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Hit me up when you make it. If I'm around, we'll go to one of the million coffee shops and geek out about jeans.

Where we get our eyeglasses

Saturday night, went to go see my boys in A Thousand Horses play to a sold out 12th and Porter. It was madness, and so I only got a couple of shots. Wore my APCs because the 3001 fly kept coming down (they're real tight on me), but I figured I'd post some shots, anyhow. Hope you kids aren't offended by it.

Me and Graham

My wife, Michael, and me

The night ended with after hour Irish Carbombs and pints of Guiness at a closed pub.

For the rest of the week....

Worked in my studio:

Listened to records:

Had some nice drinks:

Aaaand that's the end of my journey. I will proudly rock the t-shirt:

Jeans are headed out on Monday to joelz.

Pancake Pantry. The line usually wraps around the block. Quiet day I suppose,

Cutlery and cookware store

Belcourt Theatre

Currently showing at the Belcourt:

Apparently there are some mods running around the village, right now

Peabody Shoe Repair

Retropolitan, swanky furniture

FINAL UPDATE:

Well, my final week has come to a close. It's been fun wearing these jeans and seeing. first hand, just how long a great pair can last, and the things it can see.

Went to Hillsboro Village this weekend:

The place was packed

First stop, Fido for brunch. Fido is an old pet store that Bongo Java bought and made into a big ass coffee shop/restaurant:

T Swift showed up

Took a walk:

Bookman Bookwoman used bookstore:

The Villager Tavern

I'll PM joelz right now. Final update coming later tonight or tomorrow morning.

@lucaas Must spread. They're looking great.

This is the first moment that I've actually gotten a look at this contest. Super exciting. Mucho rep all around. Can't wait to see how these jeans turn out.

Throw Nashville on there for me, Jimmy.

@PaulT Thanks! Yeah, like I said, this is a sample the Matt built for LVC so the production Type III's very well may have ended up differently. He had a few in this fabric, and then a couple in another fabric that I'm not sure about. He insisted that he liked this one was best. I'm interested to see how it turns out. It's a great jacket.

The Made & Crafted looks really interesting to me. I love anything that is modern but highly influenced by vintage/classic measures. I'm not a purist to the point of shunning or not enjoying modern things, but I love the character that classic/vintage clothing has. And so, a line the melds those together (well) is very interesting.

@haploid I'm a P90 junkie, right now. Old Gibson Jrs. and Specials are my absolute favorite. So I'm probably a bit biased. The RC Booster is the perfect swiss army pedal, sounds great everywhere all of the time for lots of different applications. Beefs up the P90s a bit, too.. Got lots more pedals laying around, this is just the basic board. Buuuut I guess this is a discussion for www.thegearpage.net. :-)

Semi xpost:

Shots from the Imogene and Willie garage sale, yesterday.

LVC Samples

And my little score:

LVC Type III Sample

Dropped by Imogene and Willie for the annual garage sale, yesterday.

Pile of LVC Samples

The loot:

LVC Type III Sample

....aaand a very expensive candle.

Then headed for drinks with friends in a quiet Edgehill Village

Now, watching the Bears get creamed by the Packers....and it's sweet.

I believe my leg is about up. Who is next on the list?

Next night, headed to Mercy Lounge for the 8th Anniversary/Birthday Celebration

(stock photo)

Saw American Bang play

Aaand nasty slushy snow, today.

This week:

Learning songs at home for an artist's show, and label showcase.

Headed to rehearsal

S.I.R. : Rehearsal halls where we practice. Shiiiittty weather in Nashville, this week.

(Little amp on this gig for the pissy sound guys that hate stage volume. Fender Pro Jrs. are the jam.)

Sorry about crappy cell phone images like this one.

From here, we did a 3 hr rehearsal and went straight to soundcheck. Played at The Rutledge on 4th Ave. Because the damned zipfly kept coming down....I didn't wear the FH on stage. Sooo moving on...

We do have a fair amount of coffeehouses, but their frequency in my updates is most likely due to my crippling coffee addiction.

My wife and I love Rumors. There's one right down the street from us in 12th South, also. But it's fun to venture over to the East Side for 3Crow Sundays, Marche' brunch, Mas Tacos, and Rose Pepper.

Do you do music in LA? I'll be out there working in March.

Sunday:

Relaxed nursing an oncoming cold. Went out that night with friends to Mafioza's in 12th South.

Mafioza's

Mmmm Peroni

Home

Until next time.

Saturday:

Headed to the East Side for brunch at Marche`.

...right next to Woodland Studios

Marche'

Hey, all. Relaxing for MLK day because I"m getting sick, and I've got all day rehearsals tomorrow and a show tomorrow night.

Here's a lil' update:

Got a pic of the sky as the sun set on Friday night on the way into the gym.

My wife and I headed to dinner with business friends at a restaurant called Flyte. Really incredible food. All organic, local, everything made from scratch in house.

I scarfed down my lamb saddle before I got a picture. What can I say, I was three Red Breast whiskey's in and starving. :-)

Had wine Flytes (samples) with dinner

Dessert

Headed to the Gulch for after dinner drinks

Turnip Truck, a nice organic market.

Station Inn, bluegrass capitol of the world.

....back to work. No, I will not apologize for my desktop background. :-)

Headed out tonight with some friends and will get some more good stuff from the East Side and the Gulch neighborhoods.

I can't post any clips up of what I've been working on because it's a series of demos for our record as well other artists' records that won't be out until summer or the end of the year.

Here's some examples of what I do, though:

www.myspace.com/brennanaertsmusic

My current project on Universal Republic NYC

www.myspace.com/vinylpinups

Also currently working with some new artists on Lava, a group of LA songwriters, and working on a 60's project for Slaughtergroup Design Firm in Birmingham, AL. Got rehearsals and a show this upcoming week that I'll document.

Until next time.

Good stuff

The prize. A man cannot live on bread alone...he needs coffee also.

Obligatory Nashville stops. Didn't have time to go in, had to get back to work.

Imogene and Willie

BurgerUp

Fiiinally got out of the house, today. Headed out for some fresh air and an Americano.

Took some shots of the neighborhood I live in while I was out.

Wierd ass building

Liiiittle bit of snow left.

My favorite place for coffee.

I haven't left my home studio in almost two weeks. You'd find them worse than disturbing, you'd find them boring. Updates coming this weekend.

Out of interest: Buying 47's in my exact waist size, how painful would that be?

Thank you.

A perfect slim fit after soak and stretch. Love mine.

@Layne, looking good. We're supposed to get a couple inches tomorrow and everyone's acting like it's the freaking apocalypse. We'll be getting your leftover weather tomorrow morning. :-)