SXSW feature on IFC

Obviously the first thing I think of when someone points a camera in my face is to stick out my “ROCK!” tongue. ha! Hi Mom!

For those of you who were there you know: that party kicked ass. This video is long, but in it I spot a ton of people I know: Ben Brown (obviously), Buzz (standing right behind me in these shots above), Lane, Helen, Meghan, Amy (thanks for forwarding this to me!), Jonathan, Danny (who quickly became one of my favorite sxswi party pals there and is in a ton of my photos), MJ, Ev and more (too many to name, nor link! :).

Dennis (of Dodgeball) recently posted an awesome SXSW wrap-up on his site that is a must read. He apologized that it’s a few weeks late, but personally it was perfect to have it come now & out of the blue take us all back to what an amazing couple days it was!

DJ Dodgeball was responsible for the tunes @ the first (Google) party Monday night, which in addition to the free drinks turned it into a full force dance party. AWESOME! It also kicked off a night that will go down in the record books for SXSW debauchery at it’s finest. aaawww yaaaaa. I can’t wait ’til next year!

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Bazaar Bizarre & the Maker Fair – this weekend!

Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco is a fabulous juried show featuring hip, handmade goods by vendors from across the country, set to take place within MAKE Magazine’s Maker Fair! Even if you’re not about girly handmade goodness, check out the tech DIY goodness going on all around Maker Faire (ahem, guy friends, boyfriends, etc).

Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco
Saturday April 22, 2006 10:00-6:00
Sunday April 23, 2006 10:00-5:00 @ San Mateo Fairgrounds
FYI: You’ll need to buy tickets to get into Maker Fair. BazBiz is situated in the lawn area of the Fairgrounds.

What is the Maker Fair you ask?

The creators of Make Magazine, Robot Magazine, the MythBusters, and thousands of tech DIY enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, science clubs, students, and authors will all be flocking to the San Mateo Fairgrounds to share inspiration, know-how, and spirited mischief-making. The Maker Faire is going to be a huge event with all kinds of DIY tech, craft and art exhibits, workshops, and happenings. Participants include Diana Eng from Project Runway, Jess Hutch and her famous knitted toys, ReadyMade, Swap-o-rama-rama and Leah from Craftster.org – just to name a few!

… And Bazaar Bizarre will be right smack on the middle of it all! Go check it out!

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da books.


da books.
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So btw (Dan!), Ali & I went to the Books on Monday night!!

The openers, The Clogs, were guys from the National, but it was all too instrumental slow for me and I wasn’t havin’ it. Simultaneously some bigger fans weren’t havin’ it that we were chatting in the back either. :p I’ve been there (hating people talking through a set I’m trying to listen to), so we quieted down – but boy was I glad when that set was over!

The Books were actually really good. I was afraid I wasn’t going to like it at all, but I was pretty entertained the whole time. The performers are sitting down, so we really couldn’t see anything but the screen that played visuals to most of their songs. They play guitar, violin, and the occasional banjo or cello, overlaid with sampled sounds, words and discussions. I was happy to have heard so many of their CD’s before seeing them live, as it was pretty cool to see it come together with the visuals.

They also played a beautiful cover of Nick Drake’s Cello Song. The Books lead singer has a similar voice… it was really, really nice.

Since it was Ali’s bday that night, we had met up with Ryan & Gabe (of Sonic Living, who also went to the show with us) for dinner at Pancho’s on Polk. I realized it was the first time I’d had a burrito in awhile! Let alone at Pancho’s. My ex-ex used to live over near there, so we used to hit Pancho’s and Bob’s (donuts, yummm) a ton. Anyway, we don’t always do pre-show dinner, so that was fun… and worth mentioning because (gasp) there are no photos of it! haha.

(completely random note, and maybe i’m way late on this, because I don’t hit this site very often, but allmusic.com revamped their homepage.)

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just as I suspected!

Spring 2007 for Mactel Photoshop. I’ll be waiting a year till Adobe/Apple work all these upgrades out. I am also predicting (hoping) they come out w/ a Powerbook (err, MacBookPro or whatever – but that name isn’t as cool IMO) that’s a G5! I have the need for speeeeeed. Especially lately, my system has been chugging. Today’s not as bad so far, but the last week has been testing my patience something fierce. I spent a little time yesterday running a few repair programs, so maybe that helped.

