cage the elephant

band name above. believe it or not they hail from...kentucky. check out their vid for "in one ear". while you're there, check out "no rest for the wicked".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0tsm0EhCJM&feature=related

hot and fresh

new from scottish sensation franz ferdinand is this eclectically delicious music video of their new song "no you girls". their latest installment is due june 1 and is called "tonight: franz ferdinand".

love it.

check it out here: http://www.hulu.com/watch/70428/mvids-franz-ferdinand-no-you-girls

bad music karma

i just checked EVERY single one of my most beloved artist's websites for upcoming tour dates in seattle/pdx. apparently seattle just isn't the place to go for summer-earsnack-musical-shows. lame.

sing it kids

okay, when i was in elementary, our school choir would sing the occasional beatles song, roger whittaker...but nothing so fly as COLDPLAY, bing crosby, or 70s buttrock. let me introduce you to the staten island PS 22 chorus. these kids are so fly. . i highly recommend you check out youtube.com for more of this flyness.

this is them singing viva la vida. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_tcE4rWovI

pride and joy

my older brother is the shit. i just asked my roommate brynn for another term similar to "the shit" to describe rem (to avoid using a four letter word) but we came up with nothing. so, he's the shit. he is in pilot training in del rio, texas and just had his first solo flight this week! here are some pics of some of my big bro and new favorite friends from the dirty D.

love these guys

it just doesn't look right without their moustaches

big sigh!

drop it like it's hot

for those of you lucky enough to live in a house of smoking hot music heads...heaven has come. check out dropbox.com. it's a way for you to share music, picture and document files between synced computers for FREE. TGS has gone live with dropbox and it's working wonders.

real world seattle

so i went to a little exit loan counseling at SPU today (since i really had nothing better to do) and there is GOOD NEWS!!!

if i die, my student loans will disappear!

get a yob...

though it is only temporary...i got a JOB (: my two best years of college were spent working for SPU's department of university ministries and i have been asked to come back and fill in (until june 30) for their administrative assistant. i have THE best boss, THE best co-workers and THE best student buds working with me. before we hired julie (the awesome girl who is leaving this job for me), i got to build her office out of all that junky office stuff that comes apart and i REALLY wanted this office (called the alcove). well, now for 2 shorts months it is mine (:

thank you God for the gift of a job! 

i love THOU

THOU. Better known as The Land of Unemployed. THOU is found somewhere between Narnia, Middle Earth and Oz. I've been living in THOU for the past...33 days and it's been 95% bliss. I have 6 more days here until I start a big person job so here is a photographic homage to THOU, the Land of the Freeloaders and Home of the Save(ing of money).

Feel free to crane your neck 90 degrees for this and the one below. Last Thursday my old man and I picked up some Potzke's Balls 'o' Fire, PowerBait, Spicy Spitz seeds and headed for Hebo Lake. Naturally, we turned the day into a competition that ended in a tie. Dad was the quickfire champ and I was the sure-shot accuracy queen but we both maxed out at 5 so I call it even.

We came, we slayed, we conquered.

Twice during my time in Dallas this week I forced mom to get off the couch and onto our hogs (a.k.a. bicycles). Life doesn't get much better than being on your granny bike with the wind in your hair, chasing three 12 year old skaters down the side streets of town. Look closely, this shot is of the best intersection in town...the corner of Washington and Oregon streets - the two best states in the union.

Virtually untested until now, granny bikes in fact DO have the capability to hit up a field of pot holes and round up some cattle. Me and ole' rickety showed this beef who's boss. That's what's up cow.

Me and my weapon of mass destruction have gone many miles together. This bike is the most faithful friend a girl could ask for. It never tells where we've been, always gets me where I need to go and pedals to the metal like none otha. With my feet of fury, we can go anywhere.

I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my biiiiike!

Gotta make grandma work for her dinner, you know what I mean. 

I even met my old friends Ella and Norah in THOU for a wonderful half-day of sidwalk chalk, neighborhood walks, Sound of Music singing, eating and dollhouse play. Love my girls. 

after zooming down clay street hill you can just make out my mom back there eating my duuuuuuuust-ah.

whoa matie. who said you could take a break?

it's a jungle out there

these passages are my strength and my song as i have an uncertain future ahead of me with the current job market and life changes of late.

jer. 29:11-14 - i'll show up and take care of you as i promised and bring you back home. i know what i'm doing. i have it all planned out - plans to take care of you, plans to give you the future you hope for. when you call on me, when you come and pray to me, i'll listen. when you come looking for me, you'll find me. yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, i'll make sure you won't be disappointed.

1 kings 19:11-12 - go stand on the mountain and attention before God. God will pass by. a hurricane wind ripped through the mountains and shattered the rocks before God, but God wasn't to be found in the wind; after the wind an earthquake, but God wasn't in the earthquake; and after the earthquake fire, but God wasn't in the fire, and after the fire a gentle and quiet whisper.

proverbs 3:6 - listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go...

slim's baaaaaack

leave it to the ever sensitive marshall mathers (a.k.a. eminem) to kick a celeb while they're down. on his new video for single "we made you" off of his new album "relapse", eminem leaves no celebrity's ego intact taking a hit at jessica simpson's weight, kim kardashian's derrier and slamming other celebs like lilo, sam ronson, sarah palin, amy winehouse, britney, jen aniston, john mayer, and more. chances are good that slim shady's music will send him straight to the top once more after being out of the spotlight for nearly 6 years. "we made you" is in eminem's characteristic nasally, nightmare-inducing "singing voice" but at a second listen, the lyrics are, as usual, sharp as a whip and on point with the celebrity culture of today. check out the video if you're in the mood for a good laugh.

late greats

why is it that authors are always such fly hipsters? here are some of my favs in the flesh.

theodore geisel AKA dr. seuss 

john steinbeck

f. scott fitzgerald

anne morrow lindbergh

ernest hemingway

maurice sendak

del rio is the SHIT

after 5 glorious days in the dirty D i made some incredible new friends, had the best weekend EVER and desperately want to go back. here's a little photographic tidbit from the weekend.

stash bash GLORY!

most of the ladies plus stef's mom

workin it with eggert & jake

drinking age in texas = 12

blatant gayness

roller skating at the spot. erik wins the award for most time spent on his ass

Creeper McCreeperson and sis