tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131682892024-03-07T00:43:37.464-07:00The dude abides<center>big sky grizzly bears disaffected former lawyer mountains guitars snowboard disc golf leaving on a high note like costanza because we're all lebowski achievers chickens with large talons do not talk about fight club bukowski run ride fly carve dead flowers<br> <img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/2-7-09%20bells%20bday/tomas024.jpg"></center>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.comBlogger1211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-55637273062779307252012-06-01T22:32:00.000-06:002012-06-01T22:32:03.185-06:00Nels Cline will melt your face.<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/H6UxOv4MB4U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-89019799290134299692012-03-24T21:56:00.001-06:002012-03-24T21:57:47.364-06:00Rip CityI watched this competition today.<br /><br />Check this guy's air before he bites.<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VTgtfIKi93o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />That is Bad Ass.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-26815261004619332092012-03-17T17:17:00.001-06:002012-03-17T17:18:43.165-06:00Cancel the thing that I said I'd doThe Bucket, Kings of Leon.<br /><br />But better.<br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wlfIOs3nglQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-25902644074869456052012-02-19T15:47:00.001-07:002012-02-19T15:47:28.063-07:00Creep<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SM_SIM2d8Fo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-70880353415665954252012-02-11T18:47:00.000-07:002012-02-11T18:48:02.748-07:00Another one<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XFDgoyK06CY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-42955420502314625452012-01-22T16:55:00.001-07:002012-01-22T16:57:35.801-07:00I will deliver, you know I'm a forgiverA little acoustic personal jesus.<br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_Gv4Lm9TQmQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />It has snowed a bunch. 11 inches last night, on top of 12 from Thursday and Friday. The snowboarding is getting realy good.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-39173059582992961382012-01-21T17:11:00.000-07:002012-01-21T17:12:29.498-07:00Let the Stories Be Told<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Jyj8l2orc_k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Also, I LOVE this song...<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pc0mxOXbWIU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-36200001132808221372011-12-11T09:13:00.004-07:002011-12-11T09:49:23.126-07:00Go, Johnny, Go<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ylUm8FlcxQI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />*<em>tap tap tap</em>* Is this thing on?<br /><br />How are you all, my neglected readers?<br /><br />Sorry for that, but Joey has been busy, doing seminars for the fine people of Montana, playing guitar, reading, and snowboarding.<br /><br />In this new twitter, tweeting, twatting, texting 160 characters at a time era, blogs have gone the way of the Dodo Bird. <br /><br />That's OK. <br /><br />I am old school, anyway. <br /><br />I still jerk off manually.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-36850998737070135982011-11-12T22:03:00.001-07:002011-11-12T22:48:59.896-07:00Get Off My WaveUm, yeah.<br /><br /><object width="640" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://static.grindtv.com/player/optics.swf?sa=1&si=1&i=62384&sct=surf"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://static.grindtv.com/player/optics.swf?sa=1&si=1&i=62384&sct=surf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" width="640" height="360"></embed></object>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-40614836610334015372011-10-22T02:51:00.000-06:002011-10-22T02:52:40.206-06:00Does that make me crazy?I sure do miss my beautiful wife.<br /><br /><object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/acxO_tzGIlY?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/acxO_tzGIlY?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object><br /><br />I do.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-27646067319280155982011-10-07T23:23:00.002-06:002011-10-07T23:25:50.046-06:00Let the good times rollFriday night in the Boogie Station.<br /><br />Do me a favor, play this, and scroll down...<br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/T9jAuxxpdCQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />My wife is in Los Angeles for 9 weeks getting certified to become a Bikram yoga instructor. That is the kind of yoga where they heat the room to 105 degrees (fahrenheit, for you Canadians).<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic001.jpg"><br /><br />I miss Wisconsin.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic002.jpg"><br /><br />That's where I grew up.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic003.jpg"><br /><br />People from Wisconsin have soul.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic006.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic007.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic008.jpg"><br /><br />They really do. <br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic010.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic011.jpg"><br /><br />We bring it to Montana.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic011.jpg"><br /><br />I live on the crater of the Yellowstone supervolcano. <br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic013.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic016.jpg"><br /><br />If you give a shit, look it up and read about it.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic020.jpg"><br /><br />The last time it erupted, the dinosaurs died.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic022.jpg"><br /><br />I wish they were still around.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic024.jpg"><br /><br />What is going to evolve next?<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic026.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic032.jpg"><br /><br />The day of reckoning will come.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic037.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic034.jpg"><br /><br />It snowed today here, down to 6000 feet, which is fantitstastic.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic037.jpg"><br /><br />How could you possibly be pissed off or stressed when you live in a place like this?<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/alaska%202011/yellowstone11jamtastic040.jpg">Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-50000420038342910572011-08-11T01:16:00.002-06:002011-08-11T01:18:22.864-06:00Hi thereIn the middle right of this picture, do you see that spot?
