I'm having champagne and blog posting tonight, damnit!

Wow, I have not posted on here in for.Ev.Errr. It's been officially long enough that I think zero people will read this. I don't even think I will read this, but whatever I don't care!

Ok so I saw this Tina Fey video posted earlier by a friend of mine, and I died so many times, that I might even go so far as to say the dated "I died bananas" while watching:



So this lead me to watching more youtube videos of course since it is like the most subtly addicting website ever created. It's like, "I'm just gonna watch this one little 2 minute thing." That leads to about three hours later, "Wait, one more! This video looks good!" You know it's true. Anyway, end tangent. The first video lead me to watching this:



This video really made me think back to all the funny SNL skits and people I've seen in the past, but not only that, how much I love little quirky characters on TV & in entertainment now. For so long it has been a man's world. Lately though, and slowly within the past 20 years or so, I think that female comedians have come into their light. Jon Cryer brings up Mindy Kaling in this video, who is a perfect example. For a while, I had heard her name but had no idea who she was. At the same time, I knew that there was this really funny Indian character on "The Office" that would be on from time to time. When I figured out that they were the same person AND that she wrote and directed many of the episodes, I was highly impressed. Watch this girl on the show. She is just random and uber funny. It's just that she's so funny but must be so smart at the same time and on her game that I can't even deal.

Point: People like Mindy Kaling along with Ellen Degeneres, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Sarah Silverman, and so many female comedians make me happy these days, happy that they can rule so hard in a man's world.

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

I Love the 80's

I'm making a playlist for my friend Regina's bachelorette party & I'm already having fun. Artists include

Madonna
Bobby Brown
Corey Heart (because I do wear my sunglasses at night)
more Madonna
Michael Jackson
Eddie Money
Tears For Fears
Sting & The Police
Queen
Lionel Richie
Rod Stewart
and MORE Madonna

This pleases me. Anyone have other ideas?

Twitter is old news. Flutter is what's up. (lies.)

Twitter is amazing right? Right. What if there were something even better? Crazy talk. Well it's here: Flutter. See for yourself in the video below.

'Twitter be worried. Very Very worried.'


I want FlutterEyes! What better way to completely cut out all human interaction! Wait, that might not be so good. Oh well. Still want.

This video of funny goodness brought to you by The Next Web and more recently on Twitter via @EricaFinley, my lovely Twitter introducer.

SKINS

Skins. Sorry. I had to. Skins is over. I'm sad (hence the weeping):


from the Fashion Spot

I die a little.

via: iampirate. : secretsthatsell. : pitterpatterheart. : omgskins. : cigz. : and severedepression.

'The Hills': It's Baaaack. Oh no.

Is anyone else pumped for the new season of 'The Hills'? This is one show that I just love to hate, and I cannot seem to avert my eyes. I am SUCH a huge DORK! I admit it.

MTV Shows

I saw this video on a blog I like to follow sometimes: LOLguna Beach. They make a very good point in saying that "it looks like the whole season could fit into a single episode." So true, but we already know that right? Looks like soon I'm going to have to start finding time to watch this silly little show, 'The Hills', once again.

Pharrell, You're Kind of Amazing

Just like I said, Pharrell is pretty amazing. McDonald's is petty sweet too as long as I only consume it like once every two months or so. But how great are those french fries? Ooh and I might be a little obsessed with the breakfast bagel sandwiches. Yum. Wee tangent...

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.

BOO!

Halloween just might be my favorite holiday. It's way up there at least. It's just about having a good time without the stress of bigger holidays. This year I am ready and am way pumped!

Tonight I get to be this girl:

And tomorrow, this classy broad:

What could be more fun than being Ugly Betty and Amy Winehouse for a few days?! Happy Halloween everyone.

Things that matter to me right now

Smile.
I get to see Mates of State Saturday so be jealous.
I love Katy Perry's blog. She's just fun.
That lead me here which I find highly intriguing and foresee me spending, rather callously I might add, lots of time here.
Danny Masterson in a mustache:

Photo courtesy: http://www.thecobrasnake.com/

Have a nice day ladies and gents.

Updating is HARD

Hehehe, ok it's not that hard, but I just get so busy sometimes that I forget. Then when I think about it, I think more and more about how I have to have this AMAZING post that sums up everything that has gone on since the last post. Well then it's a big ball of pressure. Or well, I might just have gotten lazy on this. So I've decided three things: 1. I really need to update now. 2. I'm going to start updating again regularly so everyone should start reading again. 3: Instead of trying to write some feat of amazingness, I am going to just have a slight stream of consciousness. Here goes.

