Austin ModHouse

we've been having a lot of rain.  it's very much needed and appreciated.  it's not been so great for the green roof, have roofer coming later this week.  these freaky mushrooms have popped up over night in the horse tail bog across the front of the house.

the freaky alien cactus flowers are back as well.

glass tile sales have been failry steady so we are happy about that.

I hope to get some of the funkier tiles listed on ebay early next month.

school starts tomorrow.

he has been flip-flopping on which instrument he wants to pursue, drums or guitar.  finally he concluded, "I already know how to play guitar, so I don't need lessons"  he was talking about his little rockers camp.  so he's ready to enroll in drum lessons.

she is getting better every week!

this weeks installment of silver jews lyrics:

O Dallas you shine with an evil light
How did you turn a billion steers
into buildings made of mirrors,
and why am I drawn to you tonight?

Once you taste the geometry of a church in a cul-de-sac
you're gonna want to sit with the bad kids in the back

YES, I am going to stay excited about seeing the jews next month. 

I'm on an email list from fans of the now defunct band Luna.  somebody on that list posted this really clever site that searches your itunes library and then sends you email alerts when bands in your collection are going to be performing at a local venue.  I was interested right away since we missed the flaming lips, ministry and sigur ros this year.  mainly because we had no idea they were playing.

it works!  I got an update that jonathan richman will be playing here in october!  that is that guy from something about mary to you folks over at austintreehouse.com

I found a video of iggy pop covering a jonathan richman song

even the sex pistols did a jonathan richman song even though johnny rotten forgot the lyrics when performed live

it turns out that many bands have covered roadrunner and rolling stone listed it #269 of the top 500 songs of all time (if your into those sort of lists)

and galaxie 500 covered don't let our youth go to waste

media room update:  took the ps3 back to best buy where it worked perfectly.  came home and got the optoma projector and took it all back to best buy (after verifying once again something was not working).  got it all to best buy where it all worked perfectly.  brought it all home and we started upstairs where it worked perfectly.  we set it all up in four locations until we finally made it back to the media room where it worked perfectly....  I now have it all fed through a power strip w/ emi filtration and also ran an extension cord through the ceiling so the ps3 and projector are on the same circuit; just in case there was some weird grounding issue etc.  so far, it's been working fine.