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<br />That is a bear. A big one.
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<br />See him there?
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<br />That was as close as I wanted to get.
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<br />Big cinnamon grizz.
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<br />It crosses all categories and genres...
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<br />I hope the Kings of Leon guys get their shit together and make music like this again:
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<br />Because that is a big slice of awesome.
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<br />I haven't been around much here because I had some knee surgery, and I had some visitors. There was a little kayaking in there. A veritable shit ton of guitar playing. I am also teaching myself the piano, which is fun.
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<br />I have a honky-tonk, boogie-woogie kind of natural style, which makes it fun.
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<br />Also, I am giving serious consideration to growing a full mustache.
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<br />Nothing says, "I'm a man," like a full Tom Selleck cock-duster.
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<br />There would be tons of leftover soup.
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<br />Doesn't that look like a heart?
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<br />I sure wish I could go to the rock show in the big city.
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<br />I'd give a toe, or even my right pinkie, to get you up in the Boogie Station with me for a jam session, with a drummer and a bass player.
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<br />The sky is really, truly Big here.
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<br />You guys would like it.
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<br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-78637078674581508232011-07-06T23:34:00.000-06:002011-07-06T23:35:43.557-06:00Workin in a coal mine<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vyrX32QT-Q4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-10464425285096125362011-07-02T15:19:00.001-06:002011-07-02T15:21:02.302-06:00I like the nightife, baby<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MTCnbiWTQ80" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Been working on a bunch of Cars songs with the guys. This one is solo. Hope you like.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-15008453981021401402011-05-21T17:56:00.001-06:002011-05-21T18:02:33.098-06:00High and dryI was in Maui for a bit, chilling.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011002-1.jpg"><br /><br />Canada tried to invade Montana while I was gone.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011006-1.jpg"><br /><br />It's a shame, really.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011024-1.jpg"><br /><br />When I got back to town, maple syrup and hockey were taking over the town. <br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011027.jpg"><br /><br />^^That there is Clint Eastwood's house.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011030.jpg"><br /><br />The whole thing bums me out, something fierce. Mankind never fails to disappoint.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011032.jpg"><br /><br />Banyan Tree:<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011033-1.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011034-1.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011035-1.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011040-1.jpg"><br /><br />I just wanna be free to ride my machine without being hassled by the man.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011043-1.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011045.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011046.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011048.jpg"><br /><br />The grass is greeen, the rivers are raging, oh and the rapture is nigh.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011049.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011050.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011051.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011053.jpg"><br /><br />I bolted toward the Pacific Northwest and Olympic National Park, faded down into Portland.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011060.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011063.jpg"><br /><br />Dude ran down the beach with a torch every day at sunset.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011069.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011070.jpg"><br /><br />He would make his way to the top of the cliff, bow to the four directions and throw the torch into the sea.<br /><br />Then he dove off.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011071.