thursday, june 18th, 2009 @ 10:37 pm I bought this Super-8 camera the other day off eBay. It came in the mail today, which was exceptionally fast! It's the Bolex 155 MACROZOOM Super 8mm Camera (1968). It's in great condition, and after I buy the light meter batteries tomorrow, I can test it out a little better. I thought it would be cool to bring along a Super-8 camera on our cross country road trip. I'm nervous about the whole thing because I want really badly for it to be successful. I'm not being picky, I'm not looking for perfect footage. I just want to have some kind of Super-8 document. In a perfect world, after I get the Super-8 film developed, I'll invite a bunch of people over, and I'll play the reels that I took on a projector (I have yet to buy). I know that's kind of a lot to ask. But I want it so badly and I admit it's stressing me out a bit. 2 comments / comment?

wednesday, june 10th, 2009 @ 2:49 pm Matilija Falls - May 22-24, 2009 Again, Jeff sent us on our way for a Memorial Day weekend camping trip. Matilija Falls was beautiful and the hike to the camp site, swimming holes, hot springs and waterfalls was just what the doctor ordered. I broke my 35mm camera as I was crossing the creek, but managed to shoot 5 rolls of film before the mishap. I haven't got those rolls developed yet, but hope to soon. These photos were taken by Tim and myself with his digital camera. Just a taste of the beautiful sites! 2 comments / comment?

thursday, may 7th, 2009 @ 11:44 am I'm just bursting with excitement! I can't wait! comment?

tuesday, may 5th, 2009 @ 4:33 pm Hey there Philadelphia, The Tartans are looking to play a show in your city while on their east coast tour. Any leads guys? Their myspace bulletin: "it looked like we were gonna have a may 13 show in your fine city, but it seems to have fallen through. any leads, philadelphia? if not, we'll be content just sightseeing and eating your regional cuisine, but playing a show would be nice, too. xo, the tartans" Let them know! 1 comment / comment?

tuesday, may 5th, 2009 @ 4:02 pm Kern River Camping Trip Book Video documentation of the Kern River Camping Trip photo book. Photos taken September 5-7, 2008. Book arranged by Gina Clyne and Melissa Poe. Made with blurb. 1 comment / comment?

friday, may 1st, 2009 @ 11:24 am I finished this last night. Man, I couldn't put it down! Don't you love books that do that to you? 2 comments / comment?

wednesday, april 29th, 2009 @ 1:07 pm April 29, 2009 2 comments / comment?

wednesday, april 29th, 2009 @ 1:06 pm Lefty lost a tooth today! Neat huh? I guess I never thought about dogs loosing their baby teeth before, but they really do! I think mostly puppies end up swallowing their baby teeth, but Lefty spit this one right out. I'm going to hold on very tight to this dear tooth. 1 comment / comment?

tuesday, april 28th, 2009 @ 4:45 pm I finished reading this, this afternoon. I found it quite enjoyable, but I always find Tom Robbins' books to be enjoyable to read. So, one book read out of the twelve I said I would read this year. I need to catch up! I was thinking I would read a book a month, but I'm obviously behind with it already being late April. Next I'm reading Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It's been a while since I read a good true crime book. I just eat that stuff up. Thanks to Mabern for lending me a huge pile of books! 9 comments / comment?

sunday, april 26th, 2009 @ 1:19 pm April 18, 2009 6 comments / comment?

wednesday, april 15th, 2009 @ 9:55 pm The Kern River Camping Trip book that Melissa and I made with Blurb will be here on Friday! Woo woo! comment?

monday, april 13th, 2009 @ 12:25 pm Just got off the phone with the lady that works at the Warren County Courthouse, and she was not a very nice person. She could really care less about some person's grandfather's birth certificate from the 1900's. I asked her for some insight as to why there wouldn't be a record, and she wasn't having it. "Insight? Please!" Anyway, I did get her to tell me that there is a large room with all the records that are available to the public. So, looks like I'm going to be wrestlin' around some records in Pennsylvania this upcoming June. It's ok. I like doing this kind of research. And I can bring my research binder with me and see if I can fish out any other information, since it seems like Warren County, Pennsylvania is where the family nested for a while. But I'm going to get my great grandparent's death certificates from the Los Angeles Recorder's office tomorrow! On Friday I discovered that they died in Los Angeles, which I think is neat 'cause I had no idea they even had ties to Los Angeles! I wonder why they moved from Warren, Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, California... 1 comment / comment?

