Too Tired To Be Fighting
I’m still sore from Friday’s adventure to Guinda. If you’ve never heard of Guinda, it’s a small town with a population less than 600, quietly nestled six miles north of Cache Creek casino. It’s the kind of town that would have a YouTube mention of Guinda on the front page of its newspaper. There’s a corner store and Joel’s house, and that’s pretty much the excitement for Guinda. Nestled north of Guinda is a town called Rumsey, where Joel, Kayce, their friend Travis and I found ourselves rushing down Cache Creek (the water) in inflatable tubes. After a near-death experience and inches away from drowning, I was exhausted and found myself back in Vacaville short of 9:30PM.
While I did take photos in Guinda, it was probably a good thing I didn’t take my camera on the water. Aside from being dumped into the water several times (once so severe, I was held under water for about ten seconds without air while my back was slammed into a rock), I had my car keys in what I thought was a securely tightened Ziploc bag in my pocket. My keyless entry allows me to unlock my doors, but refuses to lock them. Good thing I have power door locks. Anyway, I can’t wait to get back in the tubes and go down Cache Creek again. Maybe not anytime soon–my shoulders, knees and back all hurt from either excessive rowing or being pushed into rocks by rutheless waters–but in the near future. While in Guinda, I received a message on my phone saying I’d been hired by the Nut Tree Family Park.
Saturday afternoon, I caved and got a Last.FM account. I feel the need to share my love for Keane and John Mayer with the rest of the world. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work like I thought it would, but it’s still a neat little tool nonetheless. As time goes by, I’ll figure more and more of it out. Last.FM is audio’s answer to online social networking, making it the MySpace of music.
Doing my usual wrap of YouTube, I stumbled across this video of Keane’s UK commercial for their album Under The Iron Sea. I also happened to make my way to Keane’s live performance of “A Bad Dream” from BBC Radio 1’s “Big Weekend” this past summer. I can recall hearing ads for this on BBC Radio 1, but it seemed to have more of an emphasis on Snow Patrol rather than Keane. The more I listen to Keane and Britpop in general (I just learned today that’s the proper title for the genre), the more I figure I’d have loved The Beatles if I was a child of the 1960s. Hopefully, I’ll have the opportunity to see Keane in concert come October when they play at UC Berkeley.
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