Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
"Stairwells"
For those of you who may not have noticed, I'm such an advocate for Kina Grannis.
Go and buy her new cd, "Stairwells". And if you are too cheap, she is streaming it for free on her website until March 1st. So then go listen, be a Kina Grannis convert, and THEN buy "Stairwells."
Either way, I love it.
http://www.kinagrannis.com/
(The video that started it all for me)
P.S. Got a job at Joe's Crab Shack!!! Love it already, so come on in and party with us!!!
Go and buy her new cd, "Stairwells". And if you are too cheap, she is streaming it for free on her website until March 1st. So then go listen, be a Kina Grannis convert, and THEN buy "Stairwells."
Either way, I love it.
http://www.kinagrannis.com/
(The video that started it all for me)
P.S. Got a job at Joe's Crab Shack!!! Love it already, so come on in and party with us!!!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
The Double McTwisty Big Mac and Fries
Being 23 never felt so sweet! Because I share the age of the gravity-defying Shaun White! And normally, I look at these Olympic athletes and feel like I've done absolutely nothing with my life, but I was so amped after last night that it didn't matter!
I have waited four years for Shaun White to return to the Olympic stage and he did not disappoint! The Men's Halfpipe was the only event I wanted to watch, and I even found illegal streams of it online so I could watch ALL the action (and not just what NBC aired). I had gut aches all day because of this event, I screamed when he did his two runs in the finals, and it was all worth the angst to watch him take home the gold for the good 'ole USA!
Red Bull - I'd say your secret halfpipe was worth the money.
Double Cork 1080? Check!
Cab Double Cork 1080? You bet!
Double McTwist 1280? HELL YES!!!!
I have waited four years for Shaun White to return to the Olympic stage and he did not disappoint! The Men's Halfpipe was the only event I wanted to watch, and I even found illegal streams of it online so I could watch ALL the action (and not just what NBC aired). I had gut aches all day because of this event, I screamed when he did his two runs in the finals, and it was all worth the angst to watch him take home the gold for the good 'ole USA!
Red Bull - I'd say your secret halfpipe was worth the money.
Double Cork 1080? Check!
Cab Double Cork 1080? You bet!
Double McTwist 1280? HELL YES!!!!
Monday, February 15, 2010
Battling For Battle Studies
Dear Perez,
THIS is why you will never be able to shut John Mayer up. That is all.
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Gosh, I love watching this man play. I've had the fortune of going to his Heavier Things tour at the Xcel, and it's still to date one of the best live shows I've ever seen. It didn't matter how bad of nose bleeds my seats were. His faces are clearly from learning to groove by himself in a basement...but who am I to judge? The day I can melt someone's face off better than him is when I will have said my piece.
THIS is why you will never be able to shut John Mayer up. That is all.
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Gosh, I love watching this man play. I've had the fortune of going to his Heavier Things tour at the Xcel, and it's still to date one of the best live shows I've ever seen. It didn't matter how bad of nose bleeds my seats were. His faces are clearly from learning to groove by himself in a basement...but who am I to judge? The day I can melt someone's face off better than him is when I will have said my piece.
The Thing We Already Knew
The one thing I hate about social networking is when something happens...EVERYONE starts blowing up their twitters, facebooks, texts about this huge huge drama. The latest being, John Mayer's innate ability to say "screw you" in an interview, and everyone is shocked by it.
Now, let's not pretend that we didn't know that he's somewhat of a douchebag.
But in all honesty, if I could play guitar like that, I'd probably be a douchebag too.
The thing that just really gets me...is that PEREZ HILTON, the nation's most well known man for saying crap that will get him into trouble, is the one who is calling out John Mayer. PEREZ HILTON, who has made a career of putting other people down, is saying that Mayer's comments have gone too far?? It's just laughable. Because really, John Mayer gave an interview for Playboy Magazine, not the New York Times.
If you think about it, him and the interviewer were probably smoking a cigarette and talking about porn and guitars like rockstars do.
