Sort of Crafty

i (virtually) moved

2006-09-30T14:10:00.000-05:00

remember, i probably sent you that email....

eliza (not doolittle)

2006-09-23T15:32:00.000-05:00

did i mention that i am knitting this tank top? i am using the shiraz color, it knits up so nice. i'll try and remeber to take a (bad) photo of it if i can.....

banned books week

2006-09-21T13:39:00.000-05:00

banned book weeks
Originally uploaded by amyr.

click on the icon for more information (did you see my new badge on the left under links? cute eh?)

wow, who knew?

2006-09-12T16:35:00.000-05:00

check out this book. next week is the official talk like a pirate day. (it is also strange to note that some of the pirates from that website will be on wife swap....)

return of the lemonheads.

2006-08-25T18:51:00.000-05:00

i heard the new lemonheads song today on the radio. it was super bizarre b/c i actually turned in on in the middle of the song and thought, is that j mascis on guitar, and THEN heard evan dando and thought, what is this all about. i discovered j is guesting on the song, no backbone. i dig it. takes me back to all the things i like in high school, in one place (well, minus greg dulli.....). check out the song via myspace if you wish.

tell me baby, what's your story?

2006-08-23T21:43:00.000-05:00

what to tell....
it's been busy since i started back at my one job. i have acquired a new skill there- running the crazy book scanner, so since one of the main scanner peeps has been on vaca, i have been running the scanner in the morning. it's so bizarre and crazy and big and of course totally intimidating. i just sit there and scan away, it's a huge project so they will be working on it for a while. anyway, i was terrified after my lesson last week and didn't want to think about the stupid thing all weekend.

the weekend, went and hung out with a friend most of the day on friday, some swimming, but it's already getting cold. help them out with some stuff. it was nice enough to sit out under the stars and just chill later that night. (the week before we had a campfire, i came home cherishing the scent on my sweatshirt). saturday i went to a lit thing at dv8 and went home to do some stuff.

i have just been reading like mad since school hasn't been around to distract me. finally read nick hornby's last book and this week after work i cruised the clp for something to read and came across this book censoring culture , and lessig and all those kids wrote for that, so i dig it of course.
also, i am reading adverbs by daniel handler, aka lemony snicket (i don't fully understand that last sentence, but apparently he is well known as lemony whatever....). i saw it at my local library and just picked it up, then noticed that both chabon and dave eggers had written "praise" on the back, my kind of book. so i'm about 1/3 into it and i totally dig it, it's a bit of an interwoven story so it isn't instantly like you get what's going on, but i like it and have encountered some of the most amazing passages that i want to type out for you, but really, just go to the damn library yourself, pgs. 64 and 67- f-ing brilliant.

so that's what i have to say, i've been so busy that it's hard to remember that school is here so soon.

oh yeah, and possums are the new animal of the moment. i say this b/c i got totally freaked out by one when i saw it out the window the other night, i thought what is that??!?! it was so creepy looking. then i was watching some liam lynch action and he has a possum that eats catfood at his house and just walks in and interacts with his cats. wha??!?!

a few pics of what i have made lately. i made the t-shirt/button down tonight, it was easy enough and it worked out well that the cheap ass t shirt i had on hand went well with the house coat i had to use for fabric.

first back to school item....

2006-08-23T16:26:00.000-05:00

i love these boots, i want to wear them to work tomorrow, but alas, i think it still might be too warm.

a total sucker for the jables

2006-08-14T21:36:00.000-05:00

so, the tenacious d movie has been a long time coming, but liam lynch put up a trailer, funny stuff.

You've been reading some old letters. You smile and think how much you've changed. All the money in the world couldn't buy back those days.

2006-08-13T22:19:00.000-05:00

greensburg on saturday night
Originally uploaded by amyr.

i realized when driving home last night that i have been back here for exactly a year. a lot has changed. i'm 9 credits away from a graduate degree. i'm back in a place where i don't have a super long commute. i don't live alone anymore. i like being here. is it all peaches and creme 24/7? of course not, and i wouldn't expect it to be.

i re-read high fidelity on friday and saturday (quick read, not quick reader) and remembered how much i loved that book when i first read it. i poured over every detail. it also is attached to a specific time in my life, living in dublin, almost ready to come home, avoiding doing my final work by reading a nick hornby book. it was on the verge of a change in my life. i came home and saw the movie with n the day after i was back.

i guess the point is that the book obviously deals with aspirations and the pull between being satisfied with what we have and avoiding settling and giving up aspiring to be better. i chose to quit my job to go back to school, rightfully so i think. i am excited to be associated with a profession, a group of people who see value in some of the things that i value. will it always feel like this? i doubt it. but the moment is great now.

i think about the things i thought were so dissatrous actually were nothing at all. i don't know.
i'll stop philsophizing now....

anyway. so what else has been up.
i went to shopping (aka, them shopping, me buying a headband...) in pgh last week with a friend. finally went to south side works. nice environment, i don't really have much reason to shop down there, but it was cool to check out and to see. it was a good day.

i have just been sewing and doing some other stuff. reading loads. i cranked through high fidelity and am now reading great gatsby. i don't want to expand my horizons so i'll just re-read books i dig. i explained it to someone i encountered yesterday as it's like listening to your favourite song or album again, that's the way re-reading things is for me, just a familiar nice feeling. (speaking of, did anyone else see that almost famous was on tv last week? i happened to have been checking out what was on via the tv guide channel b/c i am not so into flipping through all the crap and caught the beginning...) i think of gatsby in the summer anyway. back, back to sewing, i have been working on some good modifications and some good other pattern kinds of things. i love having the time now to do this stuff.

work will be commensing much earlier than i expected. i got a call last week that they wanted me to learn some new stuff and cover for someone who will be out the week before school starts. so i am training on wednesday and then working all week the week before school. sadness at the end of my vacation, that's for certain. but money is money and is always needed and appreciated.

so, i love you all and that is all.

happy birthday, michele

2006-08-10T09:01:00.000-05:00

it's michele's birthday, an important one. so, i shall include funny photos of us from back in the day.
i met michele when she moved to our school in 10th grade. she kicked my chair in a totally annoying way during geometry and she's been around ever since. all of the photos are from amy and michele: the high school years.

michele and i before she went off to the prom. she stole my date, not really but that sounded funny.

michele on our last day of high school during our sophomore year. note the lovely blue high school lockers in the background.

here's the obligatory senior photo shot. we are poster children for the 90s, eh?

happy birthday michele!!!!

Step outside the summertime's in bloom

2006-08-07T18:29:00.000-05:00

the past week has been a total blur, so fast. i finished my field placement and they had a little party for me, which was so nice. things were so busy around there this summer, i never really knew where i stood, you know?

so, i am down to one job/ responsibility for the moment. two more days and then i have a bit of a full respite. i am enjoying doing things by myself lately, working on cover letters and resumes, reading books like mad, just thinking it all over. sewing patterns that i started weeks ago.
it feels so nice to concentrate on what i want, not what is being pushed into my head, you know? i have to catch up with a few people whether via email or phone soon, i promise you.

writing for myself. writing about the past year and being back here. they're right when they say you can never go back home. you see things differently and have something else to add to the situation, whether you want to add to it or not.

i know i don't share too much info on this blog, but unfortunately or fortunately (do you really want to know the full details of what i am thinking all the time, i didn't think so) this is just a way to keep others up to date on me. i do plenty of thinking and processing on my own. i also try to keep what's going on deep down with me, to myself. you don't need to read about every emotion i posess throughout the day, whether good or bad. this isn't to say that i am purposely censoring myself, it simply means that i am trying to keep it all in perspective. why am i even thinking about this now? maybe b/c it's been a while since i have written many words on the computer and it's just forcing itself out of me.

i have only been reading tech and library blogs- out of the necessity of keeping my mind on school, which is so fast in it's approach. i cut down some of my other blogs lack of desire to keep up with them, nothing personal, i just can't read em all. i am psyched to see what my classes will be like. i can only imagine now.

i just finished beijing doll, i had read something about it before but just saw it on the shelf at the library last week so i picked it up and cruised through it. i started doing nothing, but have to return it, no more renewals. i guess i'll have to pick it up again soon.

i racking my brain on what to give m for her birthday, it's a momumental one as well and calls for something ever better than before.... plus i guess i like her, even if i have to wear shitty flip flops to her wedding.

i love jeff tweedy's jacket at lolapalooza, sweet.....

(marky mark, use of an oasis lyric for the subject is my birthday present to you.... i actually listened the whole way through to don't look back in anger last week, spurring this use of the lyric....)

oh, so angelic

2006-08-07T11:36:00.000-05:00

another angelic shot
Originally uploaded by amyr.

it's bill's birthday today. a monumental one, but i won't mention which one... if you see bill on the street today, wish him a happy birthday....

if only.

2006-08-04T14:23:00.000-05:00

sewing machine
Originally uploaded by musiquegirl.

talk about a cool concept, like a knit cafe, only better. i wish i wish we had a place like this around here...stitch in san fran looks awesome.....

hades vacation

2006-08-03T17:27:00.000-05:00

the point
Originally uploaded by amyr.

have i used this subject before? maybe, anyway.

it is so freaking hot lately, it's no good. lots of a/c, lots of lethargic walking to the bus stop, lots of sheilding eyes from blinding sun. guess that's what summer is all about so i'll stop the complaining. it's amazing though, right now. a storm is a brewing and the wind is kicking up, sweeping through the windows of the computer room. making me freel just a tad bit cooler. i love it right now.

i promise to blog more life changing details later, sooner rather than later that is....
wishes of low humidity to you all.

dreams

2006-08-02T09:03:00.000-05:00

i had this insane dream that most of my teeth got knocked out the other night, it was creepy. i talked to someone about it and they said it meant i was going to lose something valuable, that freaked me out even more, so i looked for another possibility via the internet. i guess this one is better. they have really strange dreams on there.... i guess it's better than the one i had last week re: going to a high school reunion with this person who was my boyfriend (please note, i don't really think i am attracted to that person, it's just training camp mayhehm around here....) and no one believed me, they said i had paid him to go to the reunion with me. sad, i know.

what what?