friday, april 10th, 2009 @ 5:19 pm So I got my self addressed envelope sent back to me today. For some reason, the birth certificate record was not found, which is very peculiar. I went through the records I've been collecting to double check to see if for some reason I had it wrong and my grandfather on my father's side was not born in Warren, Pennsylvania on May 17, 1900. But, no, I got it right. I have various records that all point to those facts. I called and left a voice message for the vital records lady at the Warren County Courthouse, but not return call from her. Maybe she took off early for Good Friday or something? I'm going to have to call her early on Monday and ask her some follow up questions. Maybe there is no official birth certificate? Because it was so long ago? I don't know how consistent they were with record keeping in Pennsylvania in those days. Or maybe she just didn't look hard enough in the archive of records?? I don't know, but I'm going to follow up with her anyway. Worst case scenario, while Shane and I are in Bolivar, New York this late June, I could take a day and drive to the Warren County Courthouse myself! It's about 1 hour and 45 minutes away, and I think Shane's family would understand. When else would I have the opportunity to get very old genealogy information first hand from the east coast! I'm exhausted right now and I think I'm going to take a shower and catch a few zzz's before heading out tonight. Melissa and I are putting the finishing touches on our Kern River camping trip photo book tonight. I'll be very happy when we send it off to Blurb! Documentation photos will definitely follow. comment?

wednesday, april 8th, 2009 @ 12:27 pm Are any of you guys on facebook? Add me as a friend! hello at ginaclyne dot com 4 comments / comment?

tuesday, april 7th, 2009 @ 1:00 pm Music: Why She's Acting This Way - Townes Van Zandt Kern River - September 5-7, 2008 Wikipedia Google Maps Roll #5 2 comments / comment?

tuesday, april 7th, 2009 @ 12:58 pm Music: My Proud Mountains - Townes Van Zandt Kern River - September 5-7, 2008 Wikipedia Google Maps Roll #4 comment?

tuesday, april 7th, 2009 @ 12:54 pm Music: My Proud Mountains - Townes Van Zandt Kern River - September 5-7, 2008 Wikipedia Google Maps Roll #3 1 comment / comment?

tuesday, april 7th, 2009 @ 12:52 pm Music: Snake Mountain Blues - Townes Van Zandt Kern River - September 5-7, 2008 Wikipedia Google Maps Roll #2 comment?

tuesday, april 7th, 2009 @ 12:48 pm Music: Be Here to Love Me - Townes Van Zandt Kern River - September 5-7, 2008 Wikipedia Google Maps I've been waiting to share these photos forever! My friend Morgan came over and got my negative scanner to work right, so thank you, thank you to Morgan. And thanks again to Jeff to sending us on our way. He always knows of the best places to go camping, hiking, swimming. You should check out Jeff and co.'s blog, Los Angeles Swimmin, it's truly epic. Roll #1 1 comment / comment?

saturday, april 4th, 2009 @ 8:33 pm I'm really excited because I bought my airplane ticket this morning. I'm going with The Tartans on their east coast tour from May 8th to May 18th. They have shows in NYC during the Popfest, and also in New Haven, Boston and Washington DC. I'm so so excited. And on top of that, we're planning a separate cross country road trip for sometime in late June to mid July. On our way back from Bolivar, New York I'm going to see if I can visit my old buddy from high school who's studying in Kansas. It's going to be me, Shane, Tim and Lefty. Tim wants to go to Chicago and watch a Cubs game at Wrigley Field. And we're going to do some camping too! I can just imagine now looking back at the backseat and seeing Lefty with his head hanging out the window. It's going to be great. I can't wait to take photographs of everything. Maybe I'll make a photo book from the experience. Who knows. I have to take my medium format camera in to get some maintenance done. I've been meaning to take it in for over a year, and I'm finally going to do it! I love all this planning. What to bring, money to save, routes to map! This is exactly what I want to be doing right now. I have a lot to look forward to. I should remind myself that sometimes. 1 comment / comment?

