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I found this album while browsing my galleries, and then I noticed the title and realized it was exactly one year ago today! An interesting look at what’s happened in a year. My photography certainly hasn’t changed

October 29th Magic Hour

I haven’t found an album like this in years. I’ve been listening to it and nothing else for the last week and it still hasn’t gotten old, which is no small feat for me. Maybe this is just my style, a perfect mix of folk guitar and harmonized vocals, something like Iron & Wine mixed with Joni Mitchell and Rilo Kiley, but actually together, well orchestrated, and more modern and very listenable, none of them annoying in the slightest. The songs are tight, perfectly arranged and played, and memorable, with beautiful poetic lyrics that shift between somewhat pessimistic and hopefully and honestly optimistic. From the first to the last track, there’s not a single bad one. The only one I skip sometimes is the sad one

If you’re looking for an album to listen to, think about, and listen to again and again, this is the one! Hear some tracks at their web site.

I’m finally back up! I found new hosting immediately, but delayed restoring the backups for personal reasons. The break was nice; just one less thing to think about for a few weeks. I lost all ranking on Google, and probably many transient readers, but those aren’t things to care about much. It is, after all, only the internet.

Goings-on over the past three weeks, list style:

• Cal beat Oregon State, Oregon, Washington State, and Washington in four straight games. We’re now 7-1 and ranked 12th in the nation. Go Bears!


• My dad shipped me his Olympus E-500 to use for a while since mine was stolen. It should keep the pictures flowing. Thanks dad!


• I flew to Massachusetts for my grandfather’s funeral (he was 96 years old!). It was a fun family reunion of sorts and the fall colors were beautiful. I’ve got to get out there more, I quite like the east coast. Pictures of that will be up soon for those waiting.


• I’ve decided to apply to grad school at Berkeley, in the Computer Science HCI department! I’m taking the GRE in two weeks and I’ll go from there… wish me luck!

That’s about all I can think of right now. It’s been busy overall, just one thing after another with work and band and family and all. Just feels like every week there’s more and more, and nothing ever stops and everything’s always changing, and at the end of every day I just wish we could take a two week vacation in Hawaii. I guess that’s life eh?