I want a lot of new things right now. A new phone, a new camera, a new powerbook (if I had completely disposable income I would totally have upgraded already), a new TiVo Series 2, a new iPod (also waiting for more GB’s on this one before I upgrade -but again, if money was coming out my ears I would have at least upgraded to the slimmer 60GB iPod Video).

OK, I’ll get back to work now so I can start working towards that whole money out my ears thing. :)

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show ho shots 2005!


show ho shots 2005.
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Yay! Ali finally posted a photo of the poster I got her for Christmas: show ho shots from the whole year of 2005! What’s so fun about this is that we have a few with other “honorary show ho” buddies who love the rock as much as we do, and most of them we can remember the show we were at and they take us back to memories of super fun times. aww yaa music peeps!

Check out all of of our tagged showhoshot photos on flickr!

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air guitar championships!

Air Guitar Nation: OMG, when this flick comes to SF we are SO there! I heard it’s awesome. Here’s a trailer. It’s in NY next weekend, so if you live there, go check it out!

Awww shit peeps! Check it out – our very own Independent is holding the Air Guitar Championships on May 11th! woohoo! We’re so there. You can even sign up as a contestant! Ajax, please say you will. ;)

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P.S. Everyone, I changed my site’s search functionality today over to the fine services offered by FreeFind.com and it already rules! My old search engine (atomz who became websidestory recently) stopped indexing at 500 pages, so half my site wasn’t even able to come up in the results there for awhile, which defeats the purpose of having a search function! So, needless to say I’m stoked to have that fixed now. I don’t know if you all use it, but it comes in handy for me considering my blog is my “digital memory”. heh. It even has advanced search and this hilarious index, where you can quickly see misspelling, and how many different ways I’ve spelled everything from “aaarrgg” to “zzzzz”! hahaa!

FYI, for those of you reading this post in the archives, the search box is located in the left column on my homepage.

For the record, I am (still) excited to move over to WordPress (eventually), as they have a search functionality built in, as well as CATEGORIES!!! I actually found the FreeFind search thing after somehow running into this guy’s blog where I saw he craftily has used del.icio.us to create categories on his site. After digging around, I’m pretty sure he did it by following this tutorial: Blogger Categories with Del.icio.us, which you’ll see is where I saw the FreeFind search box!

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love monkey fans!

Awhile back our crew (Misty, Ted, Hez, Ali & I) all got pretty stoked on a new show called Love Monkey:

“The dramatic comedy [Love Monkey…] looks at life and love through the eyes of a cynical, single, 30-something music scout, premiered on CBS in January. The network ordered eight episodes, but the series was scrapped after three.

VH1 will air the three previously seen shows back-to-back on April 11, starting at 7 p.m. ET. The remaining five installments will air weekly on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. beginning April 18.” – MSN

So peeps, as a reminder: Tonite’s the first new episode! Sadly it conflicts w/ Scrubs, but my TiVo was smart enough to know it is playing the same episode again at 1am in the morning, so it’ll be recording that. yay!

I am stoked to see more of this show! Everyone watch it so it stays on air! :)

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happy birthday hez & ali!!

My two beautiful girlfriends Hez & Ali just celebrated another year of being FABULOUS! We all helped on Saturday night with yummy food, many drinks, tons of friends and lots of laughs! SO much fun!!

About 10 of us had dinner @ the Octavia Lounge first. They had tasty drinks, and it was awesome of them to accomodate us when our group went from 20 to 10, but personally I thought they were pretty slow & disorganized at times. I was the one who booked it because it’s so conveniently close, but now I know.. it’s a little too pricey & I actually could do w/o listening to jazz at dinner. Especially when you’re ready for a rockin night @ the Lucky 13! I’d go back if I was on a date though, cuz then they’d (hopefully) pay, and the jazz in the background might be better for a romantic dinner vs a bunch of indie rock music snobs. haha! That said, it was pretty yummy, which is good for birthdays no matter what!

A HUGE thanks to Misty for being the kick ass birthday party organizer for these two girls! You’re so awesome woman, and we are all SO lucky to have you as a friend! xoxo


Can you tell we’re having fun? :) Hez, me, Ryan & Misty


birthday girl sandwich!


All 4 of us go to Paul to get our hair done! we love him!

There are so many great photos up from Saturday night! Here’s a directory (haha), let me know if you have any to add!

Hez’s official bday was yesterday & Ali’s is today! Happy Birthday, girls! I LOVE YOU!!! xoxoxo

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