2006-07-26T06:35:00.000-05:00

http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002929.html

"Pittsburgh, which seems to be the Galapagos Islands of American dialect."

2006-07-24T20:07:00.000-05:00

michele sent me an article, complete with mp3s, about dialects in america. we are apparently the freaks of it all....
the post gazette had an article about the n@ stickers, complete with a list of links about pittsburghese

Good Web sources for Pittsburghese:

english.cmu.edu/pittsburghspeech/

www.pittsburghese.com / (entertaining site but no longer maintained)

www.slanguage.com/pittsburgh.html

www.sesraw.com/Birdra/pitt.htm

www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/pgh/pittsburghese.html

pittsburgh.about.com/library/weekly/aa071200a.htm

a few more

2006-07-23T22:22:00.000-05:00

there are a few more photos in my flickr acct, nothing too exciting...

cd trade news

2006-07-23T22:19:00.000-05:00

so, i think i mentioned that i did a cd trade. i created and burned my cd last week, i hope my trade partner was happy with it....

here's the final product, while the music didn't have a library theme, the packaging did:

the track listing was done in the format of a check out card. i have since acquired real check out cards, so i think that'll be fun in the future.

i got my cd last week too, i haven't had time to listen, but here's what my partner made me:

trouble.

2006-07-23T22:10:00.001-05:00

gilbert has become obsessed with sitting on the step stool in the kitchen (for us short folk). he also loves to sit on the stool and have people comb him. if you walk away with out giving him proper attention, he will likely swat at you and try to claw you. nice. we have raised such a respectful cat.

visit to the club

2006-07-23T21:58:00.000-05:00

finally, i have uploading some photos to share. i swear this summer has been lazy central, but with work and school too. i don't know, i feel busy, but i guess i don't feel like i am accomplishing so much, so i am also lazy, make sense?

i went to bill's club last weekend for community day. it is more up in the mountains, further from civilization. there are a lot of people who come down to check out the club, i imagine that it's pretty big excitement for them, which i guess is nice. hm.

guess it keeps bill of the streets, right? a few years ago, natasha, dana, j and i went on a "train robbery" trip, it was crazy. i wish we had photos of that.... sorry.

this photo is not used in a metaphoric manner

2006-07-22T22:38:00.000-05:00

Multimedia message
Originally uploaded by amyr.

i finished class today, only 3 jobs to keep tabs on, at least for a few more weeks. i swear a REAL update with unused photos tomorrow.
what can you look forward to?
cd trade news
swimming
side braids in my hair (do i really need to blog about that, probably no)
wedding stuff (you're going to have to sweat it out to see if it's me who's getting married.... dum dum duh (aka: suspenseful music))
possible real knitting projects
what i have been making lately

stay tuned...

damn haters.

2006-07-22T22:13:00.000-05:00

view of pittsburgh from the point
Originally uploaded by amyr.

the final 21 minutes of elizabethtown are amazing. totally fantastic. what was the deal with everyone hating on this movie? did anyone else bother to see it? i am a sucker for cameron crowe "moments" and little details so i really got into it.

anyway....

phipps

2006-07-20T11:17:00.000-05:00

so i haven't been to phipps in years but i hear the cafe there is really nice since the renovation. so, pgh folks, check it out: http://www.phipps.conservatory.org/menu.htm

maybe i am the only dork reading this (aside from other dorky library students..)

2006-07-20T11:13:00.000-05:00

but the new pew study on blogging is out.... woo hoo. guess it was interesting to read about bloggers, what they read, what they write about... anyway.
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/186/report_display.asp

nice, huh?

2006-07-12T18:34:00.000-05:00

check out the place we are staying in florida, guess it will have to do, right?

oh yeah.

2006-07-11T12:24:00.000-05:00

i am doing a mix cd swap, we'll see what i get in exchange. i need to make the best mix cd ever this weekend. unfort. i don't have much info about what the person likes/ doesn't like. therefore they will get what I like...

update of the century.

2006-07-11T12:20:00.000-05:00

not that there is that much to tell.

got a coolio necklace from the arts and heritage festival. it's a piece of a dictionary that says "bookish". check out the website for more info: http://www.junxtaposition.com/

went to a 4th o july party at a family friend's beautiful house. amazing. a former prof. was there, she was delightful. so much fun.
i met someone at the party who will be a grantee for the place i used to work. his advisor is my old boss. weirdness.

class last weekend. only one more weekend to go. coming to the end of my work for the summer, sort of, i guess.

i am going to florida in october.

famer's market today. onions are on the list.

i sewed a shirt-dress/ thingy last week. i think it needs taken in some, but i dig it otherwise.

my schoolmate gave me a bag of the most amazing ties ever. they are pretty wide so they are perfect for making change purses. her husband collects old ties and he needed to minimize his collection, so she thought of me. how sweet. i will have to make her something extra fancy.

people are f-ing crazy. yes, i know it's been said before, but somehow it really hits home now. people are crazy.

i wish i had more to tell you.

2006-07-09T00:07:00.000-05:00

but i really don't. maybe i'll do a recap tomorrow, eventhough it will be massively boring, only if anyone cares, really...

dillema

2006-07-01T14:53:00.000-05:00

it's time for the headphones. the place where i am doing my homework is playing dark side of the moon. we all know that when i hear dark side of the moon i automatically feel car sick, car or not. (sorry, is this not new info? sorry if it's a duplicate). i associated that record with taking family car trip when i was little and feeling ill (i was always a bad car sick, never throw up- just feel rotten kind o gal). yeah, so i think if i want to get rid of this, i'll need to see a hypnotist or something...

Song Of The Summer 2006

2006-06-30T18:39:00.000-05:00

wow, it was 1988 when we were having out house renovated and i was listening to pour some sugar on me repeatedly on my boom box and loving it. i don't think i have been into a summer song since then... maybe EMF, i think i liked that song.

stereogum
Music examined through the prism of pop culture.

Song Of The Summer 2006

By scott on MP3

Today NY Post places odds on which tune will be crowned this year's Song Of The Summer.

"A summer hit has to have a unique upfront hook, a great beat, and it has to sound great in a car," says Jim Kaminski, who works in marketing at Tower Records. "You'll find yourself singing along even if you hate it."

They asked for Stereogum's 2 cents, so I threw some "Smiley Faces" at them, assuming the regular suspects were already covered. And I'm so over that Paris Hilton song. Here's the Post's breakdown:

Nelly Furtado and Timbaland - "Promiscuous"
ODDS: 2-1

Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy"
ODDS: 3-1

Justin Timberlake - "Sexy-Back"
ODDS: 3-1

Beyonce with Jay-Z - "Déjà Vu"
ODDS: 3-1

Jessica Simpson - "A Public Affair"
ODDS: 4-1

Shakira and Wyclef Jean - "Hips Don't Lie"
ODDS: 5-1

Luther Vandross - "Shine"
ODDS: 6-1

Tony Matterhorn - "Dutty Wine"
ODDS: 7-1

Gnarls Barkley - "Smiley Faces"
ODDS: 7-1

Christina Aguilera - "Ain't No Other Man"
ODDS: 8-1

The Strokes - "You Only Live Once"
ODDS: 10-1

My money's on Timberlake. He's bringing sexy back ("you motherfuckers watch how I attack"). This site is streaming a whole 17 seconds.

For FutureSex/LoveSounds, Timbaland hooked Timberlake up with some phat hooks. "What Goes Around Comes Around" contains "an A hook and a B hook," the singer tells Rolling Stone. "Somebody once said to me that when John Lennon found a hook for a song, he'd make it the verse. That's what I was going for." He should relay that pointer to Stephen Malkmus.

Last year around this time NY Daily News gave us an incomplete scorecard of summer songs since George Michael ruled FM. This year the Post gives us a monster list.

50 Years Of Summer Songs
1955: "Rock Around the Clock," Bill Haley & His Comets
1956: "Hound Dog," Elvis Presley
1957: "Love Letters in the Sand," Pat Boone
1958: "Summertime Blues," Eddie Cochran
1959: "See You in September," the Tempos
1960: "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini," Brian Hyland
1961: "Runaway," Del Shannon
1962: "The Loco-Motion," Little Eva
1963: "Surf City," Jan & Dean
1964: "I Get Around," the Beach Boys
1965: "California Girls," the Beach Boys
1966: "Summer in the City," the Lovin' Spoonful
1967: "Groovin,' " the Rascals
1968: "Jumpin' Jack Flash," the Rolling Stones
1969: "Hot Fun in the Summertime," Sly and the Family Stone
1970: "In the Summertime," Mungo Jerry
1971: "Brown Sugar," the Rolling Stones
1972: "School's Out," Alice Cooper
1973: "My Love," Wings
1974: "Rock the Boat," the Hues Corporation
1975: "One of These Nights," Eagles
1976: "(Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty," KC and the Sunshine Band
1977: "Margaritaville," Jimmy Buffett*
1978: "Hot Blooded," Foreigner
1979: "My Sharona," the Knack
1980: "Funkytown," Lipps, Inc.
1981: "Jessie's Girl," Rick Springfield
1982: "Jack and Diane," John Cougar Mellencamp
1983: "The Safety Dance," Men Without Hats
1984: "The Reflex," Duran Duran
1985: "The Power of Love," Huey Lewis and the News
1986: "Venus," Banarama
1987: "Here I Go Again," Whitesnake
1988: "Pour Some Sugar on Me," Def Leppard
1989: "Good Thing," Fine Young Cannibals
1990: "Vogue," Madonna
1991: "Unbelievable," EMF
1992: "Jump," Kris Kross
1993: "Whoomp! There It Is," Tag Team
1994: "All I Wanna Do," Sheryl Crow
1995: "Fantastic Voyage," Coolio
1996: "The Macarena," Los Del Rio
1997: "Walking on the Sun," Smash Mouth
1998: "Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It," Will Smith
1999: "Livin' La Vida Loca," Ricky Martin
2000: "Who Let the Dogs Out?" Baha Men
2001: "Bootylicious," Destiny's Child
2002: "Hot in Herre," Nelly
2003: "Crazy in Love," Beyoncé
2004: "Yeah," Usher
2005: "Hollaback Girl," Gwen Stefani

