So today's Music Week Blog Party is Guilty Pleasures. The problem is, I don't feel guilty for liking any of these. They are so totally rad in every way. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
For some reason YouTube is not letting me embed any of these. Click the links for some awesomeness. I promise you will not be disappointed.
C'est La Vie- B*Witched
Bring it all back - S Club 7
Mmmbop - Hanson
Tonight - New Kids on the Block
Lucky - Britney Spears
Come on Over - Christina Aguilera
With You - Jessica Simpson
Status Quo - High School Musical
[I almost posted this with yesterday's post, but I definitely think it's more fitting here.]
**I'm hoping at least one of the two people who understand the title of this post are reading this. ken, friend, are you out there?
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Thursday, April 02, 2009
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
A little late to the party
I've been trying to bust out of my blogging rut for a while. Today I stumbled upon Magchunk, Sweetie Pie Pumpkin Noodle, and You Are My Fave's Blog Music Party Week and figured that's just what I needed to get back to blogging regularly again. I've missed two days but will get to Monday's and Tuesday's topics eventually. In addition to being just the motivation I need to blog again, it's also an awesome way to stumble upon more really nifty blogs by checking out who else is in on the party. So enjoy my selections and then check out the rest of the party people. Oh and if you have a blog, come join the party!
Today's Blog Music Party topic is favorite songs from/used in movies. I went a little crazy. There's lots. Hope you enjoy! Comment if you disagree with any of my obviously awesome choices or think I forgot anything.
Invisible Circus "Hot Rod Lincoln"
I was briefly obsessed with this movie. This scene was one of my favorite.
A Lot Like Love "If you leave me now"
This move is totally underrated. I kind of hate Ashton Kutcher but he is so likable in this. And Amanda Peet is just awesome in everything she does.
Dirty Dancing "Time of My Life"
Upon recent viewing I'm absolutely loving the scenes with Baby's parents. First of all, RIP Jerry Orbach, he was an amazing actor. Second, I love when he jumps out of his seat after Johnny jumps off the stage. Hilarious! Thirdly, it is so very rad that Emily Gilmore was Baby's mom. Lady got moves. Lastly, when Johnny sings along and wrinkles up his nose as he dances with Baby (approx 4:12) = love.
Reality Bites "My Sharona"
Makes me want to chop off my hair. I can't watch this movie. Totally brilliant.
Almost Famous "Tiny Dancer"
Of course.
Breakfast at Tiffany's "Moon River"
Of course.
Garden State "New Slang"This was amazing once so it makes the list. Plus, Natalie Portman = love.
10 Things I Hate About You "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" This is sad now.
The Breakfast Club "We are not alone" Less for the song, more for the dancing.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off "Twist and Shout"Just pure awesomeness.
Rent "Seasons of Love"I can't lie. I used to be a Rent-head and I seriously shed a tear when I first saw this opening scene in the theater.
Empire Records "If You Want Blood" Honorable mentions: "Sugar High," "Say No More Mon Amour," closing scene dancing on the roof to "This is the Day," AJ and Corey making out to "'Til I Hear it From You"
Pippi Longstocking "Theme"Memories.
Elizabethtown - various songs This is from the scene after Orlando Bloom gets his "very special map" and listens to the mix tapes Kirsten Dunst has made. The below clip is a part of this scene. It's also dubbed over. It's all kind of hilarious.
Newsies "King of New York" Awesome. Also, Christian Bale = yum
I couldn't find clips for these but they should be included Say Anything "In Your Eyes" - iconic boombox scene; Igby Goes Down "The Weight" - with visual of Igby on the airplane at end of movie; Love Actually "Both Sides Now" - when Emma Thompson's character listens it to it after finding out Sirius Snape gave the necklace to some other chick. that scene gets me every time.
On a semi-related note, in trying to find clips on YouTube I stumbled upon my absolute favorite childhood movie "Wrinkles in Need of Cuddles." The entire movie is on YouTube. Below is the first third of the movie. I didn't include it with the above list because I couldn't pick one song out of all of this awesomeness. Seriously.
Today's Blog Music Party topic is favorite songs from/used in movies. I went a little crazy. There's lots. Hope you enjoy! Comment if you disagree with any of my obviously awesome choices or think I forgot anything.
Invisible Circus "Hot Rod Lincoln"
I was briefly obsessed with this movie. This scene was one of my favorite.
A Lot Like Love "If you leave me now"
This move is totally underrated. I kind of hate Ashton Kutcher but he is so likable in this. And Amanda Peet is just awesome in everything she does.
