Sunday I had to send Shayna home. It was hard to do, but each day brings her ever so much closer. I would love to sit here and write page after glorious page of how great her visit was, but I’m pretty sure 3 of the 5 people who read this would rather me not. Let me end by saying, I was fearless on the Wonder Wheel, even though Shayna was scared out of her mind when it went on the loopy part and had to hang onto the seat for comfort. And that Bacon Cheese dog wasn’t my first Nathan’s Hot Dog (this coming from the guy who covered the eating contest for gosh sake). Enjoy, lord knows I had a blast, with the exception of those days I got sick and couldn’t really do anything. *Those last two things might be not quite accurate. Many more can be found on my Flickr.
This is what happens when the gang is at the conventions. Built by Bernie and destroyed by Willie. After this was destroyed, Bernie rebuilt and topped it off with a little poopling moose I gave to Brett as a gift. It withstood a barrage from Brett to get the moose down and survived. God Speed little tower.
I noticed this on my way to work. I think it has to suck for this guy. I’m not quite sure if of is being towed or delivered away. Either way, I saw my first Lamborghini today!
Tonight, part of my journey is complete. I finished putting together an audio field kit that I think could get me from one place to another without to much hassle. More or less, these are the same components I used during my internship in the WNYC newsroom. No fancy solid state recorder (even though Christmas is coming up… eventually) the MiniDisk recorder I have would have broadcast quality sound and do fine for whatever field work I would be doing. I’ll list out here what I have just in case anybody who is looking at what others have in their kits. I did a lot of looking around when I first got to New York.
Sony Net MD WAlkman MZ-N707
6′ microphone cord
Electro-Voice RE50/B Microphone
Sony MDR-7506 Headphones
Moleskine notebook
13″ Macbook
Audacity - audio editing program
Spunk and Moxie
I’m still debating if I want to round it out with a cheap video camera. I have a decent digital camera, but the video on it ain’t so good. I still carry these romantic dreams of crossing the country gathering sound for some grand project or show that everybody would then listen to and think about their own lives more. Maybe someday, but for now this is a really good start. Anybody got any stories they need me to cover from NYC and involve any of the things I have listed above? If not, then I’ll talk to you later…
I hope I’m fifty years old and still singing Pizza Day. I can’t get enough of the Aquabats. Such fun, such enjoyent and soon I will enjoy it once again, November 20th to be exact. They are heading back to BB Kings. But first, below are two videos from their new show, enjoy and go to their website and help save them from doom… DOOM!
I can’t wait. Hopefully the show will be much like my first Aquabats concert I attneded a little over 2 years ago while interning for CMJ. After the jump, enjoy the article that first appeared on the CMJ website on June 10, 2006.
