ça et la [entries|archive|friends|userinfo]
bricology

[ userinfo | livejournal userinfo ]
[ archive | journal archive ]

the smoke and mirror show [Apr. 9th, 2008|03:04 pm]
In what continues to be an international black comedy, San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom diverted the course of the long-anticipated running of the Olympic torch through town. Since I was already just a few blocks from the Embarcadero route, I decided, on a whim, to go check out the protest/counter-protest, if not the running of the torch. I made it to the Ferry Building at 1:00, supposedly the time that the running would begin. There were, I'd estimate, about 10,000 people, and the numbers (and voices) of the pro-Tibet faction hugely outnumbered the Chinese supporters. The atmosphere was testy; I saw a few shoving matches.
Read more... )
link26 comments|post comment

the bees are in bloom [Apr. 1st, 2008|10:52 pm]
[music |Takahiro Kido -- "Fleursy Music"]

Out and about, yesterday, Kelly threw together a quick picnic -- a "quicknic", if you will -- to enjoy a little hanami.


Read more... )
link18 comments|post comment

a portrait of the artist as a young...elephant? [Mar. 30th, 2008|11:16 am]
linkpost comment

the Presidio, San Francisco -- first Spring picnic of 2008 [Mar. 20th, 2008|11:01 pm]
[music |Vanessa Daou -- "Zipless"]


lots more )
link21 comments|post comment

What can you do with a drunken camera? [Mar. 16th, 2008|11:27 pm]
Just got home from a lovely evening out with [info]videtur and [info]andrea_sperelli, [info]simulacrum, [info]missorangegirl, and my own [info]kellyhime. The first two are visiting from Paris and [info]videtur is showing [info]andrea_sperelli around her old stomping grounds. I can't imagine two more interesting and gracious people; it's a delight to share their company.

Read more... )
link12 comments|post comment

in which I behave like my mother for an afternoon [Mar. 12th, 2008|10:34 pm]
[music |Goldfrapp -- Múm remixes]

Every year the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (well, one or two of them, anyway) have an event called "Bouquets to Art", in which local floral designers make up arrangements to compliment works of art in the museum(s). This year it was held at the de Young, the museum I blogged about here just last week. I feel a little silly doing a post about the same venue, although I don't think that more than one or two of the artworks are shown below. I felt even sillier navigating the crowds of Ladies Who Lunch, camera in hand, sorely testing my tolerance for slow-moving crowds and trying to hold my tiny camera still. But there we were, and here we are.

for the curious, another image-heavy post )
link11 comments|post comment

Wings, wheels and the impossible house [Mar. 9th, 2008|10:41 am]
[music |Robert Farnon -- "Poodle Parade"]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Gabriel Voisin -- a man whose genius deserves to be wrested from obscurity and proclaimed from the highest towers, or at the very least, from this forum. For he was that 20th century rarity: a renaissance engineer. That is to say, he was a renaissance man whose métier was engineering, and the objects he set his mind to stand alone, above all others of their type. They were the pinnacle of refinement.



be warned: very long, graphics-intensive post )
link11 comments|post comment

O, lucky man! [Mar. 4th, 2008|06:15 pm]
[theme | pissed off]
[music |Orange Pekoe]

This afternoon, around 2 o'clock, I'm riding my old silver Vespa out Geary Boulevard to the inner Sunset District, to do some grocery shopping. Kelly is on the back. Traffic is heavy but steady. We're stopped at a light, in the left lane, behind a brown minivan. The light changes and we all accelerate down what is one of San Francisco's busiest streets. The next intersection is uncontrolled. We're doing about 30.

Suddenly, the minivan driver slams on his brakes. Immediately, I hit both brakes as hard as I dare without locking them up. Three thoughts flash through my mind: "he must be taking an emergency left; no escape that direction. Fast traffic in the lane to my right, so no escape there either. We're going to hit; better brace so neither of us goes off the scooter and gets hit by traffic."

Read more... )
link48 comments|post comment

checking the box [Mar. 1st, 2008|12:58 am]
[music |Freddie Hubbard -- "Little Sunflower"]

Every decade, it seems that San Francisco becomes embroiled in controversy over some new architectural project. In the 1970s, it was the TransAmerica Pyramid, in the '80s, the Marriott Hotel. In the '90s, it was the new Main Library (and the gutting of the old Main), and in the early part of this decade, Herzog & deMeuron's replacement for the seismically-damaged, 1920s Egyptian Revival-style de Young Museum was the focus of pitched battles, pro and con.

