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The few people that hang out in my apartment know that Scabs is also an aspiring musician, wittily naming himself Club of Friends. I've been trying to help Fluffs come up with an awesome cover for his first cd, 'One Two Tango'. Once we submerged ourselves in some much needed coffee on the U of Washington campus, the rest of day 4 awesomezomg was spent attempting to take promotional/press photos for when Club of Friends gets ‘discovered.’ Here are some of the goodies:

Zomgggs Josh even let me try to be in one. I fell over, but kept up the awesome:

Also, I was enchanted at the Bus Station. Why are Greyhound station so dirty/muted/and classy?







And here's the awesome jam of today... it's not for everyone but this guy kept me company on the 4 hour bus ride back to Portlandia this afternoon.
Mop Head- By Edit

I'll miss you, Fluffy Fingers. Keep it awesome!

As the day was rounding its zenith and nothing especially awesome was in the works for the rest of the day, I decided the cure would be the purchase a last minute train ticket up to Seattle. Luckily I live just blocks from Union Station, so I threw my camera in a bag and literally ran onto the almost-departed train. I spent the next 3 hours thinking about how awesome it was 1. Having made the train, 2. Being ON a train, for the first time alone and for the first time in America, and 3. Getting to see my long lost friend Josh on his turf (if y’all don’t remember Josh, he was my partner in crime along with Sam whilst exploring the greater parts of Capfed, Buenos Aires).

Here is josh as I first knew him:

Awesome sunset as seen from the train:

I stumble out of the train and encounter a series of buses and strangers, finally finding Fluffs (pseudonym for Josh) poetically on an overpass in the middle of ‘downtown’ ‘Seattle.’ We do all the things we used to do: drink coffee, say crude and inappropriate things to/about each other, make awkward small talk, take public transportation, and make jokes that only we’d understand/not be offended by.

Get on a bus to Josh’s friends house (believe it or not) to drop our stuff before we hit ‘Honey Bag’ or ‘Honey Hole’ for what Josh referred to as ‘sooo awesome’ for some eats. Right as our food was coming, Josh made sure I didn’t have any appetite left by picking a scab on his arm.

We hit all the awesome bars in Scab’s old stomping grounds, visited the local sex toy shop (awesome!), and waited for a bus home at the crack of 3 am. We took about 8000 asweome pics on my camera that I was so excited about, only to discover on arrival back in PDX that I didn’t have the cord for my lil camera anymore. [[note to self: get a new cord tomorrow or 40 Days of Awesome will turn into 40 Days of What May or May Not Have Been Awesome, but Either Way There is No Proof]]

Please check back for awesome photos of day 3.

Anyway, we spent the night on a futon just small enough for Wet Chest Scabs’ (pseudonym for Josh) head and feet to hang off top and bottom. Awesome.

Nothing awesome like a nightcap photobooth session.



Awesome song of Day 3:
Speak Eagle- by Deelay Ceelay (saw them open for Starfucker a few weeks ago..check them out live if you can b/c they are AWESOME)

It's before 10 and I'm already being awesome. After a canceled trip to C-attle, I now had to undertake the arduous task of delivering my car to it's weekday home-- aprox. 20 blocks away from my apartment. It's chilly and fall and I jammed to this on my ipod. Reminded me of Clarence and kava.

Anyway, after trying out a new coffee shop, running in with my dear friend Cloud on the elevator, and sitting down at my 'desk' for a day of work, I realized i needed more coffee and needed to drink it out of this mug, recieved as a gift from one of my BFFs Jessie Matanky on her recent trip to Moab:




It is a rattle snake with it's head popping out, if you didn't catch that.


Thanks for making my morning extra awesome, Jbomb. Most awesome mug ever.



p.s. kitteh

I'm already finding that being awesome in the middle of the week is a bit harder to do than weekends, but I did it! Following a morning meeting with Tin House Books, I headed to the Galvanic office (I frequent this place about 20 hours a week) to work on some junk for the 2010 Campus Rail Jam Tour. After slaving away for hours, I was relieved of my duties for some fun... FUN WITH A LASER!!

We have a laser at the office to cut sunglasses, a side project we've been working on called Shwood Sunglasses, but every once in a while, if you’re really good, you’re allowed to use it for personal awesomeness.

The first part was actually work. We made these prototypes for the Shwood packaging. I <3 woodgrain.






And here is my attempt at handling a laser on a personal level: Moleskin Journal of Awesomeness. I imagine writing awesome things in it so I don’t forget anything awesome throughout my 40 days of awesome.









I also decided that my 40 days of awesome deserves a soundtrack. Right click to download what I jammed to today:

Sunlight-By Harlem Shakes


A good day for lasers. Now I'm just hanging out out with my cat, bloggin' and junk.