Bienvenidos, 2010!

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman. Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good--death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly. Everthing is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me. I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and no longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary world, some imaginary version of perfection, but to leave it as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it. "  ~from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Name that...

Classy Austin restroom.

The DUDE & Austin

Did you know: Austin's new lounge/karaoke/bowling alley, The High
Ball, incorporated the actual wooden bowling alley that was used in
the film "The Big Lebowski." DUDE!?!!

Photos coming back from shoot...

We're getting some of the photos back from our recent shoot with Holly Bronko and they're smokin' cool.  Now SHE is the woman with the magic eye and quick finger.  More to come...

Avatar!

Just saw Avatar in 3D tonight and it's pretty amazing.  Extremely creative, beautiful cinematography, overall amazing execution.  The story hits too close to home to make you feel all warm & cozy, but there's enough redemption to keep you from running on the blade... James Cameron is the man.

Everything's in its right place

CD has been mastered and sounds completely amazing.  [Mastering is the final step in the long process of making an album.  The engineer uses fancy gear to make every track shine (EQ, compression, etc) and makes sure it will sound great start to finish on million dollar systems (we all wish we owned) and also through the crappy speakers on your alarm clock and through the weird MySpace algorithm and so on]
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The artwork has been completed by none other than Alison Willis.  Cover below.  Looks beautiful & cool.
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The manufacturer has everything they need so now we just wait a little bit and then, poof!  All the work & time & effort & love comes together at last.... I'm pretty excited about this, if you can't tell... more updates in a bit.

Amazing Iceland Forecast!!

PS#3

Rae - this isn't going to work if you're sleeping!!

PS#2

Part of the studio... oh, what to wear?!?

Bronko-nator Rawks!!

Yesterday's shoot was a massive success, thanks to the immense talent of Holly Bronko.  We ended up with the coolest shots and let's just say my previous career as a JUMP roper ended up serving us well... can't wait to share them with you all! I would absolutely also like to give a huge thanks to Shirley at W3ll People for doing a beautiful job on our make-up and to NAHA-winning stylist Shawna Parvin for making sure our hair looked awesome for every shot!  I'm posting a few more cell shots of the shoot...

Photoshoot

Hey, so we're going to do another photoshoot with Holly Bronko tomorrow. We're really excited because she's super talented and fun to work with +plus we are looking forward to having some new, updated images of the band!  I will share with you blog readers that I am unfortunately still sick with a mean virus and Rae has apparently just injured her eye. So it should be interesting (as most things are with Tribella).  In other news, the CD is set to be mastered this coming Wednesday, which is immensely exciting as well.  We've settled on a design and it's all shaping up nicely.  Stay tuned snow-goers... more news in a bit.

The Heating Pad