Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

My friend Dottie recently moved to San Francisco and is living off of her savings until she finds a job. Unfortunately, due to identity theft, her finances have been wiped out.

She’s one of the best photographers on Flickr (IMHO), and in order to raise money while she attempts to deal with getting a job and maybe her money back, too, she’s selling some of her wonderful prints.

You can also request prints of her other Flickr pictures NOT in that gallery. She won’t sell any of the pictures in the 365 set or pictures of friends, but anything else, she’s willing to consider. She’s really good, and I’m not just saying that because she’s in a bit of a fix. Anyone on Flickr knows about her and her talent.

Help a girl out!

Here’s a performance they did last weekend at the Cranford music festival in New Jersey.

Come see them headline the Cradle on Saturday. If you haven’t heard them before, please read the review I wrote after seeing them the first time and check out their MySpace page to hear some tracks.

If you aren’t convinced, please enjoy the following ACTUAL IM CONVERSATION I had with my friend Sooz in Boston last night (I sent her Talk Straight last week):

For one of the first times in a long, long time, I sat down on my couch, turned off the room lights, and watched a movie from beginning to end. Something about “the anxiety of impendingness” makes this kind of settling very difficult for me.

I had been wanting to see Stranger Than Fiction for a long while, but the reviews I had read and heard via word of mouth were only so-so. Shannon loaned it to me and said that it was “cute” and “not too heavy.” For me, this was so much more. I don’t know why, but it really spoke to me. I thought it was a beautiful story, the kind of magical realism I really love; plus, perfectly cast with a minute focus to detail that I found so lovely, in a sort of Amelie kind of way. The OCD/mathiness of the main character’s world is depicted in golden sections and formulas popping up whenever he brushed his teeth or took a step. As his fairly cardboard character becomes more human, these numerical graphics dropped out, paralleling his emotional metamorphosis. So many wonderful things I could talk about: the change in Emma Thompson’s character when she meets her main character face to face is so powerful; the scenes in the bakery; on the bus; at the university… So many wonderful things. I knew right away that the music was Britt Daniel from Spoon (a band I love and intend/expect to love even more). Perhaps this quirk was specifically the right quirk to interface with what I needed this night, at this time in my life.

Thanks, Shannon, for the loaner. And also thanks for the soft foods you brought over for my ouchy post-root canal jaw. Lately, you and Brian just win!

My mom keeps asking if anyone else took pictures of me in my tiara, and yes… I must admit, I’ve been carrying this thing around since I finished my test on Thursday. You know… just in case! This particular tiara moment was captured by Logiblue (aka Oliver, aka Robbo, aka Robb or Rob… take your pick!)

I highly recommend checking out all of his pictures though. He’s one of my favorites on Flickr and has a real knack for making images look cinematic, despite his recent insistence that he is “losing his cinematic mojo”.

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Everyone likes a tiara (Oliver, Josh, and Alice):

Now that my test is over, I’m living the lush life.

Thanks, DefMo, for the technical skill and artistry.