MorkleFeb

Since when does making a post to your blog qualify as being productive?! Stayed away from alcohol and bars for the evening in order to be "productive." So far, that's meant: watch the wire and make a long awaited (and much anticipated) blog post.

Had a shiny post prepared about a month ago, featuring all the top albums of 07 and why I was so dreamy-eyed about them. Somehow it got whisked away by the internet gods. Bunk.

Back to the music! The modern man must hustle!

MorkleFeb

01: Phoenix - One Time Too Many
02: Pharoahe Monch - Welcome To The Terrordome
03: Mice Parade - Snow
04: St. Vincent - Paris Is Burning
05: MGMG - Kids
06: I'm From Barcelona - Ola Kala
07: Tapes 'n Tapes - Hang Them All
08: Alaska In Winter - Close Your Eyes
09: Benoit Pioulard - Patter
10: Guillemots - Annie, Let's Not Want
11: Minipop - Like I Do

Should have just stuck to the wire, eh?

No but wait! Here, I gotta explain a little something about the creation of these damn mixes. I start out with a long list of songs, selected whilst i'm doing my perpetual rawking out thing that I do. From time to time I go back to that list and re-listen to all the tracks. Sometimes I'm totally clueless about what in gods name I was thinking ever putting the song on the list in the first place, but other times I find that there is a reason. Doesn't necessarily have to be a GOOD reason, but I shoot for a nice variety of trax and some sort of repeat-playability kinda thing.

January 15th: I'll go ahead and say it- the best day I've had snowboarding so far this season. Coincidentally, (or perhaps not) I had my camera with me to get a smidgen of photographic evidence to support my enthusiasm.

We got a slightly delayed start due to the now routine; wait for cody session, but no one was too stressed because the mountain had only received a measly 7 inches of new snow...certainly nothing unique amongst this seasons many 2 and 3 foot dumps. hah. Anyway, we were all somewhat shocked to see the above scene as we came up chair 6- the shit was DRY.

(Kev on Q.P.)

(Smooth slashin' Aus-10)

As I mentioned, I had my camera and some mighty interested subjects (wish I could somehow convey a thick, dense layer of sarcasm here). They did humor my photo interests for the first run, which is where I got these two photos, but after that, it was clear that the hold-up was not worth the fruits. Can't say I can necessarily blame the boyz, as conditions were nothing short of epic.


After an early lunch, I ditched the camera gear and we hiked the arm. The below photo is not mine to claim credit for, but it illustrates the hellofmad beauty that one is surrounded by as they venture out the arm. We dropped into "Safety," the aptly named shallowest gradient route down the arm. As it happens, safety has some wicked wind-lips and cornices, both of which I totally LAUNCHED over! Actually, no, I didn't launch over anything. Keving, however, did probably the most explosive backside slash-carve I've ever witnessed on one such wind-lip- totally annihilated the thing into a massive cloud of dusty white smoke. Oh the glory! Definitely the S.J.S.O.T.D.