The Unforgettable Fire

So the youtube won't let me embed this video, but I want you to go watch it now. I'll wait. Did you love it? There is no bad mood that the Great Mullet Bono can not destroy. What a perfect example of 80's video art this is. The slo-mo, the night in the city scenes, the dramatic facial expressions, the randomly placed televisions, the walking through the snow. Beautiful. 

Well, of course I missed doing an actual New Year's (or for that matter a Christmas) post, but I'll try to catch up. 2010 started with a literal bang, as we blew up the leftover fireworks from the 4th of July! It's always fun to blow shit up. 

Christmas itself was extremely low key. Sweet JS made a delicious dinner and we went bowling with my sister. Kaitlin was up in the NW with my mom. 

The weekend before Christmas was the highlight of the holiday season because I finally attended the long anticipated Starkparty! As usual, my photos don't begin to illustrate the level of fun, but you can check them out anyway. Remember the Thanksgiving fire? (I'm sure you do, since 90% of my readership was there!) Santa made sure there would be no repeat, bringing Aileene a special "okra fire only" extinguisher. Phew!
In knitting news, I'm working on these cupcake mittens. Aren't they the cutest thing since Lee Chat? On the drive to Starkparty weekend, I picked up stitches for the button band on the hoodie thing, but of course I ignored the directions and picked up too many, making it all ruffly and bad. So I ripped it out (!) and started over. Yuck. But don't worry, I finished it again on our New Year's Day trip to Gruene. I just have to put the buttons (back) on. Conveniently it's still FREEZING, so I may actually wear the stupid thing after all. 

In entertainment news, we saw the fox movie and I loved it even more the second time. We also saw Sherlock Holmes which was pretty entertaining, and District 9 (on dvd) which was much better than I thought it would be. 

I'm sure I'm forgetting to write about a ton of fun stuff that happened between December 11 and today-oh yeah, like going to the Texas History Museum's exhibit of quilts! Quilting is by far the most badass of all crafts. Especially the kind they had on display, stitched by hand! Very very cool. But, this post has already taken me way longer than it should have so I'll just end by saying thank you to everyone for the Christmas cards and gifts, and Happy New Year Y'all!! And yes, I am posting this (y'all know me). I was going to put up the regular video for this song, but it is awful. (Especially when compared to the genius that is The Unforgettable Fire) So we'll settle for the first national television appearance. Hey whatever happened to this Craig Kilborn guy? Remember when he used to host The Daily Show? (yes he did! remember that for trivia night...)