Going Crazy - Know the Way?

But not too badly. Just another sinus infection. Explains why I've been so run down lately.

Other than the fact that they were both raised in Texas, actor Jackson Rathbone doesn't have much in common with Jasper Hale, his character in the Twilight saga.

Jasper, born in 1843 and immortalized at the age of 20, is blonde and pasty, with a quiet, reserved personality and an over-sensitivity to people's emotions. Rathbone, on the other hand, is a vibrant and friendly 24-year old with a mop of dark hair and a tendency to speak about a mile a minute.

While Jasper is most concerned with curbing his lust for human blood, Rathbone is all about exploring his lust for life by pursuing a dizzying amount of creative activities.

While teens, suburban moms, vampire lovers and closet fans in just about every other demographic are over-the-top excited about Rathbone's appearance the new Twilight movie, New Moon, the actor himself is most enthusiastic about another project all together.

While acting pays his bills, Rathbone clearly wants to talk about his band, 100 Monkeys. A blues/funk/rock 'n' roll combo comprised of Rathbone and some old pre-fame friends, the band are about to release a new album called Grape. Rathbone audibly lights up when asked about 100 Monkeys, but unconvincingly denies being more into his music than his acting.

"People say that [I'm more excited about music than acting], but I just feel like I have more control over music than I do over, say, playing Jasper in the Twilight series," Rathbone said late this summer from the set of the third Twilight movie, Eclipse. "Because I get to write the words that I sing. As opposed to as an actor, I wear what people want me to wear, I stand where they want me to stand, I say what they want me to say.

"That's great — I love being an actor and I've been studying to be an actor since I was about 14 years old. But music balances it out. I can't have one without the other."

Music provides something else for young Mr. Rathbone: a reality check. With the huge amount of attention directed towards the New Moon stars (though, he at least has to worry about the spotlight less than Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson), it would be easy for a young actor to develop an ego worthy of a sparkly vampire.

Since Rathbone spends his free time riding around the country in a van with an indie rock band that includes members who have known him since high school, though, he doesn't have much opportunity to morph into Mr. Movie Star.

"We don't have a cushy life," Rathbone says. "We're not playing arenas and selling them out yet. We play dirty dive bars and love it. Whenever we're on the road we sleep in two motel room and take turns sleeping on the floors. It's not all glamourous and it's great. If it were all glamour, it'd be boring."

100 Monkeys' next performance is Nov. 15 in Los Angeles at The Viper Room.

New Moon, the next installment in the Twilight movie franchise, comes out Nov. 20.

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well, there goes my dream of them just cuddling together.

Quatrain by Sharon Shinn

I started out this morning by dropping a glass jar of sugar scrub (made for me by a friend) in the shower. It shattered all over. Glass shards are very difficult to clean up off wet beige tiles, especially when they're scattered through chunks of beige sugar scrub that feels crystalline on your fingertips before it melts. Especially especially when you're half-showered, not wearing your contact lenses, and listening to a toddler at the shower door saying "I help! I help clean up!" Also, the bathroom and much of the second floor now smell REALLY STRONGLY like BPTP's Luxuria and brown sugar.

Next I went to handle the sprout's gym class registration for next semester. I left my debit card at the gym.

We stopped for muffins after the gym. I pulled out with my coffee safely stowed in a cupholder, but the sprout's open carton of juice (totally forgotten by me after I got in the car) resting precariously on the passenger seat. It spilled all over the seat, some paperwork, the charging cable for my cellphone, and -- la pièce de résistance! -- my GPS.

I discovered when we got home that I'd left the baby's sippy cup of milk out on the counter, and it had gone off. When I went to put the cup in the dishwasher, I found a glass had broken in there.

...and now we're back to the broken glass again, whee!

First off, in Russian for artisticphoenix: S dniom razhdjenia, Mom!

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Secondly, a brief view of the two sides of Becczilla:

1. "Sometimes, very rarely, I make two sandwiches for myself."
Yes, I'm pleased that all of my children have had decent, "real" vocabularies from early ages - this is a quote from a six-year-old who knows how to correctly use the phrase "very rarely".

2. B, singing: "I'm smackin' my tushie.... I'm smackin' my tushie..."
Me: "But... why?"
B: "I just wanted to. I'm just smackin' it."

