Things and Stuff: an update

I will be doing the World Cafe Live Arts and Crafts Fair on July 20th in Philly.

I love this book: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Saw Melody Gardot at the Sellersville Theater. Amazing. (Sorry Ant.)

Also love the Arrival by Shaun Tan.

I especially love this photo of the library at Holland House in London the morning after a boming in 1940.


As for the rest of the goings-on in my life... It's amazing how things can change.

Once again!

I'm participating in the Art Star Craft Bazaar again! Hope to see you there!

I love you, Mr Ritter.

Ritter was amazing. That's all I can really say. Here's a post that pretty much sums it up. The videos are from the same guy.

Really... Amazing. Can't wait to see him again.

honest is easy, fiction's where genius lies

I just remembered no one actually looks at this, so I could post all that ridiculously personal stuff if I really wanted, and it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

Jesus....

... it's been a long time.

To follow up my last post, 2008 held several more firsts for me and altogether was a most excellent year. 2009 opened with a whopper of a first and has started pretty craptasticly. But as "they" say, it can only get better, right? (Please someone tell me it can only get better.)

Almost odd how things have seemed to come full circle in this here blog. One of my last posts was about seeing the National at Messiah College, and I was THISCLOSE to seeing Josh Ritter at Messiah this coming weekend.... until I found he was playing just minutes down the road from my house only a few days later! Hooray! I'm insanely excited. But once again, I'll be going it alone. ...hooray...







ps. Josh, I know nothing about you as a person, but if you would be so kind as to fall in love with me immediatly, that'd be super. Thanks.

Bare. Today. 10. Dead. Mandarin. Star. Buddha.

So far this year has been full of "firsts" … at least 7 come immediately to mind. (The title of this post is comprised of cryptic references to each of those "firsts". You can try to decipher them. But you won't. Actually... go ahead and try, this might be fun!) Some might impress you, some might make you laugh because maybe you've done them a million times… but they've all meant something significant to me. I'm pretty interested in seeing what the second half of the year holds.

This is all so uplifty!

When ya gotta go, you gotta go...

...to a concert alone, that is.
I attended a National show this past weekend. I was all set to write a nice blog about it, but then I lost... well, let's just say I lost steam. So here are a few of the highlights. or at least I think they were. I only wish they'd done Geese of Beverly Road, or perhaps Lucky You, but that's okay... they played almost all my favorites otherwise. The videos aren't the best, but they ain't bad either!


They opened with Start a War

Apartment Story

Squalor Victoria, which I never really liked until I heard it live.

And they ended their second set with About Today... the perfect ending...



*Sigh* Happiness. Yeh, you people who bailed on me, you missed a good time. Especially when I knocked over a section of seats. I rock.