Many people disparaged the proposed building as an "aircraft carrier", a brutal hulk, an eyesore. I'm embarrassed to admit that I wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper (which they printed), defending the architects, from whom I'd seen other good work, and suggesting that most of the building's critics were simply unaware of H&D's stature in the architecture world. How wrong I was.

The building is a failure on almost every level. The highly-touted copper cladding has yet to lose its harsh new surface, but even when it does and the verdigris supposedly helps integrate the building into the foliage behind it, it will still be a slab with clumsy articulation, an abysmal entry, vast wasted spaces within, and an unfathomably poorly laid-out traffic flow. The stairs between levels seem to have been designed by someone who had never measured an average stride, as they require an awkward 2-step gait. The 14-story observation tower is torqued because...well, because it makes a "visual statement", and all new architecture must do that. I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that my faith in H&D was utterly misplaced.

But we're here for the art, not the ugly box it came in. After lunch, we scooted over to the Park and, after checking our helmets (did I mention that coat-check is on a different floor than the entry?), we headed up to the main galleries.

warning: image heavy )
link38 comments|post comment

A question for Obama supporters [Feb. 29th, 2008|06:05 pm]
One thing has mystified me about Obama supporters, and it hit me particularly hard this afternoon as I was riding across town, and saw literally hundreds of Obama supporters standing on corners waving signs.

The usual reasons given for supporting Obama are as follows:
  • Change
  • Consistent opposition to the war
  • Change
  • Uncorrupted by money and corporate interests
  • Hope, optimism, vision, and change again

OK, fair enough. Some Democrats feel burned by Clinton's votes on the war, on flag-burning, on the failure of her healthcare plan, her lack of consistent support for same-sex rights, and so on.

But there's another candidate whose opposition to the war has been even more consistent and lengthy than Obama. There's another who stands for a far more significant challenge to the status quo than does Obama. There's another who is even less corrupted by money and corporate power than Obama. This candidate has more experience as an elected official than Obama. This candidate even sought the impeachment of Dick Cheney, something that's both ethically correct and legally sound...but not supported by Obama.

The candidate I mentioned is Dennis Kucinich, who dropped out of the race last week. So why is it that Kucinich -- who is in just about every objective way ethically superior to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or John Edwards -- was not supported by countless thousands of enthusiastic young people the way that Obama is? My guess is that it can only be one or more of the following reasons: he's not as "sexy" as Obama, he's not as charismatic as Obama, and he's not black. Are "sexiness", charisma or any specific ethnicity qualifications for being President? I'd certainly hope that no one thinks they are. But I'm at a loss to understand this wave of Obama-worship otherwise. If it's positive change people wanted, Kucinich had it in spades over Obama, no pun intended. But folks just weren't buying.

It would seem that people on my side of the political spectrum (left of center) are just as easily swayed by image as the Republicans seven years ago who voted for Bush because "he seems like the kind of guy that you'd want to have a beer with". Obama wins the award for "the kind of guy that you'd want to have a stirring speech about change delivered by". Or, "it's about time that we had a black/Native American/Jewish/Asian/Hispanic President". Because I can find no other explanation for the fervor surrounding his campaign.

Can anyone enlighten me?
link81 comments|post comment

Apropos of nothing [Feb. 29th, 2008|03:16 pm]


Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, c. 1991
link3 comments|post comment

the plot thickens [Feb. 28th, 2008|01:26 pm]
Amidst Obama-mania, talk of "unstoppable momentum" and endless soundbites, the Presidential Election has just taken an odd turn. No, not the fact that Ralph Nader has announced that he intends to impose himself yet again upon a thoroughly disinterested electorate, but in the words of his running-mate.

Matt Gonzalez is well-known to anyone in the San Francisco area. About as "progressive" (whatever that term means) as any elected official in the US has ever been, he's former SF Supervisor (and Board President), a long-time Green and an attorney who champions lots of Lefty causes. He has the reputation of being uncorrupted, very smart and a tireless advocate. It's not surprising that Nader would appreciate Gonzalez' cred and his appeal to younger, Greener voters. What is surprising is that perhaps the most damning critique of Barack Obama has just come from Mr. Gonzalez, on the far Left.