This is a six-year-old. Matter-of-fact, but child-like. I'm strangely pleased by that.

-ir out.

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Not signed up for feast yet for Tournament of the Lily? Signed up but want to be part of some fun schtick? Jeff is looking for some servers for a period high table service based out of the Boke of Keryunge, a 15th century carver's manual.

In period, the lord's table service was frequently provided by young men or older boys of similar or somewhat lower rank, placed in the household to learn lordly stuff.

Preferably, we need young, well-dressed men (oh, darn!), but older, well-dressed men, or older not-so well dressed men, or older not-so-well dressed women will do. :-D Please, if you're interested, comment or PM me. We also have a couple of extra men's 15th century gowns (Jeff's) that we can put on people over pretty much whatever clothes you have.

You will be trained that day, and you don't actually have to say anything. :-)

ETA: Servers will eat, no charge. :-D

I am inspired by the lovely garments many of you have made.  I've got 5 kids, so I'm often running full speed to get ready for Lilies each summer.  But I have a source of recycled garments (like goodwill) where I can get them FREE.  So I browse thru, looking for the natural fibers.  I've gotten fairly good a figuring out how to reuse the garments into decent garb for my kids, and occasionally, my hubby or self.

I just tried uploading a bunch of photos of kids garb.  Some are recently made, and will also count for my stash challenge 50.

You are welcome to take a look.

I didn't post a photo of my one son's pants, but they were just a wool pair of pants that shrunk quite a lot when washed, and fit him quite well.  He uses a cord thru the belt loops to cinch it up tight.

We thought we would share some photos with you from our swag bag and raffle basket making day on Sunday. A big thank you to all of our wonderful friends for coming along to help!!



Getting the swag bags ready with our wonderful friends



 OME - look at all of the donated raffle items



Stuffing the swag bags



Lee and Holly deciding what goes where!


 
The finished products - amazing



One of the raffle baskets

For those who care - the Society for Creative Anachronism is a HOBBY, RECREATION, AND/OR GAME.  Everyone will enjoy it to their level...and should not fault the method/means of enjoyment of others for having any effect on their own.  Anyone taking the SCA too seriously, or implying that the fun of others in the game is interfering with their own should seek immediate psychiatric help.

Don't we all participate in this organization for the fun of it?

Thank you.

Rowan woke with more of the coughing she's had since last week (when she had a flu-like illness). And complaining that she felt like she was going to throw up.

Now I'm kicking myself for not bringing home the laptop from work. *sigh* I'm annoyed at myself.

My Jeanne de Laval hood + pointy hat = a perfectly good hennin and lappet set that stays put on my head.

Of course, I'm going to make another hood with the necessary adjustments to make it look more like this, but that takes a half hour. Really.

I really should do a better than buckram, wire, and some thin pieces of wood kludge version of a hennin, but it'll have to do.

Hi all! I've watched this community for awhile now and have finally worked up the courage to share my project.

I'm doing a teens gown for the Victorian Grand Ball on the 28th. It's going to be made out of white dupioni and the embroidery panels scrounged from an old mandarin jacket I've never had occaision to wear. the first part of the diary is up on my lj :

http://bhudda-chic.livejournal.com/3718.html

thanks  for letting me post!
Emma

Just when you think they're going to soon embark on their 100 City Tour, they have a show in LA!
seriously when is that tour starting?
This was posted on The Jungle by WoodenDance;

Viper Room sent an email out.
"What do vampires and monkeys have in common? JACKSON RATHBONE!
The star of the hit movie Twilight and upcoming sequel New Moon, and his band 100 Monkeys, will be playing a very special show in Los Angeles for fans flying in from across the globe for the film's premiere.
The Viper Room loves it when bands do something special for their fans; especially bands that rock!
The show starts at 4:00pm, so don't be late. Get your tickets now -- 100 Monkeys at the Viper Room always sells out.
See you at the Viper, Vampires."

You can order tickets HERE
~vampires.

Also, if you're not a member of the dailyrathbone community, I think you should be - they posted up some pics from NewCon. So go look and maybe drool a little, maybe even laugh at the fact that Jacksons hat is bigger than him and dream about how AMAZING Ben Johnsons moustache is.