ok, so this isn’t exactly REQUIRED, but I found it to be interesting/noteworthy.
E! Online News – ‘Toon Titan Chuck Jones Dies
=( tis a sad day.
scary but true: Girls Just Want to Be Mean | New York Times Magazine
and this one’s just hilarious: Man Stabbed with Swordfish in Fight
song of the hour: suede – everything will flow
So you’ve got your candy pop music, your sappy ballads…. but then you come back to a quality piece of musical goodness with a song like this. =) hallelujah for suede.
I figured since I already started this line of of thought, I may as well add another one on there.
there’s a question mark after this one because i’m still not quite sure whether it truly qualifies as retardedness or not. I guess i can let you in on deciding this as well. in a nutshell, one of my good friends from back in high school went with a few of his stanford buddies to salt lake city for the olympic games. I, given a few hours to decide and mull over it, decided against going with them for the following reasons:
– paid for my FLIGHT home to the bay area
– would have to DRIVE 12 hours to slc.
– already really tired from the previous week. =(
all of these added up to an unhappy combination, so I turned down the offer. but I’m talking to garry and seeing some of his pictures.. and man, that olympic nostalgia comes back! you remember how amazing it is to just BE at the olympics, with all these people from all over the world in once place, all just there to enjoy “a good day at the races.” it is a completely amazing thing, and seeing his pictures/reading his descriptions just brings a flood of memories back.
so I missed spending the weekend in salt lake city, and instead spent it with my family (whom, for the record! I love and adore). We ate. We went out. We ate some more. We hung out at home and read newspapers/watched the olympics. we did the general spending time with each other.type thing… and I appreciated it so much because I feel like I don’t get to see my parents at all. it’s nice to come home and be the daughter every oncein a while. =) it’s nice to feel loved.
lesson learned: LOVE AND APPRECIATE YOUR PARENTS!!!
=)
somehow, with just a little bit of nudging, you make become that person i’d forgotten how to be, the person I forgot I could be…
and in the next moment, another friend (from now) goes ahead and kicks me right back down there again.
song of the hour: when you say nothing at all
so totally, incredibly, amazingly sweet. :) both versions are soooo marvelous… alison krauss’ voice is amazing.. it’s so beautiful! Both versions are on repeat. special thanks to my sister and to my friend corwin for sharing the songs with me!
WHEN YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL
Alison Krauss / Ronan Keating
(“Notting Hill”)
It’s amazing how you can speak right through my heart
Without saying a word, you can light up the dark
Try as I may I can never explain
Why I hear when you don’t say a thing
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There’s a truth in your eyes saying you’ll never leave me
A touch of your hand says you’ll catch me if ever I fall
You say it best
When you say nothing at all
All day long I can hear people talking out loud
But when you hold me near, you drown out the crowd
Try as I may they can never define
What’s being said between your heart and mine
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There’s a truth in your eyes saying you’ll never leave me
A touch of your hand says you’ll catch me if ever I fall
You say it best
When you say nothing at all
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There’s a truth in your eyes saying you’ll never leave me
A touch of your hand says you’ll catch me if ever I fall
You say it best
When you say nothing at all
currently spinning: remy zero – the golden hum
it’s nice being home and listening to CDs on a cd boombox instead of on my crappy computer speakers. I’ve decided once I get out and make some money, I want to get myself a decent stereo system, so I can enjoy my music the way it was meant to be listened to!!
speaking of “how it was meant to be listened to,” here’s an interesting factoid about the marriage of car sound systems and motown records. when cars were becoming popular in the 40s and 50s, they (naturally) did not come with radios. but as rock and roll became more and more popular, the radio began to seem like rather an essential. Knowing this, motown records would purposely engineer their potential singles to sound good in dem car speakers. The folks at Hitsville, USA certainly knew how to work the market. =)
It’s Bobbo’s 24th Birthday today! go wish him well.
on the other note, I’m at home at the moment, so I cannot wish him happy birthday in person. =(
Happy Birthday to mah friend Jack Lin. It’s his birthday today (2/15).
it’s the day of loooooooooove!! ;D
heheh. here’s a cool linkie for y’all. See it with someone you love. click here.
