on the road: baltimore

June 24, 2011 in travel

picking up campers

sitting on a new obsession with oranges

which, for the next eight weeks, will be pronounced ahranges

on a mustard hangover

hearing the queen of spades

& elvis

roadkill

not the silly band kind

aliens

math problems

a king-sized bed, all to myself. you may call me king ahrange.

-yeh!

on the road: canada, niagara falls, niagara-on-the-lake, canada, ferris wheel

June 15, 2011 in travel

1 in between zingerman's and new york, we were in canada. it is pretty to drive through canada because a) billboards appear to be not allowed, b) walmart supercenters are walmart supercentres, and c) there are pretty silos like this one!

2 & 3 there she is. i imagine you'd never get lonely in her presence.

4 check out all those azns! half of me feels so at home.

5 niagara-on-the-lake, canada. it is a cute little town with tea time and an abundance of maple syrup. also: ice wine, immaculate public bathrooms, and very respectable and unique mustard options.

6 & 7 the accommodations. oh! the accommodations: the hillcrest inn. a charming little b & b with a blue door and incredible breakfast.

8 this is what would happen if aliens invaded and the sky turned pink.

-yeh!

take me there, i want to go there

April 18, 2011 in travel, music

1 aziz makes a new acquaintance!

2 there is never enough sunscreen.

3 local mustard whose taste will remain unknown until it gets shipped to me on the count of it being over three ounces.

4 & 5 the bissel breakfast @ the metro diner. a perfect prelude to a long day of practice.

6 z + m in casual wear

7 z + m in formal wear

i am back from jacksonville. back from the beach, back from rehearsals, back from timeless nights at the hookah lounge.

it took a second, but i really do enjoy jacksonville. it has a really adorable amount of birgadoonian mystery that you wouldn't find in a traditional city. like, you'll be driving around and see a cute downtown area with fun looking pastry shop or a coffeehouse... then you'll come to a residential area, or some water, or a highway, and likely a strip mall... then tout á coup you are in a whole new cute downtown area, but it is still jacksonville. i estimate these discoveries could happen about four or five times. it is very cool and i envy it. the largest town in the lower 48 states shouldn't feel this homey but it does. aziz must have told me the politically-driven reason for these cute separate areas twelve times. but alas i am a space case and couldn't stop trying to decide which area was my favorite in order to listen to his political banter.

playing with the orchestra was great fun! it embarasses me to say that the bass drum and the triangle are two of my most favorite instruments. but guess what, i got to play them and i go to play them loudly!!! that makes a happy molly.

-yeh!

here are some eating places in jax that i enjoyed, described in the style of a typical jacksonville symphony orchestra trombone player:

the metro diner "fact: this place is nailguns and i am about to blast through a bissel breakfast with biscuits and gravy on the side and eggs over medium and then hit on the waitresses. fact: this place is the best. and i might blast back for a crabcake benedict before they close."

bowl of pho "fact: this is the greatest pho in jacksonville, possibly even in all of florida. and it's cheap so i can blast more money on beer later. and asian waitresses. what's not to luv."

casbah "if you want to blast through some hookah, get some. here. and then blast their pita and hummus and also some red velvet cake because it is the best. ever. fact that's what she said blahblahblahhhh."