Currently listening to...

Cue taken from Holly at decor8
Here is the music I've been listening to lately:

Hang Jones
Americana band from San Francisco with a story album coming out about an outlaw in the wild west, also -- my husband's band!


Rupa and the April Fishes
Local San Francisco band, Rupa sings in french, spanish and english with beautiful lyrics in each language. She's also a doctor part of the year.


Beatbeat Whisper
Another local band, from Oakland - a brother and sister duo with really great lyrics and voices, and acoustic guitars.



Csokolom
Hungarian and Gypsy folk music


Songs for Moms
all female band from the eastb-ay that sing great harmonies in their kind of folky punky way


Reverend Gary Davis
My favorite blues/gospel man


And as always, just listening to a lot of This American Life.

Shooting in the studio

IMG_7292, originally uploaded by *Honeychild*.

I photographed my husband in the recording studio yesterday for a Santa Cruz Guitar Company ad for Acoustic Guitar Magazine. My friend Kristin is the doll that saved me and lent me her lighting set. We were in the studio all weekend mixing the new album that should be out by September/October. He's a handsome devil, if I don't say so myself.

Extraordinary Indeed

Rupa & the April Fishes by Judith Burrows 1, originally uploaded by safathemonkey.

Went to Amnesia on Valencia street sunday night for a secret Rupa and the April Fishes show. Amnesia is a tiny little bar with a tiny little stage that had to accommodate six musicians. The dance floor was packed. The air was thick with sweat. Rupa and the April Fishes played for well over an hour, with their raucous double bass-driven, trumpet-tinged, accordion-laden music. The red setting of Amnesia was perfect for Rupa's sounds. How could I have forgotten my camera!? (above photo pilfered from flickr)

what's that sound - coming out of the hole in the wood

Cool new site my friend Kristin sent me, songza has a huge library of songs that you can stream online, plus other features.
I got in touch with my young goth self listening to Current '93 on songza this morning. She said "Good Mourning" bwaahaaa haahaaa

I Want You To Dig

I'm a little bit hooked on the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds song "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" Whenever I hear it I think "Wow that really reminds me of something, what is it?" But I just realized. It reminds me of Nick Cave! He's back and I'm glad. Didn't really pay too much attention to the last couple of albums (they fell off my radar after Boatman's Call, which now that I look at their discography -- wow that came out in 1997? this life thing is going too fast) but this new album sounds re-energized. Reminds me of nights years ago spent in a certain apartment in the tenderloin with a curly redheaded girl.

San Francisco Folk Festival

Beatbeat Whisper, originally uploaded by *Honeychild*.

I spent a few hours of each day this weekend at the SF Free Folk Festival which was oddly held at the San Francisco City College. Spilling out of classrooms, hallways, stairwells, and even the cafeteria came some great sounds and fun dance classes. I especially liked Beatbeat Whisper who are going on a northwestern tour so if you're up in Oregon/Washington areas check them out. They are a brother/sister duo (or as Ayla put it "we are...of the same parents") and they play various instruments, but for the most part it was two guitars for this show. Their songs are very dreamy, and definitely conjures up feelings of nostalgia. For what, I'm not sure. Their voices sound beautiful together. I also was lucky to catch The Johnny Starlings who were up from San Luis Obispo (their music made Mayumi and I just smile and smile), Five Dollar Suit which is a more traditional bluegrass four piece that my friend Mayumi plays in, and my friend Kenny Schick who beats on his acoustic guitar to great effect. Oh also one of Mayumi's other bands (she plays in so many I can't keep track, including my husband's band Hang Jones) played on Sunday called Devine's Jug Band who play all 20's and 30's jug band songs.

I took an Algerian dance class and sat in on a Bollywood dance class as well. And all this for free! Sometimes I love city living.

Hang Jones online!

Hang Jones online!, originally uploaded by *Honeychild*.

http://www.HangJones.com

I have been working on this website with my friend Scott, who did an amazing job with the coding, for the past couple of months, at least. My brother Hernan wrote the first installment of the story which is on the Legend page, and he's also currently editing the video that he directed for the first song, Caroline.

I am my husband's biggest fan, he is extremely talented and quite a looker.

We're working on our dreams right now.

Hang Jones video shoot

Ben and his gun, originally uploaded by *Honeychild*.

We had a whirlwind trip to LA to shoot the first Hang Jones video. My brother directed and I always love watching him work. I had so many different tasks for this project; props, costumes and of course I had to take some photos to document. Had I not been completely overwhelmed with the costumes and set I would have taken a lot more photos, the place we shot was incredibly inspiring. The crew was amazing, the actors were perfect, and the setting could not have been better.

photo shoot at Betty's house

2, originally uploaded by *Honeychild*.

We did an impromptu photo shoot at a new friend's house while we were in Shasta, and while it's difficult to choose from the three settings we used (her house and her styling skills are amazing) I think this may be my favorite. Stephen's blue eyes just pop out of the colors of this image. Huge thanks and hugs to Betty and Andy for letting us run around their property in a vainglorious spree.