http://mailorderbridevintage.com/home Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:26:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All photos © Dana Plonka. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Jakob Dylan at Austin Convention Center"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Jakob with Neko Case and Kelly Hogan"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Court Yard Hounds at Austin Convention Center"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Court Yard Hounds at Austin Convention Center"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Jukebox the Ghost ... http://mailorderbridevintage.com/home/?p=755 All photos © by Dana Plonka. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Ray Wylie Hubbard at Jovita's"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Mayor Hawthorne at the French Ligation Party"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Roky Erickson at La Zona Rosa"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="John Hiatt at La Zona Rosa"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Bodeans at Austin Shores"][/caption] [caption id="" ... http://mailorderbridevintage.com/home/?p=752 All photos © by Dana Plonka. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Real Estate at Red 7"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Fanfarlo at the evening SXSW showcase"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Fanfarlo melodica"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="The Unthanks at Emo's"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Billy Bragg at Prague"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Jason Collett at afternoon party"][/caption] [caption ... http://mailorderbridevintage.com/home/?p=737 The only thing that mattered for me at SXSW 2010 was Cheap Trick.  Favorite rock band of my youth, and yep, pretty much of my life.  This year is the band celebrates its 35th anniversary.  Amazingly, they'd never been to SXSW!  (As indicated by Rick Nielson, who said after the ... http://mailorderbridevintage.com/home/?p=740 Today would have been the 78th birthday of Johnny Cash.  I am sitting at my desk listening to "American V", on the verge of tears.  I cannot adequately describe what it is about Johnny and his music that moves me so deeply, so I will not try.  At the risk ... http://mailorderbridevintage.com/home/?p=721 The view from my backyard, Xmas Eve. On Christmas Eve I awoke to what sounded to be an entire forest being torn down in my backyard.  I peered out the window to find, much to my horror, that the house directly behind me being reduced to a pile of rubble. So. Where to ... http://mailorderbridevintage.com/home/?p=709 Oh my gawd, I am the laziest blogger ever.  It has been SO long that I've almost forgotten how to update the dang blog.  That is SAD, very, very sad. BUT, here I am, albeit briefly, to post some pix of my new wares for Rock n Roll Craft Show 6, ... http://mailorderbridevintage.com/home/?p=697 PJ Harvey, one of the most intriguing women on the planet. I would've attended SX anyway, of course, but when I received the email from the PJ Harvey mailing list announcing the SXSW appearance, I screamed, emailed everyone I knew who would care, and focused on my only wish for the ... http://mailorderbridevintage.com/home/?p=546 David.  Freaking.  Johansen. Closing out a seriously weird evening with The Wrens the night before allowed us to awake having shaken off any disappointment we may have had about Thursday.  We really didn't have a plan for Friday, but as always, the options were many and we quickly formulated one and ... http://mailorderbridevintage.com/home/?p=544 Redemption by fire, a la Craig Finn of The Hold Steady. It's pretty unbelievable the number of bands you can see in a single day at SX.   And then there are those days when things go completely askew and you see, like, 3 bands.  Thursday was one of those days. This was ... http://mailorderbridevintage.com/home/?p=542