Archive for the ‘Just for fun!’ Category

Love/Hate Relationship.

August 27, 2010


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.

This and this.



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.

…well, it probably involves a lot of breasts, bottles, and ceiling fans actually.

But Adele’s blog, Mila’s Daydreams, imagines them to be much more fantastical than that. She says it’s her “maternity leave hobby” to photograph her baby’s nap-time dreams as she imagines them. This is some creative baby photography.

You really should go look at all the pictures, but here are some of my favorites.

Follow the daydreams here.

My New Favorite Vendor

July 26, 2010

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:)

But maybe you haven’t seen this one, because it’s not so official. I love imagining all the fun involved in making this… and the very patient photography.

Enjoy. (found here.)

Fancy-Shmancy Monograms

March 3, 2010

Designer Jessica Hirsche has an ongoing typography project where she publishes a new original-design letter each work day.

A few of our favorites:

3 things you could do with these pretty ditties:

  1. Print your last initial and frame in an arrangement between 2 wedding pictures.
  2. Print out the whole alphabet for your children’s room.
  3. Print monogram on transfer paper and iron on to tea towels for a wedding gift.

Find the whole collection right here.

Does anyone else just LOVE hearing stories about people trying creative social experiments? I found this video today and thought it was brilliant!

Check it out and let us know what you think! Would you take the stairs? Does this make you want to go watch “BIG”?

Found this video the other day at Portable Film Festival‘s website… Thought it was crazy cool graphically… The song is great too, I was just really impressed with the graphics.

Check it out! Let us know what you think… a.k.a. Leave a comment below.

Found this the other day and was thoroughly impressed. This guy recreated Michael Jackson’s song “Thriller”… vocally. Pretty crazy.

Once > Beautiful

January 8, 2010

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.

For those of you that follow us on Twitter, you will be familiar with this. BUT, by all means, keep reading!

First, can we all just admit that the genre of Christmas/Holiday music is rather scant when it comes to good music?

I mean, sure… There’s nothing quite like listening to Sinatra croon Frosty The Snowman or Nat King Cole sing The Christmas Song while decorating the tree… And the first couple times I hear Paul McCartney’s “Simply having a wonderful Christmas time” I get fuzzy, warm feelings confirming that Christmas is near.

BUT, while I’m driving around town, I’d much rather listen to Radiohead’s Kid A or U2′s Joshua Tree than Sinatra’s or Cole’s holiday tunes… And concerning the McCartney Christmas song, to quote a recent tweet from Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrutte from The Office), after a while it “makes me want to kill and eat a raw, bloody reindeer on his lawn.”

Maybe that’s a bit over the top, but I understand the sentiment behind it: with very few exceptions (that I am aware of) Christmas music is usually only listened to out of nostalgia, not for quality/depth/importance/etc…

A friend sent me an invite to get some new, FREE, Christmas music. I was skeptical at first, but checked it out because this friend usually has pretty good taste in music. Until now, my Christmas music playlist was pretty much just the Sufjan Stevens Christmas albums. (If you don’t have them, believe me, you NEED them.) They are so good that I would have to stop myself from listening to them throughout the rest of the year… Especially when Fall arrives…

Anyways, the name of the band is Sojourn. And yes, they were giving away the album for free.
The deal was:
A. Give them 5 email addresses of family or friends that they could send the same invite to.
or
B. Pay what you want for the album (a lá Radiohead for the release of In Rainbows)

I have listened to the album several times since then and I must say, I am REALLY impressed! This is great music! It is holiday music without the kitsch. I especially love the intro to Joy To The World… It’s very….. Celestial… or Glacial… Maybe both. I can’t decide. Point is, it’s great!

I get the feeling that I will have to stop myself from listening to this throughout the rest of the year too.

Here is the link for you to get the album… Hope you enjoy! When you give the album a listen, come back and let me know your thoughts on it. I would love to see what other people think!

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