This weekend Amber and I went to Port Townsend to take a load off for Memorial Day. I filmed some footage from our wanderings through my parents land and Fort Worden State Park. Amber compiled some footage from the event (which you can watch below), and backed up the soundtrack with three bands that will be playing my house this weekend.
I’d have to say, that one of my favorite parts of the trip (other than the obvious copious amounts of making out), had to be the Port Townsend Community Thrift Store. This place was COMPLETELY untapped; boxes and boxes of home movies, records, junk computers – all unmarked and unfiltered.
Needless to say I had a field day.
One thing I realized that I should do more of when searching through other people’s junk: look for answering machines and pull out the tapes. I got about 20 analog recordings of ancient conversations forever preserved to magnetic strips. What Amber and I have noticed while listening to these little recordings is just how all of these people seem like charicatures – granddaughters rushed and bored wishing their grandma merry christmas, toddlers talking to their fathers far away on business trips, children discussing who’s friends with who and what teacher is a jerk. I promise I’ll put the good stuff up here in the future, but for now you’ll just have to settle with the best find of the weekend thus far:
Just catching up….