More Montreal

I saw a fantastic firework show from the Montreal bridge that cost about $600,000. It was the final show in a month long contest between a bunch of countries. WOW!

The workshop is wonderful. I almost can't how fast you get better when you are playing so much. Go figure!!

Gotta run!!!!

Montreal!

I am here in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is like Europe, but in, like, North America. It is so much fun here. I mainly play tabla all day. 5 hours today, maybe 6 yesterday, but I do have time to eat, which is nice. Payton MacDonald is here and Pandit Sharda Sahai is here. He is soo amazing. Oh, and I'm learning French.

also, check this out. blows the mind

Whoa! It's been a long time!

WHoops! Sorry about that. Life gets crazy and then you don't update the blog.
The last time I talked was when I was pre-surf trip. Since then, I have caught waves on the East coast for the very first time, rode the nose of an 8 foot long-board, graduated with a master's degree, stayed with PJ Kelly's parents in Evanston and began my venture into the REAL world. Whatever that means. I started a photography business and set goals for my life and it feels great. Now, with all the time that at one point was spent in school for the last twenty years of my life, I can do whatever I want. Shaaaaaa! I'm going to a tabla workshop with Pandit Sharda Sahai which happens to take place in Montreal, Canada starting on Monday. I'm not well versed with my Canadian geopgraphy, of which my experience is constrained to British Columbia and Toronto, so it came to my surprise that my trip there would consist an map-quest-guestimation of 1113.84 miles--an 18 hour and 28 minute duration. I like loco and loco likes me.
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The Endless Summer begins

Fairfield Boyscout Troop #108 Commander Thatch!

"You have a phone call. It's 1980s Southern California and it wants its pastel towel and surfboard back."

Yah!


North Carolina surf. I sent this series in to the International Photography Awards.



Stephanie Kelly, Karen and ME at the Botanic Gardens!

End of class celebration

I LOVE these moments on film!!!

Rock solid

I'm off to the southeast coast tommorrow morning. Wish me luck and many pictures coming when I get back. I had an amazing photo shoot this morning out in the countryside. I love photography because you're able to freeze moments of beauty into single frames. Any anxiety of not catching the best moments have melted away into just being able to go with the flow of nature and react perfectly and naturally. It feels the same with music and everything else in life.

Blows my Mind

I am going to the outer banks of North Carolina on SUnday for a 9-day surf trip with boyscouts. Heaven, anyone?
Also, I am graduating in 2 weeks. YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

feelin the flow

Alright! SO I'm listening to Kelly Clarkson a la Matt Blanchard's divine influence and I have a mohawk. Awesome. I did it again and it feels wonderful.

Beauty in Every Way

YES!!!!!

The moment we have all been waiting for.

Arizona!

Classic Graduation


Grand Canyon by full moon

My house

yah!

OK, it's spring hear and I feel like everything has changed--my life, my friends, everything! It's awesome but crazy, but really awesome. I'm sorry for not being up-to-date with this blog thing, but I have been busy like a mother. I have a lot of pics to put up soon, but not now because I'm going to crash right now.
By the way, my pregnant cousin Paige and her husband Grant visited this weekend. We had a great time. There was just so much stuff going on, that we had such a hard time figuring out what to do. Ok, that was a lie. This IS Iowa.

(this is from Thanksgiving 2005-not now)
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Who loves the flash?

Check this out!

Extreme Origami
Telescopes made with said technology

much ahead . . .

Just got back from Spring Break 2006 in VAIL, Colorado. Multi-media extravaganza awaits you.

Loco!

It has been pure loco here lately. David Lynch came for the weekend to talk to a bunch of people who came to hear him talk about creativity and whatnot. Dr. John Hagelin talked as well. AND rockstar DONOVAN performed several times. I admit that I had not even heard of this guy until a couple weeks ago, even though I have inadvertently heard some of his most well-known songs--Mellow Yellow to be exact. It's crazy how much music is out there that I have no idea about. The only person I think that might actually be up-to-date on everything is Grey McMurray--that fool is freaking on point. Anyways, DONOVAN was amazing. Such a performer, plus he had some great stories about his life and the times he spent with the Rish--the Maharish(i) that is.
I stepped out of the building today, get on my motorbike (50cc), and the sky lights up for 3 seconds straight with fork lightning. Imagine that!

SNOW

I wake up, after a great night of sleep because it was windy and cold all night, and I look outside, and it looks like Siberia. Crazy. It's not springtime yet.

Weekend

It has been a good weekend. Laid back yet full of activity. I just got back from a Sunday night dinner with friends where I ate some phenomenal Italian food--that which ranks up there with Ma Chiavaro's raviolis and the family trip to Firenze, Italy. Good times.
David Lynch is coming to Fairf next weekend for a festival of consciousness at the university which will happen to hold about a thousand people, so I've been getting together a band for that occasion, as well as a future concert. We are playing Aretha Franklin's Rocksteady which has a severe James Brown-type groove. Tommorrow starts the new block called "Constitution of the Universe". I am not sure of the course specifics yet but I'm sure it has something to do with the title. Hmmmm.
I'm about to watch the surf movie--The Craving--that contains my cousin Heather's movie debut. Goodnight.

Monday Night

Ok, I know my blogs haven't been the best lately--I'm sorry for that. Actually, to tell you the truth, they crack me up, but I can see how someone might say that they have been a bit sparse and/or outdated. Whatever.
I just saw my favorite movie of all time two nights ago--COMMANDO--starring my home state's commander and chief, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Alyssa Milano. This movie gets a B rating at best but I think Arnold should have won an Oscar for his performance. "Why don't they just call him Girl George," asks Colonel Matrix with 80s half-mullet to his 13 year old daughter, "it would cut out all the confusion." Brilliant. I cry every time.
It is Monday, the last week of my Ayur-Vedic Self-Pulse Class, and here comes a 3 day weekend. I'm stoked. I don't know what I will do but I will let you know. I'm watching Last Samurai.

It's ok! My cell phone is back!

I found the cell phone! You can all start calling me again! HA HA! IT's so hilarious--once you finaly give up on finding something, that is when you find it. This is a law a nature, I am convinced.
I saw Renee Fleming last night in Iowa City, the NYC of the Iowa. She is a master. Absolutley perfect.
I'm going to bed.

My Cell Phone Walked Out on Me

I can't find my phone. We've all done it at least twice and, when bad, it's usually gone for at least a day, maybe two. It's been about 4 days and I'm scared. I think it's on the side of the road or something, lying there, saturated from today's cold rain, battery long dead. I hope not. It better not. It would be great if it were in a part of my backback that I have happened to overlook the 10 times that I have already tried, but alas, this is not the way the world works. It'll be back. It always does.

DAVID F FRY!!!

David F. Fry is becoming a United States citizen tommorrow, Saturday, March 4th!!! Electronic-Mail David at DavidFFry@cs.com to congratulate him!

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