Dirty Dancing "Time of My Life"
Upon recent viewing I'm absolutely loving the scenes with Baby's parents. First of all, RIP Jerry Orbach, he was an amazing actor. Second, I love when he jumps out of his seat after Johnny jumps off the stage. Hilarious! Thirdly, it is so very rad that Emily Gilmore was Baby's mom. Lady got moves. Lastly, when Johnny sings along and wrinkles up his nose as he dances with Baby (approx 4:12) = love.
Reality Bites "My Sharona"
Makes me want to chop off my hair. I can't watch this movie. Totally brilliant.
Almost Famous "Tiny Dancer"
Of course.
Breakfast at Tiffany's "Moon River"
Of course.
Garden State "New Slang"This was amazing once so it makes the list. Plus, Natalie Portman = love.
10 Things I Hate About You "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" This is sad now.
The Breakfast Club "We are not alone" Less for the song, more for the dancing.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off "Twist and Shout"Just pure awesomeness.
Rent "Seasons of Love"I can't lie. I used to be a Rent-head and I seriously shed a tear when I first saw this opening scene in the theater.
Empire Records "If You Want Blood" Honorable mentions: "Sugar High," "Say No More Mon Amour," closing scene dancing on the roof to "This is the Day," AJ and Corey making out to "'Til I Hear it From You"
Pippi Longstocking "Theme"Memories.
Elizabethtown - various songs This is from the scene after Orlando Bloom gets his "very special map" and listens to the mix tapes Kirsten Dunst has made. The below clip is a part of this scene. It's also dubbed over. It's all kind of hilarious.
Newsies "King of New York" Awesome. Also, Christian Bale = yum
I couldn't find clips for these but they should be included Say Anything "In Your Eyes" - iconic boombox scene; Igby Goes Down "The Weight" - with visual of Igby on the airplane at end of movie; Love Actually "Both Sides Now" - when Emma Thompson's character listens it to it after finding out Sirius Snape gave the necklace to some other chick. that scene gets me every time.
On a semi-related note, in trying to find clips on YouTube I stumbled upon my absolute favorite childhood movie "Wrinkles in Need of Cuddles." The entire movie is on YouTube. Below is the first third of the movie. I didn't include it with the above list because I couldn't pick one song out of all of this awesomeness. Seriously.
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Who needs a house out in Hackensack?
I have to move. I don't want to. I went to look at a place the other night with JM. Despite being only a block from where I live now, the area was surprisingly super sketchy. Despite being only about $200 less than what we now pay for a three bedroom apartment with a full living room and fairly nice sized kitchen, this place was two bedrooms, each the size of one of my closets currently, and a kinda kitchen space/room. And it was dirty and sketchy and gross and I would never live there.
And everything I find on Craig's List is either super expensive or a scam so I've narrowed my options to:
1. moving back in with my parent's (ha)
2. moving in with anthony and jill in montpelier (i would totally actually do this if it didn't mean that two very important people in my life would pretty much never talk to me again if i did)
3. quitting my job, selling all my belongings and moving to peru (or beirut)
So I called my parents to get their thoughts on my options. My dad's suggestions (I'm not making these up!!):
1. JM moving into my current room with me. Get bunk beds.
2. move in with a recently married friend of the family who just bought a house in monroe
Any guesses to the final - and absolutely serious - solution from my parents...
Yup that's right....
3. Pray about it! Give it up to God!
When I end up homeless in a month, you'll know who to blame.
And everything I find on Craig's List is either super expensive or a scam so I've narrowed my options to:
1. moving back in with my parent's (ha)
2. moving in with anthony and jill in montpelier (i would totally actually do this if it didn't mean that two very important people in my life would pretty much never talk to me again if i did)
3. quitting my job, selling all my belongings and moving to peru (or beirut)
So I called my parents to get their thoughts on my options. My dad's suggestions (I'm not making these up!!):
1. JM moving into my current room with me. Get bunk beds.
2. move in with a recently married friend of the family who just bought a house in monroe
Any guesses to the final - and absolutely serious - solution from my parents...
Yup that's right....
3. Pray about it! Give it up to God!
When I end up homeless in a month, you'll know who to blame.
Friday, May 23, 2008
the heart boner post reminded me...
There are lots of things I've done in my life that I'm proud of. Some of the highlights:
- not only passing my history class senior year and being allowed to graduate, but actually receiving a completely undeserved B. awesome!
- writing my 50 page senior paper in three days - while studying for my other finals and completing my journalism II journal - and receiving an A+ on it and being asked - out of all undergrad fashion merch majors - to present it at some undergrad symposium forum thingee.
- getting that award thingee (i don't remember the name of it) that was awarded to one student from each department by a faculty that less than a year earlier probably didn't even know i was in their department.
- being editor in chief of the banner.
- the series of events that took place at the 50 days party.
