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I went to the Getty Villa on Saturday. I took some photos while I was there.

I just mentioned the Photography of Todd Hido a few posts before this one. It turns out that he currently has a showing at the Rose Gallery . I’m so there!

Last week, I was deleting an episode of Gilmore Girls that Tivo recorded for me. As I was deleting it, I noticed the episode title, “One’s Got Class and the Other One Dyes”. That struck a chord with me. It sounded so familiar that I thought maybe it was a pun on a song lyric or something.

I couldn’t think of the song though and no manor of Google searches could turn up the lyric I was looking for. I thought it was a Springsteen song or maybe Billy Joel. It just kept coming back and back — some barely remembered wisp of a lyric that I couldn’t quite catch and couldn’t quite forget.

This morning, I finally thought of the lyric that was driving me crazy. “Somebody’s going to emergency. Somebody’s going to jail” from Don Henley’s “New York Minute”. I still think the Gilmore Girls show might be referring to a different song, but that’s the one I was thinking of. I also think it’s funny that Google turned up a West Wing episode called Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail, which is obviously a better match.

It’s such a relief to get that out of my head!

How to Be a Curious Photographer offers some tips on getting creative with your photos.

I took a drive up to Santa Barbara to check out their Monarch Butterfly Preserve. It’s kind of an interesting place. There were a lot of butterflies, but I was actually expecting more for some reason. More variety and just more butterflies flying around. It was nice though, and certainly worth checking out. There was a great little beach within walking distance, so I spent most of my time strolling along that. Of course, I have photos.

I really like Todd Hido’s Photography. The landscapes in particular are wonderful. I don’t like the portraits as much. He seems to make better photographs when the people are gone — or more to the point, present but not seen.

Artist, Nicole Maynard, creates a new work of art each week and displays it on the blog Art Weekly.

There’s a Retrospective of Wolfgang Tillmans at the Hammer museum right now. I’m not as familiar with photographers as I’d like to be, but after seeing his image Chaos Cup I definitely want to go check this show out.

And, if anybody knows of other photographers that are doing work similar to that, please let me know. I’d like to be more educated about who’s out there doing stuff like that.

I haven’t personally confirmed this, but according to Slate, if Amazon drops their price on an item you’ve purchased within the past 30 days, they’ll refund you the difference. Provided of course that you ask (and know who to ask).