adrian is rad

I guess it’s almost a month ago that I went to Yosemite for the first time. I went with my friend Dave and his girlfriend Sarah, who’d just gotten off the plane from the UK.

Dave has gone multiple times a year for many years, so I just let him say what we should do. We went hiking from Glaciar Point down to the valley floor. We ate and drank. We lay in a field and tried to pick out climbers on the face of El Capitan. We found a grove of Giant Sequoias. We did a midnight hike up to Mirror Pond and saw it again in the day time.

Photographically, I brought my D80 and my ’60s-era Yashica A TLR. (I ran Velvia 50 through the Yashica.)

More photos after the jump

(more…)

I was looking through my lease today and noticed that there was a clause about how the owners may enter the premises (with prior warning) during business hours, from 7am-7pm.

I don’t remember doing this, but on the lease, I’ve crossed out 7am, written in 9am and initialed it. 7 to 9am is not during business hours; it is during sleeping hours.

This one’s quite overdue at this point. My apologies.

You can download the zip file with the following:
1. mp3s of the songs
2. liner notes (pdf)
3. playlist files (iTunes txt file and an m3u file)

(for the iTunes file, simply import all the songs to your library and then go to File->library->import playlist and then select the song list (the txt file). you should now have the 2009may in your iTunes with all the songs in the correct order).

Go ahead and check out the playlist (below) or the liner notes.

Adrian’s May 2009 mixtape (mediafire link)

If you like the artists or songs, I suggest supporting them by buying their music, going to a show, buying merchandise from them or at least telling other people about them.

The playlist:

1. Dawes When My Time Comes
2. J Tillman Earthly Bodies
3. Olof Arnalds Vi Og Vi
4. My Latest Novel Sister Sneaker Sister Soul
5. American Analog Set Punk as Fuck
6. mk ultra The Dream is Over
7. Archers of Loaf Web in Front
8. Les Savy Fav Precision Auto
9. The Twilight Sad Reflection of the Television
10. The One AM Radio The Landmine
11. Sebastian Schuller Midnight
12. At the Close of Every Day The Jesus Heart
13. Iron & Wine the Trapeze Swinger
14. Adele Hometown Glory
15. Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career
16. Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens What Have You Done?