Ben Folds & The Auers

Tonight was a good night.We brought the girl to see Ben Folds. I've been putting his songs on her iPod since she can remember, so it was really cool for her to see him live. She seemed really impressed with the show. Afterward we stopped backstage to say hello.

A very good night indeed.

If you ever get back to Hackensack...

I May Hate You Sometimes (Live)

Yesterday in Tacoma.

With You - Gavin & Jon


Oceans Cracked - Gavin Guss



Enjoy!

Who's your daddy?

The show of the summer, quite possibly, the show of the year!


It's the time of the season
When the love runs high
In this time, give it to me easy
And let me try
With pleasured hands

To take you and the sun to
Promised lands
To show you every one
It's the time of the season for loving...

The good, the bad and the AWESOME!

The bad news, my camera died and I lost a LOT of the pics and vids from the shows this last week.

The good news, by some awesome twist of fate, the ONLY vids that I did not lose, managed to be one song of each incarnation of The Posies!! YES!!

You can see them all here.
Just finished uploading: youtube.com/dreamingviola

20 Years of The Posies

Every band member from the last 20 years.

Things I almost forgot to mention...

Jon is playing a show tomorrow in Fremont. All the details are on his myspace www.myspace.com/jonauermusic

Speaking of the husband, did anyone else notice that there was a Big Star song that played in the much talked about "How i met Your Mother" episode with Britney Spears the other night? They played Thirteen through the entire date scene from beginning to end.

The postcards for Buck are starting to pour in! Keep em coming and thank you all so much!

That is about it.

February 23rd, 2008 - Exit

In Between Days

This photo of Jon (My husband) from YEAH! Magazine #17, February 1989. Jon was featured as a valentine in a Tiger Beat spoof. Photo by Jill Goodejohn.:

and This (My biggest crush from the 80's):


A coincidence? I think not! ;-)

Time to Bid!!!!

Remember that auction I mentioned a few weeks ago? It is time to start bidding!

CLICK HERE TO BID!! :


The Posies Cover the Song of Your Choice
Actually, Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer will each cover the same song— Two covers for the price of one! The winner will also receive a copy of their split EP Private Sides. Priceless!

(The auction says it has to be picked up, but that is just a catch all we are writing on everything. The MP3s and CD can easily be sent to you!)

More at:
www.thestranger.com/strangercrombie

Have you ever wanted The Posies to cover a particular song?

HERE IS YOUR CHANCE!

The paper that I work for does an auction every year where local folks
donate goods and services and all of the money raised goes to help homeless people in our community. We raised over $40,000 last year! It is something that I am really proud to be a part of, because it does such a cool thing. We have been getting really great donations this year. I'm very excited about the auction!

Here is where The Posies come in.
Jon and Ken are donating a cover song of the winning bidders choice to the auction this year.
There is a twist!
Each of them will do their own version of the song, so in the end you get two songs for the price of one and a one-of-a-kind opportunity to see how Jon and Ken would each cover the same song!
(This is for your own personal use only, of course.)

The 2007 Strangercrombie Holiday Gift Guide appears in the December 6 issue of The Stranger, but you can get a jump on the bidding by going to The Stranger website on Wednesday, December 5. All auctions end at 5:00 p.m. on December 14.

Since it is on Ebay, it would be super easy for everyone to participate,
even you folks that don't live in Seattle, and since the US$ is crap right
now, folks with Euros have a major advantage in any bidding war!

Start saving your pennies and coming up with cover song ideas!

You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

Last night Jon played the song Blackbird for me after hearing how touched I was when he played it at the radio8ball show. I managed to get a bit on video before some woman walked in the way of the camera. It is just beautiful. I almost teared up again:



And then I found these gems on my camera.

Tha Flaming Lips:


The Ditty Bops:


and more Sean Nelson from last night's show:

And so I'm writing with the hope that someone's reading...

For Jon's birthday we got Jon (and the whole family, really) This awesome little instrument. It is something we have been wanting for a while and decided to just do it. Next week Darian will start taking piano lessons. The cool thing about this is that she can practice using headphones so as to not disturb the neighborhood. It has a beautiful sound and weighted keys. We all love it.

Then at last eve's show our friend, Sean Nelson, played a Posies song in honor of Jon's birthday. It was very sweet. Jon even jumped up on stage in the end. What a sweet gesture. I'm so happy I got it on video!

And then we met with Jon's family for a birthday brunch this morning. They surprised me with a gift card for my birthday that just passed. After brunch we went over to the book store and I picked up two autographed copies of books that I have been wanting for some time now:

and

I'm really excited to read them. Alan Alda is in my top 5 list of people I would love to meet someday.

Now, I'm off to sticking my nose in a book. I hope you all had a wonderful and fulfilling weekend!

