Can't stop listening:

Obsessed.

New show addiction:

Flight of the Conchords.

I seriously love this show. It's so quirky and funny. I'd definitely recommend it!

Summer is here!

It's been awhile since I posted. I've been keeping myself busy with many things: reading, movies, Joe, visiting home and friends, running/working out, and Town & Gown.

...what's Town & Gown you ask? It is a non-profit chamber music association in Ames that puts on five chamber music concerts a year, does community outreach events, and hosts an annual Musicale, a gala fundraising event featuring esteemed local musicians. I just joined their board of directors as the new secretary, and I couldn't be more excited. We had out first meeting last Thursday and I already feel at home.

I also just read a pair of REALLY excellent books by Chris Cleave: Little Bee and Incendiary. I would highly suggest you pick them up. If you don't believe me, here is a passage I thought was particularly striking from Indendiary:

"Before you bombed my boy Osama I always thought an explosion was such a quick thing but now I know better. The flash is over very fast but the fire catches hold inside you and the noise never stops. You can press your hands on your ears but you can never block it out. The fire keeps on roaring with incredible noise and fury. And the strangest thing is people can be sitting right next to you on the Central Line and not hear a sound. I live in an inferno where you could shiver with cold Osama. This life is a deafening roar but listen. You could hear a pin drop."

Cleave's writing style is very different in each novel, but has a beauty to it that makes them hard to put down.

The weather is really beautiful today, which means it is hot in my apartment. I have my fans going, though, because I refuse to put on the a/c just yet. It's not quite that hot.

I am looking forward to seeing Brooke next weekend for my birthday! I know I just saw her last weekend for her graduation party, but I always love having visitors in Ames. It makes things more exciting. AND I am excited for her to finally meet Joe. :)

I guess that's all for now - oh! I've recently been playing my violin with a little regularity! Huge shock, I know! It's been years and I was really rusty when I first picked it up, but it's amazing how quickly things come back. I'm really enjoying it!

Okay, that's really all. Besitos!

This is truly beautiful

and in 1:21 has made my day a little better. Via Ingrid Michaelson's blog.

GO FOLLOW THAT LINK AND LISTEN NOW!

Weirdo list of things to do:

-Go to the library to return things/pick up things on hold
-Grocery shopping
-Laundry
-Run/work out
-Paint my toenails
-Clean/vacuum the apartment
-Read
-Try to figure out when to use the rest of my vacation days (?)
-Figure out if I can swing the 80-35 Festival or if I already have 4th of July plans.
-Harvest basil, thyme and rosemary from my plants/water them.

EDIT: As of 8:30pm I only got the things crossed off done today. Well played, Saturday. Well played.

Now Playing:

And if your strife strikes at your sleep
Remember spring swaps snow for leaves
You'll be happy and wholesome again
When the city clears and sun ascends

And my head told my heart
"Let love grow"
But my heart told my head
"This time no"
-Winter Winds, Mumford and Sons

"I never wanted

anything from you
Except everything you had
And what was left after that too, Oh!"
-Florence + the Machine, Dog Days are Over

Can't stop listening:

Finally. :)

I'm feeling really great about things. :)

"We like to watch you laughing.

You pick the insects off plants. No time to think of consequences."
[MGMT, "Kids"]

Throwback! Boy bands of the 90s featuring: LFO

But then I think about the time when we broke up before the prom and you told everyone that I was gay. Okay. Sometimes I walk around the town for hours just to settle down, but I take you back and you kick me down 'cuz that's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.

I never knew much about Pete Seeger

until I watched the American Masters show about him. I was completely fascinated. He started out with just a love for singing and playing his banjo and turned into one of the most important people in the American folk music revival.

Every moment of his life he based his actions on what he believed in. He wrote songs for peace, criticized wars he thought were wrong, supported the civil rights movement, and was a fervent environmentalist. He was blacklisted during the red scare, but pushed on anyway.

I want to live my life like that - for what I believe in. Definitely check out Pete Seeger, his life AND his music.

"No, I haven't heard your voice in two week now

and anticipation's been wearing me thin. And I just can't help but wonderin' baby if somehow we could tear these pages out and begin again."
-Matt Wertz

Oh, and one more thing

Stuck in my head. Stuck in yours.

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW "Time Warp"

...You're welcome. :)

Have you ever thrown a fistful of glitter in the air?

I can't stop listening:

Can't stop listening

to this:

sharkattackzz:
perfection

jawdrop:
the music in this is my favorite part.

I definitely agree on both accounts.

Geranium kisser

Skin like silk and face like glass
Don't confront me with my failures
Kiss me with your mouth open
For your love, better than wine
For your cologne is really fragrant
Call on me, call on me, call on me

Your hair is like an eagle
Your two eyes are like two doves
But our bed is like a failure
All day up in the family
At the waning of the light
To the chamber that conceived me
Call on me, call on me, call on me

Geranium killer
Throat of soil of and mind like stone
Please don't defend a silver lining
Around the halo of what is already shining
When all the planets are aligning
For an afternoon that's never ending
Call on me, call on me, call on me

One of my new favorites