Kacie
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"I guess we'll keep on gettin' by" - RFR
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Post by Kacie on Jul 22, 2008 19:26:24 GMT -5
Anyone driving to the Omaha show and passing through St. Louis? My good pal Doug (and our former Melon of the Month) will be returning to St. Louis after a many-month-long trip to Peru and would GREATLY appreciate a ride to the Omaha show if anyone is passing through on their way. This poor sap has been without the Melon since March - help a good man out!
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Post by Meredith on Jul 24, 2008 5:47:41 GMT -5
Doug is back, yay! I hope he finds a ride!
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doug
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Around and over and in between the seas
Strap dynamite to my side
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Post by doug on Jul 24, 2008 14:06:35 GMT -5
yeah! help me out! on the ride I can give you an hour by hour account of my 4 day trip down the Amazon, on the equivalent of a Peruvian Greyhound bus (all-be-it in boat form, with hammocks instead of seats, a few hundred passengers in one big open deck, 2 trucks, 3 moto taxis, 1000 kilos of salt, several thousand bananas, several hundred eggs - hey guess what, you really don't need to refrigerate them! - 8 pigs, 2 cows, and a crate of chickens) perhaps we can determine the exact hour I lost my mind!
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Post by Gabbee on Jul 24, 2008 17:34:42 GMT -5
yeah! help me out! on the ride I can give you an hour by hour account of my 4 day trip down the Amazon, on the equivalent of a Peruvian Greyhound bus (all-be-it in boat form, with hammocks instead of seats, a few hundred passengers in one big open deck, 2 trucks, 3 moto taxis, 1000 kilos of salt, several thousand bananas, several hundred eggs - hey guess what, you really don't need to refrigerate them! - 8 pigs, 2 cows, and a crate of chickens) perhaps we can determine the exact hour I lost my mind! I won't be able to give you a ride as I'm not attending the show but I would still love to hear all about it. That sounds like a really good story. Good to see you back, Doug! #thumb#
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doug
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Around and over and in between the seas
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Post by doug on Jul 25, 2008 15:32:30 GMT -5
well, first I learned that the Peruvians use the Amazon as a trash can. Done with that 2 liter bottle of Inca Kola? Throw it in the water! Who cares! Those suckers in the civilized world can work to save the Amazon for us! One guy on the boat decided to consolidate his CD collection (what the h*ll else is there to do on the boat) so he frisbee'd a dozen empty plastic cases into the river, one by one, until a couple kids - god bless the future - begged him to give the cases to them rather than to the river dolphins. I think they were more entrepeneurs than environmentalists, but hey, same result.
at one point we were cruising along and hit bottom. Sudden dead stop! One of the moto taxis on the top deck (that i sometimes sat on to read - ok, i really used it to make Vrrmmm vrrmmm sounds and bounce up and down) went sliding 15 feet across the deck towards me. Then there was the night we got stuck for 2 hours in the pitch dark. The procedure for that is to gun the engines for 2 straight hours as you turn the wheel back and forth and shine the spotlight around on the shore - i dunno, maybe looking for a crocodile who can help.
I did discover the greatest Peruvian invention since the potato: bathrooms that are also showers. That way they are always clean and stink free! Heck, you could be barefoot in there! The only problem is you come out with your shirt soaked from the dripping shower head right above you.
And then finally, after 4 full days of a 3 day trip, we reached Iquitos. Everyone just stood on the front deck staring. Maybe out of habit, maybe out of shock. Maybe they had all died, in place, out of boredom. There was no mad rush for dry land as I expected. I thought, hmm, is this just a cargo port and we get off somewhere else? But no, it was over! And I lost another 15 minutes of my life until I figured this out.
But anyway, that's not important now. What's important is getting me a ride to Omaha!!!
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Post by Karen on Jul 28, 2008 9:17:20 GMT -5
Welcome back Doug!
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Post by sickman on Mar 28, 2009 7:38:57 GMT -5
www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71260Just thought I would let you guys know about this. Blind Melon Slowdown Omaha, Nebraska March 22, 2008 video & audio recorded by "The Fridge" (AKA alzeppelin here at TTD) DVD by Silver Stallion Productions Recording: video: 2 X master recordings ~ one static stage shot (Sony TRV-260 Digital 8) and one stage shot (unknown Sony mini-DV cam); 16:9 PAR (running time: 103 mins) audio: recorded 10 ft in front of the right PA stack on the 1st row of the balcony w/ Coresound High-end Binaurals > Bass Roll-off Box > Sony D100 > Master 48 khz DAT video: 2-pass VBR at 5.3K avg; 9.5K peak audio: 448 .ac3 All video editing, mixing, audio synching, etc. done in Sony Vegas Video v8; DVD authored using TMPGenc DVD Author 3 1. Hello-Goodbye 2. Galaxie 3. 2X4 4. Toes Across The Floor 5. For My Friends 6. Soup 7. With The Right Set Of Eyes 8. Drive 9. Paper Scratcher 10. Sleepyhouse 11. I Wonder 12. Cheetum Street 13. Wishing Well 14. Change 15. Hypnotized 16. Sometimes 17. Skinned 18. Soak The Sin 19. Wilt 20. No Rain-Ripped Away 21. No Rain 22. The Pusher 23. Mouthful Of Cavities 24. Time
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Post by Meredith on Mar 28, 2009 8:37:07 GMT -5
Thank you!
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Post by Lee on Mar 28, 2009 12:03:39 GMT -5
Cool, thanks sickman!
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