Song of the Day: The promise Ring - Suffer Never

And it's about time too! Been holdin' it down without a peep as of late. It's been quite an interesting year of highs, low, and mediocrity. It comes with the territory at this stage I guess. I've been trying to warm myself with the current surroundings and can officially consider myself a city slicker. I contribute to the daily traffic, coffee shop lines, and the constant bickering and complaining of the city's public transit system (even though I hardly use it). I guess T.O. can now be considered home...

To help with the transition, music and entertainment really helped ease into second base of cuty dwelling. Some of the things that kept me balanced in 2008.

Musica

• MGMT - Oracular Spectacular: solid album and futuristic groove-worthy
• Chairlift - Does You Inspire You: makes you want to be 19 and carefree again
• Foals - Antidotes: math-rock cannot seem to escape me
• She & Him - Volume One: Zooey Deschanel has a warm & earthy voice
• Mates of Sate - Re-Arrange Us: Marriage Rock rules!

• American Teen - The musical outcast was particularly fascinating ... Hannah Bailey
• The Wackness - the 90's outlined to a tee
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Muppet operas need to come back in abig way. Thanks Jason Segal
• Smart People - Ellen Page is too good at portraying the smartass teen. Female Alex P. Keaton?
• Gigantic - I sense a Zooey Deschanel theme here
• The Go-Getter - a road trip movies are always awesome
• Rachel Getting Married - it just felt real and honest. Can't believe I liked a wedding movie!

Song of the Day: Friendly Fires - Paris featuring Au Revoir Simone (Aeroplane Remix)

You guessed it... Tina Fey! Huzaah!

The article, here.

The clip, here.




BTW, My heart, my tools, my skills my fools, my (kilo)joules (part 2) coming soon.

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Song of the Day: Women - Shaking Hands

So 2008 has come and gone and now we're faced with 2009. This past NYE represented 5 years of blogging. I don't think I'm getting any better (what am I measuring up against?!?), but I keep at it for some reason. Hopefully, I've learned to write/type more effectively. As my friends joke, my ESL skills are off the chain. Happy birthday to you M-O-H'! May you survive another year of published nonsense into the world of the interweb and exist amongst the youthful & less- attentive twitter crowd.

So 5 years... I'm still confused as ever. I don't know what I'm writing about. blah blah blah. All I know is that it's some release of creativity that is lacking outlet these days. You can't really add doodles and drawings of wizards on letterheads and RFPs to clients and managers (though I wish I could). This party is slowing winding down to an end and I'm sticking around until they kick me out. Fingers crossed Google keeps this active opposed to diverting energy and reseources so something new and creative that I haven't adopted yet.

Outof all the uncertainty and whimiscale blabbering, there's one thing that is constant throughout the five years:


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