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011072.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011073.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011075.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011085.jpg"><br /><br />Where do I sign up for this job?<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011087.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011088.jpg"><br /><br />Had a sleeper-cell jam. Matt refused to turn down his bass. You can see the camera shake. I told him it would be washed out, but it sounded pretty fucking good in that room.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011088.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui2011041-1.jpg"><br /><br /><br /><iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pZzJkvN39mA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Aim low.<br /><br />That way, you'll never be disappointed.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-23676647168051758122011-04-22T01:23:00.001-06:002011-04-22T01:24:57.186-06:00Boogie wonderlandI have toys better than the Millenium Falcon.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cgXlGxdtowk?hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cgXlGxdtowk?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-51476166879577615742011-04-12T00:29:00.001-06:002011-04-12T00:31:00.061-06:00we were out on a drive in my daddy's carThis one also makes me laugh.<br /><br />None of these were more than one or two takes, which is abundantly clear.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Fu9RbDqtCmM?hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Fu9RbDqtCmM?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Omar rules.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-74138166062580541352011-04-10T00:25:00.002-06:002011-04-10T16:18:40.268-06:00Little darlingThis is my dear friend, Omar.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DmfWFzPpU30?hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DmfWFzPpU30?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />This is us getting funky.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jjj-NpxPDnc?hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jjj-NpxPDnc?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-85716823372112846362011-04-09T01:34:00.004-06:002011-04-09T14:48:47.643-06:00a perfect dayLast Wednesday, I was crossing the Continental Divide. I was coming from Butte eaast to Bozangeles.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/1-6-08%20penis%20finger/003-1.jpg"><br /><br />I was passing a semi, going 80, and the power steering failed.<br /><br />Mind you, this is a 4.2 liter v-8 sitting on top of the front tires. I was wrestling with the steering wheel for my life, hands ten and two, freaking the fuck out.<br /><br />Almost scraped the guardrail, but made it home.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/1-6-08%20penis%20finger/003.jpg"><br /><br />My car crossed 100,000 miles during the journey.<br /><br />Anyway, that was last Wednesday. The dealer has had my car for ten days and counting, which has been irritating. We don't really have much in the way of public transportation in Montucky. Plenty of pubic transportation, if that's your bag.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/1-6-08%20penis%20finger/019.jpg"><br /><br />I pitched a fit and they gave me a free rental, this leather xm radio thing. I insisted on all-wheel drive since it has dumped nearly 3 feet of snow at Big Sky. I wish I could shoot a video for y'all.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/1-6-08%20penis%20finger/002.jpg"><br /><br />I ran into Waterface near the Salton Sea. He was wearing those bugeye goggle sunglasses. I gave him a pomegranite and he fired up a cigarette.<br /><br />I didn't want to ask anything about where he had been or where he was going, but there was blood on his collar.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/1-22-06%20Big%20sky/IMG_1725.jpg"><br /><br />He spit on the ground and offered me a smoke.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/1-22-06%20Big%20sky/IMG_1721.jpg"><br /><br />It curled up over my eyes like a dragon and Matthew Sweet blared from the radio. I wasn't sure what the fuck he was talking about and I was more than a little scared when I realized the blood wasn't his.<br /><br />He spread his arms and asked me if I had a good thing going.<br /><br />Mind you, I was wearing an eyepatch so my depth perception was fucked, but but I swear he produced a knife from nowhere, flashed it at my face and put it away before I even realized what happened.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/1-22-06%20Big%20sky/IMG_1728.jpg"><br /><br />I din't have time to flinch. <br /><br />He asked me if I could help him dig a hole in the desert.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/1-22-06%20Big%20sky/IMG_1737.jpg"><br /><br />He pushed a shovel into my chest, we got into his El Camino and rumbled out of there. I kept smoking because I wa scared and didn't know what else to do.