Me, my friend Par and his friend Lulu of Unifire all have our birthdays on the 11th and 12th of February. Par, promoter and CNG car expert (as well as smackin good DJ) decided he’d throw a party for all three of us at the Emerald Lounge, and he booked the Firecracker Jazz Band to play it. Par will DJ as well for part of the time, and he always gets people groovin’ so bring your soft soles or your high tops and prepare to wear a hole in the dance floor.
Come on out and help me celebrate what an awesome year 25 has been for me, and to rock and roll my 26th birthday! This should be an awesome time, I’m really excited.
- The Emerald Lounge on South Lexington [ Map ]
- Thursday, February 12, 2009
- Don’t park in the lot across the street.
- $5 at the door to cover the band (worth it — I promise)
- R.S.V.P. if you’re hip
Par asked me to design the poster, whch is all over town now. This took me about an hour and I’m pround of how it turned out, but I wish I could have put another two hours of work into it to really polish it up. This is probably my most public work to date, and I’m always trying to level up my craft.
I can’t believe I’ve only been living here a little over a year! This town has been good to me. Thanks, Asheville!
This strikes me as really corny and poorly done. Make music, not films.
Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre is awesome. Pun based visual humour with a vaguely Victorian tilt? Yes please!
Thanks, Malia. This rocks.
Ok, time to highlight some new additions to the blog roll.
Asheville Street Style
An Asheville street fashion blog run by MountainX. Rarely am I so vain, but I desperately want to get on there. I wear a necktie like 4 days a week! Come on!
Ukelele Rockstar
Ami plays uke and sings with Mad Tea Party, a great Asheville-based band. In addition, she’s a great gal that updates her blog frequently with interesting stuff from her experience as a musician.
The White House Blog
It went live at noon on January 20th. Come on, the President has a frickin blog? That’s cool. We should all read it. Check out all of the new tools to keep informed by the White House. It’s impressive that the Obama is STILL this 2.0 — s0 support it.
“Greatness is never given. It must be earned.” — Barack Obama
As some one who has had the occasion to do a lot of public speaking, I pay particular attention to speeches, speakers and general speechmaking of any sort whether it be impromptu, theatrical, extemperaneous or formal. The time for great formal speeches and statesmanship seemed to be in the past until the admittedly astounding rise of Barack Obama, and it is good to see such renewed interest in speeches from the Joe Six-Pack crowd. Yesterday, in the midst of a national moment of celebreation and rejoicing, we heard freshly sworn-in President Barack Obama’s first speech to the nation he now leads. More than just the typical quadrennial refreshing of executive authority and dusting off of pomp and circumstance, this event was widely anticipated to be a unifying touchstone and a lamplighting of historic proportion.
And it was.
Ok, yeah but how was the speech?
Last year, not long after I got to Asheville, I went to this little music festival, POPAsheville, that was held downtown. I had a lot of fun last year; I even blogged about it. Serendipity abounded and I surfed the weekend wave to completion, but not exhaustion. Musical highlights at the festival included Nerd Parade (they gave out condoms in awesome containers), Mad Tea Party and Heypenny. Heypenny is kicking ass — they sound great and they have a new album that I’m desperate to get my hands on. Their last album has been a constant favorite over the past year.
I had countless memorable conversations.
- Sally, thanks for the encouragement. Best of luck with your girlfriend from Alabama. I hope you made it home ok.
- Mark, you’re very well read. Now, just one more day!
- Good luck with that iBook, Siobhan. Hope Z’s advice helped.
After a short day of Saturday work at the office I had an awesome dinner at Nine Mile with colleague Sensible Kitty. Have to make this a routine.Then I returned to work only to find the place surrounded by firefighters. Turns out our landlords and owners of the building, Glazer Architecture, didn’t follow their own advice and they let their office get too cold and the pipes to the sprinkler system burst, but didn’t leak until the ice thawed hours later. Only the fire department can turn that off I’m told, but it was not before water damaged the Jerusalem Garden restaurant and the dance studio below. Thankfully, I had slept in the office and ran space heaters to keep it warm and I woke up to a balmy 68° that morning. So not only did I not have to drive home (thankfully) but I also kept the office safe.
There was so much more; maybe I’ll get to it later today.
Turns out a lot of people think I’m gay. I guess being straight and secure doesn’t give people anything to talk about, so they’d rather assume you’re homosexual or homophobic to feed the gossip circle. This doesn’t bother me, but it does require explanation. Not to be vain, but I think this graph explains it just as well.
