Bands and Galas

So I have a few pictures of Jared Dunn's newly renamed band Lafayette up on Flickr, as well as some shots from the Spring Gala. Enjoy.

Mo' Pics

Just got around to scanning some B&W film from the past few months. Adventures in homebrewing, canyoneering, local music, and Mormon wackiness, all captured in two-tone wonder.

Artsy Heartsy

Yes yes, Thee Malebox Spring Gala is set to kick off this Friday at 6:00 with the above schedule of music and readings. We'll be wrapping up music by 10:00, but all day Saturday will be devoted to art showing, with contributions from Paula Gibbs, Vicky Trochez, Austin Storm, Laura Blakey, Mark Beauchamp, Paul Tong, Asher Weinbaum, Yours Truly, Tara Oar, Liz Hall, Caroline Jones, Evan Wilson, Nate and Alexis Stevenson, and Bethany Hoyt.

Hope to see you there, email, post, or call with any questions. If you're reading this and have a site of your own, perhaps you'll mention it?

Rock

Bon Voyage, Von Submarine will once again delight your senses this Saturday at Thee Gallery on Washington, across from City Hall. Also enjoy the alt-country sounds of Whitebird Canyon, the frantic folk of Paul Tong and the Anymore, the electro-stylings of "Josh" (Stevenson), and a possible appearance by Mike Siemens. Show starts at 7:30 and will be $3 or donation.

More Nonsense That I Find Hilarious

For their families of diseaseful brats. They had fierce in
disposition, unlovable, and impervious given unto him by
the celestials. Dhananjaya seated i make no answer in fingersigns,
as needs must disappeared into conjugal obscurity, but ayesha's
had bristled up to prevent them from retracing all very
charming to behold. Artificial woods enthusiasm into imaginative
fact, has woven a david kirke was much dissatisfied with
the agreement, host, terrible to behold, the kaurava marched
hostess. The play was given, he said hoarsely, coffin was
clumsily covered with too short a pall, girl betsey sits
between him and her father. That yudhishthira, having listened
to this excellent near the presence of the king? Mel. I
did. Cal..

People Who Look Like Their Names

1. Wilford Brimley

Under Blackpool Lights

If you're a fan at all of the White Stripes, I highly recommend the "Under Blackpool Lights" concert DVD. It was recorded around the Elephant era and they rock through 26 songs from all three albums they'd released at the time plus a few covers.

Jack White can shred that toy guitar.

Utah

Another great trip to the canyons of Utah. Pictures to follow.

Live

Maybe we could change our name to The Facelesses...

It is a Yoke

I have been getting the most hilarious spam emails, promising me all sorts of, you know improvements... Ahem. But the really funny part is the engrish-like quality of the writing, which shows up not only in the description of the product ("You will be a giant of Bad!"), but in small stories(?) included in the email. I give you example:

Like an enthusiast in his profession and john, failure. You
served me well enough, but you were going without my preparing
you with explanations lawrence succeeded in leading ashore
a body of 'you went to the shed, then? How did you get the
glory be! She exclaimed. Leaning over the rail, have come
with a keen desire to get back to the (fig. 44), which retired
many centuries ago towards on the last syllable. Ta coot
peoples up in ta like, and couldn't make nothing of him
but the sons and poirot said, you mean, i take it, that
aloud for help. Malcolm was already at the north transcripts
of the french 'archives des colonies,' and i don't want
to play with ellie and essie, did happen. She was nearly
frantic. What was she.

Introducing...

Our first show is tonight...

I was searching through all of my old photos and came across some gems. Mormons dancing at the African Children's Choir, my old stickered Telecaster, an amazing sign in Wisconsin, my first car, the world's largest Indian in Michigan, and pole vaulting in high school.

A Charred Aorta

NYC - After years of strife between acid-reflux sufferers and the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, a breakthrough early this week may have settled an age-old dispute. Rolaids in fact does not spell relief, alphabetically or otherwise.

The lab results came in from the Bureau of Intestinal Affairs late Sunday night.

"We'd always thought there was something fishy about...that product" said Dr. David Crosby, whose research led to the breakthrough discovery on the medical end. "But hell, who am I to say what spells relief? I'm a doctor, not a...a word guy. We just know that it don't work."

Andrew Heuser, a self-proclaimed wordsmith, had heard about the struggle and offered his linguistic talents to the support of these belching brethren and the confused medical field.

"I didn't have any trouble with the product personally, but when I heard all these complaints from people, I started looking into it. I don't want to say that what I found necessarily won the argument, but when I came into that meeting with my findings I could sense a feeling of...of... despair in those corporate monkeys."

Heuser, whose tireless efforts have won him world-wide recognition in the field of Idle Academia, is credited with the first documented proof that no matter how you slice it, "relief" can't be spelled from Rolaids.

Some staunch supporters of the archaic claim began a rally outside the BIA, wearing shirts promoting the popular antacid and touting signs reading "Relief is a State of Mind," but disbanded shortly after a lunch catered by El Sombrero amongst a whisper of tearing foil and chalky crunching sounds. No comments were offered for the group's departure.

Zie Germans

I think that this is hilarious.

Moscow Mountain

More fun with Gimp, I took five shots here at the end of Orchard Street and stitched them together, adjusted the contrast and saturation, and gimped out a few branches and stitch lines with the oh-so-handy clone tool. The slight fish-eye effect seems to come with the territory of stitching.

Tonight...