A step by step guide to Rocktobering in San Franstacko
step one: rally the troops…
step two: gear up for a 6 hour drive…
step three: reach San Francisco, and fall in love…
step four: find your dream home, with a view…
step five: go to an island full of treasure…
step six: look up and feel that breeze
step seven: set your sights on that wheel in the sky
step eight: revel
Rocktober rolled on and I caught The Head and the Heart last thursday with my friend Erin Coffey at The Music Box. It’s a small venue with really awesome decor. I kind of want this in my house…
and a rooftop area which I really loved…
I wasn’t that familiar with the band beforehand so I started taking video as soon as I heard a song I liked. It turned out to be one of the opening bands – Lemolo, but that’s a good sign of things to come… here they are
The rest are Head and The Heart. I fell in love with the lead singer in his awesome striped jacket. Swoon.
And everyone jamming together, love when they do that…
All in all, a really great show with awesome energy and fabulous music. I have been listening to their album nonstop ever since.
Saw Beirut last night at the Greek Theater. Beirut is one of those bands that I have been listening to for years and I still have moments where, part way through a song I will think, wow, I really really love this song. LOVE.
I think Beirut is the closest thing I have to a favorite band. I am not good at picking favorite anythings. I don’t think I catch all the lyrics and I’m pretty sure I just sing gibberish a lot of the time but the music just resonates for me. If my soul had a theme song I think it would involve trumpets and ukuleles…
So- play the videos below. You don’t need to watch them. Just let them play and do other things and enjoy the tunes. I was so hypnotized that I would forget I was filming so it’s all a bit…drifty. Enjoy.
‘Goshen’ from the new album The Rip Tide
‘The Penalty’ from The Flying Club Cup (2nd album)
This was just to show what the Greek is like (amazing)
Lastly, just another color. We had great seats…first time I have ever paid more for a better section and totally worth it.
The Elle magazine daily horoscope is the creepiest thing I have seen in a while. It seems to be horrifyingly accurate so far. My daily dose of how did they know that?! 
click for yours, you know you want to
made breakfast for the roomies on saturday, one had to settle for “road bacon”
birds on a wire on the way to work, Venice blvd.
Sony studios on a rare rainy CA day
says you…
hey girl
glowing desk, mimosa, cacti, pottery from a shop on the PCH, me and dad
jack enters the jungle…godspeed little one
vogue
don’t touch those
cozy toes
lastly, for my father’s amusement…
Shot some stuff for my friend Lily today. Too many to choose from, I blame the bone structure…
What perfect timing! As I begin to write this post, a huge basket of Snookie’s Cookies and brownies and a carton of milk were just delivered. I was also sent a ridiculously amazing breakfast burrito from one of our commercial shoots. This was all in a 1 hour span.
hash browns inside…no big deal
This is the theme of the post: food. The sheer amount of food (and I mean good food) in the production business is just astonishing. I love it and I hate it.
If we weren’t in LA everyone would be 500 lbs. Thank god everyone has to follow that daily yoga ordinance.
Sadly we also waste a ton of it and if someone ever started a business where they drove from company to company collecting leftover catering and goodies we would have enough to feed a small nation in Africa…and possibly give them diabetes and heart conditions…but they’d be fed!
Hold on. I am interrupting myself to show you what is happening in our kitchen right now… This is a bit more action than usual…but LOOK:
absurd
I am used to seeing the heaps of food brought in for lunch and meetings because I sit right next to the kitchen and I always thought it was astonishing…then I went to a shoot. On set they bring around trays of goodies every hour. Then they serve amazing meals with tons of variety for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
So. Spoiled. I couldn’t handle it so I tried to take pictures of every snack brought around one day on set. I think I missed about 3 or 4 other ones but take a look below to see the decadence.
This doesn’t include the strawberry lemonade, limeade, or the pre-minted toothbrushes they hand out. I asked the man prepping these tasty treats how he plans his menu and he says he bases it on the crew and what they seem to be drawn towards. Impressive.
well, now I’m hungry and someone just said there’s chinese food…go figure.
Named this post after the album I am currently obsessed with by the band Beirut
I recommend this song for these cloudy LA mornings we have been having (and I have been loving)
Get the whole album though…and everything they have ever done.
I see them Tuesday at The Greek Theater in LA. I’ll report back after.
