Maggie turns one, top 10 of 2007
December 12th, 2007 § Leave a Comment
We spent most of Saturday in Sacramento, for my god-daughter Maggie’s First Birthday celebration! She is totally in charge. Highlights included the venue (historic Espanol’s Italian Dinners), the Marilyn Monroe shrine/mirror in the men’s bathroom (see below for photographic evidence), Maggie’s first cake, visiting Bows & Arrows for Second Saturday, catching up with Erik & Sarah, a tense boardgame, and driving up and down Broadway looking for the Superbad DVD. Click here for more unbearable cuteness!
Very mellow Sunday: layed around with the kitties watching Superbad DVD extras, Predator, and Kill Bill on Spike (which was hilariously edited for TV).
Busy week ahead!
Thursday: run sound for the Mike Therieau Band at House of Shields
Friday: happy hour at B Bar, as always
Saturday: drive Olivia around Oakland to look for great signs for her next art project, then my Aunt Teenie’s famous Holiday Party in Berkeley
Here are my Top Ten Albums Of 2007:
1. Feist – The Reminder
2. Band Of Horses – Cease To Begin
3. St Vincent – Marry Me
4. Sea Wolf – Leaves In The River
5. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
6. Elvis Perkins – Ash Wednesday
7. MIA – Kala
8. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
9. Jose Gonzalez – In Our Nature
10. Radiohead – In Rainbows
Thanksgiving weekend
November 28th, 2007 § Leave a Comment
Meet Ava, my brand new little niece! A few more pictures here…
Eventful holiday break! We spent Thanksgiving with Olivia’s family in Concord: 2 20-pound turkeys, a large ham, and tons of yummy side dishes and desserts. Olivia made a bourbon-soaked pecan tart with chocolate drizzled over the top. Ate waaaay too much. It was also Olivia’s birthday! Pictures
Friday: we headed into the city around noon, not to get our shop on, but to go to SFMOMA for the Olafur Eliasson exhibit. He did installations all over the place, but mostly took over the top floor. We thought the crowds would be at Union Square, and that we could spend the afternoon getting lost in all the water, stone, ice and moss he uses. No chance – the place was more packed than I’ve ever seen it. The line for one installation stretched through 4 rooms. Still, you should definitely go see it before it comes down in February! We may try to go again, perhaps during a weekday.
We also marveled at the huge Joseph Cornell retrospective. They even had displays that showed how he put his boxes together, how he organized all his collage materials. If you consider yourself a pack-rat… trust me, you have nothing on this guy!
Saturday: rented a few movies (Transformers, Knocked Up and The Queen… weird combination huh?) and stayed in most of the day.
Sunday: cleaned house a bit, until Olivia started having weird back spasms (she’s a bit better now, went back to work today)
This week: finishing up the House of Shields calendar. I will have been there 2 years in February, and the bar itself turns 100 in April… so we have a big year ahead of us!
