Knitting Project: Potholders

I'll be moving soon, and I've almost finished new potholders for the new apartment (location still TBA). They should have been pretty easy to knit up, but for some reason the basketwave stitch and I weren't seeing eye to eye at the start.

I got the fabric and the batting at the last knitting party I attended in Somerville, and the very red yarn I found at the Davis Square Goodwill for 50 cents.

Here's a finished potholder:












And a view of the opposite side with the pretty, yet tricky basketweave:












Here are the pieces of the soon-to-be finished pair to match the first one:

SXSW Pictoral Recap

Hanging out with Brooklyn:









Playing foosball:









@ the Planetary Skewer BBQ with Joey O!:









Guarding the door w/ Sean aka "Hurricane":









Hotel party with Jess, Ben Nichols:















And possibly the best part of SXSW...$1 Hurricanes!!:

SXSW 2k8 Recap!

I'm back and proud to say while at SXSW, I indulged in copious amounts of BBQ, tacos, hugs and sun. Ohhh, and music. Lots and lots of music.

Bands I saw included (but not limited too..hey it's hard to keep track of everything down there!!):

Wed.
Anathallo
The Forms
Georgie James
The Kills
The Casket Salesman
Longwave
Lightspeed Champion
Sons And Daughters
Division Day
Johnny Foreigner

Thurs.
Look See Proof
South
Cloud Cult
American Princes
Leopold And His Fiction
Jens Leckman
Presidents of the USA
The Night Marchers

Fri.
Rademacher
The Pigeon Detectives
Catfish Haven
Lucero
Land of Talk
Cloud cult
Lucero

Sat.
TAT
The Gaslight Anthem
Grand Ole Party
De Novo Dahl
The Parlor Mob
Jamie Jasta
Oppenheimer
Look see proof
Chuck Ragan

happy birfday, jess pye

Kicking and Screaming

Last night I watched my latest Netflix “Kicking and Screaming.” It was made in the mid 90’s, but the subject matter is something a lot of my peers have or are dealing with right now — post-college angst.

Basically a bunch of friends graduate from college go through the “what the fuck do we do now” phase and overall refusal to leave the past behind. There’s a lot of sleeping with freshman and one of the dudes (about 22) shacks up with a 17-year-old gal with terrible hair and an even worse accent.

The one aspect that really freaked me out is that Olivia d’Abo is in this movie (as the girlfriend that takes off to study in Prague and leaves her man behind.) D’Abo also was featured in a few Law & Order SVU episodes as a psychotic chick who seduces and kills both men and women to achieve whatever she wants. So seeing her in this movie was quite a mindfuck.

Also, both d’Abo and her boyfriend in the movie are supposedly novelists. Throughout the movie, she pulls out a little notepad and scribbles down her thoughts when inspiration strikes. At one point she asks her boyfriend if it bothers him that she writes down the things he says or the moment they have just shared.

I say he should be lucky that she at least uses a notepad. Once I outlined a story I was writing on deadline on a piece of toilet paper with a pencil — no lie. I can just imagine what my man would say if he found a piece of toilet paper....”oh dear, I think some of the bathroom followed you from your last trip. Here, let me get it for you....Oh, wait, there’s writing on this...What? What, the...hell.”