Hello mosquitos
Jul 19, 2009
I love how these guys are just chilling on the Sphinx. Can you imagine living right by that thing? In a tent? I think that would be a really cool place to visit someday. That, and Machu Picchu. (photo - National Media Museum)
Anyway, I’m going to camp today till August 14th, I think. Feel free to go through the archives and look at old posts or twitter or something! Meanwhile, I’m probably riding a bike and swimming and eating marshmallows (i.e. savoring child, er, young-adulthood). Thanks!
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Posted by Spencer on Jul 19, 2009
i was at the sphinx
not kidding
bye! have fun!
Have fun! Sorry again for not making it yesterday. Someday…
Have fun!
Can’t you use your iPhone to keep in touch via Facebook and Twitter? I don’t know if I can be SpencerTweedy-free for any length of time.
xoxo
Fake Grandma
Man, i cant believe i missed you guys yesterday. YOu ugys were finishign your last song when i got there! Maybe another time.
Mosquitos are jerks. Take plenty of Off. And have fun.
a lot of people live right by that thing. you can even have pizza while staring at it. as shown here.
i actually found it quite shocking to see how close the city has crept to the pyramids =/
Better make it to Machu Picchu quick! Damage caused by the perpetual presence of tourists has caused some to suggest the government close it to the public.
I don’t know how rustic your destination will be, but during a college break, I spent one summer as a camp counselor. It’s fun but crazy. You really do put on OFF everyday…first thing in the a.m.!
It is so weird when you get back to civilization.
Have Fun!
The “in a tent” part is easy; hang out in Arizona west of the Colorado Plateau or the Mogollon Rim. “Hot” is a concept we”re aware of, but “Satan’s jockstrap” is a little more in line with the idea.
Yeah, I know. Sorry.
Living near the Sphinx? In a tent or otherwise? I think it would have been best in about 1923 or thereabouts. Post “Lawrence of Arabia”, a bit before Howard Carter and his Tutankhamen discoveries. Before it became a Disneyland style attraction. (You know it’s just a matter of time before the Sphinx gets mouse ears.) Right before the Western world went crazy about Egypt. Right in the middle of the roar of the Roaring Twenties.
Zipping across the land in a cloth-winged biplane, trudging over the last few miles on the back of a camel, superior attitude, jaundiced eye and spit and all. No monkeys poisoning dates, no whip-bearing westerners in fedoras stalking about.
And, when night fell, lying on my back on the sands, bussing off the occasional scorpion, and staring into the cobalt of the night and its scattered alabaster flow, and wondering, as I saw the stars change and watched the world turn under me, if perhaps we’d ever escaped the question of the Sphinx — or if we ever knew what it was.
Meanwhile, hope you don’t itch too much.
One word: DEET! Lots of it. I plan on bathing myself in it before I see Wilco on Thursday night up in the great northern woods of Minnesota – wahoo! Too bad you won’t be gracing us with your tie-dye…have fun at camp!
oh hai
stopping by to say i really enjoyed your site.
keep it coming :)
Hope you had/are having a lovely time at camp
I feel like it’d be very humbling to live next to that…i’d constantly be thinking of all the people that worked on it and all the other amazing things around it and how somehow it’s managed to last until now for all of us to admire.
-Raigan
heyoooo. wow. Jeff Tweedy is your dad. that is crazy. anyway.. i wrote something a lot longer that was much more poetic and profound (it must have been 40 pages at least, with a mona lisa painting included) but i couldn’t understand the letters i had to type in to submit the comment. it seriously looked like a rorschach ink blot test. i digress.. anywho, i found this website from the last SPIN issue, (such a good article) and i was curious to hear what your band sounds like. I would try and see a show, but i live in hawaii and no one ever comes here…its ridiculously heartbreaking. I even spent my life savings & flew to SF soley to see wilco (okay, and maybe radiohead) but goddamn, wilco was truly amazing to see live. it’s weird to think about you possibly even reading this. thanks if you do.
warm regards all the way from (shitty)hawaii, niko.
Hi Spencer,
I love your blog so much. Your thoughts, anxieties and struggles really remind me of myself at your age – well, and myself now – let’s be honest, most of these big issues are fundamental throughout your life.
I wanted to share my blog with you – I am a painter, and right now I’m doing a series of paintings of musicians that I love. Of course your dad is basically my all time favorite and I did his painting yesterday and it’s up on the blog so check it out if you have time! I hope you like it.
alexispaints.tumblr.com
(click on the images if you want to get more enlarged/detailed versions of the paintings)
Take Care,
Alexis