Just noticed that Joan Jett is playing the Gypsy Tea Room in November (awesome in and of itself) and the Eagles of Death Metal are opening! Rawk! Have you guys heard this? (quicktime) I'm also completely in love with the new Ratatat (Wildcat), for whom I can thank Mark at Veer. They, too will be at the GTR near my birthday.

I'm just laughing at this NTTA email newsletter masthead. Someone was a little too lazy to actually go shoot this and instead made a photo montage of (1) real but poor NTTA shot with (2) stock photo of hands on wheel with dash and (3) a vector illustration of a GPS console. ...All in what appears to be the perspective of a child in a carseat. Rule of ...

First it was kill Pluto, now it's add Ceres, Charon and Xena? ...me thinks it might rock to have a planet-warrior-princess.

I was researching tattoo-style artwork and came across this. Being a designer, I think it would be helpful (I just successfully avoided the Baeder-pun by not saying "handy" !!). Other functional tattoo ideas could include a chart of fraction to decimals... (I would definitely use this) or A and Baronial-style envelope sizes! On second thought that would probably be lame... but not as lame as circling dolphins! ...

The scent of hot dogs that has filled my entire apartment. Apparently the steroid-taking landlord downstairs is trying to cook something.

At 5:00pm this Sunday, my college friend Kirsten (Kir) is marrying Nathan Mitson. Kir, remember when you came to my apartment after Josh and I's wedding and shooed everyone away thinking we needed alone time right away? I think I remember you blushing... I'll never forget hanging out in your dorm surrounded by STACKS of wedding magazines that were marked up with ideas you loved, dreaming about the ...

Is it just me, or do these Finnish, Metallica-playing cellists remind you of characters from The Thirteenth Warrior? You know, when Antonio Banderas' character's name was "Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan Ibn Al Abbas Ibn Rashid Ibn Hamad?" Man, I should own that movie. So anyway, their head and facial hair makes me giggle. But even ten years later, their music still totally rocks.