So 2006: who's it gonna be? And don't rule out new Outkast!

oh, ted leo

2006-06-30T18:36:00.000-05:00

i really dig that ted leo. why did it take me so long to give him a real chance? and those pharmacists.... yeah.

another book incident

2006-06-30T17:58:00.000-05:00

today i was talking to one of the other people i go to school with/ works in one of the places that i work. i noticed that we were reading the exact same book. i was on page 129 and he was on 196. strange indeed.

edit: it's not the book mentioned in my last post, it was the mysteries of pittsburgh. just to be clear that he is not in the running for the "Most Boring Person In the World".

the most boring girl in the world

2006-06-29T07:06:00.000-05:00

Multimedia message
Originally uploaded by amyr.

someone told me two days ago that i was the most boring girl in the world. all for reading a book about copyright, little did they know that i had a john grisham novel behind the bookjacket. tricky.

no such luck

2006-06-19T19:47:00.000-05:00

so, bookmaking got cancelled since there were not enough people enrolled. i think i totally jinxed it by even talking about it... drats.

mysteries (and memories) of pittsburgh

2006-06-18T10:03:00.000-05:00

last week, someone brought this article to my attention. immediately, i thought of my friend susan. susan and i met at my job in dc; her then boyfriend had attended cmu so she was familiar and liked the burgh. she suggested mysteries of pittsburgh to me, and i think even loaned me the book. i loved it. i then began reading the other chabon books and like them as well. susan became my constant lunch buddy for more than 4 years, where we were commiserate about the mediocrity of many of the people around us. susan always said, when will it be cool to like school, meaning when will other people realize that it is actually cool to dig your job and appreciate the work you have chosen to do by actually doing a good job. it's something that we often found ourselves discussing. i'm not going to go into the details, but i attended susan's memorial this weekend in dc, a week or so after she had died. so, when i thought of telling susan about the filming of mysteries of pittsburgh, it was really the first time i had the realization that i would not be able to tell her. a terrible feeling. i have held out on writing this post for more than a week now, not knowing what to say or how to say it. i guess i finally figured it out.

Film notes: Chabon's 'Mysteries of Pittsburgh' will film here

Friday, June 09, 2006

By Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh will play itself -- in all of its Cloud Factory, Lost Neighborhood, Checkpoint of Too Much Fun glory -- in "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh." Unless something unforeseen happens, the movie will not be the one that got away.


	Suzanne Hanover Max Minghella, recently of "Art School Confidential" has been tapped to star in "Mysteries of Pittsburgh." Click photo for larger image.

In April, there was doubt that Pittsburgh would land the movie version of Michael Chabon's novel, but the production company found ways to cut costs, with the help of the city, county and state.

If "Mysteries" had gone elsewhere, it would have been a psychological, moral and financial blow. Chabon told the Post-Gazette at the time, "Look, it's in the title, right? I really hope and pray and wish that it can be worked out."

Director Rawson Marshall Thurber, who also is adapting the novel, will be in town this weekend scouting locations for the film.

It will star Max Minghella, an up-and-coming actor who is the son of "The English Patient" director Anthony Minghella. He will play the lead alongside previously announced actors Peter Sarsgaard and Sienna Miller.

A star of "Art School Confidential," Max Minghella was George Clooney's teenage son in "Syriana" and the religiously rebellious brother of the champion speller in "Bee Season," also featuring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche.

"I think that we feel pretty confident that Pittsburgh is giving us every reason to make the movie in Pittsburgh. Our issues are more just pleading the financing for the movie now, which we're in the home stretch of," Michael London, CEO of Groundswell Productions, said by phone.

"It's more like when we shoot in Pittsburgh now than if we shoot in Pittsburgh," London added. He has shaved the budget to $6 million to $7 million and hopes to start shooting in early September.

"The city and state were very aggressive in terms of what they offered to us, so part of the scouting trip is just to talk about the nuts and bolts and make sure that we can take advantage of everything they've talked about. It's kind of a fact-finding mission just to be sure that everything that's been discussed we can actually make concrete."

London, who wasn't flying to Pittsburgh on this trip, said the production had been discussing hotel costs, crew rates and the state's grant initiative, which can return 20 percent to a production company.

Vicki Dee Rock, the head of physical production for Groundswell who was production accountant on "The Silence of the Lambs" here, said help was being provided on a number of fronts, from financing the scouting trip to securing office space at very little charge.

Dawn Keezer, director of the Pittsburgh Film Office, said yesterday, "We're thrilled. It's been an exciting process to have the governor's office and county executive's office all step forward to offer them much needed assistance to secure the filming of 'Mysteries' in Pittsburgh, where it belongs.

"We're hopeful that this will bring even more opportunities for more cooperation from these entities to have even more work in the region. Pittsburgh's been fortunate to have some of the lowest union rates in the country," and that, coupled with a change in incentives, could lure other projects.

Starting July 1, the state will offer outright grants rather than tax credits to filmmakers, a change that should make Pennsylvania more attractive in an increasingly competitive world.

The state will provide up to a 20 percent film production grant. Sixty percent of the total expenses of a feature or TV movie, TV pilot or episode must be incurred in the state, and some expenses are eligible (construction, lighting, wardrobe, for instance) and others (marketing and music rights, for instance) are not. The pool of money will be capped at $10 million a year.

"Mysteries" is a coming-of-age story set almost entirely in the East End. It's about a character named Art Bechstein, a University of Pittsburgh economics graduate spending the summer working in a bookstore.

The novel put Chabon on the map and held up a new mirror to the city for natives and newcomers alike. Among the book's most vivid descriptions is the "Cloud Factory," where a building spits out "these great clouds, perfectly white and clean, white as new baseballs."

No details yet on who will handle local hiring or casting.

gidget is everywhere

2006-06-18T09:38:00.000-05:00

i have been blathering lately about gidget all around. i started and finished the original book on friday, told michele and then she found this article....

http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-gidget17jun17,0,7800238.story

Surfer girl, forever

The woman who inspired 'Gidget' rides a wave of surf nostalgia.

By Hugo Martín
Times Staff Writer

June 17, 2006

THE 18-year-old surfer girl with the sun-bleached hair is breathing heavily and turning bright red as she approaches her idol, a diminutive grandmother who is signing books after a lecture on surfing history at UC San Diego.

Tears well up in the girl's eyes when she comes face to face with Kathy Kohner Zuckerman, the plucky surfing icon known to the world as "Gidget."

"You are my hero," the girl stammers.

Zuckerman has been bouncing around the country lately, making public appearances at surfing museum openings, surfing contests and beach festivals. But this is the first time she can recall anyone getting emotional at meeting her.

Minutes earlier, Zuckerman was bubbling with enthusiasm before an audience of 50 or so, including rosy-cheeked college kids and gray-haired surfers in Hawaiian shirts. She pranced among the blown-up photos that chronicled her life. There she is with Sandra Dee. That's her on a surfboard in Malibu. Here she is with her father reading the "Gidget" book.

But when the sobbing surfer girl calls her a hero, Zuckerman is dumbfounded. Gidget a hero?

To the outside world, she was that sassy teenager whose fun-loving exploits in Malibu 50 years ago were the basis of the "Gidget" books, movies and TV shows. To the surfing world, she was the novice wave rider who exposed surfing's subculture to America's mainstream. And to a handful of purists, she was the reason California's best surfing spots have been overrun by pushy kooks and annoying wannabes.

What's all this hero talk?

Her first ride

It's the summer of 1956 and a spunky 15-year-old tomboy from Brentwood wanders along the beach in Malibu when she comes upon a group of sun-baked men in cutoff jeans, hanging around a rickety shack made out of palm fronds and driftwood.

She asks if she can borrow one of the balsa-wood surfboards that lean against the shack. She never surfed before but is eager to try. The men consider this short-haired pixie and agree to loan her a board in exchange for her lunch, two peanut butter-and-radish sandwiches.

Later, when she returns from the surf, one of the surfers calls her "Gidget," a fusion of "girl" and "midget." The girl doesn't protest. It means she is accepted into the gang of surfers with names like Moondoggie, Bubblehead and Beetle. She was the Gidget.

At home, she spills her excitement onto the pages of her diary:

June 24th, 1956.

Dear Diary:

I didn't do too much but go to the beach. I didn't think I'd have fun but I met Matt [Kivlin] and he took me out on his surfboard. He let me catch the waves by myself and once I fell off and the board went flying in the air. I didn't get hurt at all…. I hope Matt will take me surfing again.

She excitedly tells her father about her vagabond surfing friends. How they live for nothing — not nice cars or stylish clothes — but to surf. She tells him about the lingo they use to describe how "jazzed" and "stoked" they get when they catch a "bitchin" wave.

The girl's father is a Hollywood script writer who decides to write about this odd surfing subculture. In six weeks, he produces his first book, a fictional tale called "Gidget." It becomes a phenomenon in 1957, outselling Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." Two years later, Hollywood releases the "Gidget" movie, starring Sandra Dee, followed by two sequels and a 1965-66 television series starring Sally Field.

