Bolt of Blue

My puppeh is the best. The end.

Yes. Still around. Alive and happy too.

Busy with the usual: work, family, LEGO, movies, OK Go.

To start off, my Zelda mosaic won the best large mosaic award at the recent Bricks by the Bay LEGO convention.

Fun weekend surrounded by friends and bricks. Plus it was a chance to share this whole LEGO world with the nephews. Totally worth the boring drive up the 5. Thankfully, took the lovely drive down the 101. Even with rain, it was so beautiful. Green hills, valleys, the coast… you believe the happy cows commercials.

Fun con. Looking forward to BrickCon even more now.

Friday night was magical fun.

Premiere party for OK Go’s new video at LACMA… featuring pieces of the Rube Goldberg machine from the video, a DJ set by Tim, and an acoustic set by the band (minus Dan).

Half the party was on a rooftop terrace with the lights of Los Angeles all around. The short set was lovely and included my favorite “Last Leaf” and a cover of the Pixies’ “Wave of Mutilation”.

All that and I got to find out just how big a fan of LEGO a certain lead singer truly is.

“Out of ugly, I think the most important thing in life is to make something beautiful.” -Johnny Weir

I so adore this man even more than before the Olympics started. He skated two beautiful programs last week. The judges should be ashamed for the scores they gave him. The announcers on TV around the world who made idiotic comments should be even more ashamed. But Johnny holds his head up high and stays true to himself.

You make things beautiful Johnny!

Trailer for the new Blur film “No Distance Left To Run” that chronicles the history of the band and their reunion last year. Due to be a 2 disc DVD released next month in the UK. No word on when it’ll make it over here. Disc 1 is the documentary. Disc 2 is one of their live shows at Hyde Park from last July. And the Royal Mail has just issued 10 stamps of classic album covers. Included is Blur’s cover for Parklife. Also New Order’s Power Corruption and Lies, Coldplay’s A Rush of Blood to the Head, and David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. View more details. Me want.

A little late but here goes.

Go to your Archives/Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2009. Post the first few lines of it in your journal, and that’s your “Year In Review.”

January: This video makes me cry. For all sorts of reasons, mostly happy ones.

February: It’s almost the weekend. And it’s pouring rain outside. I love the rain. Even if it makes LA drivers ridiculous and stupid.

March: The T in the Park line up this year kills me. JAMES, Keane, Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand, the Killers, BLUR… If only DD were added, then I think I’d explode.

April: Dang, this guy is catchy (and cute to boot)!

May: Ash has released their new single Return of White Rabbit online for download. It’s fun, catchy, and very infectious.

June: A peek into the world of AFOLs.

July: Duran Duran Tour ‘09 is sadly over for me… I attended two shows. One in Vegas on July 10 and the other in the OC on July 11.

August: I miss the wine in France.

September: 30 miles away, this was the view from my neighborhood Sunday afternoon.

November: Still posting photos from France. Loire Valley all done. 6 more days left and Paris will be complete.

Hope 2010 is treating you well so far!

Yay! OK Go’s new album is out today and their new awesome video for This Too Shall Pass is up. All done in a single shot with the Notre Dame marching band backing them up.

Earlier awesome video for WTF below.

You can listen to the new album on Myspace. Last Leaf is brilliant. I about died when I heard it live last spring. So achingly beautiful.

If you should be
the last autumn leaf
hanging from a tree
I’d still be here
waiting on the breeze
to bring you down to me

I love this band to pieces. Hurry up and tour the US already!