Thursday, May 27, 2004
seriously
Thanks Tam for sending. Give it a listen, it's only a few seconds...
DWR.com
A pal opened a Queer Eye approved Design Within Reach showroom on Fillmore Street. They opened their doors a mere couple of weeks ago, on the same strip where the much-beloved Fillamento used to be.
Poor Fillamento is no more and was replaced by Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic. You can tell because of the wood floors coated in a million layers of white paint. It goes with chintz.
But the DWR store is lovely. One of everything would be great, thanks. I'm definitely after the mattress but time will tell if I can one day bring that thing home. Or have it shipped, rather. They roll it, it's foam!
On the wall of that store, viewed from the perspective of the bed located on the upper loft level are the words "Less is More Work."
Don't know who wrote that but I think it's fabulous. And from their email newsletter that I swear to dog I never subscribed:
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
-Mohandas Gandhi
Poor Fillamento is no more and was replaced by Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic. You can tell because of the wood floors coated in a million layers of white paint. It goes with chintz.
But the DWR store is lovely. One of everything would be great, thanks. I'm definitely after the mattress but time will tell if I can one day bring that thing home. Or have it shipped, rather. They roll it, it's foam!
On the wall of that store, viewed from the perspective of the bed located on the upper loft level are the words "Less is More Work."
Don't know who wrote that but I think it's fabulous. And from their email newsletter that I swear to dog I never subscribed:
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
-Mohandas Gandhi
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Man With A Movie Camera w/ Oranger
Peeps in Los Angeles on June 19th can see a one-time performance, never before seen by anyone! It's a Russian film from 1929 set to an original score by Oranger performed live.
The Los Angeles Film Festival calls the film by Chelovkev Kinoapparatom a "panoramic portrait of a modern city" and Oranger will surely be bringing it up to the now.
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Jewel of the Bile
After paying $40 a ticket, fans walked out of Jewel's recent performance at the Hampton Beach Ballroom Casino, the Portsmouth Herald reports. Despite being in a casino, the singer-songwriter told the crowd that "drinkers and smokers are sinners" during her one-hour show.
This was enough time for 4 or 5 songs and no shortage of ranting. After asking for requests from the audience, she replied with, "shut the hell up." Jewel also spoke for 10 minutes about Paxil and Zoloft. One fan told the newspaper, "As soon as she came out, she began to insult us," and "I don’t know if she was having a nervous breakdown or what. She told everyone to stop looking at her teeth and look at her breasts."
This was enough time for 4 or 5 songs and no shortage of ranting. After asking for requests from the audience, she replied with, "shut the hell up." Jewel also spoke for 10 minutes about Paxil and Zoloft. One fan told the newspaper, "As soon as she came out, she began to insult us," and "I don’t know if she was having a nervous breakdown or what. She told everyone to stop looking at her teeth and look at her breasts."
Monday, May 24, 2004
Avalon
This house is called Avalon and it's in Sea Ranch, about an hour and a half north of here on Hwy 1. Avalon is also a sultry song by Roxy Music. We are taking a family vacation for a long weekend and we're stoked. We will also be stoking the fireplace.
This house stands alone on its own land, smack in the middle of several acres of meadow and woods, yet close to the beach. This means that we can blare our music all we want! It will help keep the raccoons away from our little pup. That is, unless the raccoons are rock fans, which is entirely possible.
Friday, May 21, 2004
who likes marshmallows?
Check out this gator. His name is Winky because he only has one eye. Our bayou boat driver made sure to toss marshmallows where Winky can see them.
We also learned that if you take a measurement between the gator's snout and eye in inches, the rest of the gator will measure that many feet. So, a nine inch snout means that guy is nine feet long. Winky looks like a biggie. He's a very old soul.
Thursday, May 20, 2004
read, then weep
Read one honorably discharged marine's story originally published in the Sacramento Bee. Sgt. Jimmy Massey says, "I blame the president because he said they had weapons of mass destruction. It was a lie."
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Hang in There
I almost missed the tour bus back to the hotel in New Orleans because I was shooting these cutie pies. They live near the bayou and were voguing for me. This looks like a "Hang in There" poster.
Monday, May 17, 2004
The Shining, now with bunnies
A friend sent me these. Check out The Shining and the Exorcist told in 30 seconds, with bunnies.
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Yo Cho
This Monday, March 17th Margaret Cho will be in San Francisco for a march and rally for marriage equality. Just show up at 5PM at Market St. and Powell and march to City Hall, the site of many same sex marriages. Stand up and say yeah!
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
one man, no ghosts
no man, only ghosts. tell me you don't see them
Both are photos I took of the Cornstalk Hotel in New Orleans last weekend. I kept shooting that hotel because it has what's known as the most photographed fence in the United States, maybe even the world. Also, our hotel was next door.
Feeling the need to do said fence justice, I have several pictures of the cornstalk. The man who put up the fence did so because his wife was from Iowa, the land of much corn. Even our Nick Nolte-esque carriage driver said that Elvis has stayed there. Marlon Brando did too, during the filming of A Streetcar Named Desire. And our trusty horse Sebastian trotted us past the old residence of Tennessee Williams.
Back to the photos above, these are unretouched and taken by me on different days. The second photo has a visible face looking out from the balcony. The weird orbs, or ectoplasm, look like ghosts you see on tv. I count 5.
We Heart Hillary
It feels good to wear anything by Marc Jacobs (I pish on the perfume almost every day) but it feels great making a $55 donation benefiting Senator Hillary Clinton's future endeavors.
So I got myself a green Marc Jacobs designed tee depicting Hill's very smart head on the front. Friends of Hillary gets my donation.
Get thee to a Marc Jacobs store or buy one online. They come in girl and boy sizes, long or short sleeved. Get 'em now, they're selling out fassst.
Monday, May 10, 2004
mind your own beignets
A beignet is a square, funnel-cake-batter-y donut fried and served hot in New Orleans. One emphatic driver who took us to our swamp tour showed us how to eat a beignet, because the inch-thick topping of powdered sugar is sure to get ya.
He held his hand out as if he were holding a delicious square beignet, then moved his head towards it to bite. The exact opposite of a hand-to-mouth motion.
And as sister of the bride Jill said, "Getting sugar everywhere is part of it." Right-on! The groom, who was not with our party of six girls in town thought of a great t-shirt idea. Two strategically placed beignets on the front, and the words "mind your own beignets" on the back.
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Old Orleans Too
Vacation is almost here! Starting tomorrow, I'll be flopping in this quintessential hotel in the French $0.25 of New Orleans. I'll be eating amazing food (much of it fried) and seeking out vampires and haunted mansions. Also doing a swamp tour and a horse-driven carriage ride. But not at the same time.
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
come dust and mud
Got lucky enough to see a secret show last night starring Tracy Champan at the Makeout Room. Guessing it was a secret because supply would nowhere reach demand. Many people could not get in. It was sold out, but not uncomfortably crowded, which I appreciate. Everyone was going "Shhh" the whole time, just like at Cat Power shows, which I appreciated a bit less.
My pal from American Music Club said to me, "She's got pipes. She's workin' the room," and he was right about that.
Chapman treated us to select cover songs and she earned her ability play each and every one. From Gillian Welch's "Orphan Girl" to Nirvana's "Come as You Are" the crowd went gaga with an inspired singalong.
My pal from American Music Club said to me, "She's got pipes. She's workin' the room," and he was right about that.
Chapman treated us to select cover songs and she earned her ability play each and every one. From Gillian Welch's "Orphan Girl" to Nirvana's "Come as You Are" the crowd went gaga with an inspired singalong.
