{ 07.19.05 / 03:14 P EDT }

Hello. I'm at Alt Coffee, on one of their machines (yes, I prefer paying for a half hour to lugging my computer AND my guitar around all day long). They're playing The Magic City by Helium here! Oh, I forgot how much I used to listen to that album! I recommend it highly. I'll make you a copy, do you want one?

Talked to young Dibson on the phone when he called. They are in Rochester right now. The critters! I am glad they are having a good time on tour despite crappy Canadian border bullshit. They are wearing little bracelet cuffs that I made for them! One side is denim, the other side is ducks.

I am going to Tu Casa to rehearse with our temporary drummer for this Friday's show, who just happens to be Metal Ben of Population Reduction! Yes, he is out from SF this week! Ann is gonna come too. Tomorrow is full band rehearsal at Carroll Music. Which, with any luck, will become our bi-weekly (or weekly) rehearsal space soon. It's taken me long enough to figure that one out!

Later on I think I'm meeting up with John. To go to a show at Bar 169 (where our show is this Friday). I haven't seen him since he moved to Lyndhurst, NJ earlier this month. It feels weird to think we only broke up a year and a few days ago. That sounds like a short time, doesn't it?

I'm going to go now because this really is costing a fortune. What's up with that? Ten dollars an hour? In Spain it was two euros per hour. One euro at some places. It's the same way down the street at Coffee Pot. New York, you rip-off. Why can't you be more like Spain? Hey, did you see my pictures?

{ 07.18.05 / 01:54 A EDT }

Hi! I'm better! My, that was a terrible wave of sadness to the sackington. I'm better as of yesterday. Had a good day at work, ended up at Bryant Park past sunset, found a little bit of lost magic, wrote a song about squirrels. Speaking of squirrels, if you like them, go see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You certainly shouldn't see it because of Johnny Depp. Ugh. Everything else about the movie was pretty right-on. Anyway, I was talking about Bryant Park. I met up with Phoebe after her work and we went to her friend Camilla's birthday party in Fort Greene. Dashan and Neil and Busch-man were there. I crashed very late at my mom's house. The thought of transferring twice at such a late hour was unbearable.

Today Mom and I went to yoga at 12:15 after walking around the meat-packing district for a long second. We liked our teacher. Later, when I was watching the movie, I realized that the new Veruca Salt, aside from looking like the old Veruca Salt, looked very much like the yoga teacher. After yoga we went to SoHo and looked in fancy fancy shops and Ann came and met us and Mom left and Ann and I got dosas and soup at Hampton Chutney Co. Yum!

At 4:30 I got through a pouring rainstorm and into Phoebe's nice dry house. Calendar Girls! Phoebe and Abbey and I (three of the five who were present) wrote two new songs. One is July. One is unclassified. More later.

Then Phoebe and I went and saw the movie. First we went to bubble tea at Saint's Alp. I had something called Matcha Nature. Mr. Orna would be proud.

New pictures at here.

{ 07.13.05 / 04:13 P EDT }

Hi! Oh, I feel crappy! Could it be the terrible cloudy sky? Or that I'm sitting inside this awful coffee shop (the current song playing is "my girl").

One year ago the sky was cloudy too. We played a show in the garden in the Bronx that day. I think I felt about the same that day as I did this day, but I am sort of wishing it was that day instead of this day.

I added a books section to this site. Reading! I've been doing it recently. I don't think it does me any good, but there is not much else to do.

I did not talk about the day at the beach with Kate and Tim. We listened to Phoebe's "awesomer" song in the car (as well as the rest of that cd, which I actually left in the car, oops!) and we actually did have a basketful of peaches (sort of, and a cooler full of Coronas and cherries). We went in the water and found a dragon's tail (big, flat piece of seaweed). We meant to close it in the car's trunk so that the car would have a dragon's tail, but we forgot it on the beach.

I also neglected to mention that Josh is back in New York. In the space of five days following the demise of romance, he moved out, quit his job, moved back to New York and got back together with a certain high school sweetheart. Wow! I'm glad he is here again.

