Filed under: Los Angeles
I went to see Elvis Perkins last night at The Echo with my friends Wess, Emily, & Bob.
(As a quick side note, I love that all my friends have websites I can link their names to – dunno why, but I get a kick out of it).
ANYHOW! What a show. This guy is Bob Dylan, The Waterboys, Neutral Milk Hotel and Elliott Smith all put in a blender and poured out as a milkshake of musical joy. With of course his own unique flavor as well.
If y’all aren’t listening to this guy, go out and buy his album. It’s called ‘Ash Wednesday’ and it rules. And catch him live next time he’s in town, because he won’t be playing venues the size of the Echo for long.
When he’s playing with his band of awesome musicians he tours as “Elvis Perkins in Dearland”. Which I think is great; it’s as though he’s entered into a different space when he’s playing with them – he’s IN Dearland. Dearland’s a gifted and happy place, FYI. I’d do my best to make sure he’s there when you see him.
Many thanks to Wess’ fickr site for the photos!
Filed under: Friends & family
So I know a lot of you don’t know Uma who I blogged about a while back, hell, I don’t even really know her. But now I feel like I do because I’ve been following her progress on Erik’s blog. I went to college with Erik and his blog is really great. The updates are amazing and inspiring and sad and wonderful all wrapped up in one. It’s mind boggling to see the outpouring of love. To see that people do care, even about someone they don’t know, and that there is HOPE.
And hope is something we can’t really have too much of, I think.
Continued prayers for Uma…
Filed under: Los Angeles
What do you think it means when the guy driving the tank starts making cracks about how fuel inefficient his ‘car’ is?
I don’t know if I should laugh or cry. Seriously.
Filed under: Randomness
So I just got my Moo cards in the mail.
And they’re awesome.
They take your pictures from Fickr and make ‘em into miniature cards:
And you can put text on the back. I’m using them as business cards:
An order of 100 cards costs $20 plus $5 for shipping. You can pick up to 100 different photos or if you prefer just 1 photo on all 100 cards. I did about 30 different photos, so I got 4 of some cards, 3 of others.
They’re printed on really solid card stock with a nice finish and the colors are great.
All in all, I’m a big fan!