Read more... )
link15 comments|post comment

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope [Feb. 12th, 2008|08:29 pm]
Please forgive the poor picture quality, but I wanted to share a snapshot I took of a little-known painting by the British Pre-Raphaelite painter John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, in the collection of the Palace of the Legion of Honor. Of course it doesn't do the painting justice, but it gives a taste of what I find to be a very appealing and mysterious picture. Note the two robins inspecting the sleeping (or fallen?) girl (or boy?)

Click on the image for a larger version.

link22 comments|post comment

...and then it all went horribly wrong [Jan. 29th, 2008|07:53 pm]
During the first night of the Edwardian Ball ("The Edwardian World's Fair"), we were quite impressed by the ambition to bring live steam into the Great American Music Hall. Even in my feverish state (appropriately served by the palls of steam) I was happy to extend a certain latitude to the rest of the events -- especially after I was so knocked out by the "Goreyscope". But once the performances began, the charm began to wane. It didn't help that the store Paxton Gate -- with whom I have a love/hate relationship for all of their animal abuse -- had soured things with so many "whimsical" taxidermied creatures on display (six-legged mice? Right this way, sir!). But it became readily apparent that the promoters and I had drastically different notions of "Edwardian". A group of amateur aerialists in red sequined outfits, doing vaguely Bob Fosse-like jazz dance and acrobatics seems to have met their standards, as did a hillbilly stomp band. A burlesque stripper in red spandex, dancing to the 1958 surf song "Tequila" apparently did as well. To many sensation-hungry urbanites, these aren't bad things on their own. But what, by any stretch of the term, made them "Edwardian"?
Read more... )
link29 comments|post comment

Sic Transit Gloria Edwardiana [Jan. 28th, 2008|07:45 pm]
I've been a devotee of Edward Gorey since at least 1976, when I discovered his book "The Wuggly Ump" in the local library and flipped over Gorey's bizarre color sense, eccentric line-work and Edward Lear-quality nonsense verse:


Read more... )
link20 comments|post comment

Everybody's doing it; why can't we? [Jan. 5th, 2008|12:10 am]
Yes, it's time for another person's top ten twelve albums of the year list. prepare to be mildly and momentarily diverted )
link20 comments|post comment

(it was a) Happy Old Year! [Dec. 31st, 2007|06:03 pm]
[music |The Paris Match]

need some proof? )
link16 comments|post comment

Top of the Evening [Dec. 28th, 2007|07:07 pm]
The absurdly cold and damp weather last night could not dampen the delightful couple of hours that [info]kellyhime and I spent a at the Top of the Mark with [info]videtur and [info]missorangegirl. What charming and interesting people! Watching them dance remind me of one of my favorite paintings by Franz von Stuck



We're sorry that Videtur is headed back to Paris tomorrow; San Francisco will be poorer for her absence. We're looking forward to seeing MissOrangeGirl again at the Edwardian Worlds Fair.

And it was nice to meet [info]simulacrum and her significant other, even if it was just as we were leaving and they, arriving. Hopefully we'll have the opportunity to chat with them sometime soon.

Also, we seem to have procured the very last available tickets to the Edwardian Weekend, about which we're deliriously excited. So now it becomes a question of costuming. We're leaning towards a couple of sybarites from The Curious Sofa for the "Sunday, Gorey Sunday" night.



I'm already well-acquainted with "Thumblefumble". If anyone has a large sheepdog named Donald that we could borrow for the evening, please be in touch.
link5 comments|post comment

...and another thing... [Dec. 25th, 2007|09:22 pm]
Glühwein.

When we were living in the Netherlands, we developed a taste for the winter hot mulled wine drunk throughout northwestern Europe. Tonight, I made a batch. It's pretty easy to make, although it takes about a half-hour.

Ingredients
  • 1 bottle cheap red wine (I used 2-buck Chuck merlot)
  • 2/3 cup sherry (or brandy, Madeira, Marsala, etc.)
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 oranges, juiced and strained, plus some zest from the peels
  • 2 more small oranges, tangerines or other citrus fruits, sliced fairly thick (peels and all)
  • a few cinnamon sticks
  • a dozen or so green cardamom pods
  • a couple dozen cloves
  • whatever other spices you might enjoy

Heat all ingredients except the booze to boiling in a stock pot, then simmer, occasionally stirring, for about a half-hour, to reduce the liquid content as much as practical. Finally, pour in the wine and fortified wine, and bring the mixture back up to sipping temperature.


