UK TRIP - Post 5 (Saturday - Weston Park. Pics O plenty.)
Tue Aug 26, 2003 10:42 am
I'm on a roll now. Come clean - you lost faith in me didn't you. But I'm
posting like a craaaazzy fool now. I realize I lost the battle and probably
lost most of the traffic from the UK since we'be been back a week now.
But..hey, if this just ends up being some obsessive family photo album
that we can look back on one day, it's cool.
Here are the beginnings of our Sunday (August 17th) - heading to
Stafford... Weston Park. And in case you didn't know or care, the 17 year
old drummer for this band's name is Weston. freaky huh. He played there
and his name is Weston...get it? It's the same. That's freakin' weird, yo.
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and now, I'll go to work on posting. bd
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Basically, first there are a bunch of images taken in the back passenger
area of this interesting van/bus thing that Nettwerk rented for us. You'd
climb in the middle, but there was a front seat that didn't allow access to
the back. Jon (band member) and Rock (Nettwerk trouble-shooter/tour
manager, friend) and Paul (driver/new friend/great guy/musician) were
up front. Gear was stowed in a separate back end to the bus thing. ok.
I'm warning you....there are too many of these images.
Stacy is most annoyed out of any of them at being photographed. But, I can imagine how much it would suck
to have a video camera lurking at every step... she's pretty cool with it overall.
Weston was having a reflective moment... probably thinking, "I want food".
You can read the journal for the complete account of all our doings,
but just in case you're A.D.D., we picked up Dave after eating b-fast at
the Holiday Inn - and, well, he's always entertaining. We stopped at a
coffee shop in the area where Jack the Ripper ripped on innocent women.
yikes. But the cappuccino sucked. There were wicked grounds in the
bottom that I chugged and almost spewed. Dave is a joy to be
around...and pound for pound, is probably the best managers on the
planet. Now, let's join the virtual picture tour now still in progress...
Here is Dave reading the Blender story on Eisley for the first time. Then
he turned around and said, "nice article"...and started shooting video with his little digital camera...
...as seen above. That's why the girls are making such weird, funny faces.
I didn't blur these. I'm not going for some blurred look. This must be an
image of Stacy while changing metamorphic phase. Her isotopic density
looks to be about .00kilogigs. That's about when the bubbles start. I must
have turned the camera off when she morphed... and, well...the explosion.
I warned you; but, you know the rule...if I like it, it's going on the forum.
I'm not in the band...I can do this. If it were up to them, there would be
no images on the world wide web; but since I like the band and they let
me live with them...I post these. Besides, I think they're cute. Especially
Weston and Jon.
They're drinking hard apple juice. It's out of control. Rehab. It's the only
thing left to do.
I might be wrong, but I think this is the tower at some train station.
And this is cropping into the beautiful train station building.
And this is it from a distance...driving away. We're heading out of London
to Stafford. It took quite a while to get there. I will go back and look for
more images perhaps...but for the time being: ( I had a photo of what I thought at first was Weston Park, but Juan told me I was bogus. I was.
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captains log. stardate 0826003. It's thundering outside. A Texas shower
is steaming the slabs of molten asphalt deliniating our very manicured
lawn. The humidity is thick as a brick. Chauntelle just did her "LA Times"
interview. Weston is looking on a Radioshack website looking for some
wire he needs to replace. Sherri is out with mom and Collin doing
something. Stacy had to get the dog out - she (the dog) got scared
because of the loud thunder. I'm posting but want to go outside to see
how nice the yard work I did looks. Darin from Nettwerk just called to
give me the phone number for the photographer. He also wants "The
Winter Song" by FedX tonight. I'm no Ozzie and this isn't intertaining.
More pics later.
boyd
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