-I just read a headline saying that one of the world's largest diamonds was found in Africa. Granted, I have yet to read the story, but it made me thing. I wonder how many people were killed for that one diamond? Scary.

-Ok I like The Hills. SUE ME. It is a good show, and it is entertainment. I think people that try to hate on it to me should just get off their high horses and stop acting holier than thou about my interests. More on this subject:
-I'm currently catching up on last week's episode since I wasn't "allowed" to be on the main tv at my apartment. Anyway, the band on right now, White Tie Affair, is really fun! I'm going to check them out.
-I don't think Justin Bobby is as bad as everyone makes him out to be. I mean, I would never date him, but he's not horrible. He does clean up well and looks good in doing so. He also gives very good advice to Audrina. EXCEPT it pisses me off when he ditches her or treats her like dirt. He would make a better friend for her than boyfriend.
-Team Audrina! Ok enough about my love for this show.

-I'm supposedly going on a diet that was to start today, but it hasn't been working so well so far. I didn't get a chance to go grocery shopping yet so all I have here is crap, and I had leftover pizza for dinner. I'll be better tomorrow.

-My bedroom gets so HOT at night! I'm not sure what it is but after like 9 p.m. for some reason the temperature just jumps and it's ridiculous.

-Since I last wrote, I took a month long trip through Europe. That was absolutely amazing. My roommate and BFF came with me for the first two weeks for Paris, Amsterdam, more Paris, and London. We were even in Paris for Bastille Day which was really exciting. Then when she went home, I went off to Marseilles and Porto Vecchio, Corsica for another week and a half. It was crazy travelling alone, but also amazing. It was something that I personally needed to do. I learned a lot from it.

-I tried to eat a salad with Ranch dressing earlier (before the pizza). That was weird in itself since I almost never eat Ranch dressing. Then as I took the first bite, I thought it tasted weird and looked at the date on the dressing. Apparently it expired in August of 2007. It was over a year old. Gross. I just hope I don't get sick.

-I really need to get on decorating my room. I finally have a hammer and more nails to hang things so I actually can get started. Now I just need to get Chad to loan me his drill that he promised to let me use over a month ago. I have a shelf that I really need to hang in my bathroom that will make it both look better and give me way more space. And space it definitely sparse in my bathroom.

-Went to Chicago a week ago for the weekend to visit friends of mine, Mike and Kyle. SO fun. We painted the town red. Really, we painted Boystown red. Hehe, I love when Mike takes me to Boystown and introduces me to all his men. I had a blast visiting them both. I had been missing them, and I got a much needed break from Kalamazoo.

-This makes me remember that I need to make a trip to the Detroit area soon to visit Erica and Matt who moved out there. That one will be a fun trip too. I'm super excited though because I will get to see them the weekend after next! They're coming back for a Kalamazoo visit!

-I'm not sure if I put in my hyperlinks correctly. I've got to get back on top of my game in this blogging thing.

-Final thought: Rude.

I have a new favorite person.

It's this guy:


Buck Hollywood. How fabulous is that? Go to his website, www.buckhollywood.com, and watch his videos. He cracks me right up. He's easily the longest winded person I've seen which is just hilarious.

Sample time:



Love you bitch.
(Yeah, he stole my line.)

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...

"The Game"

I get my camera back today, weee! I still can't wait to see the pictures that were taken that fateful night that I left it.

Also, today is going so well. I got a surprise guest visitor for lunch AND tonight will be grand too.

On another note, I am reading this book called "The Game," and I am loving it. I was totally anti-reading this book when Steve and Chad were trying to get me to read it for a long time, but I finally gave in. It is about pick-up artists which I thought was stupid, but after beginning to read it, I realized there is much more to it. One, it is very well written and cracks me up every time I open it. Two, it is really about social interaction, one subject that completely interests me, hence the fact I majored in Communication.

When I saw a preview for this new show "The Pickup Artist" on VH1, I was way too excited. It is based on the book with one of the main characters, Mystery. I can't wait to see just what he really looks like and how he acts. I want to see his "Game" in action. Just the other day I was thinking how great of a reality show could be made based on this book, and now there is this. Ask and you shall receive. So I'm really excited to watch this tonight, because I am a dork. It really should be interesting though, at least to laugh at.