black lexus – joseph arthur July 31, 2007

if you like kind of sad, mellow music, you should check out joseph arthur. basically, if you’ve ever liked any of the songs on grey’s anatomy when someone is dying, crying or something, then you will like joseph arthur. in fact, i’m amazed none of his songs have ever been on grey’s. maybe he has something against grey’s – like a personal vendetta. probably not. his song “in the sun” was on the L word, so he doesn’t have anything against tv in general.

anyway, “black lexus” is one of the lesser-known joseph arthur (not that any of his songs are really what you’d call ‘known’) songs off of his 2006 album nuclear daydream.

it starts about 37 seconds into the video. i like the not-live version a lot better. so don’t be offput by the crappy live version w/backup vocals.

one my favorite songs by him is “a smile that explodes” – ignore the bizarre homemade movie that goes with it. this song is off of his 2004 album and is a little more ‘well known’ (see caveat above).

baby beluga in the the deep blue sea July 31, 2007

ughhhh i have been having awful stomach aches lately. they are so awfullllll. i just want to mope around and whinnnneeeee. i have no idea why the stomachache gods are punishing me. maybe because i have a steady diet* of cereal and mint chocolate chip ice cream, but i doubt it. stupid stomachache gods.

DANCE SCHOOL ANECDOTE
a little background on the story: i teach 3 & 4 year olds dance and we sometimes learn songs to go with the dance. this week we were learning “baby baluga” and i assumed most of the girls wouldn’t know what a ‘beluga’ was, so we were starting off a discussion about whales.

me: “does anyone know what a whale is?” (expecting ‘lives in the ocean’, ‘is big’, ’swims’, etc)
little girl: “a mammal?”

ABOUT THAT OTHER JOB I DO
my internship is about to be over – next thursday (aug. 9th) is it! this is the part where they decide whether they liked me enough to invite me back (aka job offer), so its kind of scary. but not really. because i don’t want to do anything with my life and would probably be secretly happy if i didn’t get hired anywhere. then i could lounge around and be all like ‘it’s not my fault no one will hire me!’

* is ’steady diet’ an oxymoron?

ob-la-di, ob-la-da July 28, 2007

um, so i’ve been kind of forgetful lately. i mean, normally i’m what most people would call “absent-minded”, so a little bit of forgetfulness is normal. the kind where you go into the kitchen and then realize you have no idea why you went in there to begin with. that’s pretty normal. but lately my forgetfulness has reached new levels of ridiculousness.

so for the past two weeks, there’s been a funny smell in our kitchen near the dishwasher/sink/oven area. kind of a rotting garbage, something died somewhere, flesh-rot smell. i went away for one of those weeks and forgot about it, but my dad went insane trying to figure out where the horrific smell was coming from while i was away. he ended up thinking that it was the sinks, since the dishwasher’s been backing up and he thought some of the rank dishwater has been pooling somewhere in the pipes. he sprayed everything w/chlorox and that solved (masked) the smell for a while.

last night i was in my room and i heard him doing the sniff test thing where he walks around sniffing loudly to signify he can smell something and i should come out and identify/clean whatever he can smell because he doesn’t want to look for it. i dismissed it as he’s going senile and ignored him. until i heard ‘what the hell?!’

apparently (well not apparently, actually), i had left a once-frozen, now-mush, lasagna in the oven for about two and half weeks. we don’t use our oven in the summer because it’s too hot, but i had wanted lasagna and had started to defrost it in the oven for a bit and then i guess i got distracted. the lasagna had molded into a black mush and the smell was enough to melt flesh*.

as a result, we got to use the cleaning cycle (the one where your oven burns itself for hours and you get to use the lock on the front) of the oven for the first time.

yay!

A QUICK COMPARISON
2007 -

2003 -

aside from the poor quality of the bottom picture, making it seem like it was taking mid-80s, only FOUR years passed between the bottom and the top and i’m pretty sure jeremy looks like he went from fifteen to thirty-seven. no wonder when he attended my dance show, the guy next to him asked if his SON was dancing in the show.

*i just like using the word flesh today.

making excuses July 24, 2007

hello again internet.. it’s been awhile, hasn’t it?

among working non-stop, i’ve been all about town, including shipping off to buffalo for the weekend for meg’s wedding… which was lovely.

LINKS CAUSE I’M TIRED AND LAZY

1. awesome rubber ducky

2. even more awesome advertisement for car insurance (looks much better when viewed large).

so that’s really all the links i found.. i really am being lazy. but at least i’m saying something. here’s another picture from meg’s wedding to hold you over:

the end.

party ben July 24, 2007

instead of making one song recommendation tonight, i am going to point you over to one of my favorite new music sites: party ben

party ben is, according to his site, “a remixer, producer and DJ, known for his semi-popular mashups, including most notably the Green Day/Oasis combo “Boulevard of Broken Songs” (2004)”. my favorite new one he has out (which you can download by clicking the above link) is the police v. snow patrol, remixing ‘every step you take’ and ‘chasing cars’.

colbie caillat – bubbly July 17, 2007

colbie caillat, who, while it took me about six times to spell her name correctly, is this week’s recommendation. from california, she’s currently unsigned, but is definitely about to be ‘discovered’ (i feel like she will definitely be the next ‘grey’s anatomy’ soundtrack artist).

AND she’s touring with the goo goo dolls – who can’t love that! unfortunately, there’s no way to get most of her songs without buying the cd (at least not yet anyway), but you can listen to her on her myspace page.

this is her song “bubbly”. i love the lyrics and the carefree song. yay.

tell me bout it – joss stone July 10, 2007

a little bit delayed, but this week’s song is off of joss stone’s self-titled album which was released in march. the whole album is a great one to just ‘chill out’ to, but this is one of the more upbeat songs that i’ve been using in my dance class a lot lately.

enjoy!

i won’t push you in front of oncoming trains, but only because there was a sign about it. July 7, 2007

i know i’ve been into links lately..deal with it. so here are a few more. what the heck – why not, right? this entry’s link are all photo-related from my browsing on flickr.

1. support group for me and my cat (sasha, not sara’s kitty). while its pretty lame that i look at these pictures and find them (on accident), i’m pretty sure i’m not to the point where i have to leave creepy comments on cat pictures like “lol, Snookie! Aren’t you excited!! Hehe, HFF!”. wtf does HFF mean?

2. ‘airborne’ kitty photography. because cats are funnier when they’re pressed against glass. and when they defy gravity. and, if you’re nate, when they’re defying gravity because he threw them.

3. non-cat related group called “stick figures in peril”. this one is possibly my favorite

the caption reads: “Please don’t push strangers in front of oncoming trains”

contemplating wedding gifts July 4, 2007

c: maybe we should get them a live animal
c: a ferret?
n: just drop it off in a box wrapped up on the gift table
n: hoping it gets out
n: do not really get a ferret
n: i do not like them at all
n: and will be very upset if you get one

flashback July 3, 2007

to November 2003:

“me: so how was your thanksgiving?
her: it was interesting.
me: interesting, eh?
her: yea, my cousin shaved her eyebrow off.
me: what?! how old is she?
her: 8.
me: wait, she just shaved it off?
her: yeah, i guess she was curious and just took a razor and zzzip.. (make appropriate motions) off it went.
me: and this was during thanksgiving?
her: desserts.
me: that is interesting.
her: yeah we were watching tv and everyone kept looking at her and her mom was like, “honey look at me (pause) WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR FACE?!” the little girl started crying.
me: wow.
her: she has a twin sister and we kept making jokes that now we can tell them apart, but she kept crying. she was like, “i’m not going to school like this” and her mom was like “oh yes you are”

good times.