You should heat the glasses up first, so they won't break when you pour in the hot glühwein; I just put them in the sink and ran hot water directly into them for a few minutes, then dried them off immediately before filling them.

link17 comments|post comment

Putting the X back in X-mas [Dec. 25th, 2007|05:45 pm]
We had heard that there was going to be a choral event this afternoon back at Grace Cathedral, so we decided to walk over and check it out. Unfortunately, it was a sing-along (rather than a performance of the Men & Boys Choir), so we only stayed long enough for me to take some pictures. Yes, Grace Cathedral is sham Gothic, but it gets the proportions and masses essentially right. And there are some surprising details.


onward! )
link11 comments|post comment

Sirent Night, Hory Night [Dec. 25th, 2007|12:00 pm]
[theme | lethargic]

If we can be said to still have any Christmas traditions chez nous, it's that we'll often take a late-night walk downtown on Christmas Eve. After being glutted with tourists and harried shoppers, the area is blessedly empty after the stores close for the last time. Although last night I grumped at the notion at first (after all, we had just watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", so there was a precedent), a large sherry swayed me and at 10pm, we swayed up Nob Hill. The sky was as beautiful as I can recall it ever being over downtown, with a crisply-defined full moon and at least two planets and plenty of stars on display.


proceed )
link9 comments|post comment

Re-Animator [Dec. 15th, 2007|10:05 pm]
A dozen of my favorite music videos that have animated visuals.

click on through )
link2 comments|post comment

you must believe in fall [Dec. 10th, 2007|08:40 pm]
[theme | tired]
[music |Pizzicato Five -- "Couples"]



Our sense of seasons here in San Francisco has always been suspect, and climate change is knocking it further off-kilter. My first ten or so autumns in SF (the latter-half of the '80s and first-half of the '90s) rewarded with beautiful fall foliage just following Hallowe'en. And yet -- here it is, the second week in December, and only now are trees starting to turn.

Regardless, we decided this afternoon to pay a visit to the Hagiwara Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, the oldest public Japanese garden in the US. A couple dozen photos follow the cut.

Read more... )
link18 comments|post comment

poppies, pipes and itinerant suit salesmen [Nov. 12th, 2007|07:28 pm]
[music |Dead Can Dance]

Yesterday was "poppy day" (AKA the Festival of Remembrance, the UK's equivalent of our Veterans' Day) and, as usual, we visited Grace Cathedral for their special afternoon service. We first discovered the event by accident, many years ago, and have made it a habit to attend. I don't recall what year that first one was, but I do recall that there were at least a half-dozen veterans of the Great War.

Grace Cathedral is, of course, a pastiche of a real Gothic cathedral but, given that building the real thing out of stone is so impossibly expensive nowadays, we have to make allowances for the fact that it's made of concrete. One thing can't be faulted: it sits on probably the most impressive site for a church in Northern California -- the top of Nob Hill. The Hill used to be covered with the mansions of San Francisco's early robber barons, but the 1906 Earthquake leveled all but one -- the Flood Mansion, which was converted into the Pacific Union Club. Luckily, the majority of the Hill (two city blocks) was preserved as a park, ringed by some of San Francisco's more illustrious hotels.

Grace Cathedral got the proportions of a Gothic cathedral basically right, and some of the materials are correct (copper, slate, etc.), and it does contain some centuries-old stained-glass windows, so when there's incense in the air and the Boy's Choir is singing, it's just possible to close ones eyes and imagine that they're in a real cathedral. (Unfortunately for my sense of aesthetics, Grace Cathedral often festoons the interior with things like AIDS Quilts, and "transformational labyrinths", whatever those might be.)

But poppy day never disappoints. It starts with a procession led by the pipe and drum corps, from the steps, up the aisle to the choir. The Cathedral bigwigs, representatives of the various branches of the armed services and armed service and veterans organizations, the British Consul-General, the Cathedral Camerata, and various others. There's all of the "stand-up, sit-down, bow-your-head-in-prayer" nonsense that I gladly left behind when I became an atheist, but there's also some genuinely moving parts, such as Danny Mander, a Scottish WWII veteran who was a bodyguard to Winston Churchill during the war, and who had the misfortune of losing all five of his uncles in WWI. Mander tells great stories about his experiences. Then they recites John McCrae's immortal "In Flanders Fields..." The pipe and drum corps plays "Amazing Grace", and from the ceiling of the Cathedral, some 90 feet up, tens of thousands of red poppy petals drift down. There are few dry eyes in the house.


