Butterflies

Driving across Illinois~September 2010

It's Not Me, It's You: Breaking Up With Your Favorite Band~NPR

I thought this was a great list and I had to repost it from All Songs Considered...

On this week's All Songs Considered, we head to Splitsville with a look at some of the bands we've broken up with or grown apart from over the years, along with some of the artists we'll stand by no matter what.
While going through my music library to prepare for the show, I found that a lot of my relationships with bands are more complicated than a simple breakup or reconciliation. So I came up with a short list of sub-categories. Take a look and tell us your own picks for each one:
 
1. Band You Really Thought You Had Something With — They Said They'd Call But You Never Heard From Them Again
This is a relationship that never quite gets off the ground. It's over before it's begun. For me, this is Neutral Milk Hotel or My Bloody Valentine. They put out an amazing record, you get excited about the great life you're going to have together, but then you never hear from them again. What happened? Was it something I said?

2. Your Best Friend's Girlfriend Or Boyfriend You Secretly Want To Hook Up With
I see all my friends with My Morning Jacket, and I think, "I so want to hook up with My Morning Jacket!" They make loving My Morning Jacket look so awesome. Then we finally get together and it's a total disappointment. Basically, it's bands you want to love because everyone else you respect loves them, but it's never what you thought it'd be.
3. The Rebound: Bands You Start To Date After Everyone Else Is Through With Them
When early Weezer fans broke up with the band (around the time Make Believe came out, or possibly sooner), you know there was a whole new group of fans that discovered them for the first time. Early Radiohead fans broke up with the band when OK Computer or Kid A came out, but that's when I started to love them.

4. Band You Broke Up With, Then Got Back Together
I broke up with R.E.M. about 10 years ago when the band released Reveal. I never thought we'd get back together. But then R.E.M. released this year's Collapse Into Now and I found myself falling back in love. I broke up with Bright Eyes for a few years, but then the band returned this year with one of the most amazing albums I've ever heard (The People's Key), and I was head-over-heels in love again.

5. Band That Broke Up With You
This is a band that says it's done with you before you're ready to end it. I really thought The White Stripes and I would spend the rest of our lives together. Then, a couple of months ago, the band told me it was ready to move on. I'm still heartbroken over the breakup.

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Silver Tears campers

Some folks up in Virgina have taken to reviving the old classic teardrop campers.  Since we've been living in an old canned ham trailer for the last several months, I've become enamored with cute home-on-wheels.  Silver Tear Campers handcraft these beauties from mahogany and aluminum and can be customized any way you like.  So damn cute!

Radio Flyer Car

From Old Hollywood Glamour Blog

Surprise!

Ben has this cute crab in his apartment...

But check it out, it's an ash tray!  I mean, catchy right?  But get this, this is what really bowls me over.  He got it at the anti-abortion thrift store a block from his house--the store is called Surprise.  What the fuck?  There's a place of commerce that supports this in our fair land of Middle-America?  I was so astonished that I made him show me where it was before we left town.

Alfred University And Their Library

While we're up here in NY visiting Kat and Dan I'm using Alfred University's awesome library to edit all my photos and dump it all online.  I'll try to start from Denver and show our trip across the Midwest, through Canada, to New York in order but you know, we'll see how it goes : )

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Momentarily broken down in the Home Depot parking lot outside Denver

Eco-classic car guy Ronnie that stopped by while broken down.  He had the best glasses ever.

Funny Signs

Vail, Colorado

Farting Around

I got to fart around on the internet yesterday, hence why there's so many popular culture posts lately. I hadn't left the house in 3 days since my own car died from a busted timing belt and I was going a little stir-crazy. I've decided to leave the timing belt be for a while till we get back since it'll be around $400 for the belt kit, $100 for a new clutch, and a lot of general maintenance...might as well put it off till later I say.

I was talking to my friend Christina Shaffell (who designed our awesome website!) the other day, a lady who's also feeling stuck in a small town, albeit in California and not Colorado. She said that she farts around on the internet for inspiration for her next project; she looks at her stuck-period a gestation period from which she can reap the benefits in the months to come. I thought 'check, that sounds like a good idea.' She also said she daydreams about her future apartment and how she will decorate it. Both those things help her sanity. I said 'check, check to that as well.'

Missed Connections

New York based artist, Sophie Blackall, creates art inspired by the Missed Connections on craigslist. Love her work.

Good For A Short Laugh

I discovered these today in the Design For Mankind newsletter. The Celebritea bags made me chuckle, as did the portable birthday cake for those times you totally forgot someone's big day.  Plus, they're by a German company called Donkey Products.  It's a well-known fact that I just adore the Germans.  No reason, just do.

Two Legged Dog

This has nothing to do with music what-so-ever but I just thought it was hilarious and awesome.