Suddenly, everybody wants a part of the fun-filled beach life depicted in the "Gidget" movies, the subsequent "Beach Blanket" spinoffs and the sentimental Beach Boys tunes.

Back at Malibu, hordes of surfers pack themselves shoulder-to-shoulder on the breaking wave, evidence that Gidgetmania has changed surfing forever. Moondoggie and the rest of the gang are uprooted when lifeguards demolish the palm-frond shack. Even Gidget is turned off to surfing when she returns from college to find Malibu overrun with newcomers.

"There were too many boards," she says, remembering the scene. "Too many surfers."

'Gidget haters'

It's an overcast weekday when Zuckerman, now 65, returns to the scene of the crime, Surfrider Beach in Malibu. The waves are flat and only one surfer remains, a teenage girl who lugs an oversized surfboard out of the water. The girl trudges past Zuckerman, barely glancing at the 5-foot-1 surfing icon sitting in the sand in a pink hat and matching blouse.

Zuckerman points to a small cove near the pier. This is where Gidget learned to surf. A few other girls surfed Malibu back in 1956 but not many. Gidget, still tan and energetic, occasionally surfs but only when the water is warm and the waves are gentle.

She points to a sand heap near a white brick wall. That is where Zuckerman hung out with surfers like Terry "Tubesteak" Tracy, Bill Jensen, Mike Doyle and half a dozen other surfers at the palm-frond shack.

And that is where "Tubesteak" dubbed her Gidget. The rest is surfing history.

"She started that whole thing," says Tracy. "Back then, surfing was a West Coast thing but Gidget was nationwide. You can walk into any bar in Peoria, Ill., and mention that name, Gidget, and they've heard of it."

So when places like Surfrider Beach, San Onofre and County Line became overrun by throngs of surfcrashers, some surfers blamed Gidget. She was an easy target. Some "Gidget haters" didn't know or care that Gidget was a real person.

Fred Reiss, a 51-year-old surfer from Santa Cruz, wrote a novel in 1995 about a surfer who returns to Malibu 30 years later to kill everyone involved in the "Gidget" movie for ruining his surf spot. The book, "Gidget Must Die," was a cheap shot but Reiss says the story was rooted in the real-life resentment many surfers felt toward Gidget.

"I worked at a Santa Cruz surf shop for seven years, and I met most of the legends, as well as tons of guys from the '60s period, and nearly all of them said, 'Gidget ruined surfing,' " he says.

But Gidget has legions of fans who insist she has been unfairly blamed for a surfing craze that was ready to explode anyway because of advances in surfboard technology and a counterculture movement that reshaped the country in the late 1960s and early '70s.

Dick Metz, a lifelong surfer and founder of the Surfing Heritage Foundation in San Clemente, says those who blame Gidget don't know their surfing history.

At the time of the "Gidget" movies, he says, the popular balsa-wood longboards were being replaced by shorter, lighter polyurethane foam shortboards. The new, easily maneuverable boards, he says, were a big reason surfing caught fire in the 1960s.

"The change of materials was going to change the sport," he says. "I don't care if there was a book or a movie."

Zuckerman's father, Frederick Kohner, wasn't the only one to profit from Gidgetmania. Locals like Miki "Da Cat" Dora, Johnny Fain and Mickey Muñoz got paid to perform the surfing stunts for the "Gidget" movie.

"Some people want to blame Gidget. How about blaming Hollywood?" says Jerome Lynne Hall, the UC San Diego anthropology professor who invited Zuckerman to speak at his surfing history course.

As for Zuckerman, she shrugs off such criticism. After all, how could she foresee the popularity of the "Gidget" books, the movies and, ultimately, the surfing lifestyle, she asks. She was just a kid trying to fit in somewhere and she found that place among the surfers.

"I was as innocent as the day was long," she says.

When she left for college in 1958, Zuckerman left surfing behind. She married a Yiddish scholar, moved to Pacific Palisades, raised two kids and worked as a teacher and later a part-time restaurant hostess. When reporters called to ask if she was the original Gidget, she would answer, "Yeah, so what? Why does anyone care?"

But now the surfing world does care.

Getting her due

In the last few years, Zuckerman has been the honored guest at pro surfing competitions, surfing museum openings and surfing festivals. In 1999, the bible of surfing, Surfer Magazine, named Zuckerman the seventh most influential surfer of the century. Two years ago, she was dubbed "patron" of the Rip Curl Malibu Pro Women's Championship Tour.

"To most of the public, she was the first girl to surf," says Marty Thomas, a spokesman for Rip Curl, the surfing and snowboarding company that invited Zuckerman to the event.

Gidget's resurgence has come during a nostalgic phase in the surfing world. In the last decade, veteran surfers have opened surfing museums, filmed surfing documentaries and published commemorative surfing magazines. Maybe the renewed interest in longboards in the late 1980s spurred old-school surfers to feel nostalgic for the early days. Maybe the deaths of several surfing pioneers, such as Dora in 2002, forced the surfing world to reconsider its history.

Whatever the reason for the look back, in surfing's rear-view mirror, Gidget has gained respect as a surfing pioneer who helped break surfing's gender barrier.

Debbie Beacham, the 1982 women's surfing champion, taught herself to surf on a used surfboard she bought at a garage sale in Coronado after watching Sally Field in the "Gidget" television series.

"It seemed so mysterious and different and nobody did it where I was from," Beacham says.

"There's a lot of good that came from Gidget," says surfing hall of famer Jericho Poppler Bartlow, who co-founded the Women's International Surfing Assn. "She made girls realize they could do something that was considered just a man's thing."

After her visit to Surfrider Beach, Zuckerman stops by Duke's, a warm seaside restaurant in Malibu where she works twice a week as a hostess. The place is named for Duke Kahanamoku, the Olympic swimmer who spread the gospel of surfing to Australia and America in the early 1900s. A black-and-white photo of a 15-year-old Gidget in Malibu shares the wall with grainy photos of Duke poised on a giant balsa-wood board.

Customers routinely wander around the restaurant gazing at the photos. When they stop at the picture of Gidget, Zuckerman rushes over.

"That's me," she announces.

The customers give her a quizzical look.

"I'm the girl on the beach," she says. "I'm Gidget."

Then she leads them to a table and recounts stories from the summer of 1956 and that little shack on the beach.

hades vacation

2006-06-14T23:09:00.000-05:00

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Originally uploaded by amyr.

i dig the stills. a lot. also, when they play the theme to kids in the hall when they come out on stage, i really dig that.

random issues

2006-06-07T20:40:00.000-05:00

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Originally uploaded by amyr.

a few things to report.
1. i saw a show about the basillica tonight, apparently the vatican states what is a basillica and what is not.
2. i heard someone say that they bought a pair of bike shorts used yesterday. note: they were also wearing the shorts therefore i am guessing that as gross as the issue of used bike shorts is, the issue of used unwashed bike shorts is way worse.
3. i think i messed some stuff up at my placement yesterday. i don't feel so good about that.
4. i need to make a 3 minute speech about something this weekend, suggestions? i was thinking i could just totally make something up, like i am one of twelve children.
5. i got a ton (like 37 or so) free stills pins at the show. how could i have forgotten to mention that.....
6. dennis leary beat the garbage out of ryan o'reilly last night on rescue me. additionally bonnie brae was played in the aftermath.
7. broccoli slaw mix (i.e. slaw mix that is made from broc. stems rather than cabbage) is fantastic. it stays nice and crisp and is apparently high in fiber, good for you. i never even knew such a thing existed until this week.

there was a rapture, so i can never see you anymore

2006-06-05T22:16:00.000-05:00

Twilight Singers: Keyboard
Originally uploaded by Lalitree.

(i dug this photo even though it was from another show, i had to use it, her other photos were good too, check them out in flickr...)
so i think everyone knows i went to see twilight on friday night in dc. i have seen afghan whigs/ twilight a ton of times now, but still i get this total crazy feeling when i get to go to the show, ya know? anyway, i love going to shows period, i love all of it. i like travelling to places i haven't been to see bands (part of my upbringing? maybe....) i dig seeing bands who i haven't seen before, although there is that dissapointment at times when you see a band that you can't get into, so i love it all. plus, you guys all know of my sick sick sick love of greg dulli- it's so wrong. i have been into him since i was about um, 14 or so, i don't think it will go away at this point....

so, the show was at the 9:30, a beautiful prime venue. i met d in dc and we went to fado for drinks and pub fare before, getting to the club earlier than we expected (read: we were the 5th and 6th in line, feeling lame the whole time, until we got a f-ing prime spot in the club). we stood at the far corner of the balcony (angel: where we were for the last queens show, far right balcony: it wasn't the same w/o you at the show!) prime spot for various reasons, 1. no one can really stand behind you, you have a good spot to sit and not get blocked on the view or worry about some one who doesn't know the rules of going to a show to step in front of you.

i made a list of a few things i had to cover in the blog (how non-spontaenous of me....)

1. opening acts. i think i had seen jeff klein before. ok. a bit mellow for the way i was feeling. ok, afterhours. whoa. i can't even begin to discuss this. 1. you can spot the italian band walking around before the show. 2. they had this one song where one of the guys played sax, like tenor sax (don't think i didn't look that up on google images, i did...) and they came out into the crowd and then another guy danced with some girl. insane. also, the one guy had beautiful hair, long and well conditioned. yeah. i will check them out more i think. italian rock music. super popular in italy. nuff said.

2. where does greg dulli get those pants? are they tailored? there always the same.