a few more photos, if interested )
link18 comments|post comment

Some recent aquisitions, and it's Poppy Day tomorrow! [Nov. 10th, 2007|05:26 pm]
[music |Hayden Piano Trios]

The lot of an eBay addict is a tragic one, with broken families, public humiliation and bankruptcy looming around every corner. The past month was particularly difficult for me, as I struggled in vain against a new mania: exonumia


here there be stuff )
link7 comments|post comment

star maps [Nov. 1st, 2007|09:51 pm]
I can count all of the times when I've seen two outstanding exhibitions on the same day, on one finger. That day was today. We started out at the monthly First Thursday gallery crawl, down at the foot of Geary Street, where there was very little to be seen of any interest. The Richard Misrach show at Frankel Gallery wasn't bad; it was a sort of unfocused career overview, with lots of his early desert nighttime scenes and some recent ocean views. Nothing I haven't seen before, but still -- nice to see hanging together.

Most of the rest of the openings were pretty hum-drum, but thankfully, our next stop was the SF MoMA. They have four special exhibits going right now (one of which -- Douglas Gordon -- I wasn't interested in): Jeff Wall, Joseph Cornell, and Olafur Eliasson. The Jeff Wall show left me mystified. I've only seen his work in printed form and on-line before which, of course, can't do justice to the detail of an 8-foot wide transparency. I've always admired "The Flooded Grave" and been intrigued by "Dead Troops Talk", but I was quite unprepared for the other 15 or so large-scale photos. Or rather, I was unprepared by how utterly banal they seemed. Perhaps there's something I just don't get about them, but most of them felt to me like throwaway snapshots, mega-biggified.

But no disappointments in the other two shows. The Cornell show was simply sublime. There must've been 40 of his boxes, perhaps a hundred collages and drawings and countless other objects. They even had a large vitrine with a huge jumble of Cornell's art materials from his studio in Utopia Parkway. Of course the Museum doesn't allow photography, and with a guard in every room, I had to be surreptitious. So the following large, crappy pictures are mine, and the small, crisp ones I viked off of the SFMoMA website.



Lots more after the cut )
link9 comments|post comment

19th century orrery on eBay [Nov. 1st, 2007|03:18 pm]
[theme | disappointed]
[music |Sam Prekop -- "Who's Your New Professor?"]

Ah well; I guess I won't be getting this after all:

link11 comments|post comment

the mountain is alive! [Oct. 30th, 2007|08:15 pm]
We just had a nice little earthquake. Not enough to damage anything, but the lamps were swaying and the cats tearing around. Early reports estimate it at 5.6, and its epicenter between Milpitas and San Jose. Still mixed things up in SF, tho'.

And now, a little song about the mountain being alive, from "Cha no Aji":

link6 comments|post comment

Margravine Uta von Naumburg [Oct. 25th, 2007|10:19 pm]
[music |Red Norvo -- "Music to Listen to Red Norvo By"]



In my opinion, this figure -- created in about 1250 -- is the finest example of medieval figurative sculpture. The part of Naumburg Cathedral where she has stood for 750 years was actually disused for many centuries; cordoned off as a lumber storage area. It wasn't until the 1920s when that area of the cathedral was explored by a local artist and Uta was rediscovered. This photograph was taken in about 1925.

one more recent picture showing her in situ )
link19 comments|post comment

testing, one...two [Oct. 20th, 2007|09:09 pm]
[music |The George Shearing Quintet -- "A Latin Affair"]

*whew!* Tonight, I just finished a project that's occupied a lot of my free time over the past few months: building a recording booth into a corner of my art studio. I've been accumulating weird instruments over the years ("Chime-a-Tron", anyone? Alto horn? Bass recorder?) and wanted to finally be able to record some of these gizmos -- even if I don't really know how to play anything. And so, dangerously armed with a little knowledge, I embarked upon building a little building.

. . .
Read more... )
link9 comments|post comment

[Oct. 18th, 2007|10:38 pm]
Ladies and gentlemen, the last member has left the house.



