lately i've been...

Sick...something decided to ravage my digestive system

Researching succulent care and terrarium-making

Madly looking at wedding inspiration

Loving Ian, Henry and Caid

Being grateful for my fiancee who already lives to take care of silly me...

Reading books by Shannon Hale

Lamenting all the people i need to be in touch with and of course, am not

Screaming at Downton Abbey

Rediscovering my love for St. Vincent

Updating the site about Ian & the family. Speaking of which...

*Keep up with what's going on with Ian on the blog i'm keeping for the Adams: supporttheadams.com

&c.

just rad.

Have i mentioned that i'm completely enamored with St. Vincent's Annie Clark?

oh that's right, i have!

code fabulous

just in case you've been secluded up in a silver oak tree for the past couple of months, here is a link to 'some beats'...from the genius minds of pip and ian. turn it up!!!

SOME BEATS

trill...

last night laura and i saw andrew bird at the largo...the show was opened with a surprise appearance by zac galifianakis, who told us funny jokes. it was an incredible show...definitely a superb one to start the year off~~

here are some of the pictures laura shot.

other than that...i'm just trying my best to feel inspired every day.

it's true

laura is this moment listening to take care by beach house in the living room.

i love this song
i love it i love it i want to be it

that's all.

formerly known as the pendletones

i've been reading brian wilson's autobiography, and it feels like ever since i started it, i've been seeing and hearing beach boys related stuff everywhere--even more than usual. (or maybe it's just that thing that happens when, for instance, you discover something you've never really given much mind to before and suddenly it's in your face wherever you go...and was it always like that and you just weren't paying attention...? you may never know...)
anyway, that doesn't really have much do do with the point of this post...just thought it was interesting.

i found these youtube links through a friend and they kind of made my week--they are beach boys tracks stripped down to only the vocals.
it's like a dream come true to hear them...as a lover of voices and harmony and, well, awesomeness...
check them out. :)

god only knows
wouldn't it be nice
sloop john b

i'm the one in the back fumbling with the chords...

so, might as well let you all know that i am, in theory, the new member of a band called "letting up despite great faults".

i'll be singing, guitaring, and keyboarding.

i consider it unofficial because though i have met up and played a bit with them, i haven't had a real practice session (the first of which it tonight!!) yet, and in spite of their being super cool with my having only recently picked up the guitar, part of me is kind of waiting for them to see what an amateur i am and rethink the decision to bring me aboard...yay :D
anyway, it's kind of super exciting because they are a very talented, solid and established group...we'll see what happens!

website
myspace
wikipedia

srsly

waiting for my tamales to cook. drawing a drawing.

and...i may have just become part of a legit band...
more to come...

hey

go figure...

high schoolers like cut copy.

mmm

there's something really special about stumbling upon the exact record you're in the mood for listening to.
perfectly fulfilling the combined craving of mood, melody and memory.

a few things.

know what's strange? throwing a wedding shower for one of your dearest friends you've known since you were 5.
i think i've written about this before...ah, yes i have!

want to laugh? smile? or maybe just feel better about humanity? GO HERE.

also: a video i took at coachella of beach house singing one of my favorite songs :)

oh, uh...(checks)...and yeah...still awkward.

well...off to indio...
gonna be a busy few days...

shining down like water

well john fogerty, i will deign to answer your now age-old question. that being: yes...as of yesterday i have, indeed, seen rain coming down on a sunny day.

drool

must.

have.

now.


that is all.

whoa

major girl-crush.

annie clark of the band st. vincent.

one part angelic elegance,
one part tentative sweetness,
two parts hardcore rocker.

...maybe it's not so much of a crush as i just wish i were her.

(pictures taken by me--february 9th at the el rey.)

once again...

i forgot how breathtakingly rad amnesiac is.

then one afternoon i made a long drive out to redlands on a cloudy day and remembered.

woa-oh-oh!!

i've had "single ladies" stuck in my head since saturday. attending a "mock the grammys" party last night did not help this at all. it also does NOT help that every teenager at maranatha is singing it in the halls.

logos

atlas sound at the natural history museum.

awesome.

(sheeeeeellliiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....)

so.

i was recently asked by a very talented guitarist friend to help him record a cover of barracuda by heart. "yeah, sure!" i said. but listening to it repeatedly to further my familiarity with the song has produced one incessant concern: how i will ever be able to sing like anne wilson.

this actually happens a lot

i went to amoeba tonight and bought 2 cds...one of them being cat power's the greatest. i've been wanting to pick it up for a while, and there it was in the used section.
i listened to it on my way home, and while at once being so wonderfully delighted by it--i was also extremely frustrated because, damn it, i want to write music like that.