My insanely talented pal Laura Park had this comic featured yesterday on Illustration Friday.  She’s listening to my song!  Laura did all the lettering & drawings on my last album It’s a Game.

Kick ass, I made Wikipedia!!  I swear I didn’t do that myself…

The fourth annual Rock for Kids Music Mixer is happening on Sept. 28th at the Smart Bar in Chicago.  If you haven’t heard of this before, it’s an event whereby tons of musicians and music-industry types make mix CDs and auction them off for charity.  If you can’t make it to the auction you can still register to bid online!  I made two mix CDs this year; don’t know if they’re auctioning them together or separately.

Took this quick video last week at the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park…

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A cute lil’ video I shot last Saturday at a rodeo in West Yellowstone, Montana…

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This is maybe only funny if you happen to know a lotta cuss words in Spanish.  But anyway I am a minor fan of the internet phenomenon known as La Caida de Edgar.

You can watch the original.
You can watch it with subtitles.
You can watch it with effects.
You can watch it backwards.
You can hear the remix.
You can hear the Super Freak remix.
Edgar the Movie Reloaded!!
La Venganza de Edgar!!
The meme spreads around the globe.
Hilarity ensues.
It gets funnier the more you watch it.

Thank you, that is all.

Check out this cool audio interview with my oftentimes bandmate Mark Greenberg, online at Gaper’s Block.  He hauls out a bunch of his musical toys, including the groovy Japanese table harp that we used on "If It Weren’t For The Words", one of the songs on my new rekkid.

Baaa ha ha ha ha!!! Thanks John.  Thanks a lot.  ;-)

Overall, It’s a Game is too diffuse and uneven for casual listeners, but hardcore Bay City Rollers fans will no doubt find it to be an intriguing listen.

Mark says I should only play on S – A – T-U-R – D-A-Y… NIGHTs!!

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Calling Over Time
Edith Frost
Release Date: April 22, 1997
Total Songs: 11
Genre: Folk
Price: $9.99
Copyright 1997 Drag City

This photo gallery I found through MeFi is a must-see if you haven’t seen it already. It’s a play-by-play of how it all went down when Katrina struck. First time I’ve seen pictures like this, of the New Orleans I remember, the same streets I’ve driven. I’ll second what Matt Haughey said:

This slideshow is one of the most amazing accounts I’ve seen of the hurricane, before, during, and after. It contains photos from familiar landmarks and areas of the city and shows pretty clearly why people that stayed behind didn’t think it was going to be that bad, and as it progressed, just how bad it would get. When the story gets to the lines awaiting buses you can feel the helplessness of the people left behind.

Looking at these photos knowing what we know now, I can’t help but remember looking through a 9/11/2001 set of photographer’s photos that told a similar story of a major event: calm followed by surprise and confusion and later untold devastation.

Nothing I’ve seen on TV or online comes close to the complete story this gallery of images gives. It’s worth sitting through every caption and following along. Chilling stuff.

Your blog is a peaceful, calming force in the blogosphere.
You tend to avoid conflict – you’re more likely to share than rant.
From your social causes to cute pet photos, your life is a (mostly) open book.

What Color Should Your Blog or Journal Be?

(via Matthew)

My pal Davina Pallone, the gal who did the artwork for my Demos album, has a lovely new website up… it’s still under construction but you can take a look at a few of her amazing paintings.  Your web browser cannot really convey the HUGENESS of her work in person but it’s a good start.  :-) It’ll be neat later on when she posts more of her drawings and photos and gallery stuff; girlfriend’s done some pretty ambitious installations.

A break from the horrorshow for some regular ol’ city news: they’re starting to close down a few of those godawful highway entrance ramps downtown. (BugMeNot) You know the ones where they expect you to jump onto the Kennedy by diving off a cliff and getting dumped directly onto a curve of the highway with no merge lane, no visibility and a big huge Mack truck zooming towards you at 85 mph?  I’m a pretty hardcore city driver but those things scare me to death, I refuse to use them.

This is a great book on productivity, if you like that sort of thing.  Ironically, the frickin’ thing took me at least a month to read, and another month or two to blog about.  But to give myself a little credit, I did use that time well — I read the book, heard the audiobook version, and heard the audiobook of the sequel Ready For Anything.  Am I actually getting more done though?  Eh.  Maybe… I am getting a lot better at writing things down at any rate, in a quest to achieve that elusive "mind like water".  And it’s cleared away any guilt over certain fetishes I’ve had for years, like my infatuation with office supplies, and my love of BAGS of all shapes and sizes.  It’s also gotten me into various GTD-related blogs like the excellent 43 Folders and Lifehacker.  That can’t hurt.  But I’m still looking for the perfect organizational method for all my lists and notes.  Should I use a Circa system?  Stick with Palm Desktop and sync it up with my Treo, or find yet another software solution?  Or go the other direction and keep a Hipster PDA and/or a DIY Planner?  Bigass text file?  Argh.  It’s all so much fun, just pure pornography for a gal like me, a compulsive system-tweaker who’d much rather play around with paper and software than actually do anything in Real Life, y’know.  Seems like a lot of us GTD converts are prone to that.