Cat Power at the John Anson Ford Theater

To celebrate my birthday Celine took me to see Cat Power. It was one of the best concerts I've ever seen. This show was better than anything I could have imagined. She was happy, beautiful, had a wicked sense of humor, talked to the audience, allowed the audience to talk to her, played covers, orinignal songs, and ones never before played. It was simply amazing. Thank you Celine for one of the best birthday present ever.

Finding Beauty In The Mundane

Everyday I drive to work, down Fairfax to get on the 10 freeway. I always pass this electric tower. I've taken a few pictures of it before, but nothing worth anything. Today the sky was so beautiful. This has been my favorite one. Enjoy........

a day at the beach

Fiona Apple and Damien Rice at The Greek.

Bored Out Of My Gourd

As I sit at work, bored out of my gourd, I usally "surf the web" to find new happenings, new photographers, or fun useless facts that i hope will inspire me. Here's a photographer that I've been admiring:

Aaron Ruell
aruell.com

Carmen's Birthday Continued....

Happy 30th Birthday Carmen

There'll be more pics and more to say when I get my film back.

Saturday in Newport and Laguna

Stills from A Prairie Home Companion. My dad says its illegal to take pictures in a movie theater. I think that's just ridiculous.

What happens when you spend a Friday night with a gimp, 3 musicians, and 200 couples making out?

On Friday night Ms. Lucy (aka gimpy mcgimper) and I went to The El Rey (which had no air conditioning, we sweat profusely with 300 people and that's no fun). I call her gimpy because last weekend she fell skateboarding and hurt herself quite badly. Now she sports either a rainbow sling (she says it's to show support for her "gay" roommate) or a bright yellow one. Don't worry Luc I still think you're hot. The statement about supporting her "gay" roommate is a little untrue, I just like to tease her. We went to see Psapp, Juana Molina and Jose Gonzalez. This is the first concert I actually got tickets at the box office the night of the show. We were 4th in line and didn't even have to pay all the ridiculous charges brought on by Tickemaster. Yay. Psapp was good (The only thing unlikeable about them is their creepy obsession with cats). They played with toys and strange musical instruments. I usually like shows that either have handclaps or violin, they had both so I was happy. Juana Molina (from Buenos Aires, Argentina) was great. She knows how to grab an audience. She sings in Spanish and Lucy was happy because she felt she was back in Spain. Juana had high energy which prepared us for the wrist slitting that would occur when Jose Gonzalez took to stage. Don't get me wrong, I love sad bastard music, but it does get depressive (and that's coming from the spokesperson for Indie music). Jose didn't have much energy and talked much less than I anticipated. When you take the roll of singer/songwriter talking to the audience seems to be the first requirement for the job. Maybe after touring more he'll take this role and run with it. Come next year, he'll be amazing.

Things you see when......

People get drunk.
You find a lost roll of film.
People dance.
You're stuck in traffic.

I Spy Consumerism

CocoRosie @ The Troubadour

Lesbians who play together stay together......

This morning, Celine and I started our weekly tennis regiment.