{"id":299,"date":"2007-08-14T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T08:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2007-08-14T13:45:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T20:45:44","slug":"countdown-to-the-louie-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to the LOUIE FEST &#8211; 4 days to go.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next weekend, I&#8217;ll be at the big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louiefest.com\"><strong>LOUIE FEST<\/strong><\/a> up in the Tacoma, Washington region of the world&#8230;.  the town of Spanaway, actually, participating in an event that willl attempt to bring over 1,000 guitars in one place to perform LOUIE LOUIE!   I&#8217;ll be doing a solo road trip for this one, taking my clunker car many miles from home to visit my Northwest friends, and capture more elements for my epic LOUIE LOUIE documentary project.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I&#8217;m multi-tasking like a schizophrenic octopus, trying to do a lot of things in a very short time.  While I write these words, I wait for my other computer to finish rendering a video file that may or may not be part of a special presentation for for my friends that want to see some examples of what I&#8217;ve been working on.  Everything takes time&#8230;  especially when you have to hurry up an wait&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also preparing for a big job immediately after my Northwest trek.  I&#8217;ll be attending <strong>Burning Man<\/strong> for the first time, shooting video for some TV show.   I&#8217;ve never been to this thing, but I have many friends that absolutely love it.   I also have some friends that attended that said.. &#8220;never again!&#8221;  Can I handle being out in the middle of a desert without access to a telephone or my trusty computer?  This should be very interesting&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>As I juggle all these different things, I&#8217;m frustrated over the fact that way too many things are happening in a very short period.  Apparently, on the same weekend as the LOUIE FEST, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/chocolatewatchband\"><strong>Chocolate Watchband<\/strong><\/a> are doing their final performance at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/fuzzfestnorthwest\"><strong>Northwest FuzzFest<\/strong><\/a>.   The weekend afterwards, as I return from my roadtrip, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mojotown.com\/villagemusic\/\">party for the closing<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetwatersaloon.com\/\"><strong>Sweetwater Saloon<\/strong><\/a> in Mill Valley, California.  I just don&#8217;t know if I can do it all&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This is really upsetting. I&#8217;ve had too many good experiences at this club.  I&#8217;ve shot video for some really great parties for <strong>John Goddard<\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagemusic.com\/\"><strong>Village Music<\/strong><\/a>, who&#8217;s also closing his record store at the end of September.  I&#8217;ve been meaning to write up something nice about all my wonderful experiences at both Village Music and Sweetwater, maybe creating a comic strip blog like I&#8217;ve done for other postings, but I just don&#8217;t have the time to do this properly.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louietopia.com\"><strong>LOUIE LOUIE Video Contest<\/strong><\/a> is coming together&#8230;  Here&#8217;s a video clip of a dancing hamster toy!<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IPaETotgDvQ\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IPaETotgDvQ\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next weekend, I&#8217;ll be at the big LOUIE FEST up in the Tacoma, Washington region of the world&#8230;. the town of Spanaway, actually, participating in an event that willl attempt to bring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,5,7,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ep-world","category-louie-universe","category-new-versions","category-pacific-northwest","category-pop-culture","category-wailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}