Daily Diversion

I know what cabin fever is. It's real, like seasonal affective disorder with more anger. Being in a room without windows all day doesn't help. I know summer is coming, I just don't know if I'm going to last.

http://www.fsvisimages.com/doso1/doso1#

Dolly Sods sits along the ridge at the far side of the valley. When I think about summer, that's where I am.

Weekend Music

So when I posted the link to the Jack Johnson show I didn't feel the need to say much about it. Who doesn't know Jack, right?

If you know Jack then Tristan Prettyman doesn't need much in the way of introduction. You'd think she could be Jack Johnson's wife, except he's already married and she's dating Jason Mraz.

http://www.archive.org/details/tprettyman2005-01-30.at831.flac16

Tristan Prettyman
January 30, 2005
LeStats Coffee House
Normal Heights, San Diego, CA
Source: AT831 > SP-SPSC-1 batt. box (w/ bass rolloff set @ 107 Hz) > Nomad Jukebox 3 (wav @ 44.1k)Lineage: NJ3 > USB > Sound Forge 6.0 > WAV > FLAC (flac frontend, compression level 6)
Taped by: Tyler Huff

Setlist:
01 - So Sorry
02 - Please
03 - Tristan talks about leaving for NYC to record her new cd
04 - Smoke
05 - The Story
06 - Evaporated
07 - Guestcheck
08 - Always feel this way
09 - Electric
10 - Love, Love, Love
11 - Shy that way %

http://www.tristanprettyman.com/home

Paging Ansel Adams

Talking about batholiths is hard work. Especially when trying to tell a room full of sophomores why they're interesting. Maybe next time I'll just dim the lights and project this onto my smartboard:

MOON AND HALF DOME

Ansel Adams

What to do in Uniontown on a Staurday night?

http://www.uniontowntechcafe.com/

Changing Seasons, Changing Tunes.

Something happens to me when the days start getting longer. The promise of warm weather shakes me from hibernation, and I start thinking about bike tune-ups and new hiking boots instead of THE OFFICE reruns.

A change of attitude requires a new soundtrack, and this is usually around the time I rediscover artists like Jack Johnson and Tristan Prettyman--people who've made a living singing about the things that seems a million miles away when Punxsutawney Phil is being dragged from his hole.

So here's what I've been listening to to curb my cabin fever:

http://www.archive.org/details/jj2005-08-05.rmstAUD.ILJB.shnf

Band/Artist: Jack Johnson
Date: August 5, 2005
Venue: Dodge Theatre
Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Source: *Remastered* - AT931c > SPSB-2 (Roll off @ 107Hz) > Sony PCM-M1
Lineage: Remastered from Steve LeFevre's original AUD source
Taped by: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=taper%3A%22Steve%20LeFevre%20%28hmblmunkye%40aol.com%29%22
Setlist:

Never Know
Taylor
Dreams Be Dreams
Banana Pancakes
Do You Remember
Flake
Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
Cookie Jar
Symbol on My Driveway
Rodeo Clowns
Constellations
Breakdown
Never Gonna Give You Up > Holes to Heaven
Tomorrow Morning
Bubble Toes
Wasting Time
Belle
Mudfootball
Horizon Has Been Defeated
Bad Fish > Boss DJ
Inaudible Melodies
Good People
Times Like These
No Other Way
Two of Us
The News > Natural Mystic
Plastic Jesus > Fall Line > Spring Wind
Pirate Looks at 40
Better Together