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What I've made recently:
Hippari (Japanese field jacket) in cotton camo.
Regimental jacket for American Revolution reenactment (unfinished in the photo). I'm hoping that my client can send me photos of him wearing it in action.
Kosode with simple wrapped cloth for skirt, as in this photo.
Kosode with mo-bakama skirt, as in this photo.
Birthday party woo tomorrow. :)
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2YVLQ85XMJ3I
To accommodate my friends with youngens, I'm having a little pre-party get together earlier on Sat. July 12, starting at 4 pm. So we are having "the early show" at 4 pm and the "late show at 7" so to speak. You are welcome to arrive any time after 4 pm, with or without youngens, and BYOB if you drink something other than beer or wine. Please RSVP. Hope to see you!
For some reason, today, I was asking myself what my favorite albums of all time are, or which albums could I not live without. The first three that came to mind are as follows:
My BF turned me on to this band, and it makes sense that I would love them, because I already liked bands like Fear Factory and My Dying Bride. But I absolutely can't live without this album now. It has all the elements that I like about melodic death metal, or progressive metal, blended into a perfect landscape of guitar, vocals, drums, and effects. Some of the songs are 10 minutes long, and I just lose myself in them. I never get tired of this album. It could play on a continuous loop, and I could die listening to it.
Pegritz gave me this, right when I was becoming more interested in the whole shoegaze genre, and this really did it for me. It had shoegazey sounding guitar with amazing, happy, cute, pop female vox on top, making it very easy for me to digest, anyway. And I love that she sings in her native Japanese sometimes. The song, Thursday, is one of those I can listen to over and over again, but I love the whole album. Also, the Glass Factory remix of Strings is one of my all-time favorite remixes of a song. It's everything a remix should be: recognizable to the original, but completely different in sound or genre.
Ok, so what do these three so completely different albums have in common, besides that I love them? I think they all have an "epic" quality to them---they all have heroic end-all be-all types of songs on them. You could also say they are all strong on the guitar, too.
Honorable mention:
Fear Factory: Obsolete
Before I found Opeth, this was the album I would have to put up there at #1. I like a lot of Fear Factory's earlier and later work, but this was the pivotal one for me. The song, Shock, is a permanent fixture on the ipod.
Anyone going to Origins Game Faire this week?
Vintage c.1950s China cabinet and buffet/server, $95 for the set. Details on Craig's List - http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/fur/725843126.html
Three for Tuesday:
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
- PJ O'Rourke
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
- Alice Kahn
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
- Charles M. Schulz
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That first quote is totally true.
So that middle quote is especially poignant because today I had to make a lot of phone calls and wade through a maze of phone menus.
And that third one is my "motivational" quote of the day. :)
