Not So Deep Thoughts

Well folks, in just a few hours I’ll be off to paradise they call Ireland, The Emerald Isle, Éire, or by it’s much more exciting name Fireland.

Vanesa and I’ll be gone for the next week, renting a car in Dublin, cruising up around Sligo, heading by my ancestor’s town of Foxford, illegally digging around Connemara for marble, Ignoring Galway and sweeping through to the Burren & Bunratty Castle. Then testing out fear of heights by driving down Connor’s Pass to Dingle. Who knows what we’ll be up to in the final few days, but I’m sure it’ll be full of pub visits, pints of Guinness and hopefully some colourful characters.

And since this is my first trip with the new image-capturing machine, I’d better get around to posting the last few trips I’ve taken as to
A. Give y’all something to do while bored at work over the next week and
2. give me the time to put up the Fireland photos as soon as I get home.

Have a wonderful week Me-hearties! (Wait, that’s pirate, not Irish.)

Póg mo thóin!!! (That means, “Good day!!” in Irish. I can’t wait to try it out when I get there.)

Ok… So… Here are the pics!!

So… I know I’m seriously backlogged with the photos, but I thought I should toss up some of the first pics I took with my new gear.   (Can I say gear now? It IS pretty kick ass…)

I’m still learning the bells and whistles… But before you know it, I’ll be snapping for real.

Peas.

Gotta get up to date before The Camera gets here…

Ok… let’s get back to getting back up to date…

Old J&J’s mate, Chris Wooding, on the eve of his going-awayness. The cool thing about being an author and being able to e-mail your work to your ‘boss’ is that you can work pretty much anywhere with an internet connection and move off to random countries. I know I should have learned how to rite good. I have no idea whose idea it was to bring beards, but I’d shake his hand if I remembered.

My apartment gets FABULOUS water pressure at 4:30 in the morning. It’s been awhile since I’ve had such a pleasant shower…

And why, you might ask, am I showering myself at such an early hour? Well, in a few minutes I’ll be off to Rome, Italy to see Mom and Guy!! Woohoo!!

Here are some photos to pass the time while I’m gone…

Happy Endings - Final Run

After a record breaking run that finished off the final 2007 season at the Matadero 3 Theater, we were asked to come back and dazzle the crowds once again. Three sold out performances later, dozens of roses strewn across the stage and the smell of fresh success in the air - we closed the doors of the Matadero behind us, leaving our footprints in the legacy of this womb of the fine arts, and went to buy a round of beers to celebrate, effectively spending the entire profits we made on the show.
Good times…

(Oh, and the photos of us acting like jackasses in the basement of the theater… ummm, we were really bored. And this is what we do when we´re bored.)

Another Friday’s Night

Once again, the Queens of Friday’s Night, Jacki and Krystal show my why God invented Friday. Here you can see the consequences…

Arrivederci!!!

Photos!!!

From 5 Months Ago!!!

Christmas in the US o’ A!

I once again make the long voyage home to spend time with the loved ones. Good to see that my family still rocks and the good friends still come to pick me up at my mom’s house because I don’t have a car anymore. Four Christmas Feasts with the Fam, 10 Year High School reunion, New Year’s Eve in New York City with Brother Mike, and carousing around town with the old buddies. Good times.

Click on photo to see more! (or here)

This is the biggest of the albums to come, so if you can make it through this, you can make it the rest of them.

Ciao!

Sit down and strap yourself in (ala Clockwork Orange if necessary) and get ready for a visual (fake) orgasm!

Before I get around to posting all the lovely ‘Christmas 2007 in the US’ pics, I have some spring cleaning to do. Here’s a taste of the going ons in Madrid just before I flitted off to the homeland.

Bob’s Costume Party
Close enough timewise to be considered a procrastinators attempt at throwing a Halloween party, but in reality, Bob just likes having themed parties. So, for his Farewell to the Apartment Shindig, we all dressed up as famous dead people. I, as usual, half assed it by throwing on a white afro wig and an old sweater and going as Bea Arthur.

Thanksgiving 2007
My 5th Thanksgiving in Madrid. And I never get tired of explaining to Spaniards why this is the bestest holiday ever: Family, Friends, an absurd amount of good food, no presents, no religion, no patriotism - just be with the people you love, think about how much they mean to you and put on a few pounds.

Christmas Lights of Madrid
Me and the roomies, Sandra and Simon, go out for a stroll around town to check out the Christmas lights.

Happy Endings - Dress Rehearsal
This is by no means a complete documentation of the dress rehearsal, just the photos I was able to snap before I had to skip onto stage. Photos of the actual show to come once I can steal them off someone.

Happy Endings - Cast Party
If you’ve never had the pleasure of hanging out with a group of actors and drinking stupid amounts of alcohol, you’ve never lived, cuz, they’s CRAZY! I’m just saying, it’s never boring. Never. That’s all.

Ok… Next Up! - Christmas Stateside

I forget to tell all y’all that I threw up some new photos on the gallery section of the site.

We’ll start with:

La Pedriza -

Just 45 minutes outside of Madrid and you couldn’t feel any further from the city. More of that clean air they’re alway talking about, rocks to climb and fall off of, trails to wander off and new ones to find once wandering aimlessly for 1/2 hour in underbrush. Good times.

Anti-Fascist Demonstration -

A 16 year old anti-fascist was murdered on his way to protest a congregation of other protesters who were holding an anti-immigration manifestation. A group of neo-nazis confronted him and his friends in the metro and he was stabbed to death as a result. The anti-fascists took Carlos as the new hero for their cause and have been using his memory to give them a voice. Here’s some photos of the first demonstration in his honor.

Ciao for now…