I'm leaving town right after class on Friday to be in Seattle by 6pm at the latest (traffic permitting) and I'll be back late on Monday night. You haven't heard me raving about Bumbershoot as much this year because the line-up is not that thrilling to me, but I keep hearing about how many great bands there are, so I figure I'm gonna go find me a few of them and learn something new. Certainly there are a lot of names I know, but I dont think there's any that I have ever seen live or that I own recordings of. So why am I going? Because its frickin' Bumbershoot, man!! ps: Feel free to look at the list and recommend some shows to me. But don't tell me about shows on Friday... I won't be there.

The Presidents of the United States of America, Death Cab for Cutie, United State of Electronica, Burning Spear, Koko Taylor & Her Blues Machine, Against Me!, Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio, BR549, Clear Cut Press featuring Charles D?Ambrosio & Lou Barlow, Kultur Shock, The Clumsy Lovers, Rock Steady Crew?s Ken Swift, Himsa, Memphis Radio Kings, Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd, Seal, Van Hunt, Nancy Sinatra, Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited, Face to Face, Kiki & Herb, Robyn Hitchcock, The Black Keys, Drive-By Truckers, Ursula Rucker, Roomful of Blues, Pedro the Lion, Brother Ali, Unwritten Law, Voices in Wartime, Tamango?s Urban Tap, Omar Faruk Tekbilek & His Ensemble, Mindy Smith, American Music Club, Nas, Public Enemy, Byrdie, Massive Monkees, Liz Phair, The Walkmen, Sky Cries Mary, Five For Fighting, Natalie MacMaster, Soulive featuring Reggie Watts, Ben Kweller, Plastilina Mosh, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, The Pollack-Hodgman Interviews, Bobby Rush, The Bad Plus, These Arms Are Snakes, Vienna Teng, Crooked Fingers, DJ Cheb, Sabbah, Cobra High, Josh Ritter, Harvey Pekar, Gilbert Hernandez, Jessica Abel, Peter Bagge, Pixies, Built to Spill, The Marley Brothers, Toots and the Maytals, Bebel Gilberto, Critters Buggin, Bo Diddley with The Johnnie Johnson Band, Galactic, Sam Roberts, Rise Against, Spectrum Dance Theater, Kaki King, Nick Lowe, The Killers, Control Machete, Ursula Hegi, Will Power, Jonathan Raban, Harvey Danger, On The Speakers, Richmond Fontaine, The Turn-Ons, and more....

My Mood: Anticipatory
Singing: Bumbershoot Theme Song

Runner-up:
Man looking for a bible in a used bookstore: "Excuse me, how can I find religion?"
My Dad: "Go to church on Sunday and pray to God."

True Story!

And now, here's the ( Winner )

My Mood: Quotational
Singing: It's My Life - Talk Talk

Thank you for the amusing responses to the little quiz in my last post.
Some of you were close, but all of you were wrong.

( Answer Key )

In other news...
This assignment was just practice for a related project: we will be designing actual road-signs, intended to inform would-be motorists of conditions they might actually be interested in, if only there were signs to inform them!
So that you may guess after they are done, I won't tip you off to the specific items I will be doing. I can tell you are on the edge of your seat for that!!

My Mood: good
Singing: o/~ I lost on Jeopardy... baby! o/~

( No Produce )

What's the big idea?
These three drawings are the result of an exercise we did in class today. We were given a list of words and told to pick three to express using only abstract black and white forms.
See if you can guess the words I was aiming for. Think of these as road signs: if you saw the above images as you were driving, what would you think you needed to prepare for?

My Mood: sleepy
Singing: o/~ ... A Picasso or a Garfunkel... o/~

I just finished Prince of Persia, a game I strongly recommend for anyone that likes Legend of Zelda.

Of course its old news. Any real gamer would have already had it and finished it a year ago. I'd been waiting for the price to come down from $50 for many months and finally saw it at Shop-Ko last month for $20. I've been playing it ever since, off and on. It's highly addicting, with a great story-line, immersive visuals, and exciting gameplay that will keep you coming back for more.

I only wish there was more. I was up until about 4 am trying to finish it when I gave up and went to bed. After school I came home and 90 mins later it was done.

