Henceforth...(travel)

LIFE! Ah, gorgeous and ever-changing breath. You take me down paths and tie them tighter than intestines (with all their hidden miles), and I recoil and I propel...knocking into corners. soaring through corridors (or fields). Take On Me. Take Me On. #teamthompettie #hashtags are the new haiku.

The everlasting road still has many dead ends. Many disguised as places, as culture. And sometimes a living room takes you to the moon.

The Mighty Boosh: Electro

I've just spent the best 30 minutes with The Mighty Boosh. They're the Brit comedy duo responsible for one of my top ten Youtube experiences ever, Old Gregg. 

 I watched Electro.

There Vince can pull shapes and Kiss covers "Scarborough Fair"... 

The spirit of jazz appears at the Crossroads....or, um, Yorkshire. "I've been inside all the greats!"

Johnny 2 Hats sulks as Vince sucks up to Pie Face and the devil drives the vacuum. 

This comedy team is always so spot on. The music debates and generational identity undertones make this episode the best way to kill time I've had in a while. 

Perk: Halloween Costume ideas! Seriously, just look at the above stills from the episode. It's cult, it's pop culture, and it's DIY. 

#love

Long Haired Freaky People (Will Be...)

I used to do Saturday Playlists. 

Tonight I drove from a Little Fox Creek in the land of the Hatfield's and the McCoy's and my kinfolk.

To Staunton.

Crackled mountain radio started it. An 'ugh' immediately rewarded with the rooftop performance of The Beatles' "Get Back." Winded the four-lane through some classic rock and bluegrass and random bursts of NPR and country preachers. Zeppelin, Janet Jackson, Pearl Jam, TI, Stones, Cake, Marley (4 songs from Exodus!),  Stars, Jovi, Cat Power...WNRN is the absolute best station in Virginia. 

I'm going to miss Virginia, as I always do. Glad she's a forever friend. 

Last time I was here was buzzing. 

Time before that I went to a 100-year old juke joint with a room of stand-up basses in the back for their bi-weekly open jams. 

Heather's living rooms have always inspired blog posts.

December 2009 (2nd generation iphone, no editing at all)

February 2011 (Canon Rebel, rudimentary editing)

(above) December 14, 2012---aka: brand new day (Samsung Galaxy, Pixlr-Omatic)

Third year, third living room, third device. Nonetheless always happy to be here.

(pic: New Orleans Home & Neighborhoods)

Tonight we talked New Orleans (see you in March!).

We agree The Sopranos is the best tv show ever.

Mind alteration was discussed. 

Off to Norfolk tomorrow. Will miss Colonial Place & hope she's a lifelong friend too.

Burgeoning Bison

Twice this year, I've had the pleasure of working with The Last Bison. I was part of the 2012 Veer Local Music Awards for the Eastern Virginia alternative magazine back in February and I shot and interviewed them for Veer again from the road in Portland, OR in September. They keep gaining in (deserved) popularity and I'm really stoked to see where 2013 takes these talented musicians. Here's a video they just shot from NYC's The Knitting Factory for NBC-NY where Ben talks about the band's neo-Victorian aesthetic. Enjoy!

Pied Pipered

Last night I shot the R Kelly show at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk. And Jesse Scaccia & I did a new conversation review for AltDaily, which you can read here. 

AltDaily also has the funniest pics I shot. Below are some more normal ones.

Fingers

My lovely friend Celeste, who is a San Francisco based blogger, recently shot my hands for a spread in The Violet magazine on holiday manicures.

First time I can say I've been in a magazine without having to write or shoot or layout or anything besides get a free manicure along with a couple of awesome friends!

Cellphmade Submissions

jESiOwastaken is now on Instagram! It has been since July but I never got around to posting any of my phone pictures here, over-thinking pixelations and such. 

Now VA MOCA is sponsoring a phone photography exhibit at their Granby Street pop up gallery on December 15! Here are the ones I've submitted. 

Greased

One of my favorite creatives, James Franco, has teamed up with one of my favorite bands, REM, to create his own version of Grease. And it's rad:

Howled Some Today...

"Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the Angels."

William Carlos Williams on Allen Ginsberg

A Sunday Evening Downstairs in Early Fall

End of a significant life week.

Back from a dinner party with great Norfolk friends.

Halloween is over. Candy remains.

Halloween remains in her own ways.

In flux rooms influx.

I danced.

To Pickin'.

Home.

My friend.

Voting for Obama on Tuesday. Heading to Brisbane in less than 2 weeks. Good magnet days.

A new basement floor.

I made pie for the pot luck. People liked it.

2012.

Til next year...