Hello! I am a young man from Massachusetts who is trying to lead a good life. This is all you really need to know, for now. Thank you for joining me! Basically, I am living in Worcester, MA currently and am having some nice adventures. Please don't mind the horrible MS Paint-edited maps, poor grammar, and other things that I have a hard time keeping under control. Let's have a good time with this and try not to let it get too painful , shall we?
Freedom, Maine, 6/6-9
A band that I play in, The Points North, and our close friends The Woodrow Wilsons spent a long a weekend in a trailer in Freedom, ME. We packed up lots of veggies, rice, tofu, coffee, guitars, drums, ukuleles, microphones and made the four or five hour drive from Boston after nightfall; when we arrived our surroundings were a still quite a mystery to five of the seven of us. Freedom, ME, population 645, is a somewhat forested and somewhat flat little town on the western border of Waldo County. Chris, in my band, believes that the town was clear-cut sometime in the last fifty years or so; the trees are relatively short and thin. The place is quiet and peaceful, but ultimately not awe-inspiringly beautiful as us spoiled New Englanders typically spend time in while up in Maine. We went on some nice walks, both on the trail they've made in the rear of the property, and along the long road it's located on. We were barked at, by many dogs. Their ferocity is legendary.
When we actually got down to business, we had a good time recording songs together, building roaring fires, making food, cutting grass with hand tools, playing board games, reading a book of knock-knock jokes, and other such nonsense. We recorded three songs, the WW's four songs, and on the last day we did a last-minute, unrehearsed collaborative cover of a Woody Guthrie tune. Pretty sweet. A really nice weekend.
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Current reading: "Work Your Way Around the World" by Susan Griffith.
Current listening: "The Taxidermist" album by Tom Thumb.
Current eating: Oat bagel w/vegenaise, cayenne, dill, garlic, lettuce, and homemade seitan!
Current drinking: Mango Tango Odwalla(dumpstered).
