cher amour,

en additionnant la cote, je vous ai attendus
je compte les appels qui n'ont jamais traversé
je compte mes amis vous avez fondu complètement
je compte les temps vous êtes venus depuis un jour

j'ai eu assez, vous ne me donnez jamais rien
vous ne savez pas que l'amour va à la maison à Paris au printemps ?


-emily

Huck-a-hunk of burnin' love

Oh wow.

So- I was going through old pictures and things trying to clean up make room on my sad-excuse-for-a-computer and I came across this old video that I totally forgot I had! I almost peed my pants, I was laughing so hard!

This was one day in after school, when I was working with the kiddies (probably almost a year ago now.. i cant believe it).

We were singing Elvis songs (the first graders were really into Elvis I used to bring my guitar so we could mess around and sing..)but, as you can will see, on this particular day they were really just not all that into it..

this video is also a fantastic display of how much control i have over kids.. awesome..

the camera man was a 7 year old named Jael.. (you will see his shoe)

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I would like to be you (just for a few habit forming years)

i have a favorite ceramist.
that's her.



once a week she is my favorite ceramics teacher and helps me to make things like this:


and when the handle of the umbrella that i just complete snaps into three pieces, and i almost start crying- she fixes it right up!!


My favorite ceramist is about to have a solid gold birthdayyyyyy!!!

i cant wait because, i love her. i love her because she fixes everything right up and because she teaches me innumerable things about shaping clay (and about shaping my whole life) i am lucky that she sleeps in the same room as me.

This song is for you, My Yoko!! (i will love you on your birthday- i will love you better than them!)

ps. you should check out more of this girls ceramics and thoughts. i mean, she is really awesome.

also: the umbrellas are fired. i cant wait to glaze them! i am getting a pretty good sized crush on clay..

extraordinary machine

i recently had a old friend tell me that this was my theme song..

i wasn't sure what he meant when he said that.. (complement?)

but today i was reading through the lyrics and i think that today i agree.. this is today's theme song.


Coming Soon:
Blogs about California, Ceramics, Car rides
and other things brought to you by the letter "C"

under the covers

So yes, I love blankets (blank it's) and I also love covers..

Here are some of my absolute favorite covers:

1. Let's Dance- M. Ward (Bowie Cover)
(this cover is quite possibly the best love song ever.ever.ever)
2. True Love Will Find You In the End- Beck
(Daniel Johnston cover)
3. All Mixed Up -Red House Painters (Cars Cover)
4. Heart it Races- Dr. Dog (Architecture in Helsinki cover)
5. Times Like These -Ryan Adams (Foo Fighters Cover)
6. I'm a Little Lost- Jens Lekman (Arthur Russel Cover)
6. These Days -St. Vincent/Mates of State (Niko Cover)
7. Landslide -The Smashing Pumpkins (Fleetwood Mac Cover)
8. Don't Look Back in Anger- Devendra Bandhart (Oasis Cover)
9. When You Were Mine- Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
(Prince Cover)
10. You've Really Got a Hold on Me- She & Him
(Smokey Robinson Cover)
11. Killing the Blues - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
12. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa- Hot Chip and Peter Gabriel
(Vampire Weekend Cover)
(Britannie just sent me that one)
13. Exit Music for a Film -Vampire Weekend (Radiohead Cover)
l4. My Blue Heaven -Nora Jones (Fats Domino Cover)
15. Your Gonna Make Me Lonesome when You Go
- Madeleine Peyroux (Dylan Cover)

many of these have been given to me so if you are the one who gave them to me; well thank you very much!

And if you know of any other covers that should be on this list, tell me NOW!

moving pictures

i read an interesting article recently about cinema. i saw a really great film tonight. and earlier today i was working on writing a film..

and for some reason lately I have been thing a lot about this short film:


my sister blogged about this film once and i think its because we both agree that this film is so incredibly brilliant! and its brilliant because it succeeds in capturing an emotion that is near impossible to express. and i love the end. i love that she falls in love with life in a simple moment on a bench alone; with a sandwich.

life is crazy. there are always these thoughts that bounce around inside, at least for me. i always think about the past and all decisions made and then i try to guess what's coming and i never can..

"we can only hold so much from what i figure, we try and keep our eye on the big picture- the picture keeps getting bigger".. you have to simplify. this maybe isn't that easy-- and i'm maybe never quite sure how because i feel kind of like, "when i look down- i just miss all the good stuff and when i look up- i just trip over things"

but every now and then i get it right. i fly a kite off of the bellagio parking structure with two of the best people i know. i laugh until i cry with my sister. i go to a "tweeny" show with funny people.. i dance.. i make ceramic umbrellas.. i take myself to the movies.. i unload the dishwasher..

so-
big goal of 2009:
to simplify
and to fall in love with my life at least once a day
(even if i have to do it sitting on a park bench alone.)

hold time; on time.

Something arrived just on time today! A little surprise for me!

You can listen to M. Ward's who new album Here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99084694




just love love love HIM!

i really cant believe he covers "lonesome me"-- on this album. how does he know these things? how does he know to cover the best songs ever made?

m. ward and i speak the same language. also: he is always on time.