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/1-22-06%20Big%20sky/IMG_1741.jpg"><br /><br />He wasn't talking.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/3-24-07%20Alicia%20Joe%20Eagle%20Float/100_3748.jpg"><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/3-24-07%20Alicia%20Joe%20Eagle%20Float/100_3731.jpg"><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/3-24-07%20Alicia%20Joe%20Eagle%20Float/100_3730.jpg"><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/4-23-07%20Plane%20ride%20in%20the%20valley/100_0007.jpg"><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q6mjBZrOVG0?hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q6mjBZrOVG0?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Have a wonderful weekend.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-33240644777514417402011-04-03T00:48:00.005-06:002011-04-03T01:11:54.936-06:00Way down inside, woman you need love<img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/headwatersrunoff032.jpg"><br /><br />Headwaters runoff.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/headwatersrunoff026.jpg"><br /><br />We built a beer fort.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/headwatersrunoff022.jpg"><br /><br />Kids were dropping sick lines.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/headwatersrunoff019.jpg"><br /><br />All my friends were there.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/headwatersrunoff012.jpg"><br /><br />Eating ice cream.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/headwatersrunoff007.jpg"><br /><br />^^That's my buddy, Mitch, the best snowboarder at Moonlight Basin.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/headwatersrunoff005.jpg"><br /><br />Dropping sicktacular lines.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/headwatersrunoff004.jpg"><br /><br />My deck right here..................<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/headwatersrunoff003.jpg"><br /><br />A few guys threw 80 foot airs.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/headwatersrunoff002.jpg"><br /><br />And just because.<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/jimmy-page.jpg">Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-36550555619211609932011-04-02T00:15:00.008-06:002011-04-02T01:03:23.576-06:00Oh but they're weird and wonderfulI enjoy spending my Friday nights deciphering Elton John lyrics and wishing people would stop looking askance at me.<br /><br />Screw you for judging me.<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3xuSYEeo9Wc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Elton John is the Queen of the universe.<br /><br />A guy can get sentimental if he needs to...<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hT2tZ4h2YvE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Seriously.<br /><br />I need to get a wig.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-64608083416995088292011-03-26T00:52:00.002-06:002011-03-26T01:56:26.805-06:00Hush now baby, baby, don't you cryLearned this one tonight:<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5Jlol_y3jsg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Turmed out nice, no?<br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/yeah002.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/yeah006.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/yeah013.jpg">Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-56167630877813469042011-03-19T23:40:00.002-06:002011-03-20T00:12:05.320-06:00sound nd vision<embed width="600" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" src="http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/Maui Day One/100_3482.mp4"><br /><br /><br /><embed width="600" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" src="http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joemilitello/1-6-08 penis finger/009.mp4">Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-45808776156559481092011-03-17T00:14:00.005-06:002011-03-17T08:05:39.200-06:00With the barkers and the colored balloonsI gave a seminar today, next town over, Livingston. It's about 30 miles up and over a mountain pass from Bozeman.<br /><br />It was snowing hard all day long. I worked all damn day. <br /><br />Spent some time talking about the effect of Japan's catastrophe.<br /><br />Power point explanation of how money is made, over steak dinner and a cocktail<br /><br />It was snowing hard enough that we drove 25 miles an hour over the pass.<br /><br />The whole thing is somewhat repugnant, but, hey, who doesn't like money?<br /><br />I was wearing my best suit and nice shoes, coughing and wondering why the fuck I am still making money off misery, again. (That's why I quit being a lawyer.)<br /><br />Repugnant, like I said, but it's free money. <br /><br />We flipped the short position into a long position on Japan and now will ride the inevitable upside wave. <br /><br />I straighten my tie and ask myself if I can sleep at night. I won't really know until eye close my I's.