Get excited! Feist's new album comes out next week. I'm pretty excited, I loved Let It Die. You can hear the album on her myspace page.
That's pretty much all I wanted to post.
Here is the music video for "One Evening" off of Let It Die (I'm sure you'll see why I love this video) and the next one is off the new album, The Reminder, "My Moon My Man." I like her music videos because she always looks like she is having fun and she's always dancing in them...it's great!
Friday, April 27, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
This weekend was nice. Hillary and I went to La Scala on Saturday evening and the food was excellent. We both decided it would be a nice place to go on a date. Now if only we could find two guys to go on dates with...To be honest as I was sitting there with Hillary, I couldn't think of any guy that I could necessarily see myself on a date with at the moment. Plus I told Hillary I do NOT want to go out to eat on a first date, unless this guy would happen to be someone I am friends with already (and comfortable around) because I do not want a repeat of awkward eating=Þ
The library had a book fair today so I checked it out. I bought two books, one of the What Not To Wear books and an autobiography of Chuck Yeager. I can always use help in knowing how to dress myself and I love the movie The Right Stuff, and I would like to know more about Chuck Yeager. He's definitely on my list of people I would like to meet someday. He is supposed to be at the Indy 500 this year. That could be my chance...
anywho, it's late and I want to read a bit before I fall asleep.
The library had a book fair today so I checked it out. I bought two books, one of the What Not To Wear books and an autobiography of Chuck Yeager. I can always use help in knowing how to dress myself and I love the movie The Right Stuff, and I would like to know more about Chuck Yeager. He's definitely on my list of people I would like to meet someday. He is supposed to be at the Indy 500 this year. That could be my chance...
anywho, it's late and I want to read a bit before I fall asleep.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Dancin' little marionette...
Disclaimer: I am not actually mad at Hillary, this is just a lively debate.
No respect Hillary?! Come on! Ryan isn't singing about dancing with an actual marionette. He's saying she is like a marionette, aka puppet with strings and all, which is being controlled by someone else. The lyrics are pretty straight forward...
dancin' where the stars go blue
dancin' where the evening fell
dancin' in your wooden shoes
in a wedding gown
dancin' out on 7th street
dancin' through the underground
dancin' little marionette
are you happy now?
where do you go when you're lonely?
where do you go when you're blue?
where do you go when you're lonely?
i'll follow you
when the stars go blue
laughing with your pretty mouth
laughing with your broken eyes
laughing with your lover's tongue
in a lullabye
where do you go when you're lonely?
where do you go when you're blue?
where do you go when you're lonely?
i'll follow you
when the stars go blue
anywho. We could go on and on about Ryan Adams and Tim McGraw and who is the better musician/songwriter (which would be Ryan because I have never heard of Tim being called any of those things, rather just a singer). The fact that Ryan Adams is 32, has nine albums to his credit, on which he wrote most of the songs (some were collaborations) and also played his own instruments (not using session musicians). I would have thought you would at least tolerate him a bit more since he is considered alt country.
anywho, I'm off to read and fall asleep.
p.s. to quote Hillary, "The Beatles suck...hardcore. They are pretty much the worst group in musical history."
No respect Hillary?! Come on! Ryan isn't singing about dancing with an actual marionette. He's saying she is like a marionette, aka puppet with strings and all, which is being controlled by someone else. The lyrics are pretty straight forward...
dancin' where the stars go blue
dancin' where the evening fell
dancin' in your wooden shoes
in a wedding gown
dancin' out on 7th street
dancin' through the underground
dancin' little marionette
are you happy now?
where do you go when you're lonely?
where do you go when you're blue?
where do you go when you're lonely?
i'll follow you
when the stars go blue
laughing with your pretty mouth
laughing with your broken eyes
laughing with your lover's tongue
in a lullabye
where do you go when you're lonely?
where do you go when you're blue?
where do you go when you're lonely?
i'll follow you
when the stars go blue
anywho. We could go on and on about Ryan Adams and Tim McGraw and who is the better musician/songwriter (which would be Ryan because I have never heard of Tim being called any of those things, rather just a singer). The fact that Ryan Adams is 32, has nine albums to his credit, on which he wrote most of the songs (some were collaborations) and also played his own instruments (not using session musicians). I would have thought you would at least tolerate him a bit more since he is considered alt country.
anywho, I'm off to read and fall asleep.
p.s. to quote Hillary, "The Beatles suck...hardcore. They are pretty much the worst group in musical history."
