Thanksgiving dinner came early but as always i am late

i get lucky every once in a while and several weeks before Thanksgiving Simple Me and i were invited to dinner at the home of a student from a couple of years ago

He now has a degree and a job but i best know him for coming back to visit during one of his vacations from college and greeting me with the line "I touched a Renoir." (such jealousy)

Here are the photos from the incredible dinner at his home
one of the best meals of my life

Thanks Alfred!

marriage???

Simply Me and i have been taking a look at marriage and making stuff related to marriage

Here are four photos i sent out for a friend who may show them at one of his event

music for my kids

my bbf reminded me of a time when i would gather my records (yesterdays cassette tapes) and compile several musical artworks (more than ten) together into cassette tapes (yesterdays Cd's)

the question was what music would i put together for my kids from what i like - so here is a list of the artists i may want to share with my kids (15-13 -11)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Tom Waits
Lou Reed
John Cage
Philip Glass
David Bowie
Black Sabbath
Brian Eno
Talking Heads
Violent Femmes
Sisters of Mercy
Johnny Cash
REM
The Clash
Thelonious Monk
Elton John
Heart
Neil Young
Elvis Costello
Bosto
Janis Joplin
Frank Sinatra
Greatful Dead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Patsy Cline
Bebe & Cigala
Yo Yo Ma
U2
Kate Bush
The Cure
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Crash Test Dummies
Public Enemy
Bob Dylan
Jethro Tull
Santana
Cassandra Wilson
Itzhack Perlman
Celia Cruz
Tito Puente
Leonard Cohen

and i have not even started to go too far down memory lane

films

took a look at a couple of trailers tonight - films i may want to see

UP IN THE AIR
IT'S COMPLICATED
EVERYBODY'S FINE
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS
Tim Burton's ALICE IN WONDERLAND
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
A SERIOUS MAN

i am hoping i make it to one

going to paint

got some things to show you but i am going to paint instead

white on white

the littlest crab claw had a project for his photo class this weekend (white on white) - so out we went to find the film and get it done. i could not resist the urge to pick up my phone and photograph right along with him. here are my results from his assignment and a couple off shots of little crabclaw and little diva.

cast party at fridays

one of the teenage crabclaws was in a show for the past two weekends - saturday was the cast party and i was picking up tacc around midnight. bored and waiting i took out the phone in hopes of making tacc more nervous and embarrassed so i could go home it took a short amount of time and photographing some odd things before he realized what was happening but as soon as he saw he knew it was time to get dad home before any real damage could occur to his prestine reputation. here are the photos.