paintin' a thousand words...or two...or five...

now playing: bruce springsteen, "secret garden" (the version with all the jerry maguire dialogue in it)



ok, kiddies, it's picture day...everybody pull their chairs up close...

this is a place that mitch and i drove by a couple of weeks ago as i was making my computer-fixer rounds...it was screamin' for me to take a picture of it. :)

the sun setting in the pasture on the other side of the road.



ok, a few gretna shots:

the view from the stage, over the shoulder of dean, our amazing pedal steel player, during a break in dress rehearsal...the theatre really is like a small outdoor concert shed.

the view from the corner of the stage closest to where i am.

looking across the stage from my side, to see three of our intrepid band members, with musical director nathan perry gesturing lewdly in the background. c'mon, nate...brittany is a hottie, but you can't be quite that obvious in expressing it, ok?

ok, so these two knuckleheads are known collectively as "pinky and the kid" - and they've kept me in stitches for most of the show. it's not something you can really describe in words, you really have to observe the way they play off each other to really get it. they're both on the stage crew (which, perhaps, explains it all right there.)

this is nate "dr. evil" perry with our boss, chris valentine - whom we've all been instructed to refer to simply as "mistress". actually, that's not true...i just call her that because i enjoy it.

mistress christina with the original Trainwreck Diva herself, michelle nagy - these last few shots were taken at the Timbers in gretna at nathan's birthday afterparty last week. ahhh, the stories we could tell...



i had a great picture of nate and chris - with nate in his outfit from the show - that i wanted to post, but it was blurry as hell, and even i have some standards...but it woulda been great, because nate looked like woody from toy story in it...maybe later this week i can get that one again.