The Sad Bear

June 8, 2009

In Phoenix

I arrived in a 106-degree Phoenix, Ariz. Wednesday night. The trip west was long, but totally good. I left with the intention to run a series of updates on my blog with pictures and description of the trip. If you're interested in checking out those posts, see the following:

Introduction
Visiting Jack (includes video footage of his beard)
Two-day stay in Amarillo
In Phoenix

One of my favorite pictures from the trip was of this one car at the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo:



My apartment here is pretty nice. It's located 10 minutes away from the office and about the same distance away from a cool night-life part of the city. There are two pools and a newspaper stand about a minute's walk from my front door.

I'm already sun-burned.


When you enter the apartment you step directly into the living room.


My roommate, Jenna, and I have a decent-sized kitchen. I'm already making a lot of my own food out of a cookbook Tony recommended.


My bedroom resembles the average hotel room, minus the Gideon Bible in the drawer of the night-table. I like it though.


I have a huge desk, but a small number of posters on the wall. Within the next week or so I'll be adding a lot to the wall. I've started clipping out cool advertisements and art events from the paper and adding them to the wall. Sort of a visual calendar...I guess.

It's pretty tough to be bored in this city. Juggling club meets Wednesday. Swing club meets Thursday. Art walks and neat Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art events often occur on Fridays (plus a good nightlife scene about 10 minute south of me). And plenty of little hole-in-the-wall stuff to see in between.

The music here might be a little hit-or-miss. Besides the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the only groups coming through this city that I'm interested in seeing are The White Rabbits and The Bowerbirds. Later this month I'm driving a couple of hours to Tucson, Ariz. to see Sunset Rubdown with Mark Perkins. Tickets for that show rang in at a very affordable $8.

I'll be finished reading Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday tomorrow, and plan to forge into the following works next:

Vox by Nicholson Baker
Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Note: Sorry Silliman, I'll get around to 2666, but it looks a little too hefty for how hectic I think my summer reading will be. I'm going to get around to it sometime this year though.

I have human resources training tomorrow morning, but work officially starts for me Tuesday.

Labels: Arizona, Going West, newspapers, Phoenix, photography, reading

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