3. d and i spied greg watching the opening acts, on a rolling desk chair, strange. i imagined that he was just catching up on some computer programming before the show. i'm stopping, you guys don't want me to tell you all the insane things i wonder about people....

twilight was phenominal, greg wasn't chatty at all, which is so not like him, he seemed very business like with the music so i can't really complain that he didn't sit up there and talk shit for hours on end. the band was awesome and during one song greg pulled this girl d and i had met in brooklyn a few years ago up on stage to dance with him, she looked totally in awe. also, it was bizarre to see greg sans guitar dancing. they played for a long time, two encores, one with fountain and fairfax (i think it was a shout out to michele, right?) and then the obligatory faded.

saturday was a bit more low key- not to say that i don't totally adore the stills. d and i headed to spices before, reliving my time in dc, eating wonderful veggies with tofu in ginger soy sauce, delish. i was amazed that there were soooo many young kids (i mean like get dropped off by mom young) at the show. i met one of d's coworkers, lots of fun.

headed to trader joes on sunday and then back home. started back to work today; this week will be long and tiring- i can feel it.

to hold you over...

2006-06-04T21:07:00.000-05:00

i saw this link on summerskiss about twilight photos, i did not take a camera to the dc show, so sorry, no photos to share, but these are pretty decent....

it should be illegal

2006-06-01T19:23:00.000-05:00

have you seen that new commercial for att where it shows the evolution of computer voices including famous robots like KITT, etc it's wrong on so many levels. and it makes me want to freak out on such a high level..... (sorry, is it insane that now you can find ANY video on the internet?)

he's a scumbag don't you know.

2006-06-01T18:05:00.000-05:00

i watched the season premier of rescue me the other night, it was good, not just for the "ryan o'reilly" factor, i dug the show. i'll keep watching....

i am taking a book making class starting in a few weeks. i hope it teaches me all the crazy bookmaking things i have in my head.

dc tomorrow, twilight tomorrow night and then stills on saturday. just like the olden days when i would be able to go to shows due to 1. location 2. having cash money.

i'm back to one of my old jobs on monday. work 5 days a week from now on, i need to make better money so it should be a good deal.

apparently vans will be making a descendents edition of the old school tie vans soon. can you believe????

i'm out.
oh, and michele, where the f are you? i know you read this beotch, but you don't call, and after that bs statement i made to my class a few weeks ago about you????

Denis Leary Loves Twilight Singers

2006-05-30T21:08:00.000-05:00

like we didn't know this already.... glad someone else caught on too...

stereogum
Music examined through the prism of pop culture.

Denis Leary Loves Twilight Singers

By scott on MP3

Fiery FX drama Rescue Me premieres tonight, and its star/executive producer is taking some interview opportunities to give free publicity to the new Twilight Singers album.

Denis hit The Daily Show earlier this month and brought the CD with him:

"This is an album I had nothing to do with. It's the best album I heard in ten years. It's called Powder Burns by the Twilight Singers."

He also says in the new Entertainment Weekly.

"[Powder Burns] is one of the best rock albums I've heard in 10 years. Thematically, it seems like it's all connected to a dark story of addiction. It's really powerful."

Greg Dulli's autobiographical tales of drug dependency do make for a great record. Especially if you like dense, guitar rock with a shot of depressing. Turns out, the song I picked to share with you is on the excellent Rescue Me soundtrack.

The Twilight Singers - "Bonnie Brae" (MP3)

Don't tell Denis the show's website never heard of them:

At last night's Boston gig, Twilight ~~Scissors~~ Singers did Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy." (They're a great cover band too.) I'll keep an ear out for MP3.

I should mention that "Bonnie Brae" song features Ani Difranco. Dulli told Billboard:

"I'll tell you, I love the wall-of-sound. I really do. I love layering and I love the discovery of new parts to go with other parts. That song in particular sonically came alive when I added the mellotron to it. And then when Ani did her harmony vocals at the end, it sonically blows my mind. So, that song in particular, it's one of my favorites I've done in the last couple of years."

Stream more Powder Burns here.

back home

2006-05-27T11:23:00.000-05:00

today concludes my gig as a professional house sitter. it's community days around these parts this weekend, i just want the funnel cake, there was talk within the group about going to see the fireworks tonight. i think it'll actually be a nice day all day, no rain for the moment. stayed out late, later than usual, but a relatively low key night with the less dramatic of the crew. took my crazied hair self to get coffee this am and came back to hang out on the fab. glider swing in the back. as soon as i get situated, loud neighbors w/ kids come out- ending my fabulous relaxing saturday am.

i made a friend a stills mix cd- ran into her last night and she immediately began gushing about the cd and how she wanted to come to the show- it's always nerve racking to make something for someone, even though a mix cd isn't REALLY a total product of my full creation, you are putting your self out there by saying that you love this and maybe you will too. so, it was cool to know that someone appreciated it.

what to say.

2006-05-26T15:19:00.000-05:00

The Red Star
Originally uploaded by grawesome.

i saw this photo is grawesome's flickr acct and had to blog it. nice shot of the red star that you have heard way too much about.

the week went ok, long but ok. i am back to my other library job at the beginning of june, so that'll be work and the always great money. right now i am working less than 10 hours/ week for which i earn money; the majority of my working time i am actually paying to do as part of my field placement. so yeah, it's a cruel summer to quote the bananarama.

i feel a bit bitter today, getting easily ammoyed by people participating in annoying activities like slurping their coffee. makes me insane. last saturday i had my all time favourite annoyance right behind me on the bus: clipping of the nails in public. i have to say it was way more present in dc than here, but still each clip makes me feel even crazier than the last.

not to make this entire entry be a boring bitter one, but.... last week one of my teacher's called me by the wrong name, in a fairly confident way, saying heather and moving on to the next person, before i even knew what had happened. anyway. for some reason it really bothered me, making me feel terrible and weird. i guess it's a think that i have always "struggled" with- i feel like i am always the other person, the friend of that person, the one who no one ever knows who the hell i am aside from the connection to someone far more cool and popular than me. is this part of only child syndrome? don't know. anyway, i felt a bit pissed- apparently i am still bitter enough to blog about it a week later.

i watched an episode of stylicious on the tivo at natasha's last night, it was ok, nothing i would make i don't think, but i guess i might try and catch it again to at least see what the austin craft mafia is up to....

plans for the long weekend? i want to eat picnic food don't know if that will happen, but i dig the grand concept of it.

sleep, please

2006-05-24T22:02:00.000-05:00

i am collecting some things for h, she's under the knife this weekend, so i have been getting some stuff together. i also made a totally bedazzled (with glitter....) compact for her, it's drying at present. i'll totally photo that. (Sorry for the crappy cameraphone photos...) the purse includes a button that i borrowed from a friend, thanks.

the day was sooooooooo long. i took the bus from gbg to pgh. it was nice to not drive at all, but i didn't get back until nearly 8:30. plus the bus contains people who talk too much about weird stuff. mass transit does weird stuff to people, yeah?

n sounds like she is having a good time on vaca. could her neighbors cut out the riding the bike past late at night, super loud? for me? please? also, i would like to request that the neighbor cat not meow so late? again, thanks.

can you imagine going to a stationery show? omg.

man, this turned into rambling central. sorry bout that.

i am using your knitting needles while you are away.

2006-05-22T21:24:00.000-05:00

i guess i came to n's place totally unprepared. no knitting needles, at least i guess i can bum hers.

the weekend came and went quickly. school the majority of the time. it actually went rather quickly, well as quickly as a 9-5 class can go. saturday night i went out, seeing the usual suspects. h has her surgery on friday so i am compiling entertainment for her while she is out of commission. i bought some weird scrapbook paper at jo jo's while looking for yarn for h, i think i'll use it on my grand book making project, yea, the scrapbook paper was something like $.06 a sheet. sweet. i have some books for manipulating, and i am trying to learn some skills in the way of bookmaking. i have some other books to pick up so that i can learn more about the subject.

i'm watching DiG right now. i love the part when two of the dudes from brian jonestown quit the band in chicago and decide to walk back to california. that about sums up brian jonestown if you ask me.

i just had the crazy realization that i get to see twilight in like two weeks. sweet, like gd says, love don't mean a thing but 2am and a telephone ring. if you know what i am saying... ok i'm out.

A Drink With... Carla Hayden

2006-05-20T06:03:00.000-05:00

LISNews.org
Librarian and Information Science News

A Drink With... Carla Hayden

By Blake on Smashing-image-of-a-librarian

The Baltimore Sun Has A nice Q&A with Carla Hayden, "early 50-ish," defies the stereotype of librarian. Stylish and sophisticated, with a strong interest in fashion, she has spent her career in libraries: in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and - for the last 12 years - as executive director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. Divorced, with no children, Hayden is also past president of the American Library Association. Q#1: What's sexy about being a librarian?

Here's the link to the sun article.

was it speed or speed 2?

