Anthony's World

Take the Jupiter or Tye Mill chair on the backside of Stevens (aka Mill Valley) and go straight down the initial hill of Gemini. Then proceed to the left at the bottom into a small cat track and then go straight towards the first hill at the bottom of Corona Bowl. Then hit that, and go straight up (with a small hike) to the next hill, and hit that again, and then go down into some powder-ful tree lines. W3rd.

Mill Valley Video Snapshots - 03/30/2008

Labels: snowboarding

Here's some snapshots from footage taken at our recent Whistler/Blackcomb trip earlier this month.

Whistler 2008 Video Snapshots

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After trying out a few different "trivia nights", it's pretty clear that the Wilde Rover one in Kirkland is the best. We started here and we haven't found a better place to go to enjoy food and drinks and test our knowledge. Killer Tofu!

Wilde Rover Trivia Night

Labels: hobbies

not sure if this qualifies, but i decided to not counter the counter-offer and look some more. thats a big stress relief. and then i worked 13.5 hours + .5 hour lunch (total 14 hours) to get some major milestones completed which took a lot of the work burden off of me, but i still have a huge pile of ish to get done by Monday.

im coming down with crystalitis. but i dont know, i may get healthy again and go to work. hehe. my plan is to go to Crystal tomorrow, Alpental on Saturday, and Stevens on Sunday. The only unsure one there is Crystal.... because its so freakin early and i am stressed out at work.

Yes. But Life goes on.

Labels: life

Of course, they didn't accept my initial offer on the home, but that was quite a nervous time and its out of my way now -- the fact that i submitted my first HUGE offer on a anything. My last one was a car, and this is a huge step up from that.

It's probably back to the drawing board for this stuff.

Labels: life

It has been already a super stressful week for me and its only Tuesday. I've been overloaded in work, at work - today i was at work for 12 hours, been trying to manage somewhat of a social life, consulting on a few friends' personal issues, and at the same time going through my own, and finally... putting down an offer for a home.

Let me tell you, its not easier after you go through the 20+ pages of legal paper work and fax over that offer -- its only more STRESS! Not only am I awaiting the outcome of the proposed offer, but now I'm contemplating if I properly did my finances and expected expenses for the offer price. Ack! Total stress. total.... strain.

Arrrrrr...

But thankfully, I got to see a wonderfully entertaining and lively show tonight in the form of Jens Lekman, the indie pop singer/songwriter from Sweden. He has some amazing stage presence and has such a great voice. His music is just flat out fun, witty, and a blast to listen to. You can't help but sway to his music.

Tomorrow, back to the drawing board. Stress.

Labels: life, music

im popping in the Children of Men (HD-DVD!) and getting ready for a pretty tragically sad and depressing film. Of course, I've seen it before, it was my hype movie of 2006, and although it wasn't as glamorous as I had originally hoped, it was a pretty deep and moving futuristic film that's not really that far fetched.

I was thinking the other day of some other sad and depressing films, and I could think of a few that quickly came to mind: Science of Sleep, Munich, Syriana, A Clockwork Orange. Three of those are fairly new, and the other is a classic.

What's the point of this post? I'm not really sure, I felt like blogging something so that was really it. I guess the whole point of this "lonely" post is that I've been in that sort of mood lately; though it's at a time when I am being more social than I have ever been since college. There's so many things going on in my life right now that it's really overwhelming. I'm glad I'm fairly laid back, and calm, otherwise I think I'd be going more crazy than I already am.

Labels: life, tv/movies

The first quarter of 2008 is already coming to an end! I decided to share with you 5 of my favorite records of the year thus far:

The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust



The danish duo, Raveonettes, return to the studio for another Jesus & Mary Chain-like record and this is just one fantastic noise-induced pop album. Crank up the stereo, and blast this catchy rock record to the max!


Juno - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack



The Juno soundtrack is the perfect compliment to a great film. The music is very personal and full of simple yet powerful short songs. The final track features Michael Cera and Ellen Page singing the cover of the Moldy Peaches' "Anyone Else But You" from the movie.


Mono in VCF - Mono in VCF



Tacoma, WA based band Mono in VCF puts a very cinematic epic sound to their music with feature very well arranged sounds that are dense and majestic and backed by vocals that are gorgeous.


Hot Chip - Made in the Dark



Dance group Hot Chip return with another hip hop/soul induced rockin dance record that'll make you wanna dance dance dance! This is some fine electro-pop dance stuff.


MGMT - Oracular Spectacular



MGMT takes a bunch of genres and mashes it up into a very interesting and somewhat unique sound. They take the electropop of new wave, stuff it with some disco soul, and run it through some traditional indie rock and blast you with an extremely catchy, dancey output.

Labels: music

Not been posting lately but that's because I've been pretty busy lately. Been doing OT days at work alot lately, going out every night, and snowboarding the weekends. Whistler trip was awesome, and been doing alot of Stevens snowboarding lately, which has been great. I haven't used my Snoqualmie/Alpental pass in almost a month now, so I need to get back into the swing of things there.

Other than that, I guess I'm out of hibernation now, and am going out alot again. I've been going to shows, hanging out, it's been fun. I'm also really strongly considering buying a home now, might put an offer down on a place soon, and I just recently paid off my car loan with a big lump sum! yay.

