Thomas Locke Hobbs

Currently: Buenos Aires

I'm finally getting around to ripping my thousand or so CDs [slowly]. I'd previously made half-attempts, picking off my favorite songs. This time I'm ripping every last one--the promos, the singles, the unfortunate purchases--all of it. There's an intellectual satisfaction of knowing my entire collection resides on a single hard drive [well, two counting the back-up]. I can't help but wonder if the whole excercise is a little pointless. In high school, for instance, I was obsessed with Pink Floyd. I still listen to Dark Side of the Moon every year or so, but Ummagumma? Atom Heart Mother? I don't think so. Second that for my many live versions of Grateful Dead's Dark Star.

Zunil, Guatemala Cemetery
Zunil Cemetery on Day of the Dead [check out the whole set]

Zunil is a small village in the Guatemalan highlands near Quetzaltenango, where I spent three weeks at a Spanish school in 1997. The village possesses one of the most stunning cemeteries on the planet; simple graves of tile and stone painted in varying shades of white and pastel on a ridge overlooking a valley and in the shadow of a volcano. I was reminded of this over the weekend while looking at some oft-overlooked, pre-digital travel photos. A quick search on flickr reveals that I'm not the only struck by it's beauty and that they have an astounding Day of the Dead celebration there. I'm ready to book my ticket.

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Hi. I'm a 32 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.