2006-05-19T21:39:00.000-05:00

i had the most bizarre thing happen to me today. i was waiting for the bus, late as one could expect. one bus bound for the garage goes by, then here come another. i must have looked pissed b/c it stopped, the driver asked me where i was going and said he'd take me. the bus was out of service b/c there weren't people who needed picked up and they were off schedule, or something, i wasn't really paying attention at first, i thought the bus would go back in service and others would join me on the bus. yeah, i think i was wrong. so we don't pick up anyone else, the bus driver said b/c of where i needed to go he'd take another route, going on the ultra fun super fast busway, getting me to my destination in less than half the time. it was like being a huge taxi cab b/c the driver was a little bit chatty, and i was the only sole on the bus. so we get there, and he asks my name, as if i wasn't weirded out by the big taxi cab thing enough, so then he tells me his, and then he says that he LOVES my hair. yes, i got off the bus about as fast as possible. best part, i have seen this driver before, and KNOW that i will see him again. totally random weird story, i know.

tomorrow is the crazy 9-5 class, i said i would go out tomorrow night, i think i'll need a nap before that. plus, i am now juggling two house sitting jobs, i think i'll end up getting that not knowing where you are when you wake up thing. that's the worst feeling ever.

oh, i dig the twilight cd, it's cool, more upbeat in that gd way where it's upbeat but it's really crazy upsetting weird lyrics. i have bought so much lately from bands that i really love that i feel like i am not focusing and overplaying just one of the cds, but all of them. aside from stadium arcadium, which i think is at natasha's house. i hope it's there anyway.....

clp

2006-05-19T12:16:00.000-05:00

there was a great editorial about the recent econ. impact study of the carnegie here.

just the facts

2006-05-18T23:21:00.000-05:00

work is going ok, i think it is trying to be better, and i am trying to give it the chance. this week was crap in so many respects, bad weather all around, bad feelings all around. don't know.

i went to a session tonight as a observation for one of my classes, bizarro is the least of what i can say. i'm just going to say that i cannot believe the things people teach their kids, on purpose.

h styled my hair tonight, including a near side braid, will post photo later. i only wish my hair was long again so that i could braid it or put it in buns. oh, the good olden days.... (FFFF. i was going to insert a photo of me with long hair, but realized that my photos are in storage. you don't care anyway. i will not even know what i own by the time i can get my stuff out of storage, good, no.)

oh, and i bought the new twilight cd tonight, you know, just on the recommendation of dennis leary. that's a joke- it is cool that he is mad promoting the cd on the talk shows lately though, what a good friend gd has in dl.

whoa

2006-05-17T20:29:00.000-05:00

you must check out the website for the raconteurs, super cool, like 1980 in the good way.

oh.

2006-05-16T18:41:00.000-05:00

but i did vote today, seeing m's sister and mom at the voting establishment. electronic voting machines, party.

blah.

2006-05-16T18:35:00.000-05:00

it's been crap weather here for the past few days. no good. apparently, should full moon and pms occur at the same time, a person could feel like a total crazy person. h tells me that it just means i am a powerful person, hm.

the stills cd is awesome, i finally got it yesterday. i love it.

class this weekend, i am scared nervous about that.

god, i am lazy

2006-05-14T21:24:00.000-05:00

sky
Originally uploaded by amyr.

aside from one 35 minute outing to giant eagle today, i have been in the house for way to long. i have watched literally about 7 hours worth of gilmore girls, pathetic i know. i don't know what my stupid problem is lately, laziness, boredom, nothingness. tomorrow will hopefully be different. i will try i guess.

not much else going on, hung out with n on friday afternoon and evening. met up with some of the kids after before i went home on friday. had some pretty indepth conversations with one of the group; i dig having real conversations and getting to know people a bit better one on one. he's a super good person and i hope he gets what he wants. no snb for me this friday as i have night class, blah. i will leave you know.

you can feel free to buy me this

2006-05-13T15:14:00.000-05:00

really, go ahead, you know i am a good friend to you. sure, i would love the glasses stationery....
http://www.pinklovesbrown.com/index.php

the origins of booing.

2006-05-13T14:21:00.000-05:00

why i was interested in this article, i don't know.

you should know

2006-05-11T23:02:00.000-05:00

i am now officially (as of right now, 12 AM) more than half way to age 29. sad i know.
i feel as though i will never catch up on my blogs, i have been slacking.
i feel terribly non-conservative when i go to my internship. totally out of place. all the time. even when i am alone in the stacks.
greek food festivals are the best.
i had to get all tricky and remove my blog from my profile, as i needed this profile for a class. boo. (i was auto logged in, so i missed the chance to create a fake/school profile)
i love having clean clothes to choose from, but i hate folding laundry, it's a time sucker.
i bought stadium arcadium on tuesday, sounds exactly as i expected, but that's all good.
my stills cd is on it's way, i hate that i couldn't just go out and buy it around here. weird.
b and n are off to seattle/ alaska soon.

Youth On Girls

2006-05-10T19:46:00.000-05:00

coolio

stereogum
Music examined through the prism of pop culture.

Youth On Girls

By scott

Did you remember to DVR last night's finale of Gilmore Girls ... featuring Sonic Youth, Joe Pernice, Yo La Tengo, Sparks, Mary Lynn Rajskub, and Sam Phillips?

Pitchfork dug up this cute photo of Coco Gordon Moore with Paris.

Thurston "and special guests" (Alexis Bledel?) play the Stone tonight at 8 & 10 ... but more importantly, also at the Stone:

Jim O'Rourke
Tuesday 5/16 @ 8 & 10 PM

Finally Stereogum gets Jim solo. Pray for Eureka. (Heads up via Dave.)

oh, la, la

2006-05-10T19:43:00.000-05:00

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/10/art_vending_machines.html

i forgot

2006-05-08T11:39:00.000-05:00

sky
Originally uploaded by amyr.

i start my field placement today. wish me luck, crossed fingers, etc.

what's the story morning glory (not in an oasis kind of way)

2006-05-08T11:14:00.000-05:00

i want to sleep in the yard, just hang out in the grass. i don't know what's come over me as i don't usually dig the outside so much. guess it's the change of season.

not much knitting done at snb on friday, b did help me with the start of the vicki howell bowling pins, i suck so bad at knitting on dpns when the stitches are really small. i ripped out everything i did b/c it looked crap. i think i may not be able to do the project simply b/c i am no good at the 3 stitch cast on with the dpns.... urgh. i have been thinking about one of the glampyre kits/ patterns, we'll see. so low turnout at snb. people showed up later, but some of us hadn't eaten dinner so we took off at 9 or so, heading to enp. not a late night out, people went to h's for a bonfire later but i bailed. i got a mix cd made by someone for me. i love love love getting mix cds, it's such a cool jesture.

headed to the carnegie on saturday morn to return and pick up more stuff. got another clothes modification book, looks a bit eh, but we'll see. went to the b-day party on saturday night, i was psyched to see people i knew who were from around here but i hung out with in md. craziness. we all know the same people so it is just super weird.... they are quite possibly the nicest people in md! what else. talked to some people i hadn't seen in a while, jg and n his girlfriend, other random peeps i know.

sunday was a total lazy day, i slept until 11 something, that is totally uncalled for. i have been having the worst time sleeping since i came back from la. last night i couldn't sleep forever, and then slept until 10 today. i am lazy bones. b and n are getting ready for alaska, they leave on friday.
nothing else to really say.

sweet

2006-05-06T14:26:00.000-05:00

Bookmobiles Rock
Originally uploaded by riddle.

as seen on flickr/ bloglines
http://www.librarystuff.net/2006/05/bookmobiles-rock.html

comments?

2006-05-05T16:28:00.000-05:00

any comments on the new look of the blog? i thought it needed a change and i was lazy so i only made a few adaptations.... i'd like to know what you think...

photos from vacation

2006-05-05T15:19:00.000-05:00

i made a group for the photos from LA, check them out above.

here's some of the photos.

Excel drawings

2006-05-05T14:26:00.000-05:00

finally i figure out how to email bloglines directly to blogger, duh.

MAKE: Blog
MAKE is a quarterly publication from O'Reilly for those who just can't stop tinkering, disassembling, re-creating, and inventing cool new uses for the technology in our lives. It's the first do-it-yourself magazine dedicated to the incorrigible and chronically incurable technology enthusiast in all of us. MAKE celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend technology any way you want.

Excel drawings

By philliptorrone

Dozens of drawings all made with Microsoft Excel - Danielle writes - "Microsoft Excel is a program designed to track and compute information, but here I am using Excel as a drawing tool. These drawings are a part of a series of sixty drawings that I executed (more or less) every day for fifty-eight days. Each drawing is in a new 'worksheet,' which is automatically set up as a grid. These drawings were made by changing cell preferences for background color, fill pattern, and border styles and from time to time inserting 'comment' boxes and letters or words. Other manifestations of these drawings are 58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel as Rendered for Web and Animated Daily Excel Drawings (2005, ongoing)" [via] - Link.

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library card tourism

2006-05-05T14:23:00.000-05:00

LISNews.org
Librarian and Information Science News
http://lisnews.org/

Title		Library Card Tourism
Date		Monday May 01, @10:29AM
Author		birdie
Topic
from the summertime dept.

http://lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/01/1435237

Every summer for the past six years, Cory Peterson and his mother embark on a road trip to visit libraries around the country and sign up for library cards. So far the 13-year-old library lover has accumulated 1,678 cards, and stands to gain more when he makes a planned trek through Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Nebraska this July.

"I hope to grow it into the greatest collection of library cards in the world!", Peterson writes on his Web site, which features scans of all his cards.

Links

"Web site" - http://librarycards.expage.com/index.html

milo, cute as hell

2006-05-05T13:38:00.000-05:00

milo, cute as hell
Originally uploaded by amyr.

this is milo, michele's cat who i adore the most, i know i shouldn't have a favorite, it's wrong. but still, this cat is too damn cute.

oh, la la.

