checking in

HEY! just popping in to let y'all know i'm alive and i survived horriblefest (although just barely.) i have a pretty big post to do with photos/videos of the weeekend, so i gotta get crackin on that. in the meantime, here is something to tide you over:



yes, he is playing in a dumpster. atta boy, mr. c !


i made a new treasury yesterday that i love love love. it's so pretty i can't stop looking at it! i made it on a rainy may afternoon when all i could think about was summer. it's full of carnival photography -- my fave! check it out here: the fairest of them all!

i am also honored to say i was featured in a team treasury for the photographers of etsy (POE)...it's quite a talented bunch i share a team with!
POE treasury by lillith

i will leave you with some rock'n'roll: a teaser playlist from last nite's hot trash and a blog link. there are several awesome shows coming up here in cleveland and my little wolfboy did a spotlight on each of them...visit his blog for some wanda jackson and joe buck yourself and hopefully we'll see you at the shows this week!

think pink AND horriblefest 5!

i missed my pink hair so last week i done did it again. yay!







josh and i went to a show last nite and while the headlining band left us both extremely underwhelmed, the opening bands were our friends and we had a fun time hanging with our pals. i left all the visual documentation in lacey's fully capable hands, so here are some of the photos she took! for more of life seen through this rad broad's eyes, visit her photo blog stalk my life! or marvel at her ability to make you crack a smile first thing in the morning at her written blog, all hail the cleveland a!


me and mrs. cleveland a herself!


me and mr. a!


me and my old man (teehee)


lovin on each other caught RED-HANDED


UNHAPPY ERIN!

if you don't hear from me for a while, that's because HORRIBLEFEST 5 is happening this week! wednesday through sunday will be nonstop madness, as it usually is. i never know what to expect and have since learned to just go into it with an open mind (and plenty of patience...and toilet paper). i will probably have a house full of smelly rock'n'roll dudes in various states of consciousness -- two years ago i somehow managed to fit about 15 people up here for a rock'n'roll pajama party!! i love being a part of setting up this fest, but i'm always so relieved after its over and i have a few months to relax...until planning starts again for the next year, that is. i'm sure i will have lots of stories to tell when i finally recover enough to do so! if you're in/around the cleveland area, it would be great to see you out at the fest!

here are my experiences of horriblefest from the days of old:

2005: horriblefest year one
2007: horriblefest year two
2008: horriblefest year three
2009: horriblefest year four a.k.a. romantic getaway (i guess i never returned with a proper review or photos..oops!)

awesome day junkin!

yesterday josh and i had one of the best days junkin in a long time...maybe ever! it all started at this indoor flea market. we almost left because it was so hot inside it felt like we were in THE DEPTHS OF HELL but i'm glad we stuck around because i think we were the only people there lookin for the kinda crap we dig. first we found the table with .10 cent 45s. within minutes i already had 20 of them picked out. then there was a booth with a sign that said "45s: 3/$1.00." as we looked through the pile a lady told us, "i'll give you a deal, so pick a bunch of them!" we went up to her with $8.00s worth in our hands and without even looking at them she asked us, "how bout $2.00?" aw, hell. i even threw her an extra buck and gave her THREE.

what could possibly be better than .10 cent records you ask? well, FREE records! we hit up some new junk stores and found one with boxes of dusty records sitting in a dark corner. we picked a bunch of 45s out and asked the shop owner how much they were. "a buck apiece," he told us. same price as the LPS. i hate that. 2 songs obviously shouldn't be the same price as a full album. so i narrowed it down to 5 that i wanted and josh picked out three. when we went up to the register and josh tried to pay his $3, the guy said he had absolutely no change at all (??) and that it was our lucky day cuz we could just take them. shucks. if i would have known that, i wouldn't have put a bunch back!



still, i ended up with over 30 45s yesterday and i barely spend over $2 to get 'em. i love when you have those kinds of days. most of it is soul stuff and quite a bit was things that i took a chance on hoping it was cool AND IT WAS. it made my day.

at the indoor flea market i also found a book about the rolling stones, several bitchin LPS for a buck apiece, a cute vintage sugar/creamer set with squirrels on it, and a framed photo of the monkees!! i was one happy girl.











josh and i found a terrible goodwill where used tshirts were all $5 and a smurfs record was marked $7. just when we were about to split i found this rock'n'roll trivia board game that was still brand new, and josh found THIS AWESOME PORTABLE RECORD PLAYER! i sort of loved him into giving it to me. it doesn't work but maybe we'll get it fixed some day. until then it can just look cool with the rest of my collection. best part is that it was only $6, which i didn't see coming after the ridiculous prices throughout the rest of the store.









at another thrift store i found some cheeseburger salt and pepper shakers and another tiki mug to add to my collection.





i wasn't the only one to luck out. josh got lots of records as well, plus this great pumpkin mask...BOO!



