Come See My Band!

The Ancible has two shows lined up and everyone that can should come see us!

Dec 31st at the Boise State Student Union Building. Free!

January 30th at the Venue! Battle of the bands and tickets are $8.

Come support local music and local cool dudes!

Christmas List

-Records. Can be cheap and I will love practically anything.

-A nintendo. Yes, the old school one. :)

-Anything musical. Anything old looking especially.

-CD-Rs

-Something home made!

-BOOKS!!

Just ideas if anyone doesnt have any. Thanks, God bless!

New Band - The Ancible

So Im in this new band. We are awesome (which is not really an arrogant thing to say because I'm complementing other people too! ;) ). Anyways, we are The Ancible. Our Myspace is currently being awesomized, so bear with us, but we have two songs recorded and put up for your listening pleasure.

The Ancible Myspace Page at http://www.myspace.com/theancible

Music

So after a year or two long slump in music and art, I think I'm finally back.

For awhile all I could do was write poetry and songs I was really unhappy with.
Then the songs went away.
Then at the start of this year the poetry went away. And it wasn't that I didn't want to make art, but I just couldn't. I was very uninspired.

But, I think Im out of that. I am in three bands, plus my solo stuff, all of which is very musically satisfying:
A queen/killers reminiscent piano rock with a little spice of popular music band.
An artsy modern rock 5 piece (think modern, more mature Beatles, but playing good music)
and an electronica/ambient/experimental duo

plus a folksy solo album, a water inspired EP, and a two disc, two hour long rock-symphonic masterpiece.

Jeesh.

My myspace will have the links and stuff:
http://www.myspace.com/bmorganwaters

$0.22 Motorcycle

First off, I promise to update more.

Second, I love Craigslist. I got home last Thursday from work at about 8:05, and was bored and on my local Craigslist by 8:07. I found an ad in the free section for a free motorcycle. So I called the guy up and totally scored it! It had a title and key and everything. Not a bad investment! A few hours of electrical work and a 22 cent hose and the beast ran. I have ridden it a few times since, and its a hardtail (meaning no rear suspension) so it beats you to hell, but whatever.

Here are pictures.

SAMM - Jump Creek April 09

So Super Adventurous Manly Men went camping at Jump Creek. It was a freakin' blast, and turned out a lot better than expected. It was scheduled to be the last bad weather of the season (wind and snow flurries!), but we went anyways. Before we went, I bought an expensive down (oh so soft) sleeping bag. I didn't regret it. We drove to Marsing and picked up some really gross burritos that had probably been there for a few days. We stopped eating them once we realized we'd probably get the poops. Then we drove to Jump Creek and drove clear around so the Nightwatchman wouldn't find us (he foiled a previous attempt of ours, as its closed from sunset to sunrise).

We then hiked a half mile more or less to the trailhead. Then we hiked to the falls, snapped some photos, then hiked to the top of the falls. We climbed up the Devils Staircase and then spied on some people, Smeagul/Gollum style. It was pretty cool.

We then hiked pretty far in, found a cave, decided to sleep in it, then hiked pretty far down the canyon just to make sure. We wound down and had dinner when an adorable mouse with big ole huge eyes came and was eating from our garbage pile (don't worry, we packed it all out). He ended up scaring us in the middle of the night by pulling the packages around the rocks. Haha.

We slept. Well, I slept for like 9 hours, while Brian slept for like 4. Even though I only had my sleeping bag (and my clothes in a stuff sack for a pillow) and he had a sleeping bag, a sleeping pad, a fleece liner, and a pillow, I slept longer. Haha. And as tradition, I slept with my head downhill. We read some too.

Brian then woke me up about 9:00 and we decided to eat, pack up and leave. Quickly done, and we were at the car by like 12:00. Not bad. Obviously this is a sweetened condensed version of the story, but just know it was fun and the mouse was cute.

This is me and Brian.



This is Brian's silhouette above Devils Ladder



This is Brian in front of his loyal VW Fox



This is me before the beutiful New Zealand landscape



And this is where we decided to set up camp

Custom Hybrid Pack

So this is my current overnighter pack. Thats right, it is an external frame. Now why would I do that?

Because I hate having to pull everything out of my pack to get something at the bottom.

Suprisingly (as long as you dont use compression sacks or dont mind not taking your beloved fleece sleeping bag liner) you can fit much gear in (on) here. I recently took it on an inclined hike through snow and 35lbs pack weight and felt great!

My secret?

I got some internal frame shoulder harness and hip belt, then cut some aluminum slats (ooh, slats...), then weaved them through the aluminum external frame. This is a riff off of my idea to combine the usability of an external frame with the comfort of an internal.

Slats-$12
Original pack and Frame-$5 (thrift store)
Harness-$1 (REI Clearance)
Hip Belt-$1 (REI Clearance)

TOTAL COST: About $20! Not bad for a super usable pack/experiment. Also the actual cloth pack is removable, making this system modular, thus expanding my options.

I plan to make more and more outdoor gear, as its cool and definitely cuts costs (and who doesn't like toting an oldschool, brown and blue jansport external pack into the wilderness. beats those designer Osprey's...I actually really want an Osprey...)