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
only in dreams
talk about flustered. There are those people who make you nervous/get your mind all worked up into a tizzy. First it was Beau, he's just so nice when he comes in and is way adorable/cute. I felt flustered when I was talking to him about graduating and such. Dawn said I was fine and that she didn't notice anything, but I always feel like he can tell that I'm nervous. Kim and I joked that he probably just thinks I'm a spaz because that is all he ever sees=Þ It's just annoying that I still get nervous at times when he comes in. I don't really think of him as a crush anymore, but there must still be something in my head that makes me act all lame-o. The other person was James. I never thought I would get that nervous/worried feeling around him again. And he didn't make it awkward in any way, but after the incredibly long argument/discussion I had with him this past weekend (which I never want to repeat) I felt kinda awkward when he came in. It's still hard to get over everything and up until this past weekend I didn't really realize that it was just as hard for James. I always assumed he would get over me first and move on with things. anywho.
not much else going on today. super lazy day after work. I went to the library after work, dropped by Goodwill and got a few books=) and then just sat around most of the evening. I wasn't in a bad mood or anything, just felt kinda blah. Hillary and I exchanged different opinions on "When the Stars Go Blue", Ryan Adams vs. Tim McGraw. I am sure you can guess how that conversation went=Þ
I should be sleeping, but I want to read a little bit. I finally finished The Know-It-All. It was pretty good. And I'm halfway through Chuck Klosterman's Killing Yourself to Live. And working on reading through a bunch of different magazines!
Quick randomness though before I quit blogging. Some of you may know that JoJo's song, "Too Little Too Late" is a guilty pleasure of mine, as well as Katharine McPhee's "Over It". The songs pretty much have the same lyrics and the same melody, etc. So like everything else, I decided to look it up on wikipedia and not surprisingly, both songs were written by the team of Billy Steinberg, Josh Alexander and Ruth-Anne Cunningham. (Steinberg has quite a list of songs to his credit according to wikipedia including "Like a Virgin" and "Eternal Flame")
anywho, seriously going to bed now.
much love!
p.s. I saw this on themodernage.org and loved it
you can read more about it here
not much else going on today. super lazy day after work. I went to the library after work, dropped by Goodwill and got a few books=) and then just sat around most of the evening. I wasn't in a bad mood or anything, just felt kinda blah. Hillary and I exchanged different opinions on "When the Stars Go Blue", Ryan Adams vs. Tim McGraw. I am sure you can guess how that conversation went=Þ
I should be sleeping, but I want to read a little bit. I finally finished The Know-It-All. It was pretty good. And I'm halfway through Chuck Klosterman's Killing Yourself to Live. And working on reading through a bunch of different magazines!
Quick randomness though before I quit blogging. Some of you may know that JoJo's song, "Too Little Too Late" is a guilty pleasure of mine, as well as Katharine McPhee's "Over It". The songs pretty much have the same lyrics and the same melody, etc. So like everything else, I decided to look it up on wikipedia and not surprisingly, both songs were written by the team of Billy Steinberg, Josh Alexander and Ruth-Anne Cunningham. (Steinberg has quite a list of songs to his credit according to wikipedia including "Like a Virgin" and "Eternal Flame")
anywho, seriously going to bed now.
much love!
p.s. I saw this on themodernage.org and loved it
you can read more about it here
Monday, April 02, 2007
there's always money in the banana stand
the weather is so nice outside. prob doesn't make much sense for me to be sitting inside blogging, but oh well. I'll prob go outside for a walk/jog in a bit.