I am going to leave this place soon. Got a meeting in two and a half hours. I don't know what to do with myself.

I am experiencing an overwhelming feeling of having nothing to look forward to.

{ 07.11.05 / 12:04 A EDT }

Hello! I'm watching Milo and Otis with Kate and Meaghan. It's so cute! Hi!

We went to the Cheese On Bread show in Gloucester. It was a surprise. And wow, they were amazing. Newness! I feel like half their set were songs I had not heard before. The new setup is great. Instrument-switching, rag-tag wonderfulness. It's very fitting for the band. The space they played at was good (Fishtown Artspace, I'd been there before but I think they switched locations since). Lots of local high school kids. Some of them are so small! All the other bands who played (other than c.o.b and the Bloodsugars, who were also awesome, at least the ones I saw and danced to) were high school bands. Oh, it felt familiar!

Kate and Peter left early to go back to Beverly and Meaghan, Dibs and I went to get ice cream at a place called Salah's. Meaghan got a cone of Mississippi Mud and Dibs and I split a cone of Moose Tracks. Nobody got jimmies.

Meaghan and I drove back on 127 with windows down and moon roof open.

{ 07.06.05 / 09:30 A EDT }

Hey! I've been back for less than two days. But it feels like awhile. And it feels good!

July 4th! Was awesome. I got in at 1 pm to JFK, was home by 3, and got an email that Kansas State Flower was playing at 4 in Dumbo!!! I promptly left again. I ran into Casey on the train on the way. Let me tell you, when I heard them from around the corner, I squealed so hard from excitement. I can't remember the last time I was so happy. We ran around the corner and found Nan and Tina and Peggy and Catie from exit 9 and Sam and everybody and we danced and I had secret beer from a keg Nan showed me and we danced like sandwiches. Matt and Julie and Christy looked so cool playing with the Manhattan Bridge in the background and they sounded amazing and their new cd is out and it sounds amazing!!! Casey and Nan and Matt and I got a ride like sardines with Tony and Peggy back to Manhattan and went to Nan and Matt's roof with beers and Guaco Locos. Then Casey and I went to go see Me and You and Everyone We Know and that was the best movie I have ever seen. It's written and directed by Miranda July. She is my favoritest.

Love,
))<>((

{ 07.02.05 / 07:51 P spain time }

Somebody definitely left a computer running with two hours and fourteen minutes left on it here at this place (CyberTotal, the main internet cafe I like to come to). I had paid for an hour (2 euros) but now I've been on for what seems like forever.

Today I stayed inside until 6:30 pm. I needed that pretty bad. Lounging! Of course Mom and Charles went to look at even more paintings and shops. They were here a second ago, and they're coming back to get me after hitting up el supermercado.

I miss my friends! Hey! It's hard not talking to anyone my age (except jocks, en la puerta del sol anoche). I'll be back oh so pronto bastante.

Tomorrow is a flea market called El Rastro that Im looking forward to.

{ 07.01.05 / 11:40 P spain time }

Holy Toledo! We went to Toledo. We saw the famous painting by El Greco (as well as his museum), and La Catedral de Ysabel la Catolica. Ate gazpacho and paella in the Jewish part of the city (I think the restaurant was called La Juderia).

Ysabel is the same as in Isabel and Fernando, the King and Queen who sent Columbus on his merry way. And speaking of Columbus, I have discovered an internet cafe that is open until 6 AM. Madrid nunca mas ser el mismo! (Yes, I have no command over parts of speech. What is pluperfect? Past participle? Conditional?) Mierda!

{ 06.29.05 / 10:53 P spain time }

Wow, it gets dark around 10:15 here.

I'm pleased to report that I was able to purchase contact fluid (liquido para lentes contactos rigidos), take my eggplant to go (puedo tener esto para llevar?) and try on some shoes (talla cuarenta, por favor). So Im making most of it up, but it works, doesn't it? Okay, fine. I have to admit that our waiter didn't wrap up the eggplant, we had to ask the waiter who spoke English. Then again, when I asked for two more spoons for our helado chocolate, clearly holding up the spoon (dos mas?), he brought us two more dishes of ice cream. Ah, tourism! Es la vida loca!

