goodbye mix

this is my parting gift to you. enjoy . . .
je ne te connais pas/PROTOTYPES
waiting to know you/THE FIERY FURNACES
heartbeat/ANNIE
micronomic/LALI PUNA
outlined view/MS. JOHN SODA
life in mono/MONO
thursday/ASOBI SEKSU
between the lines/SAMBASSADEUR
bloody up your dress/THE MEDICS
buried magnets/VENICE IS SINKING
because it’s not love (but it’s still a feeling)/THE PIPETTES
o’malley, former underdog/DEERHOOF
i’ll be back in a month or so. love, leigh.

pitchfork music festival

jeremy & i are going to this. it’s in chicago & it’s dirt cheap — $30 for a two-day pass! the line up is as follows (bold=superior excitement):

saturday, JULY 29th:

silver jews
the walkmen
the futureheads
ted leo / pharmacists
art brut
destroyer
mountain goats
band of horses
man man
chin up chin up
hot machines
a-trak
matthew dear
matmos
spank rock
ghislain poirier
tyondai braxton
chicago underground duo
flosstradamus
8 bold souls
(with more to be announced)

sunday, JULY 30th:

os mutantes
spoon
yo la tengo
devendra banhart
mission of burma
aesop rock
the national
jens lekman
danielson
tapes ‘n tapes
diplo
dominik eulberg
glenn kotche
ada
tarantula a.d.
css
bonde do role
jeff parker / nels
cline quartet
(with more to be announced)

i think i’m probably most eager to see tapes n’ tapes . . .

& particularly to hear cowbell . . .

anybody else game? i’m looking at you kim :)

graphic design it is!

i’m doing graphic design now. well, AGAIN really. so much of what i love about interior design is the graphic aspect — i dream of silk-screening . . . seriously. the idea of creating prints & patterns for household articles (e.g. curtains, pillows, rugs, wallpaper, etc.) & clothing items brings me ridiculous amounts of joy — not to mention the idea of designing websites, print media & best of all, the credit sequences & digital effects for jeremy’s films. adobe after effects titillates me to no end (i’ve never used it, but the idea of using it almost makes me wet myself). so yeah, it’s done.

happy birthday jeremy!!!

let’s hear it for the boy! let’s give the boy a hand! let’s hear for my baby! (note: do NOT pick up where these lyrics leave off, they will no longer apply . . . he is my romeo).

here are just a few of my favorite pictures of the newly 28 year old:

best kid picture EVER. i hope our kids inherit this word-defying facial expression . . . enthusiasm? or sardonic irreverence?

look how gentle jeremy used to be. awww.

got to love the hair & the attitude.

i almost died when i saw this picture for the first time. this is from right before his mission—have you ever seen anything so adorable??

travelling with jeremy is the BEST—he gets so excited about new places & new beauty & his interest in other parts of the world is insatiable.

this one will embarrass . . . oh well . . . ;)

jeremy & ema are two peas in a pod.

this one’s a gem.

i love his leaning pose—i can’t tell you how many pictures i’ve seen with jeremy at some odd angle. i love them all.

he starred in one of bruce’s directing exercises—he played a mad, homicidal scientist type, people were amazed by how far he took it and by how naturally it came to him :)

and here he is in athens. a photographer friend of ours asked jeremy to model. he’ll be embarrassed by this one too—lol. i adore it.

let’s all raise a glass to jeremy! i love you!!