You Heard it Here First - Edition 2

In all reality, you probably didn't hear it here first. But let's pretend you did. Just for my musical genius credibility which we all know I have, you know its true. Here are some of my favorite things right now in the world of music. Some older. Some new. And some massive claps and snaps for pandora.com - a everexpanding vault of good music, and also to kink.fm - the station I could only dream to work for (no I'm not adding that to my plethera of career wants, just a musing, ignore me). But mainly these just come from my head, songs I find myself singing or refereing to in conversation or realizing that I've been not quite but almost been singing a hook from all day (weird I know, but it happens a lot actually). Anyways. Here you go. Enjoy.

Out Loud - by Dispatch. And oldie but a goodie, it played on my pandora playlist today and I realize how much I love their clear acoustic sound but also very real and urgent feel that they give to their vocals. And extremely unique. To me, it sounds like something from my childhood campfire bliss. My camp counselor crush was named Carl,he was british. sigh. I can't find a decent youtube video, other than everyone and their mother covering this song in their dirty living room, so check out one of their fake myspace pages and take a listen :)


Rain City - Turin Brakes. Without shame, I confess that a lot of my favorite songs and groups from the past few years has been from renting seasons of the OC and then immediately going and downloading their soundtracks. It's like a indie music treasure chest. And one of my crown jewels was this one. It's also somewhat not very new, but I played it on a whim this morning while getting ready, and I was pleasantly surprised. The video is pretty pathetic, but listen while you read. Don't fall asleep though, its pretty chill.




Travailler Orgasmic Remix - by TTC. And juuust when you thought I was getting all indie music snobby, I bring you some really awesome french white rap pop with THAT title. I know. It's big over their right now, and who doesnt like some french ridiculousness with their coffee in the morning. Maybe add a croissant for flair, see its already rubbing off on you. You're just lucky you arent spending the entire time trying to understand, which of course leads to many many listens. Which I guess isnt necessarily a bad thing. I would freaking love to rock out to this in Club Escape. And who knew that the best rapper out of all of them would be the one who looks like freaking dilbert.





Shake it - Metro Station. My new favorite song, saving the best for last, has a surprisingly retro vibe to it, but apparently thats in right, think Amy Winehouse and other british invasions of that nature. Kind of reminds me of what would have happened if you put the Killers and the Cure into the mid nineties and made them write a song. Makes me want to put a printed hoodie on and run around on a skateboard. But I'm going to feature these awesome girls, who I would have LOVED to be in this video with. My friends and I were too busy making up dances to Lauryn Hill songs at that age to be doing anything as age appropriate and silly-fun as this.

Gmail's postsecret: I have a panty fetish

The five google sidebar ads while currently logged into gmail. 3/4/08 2:48 pm

Men wearing nightgowns

Panties

Teen panties on sale

diapers for girls

men in pantie

topped off with the ad that’s above the gmail email inbox

Women who wear thongs – the lowdown

What the fuck gmail!?



Stay Tuned: I am aware that my blogs lately have been lacking in substance, but the past few days have been awfuly sucky, for no apparent reason, so give me the benefit of the doubt, and keep an eye out for an upcoming music edition, full of juicy new stuff that you'll end up digging!

ummmmm YEAH

I have internet!!

I have internet!!

I have internet!!

I have internet!!

I have internet!!

I have internet!!

and most importantly

I HAVE INTERNET IN MY BED!!

as majorly exciting as this is, this could also be the death of me in the form of never getting out of bed, eating, reading, and basically LIVING in bed as I enjoy my newfound unlimited movies/shows on netflix. UM YEAH. call me if you don't hear from my for awhile. remind me that ive been meaning to read more lately. but also, do a little DANCE for my blessing of INTERNET IN BED. :)

Stepping inside my mind's eye for a minute

I feel like there's a lot of movement in my life. things are happening. And after feeling for a long while that I've been deep in a lull (not a negative lull, just a plain ole lull), I'm really happy to report that theres lots of cliche internal stuff going on, as well as the perspective of my mind's eye really being able to see the movement thats going to be happen very soon. Sometimes just the stuff thats going on this weekend and other times, its stuff that won't be happening untill next winter. Despite the patience required, I am so so ready to be READY for these things to happen. Anticipation anxiety is definitely not fun, not for anyone, but especially stupid considering my "anxious tummy girl" title, and despite there being a little bit of that regarding a certain boy in my life, I am genuinely NOT having any of that scary tummy shit. And I am extremely grateful. And as a recent girlfriend just pointed out on a all day shopping extravaganza, it really is about being gracious and ready for all the things that you're thrown. So bring it on! And the idea of "Minds eye" never ceases to fascinate me, and has been the topic of discussion many times in the past few weeks, so.... I leave you with this song by Missy Higgins, who I have the priveledge to see LIVE tonight. Holla!

Glee

Text 1: You are beautiful.

Text 2: and if my T9 let me say this, I would have said gorgeous.


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Picture Time - Lauren in PDX

I said there are pictures to come...and I meant it! Enjoy!

dance classes: near the top of my lifelong to do list

I want to take dance classes. I used to dance a ton in my younger years, insert cheesy dance tapdance routine with sparkly hat home video here, yet I have been googling for weeks now and can't find anything that looks beginner enough for me because of the elapsed time. Plus I really just want a buddy to go with, at least at first. I've done extensive searches of the dance studios in portland and nothing seems quite right or is explained well enough to try out. Any ideas? Maybe I should just close my eyes and pick one and try it. What exactly do I have to lose? just an hour of my time and my pride I guess. But the latter should be discarded as often as possibly anyways, so why the heck not! Now the question is, lyrical or tap or jazz or ballet? I really want to try lyrical, since I've never done it before and it just feels different enough to interest me. Ahh decisions. And I'm requiring all those of you who read my blog, probably all 6 of you, to poke me and prod me to do this. Remind me that its worth it, or even say you'll join me!