Friday, February 27, 2009

Bon Voyage!

I'm off to London tomorrow!
Thought I would quick like post this amazing pic of the heart of the Ladies Drinking Society that I belong to.
From left to right is me, Franny the Hot Mom, Nina Richards, and Mama Kel!

These ladies sent me off with lots of laughter and dirty talk!

Keep it cute, my favorites!
I promise to post all the pics of my British capers when I return!

xox

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Who'd Fall in Love with a Chicken with its Head Cut Off?

Just a few things...

Go see this! SO GOOD and perfectly dark!
It was beautifully made and visually astonishing.

One night visitor...

Robert Frederick Glassford slept over on the air mattress and watched Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! with me until we got too sleepy!
We share a mutual crush on Zach Galiafinakis...also, Robb hadn't been to a Wendy's in a decade, he said.
He had a number 1.

I took this picture to remind me to go here.
One should never forget a place that talks up it's breakfast burritos.
NEVER.

Damascus Grill - Littleton, CO.
Strawberry Mango juice and mood music - it doesn't get better than that!

And it only got better - Creamy dream hummus.
And their falafel is PERFECT.

Go there...Littleton has secrets too!

I'm distracted. Chicken with my head cut off.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

THE BRONX

I just booked tickets for Brandy Lou and I to see THE BRONX at the Electric Ballroom in Camden on March 4th!

OMG, I WILL BE IN LONDON A WEEK FROM TODAY!

Break Dance Freak Out!

So, here are those rad break dance videos I took over at the Museum of Contemporary Art!
Enjoy!





My break dance boyfriend!







This little munchkin threw down!



DREAMY!

Sorry it took so long...

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Thank You, Urban Dictionary

So, I was casually browsing through the daily Urban Dictionary entries and I found something amazing. Something that I have been trying to give a name to and something that I am profoundly afflicted with.

VOCD

"Volume Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder"
Function: Noun

A psychoneurotic disorder in which the television viewer is beset with obsessions or compulsions or both to adjust the volume on the television to a "perfect" number, such as 15, 20, 25, etc. and suffers extreme anxiety or depression through failure to adjust the volume or witnessing an "imperfect" number (9, 16, 31).


Joe has VOCD; he must adjust the volume on any television in which it is not set to a perfect number.

I don't just do it with the TV though...I obsess about it in my car too.
EDIT: SORRY! The link works now!

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Dream Baby



I haven't felt like doing a proper blog lately - I want to say it's something about Mercury in retrograde or something, but who the fuck knows why people feel and do what they do.

At any rate, my rad pal, Wyoming lady, and all around rock bitch friend Steph had a birthday and I wanted to shout it out!

Happy Birthday, you!
I'm glad you're in my life keeping it cute, real, and awfully special!

p.s. how amazing is it that Lil Kyle gave Steph a present wrapped in a red flannel from the back seat of his car?
Seriously rad. I can't believe I didn't think of that idea first - it's so 90's and awesome!
I'm TOTALLY NOT being facetious.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Total Fest VIII: Update!

There are few things that I've experienced in my life that have been half as fun as Total Fest.
I've been in Missoula for all but one year of the 7 years that Total Fest has been going down...and every year I'm more and more amazed at the spirit of the planners and the continuing commitment to fostering a national community of independent musicians and interesting, underground music.

So...the Total Fest committees are back at it and recently posted this entry with the details for submission of YOUR band for Total Fest VIII!

Do it!
Get busy with your organ and jews harp band, your friend's drum and hand clap rap crew, or your brother's girlfriend's neo-riot grrrl outfit!

Total Fest is a great place to network, hook up, and catch a wicked sunburn while wading through the healing waters of the Blackfoot River.

Do it...and we'll car pool!

Saturday, February 14, 2009

I'm no fan of this Octo Mom.
She seems a little nutty and A LOT irresponsible.

HOWEVER...
This piece from Susie Bright addresses some bigger issues:
Feminism Times 8 - A Come-To-Mama Talk


Also, to appeal to your gluttonous side:
This Is Why You're Fat

Happy Valentines Day, you haters!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Look A Ghost In the Eye Everyday

It was a perfect day.



A cool warm cloudy day.
Does that make sense?

Maura B and I hoofed it from Commons Park to the MCA to check out the scene. It was a Penny Saturday!
I hadn't been there since the last time I went with Baby S.

On the walk over we saw some interesting mosaic stuff that I'd seen before...well, at least every time I drove by it.

But when we got close up it was really kind of amazing - something that you wouldn't see unless you were walking.

I hadn't expected to be so entranced by this exhibit.

Ana Maria Hernando has been visiting a remote village called Mollamarca in the Andean mountains of Peru for about 4 years now.
She's been collecting these absolutely breathtaking crocheted petticoats worn by the native girls.

I've always wanted to go to Peru.

If you have a chance, have a look at this exhibit.
Maura B compared them to the little ghosts in Pacman...and I thought they looked like jellyfish.

Scared of elevators!

There was a fortuitous break dancing get down going on in the basement of the MCA.
Maura B loves break dancing!

Actually, I like to watch too.
A lot of people do, apparently!

