Austin ModHouse

nice sunset from the screen room last night.  ran up to the master balcony and got the pic below.

hair pin legs on MHM sleeper sofa.  the fit is perfect.

it's been a while since I posted on the austin mod house soundtrack.

the latest morning musical selection has been SHE & HIM.  it's a collaboration between M.Ward and Zooey Deschanel.  she is also an actress and did a fantastic job of portraying a meth user who likes to slam her hand in drawers in WINTER PASSING (also featured will ferrell)

anyhow, their song WHY DO YOU LET ME STAY HERE has an infectious nancy sinatra meets patsy cline vibe to it.  it reminds kat of karen carpenter.

the soundtrack to restoring MHM has been dominated artists that have long playlists on my ipod; ELLIOTT SMITH, SWELL and TEENAGE FANCLUB 

other notable additions to the AMH musical collection include the latest efforts by Jonathan Richman (I couldn't find any clips from his new album so I linked an old modern lovers song here, shows a vintage airstream in the first seconds so I felt it was almost on topic)

funny, over at austin treehouse ole dad always says, "it's the something about mary guy".  I think of that movie as "the one with jonathan richman in it"

with great surprise I found the silver jews do have their new song posted to youtube... well, song but no video, actually it looks like somebody has uploaded the entire album, here is party barge (reminds me of my friend big john).  and because you can find anything you never even thought of on youtube, here is somebody doing a belly dance to RANDOM RULES by Silver Jews.  HOLY SMOKES!  I just checked their website and they are gonna be here in austin!  as much as the sound at emo's sucks, I will be there (sept 19th).  you coming?  I've been waiting YEARS for a chance to see them.

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waiting for the smev to arrive before applying formica to coutner surface.

kat priming and sealing the inside of the box that will house the trash can.

I removed the furnace to loose weight and gain storage.  we can use an electric ceramic heater if we find ourselves camping in lower temps.

fun with remmons

that was enough of the real world, back to animal crossing.

they have cheap pitchers of live oak hefe weizen at opal divine's

we spent saturday evening with friends at bay6 gallery

this piece by our friend sharon kyle kuhn is now part of the austin modhouse permanent collection.  we loaned it for exhibition during the texas kaos netroots national convention after party  

more self portraiture.  we also ducked down to big medium where they were having a photography exhibit.

our friend kevin giving the seqway a test drive

friday afternoon we had a swim/paddle/picnic just down the street from austin modhouse at red bud island with the austintreehouse crew.  I let the kids have as many twinkies, ding dongs and orange sodas as they wanted.  it's a red bud island exemption thing.

practicing...

that red ear should have been a warning sign.   shortly after, kat decided to paddle against the flow.  I didn't think it was a good idea.  one thing I keep learning about this attorney/wife deal, it's never good for me I am proven right when there is a disagreement. 

the same rule applies to all women in some degree.  I was recently whacked by another member of the fairer sex while attending a party over at austintreehouse.  somebody did some quick fact checking with one of those handy internet phones and proved me correct about who performed just can't get enough.  she was very certain it was erasure, I was pretty sure it was depche mode... I got whacked.  there is no victory in being right.  that is just a kernel of wisdom I'm passing along to you younger dudes out there. 

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I reused half the original cabinetry.  the new section is half inch cabinet grade birch plywood with bright white formica.  maybe you think white cabinets are a bit 80's?  I think not.  the interior walls are a bit dark and I want the entry and kitchen to contrast brightly.  the cabinet door will be a walnut or bamboo veneer.  the hole near the top will have a swing door for the insertion of the basura (trash).

trimmed around the VCT at the entry.

my inspiration was heavily influenced by mobi

we saw it on ebay with a bid of 175k, reserve not met.  more pics at moco loco

I was also partly influenced by the korova milk bar.  stanley kubrick always had fantastic images in his movies and the way he mixed film with classical music puts anything seen on mtv to shame (not that mtv has music on it anymore). 

I found a great youtube clip of the milk bar scene.  may not be safe for kids or work, but if you like classical music and/or synthetic drug laced milk being dispensed from bright white erotic mannequins... it might be your cup of tea.  I wanna go.  click here

too bad we don't have room for one of those milky mannequins in the modhouse mobile. 

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we don't have plans to add a fourth bedroom (would really be a fifth, the media room is a bedroom on paper and we do use it as a guest room) .  so the boys will have to share a room.  we had bunk beds in the garage so we hauled them up and assembled them one last time.

number one son was happy that he is now old enough to sleep on the top bunk.  bottom bunk will likely be empty for a few more months.

notice the red rings around the middle fingers.  he had been extremely fussy for two days/nights.  we were not sleeping and he required full attention all day.  kat noticed his fingers became swollen.  she then noticed a human hair tightly wrapped around his two middle fingers.  the lines are still there after almost a week since she liberated his fingers.  soon as she cut it away, he returned to his happy self.

we have created an austinmodhouse ebay ID to sell our line of glass tile. 

kat and I got out on friday night.  saw peter murphy at emo's.  the sound there is awful and the peter murphy didn't come on till 11pm.  it was peter's birthday and he turned 51.  if he can play that late we can stay up to watch.  we were treated to him doing a mix of strange kind of love with bela lugosi's dead  (funny that I just stumbled on that last link.  whoever recorded that must have been standing a few feet from me.  all my pics have the same head/bald spot in them)

it was great fun to see all those that came out in their old and new goth attire.  anybody going to emo's should note that they only take cash (no plastic).  I could not find that bit of info on their website and it got a bit sticky when I found my atm card had expired. luck for us we had plenty of time to solve that puzzle before 11 pm. 

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