So, its been a while since I wrote on this here blog.  Let me fast forward through my life up to this point: I flew from the D.R. to Portland, spent my summer there working (a little), writing/playing music, and having fun.  I have started my senior year at Lewis & Clark College, and it is now October.

A few weeks ago we had a much needed Fall Break from school, and some wonderful people and I decided to go up to The Beach House, a little cozy place on the Oregon coast in a town called Rockaway Beach.  The house is owned by the parents of my good friend Dylan, who continues to let us escape to the peacefulness of The Beach House every chance we get.

Let me tell you: this house is magical.  Its one of those places that makes you feel like you are alive in a different way, in a magical way that makes you understand that playing on the beach, making fires, and cooking dinner are the only things that really matter in life.

So anyway, all 6 of us who went up to the house for Fall Break are musically inclined, and as musically inclined people are apt to do, we made music.  I was jamming with Dylan one morning when I realized that I should record the song we had created.  So I booted up Garageband on my MacBook.  Then I got the idea to record a song for each meal time of the day when we were all together in the house, and boom!  The Fall Break 2010 album was born.

The band: The Beach House Bums

The members: Annie Fassler, Jonah Geil-Neufeld, Walt Javins, Warren Kluber, Dylan Peden, and Alison Stake.  All students or alums of L&C.

Here’s the album.  Its fun.  It reminds me not to take life too seriously, and that my friends are awesome.

 Breakfast: Take 1 [4:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 Lunch Time [0:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 Dinner Grace [1:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 Breakfast: The Next Morning [1:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download