I am finally finished with all my tax stuff for the year. I owed $30 in state taxes, got that sent out today, paid rent and put another dent in my urgent care bill from my freak allergic reaction/hives break out/night I thought I was going to die, incident from last fall. It's good to have insurance, but not when the urgent care you go to isn't on your plan. boo! but oh well, it's my second to last payment and I am glad for that.
The big game is tonight, Florida and Ohio State. Not really rooting for any team in particular. I guess it makes the most sense that I'd want another Big Ten school to win. So go Buckeyes?! In other sports related updates, Helio Castroneves won the race this past weekend. He's another of my favorites. I'm also excited that there is the possibility of three women racing in the series this year. Sarah Fisher is back in the series, there's Danica and then you got Milka Duno. From one of the articles I read on espn.com, some folks think it's a mistake to put her into the racing series so quickly. But we'll see how this season goes!
anywho, all for now. Getting hungry and I also want get a workout in, Jeopardy and to read more of my book!
much love!
I am finally finished with all my tax stuff for the year. I owed $30 in state taxes, got that sent out today, paid rent and put another dent in my urgent care bill from my freak allergic reaction/hives break out/night I thought I was going to die, incident from last fall. It's good to have insurance, but not when the urgent care you go to isn't on your plan. boo! but oh well, it's my second to last payment and I am glad for that.
The big game is tonight, Florida and Ohio State. Not really rooting for any team in particular. I guess it makes the most sense that I'd want another Big Ten school to win. So go Buckeyes?! In other sports related updates, Helio Castroneves won the race this past weekend. He's another of my favorites. I'm also excited that there is the possibility of three women racing in the series this year. Sarah Fisher is back in the series, there's Danica and then you got Milka Duno. From one of the articles I read on espn.com, some folks think it's a mistake to put her into the racing series so quickly. But we'll see how this season goes!
anywho, all for now. Getting hungry and I also want get a workout in, Jeopardy and to read more of my book!
much love!
Sunday, April 01, 2007
58 seats and 62 Asians
So it's Sunday and I think I managed to get two things done out of the four or five I had planned on finishing this weekend. I worked out today and started to look at one of the other workout dvds I bought, but just wasn't feeling it. I am excited though to try it out tomorrow. It's one of the New York City Ballet workouts. I did start the first couple of exercises and it was stretching, pliés and relevés so that was fun. It reminded me how much I used to like ballet and dancing, but also a somewhat painful reminder that I am really out of shape and the flexibility that I used to have is nonexistent. And unfortunately it appears that I have put on the freshman 15 all over again. boo. So ya, gotta get out of the funk and back to better eating habits and working out regularly. I'm sure this will all be painless and fun...
The other thing I got done this weekend was finishing Gilmore girls. That's right, I have now completed seasons 1-6. My dad would be so proud of me and all the time I have spent in front of a television=Þ
This weekend was good though. Friday I went up and visited with Ross and I got to see Rebecca for a little bit. We had plans to see Mario Lopez, aka A.C. Slater, give free dance lessons at a local Y, but when we called about parking and such we got the bad news...you had to be registered for the event. The lady told me that over 300 people had registered and that those would be the only people allowed in. Talk about a sad day=Þ So after like an hour of trying to decide on what to do (mostly me trying to pick something) and after finding out the shows at Second City were sold out, we decided on Blades of Glory and dinner. The movie had funny moments, but not krazy funny. And I also wouldn't recommend seeing Black Dahlia, I had a horrible time trying to follow the story. I give it two thumbs down, way down! The ride home from Ross's was mildly entertaining and annoying at the same time. I was on Cicero Avenue and this group of like four cars were "cruising the strip" from what I observed. Two neons and two cobalts, one which had been debadged and I'm sure all four had been modified, but not really riced up. The four of them raced each other a couple of times and even got another car to try and race them. Really lame-o. anywho.
