Family on Film

Ruby starred in her second music video in one week today. SECOND IN ONE WEEK. Should I be worried? The first was a new "Tacks" video for an old song, filmed and finished by my old friend John Donofrio (we used to work in the movies together) and the second a new video for the band "Explosions in the Sky" put together by my other old friend Annie Gunn. Oh, and I'm in the second one too, good thing they aren't using the audio, because I "act" about as well as I dance, like an octopus falling out of a tree.

More shooting tomorrow... 1950s costumes, slow-motion filming and Evan and Jungleman getting some face time as well. Watch out Hollywood! You can't have my cute family! You are the devil! I will hide them in a goat barn in Denton where you can't steal their goodness.

Snips and Snaps

1/2. reigning Queen of Blocktown
3. Ruby smile
4. I wish I had time to make myself one of these
5. Mami zone-out
6. Daddy sandwich with cute bread
7. Mami sandwich with sweet bread
8. Jesse BLUE STEEL
9. peony-my current favorite flower crush
10. snuggle pile

Tacks shirts

Chaos weekend! Tacks has a show tonight, and I have to pull dinner out of thin air for the sitter and manage to NOT look like I stayed up 'til 5am serving fancy wine to rich people at a private christmas party. At least the tshirts are finally printed! (design by me, executed on computerbox by Jeff Klein)

Nooks

I love nooks. I love filling them with crap. All the way to the ceiling. And Ruby Winehouse is pretty cool too.







"We took a look.
We saw a Nook.
On his head
he had a hook.
On his hook
he had a book.
On his book was 'How to cook.'

We saw him sit
and try to cook.
He took a look
at the book on the hook.

But a Nook can't read,
so a Nook can't cook.
SO...
what good to a Nook
is a hook cook book?"
-Dr. Seuss








(hey. shhh. this post is filler. i am in houston, partying with hot ladies and the jungleman.)

Band of the Week: Dead Confederate

How about a band recommendation? There aren't many of those on the internet! Here is a photo of Heidi and I, at work, not working. Instead we got to "rock out with our socks? out?" terrible. I'm sorry.

I like this band: Dead Confederate. I'd never heard much about them but they played DeVille during the recent festival and won me over. Their live show is quite a bit heavier than my usual taste but it was just what I wanted at that moment, they still managed to be melodic while crashy and cliff shaking. When I got home I looked them up and they are from Athens, Georgia, home of one of my other favorite bands Neutral Milk Hotel. Their recorded stuff isn't heavy in the slightest, which impressed me because it is hard to make a pretty record and even harder to make a pretty record sound super manly onstage.

Keep it up, Guys.

December Tank

Our latest fish tank installment. Every time we scrape the green gunge and siphon the um, vitamin rich sludge from the gravel-POOP (great for house plants!) we change all the greenery and blizz blazz and sometimes make a collage or cardboard portholes for the background. I collect sundry ceramics from thrift stores and thieve the occasional mastodon or zebra from Ruby's shelves. Every few months we carefully choose a new addition from the fish palace (Aquatek) and hope it doesn't pester our established scaly brethren to death.

It gives me great pleasure to have a living, moving, glowing thing of beauty in my little house and I try not to allow the frequent demise of these delicate creatures to ruin our T.Rex dance parties.
Cosmic Dancer (Remastered LP V

Through the Looking Glass Vintage

You know how boys like to divide pretty girls into two categories, The Girl Next Door a.k.a. "MaryAnn" or The Glamorous Model/Starlet a.k.a. "Ginger"? Well, they do. I hang out with a lot of boys. BOYS! BE JEALOUS. This is my girl next door:

It's Kathleen, the Fashion Queen and she's taking over Austin with her beautiful projects. She and partner in crime Maggie have just launched an online vintage store, Through the Looking Glass Vintage with fresh handpicked treasures every week and styled to perfection by the clothes mavens themselves.

So, if you have ever wished that you had a gorgeous fashion model with impeccable taste and a master's degree in psychology to personally pick your clothes, take a picture of how to accessorize them, then send them to you in the mail...well, you're welcome.

As if this weren't enough, she's the manager of one of the hippest coffee houses in town and continues to baffle the more testosterone-fueled musicians in the scene by the overnight rise to popularity of their all girl band Feathers, playing drum heavy, dreamy dance songs and rivaling Bowie in stage dress. Of course.

Sorry guys, she's taken.




*anyone recognize that fetching bone necklace? Bazow!