{ 06.29.05 / 02:16 P spain time }

Hola!

Si no le dije, estoy en Madrid, en un cafe del Internet. Deja a mi mama Charles y vine aqui. Fuimos anterior al Prado a ver el Goyas. Voy despues a encontrar H&M y a tomar algunos photos para Ann. El alimento es delicioso aqui. Hace mucho calor aqui tambien. Ese es todo, yo va ahora a ir.

That's probably bad Spanish. Basically I'm in Spain on a family vacation. They're playing American hits here at this cafe. I'm meeting back up with those guys in an hour, if I can find the apartment. Across the street from our place, on La Calle de Carretas, is a store called "yoko ume"! Cute. Charles says, "How serendipitious!"

I had a dream about being here last night. Nan was in it. I better go record it before my time runs out.

love,
yoko pequeno

{ 06.23.05 / 01:24 P EDT }

Jared came down and listened to the Breeders with me and said he'd do the dishes when he got some new Dawn. He just got his Dungeons and Dragons books in the mail ($50 on eBay). Boy, is he excited!

I'm up in my room again and about to leave. You can look at the new Luv-A-Lot Records site, redesigned, making room for mp3s and PayPal and all that fancy crap. I might get annoyed at the scrolling factor and have to redesign it again, but for now I'm fine with it. Feel free to send me updated bios, photos, etc. for your page or someone else's page.

Bye!

{ 06.23.05 / 11:53 A EDT }

I'm down in the kitchen. Last night I had a dream I yelled at Jared for not doing his dishes. There's wireless down here, occasionally. I think somebody has a laptop nearby that acts as a wireless hub! Hooray!

You might know that the Breeders' first cd, Pod, is the most amazing album. That's how I know it's June. But really, you should all be hearing it right now. I doubt it would have the same effect on you. Sometimes I wish I were as affected by new music as I was when we were fifteen. It's nice to know the old stuff still works!

I made a new section over in Pictures.

{ 06.22.05 / 01:02 P EDT }

I really like it when good-looking young men flirt with old ladies and make them blush.

Sometimes I wish I was a good-looking young man so I could do just that.

There's nothing fun about flirting with old men.

I worked for 11 hours yesterday. I covered a girl's shift so she could cover mine tonight so I can go to the Dibs CD Release Party (he claims it is just a show but I know better). So today is my day off and I'm sitting and drinking an iced soy chai with two shots of espresso. Otherwise known as an iced soy Chai Charger.

It's email-catch-up time for formerly Stay-At-Work-Yoko.

Oh! I got a lovely postcard in the mail today from Jessica and Bill. I think it was from the Netherlands but I'm not sure, I left it at home. Read what they have been up to on their fancy fancy European Tour Diary.

{ 06.15.05 / 01:39 P EDT }

Happy Birthday Charles! And for yesterday, Happy Birthday Nicole! Yeah!

I am missing dinner with Mom and Charles tonight because of work, poo. But I'm going to be spending time with them at the end of the month. Oh, and Mom and I have a yoga and eyeglasses date on Saturday.

I'm putting up flyers for the Cheese On Bread fundraiser show which is in a week and two days. I made 11x17s at my favorite Kinko's. Uh huh!

Well, maybe I haven't updated because I've been feeling boring. But not bored, oh no. I've been listening to that All Audio Spanish mp3 cd that Dad made me and trying not to feel silly that after five years of Spanish in school I have retained only nouns.

Do you ever have self-degrading phrases running through your head that come out as words under your breath when you're feeling tense? For me right now it's "Fucking bullshit, you're such a bitch."

Love, love, your friend Yoko.

{ 06.19.05 / 01:18 A EDT }

Holy shit O goodness!

