Back from Coachella Valley Music & Arts Fest 2008!!
I spent about a week in SoCal, and I’m still recovering from three nights sleeping in the desert!
Last Wednesday was a long night racing across CA-41 and CA-46 in the pitch black, which was a very eerie experience with literally no other cars on the road for miles and miles. After two Rockstar energy drinks and about six shots of espresso, and after slaloming down US-101, I finally arrived at my destination at 11pm and spent a couple days enjoying Santa Barbara and Isla Vista with my friend Nicole Pefley and her roommate Benita Chow.
Nicole and I traveled east toward Palm Springs to attend this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California. Last year with Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Björk was great, but this year undoubtedly blew all my past live music experiences out of the water! Coachella is a three-day concert where you set up camp in the Indio desert. 2008 saw about 125 bands, and 60,000 attendees daily. Indio is sort of an oasis out in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by golf courses and little else. So the festival is held on the massive Empire Polo Fields, which is nice because it provides some grass. Headliners this year were Jack Johnson, Portishead, Prince, and Roger Waters—the bassist and main songwriter from Pink Floyd. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Poetic Prophet (SEO Rapper)
There’ve been some hilarious viral videos surfacing on YouTube recently from the “SEO Rapper”. Chuck, who appears to be a local Detroit Christian rapper known as the Poetic Prophet in his personal time, also serves as project coordinator at Pop Labs, a full-service digital media agency with a focus on search engine marketing and social [...]
Gmail Custom Time
Google has finally released an awesome new feature for Gmail users. Much like WordPress allows me to write a blog post and alter the timestamp (so I can schedule it to post in the future, or fall in chronologically in the past), Custom Time in Gmail will allow users to send an email with a [...]
Adobe Space Monkey
Easter Egg! Weee
That’s all. I guess when you screw up your CS2 install–which I did…after moving everything over from my crashed laptop…somehow–Photoshop loads with this amusing alternate splash page. Just thought I’d share. :)
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Cody’s January/February Summary
This is a summary of my activities in January and February that begins upon my return from Spain and Washington, D.C., and continues thenceforth, as I’m trying to record a summary of important landmark events each month. Yes, that’s a word! Thenceforth. Look it up! If you haven’t read about my New Year in Spain, [...]
The Long-Awaited Conclusion to a Journey Through Spain, and a Brief Visit to the Nation’s Capital
(It should be noted, all photos and thumbnails are clickable for full-sized photographs.)
Last time I wrote my travel journals, I left you with my New Years adventures on Ibiza, the serene little Spanish island in the Mediterranean known for its gorgeous beaches and incredible dance music, which has inspired the global house music scene. We [...]
Extraordinary Rendition
I just watched the new DVD release of the film Rendition. It’s a great movie, although very intense, and like many truly great movies it asks some hard questions about the real world. The film is about the practice of extraordinary rendition by the United States government, or the transfer of a prisoner from one [...]
Balearic Adventure: Spain for the Holidays, Part III
Sat, Dec 29: After cleaning up the apartment and preparing for our flight to Ibiza all day, we caught up with Meye once more this evening, to give her a piece of climbing equipment that Ryan had left for her as a gift. The four of us wandered a off the beaten path to Granja [...]
Quoted in the Sacramento Bee
Patrick Farrace brought this to my attention the other day: I guess the Bee finally ran their short article on the use of font types, and they included a quote from me. Nothing too fancy, but it was kind of neat to be included. Bee writer Sam McManis asked me a few questions several weeks [...]
