Sunset

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"I've sat in this exact spot."

Adventure Sunday continued into the warmer shade of winter on top of Prophet's Rock.
Geo Tracker, phone numbers, footprints, zombie movies, burgers.


Battleground, West Lafayette, IN
01.27.08

Ice Luge

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Ice Luge, the next best thing?

House Party
01.20.08

Hoopeston

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"Don't drink and drive now."

Whiskey bound adventure, to the middle of no where.
High school girls swoon; ever seen a model before?
you're not the first, and we're all out of Keys.

Hoopeston, IL
01.20.08

ATL: If this is your final destination, do enjoy the city..

Omg welcome to Georgia!!11kekeke

Feeling: Comfy
Current Love: Soulwax

Greetings from Atlanta. It's been a fair day of traveling; I'm tired, but somehow I'm compelled to blog. How did I end up miles south? My first field trip I may say.
I'm here with my Habitat for Humanity EPICS team doing some networking and meeting with the headquarter peeps. We'll also be visiting the Global Village which showcases the houses HFH build around the world.
I was pretty excited when I was first made aware of the trip near the end of summer but for the past few days I've had doubt, with the loads of homework I had to finish being the main deterrence. But now that I've got to know my team mates better and am away from Indiana and school, it feels great. (The weather here is also so much better)

The 22 of us, including the "adults", left Purdue at 4:30 and headed to Indy via Lafayette Limo. (My first time riding it!) I definitely wasn't as enthused about flying as usual, probably because the NY trip was only two weeks ago. (Speaking of which I still need to write up about that...) There wasn't much delay at the airport, and we landed in ATL around 9. The last time I've been in Atlanta was back in 05 for the FIRST robotics national. I guess I didn't pay too much attention to the airport back then since I had forgotten about ever being in the ATL airport. I don't know why, but I felt "homely" being in there even though Atlanta isn't even my hometown. I suppose it's the general sense of being down South, since I do miss it.
It look way too long for us to get settled in; At least 20 mins of waiting/paper work at the car rental desk, then another 20 waiting outside for our 3 SUVs in the rental lot. Our hotel wasn't far, but we waited for half an hour to get our keys. Then finally, full sized beds!
I've been pretty happy with the accommodations so far as it has exceeded my expectations. I wasn't expecting to have a bed to myself, but I do, and the full size bed complete with the magical white hotel sheets just makes me want to snuggle and lay in bed all day...but alas, I have to wake up bright and early tomorrow at 6:30.
So, I should get to bed now.

Toliver + AZ @ The Black Sparrow

My first Lafayette show after NYC felt rather weird for some reason. Perhaps the NYE party set the standards for how parties should go in '08. (More on that later)

Oddly enough, I learned of the show through skimming the TGIF in the J&C.
The lineup was:
AZ - Although I've seen Aaron play quite a few times, it's still interesting to watch.
Toliver - I've heard about this guy as he seemed to started somewhat of an electronic scene in Lafayette way back, but he moved to Cali at some point.
Pixiu - of the Beatkids from Chicago. Played with/met him the first time at AZ's end of semester party. When is the entire Beatkids gonna play?
DJ Ghost - Can't find myspace!
VJ Snebtor - doing his magic on the projectors

I showed up at the Black Sparrow with Mike, Andrew, Jen, and Rob after some delicious sushi at Mike's. The place is a new "hip joint" bar that just opened downtown. They did card unfortunately, but Aaron was able to get me in on the basis that I was an artist/performer. (And I guess he told the bouncer that I spin French House, ha). The atmosphere was totally not what I was expecting. So many old people (and by old people I mean non-college kids) Everyone was sitting, chatting, drinking,and smoking while DJ Ghost was spinning D&B in the background...sooo weird. I definitely felt out of place, and I think Mike did too, but no matters, we came to hear music.

I was interested to see how AZ's set was going to go over with the crowd considering he pretty much does compressor++ distortion beats. Well, I guess the crowd wasn't really paying that much attention to the music, but at least no one was like "this sucks" (as far as I know...)
Aaron's set was short, and Toliver was next. He walked pass me at one point and said "Hey I liked your program on radio Chiguiro." Of course, I've never met the guy before in my life, so it was a pleasant surprise. Unfortunately his set wasn't very impressive and fell short of my expectation.
Pixiu arrived around this time, and I could tell that he felt out of place too. DJ Ghost went back on after Toliver, but Mike and I decided to jet. I'm curious as to how Pixiu's mashups went over with the crowd.

Toliver:


Oh, I forgot to mention, DJ Ghost was scratching through the entirety of AZ & Toliver's set. It was interesting, but got a little annoying at points.

So overall, the show was meh, but I don't know if I should even call it a show. Snebtor mentioned that they may be getting regular gigs at the place. I'm not sure if he had fun/thought things went well, but hopefully the shows in the future will be better.