WALL•E on Sunset, originally uploaded by katerw.

An on vacation WALL•E crew member sent me this via SMS last night…

For more of my favorite little robot, check out “A Hero’s Journey” featured this week on Yahoo! For about a minute and a half Andrew introduces WALL•E and his adventure.

A few songs in, friends of mine shouted for “James Dean” and a slightly sick Ty obliged. She explained that she wasn’t going to do it tonight because of her cold, but since they had asked… I asked if that meant they would sing me Father Figure and Ty responded with: “Don’t push your luck.” It was worth a try.

The set was short, due to Museum curfew, but stellar. I’ve seen them over the years in lots of different venues and this was by far one of the best shows. About half way through the set Nate started talking about the election and said that the band wrote songs for each of the remaining presidential candidates. I was really trying to resist the urge to record some of the performances, but I just couldn’t pass up the chance to grab this little electoral ditty.

After the show, a bunch of us were milling about the “stage” and I realized that this was my best chance of fulfilling my fan boy dream of getting a set list. I asked Doris if I could take one and she told me to take them both… one for me and one for Paige, which I got signed for her as a late-birthday present/souvenir of the evening.

Thank you to Jean Schultz and Paige for an amazing party… and Doris, Ty and Nate for continuing to be my favorite band.

UPDATE: My version of Paige and Girlyman came out all blurry… I was trying to act cool instead of just shooting a decent, well-lit shot… but check out Paige’s blog for their “post-show rocker shot“

The fanboy in me can, from time to time, completely geek out about bands… For a decade or so I was a total Indigo Girls geek. (Still am…) But the last few years I’ve been spreading the gospel of Girlyman. (Which, came by way of IG when I saw Nate, Ty and Doris open for Amy & Emily. Incidently, that show is captured in Wordplay.)

So needless to say, I’m pretty excited about seeing the band in a teeny venue with less than 300 people. In an effort to catch some friends up before the show I did some digging on YouTube. Finding badly recorded concert videos online is the more modern day version of all the bootleg tape trading I did in high school. Apologies to my family to making them suffer through endless hours of raspy concert recordings.

So for those of you who have never seen Girlyman live, I offer three clips.

a. Young James Dean, not horribly recorded, with a wee bit of banter.

b. Son of a Preacher Man, preceded by their benediction, not perfect, but fun.

c. and finally, this was completely new to me, the girlygrass cover of Father Figure. If I get any requests tomorrow night, this is going to be it.

Tonight, doing some post-Maker Faire internet stumbling landed me on the Extreme Craft blog, which focuses on that blurry line between art and craft. (Reminds me of the YKnit podcast I listened to the other day where they were debating whether or not knitting is art or craft.) Anyhow, I have to share this amazing video I found on EC which pretty much speaks for itself.

So of course, when they hire a new executive, rather than just put out a press release, the good new media-saavy folks at Etsy introduce their COO Maria Thomas with a video profile. Come to find out she’s one of the people responsible for NPR’s ridiculously awesome digital content.

a nod to acarvin for the tipoff…

birthday breakfast, originally uploaded by katerw.

Does it get any better than this?

Breakfast in bed. Birthday presents. It is going to be a great day.

WALL.E Muni, originally uploaded by Chris Pederick.

…i’m posting on my blog again.
…i picked up my knitting needles.
…i feel a whole lot less stressed.
…last night, while walking home I saw WALL•E on the J.

UPDATE: Here’s the full ad on a Muni street car, thanks to  jjohnsen.