How to Be the Best Friend Ever

My best friend mailed a letter to me...and I finally got it!! When we exchange "letters" it is no rinky-dink affair. Our letters are the ironmen, the alpha males, the bouncers of letters. Quite simply, they are the coolest collections of affection.

The Directions...

So many small touches...

...make this letter and my world go round.

Music Under the Radar

The above albums are CDs I've been wanting but have not purchased yet.

I guess it's about time.

1. Kings of Convenience: Declaration of Independence

2. The National: Alligator
3. RuRu: Elizabeth

(I saw him in concert, opening for Pete Yorn, and his name is Isaac Russell. I would highly recommend buying his up & coming album in early 2010!)

EVER BUY AN ALBUM FOR THE COVER?

1. The Stills: Oceans Will Rise

2. Air Formation: Daylight Storms


3. Longwave: Secrets Are Sinister


Follow-Ups to Albums I Know & Trust...



Why have I not purchased these yet!?

1. Stars: Sad Robots


2. Ingrid Michaelson: All Love (single)


3. Bon Iver (+ friends): Volcano Choir


The Real Newbies
(Ready To Give You A Shot):












1. Film School: Hideout




2. Angus & Julia Stone: A Book About This




3. Gliss: Devotion Implosion




4. RJD2: Magnificent City Instrumentals




5. Highspire: Your Everything




6. DELOREAN: AYRTON SENNA (especially excited about this one!)


MORE THAN READY FOR YOUR SEQUELS:

Now Go out and Buy Buy Buy!

What's Not to Like? I Love Halloween.

I love Halloween festivities...candy, decorating, costumes, tricks...treats. Here in this post I have all of my favorite things..

Starting with AMY STEIN photographs:

This selection of Amy Stein's work is titled "Halloween in Harlem".

On to the next best thing about Halloween!...

My dad let my mom and I borrow his drill and we did this to our pumkins a few years back. They were like swiss cheese pumkins by the time we were through. It was great.

A mathematician and an artist...whoa.

Pure pumkin genius.

For Melissalee.

He must be detail oriented.

An interesting marriage proposal.

A sculptor who works his magic on alternative materials...so cool. I would have a hard time dedicating so much time to something that would disintegrate in mere weeks.

Aw...a cute little........pumpkin squid?

All Hallows Eve Luminaries...and Other Favorable 31st Ideas:

Homemade tin can luminaries. Need I say more?

This seems pretty simple right? haha I love these little fellas.

Tim Burton fashion sample:

Chiquita Banana...love it.

Fabulous Interior Halloween Decorating...

In high school I would go to a friend's house and they ALWAYS had their orange lights hanging around for the month of October and it was just one of those small things I greatly appreciated. It's a glow that white lights can't seem to offer.

As mentioned in a previous posting, I have a soft spot (no pun intended!) for felted things. So here is my contribution to that part of my life.

Athfest 2009

These pics are from Athfest (a music and art festival in Athens, GA) back in July.

That weekend was full of summer music, fun colors, and plenty of sweat.

First we parked at Big City Bread because there was likely to be zero space for parking downtown.

Big City Bread is a cool enough restaurant in itself...but right behind it, down this humble little sidewalk, there is a fabulous art studio by the name of Blue Tin.

While we waited on our friend, Kate, to get out of her encaustics class (at Blue Tin) Melissalee and I were visually engulfed by the wonderful chalk drawings that some children had left behind...

So while we waited...purses became friends.

People got thirsty.

And stars were found.

But Kate finally did arrive ... with beautiful encaustics.

On the way down Washington St. we passed a really cool bike seat! I mean, come on, have you ever seen one that looks like this?

But of course we did finally reach Athfest...

We stood under a line of water misters, passed a petting zoo, Kate shaved her head, and most importantly we dropped in on little art booths scattering all of Clayton and Washington Streets.