Weekend Snow Report

This past weekend was pretty miserable except for the grand day I had skiing with Mike as shown in the photos. The miserable part was from the flu virus I contracted and the fever I've finally shaken after 2 days of misery (This may account for some delirium in this dispatch from Denver). There were other things that made the weekend pretty miserable but I'll likely only divulge after many libations, and besides it's not the point of this blog, so back to the skiing! Skiing to me is like sex and the day on the mountain in some new bowls I never knew existed at Breckenridge was orgasmic. We found ourselves hiking staircases of ice and pushing across scree fields at the top of the mountain in gale force winds, but once we dropped in it was amazing. To get a great account of the ski day in words I can only wish to muster, visit Mike's blog and read his account on "Yup, We Live in Colorado". On days like Saturday on top of Peak 7 and Peak 8 in Breckenridge, I'm glad I've made the move to a mountain state.

Good stuff in the ipod.

A great thing about being in a new town with new company is that you get exposed to new music which in turn inspires you to find albums on your own. Here's what's been playing in my ipod the last couple weeks:
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain - Hip hop meets David Bowie rock melodies.
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site - Think a Canadian Weezer with more provocative lyrics.
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue - Woodie Guthrie's massive lyric collection without music gets a treatment from Billy Bragg and Wilco.
Jeff Buckley - Grace - How did I not ever hear this album before? Simply amazing ethereal rock.