KBBBLOG MIX SEVEN
Back at Starbucks, I spelled Asheville wrong, I want my MTV, and the most perfect Mickey T-shirt.
I am sitting outside of Starbucks in Fairview, Oregon typing this. Hank is at Grandma Sherry’s for the next 90 minutes. So far I have made a to-do list, responded to some texts, eaten a ham and swiss croissant and 1/2 of a nitro cold brew, written a few emails, started a meeting agenda and now I am just listing these things out in my weekly newsletter in an attempt to feel good about my productivity. It’s not working!
I am also listening to this week’s mix and I am sorry for including this very catchy 1972 song “The End is Not Near” by Benny Hester that caught my ear when I was watching/working to an episode of Girls (I know). So I shazamed it and then ended up going down the Benny Hester rabbit hole that involves a lost album, Elvis Presley’s Taking Care of Business Band (TCB), the absolutely cringe early 90’s Nickelodeon show Roundhouse, and then an eventual domination of the Christian rock charts. It’s a ride. The song on this mix is before he caught the spirit, in case you were wondering. What a life, Benny. Congrats to you.
The Wilco X Sleater-Kinney “It’s Time” tour kicked off this week and I got a sneak peek of the shirt that I designed for them which was posted on Wilco’s instagram page. VERY QUICKLY, a fan noticed that Asheville was spelled wrong on the back (I suspect that this fan was from Asheville) so I spent the next few hours feeling very sweaty about the mistake that many, many people missed, but of course I blamed myself fully and then spent the rest of the day telling myself that “I just draw letters, I don’t spell words”. Fortunately I was able to send a corrected version of the artwork and the fans of Asheville will be able to purchase a shirt with both of the E’s . WHEW!
Yesterday I purchased tickets to the first movie theater experience since Covid started and it’s to a celebrate the 40th anniversary of MTV premiering in August of 1981. So basically I am paying money to watch old music videos on Youtube in a theater setting, but I am totally okay with this. This lead me to finding some early MTV promos and it also lead me to finding supercuts introducing the new fall TV lineups from 1984, 1986 and well…a LOT of years. I will save my story of how I used to like to create fantasy fall tv show lineups when I was younger for another newsletter.
I also saw my first concert since Covid began this weekend. And had my first whiskey ginger pre-show drink since Covid. My sister in-law Casey came down from Seattle and we went and saw the tUnE-yArDs at Wonder Ballroom (it was the venue’s first show back as well). Tickets were purchased during that one week earlier this summer when we all felt like Covid might be finally over. I miss that day. The show was great. Everyone was wearing masks and Merrill Garbus was a wild, eloquent, delightful, and thoughtful guide for the weird night of remembering how to go see live music.
This weekend Hank and I went to the Summer Show at A Sometime’s Gallery which is run by curator Amy Rowan here in Portland. The show was bright, fun and filled with summer vibes and expertly organized. I made a painting of my Mickey shirt that was purchased earlier in the spring and I think I want to make more paintings? I really enjoyed getting out of my sketchbook. This image was first a painting in my sketchbook, but Amy requested it to be bigger and on wood, and I sure do love good direction, because I really like how this turned out. I think I am going to make more paintings! Also, Hank stole a beach ball.
Speaking of Hank, he no longer likes it when I sing and requests that “ I STOP IT RIGHT NOW”. Love that he speaks in full sentences now, but I wasn’t anticipating that he would immediately be requesting that I shut up. One song that he really doesn’t want me to sing is the The Clapping Song by Shirley Ellis that I included on this week’s mix. Hank, you are gonna have to get over it, because I am not going to stop singing in the car.
Also, you all shouldn’t stop singing in the car either.
Have a good week all!
KBB