21 posts tagged “music”
I started breaking in a new pair of Birkenstocks today. Not fun.
Went to the Farmer's Market expecting to pick up some oatmeal bread... but they were doing some sort of weird Earth Day celebration instead of the usual Sunday market. There were like "chants" and masks... uh. Weird. And the Compost Fair was set up, so there were lots of earth worms.
Ended up at the Commons to burn off my odd morning energy (this was around 11am. Me. Dressed, made up, and eager to get out before 11am on a Sunday. WEIRD.) Ate at Viva Taquera. They've got awesome burritos and sangria (little early for sangria, though).
Went meandering around the Commons. Bought a couple Ani CDs at the used record shop.
Spent money at House of Shalimar. I got the cutest purse ever. Ever ever. It's by Bungalow 360... they don't have it up on the website, though. It fits everything I need... and a little more. Sweet. (PS: That's the button from my museum vigil I hosted... kids are still wearing them around campus. YAY!) I also picked up a peace sign car magnet. At first I was like, "What's 1.20.09 supposed to mean?" And then it hit me. Uh duh.
As you can see in the picture, I also bought some soap. Coconut and papaya with vanilla beans smells like the beach and olive butter with avocado and green tea leaves smells clean. I got it at the Africa store called Diaspora. Very neat place and nice owners.
Anyways, I've got homework due in every single class tomorrow. Plus an 8:30am thesis meeting to prepare for (that's far too early for criticism, I think). All I wanna do is nap. Sigh.
She gave a couple concerts at my school this week. I was able to go to this afternoon's (which I thought was supposed to be more of a talk than a show, but whatev's). One of her percussionists looked just like Robert Downey Jr., and that's only weird because he's the second person I've run into that could pass as his double. Anyways, yeah, she was pretty awesome.
The video is pretty awesome, too.
Some random pictures I had hanging out in my camera for the past couple months:
And now a look at what my weekend holds:
I've got a test in Cultural Psychology to study for and a writing test in Spanish. Not quite sure how I'm going to prepare for them, but I'll figure something out. The other two columns of books are for my thesis. I raided the stacks at Olin with Chrissy this afternoon and found some surprisingly decent sources at Cortland's library, too. Now I just have to read them.
In other news, I've heard nothing from the remaining grad schools (uh, since yesterday... what? I'm impatient!). I've started researching several alternatives just in case I don't get accepted to any of the programs I applied to... I think I'll make an appointment with Steadman at some point this week to hear her thoughts. Hm. Also, the chili festival is next weekend! YAY! And the New Pornographers are coming to Ithaca in April! Definitely gotta get tickets to that.
1. list your top five favorite musical artists.
2. list your top five(-ish) favorite songs from each artist.
3. tag five people to do the same. do as you please.
I. Janis Joplin
- Bye, Bye Baby
- Maybe [Live]
- Kozmic Blues
- Cry Baby [Live]
- Get It While You Can
- Me and Bobby McGee
- Mercedes Benz
- the album I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! quite obviously owns my soul.
- Box of Pearls is the most amazing thing ever.
II. Indigo Girls
- Land of Canaan
- Secure Yourself
- Prince of Darkness
- Love's Recovery
- ... basically the whole album... yeeeah
III. Ani DiFranco
- Half-Assed
- Not a Pretty Girl
- Fuel
- Tiptoe
- As Is
- Both Hands
- You Had Time (the piano intro sucks me in every time)
IV. Dan Mills
- Israel
- Sad and Sorry Song
- Smell the Smoke
- One for the Day
- Rena's Song
V. Tony Lucca
- Immaculate Dawn
- Bottle of Rain
- Melancholy Collar
- Death of Me
- Darlin' I (Acoustic)
- Around the Bend
So, I'm pretty sure I rocked my history final. It felt like I did well... I remembered dates and all that good stuff. Afterwards I went to the office to get signed up for my spring semester internship and then to Mandos to sell back books. Now I'm officially done with the last fall semester of my undergraduate career. Fabulous!
I celebrated with a triple lindy from Moe's (which is finally fucking open), buying a new betta (his name is Gumdrop 'cause he matches the color of the nailpolish I have on right now), and picking up Ben Harper's Live from Mars album. A little later I'll be going over to my brother's for dinner, but I only got 3 hours of sleep last night, so I could definitely go for a nap.
Apparently tomorrow night we're supposed to get a wicked snow storm. White Death 2007. A foot or so. Glad I don't have anywhere to drive to for the next 4 weeks. I love winter break.
- "Who Knew" -- Pink... 4 different times, 3 different stations... kinda ridiculous
- too much Christmas music... I can't wait for the holiday to be over (every morning on the bus up to campus I always get the bus driver who listens to the country station and since Thanksgiving they've only been playing Christmas country music aka the worst music known to humankind)
- A DJ said something about "Science Center qualifiers" but I heard "Science Center koala fires"... I was picturing a koala bear bonfire at the Science Center for a few seconds before my brain caught up
Alright. I've got a 10 page paper due tomorrow. And I haven't started yet.
Ani DiFranco is coming to Ithaca in February and I am soooo not missing it!
Video: Show us a music video you'd gladly watch over and over again.
I'm still a teenybopper at heart... and I think that "Gone" might have been the last time I actually watched a music video (on purpose, at least... like calling into TRL to request it, the whole nine yards... that's really embarrassing to admit).
