It's Alive!

Yes, we killed our peach tree (but not before it managed to give us one tiny, fuzzy peach, which Megan proceded to eat) but the cherry trees are blooming!

Travis at the Depot, April 14, 2009

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As I've mentioned before, this is probably the best concert I've ever been at. The guys were awesome, the music was incredible, and the place was so small that we were really, really close. In fact, Fran, the singer, came down and sang one song among the people, and he even danced with a girl in the audience.

This was the very last song, an acoustic, "microphoneless" version of "Flowers in the Window." My memory card was full by now, but luckily someone posted it on YouTube.



When we went to the concert, Megan and I saw a bunch of girls in tiny mini skits and high heels were heading to the Energy Solutions Arena, and we wondered who could be playing to atract such a crowd. After they finished their first set, Fran and the bass player came out and told us that the real reason why many of us were there is because we couldn't get a ticket "for the Britny Spears gig." That made sense. They then started their version of "Baby Hit Me One More Time," which was the very first Travis song I heard like ten years ago. I absolutely love Fran's "sorry" after he totally messes up (1:54).

Tape Sculptures

I first saw these cool tape sculptures in Hi Fructose magazine a while ago. They were awesome. The guy made a bunch of babies out of tape and put them in random places and photographed people's reactions.

After reading a couple of tutorials, I tried my first sculpture: a clear cast of my hand. It didn't turn out very good thought. That one is my hallpass now.

I wanted to try it again, but I didn't have any clear plastic bags, which is what you tape on (otherwise I would have taped my hand, and I would still be scraping it out), so I tried with one of those white plastic bags with "thank you" in red letters, and since I didn't have any wide tape, I tried the regular thin scotch tape, and it worked great, because it gave the "sculpture" much greater detail, and the red letters gave it a creepy bloody effect.

It was pretty easy and fast to make. It took longer to write this than to make the hand.

We Are Gardeners!

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We finally decided to start our garden, and since we kill everything that passes through our hands, we decided to go with the square foot garden. If we can't grow anything in it, we're joining Costco.

Grape Lady Copyrighted?

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I wanted to watch the Grape Lady for the 250th time today, and in one of the links I found this message:


What? How can they do that? The Grape Lady belongs to us, the humanity!

Also, checking out the Grape Lady groups in Facebook, I found one with no administrator, so I became it and I'm the boss there now!