Girls and boys...bustin' moves!

My favorite part was when they were all gearing up for the show down! The dance off!

They all lined up on their respective sides and started taunting each other.

It was like a modern day Sharks vs. Jets...and it made me wish I knew how to pop 'n lock.
HELLO, ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE POP 'N LOCK CLASS AT THE COLORADO FREE UNIVERSITY!? Hit me up via email: releasethekrakenplease@gmail.com

As the dancers continued challenging each other, the circle got smaller and smaller until the space they were dancing in was decidedly smaller than what they'd started with.

In actuality, I sort of liked that. It made it more for the dancers...like it was their thing and not just a show for an audience.


After we got our fill, we wandered the streets of LoDo...













Yeah, then there was this.



National Velvet. Yeah, more like lewd pile of gross.
But intriguing...


MB did not like it.

A little research revealed that this sucker lights up at night.
I'll meet you down there and we can check it out together.

It started to get dark...



Everyone is always headed somewhere.

Thank heavens this guy's headed in the same direction as me.

P.S. I'm laboriously working on uploading some videos from the break dance freakout to Youtube and should either have them posted soon or have a link for you to check out!
Stick around, cute babies!

Ugh.

I have some cool pics that I want to post from last weekend, but I'm too busy enjoying the 2nd season of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job which was released to DVD yesterday!

So, have a look at this and tell me what you think.
My first thought was that I'm sure dudes could put up a similar page of "I bang the worst chicks" - turn about is fair play, but wow...some of those chicks banged the WORST dudes.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Comfort!

I asked Maura B to come over and help me do a long overdue photo shoot with my new Snuggie.
Yeah, I bought one of these for myself and co-worker Michelle for her birthday.
There was A LOT of anxiety surrounding the purchase of this blanket with sleeves...
There is some internet chatter about how it's a scam and I began to doubt that I would receive this shitty robe and, instead, I would find charges on my debit card for Coach handbags and porn websites.

When it did finally arrive, with the complimentary book light (which is apparently worth $15?!), it was totally anti-climactic.
Still, wearing it makes me laugh because it's so over the top and sort of a complicated pain in the ass to put to use.

So, the following is just a sampling of the two of us showing the multi-faceted ways that the Snuggie can either make your life better (i.e. help you save money on your heating bill, handle the intricate juggling of remote controls, answering the phone, and reading a book, or attending a sports event warm and toasty as the commercial touts)...or if it's just another stupid addition to the variety of crap that accumulates in your home and mine.

I still can't determine if it's the former or the latter.

Here's Maura enjoying the reading of a book.
Look how those sleeves are facilitating this!

Ah, cute!
All Snuggie-ed up...

Everyone is calling this Snuggie thing a cult...
And honestly, I do look like I'm in the Razzle Dazzle Methodist Choir, right?!

Honestly, the sleeves are really hard to manage.
They are too long and get in the way CONSTANTLY.

Lord, don't I look like I'm deeply relaxed and satisfied with the practicality of my Snuggie purchase?

Alright, so I have to explain this...as much as I don't want to.
So, I mistakenly mentioned, while perusing a catalogue this Thanksgiving, that those boyfriend pillows (the half torso and the arm) are pretty hilarious.
And, I guess, my mother decided that this warranted her purchasing it to further punctuate my never ending singledom and painfully remind me how little action I actually get.

I've been avoiding addressing how soft and strangely nice a pillow this is.
I don't think it's because it has an arm or simulates a warm embrace.

We decided to attempt wearing the Snuggie in tandem and it worked for about 30 seconds.
It's surprisingly warm, but we both sort of felt weird about trying to enjoy it together.

All in all, it's sort of the dumbest invention known to man.
If I could make it better I would sew the bottom so it was more of a sleeping bag with sleeves...and put pockets in it for sandwiches and tissues.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

You're My Honey Bunch, Sugar Plum

You're REALLY missing out if you don't treat yourself to a stop at THE SHOPPE!

Cereals, Cupcakes, and other delights are what this place is all about!
Here's their website, The Shoppe!

This case is filled to the brim with both large and small tempting sweet treats!


Here's the menu!

It's a rad scene...these young kids were celebrating! The girl on the left was having a birthday.
Surprisingly, it was her 21st and she was kicking it low key wit her pals playing Shoots and Ladders and eating cupcakes and drinking milk.

None of us could muster even one wholesome memory from our 21st birthdays.
I'm pretty sure mine had a lot to do with Jagermeister.



So, I settled down with a Latte cupcake...
The frosting has crunched up coffee beans in it.
I also had a giant glass of 2%.

Baby S went for the heavy duty chocolate and a cappuccino.

Steph kept it demure with a dainty mini chocolate cupcake with peanut butter frosting and a hot mint tea.

Action shot.

Frosting coma.

We devoured...

gobbled...

and polished off our desserts! And we weren't embarrassed because every other patron was doing the same thing.


So, here's the thing:
Go to The Shoppe...
Take a friend, take a date...take someone cute!
Cupcakes make people smitten...sweets warm your heart...and indulgence makes you feel like you're living!