<br /><br />The rules are there, the game is set. If you could move your rook and checkmate, wouldn't you?<br /><br />That is what I struggle with.<br /><br />Christ, what a melancholy post. <br /><br />Did I mention it has been dumping snow all day?<br /><br />I feel myself coming down with rectal glaucoma.<br /><br />I just can't see my ass coming into work tomorrow.<br /><br />My doctor said this can't be cured below about 11,000 feet of elevation.<br /><br />I gotta take the cure.<br /><br />(edit: at work, 7:09 a.m., close japan long position, go back to guilt free investing in big oil, coal and sweatshops.)Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13168289.post-57981288106586327492011-03-15T18:51:00.002-06:002011-03-15T19:12:29.540-06:00Welcome to the machineSome things make me sick. I have had some real bad luck lately with some people in my life lately.<br /><br />I wish the world was as pure as a song, as good as lifelong friends, bt it isn't. Not even close.<br /><br />I try to cocoon myself from it all by living as far from civilization as possible, numb myself to the weekday, careening down a mountain as fast as I can, enjoying a good meal, losing myself in a book or a movie, or by making music with my friends.<br /><br />On the other hand, I am sitting basically right on top of the <a href = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_supervolcano>world's largest supervolcano</a>, with a 35 by 45 mile caldera that is about 50,000 years overdue for its regularly scheduled eruption. <br /><br /><i>Yellowstone, like Hawaii, is believed to lie on top of an area called a hotspot where light, hot, molten mantle rock rises towards the surface. While the Yellowstone hotspot is now under the Yellowstone Plateau, it previously helped create the eastern Snake River Plain (to the west of Yellowstone) through a series of huge volcanic eruptions. Although the hotspot's apparent motion is to the east-northeast, the North American Plate is really moving west-southwest over the stationary hotspot deep underneath.<br /><br />Over the past 17 million years or so, this hotspot has generated a succession of violent eruptions and less violent floods of basaltic lava. Together these eruptions have helped create the eastern part of the Snake River Plain from a once-mountainous region. At least a dozen of these eruptions were so massive that they are classified as supereruptions. Volcanic eruptions sometimes empty their stores of magma so swiftly that they cause the overlying land to collapse into the emptied magma chamber, forming a geographic depression called a caldera. Calderas formed from explosive supereruptions can be as wide and deep as mid- to large-sized lakes and can be responsible for destroying broad swaths of mountain ranges.<br /><br />The loosely defined term 'supervolcano' has been used to describe volcanic fields that produce exceptionally large volcanic eruptions. Thus defined, the Yellowstone Supervolcano is the volcanic field which produced the latest three supereruptions from the Yellowstone hotspot. The three super eruptions occurred 2.1 million, 1.3 million, and 640,000 years ago, forming the Island Park Caldera, the Henry's Fork Caldera, and Yellowstone calderas, respectively.<br /><br />The Island Park Caldera supereruption (2.1 million years ago), which produced the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff, was the largest and produced 2,500 times as much ash as the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. The next biggest supereruption formed the Yellowstone Caldera (640,000 years ago) and produced the Lava Creek Tuff. The Henry's Fork Caldera (1.2 million years ago) produced the smaller Mesa Falls Tuff but is the only caldera from the SRP-Y hotspot that is plainly visible today.<br /><br />Due to the volcanic and tectonic nature of the region, the Yellowstone Caldera experiences between 1000 and 2000 measurable earthquakes a year, though most are relatively minor, measuring a magnitude of 3 or weaker. Occasionally, numerous earthquakes are detected in a relatively short period of time, an event known as an earthquake swarm. In 1985, more than 3000 earthquakes were measured over several months. More than 70 smaller swarms have been detected between 1983 and 2008. The USGS states that these swarms could be caused more by slips on pre-existing faults than by movements of magma or hydrothermal fluids.[14][15]<br /><br />In December 2008, continuing into January 2009, more than 500 quakes were detected under the northwest end of Yellowstone Lake over a seven day span, with the largest registering a magnitude of 3.9.[16][17] The most recent swarm started in January 2010. With 1620 small earthquakes between January 17, 2010 and February 1, 2010, this swarm was the second largest ever recorded in the Yellowstone Caldera. The largest of these shocks was a magnitude 3.8 on January 21, 2010 at 11:16 PM MST.[15][18] This swarm reached the background levels by 21 February.<br /><br /></i><br /><br />Yay!!Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464994366148461495noreply@blogger.com2