Somebody pour me a Jack and soda, and dim the lights.
link3 comments|post comment

(inspired by Andrea Sperelli and Videtur) [Oct. 7th, 2007|08:47 pm]
videos )
link10 comments|post comment

fifteen views of the moon [Sep. 26th, 2007|11:17 pm]
[music |OST from "The Cat Returns"]

Tonight is O-Tsukimi -- the Japanese festival of the harvest moon. While Portland had a proper event at their wonderful Japanese Garden, as [info]thistlelurid mentioned the other day, San Francisco -- while having its own excellent (and far more historic) Japanese garden -- lacked a real event. Indeed, I telephoned the Japanese Tea Garden and asked if they were having an O-Tsukimi, and the Chinese man who answered had no idea what I was talking about. How standards have slipped! (The Strybing Arboretum had a moonlight walk scheduled, but the "moon-viewing garden" they were to visit is Chinese.)

Consequently, we made our own O-Tsukimi, at San Francisco's wonderful (albeit shrinking) Japantown.


Read more... )
link5 comments|post comment

my name is legion [Sep. 22nd, 2007|07:33 pm]
[music |William Baines -- Piano Music]

The summer months usually give us little but fog and wind, but once late-September rolls around, we get our warm season for 6 reliable weeks. Of course, "warm" for us is still a good 10-15 degrees (Fahrenheit) cooler than it is just across the Bay, but it's good enough for me. Yesterday was all about exploring the surroundings of the Palace of the Legion of Honor.

A little background, for those unfamiliar with the PLH: San Francisco is a peninsula, and the northwest corner, with its view of the Golden Gate to the east, the Marin Headlands to the north and the Pacific to the west, is perhaps the most picturesque part of town. Astonishingly, it was also very little-used before about 1860, so the City used it for a potter's field for the next 50 years. In 1908, most of the human remains were exhumed and moved to Colma (San Francisco's cemetery city, 10 miles to the south). Only one reminder of the cemetery remains: an ornamental stone gate into what was the Chinese portion of that graveyard, isolated in the middle of the adjacent golf course.

In 1921, local millionairess Alma de Bretteville Spreckels commissioned a 3/4-scale replica of Paris' Palais de la Légion d'Honneur, as a new museum for San Francisco, dedicated to the 3,400 young Californians who lost their lives in the Great War. The PLH's main focus is on art from the Renaissance through the 1920s, and is best known for its significant collection of works by Auguste Rodin. In popular culture, it's often remembered from scenes in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo".



(lots of pictures behind the cut)
Read more... )
link6 comments|post comment

herbivorous man v/s carnivorous plant [Sep. 22nd, 2007|07:33 pm]
[music |ancient Greek music]

Today was the annual show and sale of the Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society. We braved the rain (!) to catch the Metro out to the hall where the event was held, and had a great time examining the specimens and purchasing a few for our little window-ledge garden. The curious may follow the cut for a plethora of pictures.


Read more... )
link6 comments|post comment

Jsem Jalopniky! [Sep. 13th, 2007|08:10 pm]
[Current Location |The Bobby Hughes Experience -- "Sambartica"]

I loved this little two-part adventure, filmed in Czechoslovakia in (I would guess) 1963. It has everything to make me happy: one of my favorite cars (the Tatra T603), a swinging jazz soundtrack with great whistling (!), those lost movie colors of the era, stylish people, fast driving through a slightly exotic countryside, a hint of sex and danger, and ski gondolas! I expect that this is what Monsieur Hulot does when he's had too many cigarettes. And the moral of the story is certainly instructive. Er...perhaps not. Let's just say that there's an amoral to the story, and leave it at that.


Read more... )
link11 comments|post comment

imaginary cameras [Sep. 11th, 2007|08:04 pm]
[music |Oriental Sunshine -- "Let it be my life"]

We played hookey from all responsibilities today and scooted off to a little picnic in the Mediterranean Garden of the Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park, and then to a special carnivorous plant installation at the Conservatory of Flowers.
Read more... )
link19 comments|post comment

Build it up, tear it down, put some lotion on that [Sep. 3rd, 2007|08:48 pm]
[music |"Tentang Cita" -- White Shoes & the Couples Co.]

It's been a busy little weekend...
Read more... )
link16 comments|post comment

Bandwagonesque [Sep. 2nd, 2007|06:41 pm]
It's been done, and by ElectricWitch, Sarmoung and probably everyone else by this point, but here it is: my 20 Mystery Musicians Meme, as culled at random from my play list.
Read more... )
link24 comments|post comment

Your pod awaits... [Aug. 28th, 2007|10:09 am]


Now where did I leave that extra $150,000 that was lying around here somewhere?
link20 comments|post comment

navigation
[ viewing | most recent entries ]
[ go | earlier ]