Carrie, of Bergman's Bear fame, has written me a belated Stay At Home Yoko theme song. It is the first project of her new 2005 calendar-project, soon to be posted on the aforementioned website. She claims to be embarrassed that it is so "lo-fi". What are you talking about? Carrie. You are amazing. I can't take it.

Listen to the song here.

Holy crap #2 (no pun intended): Go to Nicole's site and read the picture story posted there (after you have a little swoon at the other pretty pictures there). That's the best project I ever heard of.

(Nice haircut, Nicole! Good job, Heidi! Nice hat, Nell!)

{ 06.16.05 / 12:44 P EDT }

What are the chances? Neil from the band Peanut (best friend of "dan from peanut") is staying at our house. He's the boyfriend of my roommate Sabrina's friend Crissa. She met him in Scotland and now he's here in New York. His band played a show with Matt and Pantsuit while they were on tour.

He's going to like every Antifolk show happening in the next two weeks. Including ours. He even knows about some I had no idea about. The Tri-Lambs at Cake Shop? Double Deuce at Octopus? Hooray!

{ 06.10.05 / 02:?? P EDT }

HOORAY! Josh's album is up! Go listen to it!!!

I am running out the door so I cannot listen to all of it yet, but I do recommend tracks 2, 4, 7, 9... You get the point. Yay.

{ 06.08.05 / 04:11 A EDT }

Holy crap! I feel so much better today! Better than I have in days and weeks and months! What's the deal, you say? What could be causing this sudden change in spirits, Yoko?

The house even smells good. Not delicious, but odorless. And after months of smelling like cat shit and cat pee? Even the bathroom smells fine. Rumor has it that this is because a) Jared cleaned the first floor, whenceforth all previous smells had been emanating waftily, and/or b) Yoko is in such a good mood she transcends all bad smells. Even her dirty old socks and underwear seem to smell pleasant. And they wondered why Ann never seemed to notice the smell of the litter box? It was not perpetual blockage of the nasal passages, or the result of a brain too lazy to return the nose's phone calls, it was her ever-sunny disposition!

Remind us not to invite any depressed folks over for supper. And remind me to stop re-reading Tom Robbins, it's affecting the awkward writing style normally seen here.

{ 06.07.05 / 01:22 A EDT }

Tonight Phoebe and I engaged in the phenomenon known as the New York Songwriter's Circle. Casey set up the night. It felt honorable to be on that stage at the Bitter End (which looks quite different than the drawing I did of what I thought it might look like - part of a project that might become a thing). I felt a little bit out of place, like a squirmy little kid at a cocktail party. I was glad Phoebe was sitting next to me so we could make faces at each other. I was planning on playing some songs I haven't done in awhile, but chickened out after nearly fainting from terror during the first song. I did some Dream Bitches songs after that, which I think went well. I wish Ann could have been there to do it up with me. Sometimes having another person there performing with you makes all the difference between self-confidence and total epileptic-style nerve twitching. The Bitter End is a scary place to play. Anyway, my mom and Charles came, and Dibs, and that was nice. And afterwards all of us kids went out and got beers! Yum! And Casey and I split a delicious Veggie Max sub from Subway. Nicole, I'm hooked!

Speaking of Miss Thompson, Mail Club was postponed this month. If you haven't signed up yet, go do it!

{ 06.06.05 / 02:50 A EDT }

So who cares if I haven't gotten a single email in nearly two days? I engaged in the common practice of self-googlization tonight and you know what? We got a review! Read it here. It was only posted yesterday! Oh yeah, this person has one of our songs up on his blog.

The kitchen is a very good place to play guitar. It's a good room to make pasta with nutritional yeast on it for dinner, too.

Today was the birthing of Josh's new album. Casey and I accompanied him to the session at Dashan's house. We sang the chorus to a song about baseball, stolen out of a book about baseball. Don't tell the guy who wrote the book about baseball. The chorus we sang went something like this:

"Oh the happy sunny days of old,
When our feet were fleet and our hearts were bold,
There's nothing so fine in the world to behold...
As the happy hours of youth."

