upstairs to the roof. After some confusion about what door we went up through, Jen and I manged to find Dan and Melinda, who were chilling with some of dan’s fellow male nurses. We then headed home for the evening, as I needed by beauty sleep for the long wait the next day.
Dan and Melinda dropped me off in front of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium around 10:30am. There was already a line of about 45-60 people, but I was fairly happy with my position. Over the next 8 hours or so, I discovered that the Public Library next door was the best place to use the bathroom, that I was only a shade of the fan some of those around me were, that I had been to 3 shows fellow fans around me had, that U2/Pearl Jam might play together this fall, and so so much more!
At 6:15 or so they let us 10 Clubbers in. I got a great spot, along with my pal Driscol. Eddie did a preopener of dead man walking, then Sonic Youth rocked the fucking house. Pearl Jam then came out and played one of the most intense, fast paced sets I’ve witnessed. The mosh pit was insaine! I was pissed at all the obnoxious drunks pushing their way forward at first, but then relaxed into the flow of the crowd, started throwing some elbows of my own, and had a rockalicious good time. It was definitely the first I’ve ever had to work to let go at a Pearl Jam show, but eventually letting go physically just accentuated my normal emotional release. By the end of the night I was deeply, deeply regretting that I wasn’t staying for the next to SF shows! but sadly money and life tend to always get in the way of such aspirations….
So thanks to everyone that came out to see me, it was a fantastic weekend! Special thanks to Dan & Melinda, who have have yet again proven their amazingness in going way beyond duty in helping me achieve yet another of my crazy fly to CA for music occasions.
Back here in Boulder, things are still busy and HOT! I’ve noticed my blog posts have fallen into a pattern of “I did this and that last week” which is probably getting a little boring. I’ll try to think of something cool & different for an upcoming post.
Also, things here at I-I are getting exciting, we’re on Cinematical! The next year could be very interesting!
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| Brief Clip of “Is Love Enough” from July 7th, 2006 in Steamboat Springs, CO | |
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Another great weekend. Casey, Eric, and I took off early Friday afternoon to head up to Steamboat Springs, CO to catch Spearhead at their Free Summer Concert Series. The rainbow festival was up there earlier in the week, so it was a packed show full of only the finest hippiest et all. Magically enough, just after the sun went down it started to drizzle…..and there in the night sky was one of the most perfect rainbows I’ve seen, radiating behind us. The show was 2.5 hours of bliss and beer, then we headed up to the nearby national forest to camp for the evening. Drove back Saturday, chilled for the evening, then caught the fascinating World Cup final.
I’ve got a pretty great streak of music going right now….Stuart Davis the last week of June, then the 2 PJ/Petty Shows the weekend after, Spearhead last weekend, Pearl Jam (General Admission!!!) in SF this weekend, and I might quite possibly go to a Widespread Panic show the weekend after, and Ween/Flaming Lips the weekend after that. Would certainly be one of the best 5 weeks stretches of music in my life!
Played some Poker with some fellas last night…..I swept the newbie $5 table and took home a nice $20.
Other than that, things are pretty good. I heard back from Imagine, the organization I want to do some volunteer work for. They’ve matched me up with a group home a few blocks from here which I’m going to check out after my trip next week. Have my first Boulder Digital Arts Fast Filmmaking Incubator meeting tomorrow night, so I’ll hopefully get to meet some cool Boulder film folks. My practice is going fairly well too, I’m sitting twice a week on T/THs, and going to the gym M/W/F mornings. So life is definitely busy, and it feels like the summer is going by just a bit too quickly, but I’m having a fairly good time. My buddy Daniel is coming back from a year in Japan this week, so it’ll be great to catch up with him and some others during my quick trip out to SF this weekend. How’s it going out there? Sorry I haven’t had the energy to post anything thought provoking or interesting………Comments?
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Thursday night: Brutal man night, very agitating conversation about the future of the group. Then 10:15 showing of Superman.
Friday: Work, then over to Broomfield for Rob & Em’s Pool Party! Their apartment complex let them rent out the common room, complete with kitchen, pool table, tv, fireplace, and rocking music….all next to the big joyous pool. After BBQing, beer, pinatta’ing, Em & Ballard performing, and much more we ended up at Ghetto ass Waffle House in Longmont. A night I won’t soon forget!
Saturday afternoon, Casey’s sister and crew of lady friends were in town. Chilling on the town all afternoon, drinking, drinking, and more drinking. Casey’s brother is dating a girl that joined the Ten Club in 1995!!! His brother better marry her soon, A) otherwise I would B) that way they can keep the tickets ‘in the family’. After me foolishly buying rum and cokes and car bombs at the scumdown, I vaguely remember walking home in a very intoxicated state…
Sunday, chilled all morning, watched some shitty TV. Then had a quick bit to eat, an ‘energizing’ jamba juice and then Casey and I cruised off to Denver. Got into town pretty early…so we had a quick pint of Revered at Double Daughter, a bitching little bar not too far from the pepsi center. We then headed back to the arena, picked up my fan club tickets (section 128, row 10, seats 5&6), and then ran to the bar right next to the pepsi center for a quick corona. Met the marketing director for the Mountain, a local radio station, who was kind enough to invite Casey and I to come up to their private box during the show if we so desired. After a kick ass 90 minute power set, (i could have gone for a full length show to be honest) we popped up to the box for some meet and greets, and of course free cold water, beer, and food. Missing the energy of our excellent seats, we bid the ladies farewell and headed back down to our section for the rest of an amazing Tom Petty set, which of course was higlighted by Mr. Edward Vedder on vocals for “Waiting is the hardest part” and “American Girl”.
All in all, a fantastic weekend. And I’m going to the show AGAIN tonight. And tomorrow is the fourth of july. Sometimes, life is pretty sweet.
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