Apparently I'm also going to be a Seahawks season ticket holder next year! Wooohoo! Thanks to Sean for allowing me to take over his package next season, but it'll be sad to see you move out of town.

Scott's only here for another week and half or so too. And Neil's in town this week but I haven't had a chance to see him yet... lots of stuff to do, and so little time to do it. I sort of hate being responsible.

Labels: life, snowboarding, sports

Josh Brown: "It is important because this isn't necessarily about money. It's about winning. It's about winning plain and simple. When nobody believes in you and doesn't ask your opinion, when the businessman thinks he knows more about field-goal kicking than me, that's a problem."

Good job signing with a winning team... a team that won all of 3 games last season. 3-13, sounds like a winning combination to me!

Jerk off.

Here's the rest of the KJR Radio interview transcript:
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/seahawks/2008/03/03/brown_once_i_hi/

Labels: sports

My friend brought up this topic at lunch today, kinda coincidentally, about Snoqualmie. He thinks I'm crazy because I think the Snoqualmie area is cool. I bet alot of people do, but then again, alot of people haven't gone to the 2nd chair of Alpental, or even knew there were more lifts on the other side of the trees of Central Express, or even do any sort of tree lines, powder stuff, or know what Hyak is (because its the farthest east on the freeway):

Here are my fav mts I've been to:
1. Insert Whistler/Blackcomb here as 1/2 following this weekend
2.
3. Mt Baker
4. Meadows
5. Alpental
6. Silver Fir (Ski Acres)
7. Mill Valley (Steven's)
8. Steven's (front side)
9. Squaw Valley
10. Hyak
11. Central/Ski Acres
12. Incline/Diamond Peak
13. West

need to visit Crystal!

Here are my fav lifts of the NW that I can remember the names of (which are going to be composed of stuff from Snoqualmie and Stevens):

1. Edelweiss (Chair 2) at Alpental
2. Silver Fir at Central
3. Jupiter at Stevens
4. Southern Cross at Stevens
5. Keechelus at Hyak
6. Armstrong Express at Alpental
7. Central Express at Central
8. Tye Mill at Stevens
9. Skyline at Stevens
10. Triple 60 at Central
11. Hogsback at Stevens
12. Wild Side at West
13. Pacific Crest at West

Labels: hobbies, snowboarding

I feel like ranting a little bit today, and I havent been posting any blog entries lately so this is just another reason to do so. This weekend was joyous for the Pacific Northwest. There were snow showers on Friday and 8" of fresh snow accumulated on our various Cascade mountains. It's the first new powder in a few weeks now, and it was beautiful. I was able to make two days worth of snowboarding; Saturday to Steven's Pass, and Sunday to Snoqualmie's Central Summit, formerly known as Ski Acres. Now that's where I want this post to begin - that's my segway.

I always hear people gripe on the words skiing or snowboarding and Snoqualmie! "Snoqualmie sucks." What are they referring to? Snoqualmie is actually, now, made up of 4 different mountain locations: West, Central, East, and Alpental. They all have very different feels to them.

West is your beginner mountain, which is just hills essentially with very little unique terrain except for the diamond heavy Wild Side, which is hidden to the far left.

Central is your all-around mountain with beginner hills on your far right, triple 60 which is a mix of everything, Central Express which is your intermediate with lots of nice hits for boarders and a big snow park, and then you have your hidden gem, Silver Fir, which is basically a whole thing of its own. That's your Steven's Pass, shrunken down, and removed of all the stupid stuff. It's got all sorts of terrain: traverses, moguls, big steep faces, lots of trees, winding corridors, and tons of spots for all sorts of fun. And there's the big traverse to the other mountain; Mt Hyak.

Hyak, also known as East, is barely used, never a line, and has some awesome terrain, if you like powder, trees, and that sort of stuff. It's also got nordic skiing for you cross-country skiers.

And then there's Alpental. People may go there and say... "dang this place is small." That's probably because they stayed on the lower mountain and yes, that's true, it is small. Only 3 lifts. But there's another chair, at the top of Armstrong Express, which takes you to the summit, and theres just tons and tons of stuff to do up there, in every which way you want to go.

So what's my infomercial for?

Because.... sometimes when I ask people if they wanna go snowboarding with me, they ask where, and i say Snoqualmie. They'll reply, I dont like that place. Boo! Maybe they went there a long time ago, and went to Summit West, which used to be called "Snoqualmie Summit" and never went to Central, which used to be unaffiliated and called "Ski Acres", or Silver Fir, or East, which as mentioned before, was called "Mt Hyak" or gone to Chair 2 at Alpental. Actually even Armstrong / Debbie's Gold is a good run.

I went to Stevens yesterday, and I've gone there many times; The back side is nice and all, and the place as whole is a lot bigger than any of the individual mountains of Snoqualmie, but is it really better than Silver Fir or Alpental? I dont know if I agree. I can see skiers liking Stevens more, but for snowboarding, I think Central takes the cake. I havent gone to Baker in a couple years and I really did like that place, it's awesome and its only weakness is its distance from Seattle and its crazy drive up. I havent had a chance to go to Crystal yet but I hear good things and want to someday soon.

Anyway, just keep in mind that Snoqualmie isnt just West. There's alot of lesser known gems in the area. I'm not going to go out and say that Snoqualmie is the best, or anything like that, I want to say that you shouldn't pass up a good snow day because you think it's "snoqualmie" and its small.

Labels: hobbies, snowboarding