August 2010
6 posts
Milton-Keynes
We went to milton-keynes. I got told I looked like the lead singer of brokencyde, which made me want to jump in a river. Played a pretty empty show and then decided we don’t really need to go back there. Now we are back in London hanging out with friends while we have a few days break. I have to write an essay for school. Might play a house show tomorrow.
I wanted to add a thank you to...
First Show
insane.
consisted of: a ten person human pyramid breaking out
Arv and I crowd surfing a the same time while playing
and then….Sean crowd surfing with his drum set. It was awesome. About to drive to Milton-Keynes.
Calvin-extra balls 50 pence
Tour manager, Aisha, has left for the weekend to go a punk festival in Blackpool. She gave me the keys to her apartment though. After watching a bunch of wife swap USA in her living room (very unintentionally hilarious show) and being on maya doing batch renders to send to ben, i am ready to start touring. Aisha will be back monday.
I hung out with Dave from Calvinball again tonight. he just...
July 2010
8 posts
Üntz Üntz
Had a really good 3/4 review. Then we went on a trip.
I just got back from Switzerland on an architectural field trip that was light on the architecture and heavy on the relaxing. We went to a spa designed by peter zumthor which was awesome. We also went hiking to a glacier lake and i have never seen such beautiful scenery in my life (no homo). I will upload pictures from that.
We...
I go to school here
School work and the amount of bros icing bros has progressively increased. nothing very exciting to report from the past weekend just that my partner and I are proposing our memorial to be on a different site than that of the competition brief. Our proposed site is Potsdamer Platz. I biked there on Sunday and did some documentation for site studies.
On monday we had class which as per usual...
My first week in berlin.
My camera doesnt shoot at night so very little super fun stuff is on here.
Trip Update
Day 04, Thursday -
I went to class and fell asleep early.
Day 05, Friday -
I washed my clothes in the hostel. This took about four hours because all of the machines are too energy efficient. They basically don’t work.
Then some of us guys from studio made a dinner in the studio work space. To our credit, the pesto spaghetti with bacon was pretty delicious.
Immy and Janna, two Boys...
June 2010
12 posts
Interview with the Last Living Slut →
Arv interviewed an Iranian groupie who just wrote a book called The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage
An excerpt:
My terrible, terrible band is actually going to the U.K. this summer for a tour. Do you have any advice for us or bands in general?
English girls are slutty, so I’d say it’s easy. You have your American accent. When you’re on stage, look out for any girls who are...
Berlin summer studio in progress. First attempt at approaching the site.
Starting Blog Again
This time, my blog will be much more family-friendly (I deleted all the old posts.) Its good to keep family/ friends updated. I’m leaving for Europe on July 3rd so I thought I might as well start again now.
My schedule this summer:
Now until July 3 - Brooklyn
July 3 - July 21 - Berlin (Summer Design)
July 21 - July 24 - Zurich
July 24 - August 6 - Berlin
August 7 - Dorking, UK
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