So yes! Yesterday we drove down to San Mateo for the Bay Area Maker Faire and had quite a fun time. Many strange and silly (and nerdy and intellectual) things were to be seen. So without further ado, pictures from the geekfest below the cut!

( Warning: Science (and Other Weird Things) Ahead )

So yes...quite a lot of things seen and done, played with or eaten (yes, we had funnel cake!), and it was a hell of a lot of fun. So much so that I was dead tired by the time we got home! It was well worth it, though...lots of silly, geeky fun.

Yes, another ELO reference. Currently listening to the albums I downloaded from eMusic!

I'm currently listening to their first album, released waaaaaaaaaaaaay back in March of 1972, and it's quite the trip. For a background, it grew out of Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood's wanting to do a side project outside of The Move...basically a more string-oriented prog-rock thing than their sort-of-psychedelic Move stuff. The only track I knew from this one was "10538 Overture", which was their first single (as well as a b-side on some US single), so this was an interesting experience.

My first two reactions was A)an interesting cross between the Moody Blues and ELP, with a little bit of, well, latter-day ELO thrown in, and B)This HAD to be in Melora Creager's record collection when she was a kid, because this totally sounds like a Rasputina album. :p

Next up: Eldorado! As I didn't get to download II or On the Third Day (I missed those two plus Balance of Power due to running out of points), that one's next. I think it's considered their Brain Salad Surgery to some extent, from what I've read. :p

Everybody knows I'd like to have Patricia Morrison playing Cassandra in the movie version of my book.

My view of the Crucibles, the main band in the book, was based on a cross between various bands that have a really good (and rare) chemistry together, such as Wire, L'arc-en-Ciel, Travis, and other bands. They're a band on the rise that can do no wrong, don't have a big ego, and are just naturally phenomenal.

It dawned on me just minutes ago that this band needs to play them:



Why it didn't dawn on me sooner, I don't know. But they're PERFECT to play them.