2006-05-05T13:26:00.000-05:00

Create your own Music List @ HotFreeLayouts!

thanks to angel for the hookup on this website!!!

beach feet

2006-05-04T01:11:00.000-05:00

beach feet
Originally uploaded by amyr.

well, the weather wasn't grand, but the beach was still fantastic. i don't typically like the beach, i guess i don't like gross jelly fish laden dirty crowded beaches, i do like manhattan beach. m and i headed out there today and spent the afternoon lounging and reading and munching on whole foods sandwiches. fun was had. last night we went to the short stop for some drinkies, no photobooth, well actually we posed and thephotobooth spit out some non developed/ overdeveloped photos. oh well. tony invited us over so we went and hung out on his fab. back porch, he even gave me his shins oh, inverted world lp, blue vinyl. m and i watched everything is illuminated tonight, after we got home from bingo at hamburger mary's with bel-air the hardest working drag queen in weho. anyway. everything is illuminated was good, i dug it a lot so i might read the book now. nothing was really stopping me before, i guess i'll just do it now.
anyway, i am east bound tomorrow am, just in time for a relaxing weekend before i start my field placement on monday, snb on friday night and i got invited to a birthday party on saturday night, we'll see. ok, i'm out. i'll post more photos when i am back in the burgh.

bookbinding

2006-05-02T13:18:00.000-05:00

view from a coffee shop
Originally uploaded by amyr.

i found that papersource carries good (graph paper) bound books for making your own journals. they had some at bev. hills store, but i have to measure what i have in the way of old books before i buy...check it out.
http://paper-source.com/cgi-bin/paper/bookbinding/index.html

random news

2006-05-01T21:02:00.000-05:00

Multimedia message
Originally uploaded by amyr.

ok, yep that's tom morello being interviewed. michele and i saw him at the immigration rally/march here in LA today, i had to snap the picture b/c it was like a celeb sighting for a good cause, you know?

what other celebs have i seen here in la? um, jose eber and luke from gh (i forget his real name, sorry, but i think everyone who is in the us knows luke from luke and laura fame...) anyway, beach on wednesday, tomorrow night a little short stop action. plus i'll go to aomeba and freak out as usual.

ok, i am starving marvin, over and out.

oh yeah

2006-04-29T12:50:00.000-05:00

WeHo
Originally uploaded by amyr.

forgot. one of the writers from scrubs was in front of me on the plane from vegas yesterday, at first i was like "oh, great industry people talking about hiatus, etc, what crap" when i realized they worked on scrubs i was all over that. not great gossip or anything, just interesting tidbits. i should have said, hey i watch 3 shows regularly and scrubs is 1 of those 3!! maybe i could have gotten the hook up with a scrubs t shirt or hat! or not.

I'm here.

2006-04-29T12:46:00.000-05:00

beach
Originally uploaded by amyr.

the flights were good, both times i had an empty seat next to me. mark picked me up and we chilled until michele got home from work, giving me the full tour of the amazing apartment. the cats are crazy, i have already picked my favorite (shady, yes...) we headed to le petit four on sunset for dinner. good dinner, rented some movies, mark went to his friend's house for the weekend and michele and i just chilled. by 12 i was beyond tired. slept til 8:30, feeling pretty good today. michele headed to work a bit ago, i'm going to go meet her in bev. hills and i might head to the library today, i am a total dork. tonight we'll go to a med. resturant at the grove where they have flaming feta cheese, so good. cheese on fire is always good i guess.....
i am trying really hard to take photos while i am here, i always forget b/c i suck....

i rarely think about reading my horoscope, but i did for some reason today, i realized how lame it was but would post it anyway: "you're missing someone. though you try to distract yourself with other things, your thoughts run to embrace the one you love. let this person know."
hm. i think that might be meant for someone else, not me. i don't miss any of y'all on the east coast. that's a joke. it's funny to me b/c i am feeling good about being away for a while, but the one time i read my horoscope it seems to say to me that i should be ok with thinking about home and while i am here, my thoughts and concerns should be elsewhere... whatever. officially junk.

interesting

2006-04-26T22:43:00.000-05:00

so, coachella now had a scheduler to help you prioritize your experience. granted it is always hard when you go to coachella to do the whole scheduling thing, but this just tops someone's notecard that they made (hmm....m, know what i am saying?). it looks like most of the bands i would have wanted to see this year are playing around the same times, how does that work?

i am a bit sad we aren't going this year, it was like a tradition, but the money is just too much this year.... what will i miss the most? probably the pool at the hotel in palm springs.... oh yeah, and seeing loads of bands!

EDIT: i just did the scheduler like i was going to the show, first off, i didn't rank that many bands at the highest ranking, therefore i feel good about not going, i guess.
second, it's not even like it gives you a printable form, it just gives you back what you put in, looking exactly the same with your highest rankings in boxes, um, ok. guess the technology just isn't there folks...

Fighting for the smallest goal: to get a little self-control/ i'm in love with that song

2006-04-26T21:25:00.000-05:00

(the title is due to the fact that i have been listening to a combination of ted leo and the replacements. they both make me feel alive and good. no more (sort of obvious) sad bastard music for the moment. )

so the semester is really finally over for me now. work is done, school is done. sigh o relief.
(oh, one thing to note, here's a good sum up of what i learned this semester or what i wrote in my notebook yesterday after one my classes: "note to self: get a job as a bouncer". look, librarians need people skills and that's one way of getting them.....) i am trying to not freak out that one of my fall classes was cancelled and i need to find a replacement from the (not so good at all) list. urgh.

i am prepping for LA now. i picked up my suitcase from the storage unit. check. doing laundry. check. found sunscreen i bought last week. check. get my haircut tomorrow.

i am psyched to get out of town and not feel like i have anything important to be worrying about while i am gone. it's crazy, i come back and then it's back to work for the field placement and also back at my internship. short but sweet i guess. i am psyched to see m, she was in town in feb. but only for a short period so it'll be rad to hang out and go to the beach and to the short stop and photobooth it up.

anyway, must at least attempt to sort of pack a bit. my suitcase is still in p5s trunk, so there won't be real packing, just preliminary packing....

oh, the twilight show in dc is the day before the stills show in dc, y'all know i am peeing my pants over that back to back show experience.... le sigh.

i leave you with one particular thought i have had repeatedly lately, i'm not that angry, you're just not that cool (thanks stills, my sentiments exactly).

guess who's done with classes...

2006-04-25T21:50:00.000-05:00

it's me, it's me.
and i got a 95% on my digital library. woo hoo.

so close

2006-04-25T16:03:00.000-05:00

i am one demo away from being done with school for the semester. take that. i have a demo in about an hour of the digital library, presentation is done. i will feel so much better after the demo is done, urgh. tomorrow i work and then i get ready for LA. it's raining and depressing at present, i hope LA will not be rainy.

have i not done the weekend update yet??? jeez louise, i am lame.

friday was snb (and homework earlier in the day), minus one of our regulars, we did have some new people stop by. some didn't knit in public, but they decided to stop by anyway.... went to red star after and chatted with the kids. stayed out late, regretting it all the way home. i hate staying till the end- then all the crazies are on the roads and it freaks me the f out. if i am staying out i prefer to go to a 24/7 establishment before i head home so i am not driving at 2:02 AM. no more of that. hmm... what else. oh, i picked up some stuff at st. v de p and ufo, books for altering and square dancing skirt for , um, something. you know, like a crazy looking petticoat, yeah. pink!!

did some more work to the digital library and then headed over to natasha's for a bit. we had pizza and she spun and half heartedly knit a scarf that i had frogged earlier in the day. i needed icons for the digital library and couldn't get illustrator free trial to load, a friend helped me out and i went over some stuff with him before i got home. they worked out well, i owe him.

sunday i had to meet my group at the cathedral taking much longer than i would have liked, at one point i was nearly laying on the floor out of frustration with the software, i couldn't get what i wanted to to work, so i just cut it out in the end, i guess no functionality is better than not working functionality, right? let's hope my prof. agrees, cross your fingers on that one.

still don't know about sheep and wool, i am spending $ like water as i want to go to that symposium in md and that costs money, i didn't plan on buying anything at snw, but alas, i guess i just feel bad.

finally, i got the wicker park soundtrack from the library, i know, strange that i would wnat that right, well, check out the list of songs, it's bizarre. unreleased stills song (IN FRENCH sucka), all good.

ok, i am off like a dirty shirt.

my my is back

2006-04-25T15:55:00.000-05:00

check out the newly updated my my. how cute are the crafty patches like the periodic table???? plus they make the best buttons including i heart pa and i heart photobooths, which i do...

altered books

2006-04-24T20:24:00.000-05:00

a bit more than i was thinking of, but i guess this solves the moral/ethical dilemma...

http://public.lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/23/1317230&from=rss
nytimes

wow, that's a suprise

2006-04-22T23:11:00.000-05:00

i got home tonight to find a package from my old work, strange i thought. i open it and it's a gift from one of my former scholars.

this was inside with a note of thanks. i couldn't believe that eventhough i haven't been there since last aug, someone still thought of me. strange indeed. btw, the camel makes some sort of bizarre song noise extravaganza. i may have to photo gilbert's reaction.....

mix cd swap

2006-04-21T14:58:00.000-05:00

i signed up for the mix cd swap at swap-bot, seems like it should be fun, y'all know i love a good mix cd (so feel free to make some for me, and send them to me..... or make a mix cd with me, remember that soviets?)

the ethics of crafting

2006-04-21T14:39:00.001-05:00

so, i wanted to make a journal out of the cover of an old book- obviously i am trying to start with books where the bindings are already broken, it still feels like maybe i am breaking some kind of library code of ethics, what does everyone think? i am torn. also, does anyone know anything about the book binding process? i am not a preservation person so i feel totally clueless on this.... suggestions please!

the ethics of crafting

2006-04-21T14:39:00.000-05:00

random stuff

2006-04-21T12:15:00.000-05:00

here are some spring flowers i got a tjs:

I have been working on the tshirt thing this week, here's what i came up with:
i took the photos in a weird way so sorry if the angle looks weird on the shirts

it's weird

2006-04-19T09:31:00.000-05:00

find out yesterday that there is yet another part of my one final assignment, a demo with the prof. now, wouldn't you mention that in a bit more detail throughout the semester, rather than say, a week before said demo? at first i had felt bad for the bad (ok, mediocre really) review i had given the prof. because they are nice i guess, but as soon as this happened, i thought, good, glad i didn't mark up your evaluation.

off to work today after picking up the 300000000 items the library is holding for me. i guess at least i pick them up, even if sometimes they suck so terribly that i immediately return them? right??? i'm not a bad person, right????

sheep and wool is coming up fast. i don't really have a place to stay since i won't have a car, but i guess i'll just have to figure that all out.

i have been feeling melancholy (mainly in the reflective and pensive way) lately, why, i don't know. anyway, i had a realization that i have been listening to bitter friend/ lover songs lately pretty much exclusively (note: see positively 4th street post). another song that is in heavy rotation is it's a hit by we are scientists. no one who reads this is abandoning me, don't worry. i don't even know if it's a real feeling or a paranoia? you know? also, there's this mix tape from tinymixtapes that i connected with for some reason (** aside from that creepy last part...... )

gots to run.

soon enough, vacation will be here.

