So I actually LIKE the new Nails albums and am actually going to go see them - they just added one LA show. Don't know when tickets go on sale but I imagine it's soon.
I have a ticket for Killing Joke.
Am waiting for someone to get back to me about My Bloody Valentine - there's two dates to choose from!
The Cure's coming up soon. I've had a ticket to that for almost a year now!
Considering getting a ticket for Nick Cave. I like the opening band too, and it's at the Bowl. Anyone want to go?
I heard a rumor that Nitzer will be back on the road before the end of the year.
I also heard a rumor that Rotersand might be back.
[19:26] cenoblight: please to be moving clothes to dryer....need clean sheets.
...Yes, it was from the next room.
Guess he didn't want to yell over the Ozzy Osbourne.
:)
And all was right in the world.
My friend Laura is in dire need of help. There are 3 cats that she needs to house temporarily or permanently that are currently en route from Portland to Los Angeles. All the shelters (no kill) and rescue societies in the Portland area are full at the moment because of a recent seizure of 140 animals.
There are 3 cats, ranging in age from 8-12, all female. Spayed, up-to-date on shots, fine with cats and kids.
- Sascha, a blue russian mix
- Harley, a black cat
- Mattie, long haired grey tabby
If you know anyone who might be willing to take one, two or all three for a few months, I'd be forever grateful. Please feel free to pass this onto anyone else you know who you think might be willing to temporarily house a cat (we are looking at probably 4 months temp, or permanent, if the cat/s are happy and the families are too).
I appreciate it greatly. Please have them email me at sio.oneill@gmail.com.
Thank you for your help and again, I appreciate if you could pass along to anyone else in the Southland that might be able to help!
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I can say for certain that these cats have been well taken-care of and in good shape. Sascha is adorable. If I weren't expanding my menagerie by two over the next few days, they'd all be here, but the timing was just all wrong. Help!
For all of you who are here because you saw the volley between Asshat Deluxe and I, thanks for coming by, but this is a personal space, not a professional blog.
I stand by my assertion that the person posing as "Amanda Chapel" is little more than a talking anus. I can't fathom having THAT damaged of an ego that I have to blog - anonymously, at that - just to repeatedly trash people much smarter, more interesting, and overall better, than I am. But perhaps I am ascribing entirely too much class to PR brethren as a whole. Phil is an exception to that old chestnut about "slimy PR people." Chapel, of course, is as common as pigtracks, just happens to have a megaphone. Guess what? So does Paris Hilton. Doesn't mean you're relevant or important.
If you don't agree with the state of PR, or what Phil's doing, great, but you could be spending your time doing something constructive instead of being a shitheel. Why waste your time being a jackass? Go be productive, proactive, and stand up on your own, under your own name, and be the change you want to see in the PR world.
Unless, of course, you're totally comfortable remaining a talking anus. In which case, you go right on ahead with that. You'll be pouring other people's coffee somewhere down the road.
The rest of you may now return to your regularly-scheduled auto-refreshing of Valleywag.
I feel much better.
Pretty soon, I'm not going to have any hair left...
...who was wearing these when I saw her the other day, so I had to ask where she got them. The answer was here. (Funny, I have these and these but purchased them from HOF on Melrose.)
I think I could spend my entire paycheck on this site and STILL not be done.
Oh.
My.
Dear.
Lord.
In case you care, I'm a 4ga.
This went around my office today.
My thoughts exactly.
So there haven't been any interesting Evans prints on eBay or my usual auction haunts in a while. No matter; I've had other stuff going on and haven't thought about it in a while. There have been a few that have gone up but that really weren't my thing.
What I HAVE been looking for are the folios of the State Flowers collection, and the Foundation folio. Both are looseleafed books, hand-printed, limited edition; State Flowers was 1500, I think, and the Foundation folio might have been 500, or maybe I have the order wrong. Anyway, the library at the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden has them both, so I have seen them. Breathtaking. I WANT. But most of those are in collectors' archives and I will probably never own one. So I keep looking for the State Flower series prints in singles, to add to my collection. I don't have a SINGLE ONE yet. Everyone knows how much more those command and that there's several of us who are looking so the prices go up quick.
And THEN PBA Galleries of San Francisco puts two lots up. One of ten, one of fifteen.
The set of ten is various flowers, some of which are from the Foundation folio. One of them is a set of green daffodils from 1969. Somewhere in my family, there's a set of yellow ones. WANT. There's also three different water lilies and a MADRONE, DAMMIT, and a chrysanthemum, always my favorites, ohgodpleasekillme.
The set of fifteen is all from the State Flowers collection. Loose, not folio-attached, but they're there. One of them has the Wyoming one that I love to death (Indian Paintbrush, so pretty, the red he used is amazing) and a MAGNOLIA!!!! I don't have a SINGLE ONE out of those collections. I could - BANG! - have fifteen of them, two of them favorites, if I were to win.
Each lot is starting at $500 and $750, respectively.
I expect that some collector is going to drive the price into the stratosphere and I won't get a shot.
I can't afford them right now anyway. I mean, I could, if...ugh.
Someday, I shall win the lottery.
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