Saturday, 10 November 2012

Exploring and a Kick Ass Gig

Today I went for a run / walk to the Santa Barbara Mission:



Which is an old church thing. I couldn't really be bothered with more museum so I didn't pay to go inside. Instead I kept running on up the road hoping to find a mountain trail or something. Instead all I found was a rabbit warren of roads on the side of the hill with no footpaths. I was in dire danger or getting lost so I decided to head back towards where I thought town was. On the way I did find this:


Where the tarmac is literally melting down the hill. Holy crap it gets hot here! When I waited around for a bit before seeing if I could go up the Mesa (the small hills to the west of downtown Santa Barbara) to get a picture of the sunset. Unfortunately where I headed turned out to be a radio repeater site so I could not get in. All the rest of the streets I went down had houses obscuring the horizon so that was a massive fail. Second run / walk for the day so I guess that was a plus. On the way back I did cross over the free way and decided to take this cliche shot:


I really need to get more original with my photos. 

Brooke and Tristan went to LA for the weekend to baby sit Brookes sisters 18 month old baby so I decided to head into town and check out the music. Apparently there is some "New Noise Festival" on in Santa Barbara this weekend. I went to the James Joyce again and started talking to some UCSB students that were going to a gig at the Velvet Jones bar down the road. It was part of the New Noise festival so had a $10 cover charge to get in but holy shit it was worth it. The headline act wasn't that crash hot (some old dude that was a somebody back in the day with his band) but the warm up acts were pretty good. The stand out being "Larry and his Flask" which I had difficulty picking a genre for. Check it out for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903oVzMObak (I wonder if that link will still be alive in 30 years? I'm guessing it will be a "hah hah, I remember youtube" moment). I guessed that they were "Blue metal" or "Folk grass rock". I see that they have also been described "Rockabilly". Either way the performance was incredibly. So much energy and I dunno how they didn't take each other out they were jumping around so much. I also don't know how the drummer played the whole set standing up. I had a yarn to one of them after the show and he said they tour Canada sometimes so I'll definitely keep an eye out. Cheers to Elizabeth, Yan, Josh and Angela for giving me the heads up!

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