monday, march 30th, 2009 @ 3:01 pm So today I called the Warren County Courthouse of Pennsylvania, in search for my Grandfather's birth certificate. The woman I was supposed to talk to wasn't at her desk, so I left her a voice message. Usually you can order a copy of the certificate online, but since this birth certificate is prior to 1906, I have to talk to someone at the courthouse about it. I hope she calls me back soon. If not, I'll just have to call her again tomorrow. I'm feeling good right now because I'm making progress with the genealogy research I'm doing. It's very small progress that hasn't gone too far back into into the family tree, but it's satisfying regardless. I found the house I lived in as a baby in San Pedro, before moving to Orange County to the house I remember as "the house I grew up in". It's crazy, I did a Google Maps street view of the house, and I totally recognized it! WHAM! It just slapped me in the face. I remember standing on that front porch, and I have a photo of me standing there too! It's crazy. I just got to see the house over the internet, like it was no thing. See what I mean: See how the windows are the same in both images? And the address is right too, look at the address on the curb on the Google Maps street view and then look at the bottom half of the address on my old photo. Hey, the lady from the Warren County Courthouse just called! All I have to do is send them a $5 search fee, along with a self addressed envelope. I love this, this is really fun for me. I feel like I'm slowly crackin' a case. I love it. 2 comments / comment?

sunday, march 29th, 2009 @ 6:43 pm This is my mother at 5 years old. Look at her eyes! My lord! 1958 Havana, Cuba 1 comment / comment?

sunday, march 29th, 2009 @ 6:38 pm My mother and grandmother are on the right. My grandmother was stunning, wasn't she? My grandmother's sister, July (the "J" pronounced as a "H"), and her son, Robert, are on the left. 1953 Havana, Cuba 1 comment / comment?

sunday, march 29th, 2009 @ 6:31 pm This is my grandfather on my mother's side. He was born January 1st, 1900. His name was Francisco Lee, but you can see by looking at him that he was 100% Chinese, and I doubt his first, first name was Francisco. You see, my grandfather was born in China. Every since I was a girl I was told the story about how he got on a boat leaving China to San Francisco. He was 14 years old and he needed to go to San Francisco to make money and send it back to China to help support his two younger siblings. When the boat stopped in Havana, Cuba, he wasn't sure what was going on. When he asked about the San Francisco stop, he was told that they had stopped there a while ago and he had missed it. So, instead of going back to China, he got off in Havana. Thankfully, there was a large Chinese community in Havana, and he ended up working and eventually buying his own general store. I never got to meet him. He died in Havana in the mid seventies. It's going to be tricky to track down information from this side of the family. 3 comments / comment?

sunday, march 29th, 2009 @ 6:15 pm Tete, 18 years old, 1940 Havana, Cuba comment?

sunday, march 29th, 2009 @ 6:12 pm This is my grandmother on my mother's side. Her name was Teresa. In her family, everyone had a nickname. Her nickname was "Tete", and that is what I called her when I was a child. Tete is 11 years old in this photograph. It was taken in Havana, Cuba in 1933. I have never seen this photograph before, so I had a heart attack when my mother showed it to me last Friday. I only remember my grandmother as young as a 60 year old woman, so it was amazing to have a different view of her. I think she's beautiful. You can not understand the sense of family pride that I am experiencing right now. As a child, I never really had much information about my family history and can only remember fragments of things that my parents said in passing. I started working on my genealogy last year and the whole process has been so gratifying. 4 comments / comment?

sunday, march 29th, 2009 @ 5:30 pm I've spent most of the day sleeping, which I am well aware abuses the term "lazy Sunday". I have some more photos that my mother has scanned. Some of these photos just blow me away. I have never seen a photo of my deceased grandmother at 11 years old. I don't know why she has never shown these to me before. I'll post these next. I made a Flickr set for just these photos too. They are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginaclyne/sets/72157615735417172/ comment?

tuesday, march 24th, 2009 @ 12:42 pm Just a reminder: I make buttons for money. comment?

saturday, march 21st, 2009 @ 4:58 pm I taught my mom how to scan photos to her computer and email them, and look at what she sent me in the middle of the night! These are just some of the photos she sent me. They kind of blow my mind. Some of these photos I've never even seen before. I really love it. I'm going to work some more on my family tree project, and it's really great to have these. A great motivation. 10 comments / comment?

saturday, march 21st, 2009 @ 4:23 pm My new buddy. My fish needs a name! My last two beta fish were called Microfiche and Derek Fisher. Any ideas? 5 comments / comment?

saturday, march 21st, 2009 @ 4:13 pm Lefty leaves comment?

saturday, march 21st, 2009 @ 3:26 pm Lefty caught me spying on him. comment?

saturday, march 21st, 2009 @ 3:24 pm My living room March 17, 2009 2 comments / comment?

