Stop! Animation Time!

This video by Sjors Vervoort made me smile. Oh art, how I love thee. Watch it, and brighten your day.

CARDBOARD a cardboard animation! by Sjors Vervoort

vc: svervoor

'This Must Be the Place' - Miles Fisher, Ummm? Sure.

Here's Miles Fisher's video for the cover of 'This Must Be the Place.'

I'd call it mid-'90s meets 2009 meets scandal meets seks.



Hello 'American Psycho' in a dance song? Hello. Sidenote: that book really creeped me out but was way good. I still need to see the movie.

vc: http://coutequecoute.blogspot.com/search/label/FILM via @courtneywolfe on Twitter

To Any and All Beatles Fans

If you love, like, or even aren't sure about (which I'm not sure why you wouldn't be, but that's besides the point) The Beatles, see this post about the Beatles by JBev of JamsBio Magazine. I just found it for the first time thanks to @skinnermike who Twittered about it.

JBev takes all The Beatles' songs and ranks them along with a description on his opinions about them. Now, of course not everyone agrees with his rankings, but he backs up his opinions. It is a very interesting commentary along with some obviously great tunes.

Even if you don't really like or know much of The Beatles, this really breaks it down. There are plenty of songs that I still have not heard before so I'm pretty much going to be using this as my playlist for a good while. I feel the need, and really want to educate myself more on this highly influential band even though I already consider myself quite a Beatles fan.

Photo credit: The Beatles by Richard Avedon via Kill Gil's flickr.

Speaking of Richard Avedon, he's probably my favorite photographer, ever since I saw a show of his last summer in Paris. He does excellent work. More of his work can be found here.

I caught this on Tavi's blog and think it's pretty fab.

Tattoo You

Today I went with my friend Emily to get her tattoo touched up. I'd never seen a tattoo done before so it was actually pretty interesting, just what I'd imagined and seen on T.V. It was just different in person though. Right there it got me to thinking about my own ink.

I've always been going back and forth on whether or not to get a tattoo. I've definitely always wanted one, but I guess I've never found anything that I thought would be good enough. Lately I've been thinking of getting of getting Picasso's Peace Dove(at right, photo courtesy of allposters.com) on my side, in the rib area. Sitting there, I realized that I think I really do want one and am almost positive I want that. I asked the guy who was fixing Emily about it, and he just made me feel more positive about it. So long story short, I think I will be getting a tattoo sometime soon. Yay!

Austin City Limits

Last week I had the pleasure of going to see the Austin City Limits Music Festival! Unfortunately since I drove down from Michigan (crazy, I know, but it wasn't bad at all), and I work during the week, I didn't get to see the Friday shows or Saturday afternoon shows. But I did get to see Saturday evening (by fluke I might add, and for FREE!) and all day Sunday. I went down with Steve and stayed with some close friends that live in Austin, Crystal, and Sean. They go every year so they showed Steve and I, the newbies, the way, in every aspect of enjoying the festival. They really showed us a great time so a big thank you to them.

So who did we see?

...MUSE!...

...The National...

...Ben Kweller...

...Common...

...Bloc Party...

...Regina Spektor...

...Ziggy Marley...

...The Decemberists...

...Ghostland Observatory...

...Bob Dylan...

...moremore&more...

Ok so of course Muse was the best. 1) I am in love with them, 2) They put on an AMAZING show, and 3) They just flat out rock. Everyone else was great too, except I did expect a little more from Ziggy Marley. I must admit too that unfortunately Bob Dylan was not very good, definitely not at the top of his game. He sounded like he was kind of struggling. Also, they wouldn't even show any closeups of him on the big screen. It was still cool to actually have a chance to see him play though.

Since the Decemberists were on at the same time as Ghostland, I had to pick the Decemberists and sadly had to miss Ghostland. It's totally alright though because the Decemberists were really fun. The other three saw Ghostland and said that they were so much fun. I believe it. They are a great band and if any of you haven't heard them before, you need to check them out. Now. Needless to say, I was sad to miss them.

The White Stripes were supposed to close Saturday night, but they had to cancel due to "Meg's anxiety issues"? They would have been really sweet to see, but all of Austin had to miss out. It's ok thought because that meant the Muse got the headlining spot to close the show. Still would've been cool to see both bands though.

To be continued...

Photojournal: Day 1

Last night we climbed Murder Mountain. It was the July 23 anniversary of an Indian massacre in Chelsea. Creepy. Eerie.

Wow, I'm surprising myself even by updating my pictures, uploading, and posting one here. This is the first of a daily (well that's what I'm going for) photo post. I'm going to post shots from the day before. I'm going to pick my favorite one from the day or one that I think sums up my day well. Let's see where life takes me.