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December, 25 2006
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Merry Christmas
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December, 2006
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Go see The Fountain. My favorite movie of the year.
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November, 29 2006
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Tenacious D - Tweeter Center
Neil Hamburger opens.
A kick ass show. Tenacious D are electrocuted and sent to Hell. They form an awesome band featuring the Anti-Christ, Charlie Chaplin, and Colonel Sanders. For the encore they bust out Tribute and two Who covers (Pinball Wizard & Listening To You).
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October, 10 to October 13, 2006
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Dev Learn 2006
San Francisco, CA
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September, 11, 2006
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Ben
Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Festival Pier - photo by Christopher May at BenHarper.net
Ben was on fire. He played six songs from "Fight For Your Mind". I felt like the first time I saw him. The Marley brothers came out and they did "Get Up, Stand Up" together. Ben also covered "Heart of Gold" by Neil Young. Another amazing show - over 2 1/2 hours long.
Set I:
• Faded
• Wicked Man
• Homeless Child
• Gold To Me
• Steal My Kisses
• Both Sides Of The Gun
• People Lead
• Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating
• Waiting For You
• Morning Yearning
• Forgiven
• Black Rain
• Get Up, Stand Up
Encore I:
• Another Lonely Day
• Walk Away
• Lifeline
• Where Could I Go
Encore II:
• Ground On Down
• Get It Like You Like It
• By My Side
• Heart Of Gold
• Burn One Down
• Better Way
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August, 26 to September 4, 2006
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Canada Fishing Trip
I'm only posting sixteen shots this year. No fish photos due to a boating accident. No individuals were hurt.
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photos from the trip
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August 2006
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Nora at 3 months
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July 2006
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Devin Davis gives my Giant Spiders video a shout out on his website.
check it out here
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June, 12, 2006
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Eels “No Strings Attached”
This was a great show from one of my favorite bands. After the lights went up and majority of the room left, we stuck around and the Eels came back on and did a second encore. It was like having our own private show with fifty people or so. Below is a nice write up from The Inquirer. I thought “Not Ready Yet” was the highlight of the show. The wait was worth the explosion of energy as they brought all back in again.
Eels electrify at the TLA
By Steve Klinge
FOR THE INQUIRER
Early this year, Mark Oliver Everett (a.k.a. A Man Called E, a.k.a. Eels) released Eels With Strings: Live at Town Hall. It's a lovely acoustic album
that finds Everett sweetening his blackly humorous tales of mortality, clinical depression and guarded optimism with strings, xylophones and bells. And it's the complete opposite of the raucous show Eels put on for a packed crowd at the Theater of Living Arts on Monday night.
A roaring version of Peaches and Iggy Pop's "Rock Show" early in the set was a statement of intent. Although Everett shifted to keyboards now and then, most songs featured the trio of E and The Chet (Chet Lyster) on electric guitars and Knuckles (Derek Brown) on drums (in this band, everyone goes by a nickname).
Krazy Al (Alan Hunter), dressed as an imposing, impassive, bald, mutton-chopped security guard, sat in on guitar, keyboards, or bells occasionally, but his role was mostly comedic. Between songs, he declaimed non sequiturs ("That's good calamari!"); during songs, he shadowboxed and
did calisthenics; and at one point, he donned a surgical glove and high-fived audience members selected by Everett.
Aside from an interminable blues jam on "Not Ready Yet," the generous set zipped through terse, amped-up songs from throughout the Eels' decade-long catalog. "Rags to Rags" became a tom-tom-driven Southern rocker with Skynyrd-like dueling guitars; "Dirty Girl" was done as a twangy country roller, "Souljacker Pt. I" a rockabilly rave-up, and "My Beloved Monster" a double-time gospel celebration complete with a chorus of hallelujahs.
In contrast to Live at Town Hall's covers of '60s ballads from the Left Banke and Bob Dylan, Eels offered Tom Waits' "Jesus Gonna Be Here" (with The Chet on vocals), Sinatra's "That's Life," and, in a ferociously faithful rendering, Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You."
The drum-and-keyboard duo Smoosh opened the show with a charmingly naive set appropriate for a pair of 12- and 14-year-old sisters. They joined Eels for the punkish encore of "Suicide Life" and "I Like Birds," dancing with abandon and with Krazy Al as if they were bouncing around their bedroom.
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May, 9, 2006
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It's a Girl!
Nora Kathryn Hokanson
11:13 am
7 lbs, 1 oz
20 inches
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May, 3, 2006
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Thank You Stephen Colbert.
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May, 1, 2006
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Check out my t-shirt submission for the "Show Us Your Eels Art" Design Contest.
eels t-shirt
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April, 30, 2006
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The GIANT SPIDERS animation has received over 1685 views so far. I've received a lot of great feedback. Below is my favorite.
"Tremendous work, Eric. Two changes: the chick's cans need to be
bigger, and spiders don't REALLY eat cookies."
-Jim
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| February, 25, 2006
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Hamell On Trial
Tin Angel
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| February, 5, 2006
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Created first promo image for Sandoval. Marc Robert's mythic tale of desinty and revenge set in an otherworldly glacial wasteland.
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| January, 28, 2006
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Spamalot
Broadway
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January, 22, 2006
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Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!
Toy Story 2: Requiem
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January, 20, 2006
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Kent Williams and Darren Aronofsky team up to create an amazing graphic novel - The Fountain.
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