sunday, march 15th, 2009 @ 2:52 pm I'm interested in going to the NYC Popfest 2009, has anyone ever been? I'm thinking about joining some friends on their east coast tour May 8th-18th, and the NYC Popfest is one of the places they'll be playing. This could be a lot of fun for me. Share your thoughts if you've been! 2 comments / comment?

saturday, march 14th, 2009 @ 8:15 pm March 14, 2009 3 comments / comment?

saturday, march 14th, 2009 @ 7:54 pm The duo comment?

saturday, march 14th, 2009 @ 7:35 pm We went to the Silver Lake dog park today and got Lefty his vaccinations (at a discounted price) and let him run around with all the other puppies and small dogs. He was a good boy and didn't freak out about being man handled and getting a shot. And he didn't freak out around the other dogs. It was funny to see him interact. He is really well adjusted and has a nice manner about him. A very friendly, carefree puppy really. There were some dogs there that wouldn't stop yapping, biting, humping or being aggressive in general. It was really interesting. And the best part was, I got to play with some of the other cute puppies there! It was great, I didn't think about that happening, but now I'll be all about going to the dog park! Huh. We also found out he is 12 weeks old. Which makes this having a puppy situation feel more and more real. Less like a novelty and more of a reality. comment?

tuesday, march 10th, 2009 @ 3:47 pm Music: Working Class Hero - John Lennon I can't say it enough, but unpacking is the supremely tedious. I've unpacked 7 tubs and still have 5 to go. 12 tubs of all my crap. And this is after sifting through everything and selling/throwing away/giving away all the not so good crap. Anyway. comment?

tuesday, march 10th, 2009 @ 1:19 am Ohh my little Lefty. I'm really trying not to go dog crazy and post a thousand photos of Lefty, but it's proving to be difficult. What's more adorable than your little puppy chewing on your braids? Not much. 2 comments / comment?

tuesday, march 10th, 2009 @ 12:28 am Music: RR38: Lighthouse Twelve - RelicRadio.com Jewel City Bowl - March 7 & 8, 2009 It was black light bowling at Jewel City Bowl in Glendale. I love bowling, but I'm terrible at it. Swing your left hip out! comment?

monday, march 9th, 2009 @ 11:17 pm Music: RR101: Top Secret and The Whisperer - RelicRadio.com Arroyo Seco Mini Golf - March 7, 2009 It's been years since I've gone miniature golfing. Who ever has time for miniature golfing anymore? Well, apparently it is an activity that people need to make time for. comment?

monday, march 9th, 2009 @ 9:19 pm Music: This American Life #375: Bad Bank - Chicago Public Radio My new little office, at our new apartment. I finally have a space for all my stuff. A place for me. A place to work. So now, it's time to get to work. 1 comment / comment?

monday, march 9th, 2009 @ 8:17 pm Yes, this perked me right up too Marisa. comment?

monday, march 9th, 2009 @ 1:25 pm There is nothing better in life than rubbing your puppy's belly until his hiccups go away. comment?

monday, march 9th, 2009 @ 12:58 pm Music: This American Life #205: Plan B - Chicago Public Radio New apartment in Silver Lake. It's becoming very comfortable here. 2 comments / comment?

wednesday, march 4th, 2009 @ 9:28 pm This photo is funny to me because Lefty is so small, he can't reach anything. He can't reach the bed, he can't reach the couch, he can't reach the window sill, he can't even reach the coffee table. I know this because he tries to every day. But he was able to climb on top of these two small tubs in my room. He's really proud of this because he'll come into my room, climb the tubs, and then just sit there, like he's just conquered it all. It's actually the first time I've been able to take a clear photo of him because he's sitting so still. 9 comments / comment?

wednesday, march 4th, 2009 @ 9:19 pm Sometimes it feels like we'll never be done moving. comment?

monday, march 2nd, 2009 @ 11:12 pm I took this photo yesterday. Lefty fell asleep on the couch at our old apartment, as we were moving and cleaning it out to hand it over to our land lady. I've never had a puppy before. Everyday he does something ridiculously cute and something absolutely frustrating. Life with a puppy, one of the many new things that are happening to me now. 10 comments / comment?

monday, march 2nd, 2009 @ 11:04 pm Hello Lefty! comment?

monday, march 2nd, 2009 @ 9:13 pm I needed to buy new checks today with the new address. I'm pretty pleased with the ones I ordered (above). Sometimes the smallest things make me feel so satisfied. comment?

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