Beacon, NY Corn Festival.


Making the Corn:

Free Concert in the park!

Marc's new ride!  ;-)
For some reason, probably its utter hideousness, my camera would not focus on this motorcycle. I tried 3x.





They rescued the carousel from Lincoln Park when it closed! (That was my childhood amusement park.) It's a really nice carousel, dating from 1921. I hadn't been on it since I was 12 (or so).































Battleships.





The rest of the USS Fall River is not here, because it was highly radioactive.





Vehicles with teeth.











Strangely amusing didactics.





Battleship Massachusetts.











The endlessly-repainted Braga Bridge, now with suicide guards, from the Battleship.





A very gothic squadron logo.





WWII memorabilia & displays.











I actually took all these pictures because I was planning on submitting them to that blog of misplaced punctuation.















Courageous & Strong..




Sleeping the sleep of a Navy Man.







Below Decks

















Piece of a missile.





Weapons & stuff.

My very first trip to Fire Island!  :-) 

WGT trip 2003 -

These were the only pix I had on photobucket, and I got a note they were going to delete them, so I moved them over to imageshack - figured I might as well post them up all fresh!


London.





Vanessa & Derek





Ikon live in London



















Grano & Naiche





Charles







Heidnisches Dorf







Distorted Reality at Werk II



















Invisible Limits at Werk II

















Cinema Strange at AGRA



















Funhouse























Simon





Umbra et Imago











Medieval Fair at Mortizbastei, Vivus Temporis







Bloody Dead & Sexy at Parkbuehne











Bloodflowerz

















Inkubus Sukkubus





















In Gowan Ring with Michael of Unto Ashes















Grano and pseudo-Grano















Laibach











Ian & Shea















The Eternal Afflict











































Oomph!









Faith & the Muse









The 69 Eyes




























Deine Lakaien





















































Osiris Taurus











Saltatio Mortis















Cornix Maledictum















Tanzwut

The opening band, Street Sweepers Social Club. Everyone was underwhelmed.







Beer on the lawn. Or maybe it's water.




Nine Inch Nails. First time I'd seen them, since when I tried to go see the Pretty Hate Machine tour on Landsdowne St. in Boston the show was sold out, and the bouncer wouldn't let Trent bring all the kids outside in 'round the back way. So I listened from outside and got my favorite japanese jacket stolen. Ah well.

Anyway, I would rather have seen them then than now. Trent really seems to have disavowed the old stuff (was hoping he'd do it since this was his "farewell tour.") And it just wasn't that good. Lots of Jock Angst.
































On the other hand, Jane's Addiction did not disappoint! This was the third time I've seen them.... first time Perry Farrell was a dreadlocked punk, 2nd time a grunge rocker, this time quite the dandy! He just puts on a great show. I was disappointed they played second, since we had to leave before the set was over to be sure of not missing the bus, since that happened to us last time!







































 

Thanks to Ryanair changing schedules on me, possibly the shortest visit to London ever!

Houses of Parliament









In case you were wondering, you are not allowed into Westminster Abbey with a backpack or Large Bag, and they do not have a bag check.











Dali sculpture near the London Eye

Völkerschlachtdenkmal - still under renovation, which is unfortunate! (for my pictures, but good in general).









That's me!





That's Rob!







interior











We climbed to the top.





That's a pretty crematorium!





pretty crematorium and nuclear power plant.... hmmm.















Kohlrabizirkus






Downtown

























Rob's blue period.









Museum at the monument. Sadly all the descriptions are only in German.











people in a fountain.





A bunch of goths at the airport. Goodbye Leipzig, till next year!