Historical Documents: My Morning Jacket in October

I know I write a disproportionate amount about My Morning Jacket - especially considering how little I've been blogging lately.  However, I'm ankle deep in NaNoWriMo, which you probably don't want to hear about especially considering I am nowhere near 50,000 words and it's already November 18.  I'm definitely sure you don't want to hear about my time at the dentist this week which is probably the most interesting thing that happened to me besides watching the Gwyneth Paltrow episode of Glee.

I've been posting Tom Picture Time on the MMJ Twitter feed every day which is a collection of shots Tom's been taking at the studio.  You should totally follow them and can do so here.  They'll have a new record coming out sometime next year.  Late spring?  Early summer?  Something like that. Oh oh, and they're on the cover of the new Austin City Limits: 35 Years in Photographs book so that's pretty groovy.

So, without further ado, here's some video (poor) and photos (less poor) I shot while out with Tom (husband) and company (the rest of the band) last month.  You can see all the videos of questionable quality here.

Still Life of Kentucky Living with Water Bottles

Channeling his inner Itzhak Perlman... because a Jimmy Page joke would just be obvious.

The Patrick

Handle with Care

Danny Clinch makes the photo time happen. I make the photo of photo time happen.

Pooch Approved

The closest we will ever be.

Johnny Quaid gets overexposed

Into the woods... with a band of vikings.

I don't know which is more terrifying: Pooch the Chicken (seen here with R.j. Biscotti), Pooch the Mexican Wrestling Optimus Prime or Pooch the Donkey.

Wearing white past Labor Day

Balloons they fall and make things happy.

One Big Kittycat

Sheer Affection

Tom as seen by Danny Cash from a photo by Steve Mitchell

I hope you have enjoyed these small offerings.

My Morning Jacket - Summer Tour III

Okay, this is the final photopost from Summer Tour 2010 because a) the tour is over, b) I'm running out of photos and c) you're probably getting tired of them by now.

If you're looking for posts I and II, you can find them here and here. (For larger views, click on the shot.)

Now, I have space to fill and here's some nice boys and bears to fill it.

"Tower, we are cleared for takeoff." - Pooch Is My Copilot

When going to San Francisco it really is best to wear some flowers in your hair.

I wouldn't leave you without a standard Jim shot.

Getting Mile High

That Tom is rather elegant, I must say.

This is where I pretended I was at a Cure concert.

The most valuable treasures are the ones kept hidden. Or so I hear.
I don't really hear that. I just made that up.

Hey lookit! Patrick didn't really spontaneously combust.

And the sun was bright that night we rode into town.

You are being watched... at all times. For some reason I am reminded of Nancy Drew.

Airport time to say farewell.

And that's all she wrote. For now. I'll be back with more MMJ goodtimes in October when the band does their five night run at New York City's Terminal 5. I'll also be at the Yum! Center show.

In the meantime we'll be tweeting some historical photos @mymorningjacket. Other MMJ related twitterers: Tom Blankenship, Carl Broemel, Removador, Eric Mayers, Riny van Eijk and yours truly.

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Thanks and thanks again for dropping by.

Pooch Is My Copilot photo by Gene Barnett

My Morning Jacket - Summer Tour II

Here's another spate of photox from the good ol' My Morning Jacket Summer Tour. If you're looking for part I, it's here. Part III is here.

We laughed, we cried, we finally got Denise into a permanent dress. Thank God because that nudist thing was not working for me.

Once again, click the pics to see them in a larger state. Steal the pics and they will haunt your dreams.

The lads are in Pittsburgh tonight with my favorite tall person Daniel Martin Moore opening. I am so full of sadness not to be there.

"I heard there was a party here? I am ready to party!" - Denise.

This is one of those Spinal Tap moments. Spontaneous drummer combustion.

You've heard of it, right?

Does the cape make the man?

Is that an Omnichord I see? No. Really. Is it?
Maybe I ought to pop over to the MMJ forum and ask...

You know those slidey puzzles where you make a picture? That's what this looks like.
It also looks like some hands.

"My Carl."

I love when the boyos seem happy onstage.
Not that they aren't generally but, well, you know what I mean.

Tom the devil. I know I'd sell my soul... oh wait.

Chi-town was the best show of (my part of) the tour. Those peeps always bring it.

No man and no bear, apparently, can escape the wand of the TSA. Denise is rather huzzah! about the whole thing. I must say, if I wore a donkey mask through airport security I bet they'd make me take it off. Such is the power of Pooch.

I'll be back on Monday with Volume III. Actually, I'll be back before that, on Sunday, with Emmy live blogging. The snark part of my brain better get in gear sometime in the next 48 hours. See you groovy gals and guy soon.

Pooch-Denise-TSA photo by Gene Barnett

My Morning Jacket - Summer Tour I

I have way too may photos for one blog post so I'm going to spread it out over three... or four. I cut and re-cut and I'm not saying my little picts are the greatest or anything but it was just too hard to keep taking stuff out.

So here you go... ten days on tour in ten shots vol i. If you click on them they get bigger! If you steal them, they get mad.

"Why heggo!" says Pooch.

I swear more people came to that Los Angeles Greek show.

Carl has, like, the best hair. He also has a record that comes out next week.

I'm kind of fond of this photo. I'm not sure why. Probably because I have 90000000 pictures of Jim doing the same thing (singing, I guess, go figure) and in this one he is... not.

The boys that come from Kentuckyland.

Patrick... doing Patricky things.

Tom... who should not be looking at his nice wife like that.

I often think Bo is the most photogenic member of the band.

Another new fave of that Jim guy.

Okay, I don't want to make any cheesy "Stairway" jokes but I swear Jim is ascending here.

I hope you have enjoyed this offering. More to come tomorrow time.

If you're looking for part II, you can find it here. Part III is here.

Thousand Words - MMJ At Sasquatch Edition

Here's some shots from My Morning Jacket's recent appearance at the most wonderful Sasquatch festival. Well, they aren't all pics of MMJ. I didn't take that many of the show because people kept yelling at me and I gave up.

I hope you enjoy this small offering of photographic evidence.

Pooch and Denise pose for some vacay shots

Tom is 75 ft tall. Or 11 as he told me when I showed him this shot.

I think I saw this in an 80s music video (and I mean that in the best way possible)

Thoughtful Mr. Hallahan

I'm pretty sure that's Jim

Thank you and goodnight!

Well, that was fun. MMJ fans are going to be very excited come tomorrow afternoon. I mean, I'm even excited and that almost never happens.

Until then...

(ok, that news is out now... you can read it here.)