- eventually moving out of my parent's house (although apparently some people believe that despite the fact that i now live 45 miles away from my parents and am very rarely ever in monroe, that essentially i still live there)
- going four months (and counting) without cutting my hair!
- keeping phish alive, not only longer than all his fishy friends thus proving all those that voted my fish the fish to die first wrong, but keeping a freakin' goldfish alive for two freakin' years!
- beating anthony and craig at bowling.
out of all those awesome accomplishments, the one i may be most proud of...
completing (and surviving) my three nights, three cities, three shows weekend!
friday night: lionely neykov - brooklyn
saturday night: georgie james - washington, d.c.
sunday night: handsome furs - nyc
awesome shows. awesome weekend. awesome me. yay.
- not only passing my history class senior year and being allowed to graduate, but actually receiving a completely undeserved B. awesome!
- writing my 50 page senior paper in three days - while studying for my other finals and completing my journalism II journal - and receiving an A+ on it and being asked - out of all undergrad fashion merch majors - to present it at some undergrad symposium forum thingee.
- getting that award thingee (i don't remember the name of it) that was awarded to one student from each department by a faculty that less than a year earlier probably didn't even know i was in their department.
- being editor in chief of the banner.
- the series of events that took place at the 50 days party.
- eventually moving out of my parent's house (although apparently some people believe that despite the fact that i now live 45 miles away from my parents and am very rarely ever in monroe, that essentially i still live there)
- going four months (and counting) without cutting my hair!
- keeping phish alive, not only longer than all his fishy friends thus proving all those that voted my fish the fish to die first wrong, but keeping a freakin' goldfish alive for two freakin' years!
- beating anthony and craig at bowling.
out of all those awesome accomplishments, the one i may be most proud of...
completing (and surviving) my three nights, three cities, three shows weekend!
friday night: lionely neykov - brooklyn
saturday night: georgie james - washington, d.c.
sunday night: handsome furs - nyc
awesome shows. awesome weekend. awesome me. yay.
Monday, April 28, 2008
I am 32 flavors and then some...
But if you're looking for a little vanilla - check it.
In completely and totally unrelated news (like not even a little bit related), I was totally going to post all sorts of awesomeness last night. Like about how Zooey Deschannel is my new bff, how I'm engaged and getting free meals, how bat shit crazy my family really is, how my mom hung up on me, how Mickey Dolenz and NKOTB are totally making my life right now, how sad Vampire Weekend and babies make me, how I'm thrilled and at the same time totally sad to be Tickles-less, how awesome sml cookies test run went, how I'm the star master, how I'm now a part of the Sara Kendall Trio - which actually really truly exists, how I'm embracing my complete nerdom and posting comic con pics, how the cat litter all over my floor makes me sad, how swallowing a bug only makes the top five list of gross things that happened to me last week, how much awesomer fantasy and lies are compared to reality, how gene chandler's gots moves, how much i love warm clothes weather, how much i detest being at the whim of people with cars, how much i love being car-less, how self-involved i really truly am, how i'm not a cat person, dog person, or people person and will surely die alone, but how being engaged fixes that problem, how i'm going to make my fiance clean up after me, cuz why else would you get engaged? how much i really want to watch newsies and dazed and confused right now and wish that a) i wasn't at work and b) i had a vcr or b) wish i had those movies on dvd cuz who even has vhs's anymore, and yes, all of this is really totally going on in my head right now and aren't you concerned for me??
but...i got distracted.
oops. sorry. try again later.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
things i'm missing about college these days:
1. care packages. i realize i only moved 45 minutes away. and that i'm home almost every weekend doing laundry. and that i'm not 18 anymore. but my parents could still send me care packages. or y'know, you could.
2. mail. my sister used to send wicked cool postcards and danielle sent the best letters. mostly to make up for the fact that she'd never call. now she doesn't call. or write.
3. learning stuff. i was way smarter four years ago.
4. friends. my friends were all so near-by. jennie was rarely more than a few feet from my side. i miss that.
5. readily available food. be it crappy caf food or a variety of fast food - food was always right there. and no cooking.
6. sleeping in. how sweet was that.
7. vacations. summer vacation. winter vacation. it was like i never had class. what i would give for a vacation right now.
8. money. i don't know how i seemed to have more money in college when i wasn't doing shit and now that i'm actually making a semi-reasonable salary i'm always broke. but that's how it was.
9. boys. i was so much more popular in virginia.
10. thinking about the future. it was a lot easier to say four years ago that we would totally do london '07 because by then we'd all be settled in our fabulous money-making careers and doing all these fabulous things.
1. care packages. i realize i only moved 45 minutes away. and that i'm home almost every weekend doing laundry. and that i'm not 18 anymore. but my parents could still send me care packages. or y'know, you could.