First vid with the new camera!

It is a lot bumpy because it is the first time I used the camera and I was playing with the settings. Here is a video of Josephine & Angelita from The Triple Door show, 7/14/2007


See more videos at: http://www.youtube.com/dreamingviola

Enjoy!

Seattle Show Just added

SEATTLE: 7/14 DAVID BAZAN/JON AUER CO-BILL @ THE TRIPLE DOOR

JUST ADDED: DAVID BAZAN & JON AUER (SOLO ACOUSTIC)
Saturday July 14
8PM (All Ages)
$10 adv/ $12 day of

Don't miss this just added co-headlined show with two of Seattle's finest
indie rock talents! David Bazan of Pedro the Lion and Jon Auer of the Posies
will each perform solo acoustics sets in an intimate setting.

$10 adv./ $12 dos.
www.tripledoor.com

The Finale

This was the impromptu finale to the Radio8Ball show. It is where he reads all of the questions that were not answered. Jon is there for comic relief. :-)

Radio8Ball - Sundown

This is the video of Jon and Andras doing the live version of the radio8ball show. Our friend, Bre, was randomly drawn on this particular night.
Her question was, "Who, even, are you, even, fer-reals?"

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This next video is of our fearless host doing a song himself! It is a lovely song called Message for the Moon by Andras Jones.

All your thoughts were clean and clear...

Tonight we went to the Radio8Ball show with Andras Jones and Jon as the musical guest. The premise of the show is that everyone in the audience places a question in a box. The questions are chosen at random. Not every question gets picked, but as luck would have it, last night my question was picked second! So I had to get up on stage, ask my question and spin the wheel.

My question was: Should I go back to school this year?

My answer was:
AT LEAST FOR NOW

Friday comes with little warning
Saturday is close behind
Then you sleep in Sunday morning
Monday back out on the line
Bitter friends go passing by you
They pretend that you're not there
It's their affection they deny you
So you pretend that you don't care
You're not to blame 'cause you were never
Made aware

Chorus
(that) it all comes back
In good time and that's a fact
It's all right--at least for now

A healthy dose of deep depression
Keeps you comfortably smug
Life without you can't imagine
It's become your favorite drug

Once you had your own direction
And all your thoughts were clean and clear
Now gazing at your own reflection
Makes you want to smash the mirror
You can never listen but I know that
You can hear

Chorus

You can always worry
You can always think that you're wrong
But never say you're sorry
For something that you've never done

The weight of the world is on your shoulders
You've seen so much and your so young
But you'll have to wait until your older
To understand all that's been done
Stand your ground because the battle has
Just begun



Missed this one and want to catch the next show?
July 17th at CHAC with Central Services
www.radio8ball.com

(I made a couple of videos of the show as well, will get those posted to youtube soon!)

Guest blogger:

(Darian & Zack kitty when they were both just kittens.)

I don't usually let other people post on here, but Jon wrote a comment about Zack kitty that is so sweet and moving I thought it needed it's own post.

FROM JON:
Jeez....

It was so strange.

Michelle was out for the evening with our good friend Licia and I was home with Darian. I'd finally come around to the school of thought that maybe it was time to take him in to the professionals...and, I knew if I did take him to the vet that they would more than likely say it was time to put him down.

So, before Darian went to bed, I told her to say her goodbyes to Zak. With many a delicate pet to his head and many a tear from her, she did just that.

An hour later, Zak stumbled by our dinning room table, just under the gerbil cages, and wouldn't get up. I went to his side, hoping to get a look of recognition from him, maybe one of his trademark, familiar meows, but he was totally incoherent and shaking like a tree in a strong wind - that is, if the tree was having unbelievably bad dreams. Calling his name did nothing but make me sadder and drive home the fact that this was the last time we would be together while he was alive.

I was holding Zak's frail head in my hand when he took his last breath, a moment I will never forget. I hadn't cried like I did since Gala, sweet kitty, passed away just over a year ago. They were both the greatest.

I had Zak almost 20 years, longer than I have known many of my friends. He was one of a kind, a true original. He was always sweet, always happy to see you, and he had the coolest set of "eyebrows" I've ever seen on an all-white kitty and a crooked, “Cubist” or "Picasso-like" tail I've never seen before or since. He LOVED "people food" and I can still see the way his nostrils would flare every time we'd bring home fresh orders of teriyaki chicken, his absolute favorite I am sure. That's when he would unleash a fresh batch of those trademark meows I mentioned....again, one of a kind.

I take comfort in knowing that Zak lived long, loved life and was more than loved in return, and I'm glad that we were together when he went. He was more than just a cat or a pet to me - he was a force of nature and a true friend. We all missed him the instant he was gone.