Katie

"I like these drums. Smashy drums. Even the kick is smashy!"

"I don't really care if it's good television, I just want my favorite characters to stay alive."

Turns out a bird feeder on my balcony overlooking a pond was all I needed.

🎶I wanna ride my bike in the rain
I wanna ride my bike in a hurricane
I wanna ride out the top
I wanna ride 'til I drop
I wanna ride 'til my bike stops🎶
@thebeths.bsky.social

Left the Hayley Williams listening party to buy a screwdriver.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Nice job NYC. Sometimes good things happen.

Less than a month until Stranger Things 5 and I'm preparing to never be okay again.

Kerry and Chris of the band Bad Bad Hats performing at Friend Museum, a clothing store in Seattle.

The one singular picture I took of Bad Bad Hats at Friend Museum, Seattle, 10/24/25.

Today a chicken crossed the road in front of my car.
She refused to answer when questioned.

I just encountered two completely unrelated Reddit posts in a row where people had written Hotel California lyrics in the comments. The same lyrics, even.

I just had to tell somebody about that.

One day I hope to like another Taylor Swift album.

But today is not that day.

🎶September New Faves:🎶
• Hatchie - Lose It Again
• Linda From Work -Blood in the Water
• Ratboys - Light Night Mountains All That
• Florence + The Machine - One of the Greats

I know it's fall when the "viral ghost photoshoot" trend comes back.

The Flaming Lips on stage at Psychic Salamander Festival. Four huge inflatable pink robots are on stage. Confetti rains down over the crowd.

The Flaming Lips on stage at Psychic Salamander Festival. An inflatable rainbow stands over them. The screen. Behind them shows dripping rainbow colors. Confetti fills the air.

Unfortunately for all my favorite bands, this was the best concert I've ever been to.
The Flaming Lips at Psychic Salamander Festival, Carnation, WA, 9/13/25.

Jayce on keyboard, Tyler on guitar/vocals, and Spencer on drums from the band Said the Whale, on stage at Barnside Harvest Festival in Ladner, BC.

Ben Worchester on guitar/vocals and Lincoln Hotchen on bass from the band Said the Whale, on stage at Barnside Harvest festival in Ladner, BC.

Tolerated the worst "B&B" situation of my life for my bestie band! B&B is in quotes because it doesn't have breakfast.

Said the Whale at Barnside Harvest Festival, Ladner (or is it Delta?) BC, 9/12/25.

The world needs more blimps.

I must be some annoying to my library because I almost always check out books at one branch and turn them in at another...

I love that I've gotten so much back into reading because I just had the thought, "ooh, I was watching a really cool show earlier, I want to watch more of that!"
But it was not a show, it was ... a book!

🎶August New Faves:🎶
• Weakened Friends - NPC
• Linda From Work - Seeing Red
• VEPS - My Champaign Socialist
• Eliza McLamb - Every Year
• Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream
• The Beths - Take

Me in the drivers seat of a cart in the Kitsap Fairgrounds, talking to Nate! We're both wearing bright yellow staff t-shirts.

Me in the drivers seat of a cart at the Kitsap Fairgrounds. A row of trees and a parking lot in the background.

Spent the last three days zoomin' around the Kitsap Fairgrounds delivering snacks to my wonderful Blues Fest volunteers. I'm amazed at what we created!

The Beths play on a tiny stage next to a large glass sphere.

The Beths on stage at the Amazon Spheres.

Liz Stokes of The Beths holds a banana shaker in one hand and the neck of her guitar in the other hand.

NOTHING! NONE!
The Beths at the Amazon Spheres, August 27, 2025.

Weird things I've said about music since learning the tiniest bit about production:

"This song lives all over my ears."

"Wow they really put that guitar in a room."

"I've determined the main three varieties of snare sounds are snappy, boomy, and 80s."

"I'm so incapable of going over a bump in the road without making a little sound about it."

Me, and I'm sitting between blocks spelling out "THING." Three inflatable alpacas sit on top of the blocks, and a large inflatable bubble sits to the right.

Ela Melo of the band Rainbow Kitten Surprise on stage with an acoustic guitar.

The band The Japanese House on stage at THING Festival. The screen behind shows clouds over a blue sky.

THING day 2! Got some new bands to obsess over.

The band Deep Sea Diver on stage at THING festival.

The band Deep Sea Diver on stage at THING Festival.

My first time seeing a band four times in one year. Deep Sea Diver at THING Fest, Carnation, WA, August 2.

I just found the Hunger Games retelling I made with stuffed animals when I was 12. Noooooo you can't see it!!

🎶July New Faves:🎶
• Weakened Friends - Tough Love (Bleed Me Out)
• The Beths - Mother, Pray For Me
• The Last Dinner Party - This is the Killer Speaking
• Wet Leg - mangetout
• Indigo De Sousa - Be Like the Water
• Chappell Roan - The Subway
• Big Thief - All Night All Day

"I do hit the curb sometimes, it's one of the things about me."

My least favorite comment to see is "no one cares" because quite often ... me. I care.