The album is ten tracks of pure brilliance. Some I have not even heard in full yet, as I arrived one half-hour late, and Josh had already recorded three songs. There's a song named after Little Joe, and the Kara Walker song, and Heal My Wounds, and Goldpaper Kids, oh, it's lovely.

Hey, did you know I've been on five albums so far in 2005?

{ 06.03.05 / 01:57 A EDT }

I neglected to mention that on the way back from Whole Foods I stepped on a fortune cookie, still in its wrapper. The fortune said Your dearest dream is coming true.

You can find some evidence over there in the pictures section! I did it up goood!

{ 06.02.05 / 09:04 P EDT }

Hi! We are in the new apartment! It is lovely. We hung up some needlepoints (courtesy of Rudy's Mart) and went to IKEA and picked up a table and stools for Nicole's lovely lovely deck. Today we went to the Ants Pants Cafe that she works at (and until recently Nell worked at too). Then we went to the dog park with her co-worker Mikayla who has a Doberman. And walked down to Sixth and South to a place called Gianna's that has lots of vegan treats.

On our way back up here, at Whole Foods, we ran into Sara and Kevin from Cheese On Bread! They couldn't believe I was still here (I saw them perform on Saturday at the Manhattan Room, with the Dirty Projectors). We might meet them later for some trivia event at a bar someplace, who knows? I would have wanted to picnic with them in Clark Park tomorrow and see Dan's show at the Green Line, but job prospects are calling me back to New York. I should be back by the afternoon.

Six days in Pennsylvania! It's been good! Really good. I had a green apple water ice today. We sat on Penn's Landing. The weather was perfect. We like it.

{ 05.30.05 / 09:35 P EDT }

Hi! I'm in Pennsylvania! Nicole is packing. We are moving her down to Kater Street, Philadelphia, on Wednesday. Right now we are in Quakertown. At the log cabin. Yes!

Thanks to everyone who wrote me emails regarding the last post. That was very sweet! Hi! I have nice friends.

The thrift shop here, Rudy's Mart, is the best place I've ever been. By later on tonight there may be pictures of our recent business ventures down at The Common Boar.

{ 05.27.05 / 05:23 P EDT }

Feeling a little bit not up-to-par with social interactions. I finally got Alessandra from Tomorrow's Friend back her guitar. We went to Cake Shop then. I got a coffee and cupcake. Then she left and I came to the Coffee Pot.

I probably should have brought a guitar instead of a computer, but maybe I'd be saying the opposite had I done so. I need to do some updates for people's websites. I woke up at 12:00 today, got my Mail Club together. Did some post-office stuff, met up with the girl. I feel like I'd like to write something or work on some artwork for certain things, in the park. Songwriting is eluding me as it has for the past eight months. I don't think I have as much of a command on words as I used to. My sketchbook is embarrassing, I'm eating too much food, I drink too regularly and our house is a filthy cat-smelling mess. Even my bed has cat hairs and feathers in it.

In two days it will have been one year since I moved to the Bronx. What do I have to show for that?

At least I am reading, at least I am watching movies, at least it's a pretty day outside, at least the job called me back, at least I have plans to travel, at least I have friends to plan with, at least all of these things. At least I have this website. This website has saved me many, many times. I love you, Yerka Manor.

{ 05.26.05 / 03:36 P EDT }

Happy Birthday Peter!

Oh, I am managing to organize my pictures better. I put up a lot in both sections.

I am listening to the cd of Ben's band, Population Reduction. Yes, I really am! He probably won't believe it. Oh! And Ben, if you didn't already look, you should see the picture of your hand. It looks like a scary face. If that isn't metal I don't know what is.

Before I was listening to the live Tegan and Sara cd that Casey tried to mail to me while I was in SF. It was postmarked May 10 Priority, I don't know why it didn't get there in time, but I got it back from my dad today. Yay! Also in the package was a cd of pictures we took last July 16th while drunk for free on upper Park Avenue. No sign of the dead pigeon. Again, if you want to see a dead bird, go look at the new pictures.