I was supposed to have lunch with my friend Charlie (mutual friend of James and I) and James on Saturday, but with me being hungry and also being really annoyed by one of James's comments on IM, I decided to pass on lunch. I just don't get why he insists on "getting a rise out of me" by making sarcastic/mocking comments about me, my friends and whatever it is that we might do for fun. He knows that I don't appreciate it or find the humor in it. Instead it just hurts my feelings and pisses me off. arg.
Christina came down to visit Saturday evening as part of her birthday celebrations. Hillary and I wrapped up a mock gift for her, an awesomely bad cinnamon covered, snickerdoodle scented candle. heh. Hillary and I got a good laugh out of that. And we had pizza, of course with pepperoni, waiting for her and her actual present. So it was definitely a fun hang out time. Later Christina and I went to blockbuster and rented Trust the Man and The Science of Sleep. Trust the Man was pretty good. Definitely laugh out loud funny and it had a good ending. The Science of Sleep, not sure yet. We didn't make it all the way through it. I fell asleep a lot and Christina got lost and fell asleep. I'll have to finish it sometime this week.
Goodness, that is a crap ton of time I spent in front of a television...eeks! Anywho, yay for getting to hang out with Ross, Christina and Hillary. Three of the awesomest, funnest and bestest friends I could have;)
I'm off to move some stuff around in my room and hopefully make a clear path to my bed=D
much love!
The other thing I got done this weekend was finishing Gilmore girls. That's right, I have now completed seasons 1-6. My dad would be so proud of me and all the time I have spent in front of a television=Þ
This weekend was good though. Friday I went up and visited with Ross and I got to see Rebecca for a little bit. We had plans to see Mario Lopez, aka A.C. Slater, give free dance lessons at a local Y, but when we called about parking and such we got the bad news...you had to be registered for the event. The lady told me that over 300 people had registered and that those would be the only people allowed in. Talk about a sad day=Þ So after like an hour of trying to decide on what to do (mostly me trying to pick something) and after finding out the shows at Second City were sold out, we decided on Blades of Glory and dinner. The movie had funny moments, but not krazy funny. And I also wouldn't recommend seeing Black Dahlia, I had a horrible time trying to follow the story. I give it two thumbs down, way down! The ride home from Ross's was mildly entertaining and annoying at the same time. I was on Cicero Avenue and this group of like four cars were "cruising the strip" from what I observed. Two neons and two cobalts, one which had been debadged and I'm sure all four had been modified, but not really riced up. The four of them raced each other a couple of times and even got another car to try and race them. Really lame-o. anywho.
I was supposed to have lunch with my friend Charlie (mutual friend of James and I) and James on Saturday, but with me being hungry and also being really annoyed by one of James's comments on IM, I decided to pass on lunch. I just don't get why he insists on "getting a rise out of me" by making sarcastic/mocking comments about me, my friends and whatever it is that we might do for fun. He knows that I don't appreciate it or find the humor in it. Instead it just hurts my feelings and pisses me off. arg.
Christina came down to visit Saturday evening as part of her birthday celebrations. Hillary and I wrapped up a mock gift for her, an awesomely bad cinnamon covered, snickerdoodle scented candle. heh. Hillary and I got a good laugh out of that. And we had pizza, of course with pepperoni, waiting for her and her actual present. So it was definitely a fun hang out time. Later Christina and I went to blockbuster and rented Trust the Man and The Science of Sleep. Trust the Man was pretty good. Definitely laugh out loud funny and it had a good ending. The Science of Sleep, not sure yet. We didn't make it all the way through it. I fell asleep a lot and Christina got lost and fell asleep. I'll have to finish it sometime this week.
Goodness, that is a crap ton of time I spent in front of a television...eeks! Anywho, yay for getting to hang out with Ross, Christina and Hillary. Three of the awesomest, funnest and bestest friends I could have;)
I'm off to move some stuff around in my room and hopefully make a clear path to my bed=D
much love!
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