Kokochi

I am a giraffe!

In preperation for Burning Man, I rummaged around and found some fantastic cloth/material to make nifty outfits to wear that would make me smile. Thing is, I'm not a seamstress. My cow outfit that I made last year is lopsided. My funky furry dress I made for a NYE party began falling apart by the end of the evening. And this year, I'm a bit busy to even try and ameliorate my skills in time for BM.

So when I found out that a friend was a designer/couturier, I begged her to make me some outfits. I brought over the material I had and discussed my ideas. She instantly understood, measured me, and said she'd call when she was done.

And oh my gosh! She's amazing. Here is my first outfit. A giraffe! She's almost done with my second, but I'll wait to post it until the hair piece is done. And when the third one is done, I'll tell you who this talented artist is. Stay tuned : )

Good Body

Dav and I went to see Eve Ensler's The Good Body tonight. It was moving, funny, touching, intimate, powerful, and much more. I didn't know she was so good at impersonating such different personalities of women from around the world.

I've read but never seen the Vagina Monologues. I am certainly looking forward to doing so one day. I think the open dialogue she creates about subjects society shuns should be shared and passed on. I'm glad to hear she's working on a new series with teenage girls.

Our seats were so high up, I felt vertigo. Thus how small Eve appears even with my super zoom phone came.

And here we are at Bruno's

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Ah, how to choose?

Dav and I couldn't choose what to do tonight. There were 3 bands playing at different locations each with their own vibe. We were also quite happy chilling at home.

So, Dav put our choices in alphabetical order:

Bruno's

Home

Odeon Bar

Parkside

He typed a number on the mac to establish his number.

He then asked me to pick a number.

He explained we were going to add our numbers, divide that number by 4 (the number of options). That would make the remainder a zero-based index of "our choice."

Dav chose 6. I chose 2. That totalled to 8 and divided by 4 gave us a remainder of 0, which = Bruno's

So that's where we're going.

Dav says this is a perfectly generic way to figure out where to go.

Whatever happened to Eeny, Meeny, Miny Mo?

I thought it was complicated enough of a method to blog about. He had to re-explain it to me!

Ah, math people.

Me? I'd designate a color to each choice and ask Dav to "feel" the color of his current mood.

Tired of cheesy motivational posters?

Secretly replace them with these...

Via: this website.

Sunday evening @ our Potrero Household

Transcription by gen & anonymous:
For the first time our Potrero Hill household is all going out together! We're all so busy that we rarely get to be all together. Yay :)

[Mie] [DAV @ Thee Parkside] [Kunal] [Emerick!] [Nick Yu] [Toni Miboni Roni Honi]

My feel-tall-shoes

For special nights out, such as tonight!

kissy

When we were at the Forgotten Opera Party, there was a professional photographer documenting all the revelry. Dav found some of us and I can't resist sharing.

Matmos

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Just got back from a pretty interesting music/video show. Heard music made from the noise of a piano being dragged along the playa until it broke into pieces. As we watched the video of this, they cycled the noise into various loops that made it all sound like orchestrated music. The next piece started with a hand slapping a butt cheek. They played four videos of that slap, slightly delayed and at different tempos. That too, became funky music. After the show, I tried taking pics of their equipment...stuff I'd be too scared to even touch!

Yay for Oddpost!!

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Oddpost just moved to a new location and had a swanky, kick-ass reception. Iain Lamb is a co-founder and we went to high school together (3rd and 5th pic from last). I am so proud. We haven't seen each other for way too long, but since we're both in the internet business, I heard of Oddpost, and was like, "Iain, hey, I know him!"

I was excited to see him (see how dashing he is??), and the reception was super cool. The food was way more than just yummy and the wine flowed. But the best part was when the freaking Extra Action Marching Band arrived in full swing! To see these guys in a private setting was...dang, I don't have enough vocabulary. 最高 (さいこう) (saiko) (damn awesome) might barely do justice. I pranced a little with 2 escape performers on the upper level. I spied one guy in a pink Oxford shirt getting all dirty dancey right smack in the middle of the drum/trumpet/trombone/tuba/sexy girls circle. He knew where to be!

The office is a beaut. An old fire house (I think). Old bricks, high ceilings, and tastefully decorated. I snapped a few pics of the "details."

Then I got to see Ted Crossman, from my high school too (last photo, with his wife). The last time I bumped into him was on the Yamanote Line at Shibuya in Tokyo. I got to say "hi" and "bye." Nice to meet his wife, and I hope I get to catch up more.

Anyhow, I had a blast.

And, I just signed up for Oddpost!

p.s. sorry for the heavy video files. I'm loving my phone so much that I imagine using video a lot. I'm going to figure a way so you can get to kokochi without having to download the videos unless you choose to click on a link that will take you to them. Sorry!