2006-04-17T18:30:00.000-05:00

it's the end of the semester (almost, i guess....) so i am a total pile of stress. yet, i can't seem to get motivated. school was crap this semester, aside from my new found joy which comes from copyright, i was not digging it, at all. on all fronts (friends, acquaintences) i feel tremendously stressed and not really like i am keeping my shit together too well. i am constantly worried if people are feeling hurt or mad at me when i am just trying to get myself together, anyway.....

anyway, weekend recap?
friday, homework, homework, hanging out with n and d. n got pretty ill and we called it an early night. i had told h that i would stop by red star if it wasn't too late after i hung out with n, met those kids for a bit. h filled me in on all of here drama, health wise, and we chatted about what would happen. hopefully all will be good. went home not too late.

saturday, homework, met up with n, went to the mall, dinner with butta and d and n, nothing else really to report. h had her confirmation/1st communion by a priest from svc, funny, huh?

easter, went to my aunt's and just did nothing really.
today i met up with h for coffee since n was sick and we ran into another friend. that about sums it all up.
i worked on oh, about 10000000 t shirt modifications this weekend, some ok, some good.
i bought sunscreen today, vacation is just around the corner!

And now I know you're dissatisfied With your position and your place, Don't you understand It's not my problem.

2006-04-17T18:24:00.000-05:00

while it isn't my all time favorite bob dylan song, positively 4th street is on my mind lately. i sang it loud in the car on the way home on saturday night.

california show your teeth, she's my priestess, I'm your priest

2006-04-17T18:16:00.000-05:00

i keep meaning to blog about the fact that may will be a crazy month for new cds. i'll be saving my pennies for a few things:

may 9
stills, without feathers
red hot chili peppers, stadium arcadium

may 16
twilight singers, powder burns

death by sexy came out last week i think, i haven't picked it up yet, but probably eventually will...

lazy day

2006-04-13T15:07:00.000-05:00

Originally uploaded by amyr.

i chose to do very little work today, instead since i got out of work early, i checked a few things out at the carnegie museum. first, i remembered that there were a few more inflatables behind the main entrance, so i checked those out first. i know i keep wavering, but i think "pittsburgh is the zombie capital of the world" is my fav. really. yes, it is. it's in a weird place so getting a photo is tricky business. while inside i checked out:
fierce friends (i guess i should have guessed that many of the animal pieces would depict dead animals, i was not expecting the taxidermy birds, the swan, super disturbing....)

teenie harris cont. dug this, especially the photo of eartha kitt busting through a paper sign that said "now appearing: earth kitt" crazy! look here, scroll down to earth kitt.

barns this was cool, especially the giant barn stars from somerset county.

i have been hanging out at the clp since this afternoon, working a bit, relaxing a bit. of course as soon as i headed outside, with the computer to blog it started raining, back inside now and of course it isn't raining.

anyway.... i got called off work for half the week next week, i am not complaing at all, i am ready for a break especially with the end of the semester so close (two weeks, sucka!!!)

over and out.

you win, sonar, you win

2006-04-12T10:12:00.000-05:00

Originally uploaded by amyr.

5 days later, the handstamp from sonar is still there. sonar beats 9:30 club for the most permanent hand stamp, plus the fact that it's red makes it seem like i was injured, burned, what have you. thanks!

quick question

2006-04-12T10:02:00.000-05:00

so i am thinking that instead of a full moon, there was some other kind of planetary alignment/ weird astronomical occurance last week- most people i have talked to had some sort of freak out last week- did you? does anyone know what was going on in the stars above last week? it's just so strange. i felt terrible last week a bit freaked out, others were crying or just plain batty. anyone? anyone?

i dig copyright

2006-04-12T08:56:00.000-05:00

i am seriously thinking about attending this. the fact that the let students come for 50% is awesome.... hmm.

oh, shoplifter

2006-04-12T08:55:00.000-05:00

here's one of the stills new songs....

"Oh Shoplifter: Yahoo! Music Exclusive Performance" Music Video
http://music.yahoo.com/video/default.asp?vid=31372382

http://music.yahoo.com/video/default.asp?vid=31374062

i'll cry my face straight through my pillow

2006-04-10T21:47:00.000-05:00

since i can't blog these photos directly, you'll have to follow the links...
you obviously already know that the show was fantastic from my last post, but i feel obligated to give the full recap... (remember my ill faded attempt to blog about EVERY band i saw at coachella last year... yeah....)
drove down to dc/baltimore in terribly crappy weather, rain the whole way down, making it a long trip....hung out a d's for a bit and then headed to baltimore for the eating extravaganza that is the block of charles street by the charles theatre. sofi's (newly expanded it should be added) tapas teatro and the charles theatre all together..... honestly, this is one the joys of baltimore, i really love that area.... m and i used to go to tapas and to the charles back in the day (do you miss it at all?)
anyway. after nearly throwing up from eating so much, we headed to sonar, it's a pretty decent space. i guess the stills were to play the smaller room but got bumped up to the bigger room (which was better, the crowd was a bit spread out...) since they sold out the small room. the new songs are really good, i am so psyched for the new album to come out in may.
the best line from a new song has got to be: I’m into looks But I’m also into books.
there were also the obligatory oldies like lola and my fav. yesterday never tomorrows, still in love song.
i got a super cute hoodie at the show, as i will probably wear it everyday, i am sure y'all will see it soon enough; i talked to one of the guys in the band about their coming to the burgh, helping the burgh out, you know? all the guys in the band seem super nice and personable- they were just thanking people after the show for coming out. (canadian way? don't know).

the drive back yesterday was (fast and) beautiful. sun shining, sunroof open, fast driving, all good.

back to the reality today- touching 110 year old books (with bare hands....don't tell) and creating metadata. ain't it the life?

SY on gilmore girls

2006-04-10T06:42:00.000-05:00

y'all know that i have become one of those people that loves gilmore girls, right? well the finale will be crazy....

the stills will break your heart forever

2006-04-09T21:43:00.000-05:00

Logic Will Break Your Heart Forever
Originally uploaded by ldandersen.

more on the show tomorrow, someone already has photos up on flickr (although not one's i could blog....). show was awesome, i am tired.
i want to frolic (not so much like a woodland fairy) but rather with canadian boys as charming as the stills....

Just Another Travelin' Song

2006-04-08T07:06:00.000-05:00

i always get a bit anxious about going somewhere. not too anxious, but i guess it's just excitment? anyway, off to baltimore today to see..... THE STILLS! rock. i am so psyched. i was telling someone yesterday about the feeling i get when i see a band i really like that i haven't seen before, it's like a mixture of feeling like i might cry, scream or jump up and down, all at once.

s n b was last night, most of the typical crew was in the house. i worked through to snb on homework so i was starving by 9:30 and forced everyone to roll out early so i could eat at red star. it seemed like it might get super busy, since there was some kind of show, but it was cool. had a few people come out who never come out with us anymore, so i dug that.

guess that's about all, i am sure i'll have a all to detailed post about the stills show tomorrow.

xo

EODM

2006-04-06T06:40:00.000-05:00

did you see the new eagles of death metal video?

Sort of Crafty

i (virtually) moved

eliza (not doolittle)

banned books week

wow, who knew?

return of the lemonheads.

tell me baby, what's your story?

first back to school item....

a total sucker for the jables

You've been reading some old letters. You smile and think how much you've changed. All the money in the world couldn't buy back those days.

happy birthday, michele

Step outside the summertime's in bloom

oh, so angelic

if only.

hades vacation

dreams

what what?

"Pittsburgh, which seems to be the Galapagos Islands of American dialect."

a few more

cd trade news

trouble.

visit to the club

this photo is not used in a metaphoric manner

damn haters.

phipps

maybe i am the only dork reading this (aside from other dorky library students..)

nice, huh?

oh yeah.

update of the century.

i wish i had more to tell you.

dillema

Song Of The Summer 2006

Song Of The Summer 2006

oh, ted leo

another book incident

the most boring girl in the world

no such luck

mysteries (and memories) of pittsburgh

Film notes: Chabon's 'Mysteries of Pittsburgh' will film here

gidget is everywhere

Surfer girl, forever

The woman who inspired 'Gidget' rides a wave of surf nostalgia.

hades vacation

random issues

there was a rapture, so i can never see you anymore

to hold you over...

it should be illegal

he's a scumbag don't you know.

Denis Leary Loves Twilight Singers

Denis Leary Loves Twilight Singers

back home

what to say.

sleep, please

i am using your knitting needles while you are away.

A Drink With... Carla Hayden

A Drink With... Carla Hayden

was it speed or speed 2?

clp

just the facts

whoa

oh.

blah.

god, i am lazy

you can feel free to buy me this

the origins of booing.

you should know

Youth On Girls

Youth On Girls

oh, la, la

i forgot

what's the story morning glory (not in an oasis kind of way)

sweet

comments?

photos from vacation

Excel drawings

Excel drawings

library card tourism

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milo, cute as hell

oh, la la.

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