Weezer - doesn't care

I have not been a huge fan of Weezer but this song and video makes me smile and brings them into a new light for me.

ALICE Pack as the perfect Wader Bag

Spend money where you need to. Don't skimp on wading boots, but they don't have to cost 400 bucks either. I found the Weinbrenner boot in widths (I wear EEE) and they have lasted me years. I even ran over them with both left tires on my way out of camp once and they still look unscathed through the last 5 years of use. I could see them going another 20 with me.
And if I had 700 dollars I would definitely buy the Simms waders that unzip in the front for "taking care of business" without disrobing.

But I would still stuff all of this into my GI issue ALICE pack that I got from a military surplus store for next to nothing. Hands down the best wader bag ever made. The ballistic nylon is tough as nails and dries out easily once I get home. It has tons of pockets for the last minute stuff that I throw in on my way out of my garage.

... But take my advice with a grain of salt because I also choose to drink tap water even though I have driven by my local treatment pond and have seen the holding tank in "Mississippi mud" form one day and Caribbean blue a few days later. I think the water from my faucet tastes good and the extra flouride allows me to skip brushing once in a while.

Check out ALICE Paks here if you dare take advice from a guy like me:
http://www.olive-drab.com/od_soldiers_gear_alice.php

Black Butte Rules

From the Redside's Mouth...

Camping with David

I have been a fan of David Byrne for years... and trying to tell all these new-to-rock punk kids
that call themselves Emo, that David Byrne was the true first mark of wacked-out Genius in the MTV generation. It seems in the last year or so that The Talking Heads are becoming a bandwagon to jump on as people start to unravel the genius at the ends of the thread they hung from in that new MTV world which sold their quirkiness because it was easy.

All of it is summed up here in the hand-gestures and huffy-puffy cheeks and weird body movements that make sure Byrne goes down in History as probably one of the most interesting cats to take camping for a weekend.

Stylus Magazine just voted this video as the top in 100 of all time or something.

Wolfcat - The Most Metal Band in History

Wolfcat opened on last Monday at Satyricon's New Band Night. They rocked really hard and when the night was over and most had gone home in the wee hours of the next day the satyricon Operations guy said " you guys come back anytime and do anything you want".

"How about a little compensation for rocking your crowd?" asked, REDRUM the percussionist.

"Here's 20 bucks for your gas" he replied.

They split it 5 ways... yeah there was a druid guy in a cloak back there if you didn't notice.

Amazing Young Guitar Player

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Beyond Tomorrow - My news Source

I don't watch the news and I read the paper once in a great while. I am just tired of the drama of the "Meth-Watch" soap opera... Man I have better things to occupy my time with.

However, when something comes up I know what it's all about seemingly months before it happens. And it's all due to watching Discovery and Science Channel programming. Beyond Tomorrow is basically a newsreel of the very latest things that are happening in our world. They have no RSS feed of topics so you are pretty much forced to DVR the show.

Here is a list of topics from just two shows. I didn't list everything from the two shows but you can see how extensive the items are.

Street SurferFilm repair of "Breaking of the Drought" (the oldest film in Australia's video archive)
The Predator -air powered car
Pagani Zonda
Vanwall Automobiles
Opus Soccer tables
Easy-Glider

Church of the Cafe Racer

Some guys in PDX are thinking of starting a chapter here. I went to the tonup.com forum and found a 5 page thread that randomly happened and it is perfectly hilarious heresy.

This is the post that started it:

allright, I've been all dirty lately and I've taken recent steps to cleanse my sins. I've just recieved my ordainment as a minister with the Universal Life Church and you all know the painstaking process and years of study that takes. With that in mind, I am inspired to offer my services to you all as the board's spiritual leader to keep you all on the straight and narrow. Call me Reverend Deluxe if you like. I have been inspired by the lord himself to share with you the following 7 commandments which were originally in the bible but taken out for reasons unknown.

1. Honor the Cafe motorcycle and it's creator.

2. Thou shall operate thy motorcycle with the utmost caution unless showing off for friends or ladies.

3. Thou shall be a man of charity and goodwill by blipping the throttle as hot white trash girls pass by.

4. Thou shall not be concerned with matching thy helmet, gloves, jacket and boots with thy brightly colored paintwork. Wear black as a testament of your faith.

5. Thou shall not be tempted by the serpents Harley Davidson, Orange County Choppers and others practicing the evil way of cruisers.

6. Thou shall not wear leather vests, chaps or leather doo-rags in an attempt to convey thee as a bad ass.

7. Thou shall give thanks to the Lord by cracking the ton.

Bless you all

Five Kinds of Lucky Video

This video has been circulating around the net. i got it from my buddy dsbaehler and then about 10 minutes later from my father-in-law. Funny how fast things can travel... and because of that don't stand near the road.

Trout Opener on the Deschutes

It was a great time of re-centering myself so to speak. I fished about 8 minutes the first day and about 3 hours on Sunday. I rowed my buddies boat so he could be a passenger for the first time in years. He was stoked and so was I.

The one fish I caught was while we were having lunch on the bank after pulling over. No one was catching anything. We saw no fish rise all day. They had their backs to the river while we were eating sandwiches and a fish jumped.

They said "where?".

I said "I'll show you".

I crawled over to the bank and casted from my knees. My first cast was about 2 ft short of my target and I told them so as soon as the fly hit the water. I let it drift by anyway and recast to the perfect distance... it drifted right over the little dude and he took my dry emerger on the surface.

It was like I really knew what I was doing still. That felt nice.

I slept like a baby and was real pleased with my set-up. I hadn't tried parking the truck-bed under the canopy until I got there (brought a tent just in case). But the canopy tent worked out perfect. Go Beavs!!