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May 19, 2012
Postcards from Nowhere: Pismo Beach
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My directionally-challenged friend Doug is currently on a loop though the American Southwest on a BMW GS1200R. He blackmailed me into riding along with him for the stretch from Pismo to San Francisco. I begged a few days off, tried to meet him down there, but broke down in the middle of nowhere, somewhere between Big Sur and San Simeon.
The images were all captured on a Canon EOS 50D frame and a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM image-stabilized, ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens, or on a Canon EOS 50D frame with a Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM lens. In some shots, I also used a circular polarizing filter. For some of the flower shots, I also used a small carbon fiber tripod.
This slideshow features a song by Gotye called Somebody that I used to know.
The images are compiled into a 8 Meg (4:01) Adobe Flash slideshow (pismo2012.swf) that you should be able to open and view with any browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.). To view the slideshow, just click on the photo above. If you want to view the slideshow as a Windows executable, you can play this version (pismo2012.exe), and it allows you to play, pause, skip forward, backwards, etc.
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Lyrics in the extended entry.
Gotye
"Somebody That I Used To Know"
(featuring Kimbra)
[Gotye:]
Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember
You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad it was over
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and I feel so rough
No you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
[Kimbra:]
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
Part of me believing it was always something that I'd done
But I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know
[Gotye:]
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and I feel so rough
And you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
[x2]
Somebody
(I used to know)
Somebody
(Now you're just somebody that I used to know)
(I used to know)
(That I used to know)
(I used to know)
Somebody
Posted by Rob Kiser on May 19, 2012 at 8:01 PM
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