When I heard that a photographer was needed to go to the state fair for the day, and interview Peter Frampton - I was all, "Oh! Pick me! Pick me!" And, when they asked why I wanted to go so bad, my answer was, "Um...not sure."





Anyway, I spent the first part of my shift shooting Peter Frampton playing guitar into some 'home recording studio' that he was trying out. To tell you the truth: I don't know all the much about Frampton, except for all the songs I hear on the classic rock station.

Here are a few things I learned about Frampton:
1) He's short. Tiny, even.
2) He reminds me of General Zod (Terrance Stamp) from "Superman 2." I was considering photoshopping a pic of him saying, "Son of Jorel, kneel before Zod." [blog had a similar/brilliant thing recently, so I didn't.]
3) He's really cool guy.

I shot Frampton for a while, and then had to take a little break until the concert started. I decided to take a little walk around the fair. Here are a few of my highlights:

PEARLY GATES: SALEM BUREAU



There was a booth that claimed: "Are you getting into Heaven? Find out in two questions." I picture my session going like this:

LL: Am I getting into Heaven?
BOOTH: What's your name?
LL: LL Robot
BOOTH: No.
LL: What about my other question?
BOOTH: That's all we needed.

NEW FOOD TRENDS

Fuck corndogs. The new delicious snack at the fair was "pork chops on a stick" I saw people walking around just gnawing at these things. Just your ordinary pork chop plopped onto a stick.



OLD TIMEY PHOTOS



I went by the old timey photo booth. This is something that I've been bothering everyone to do with me. One day we even made it a mission to get down to the fair (an hour's drive) and get the photos taken, but it turned out that the fair didn't open for a week. Anyway, I opted for a rugged gunslinger look, and was promptly undressed dressed-up by a bunch of 13 year-old girls - presumably the photographers kids.



Looking at this photo, I feel like Ed Swearengen from HBO's Deadwood. You can see the word, "c--ksucker" about to roll right off my lips.

After the old timey photos, I went back to the concert hall and watched Eddie Money and Peter Frampton perform while I shot some more video. Not a bad day's work.


Random stuff:
Hasser posted some stuff from our Vegas trip over on his site.

Fox 12 discovered that a chick from Portland was selling herself on eBay. We ran a story, and she got a gazillion hits/bids within minutes - then promptly freaked out. [ebay might've removed the auction by now]