My Mood: geeky

Drawing really isn't my thing. I'm really slow so it usually takes me forever to finish something to my satisfaction. And I have no sense of proportion. However, I've been doing a lot of it lately for class, so I may as well put these out there for people to see.

Warning: Some of these are bad drawings, some are bad scans, and some are bad scans of bad drawings. Some are unfinished. In other words, there's nothing here that couldn't be improved in some way or another, but go ahead and take a look, because they aren't all terrible either.

( Faces First )
( On the Other Hand )
( Produce )
( Misc. )
( Stuff I found in my sketchbook... )

My Mood: good
Singing: o/~ What's so Great about the Barrier Reef? What's so Fine about Art?? o/~

I drew a billion of these today and these were the only two that looked like bears.
( I'm a copycat )

My Mood: artistic
Singing: o/~ Starry starry night... o/~

So I'm in class, returning from the pencil sharpener to my open sketchbook, ready to start a new drawing....
... and there's bright red blood on the clean white paper! I just bought this sketchbook yesterday and already some asshole is bleeding on it!

Wait!

I wonder.... Could it be my blood? Hmm... there's blood on my fingers too! What the hell?!
Hey.... I'm bleeding!!!!! Ahhhh!!!


Ok.... calm down.... nobody panic!! It seems to be just a paper-cut.

And of course its right on the part of the finger where band-aids refuse to grip.

My Mood: aggravated

I'm eating a twinkie.
No... really. A Hostess Twinkie.


So what are y'all up to?

My Mood: disappointed
Singing: o/~ It's only me o/~

Y'all remember that Tile-Horned Prionus I posted about awhile back?

We've got another one.

My Mood: bugged out.
Singing: Buddy Holly and the Crickets

I had a few weird dreams last night.

One I dont remember much about, except that there was a cute girl flirting with me. Like the kind of flirting you might think I would have to pay for. I only wish I could remember who it was, because I think it was someone I actually know.

In another dream, a friend and I argued as we drove around a town that was half Seattle and half Yakima. I probably need to apologize to this friend, but I am not sure what that would accomplish.

The third dream is the weirdest one.
I was driving with a couple freinds in my Jeep in Texas on a hot day. Damn hot, real hot, hot enough you could cook things on it.
Don't know where we were going or where we had come from, but there were 3 of us, with all the windows open and all our stuff piled in with us.
And then suddenly it started to rain. Hard.
And for some reason the roof of my Jeep was leaking, so this very warm rain was getting me all wet, like a shower, except I don't like to shower while I'm driving.
I pulled over and went into a house or something (to make a phone call, I guess), and when I came out the rain had turned into snow. I'm talking a couple of feet of snow... in just a few minutes.... enough that, although I could drive in it, it wasn't really safe, so I pulled over again.... right before I woke up.

Anyone that does dream analysis may feel to tell me what this all means.

My Mood: Dreamy
Singing: Enter Sandman

( Just because Pete Townshend is a lyrical genius )

Singing: The Who

We started Digital Photography today, and I was able to take a few interesting pics, although mostly not as part of any class assignment.
( These are somewhat large )

My Mood: geeky

( A few (somewhat large) photos I took at the Ballard Locks on Saturday... )
In other news: The Mariner's just beat the Red Sox in the 11th inning with a Brett Boone bat-flipping grand slam.

My Mood: cheerful
Singing: o/~ Thats the way (uh huh, uh huh) I like it (uh huh, uh huh) o/~

I've got Rum.
And Coke.™

Hmmm... what can I do with that?

My Mood: Unsqueezed
Singing: Little Stevie Miller

"Someone thinks you are wonderfully mysterious."
So who is it? C'mon... 'fess up!!

( One More )

My Mood: curious
Singing: Hey Ya

Anyone hear anything from agntjello lately?

A few people have asked to see the projects that I'm doing for class, but frankly most of them are just not that interesting.

( Here's an exception: )

My Mood: nostalgic

I spent the weekend with my family at Lake Chelan, and yesterday we watched the city of Manson's ( fireworks. )

( Photoshop will be the death of me. )