2. mail. my sister used to send wicked cool postcards and danielle sent the best letters. mostly to make up for the fact that she'd never call. now she doesn't call. or write.
3. learning stuff. i was way smarter four years ago.
4. friends. my friends were all so near-by. jennie was rarely more than a few feet from my side. i miss that.
5. readily available food. be it crappy caf food or a variety of fast food - food was always right there. and no cooking.
6. sleeping in. how sweet was that.
7. vacations. summer vacation. winter vacation. it was like i never had class. what i would give for a vacation right now.
8. money. i don't know how i seemed to have more money in college when i wasn't doing shit and now that i'm actually making a semi-reasonable salary i'm always broke. but that's how it was.
9. boys. i was so much more popular in virginia.
10. thinking about the future. it was a lot easier to say four years ago that we would totally do london '07 because by then we'd all be settled in our fabulous money-making careers and doing all these fabulous things.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Lists of Lists
I like to make lists?
Do you like to make lists?
Who doesn't like to make lists?
No one I know, that's who.
Last night, while watching Kimya Dawson play at Sound Fix, I was chatting with Rebecca over lists. We were discussing the difficulties of listing out all concerts ever attended. I attempted this once a few weeks ago. I think my total tally was somewhere near 70 - maybe I'll post it here some day. When I started the list I tried to include dates and the people I attended each show with. This proved futile as dates started out as February 20th?, 1999 to February?, '99 to winter of '99, to '99??? so I eventually gave up. I gave up on trying to include attendants as well since it was pretty much always a different combination of: Kendall, Anthony, Jill, and Katie and I could rarely remember which combination.
Rebecca told me how she recently made a list of all the boys she's ever kissed. I decided to try that today. My list fell sadly short and I have decided that I clearly need to make out more. Any takers?
**I would like to point out here that I did not include the kid that worked at the bowling alley whom I still maintain I did not make out with 8 years ago in the hot tub despite everyone claiming I did (I still have the scar from where I fell out the window avoiding trying to make out with him on my arm to prove it!) even though adding him would help me look slightly less pathetic. That's how committed I am to getting the truth out there.**
Also, Rebecca was quite pleased to be able to remember first and last names for almost all on her list. And even on my pathetically short list I have a lot of "blank's friend" and "that guy from that bar" and "that guy from that one Rutgers frat" and "that guy from that other Rutger's frat." One would think that since I have such a short list it would mean maybe I had some standards or something. Yeah, guess not.
I am now working on a list of all of my big-time crushes. There's a lot. I'm sure there's tons I'm forgetting. If you can think of one, please remind me. I'm actually finding this list quite fun. Particularly realizing what poor taste I had back in the day (no offense to Donny, and of course my continuing crush on the immaculate Logan Powell not withstanding of course).
Any suggestions for other lists I can make??
Do you like to make lists?
Who doesn't like to make lists?
No one I know, that's who.
Last night, while watching Kimya Dawson play at Sound Fix, I was chatting with Rebecca over lists. We were discussing the difficulties of listing out all concerts ever attended. I attempted this once a few weeks ago. I think my total tally was somewhere near 70 - maybe I'll post it here some day. When I started the list I tried to include dates and the people I attended each show with. This proved futile as dates started out as February 20th?, 1999 to February?, '99 to winter of '99, to '99??? so I eventually gave up. I gave up on trying to include attendants as well since it was pretty much always a different combination of: Kendall, Anthony, Jill, and Katie and I could rarely remember which combination.
Rebecca told me how she recently made a list of all the boys she's ever kissed. I decided to try that today. My list fell sadly short and I have decided that I clearly need to make out more. Any takers?
**I would like to point out here that I did not include the kid that worked at the bowling alley whom I still maintain I did not make out with 8 years ago in the hot tub despite everyone claiming I did (I still have the scar from where I fell out the window avoiding trying to make out with him on my arm to prove it!) even though adding him would help me look slightly less pathetic. That's how committed I am to getting the truth out there.**
Also, Rebecca was quite pleased to be able to remember first and last names for almost all on her list. And even on my pathetically short list I have a lot of "blank's friend" and "that guy from that bar" and "that guy from that one Rutgers frat" and "that guy from that other Rutger's frat." One would think that since I have such a short list it would mean maybe I had some standards or something. Yeah, guess not.
I am now working on a list of all of my big-time crushes. There's a lot. I'm sure there's tons I'm forgetting. If you can think of one, please remind me. I'm actually finding this list quite fun. Particularly realizing what poor taste I had back in the day (no offense to Donny, and of course my continuing crush on the immaculate Logan Powell not withstanding of course).
Any suggestions for other lists I can make??
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