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Whenever things are shitty

I can always count on classic Russian literature to make me feel a little bit better.

"Hey, at least I don't live in 19th century St. Petersburg where the occasional sweetmeat is my only pleasure."

A Very Zeldy Christmas

Pengy toddler!

Uncle Brud of fighting with E fame.

My dad takes awesome pictures.

Mo & me.

Yay creepy tattooed Santa.

Bro-in-law stealing stuff from his kids.

Sister!

The only way to eat a cupcake.

Frosting time.

You're a birthday star at Chuck E. Cheese!

More birthday star action.

I say HAPPY you say BIRTHDAY

Holding my son that I pawned off on some other family to take care of.

I don't care what you say, I love Chuck's pizza. You can eat like 8 slices and not feel bad 'cause they're tiny.

Birthday celebration at home

Em took inventory of all her Zoobles with her new camera.

Emma the Photographer 1

Sister: It's pretty good from a 4 ft something view.

Trying to get in the frame

Pengy sisters

Best pjs ever

So hard to get everyone on the same page

One of many tries

What's a group of penguins called?

I'm going to try this in Zumba. Looks like a great work-out.

The Future + Violence + Technology...

 equals awesomely bad movies.  Remember, Google is watching you.

Defying Beauty - Finished Product

Please check it out!  It's your duty as a human in America.

I'm in my first PDF file!

It's by Wit & Will photographer, publicist, Laura Murray.

Read, weep, enjoy.

Step Into Christmas Outtakes

Baby baby sing with me somehowwwwwww

Neil Young looks a little like the oldest brother from that crazy Christian show 7th Heaven... but it's still in my top three favorite performances of "The Last Waltz."  Joni Mitchell annoys me a bit, though.  They make her sing behind the curtain, which is pretty hilarious.

Even though he was super skinny, Robbie Robertson was a hunk.  Now he looks like old Dan Akroyd:

Robbie Robertson

Dan Aykroyd

Let's Ramble at Midnight

Who wants to go to this with me?

Levon Helm (the legendary drummer from The Band fame) has shows at his studio in Woodstock, NY.  They're called The Midnight Ramble.  You go, you hang out, and you enjoy the hell out of yourself by spending time in close quarters with amazing musicians in an amazing space.  Everyone brings a side dish of food to share at the community table.   Cool guests like Elvis Costello often stop by.

If you have no idea who Levon Helm is, you probably do and you just don't know it.  The Band was Bob Dylan's back-up band for a time.  They are responsible for such glorious songs as "The Weight" - or, as I called it when I was a kid, the "take a load off Fanny" song - "Up On Cripple Creek," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," and many, many others.

In "The Last Waltz," The Band's farewell concert film directed by Martin Scorcese, they performed with pretty much EVERYONE of that time.  Neil Young, Dr. John, The Staple Singers, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan (of course), Muddy Waters, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Ronnie Hawkins, and Neil Diamond (who was pretty out of place, but is still worth a look-see).  You MUST watch it, it's important to your cultural, musical, and coolness education.  It's a documentary about The Band and a video of a live performance.  They had to digitally remove a piece of cocaine from Neil Young's nose before they could release it.  If that doesn't scream "GO SEE IT NOW!" then I don't know what else would.  My Uncle Jimmy had been telling me about it ever since I was old enough to buy CDs and when I finally saw it, I've found myself bringing it up in conversation on a regular basis.

I. Need. To. Go.  To. The. Midnight. Ramble. But this is one thing I won't go to alone, if only for the fact that I have to drive by myself late at night in the middle of the woods.  Also, it's a lot of money, so perhaps I will wait until some kind of birthday... orrrrr until next Christmas.  I wish we still lived in a time where things like this happened organically and you didn't have to pay $150 to be around awesome performances and eat home-made macaroni salad.  But, this is the world we live in now.

Still, keep it in mind, everybody!  If you get over 5 people to go there's a discount...

Somethin' I know, somethin' I know, please don't tell me somethin' I know

Song version comparison time!  Yes, I've been listening to sonically "lighter" music (but not so much lighter lyrics?) lately.  Enjoy the tunes and let me know what you think of the relationship between Hanlon's acoustic cover and Fischer Z's 80s tune.

Still trying to figure this video out. 

Unfortunately the album version of Darren's cover isn't on YouTube.  He adds a bunch of crazy noises, including that weird percussion sandpaper thing from this video, as well as "car door open" sounds and other beeping and video game noises and whatnot.  Maybe I'll try to put it to a video sometime.  It's nice. 

Thoughts?