Fall beers – If you love fall beers then you know what I am talking about.  Sam Adams’ Octoberfest, Christian Moerlein’s Fifth & Vine, Blue Moon’s Harvest Moon, if it’s “fall-y” then I am going to drink it.

HBO shows - I thought about just saying True Blood but the truth is I love almost every series on HBO right now: Entourage, Hard Knocks, Bored to Death and I am really excited for Boardwalk Empire…I LOVE Steve Buscemi!

Good Headphones – I just this new pair of Ultimate Ears MetroFi 170vi and they are pretty cool.  Although I think I have misshapen ear holes because they always slip out.   I know they aren’t the most expensive headphones but for someone who has been using a pair of the white iPod headphones with only one functioning ear bud they are a HUGE step up.

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Facebook Places – It’s really the most annoying thing ever.  Facebook sat down and thought, “How can we make Facebook include even more information about a person’s life that no one cares about”.  And they succeeded.

Hot Tub Time Machine – It wasn’t good.  No matter what your expectations for the movie were you can’t say that it was good.  It just wasn’t.

iPhone 4 dropped calls – I worship Apple in unhealthy ways and I refuse to give up my phone but if they don’t fix the dropped calls thing I am going to throw my phone directly at a Genius.  If you are on the fence I would wait until they release the next version of the phone.

Don Pablo’s – All the good local Mexican places in the world and you choose Don Pablo’s…really?  Next stop: Red Lobster.

From time to time we like to recommend vendors to you that we feel are especially awesome.  This one is one of the best we have ever seen.

Yvette’s Bridal and Formal

You’re welcome:)

Have you ever seen a movie, heard a song/album, read a book, attended an art exhibit, etc… that you felt was SO incredibly, amazingly beautiful that you NEEDED to tell everyone you knew? And I don’t mean WANTED… I mean NEEDED… As if your life depended on it… Or maybe, better yet, you just KNEW their journey through life would be sadly lacking were they unable/unwilling to experience it…

Well I have. Actually, I think it happens to me a bit more than other people I know… I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because I have some obsessive tendencies. Who knows. What I do know is that there is SO much beauty in the world, and, for the health of our soul, we NEED to see it… Otherwise all we focus on is the ugliness. And who needs that?

Anyways, I say all of that to call attention to the elephant in the room which is my tendency to get really passionate about things. (My opinion is that that is not a bad thing… But that is for another conversation.) With all of that in mind, there is something that you NEED to see.

Last night I watched this movie called Once… again… I saw it a couple years ago when it first came out, and was completely blown away. And as I watched it again last night, I realized, this is seriously one of the best movies I have ever seen. I am not going to go into too many details here, because I seriously just want you to watch it. But I will tell a little of the story of how it was made.

The director had an idea for a movie that he wanted to do on a short budget… $100k. The original idea, I believe, was to make it and sell it concerts for the Irish rock band The Frames. (Great band… Check them out for sure.) Anyways, the lead singer from that band co-stars in the movie along side a female musician friend of his. And, WOW! It is an indescribably beautiful movie! They actually won an Oscar for Best Original Score or something like that… The music, which is mostly what the movie revolves around, is amazing!

OK, well I am going to shut up about it now.

But, before I go, I just want to stress again that this movie is one you absolutely NEED to see.

If you have seen the movie please leave us a comment saying what you thought!
And, if you watch the movie, PLEASE come back and let us know what you think!

I might go watch it again right now…
P.S. The actors/musicians from the movie have formed a band called The Swell Season and have release 2 albums. Both are amazing and well worth the money.