At the Getty Center

Recorded: May 5, 2003 around 2:15 pm | Audio

A short little recording today from my faithful wayback machine: the Getty Center fountain. A transient pause with Lauren and Michael in a day filled with art. Posing. Smoking more than expected. Shooting the shit. Where’s Bren? What cat scratched you?

The sound’s not too great. I’m told it was a moist day, though.

Date Festival

Recorded: February 20, 2003 around 7:44 pm | Audio

A trip to the Riverside County Date Festival, starring Mickey and Lauren, Angela, the kids from the center, lotsa goats (and other livestock), some awesome and not-so-awesome karaoke performances, and more than a few windchimes.

Yes windchimes. In the second track, “Wandering Ear,” I appear to have walked around for two hours recording everything in sight (so to speak). Thankfully this happens to include the one and only performance of the famed “Squidy and Pete” duo. You can also hear Angela’s triumphant and decisive win for her performance of Devo’s “Whip It” (although I can’t seem to find the performance itself—let me know if you find it). Also featured: a goat who didn’t know she was a princess. Or a princess who didn’t know she was a goat.

Give it a listen.

House Matusiak

Recorded: December 20th, 2002 — Evening | Audio

A gathering of minds and the atmosphere of an age: being at Angela and Mike’s.

I had to work hard to get this one—my MiniDisc recorder crashed and didn’t write the TOC, making the audio completely inaccessable. I had to improvise by using my old (broken) Sharp MT-15 to rewrite the whole evening as a single track.

Never listened to the whole recording except for when I was there, December 2002, almost three years ago. Look out for surprises.