and what was perhaps the neatest score of the day was this 50s/60s lettermans jacket josh got FOR FIVE MEASLEY BUCKS! it is for south high school in willoughby, ohio (not to be confused with south high school that my mom went to in cleveland, ohio) and it had a "bob" nametag on the front. bob himself sold it to us and promised that it was a warm coat for the winter, ha. at first it looked sorta wimpy because of the baby blue/pink color scheme, but the fact that it says "SOUTH REBELS" on the back pretty much cancels that out. what a neat piece of history. :D







i also finally got a basket for my bike and i can't wait to put it on and go riding. now i can throw my little transistor radio in the basket and josh and i can ride around listening to oldies and singing some frankie valli and the four seasons or whatever.

attack of the sleeptalker pt. 7

josh struck again last nite.


#7
josh: 25 TOCKET! 25 TOCKET! 25 TOCKET! 25 TOCKET!
me: 25 pocket?
josh: TOCKET!
me: what's a tocket?!
josh: cuz what it IS, is...you can't order them like that, they come in a pocket. it's weird...
(he trailed off and fell back to sleep)

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#6
josh: anything on the menu is $5.
me: what?
josh: she can pick anything on the menu and its just $5.
me: what menu?
josh (props himself up on his elbows and motions to his pillow in front of him): this menu here.
me: that's not a menu, that's your pillow.
josh: don't be dumb, just listen to what i say! (rolls over and falls back to sleep)
*when josh rolled over 5 minutes later i asked him if he was awake and he said yes. this time i asked what he was dreaming about, and he laughed and told me mcdonalds*


#5
me: josh, stop grinding your teeth.
josh: i'm still chewing on food!
me: no you're not.
josh (angrily): YES I AM!
me: no, you're not. you're sleeping.
(josh opens his eyes and looks confused, then lays back down and falls asleep)


#4
josh (rolls over): "PIE!" (rolls back over and goes to sleep)
*note: josh doesn't even like pie*



#3
josh (rolls over): i can't tell what's dead and what's not!
me: josh, why are you saying such creepy things to me?
josh (gets an angry look on his face): i'm talking about the damn things!
me: what damn things?
josh: the newspapers!
me: what newspapers?
josh: ohhhhhhh, you know, damn it!
(rolls back over)


#2
josh (rolls over): are you guys gonna put ed on the show?
me: did you just ask 'are you gonna put ed on the show?'
josh: yeah, that'd be sweet.
me: ed who?
josh: A VIKING!
(rolls back over)


#1
josh (rolls over): DOG LIFE!
me: what?!
josh: dog years.
me: what are you talking about?
josh: it means unlimited.
me: WHAT means unlimited?
josh: you don't know how to count good! (rolls back over)

i hope he stands by ME!

happy thursday, y'all. here is a teaser playlist from this week's hot trash. it's a shame that out of the 40-some songs i played i can only find about ten of them on this website, but oh well. that gives you all the more reason to tune in and see what you're missing!

i have some pretty silly/awesome news. next month on sunday, may 23 i will be dj'ing a show with COREY FELDMAN. haha yes, THAT corey feldman and his band "the truth movement." i'll be on the same bill as teddy from "stand by me!" and mouth from "the goonies!" and edgar frog from "the lost boys!" hahaha. some of my favorite movies EVER. how fun.







my cousin beth and i will be playing records before/after/between bands. our friend the tony meda project is opening the show. we haven't hung out with him in years and it's been even longer since we saw him perform, so i'm pretty stoked for that as well. the first time we saw him play was actually with corey feldman several years ago. we laughed sooo hard at his set. later he came up to us and made friends and the rest is history.



do you think i can endear myself to corey by playing some jackson five??? when we saw him a few years ago we got our pictures taken with him after the show. he told us to tell everyone we stayed out all night partying with him. maybe this time we will. heh.

inside hotel hot trash: big-eyed art

i'm a sucker for big-eyed art. some people (sorry, josh!) think they are creepy but i find them pitifully endearing. i'm kinda picky about the ones i like to collect. sorry for the crappy pictures today. most of the prints are hanging in places where there isn't a lot of natural light.

my absolute favorite are the GIG pity puppies and pity kitties, and i have several hanging/sitting above doorways in the pinball room. quite a few of them still need cool old frames and i'm always on the hunt for tacky plastic thrift store frames.

















i have a few GIG-inspired figurines. my favorite is the kitten.





i even have a rug!



the only big-eyed people i really like collecting are the mod kids. usually they are wearing awesome 60s outfits and dancing. mine are by LEE and EVE.









i also like these two little boys because the one on the right reminded me of a beatle and the one on the left has a cute little kitten by his feet! they are by OZZ FRANCA.





stuff like this used to be fairly easy to come across in thrift stores and garage sales but they are becoming increasingly hard to find. if anyone has one that isn't in my collection yet, i am open to trades and good deals :D