{ 05.24.05 / 05:02 P EDT }

Well, I totally worked on a website from 9-5. I had been putting it off for a very long time.

Maybe what I need to do is work full-time every day.

My eyes are waffles.

Maybe I will see you at the Secret Salamander / Prewar Yardsale / Kansas State Flower / Pantsuit show, at the Bar 169, tonight?

{ 05.22.05 / 11:30 A EDT }

It's always the best shows that go unrecorded. We had another good one last night. At Sidewalk! Jordan thinks we are becoming a band (as opposed to a collection of people on stage). One thing versus many things. I guess that means we're tight. I ditched the distortion pedal once again. I think I like it much better that way.

We made fruit the theme of the night. It was all based off Ann's fruit-patterned skirt that she bought in San Fran. Casey bought a pineapple-print shirt from Target for the occasion. I wore my "squeeze me!" Tropicana shirt, and Julie and Jen borrowed things from Ann. As far as our designated fruits, I am a mango, Ann's a peach (as we knew), Casey's a pineapple, Julie's a green apple. I think Jen.knee might be a plum or a black cherry or something like that.

Even Turner Cody and the waitress told every last one of us that they liked us. And some dude off the street (as in random, not homeless) bought our cd and bought me and Casey a round of drinks. What?

Our next show is not until June 24th at the Cake Shop. What a nice website they have! I am going there for the first time tonight.

{ 05.17.05 / 10:34 P EDT }

Two projects that I think are neat:

Novel: A Living Installation -- Dan sent me this link because it is like Stay At Home Yoko but better. We should go see it. Josh, maybe we should go on a Brooklyn/Queens art rampage when you are here? Basquiat and Stay-In-Room-Novelists? Come on!

Landfaring -- This one is going to be Bill and Jessica's European travel diary, starting quite soon. I can't wait to read it! Speaking of Jessica, tomorrow is that one's birthday! Yeah!

I am back in New York. It's good here, as far as I can tell. I had my two Mail Club things waiting for me! Oh, they are amazing! I took pictures of them and will possibly post them either on the Mail Club message board, or make a separate section for them here. I wish I had photographed the two I have already sent out.

I babysat Saban at the park tonight (and subsequently the hot dog place, and his house). It was a good time.

{ 05.15.05 / 07:04 P PDT }

I like taking pictures again.

{ 05.15.05 / 12:35 P PDT }

We are preparing cupcakes and sandwiches for Jade's party. It starts at two. Ann and Jared are hopefully going to catch their flight in a half hour, too bad they couldn't be here! Dad and June have hired a tea party person to come and host.

We had two really fun shows last night and the night before. Yay! Ben played drums at the one last night. It was totally awesome. We sold out of cds and ended up selling a bunch of burned copies.

Anyway, more sandwiches must be made. I've got some new pictures to post, will try and do that by tonight.

{ 05.13.05 / 02:49 P PDT }

I have not set my computer clock back. It still thinks it's in New York. I think this is okay. I look at this clock and think about how it's almost six in New York and then I get happy that it's still two-something here.

Last night I bet my friend Ben one drink that the name of the bar we were headed to was not "The Last Day Saloon". Indeed, it was not. I got a free drink but still managed to spend $35 in one night. A guy in the band who played there thought he recognized me from MySpace. I think he thought I was this girl. We went to see Darediablo! That was fun. And later I called the waitress at the Lucky Penny Diner out on being drunk. She confided to Ben, while I was in the bathroom, that I was the first person to call her out on it.

Today I slept till 7:30, woke up, wrote down a dream, then fell asleep on the couch until noon, then wrote down another dream (this one a recurring version of a dream I wrote down on April 21st!) Since then I've been reading, playing guitar rather uninspiredly, eating things listlessly, drinking coffee, and picking my nose. I'm going to take a shower and go to an art supply store in Potrero Hill, perhaps while listening to my new Darediablo and Three Ring Records CDs. We have to be in Berkeley at eight.

