Thrifty #10

Stuff In Books

I tend to buy at least one book every time I go to Goodwill or value village. You can often find some amazing things and they are always so cheap. Sometimes you can find some hidden things inside of those books that people have left there. Here are a few examples of things I have found in books.

I found a book on the North Woods and inside was an envelope labeled: To Dad

Inside the envelope was a letter.

Now I don't know if this letter was given to this dad along with the book or the letter was placed in the book from something separate.

I found an amazing book done for a show that was at the Seattle Art Museum back in the 70's called Northwest Traditions.

This must have been sent to a donnor or someone associated with the museum because on the inside was this letter that must have accompanied the book in the mail.

Anyone know a Peggy Aspinall?

The last book I will share is One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest that looks like it was written in by someone inside the cuckoo's nest.

This book is filled with these little doodles and small reminders and notations on almost every page. Some of them clearly relate to the story but others are completely random.

I haven't gone through every single book I have bought page by page so maybe there are other strange or amazing things that are just waiting for me to discover. Hopefully I find some money stashed away in one.

What I'm up to.

More Work

All work and no play make Ian do this.



If you feel dizzy after watching this it's not from motion sickness, it's just that your mind can't handle so much awesome at one time. I go sleep now. More work tomorrow.

Recommending You Watch

It Might Get Loud

Over the weekend I watched the documentary It Might Get Loud. I have been wanting to see this since I saw the trailer awhile back.



I must say I was not disappointed when I actually watched it. I was worried at first that it would just be these three guys sitting around talking. It goes so much deeper in to each of their careers and their styles of playing. Having these three come together is great because you have three separate generations of players.

Jimmy Page is somewhat the pioneer and laid down much of the foundation of what is played today. His style is a no nonsense one where he is just naturally talented and doesn't want or need much more then himself and a good guitar. Moving on to the Edge you see in the start of his carrere he wanted to be like those great rock and roll types he grew up listening to but he wanted to take that to the next level. The Edge bases most of his playing on manipulating the sound that he is playing. He uses filters and software that he has spent hours upon hours tweaking to get just right. Jack White's style of playing is sort of a rejection of the Edge's and even goes back even before what Jimmy Page established. Jack White wants you to be able to hear the imperfections in the instrument. He wants you hear the story of that instrument. He would rather play a guitar he found laying in the gutter then the nicest guitar that money could buy.

It was interesting to hear the story behind each of these legends. It seems like the electric guitar has had a very long time in the limelight. It will be interesting to see overtime just where it goes and who will be the next great player to take it someplace new.

Uwajimystery #10

Rice & Peanut's Drink

This weeks Uwajimystery is fairly mild but still strange nonetheless. Rice & Peanut's Drink.

Who are Rice and Peanut? Do you think they may be two friends who wanted to capture some fame off of their names? What better drink for Rice and Peanut to come up with then a rice and peanut drink. Then with all food products you have to go through the challenge of coming up with a catchy name. Seeing how Collon was already taken I guess they decided to just name it after themselves. Rice and Peanut's rice and peanut drink may seem like an odd pairing at first but thinking about it more it seems fairly fitting. I have had a lot of Asian dishes with both rice and peanut that taste great. I'm sure Rice and Peanut also figured this out as well. 

Upon opening Rice and Peanut's Drink the first smell is of course peanuts, you don't really smell rice. Pouring it into a glass it is a fairly thick drink with a few speckles of bits what I'm guessing is either rice or peanuts. Its a healthy brown color if there ever was a shade of brown that could be described as healthy. Actually looking at it sitting there in the glass it sort of reminds me of this.

The first sip reveals a mild peanut taste and a rather strong watery taste. Rice doesn't really come through for me. Peanut's peanuts seem to dominate the drink. Its a bit odd tasting, it can be described as watery peanut soup. You could probably get the same effect if you put a little dab of peanut butter in a glass of water and mix it up a bit. I'm not really sure where rice comes into play with this drink. Odd.

Random Clicks

More Canon Ae-1 Pictures

Here are some more pictures from my Ae-1. You can see the rest on my flickr here. The pictures range from Bellingham, to the Publix Hotel, to Lead Pencil Studio.

Here are a few.

Currently Listening To

Song Of The Moment

I heard this song while working at John's a while back and it has slowly become my favorite song of the moment. It took me a while to discover just what this song was. John had it on a burned cd that was only marked FEB. He didn't know what the song was. It wasn't until this morning when I heard another song from this band that I discovered who played it. Its the song "Curs in the weeds" by the band Horse Feathers from Portland. I love the cello and especially the fiddle in this song. I'll probably play this out in a week or so then I wont be able to listen to it for awhile.

What I'm up to.

Sleep

In the time it would have taken me to compile the time lapse I did today, then go on to explain just what it is and what I'm doing, I'm going to go sleep instead.