GO ON A DATE W/DJ NEW MOON PONCHO THIS MONTH!!

nerds, above.
N E W M O ON PON C H O LUVS U AND ONLY WANTS TO MAKE U DANSE

OMGOMOMGOMGOMG!!!
soo.. we are DJing at holocene THREE times this month!!
and
we
LOvE
it!
ok,so come hang out with us on these dates:

FRIDAY, MAY 7: Holocene sez: "Please join us from 5-8pm for our weekly Aperitivo Happy Hour, which--in European style- -features an impressive array of free appetizers straight from the Holocene kitchen (while they last). This week features feel-good disco and dance jams provided by DJ New Moon Poncho, aka Emily of Sword & Fern and Kerby of Lovers!" 5-8 pm, FREE! bring a special date! Last time we went when Genevieve of Linger+Quiet was spinning and we had a superromantic time! WEDNESDAY, MAY 12: Jacob Thor Andersons' BIRTHDAY PARTY! Holocene, with: Copy Dirty Mittens (yes! finally a date with our Chelsea!!) White Fang Plus secret special guests! doors 8;30, $5 Wednesday, MAY 19: MEGAN HOLMES'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION !!!! (we heart her, we write songs about her, we are her spirit animal!) Holocene, with: Nice Nice Asss Romancing Golden Retriever DJ Tropical Depression (Claudia from Explode into Colors!) AWESOME! doors 8:30, FREE! ALSO! WE ARE DJING THE AFTER PARTY FOR THE MERCURY FASHION SHOW-get your tix HERE- THIS COMING FRIDAY, THE SHOW OPENS AT 7 AND THE RUNWAY STARTS AT 9 AND DJ BEYONDA WILL GET YOU SHAKIN' AND THEN WE'LL START AFTER THAT TO KEEP YOU QUAKIN'! SUPERRRR EXCITING! WATCH FOR REIF .. I MADE SOME GRUNGE STEEZ ROSARY CRUCIFIX NECKLACES AND BRACELETS FOR HER SHOW!

SHOP HOURS THIS WEEK..

mon 4/26=closed
tues 4/27=open, 11-6
wed 4/28=open, 11-6
thurs 4/29=closed
fri 4/30=closed
sat 5/1= open, 1-6
sun 5/2=open, 1-5

Mid-Spring Field Guide to Sword+Fern

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my Teen Dream

VICTORIA.VICTORIA.VICTORIIIIAAAAAAA.
last night.your oversized white blazer. your mesmerizing stare. and THAT VOICE that VOICE THAT voice. and umm, did you have confetti system make all those giant prismatic disco pinatas especially for you?? they were subtly spinning to the music just in time for you to wildly whip and wrap your unapologetic lady-on a-horse-in-the-dusty-dry-desert-hair all over your microphone and your vintage farfisa?wurlitzer? what kind of electronic piano is that?..PERFECT. Jesus and Mary Magdalen's baby, woman, you killed me. killed me dead.drop everything. it's over. i'm sure it probably took you years to write those songs. but it seems like you made them up just for us, just for 2010. i loved your other records, but these songs, these sounds. these are for NOW. i love NOW.
i had to post a little homage to a few of the other rad women you reminded me of all at once...




THAT'S ALL FOR NOW. THANK YOU FOR LAST NIGHT.
backtoworkandbacktolisteningtoyourrecordanother17timesinarow thanks

Fed-exing jewelry off to Los Angeles today to be photographed for Levi's A/W 2010 campaign
(thank u AW+JB),
thinking of making necklaces with netted pouches of tiny pebbles inside.
I wish I could tuck myself in to the L.A.-bound package.
I need sun.
I never thought I'd say that.
Not about Los Angeles, but about needing sun, I never used to care about it that much.
Going to see 'House' w/Jayme tonight and then we are going to bake cookies tomorrow and Kim's going to clean the shop.

big, bright, spring, come on in

g



juggling making jewelry orders, imagining a new plan for the west wall of the shop, fielding phone calls from eager homeowners who are hungry for new gardens, designing album art for LOVERS forthcoming fall record release, writing new music, designing a new jewelry collection, waiting for the sun, and trying to fit all the rest in before night falls...
the aforementioned tasks are a mere fraction of the buzz-----spring is definitely here.
pardon my bad manners, i lazily ripped these images from this lovely tumblr- inspiring indeed.

my friend malaki and friends

i'm so excited to help malaki stahl to leak the secret of his brand new 3D works:
parchment paper sculpture.
i am, and i'm sure the whole beeps crew and beyond as well are super proud to see his new collection!
malaki is a dear friend and one of my favorite outsider artists.
i've been watching him make new exciting art and hide it in his kitchen drawers for over a decade.
he's primarily been making music in several local bands (you can hear/view over at our seattle music collective's site-beeprepaired) , but has always drawn, painted, sculpted, illustrated, and written.
lately, he and his partner in crime , olivia mendez, along with more of my favorites, doug arney and CJ chapman, have created a radical new video project called BRGNBSMNT SO SPUN WE SPUN WEST. definitely check it out for a good, gross time.
i always have a stupid silly time making nonsense and weirdness a priority with these fools i love so dearly.
malaki's one of those people that makes everything make ridiculous, beautiful, imperfect sense, and is awesome at sharing it with his beloveds.
his opening at la familia gallery in seattle is scheduled for january, 2011.

unkown origin of pleasures

from hauntedgeographies
'This classic image is CP1919, the Cambridge pulsar at 19 hours 19 minutes right ascension. It is the ‘dying star’ image appropriated for Unknown Pleasures. The story goes that Bernard Sumner found the image in ‘The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy’ and gave it to Peter Saville. Saville inverts the image at the last minute and the rest is history. What is interesting is the image’s biography and reproduction. Below left is from ‘The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy’. Yet it was originally printed in ‘Scientific American’ (right) in January 1971, eight years before ‘Unknown Pleasures’ and six years before the Cambridge Encyclopaedia. Somewhat tangentially, CP1919 also appears in Graphis Diagrams (1974). Another cult artifact with it’s own set of narrative tentacles. For more details see Food4Ghosts.'

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