{ 05.12.05 / 01:27 P PDT }

You wanted pictures of the skirts? You got 'em. Yep, I like hand-sewing.

Josh, you're so funny. Ina. Pronounced Eeeeeena. Oh, I'm so glad I'm going to see you next month! I loved your entry about Whole Foods. Heeeee.

Ben is picking up Ann and Jared and Alessandra (he lives right near them, and we're going to go to his band's practice space (which is right near here). Metal drums!!! And Casey's brother's band, Darediablo, is playing tonight down the street! I am going for sure!

Amy Cataldo added me as a friend on MySpace.

{ 05.11.05 / 09:09 P PDT }

Babeling and I are sewing. I have two new skirts, altered from a smaller skirt with flower print, and some kind of curtain with a fake Care Bear print on it. Babeling took the leftover skirt material and made a tiny Jade-sized skirt, sewing it herself! She's trying to try it on now, but it isn't fitting over her pants. Silly girl.

Happy birthday Ned. Not that I've seen him since B & J's wedding, but I did think of him yesterday because of the Aisler's Set guy. He's the first person I heard of them from.

Ann, Jared, Alessandra and I wandered around the Mission this afternoon. It was really pretty, blue sky, no clouds. We went to Thrift Town, where I got the future skirts, and also two pairs of shoes. One pair are blue moccasins and the other are high-top schoolbus-orange Reeboks. The Reeboks I found right as we were getting shoo'ed (no pun intended) up to the counter to pay, by the very bored Jared and Alessandra. They struck me as awesome and very 80s. Later I pulled them out of the bag, and Dad said, "Hey! Your mom had those shoes!"

If that isn't nutty I don't know what is.

{ 05.11.05 / 11:54 A PDT }

Hiya.

We had a fun time playing at Rockin' Java last night. Our dads had never heard the song "Other People's Mothers". I almost started crying during it, I think. What a puss! But I think my dad liked it. Ann's dad seemed positively thrilled. So did Alessandra (who now goes by Ina, or Ena, among her friends). Jade wasn't paying attention, but that's okay.

My friend Ben came and brought his friends Chris and Aleah, who are married. Chris runs a record label called Three Ring Records. I feel like an asshole because they were in the bar next door, and I positively forgot to go get them when we were about to play. I'm a total moron. Chris had just given me like four free cds from his label (including one by Scrabbel, the other band of Dan Lee from the Aisler's Set!), and I'd gone to say hi at the bar before heading back to the coffee shop. And then I forgot. Whoops! At least they will be coming to our show on Saturday at the Hotel Utah, at which Ben's gonna play drums with us.

We ended up going back to Chris and Aleah's house afterwards, and we watched some hilarious Upright Citizen's Brigade video ("Little Donny") and Aleah made us fettucine with cajun shrimp sauce. Unbelievable.

Ann and Jared and Alessandra Ina might come down to this neck of the woods today. We're going to wander around 16th Street and go to that thrift store and this horror book store.

{ 05.10.05 / 11:57 A PDT }

Happy Birthday Babeling!!!

We went to her school. The kids finally know her sister who lives in New York is real. One of them, a little boy, said "She looks like a parent." Geez.

I love Babeling. We made cupcakes last night. I taught her the delicate art of licking the eggbeater (covered with frosting, no egg involved).

Talked to Ann just now. We have the open mic tonight and two shows this weekend. Oh! Some guy in Calgary ordered our cd! Said he heard it on MIT radio while in Boston. Hmmm. If MIT likes our cd, we're a happy band. Must be the Stuyvesant in us.

{ 05.09.05 / 10:35 P PDT }

Clearly, I was missing something about the Stay-At-Home Yoko website. Here is the new Manor. I wish I had some kind of archive back to what the site has looked like since its inception in December of 1997. The Wayback Machine has failed me. All I remember is blond wood paneling backgrounds (hence the name of the site. Do you like the chandelier?)

Tra la la, sis boom bah, Yerka Manor rah rah rah!

By the way, I'm in San Francisco. My sister's gonna turn six in a matter of hours.