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Things appear to be coming full circle somehow. Seeing Unearth live was literally the first thing done upon landing here in San Diego, and now that I’m finally starting to begin to feel more at home here, it seems fitting I’m going to thrash out watching them again tonight — opening for Slayer. This is a video I made from footage I took when they were last here in September. Enjoy.

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Eliza did a great job editing her first video — of us helping a neighbor who’d locked herself out of the building. It’s about time I reposted it.

Back in college, I wrote an essay for my Philosophy in Literature class about a muddy metaphor Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. makes in his novel, Cat’s Cradle.** I just now finished editing the footage from this weekend’s Muddy Buddy (video below), and, watching everyone again - reliving the tingly joy of being exhausted and filthy - it reminded me of a certain reverence for nature depicted through Bokononism,* the ‘made up’ religion mentioned throughout the book.

I won’t get too far into it, but especially with everything that’s going on these days in the world, and in this country, there is a strange comfort in knowing that a drove of wild hooligans need no better reason to get together and act like a bunch of animals than just that. If anything, it says something about the demand for a feeling of community and release that is created by such an isolated society.

Anyhow, doing this race was really something.

• Read eliza’s entry about it.
• Check out the narrated photos: [set menu] [slideshow]
• Play the video below. Or view it [here] at blip.tv. Highlights include a man finishing ahead of his partner despite his prosthetic leg falling off. (His partner carried it for him.):

*From ‘Books of Bokonon’:

“God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. ‘What is the purpose of all this?’ he asked politely.

‘Everything must have a purpose?’ asked God.

‘Certainly,’ said man.

‘Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,’ said God.”

**From Wikipedia:

“The book was adapted into script form by Richard Kelly, the writer and director of Donnie Darko [one of my favorite movies]. A film adaptation of ‘Cat’s Cradle’ was expected to be made in 2007 but now it appears unlikely to be produced.”

WTF!

Somewhere outside Washington, D.C. –

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Song ‘Night Driver’ by Tom Petty