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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Monday night we finally got some snow worth getting excited about. On my way home from work at around 6:00pm it was really coming down. I had a little trouble getting up Alpine Meadows road but the two-wheel drive white pearl always seems to amaze me.
Needless to say everyone in my household was pumped that it was snowing too. Beers were cracked, and bowls were packed we wasted no time and began celebrating immediately. We started it out by having what I like to call a “super session” Two guitars, an acoustic bass, mandolin, keyboard, harmonica, alto sax, bongos, and an array of common household items used to make cultural percussion sounds. There were only four of us so I had to step it up by playing numerous instruments at a mediocre level. My buddy Pieper killed it on the mandolin, my roommate Double D played rhythm guitar and random percussion, and my roommate Hubey laid down a tasty bass groove. (There is a link below to listen to it if you have the time check it out.)
The super session lasted almost 12min but we stopped due to the bright lightening strikes coming from outside. We all decided to throw on our snow gear and hit the neighborhood hill for a little late night sledding. We armed ourselves with a couple of saucers, a skate deck, and a boogie board/reverse camber POW sled. Oh yeah and my buddy made his own port wine from California’s finest vines so we each held on to some of that. There was not a huge amount of cover on the sledding hill so we had to be somewhat cautious. We were charging through weeds and things since there was only like 6 inches at this point. There were a few rag dolls some spilt port and a lot of laughs. Nobody was injured but everyone was soar and the only thing lost in the fiasco was a pair of 2 year old anon goggles.
Its crazy the way snow can make everyone so happy so quickly. Those 6 to 8 inches inspired my friends and I to rage on a Monday night like college freshman, jam out like a bunch of burning man hippies, and sled around like kids on a snow day all in a matter of a hours. Lets hope these good times keep coming but meanwhile lets just enjoy the snow and be happy that we don’t live on the east coast, because this would be the storm for the winter.
PS. Here is a sneak peak of my traveling circus theme song. This is the full version unedited.
super_jam.mp3
traveling_circus.m4a
Needless to say everyone in my household was pumped that it was snowing too. Beers were cracked, and bowls were packed we wasted no time and began celebrating immediately. We started it out by having what I like to call a “super session” Two guitars, an acoustic bass, mandolin, keyboard, harmonica, alto sax, bongos, and an array of common household items used to make cultural percussion sounds. There were only four of us so I had to step it up by playing numerous instruments at a mediocre level. My buddy Pieper killed it on the mandolin, my roommate Double D played rhythm guitar and random percussion, and my roommate Hubey laid down a tasty bass groove. (There is a link below to listen to it if you have the time check it out.)
The super session lasted almost 12min but we stopped due to the bright lightening strikes coming from outside. We all decided to throw on our snow gear and hit the neighborhood hill for a little late night sledding. We armed ourselves with a couple of saucers, a skate deck, and a boogie board/reverse camber POW sled. Oh yeah and my buddy made his own port wine from California’s finest vines so we each held on to some of that. There was not a huge amount of cover on the sledding hill so we had to be somewhat cautious. We were charging through weeds and things since there was only like 6 inches at this point. There were a few rag dolls some spilt port and a lot of laughs. Nobody was injured but everyone was soar and the only thing lost in the fiasco was a pair of 2 year old anon goggles.
Its crazy the way snow can make everyone so happy so quickly. Those 6 to 8 inches inspired my friends and I to rage on a Monday night like college freshman, jam out like a bunch of burning man hippies, and sled around like kids on a snow day all in a matter of a hours. Lets hope these good times keep coming but meanwhile lets just enjoy the snow and be happy that we don’t live on the east coast, because this would be the storm for the winter.
PS. Here is a sneak peak of my traveling circus theme song. This is the full version unedited.
super_jam.mp3
traveling_circus.m4a
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