The Playboy Interview
Read it for yourself, and you'll see that Mayer isn't any different than the guy who played guitar for the Battle of the Bands in high school. They're all that way: too many thoughts in their head, and the only time they make any sense is when they can put their thoughts into a song.
Mayer said it best, "Battle Studies is that feeling between 10 p.m. and two a.m. when you have this wild level of arousal and optimism." "I don’t believe in guilty pleasures; I believe in pleasures."
Now, let's not pretend that we didn't know that he's somewhat of a douchebag.
But in all honesty, if I could play guitar like that, I'd probably be a douchebag too.
The thing that just really gets me...is that PEREZ HILTON, the nation's most well known man for saying crap that will get him into trouble, is the one who is calling out John Mayer. PEREZ HILTON, who has made a career of putting other people down, is saying that Mayer's comments have gone too far?? It's just laughable. Because really, John Mayer gave an interview for Playboy Magazine, not the New York Times.
If you think about it, him and the interviewer were probably smoking a cigarette and talking about porn and guitars like rockstars do.
The Playboy Interview
Read it for yourself, and you'll see that Mayer isn't any different than the guy who played guitar for the Battle of the Bands in high school. They're all that way: too many thoughts in their head, and the only time they make any sense is when they can put their thoughts into a song.
Mayer said it best, "Battle Studies is that feeling between 10 p.m. and two a.m. when you have this wild level of arousal and optimism." "I don’t believe in guilty pleasures; I believe in pleasures."
Friday, February 12, 2010
Let Your Love Grow Tall
More.
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BEGIN:
This began as an attempt to tell a story and a way to help a friend in Spring 2006. The story and the life it represented were both things of contrast – pain and hope, addiction and sobriety, regret and the possibility of freedom. The story’s title “To Write Love on Her Arms” was also a goal, believing that a better life was possible. We started selling t-shirts as a way to pay for our friend’s treatment, and we made a MySpace page to give the whole thing a home. Our friends in Switchfoot and Anberlin were among the first to wear these shirts. In the days that followed, we learned quickly that the story we were telling represented people everywhere. We began to hear from people in need of help, and others asking what they could do to help their friends. We heard from people who had lost loved ones to suicide. Many said that these were questions they had never asked and parts of their story that they had never shared. Others were honest in a different way, confessing these were issues they knew little or nothing about. It seemed we had stumbled upon a bigger story, and a conversation that needed to be had.
Over the last two and a half years, we’ve responded to 80,000 messages from people in 40 different countries. We’ve had the opportunity to bring this conversation, and a message of hope and help, to concerts, universities, festivals and churches. We’ve learned that these are not American issues, not white issues or “emo” issues. These are issues of humanity, problems of pain that affect millions of people around the world.
We’ve learned that two out of three people who struggle with depression never seek help, and that untreated depression is the leading cause of suicide. In America alone, it’s estimated that 19 million people live with depression, and suicide is the third-leading cause of death among those 18-24 years old.
The good news is that depression is very treatable, that a very real hope exists in the face of these issues. We’ve met people who are getting the help they need, sitting across from a counselor for the first time, stepping into treatment, or reaching out to a suicide hotline in a desperate moment.
(http://www.twloha.com/vision/)
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BEGIN:
This began as an attempt to tell a story and a way to help a friend in Spring 2006. The story and the life it represented were both things of contrast – pain and hope, addiction and sobriety, regret and the possibility of freedom. The story’s title “To Write Love on Her Arms” was also a goal, believing that a better life was possible. We started selling t-shirts as a way to pay for our friend’s treatment, and we made a MySpace page to give the whole thing a home. Our friends in Switchfoot and Anberlin were among the first to wear these shirts. In the days that followed, we learned quickly that the story we were telling represented people everywhere. We began to hear from people in need of help, and others asking what they could do to help their friends. We heard from people who had lost loved ones to suicide. Many said that these were questions they had never asked and parts of their story that they had never shared. Others were honest in a different way, confessing these were issues they knew little or nothing about. It seemed we had stumbled upon a bigger story, and a conversation that needed to be had.
Over the last two and a half years, we’ve responded to 80,000 messages from people in 40 different countries. We’ve had the opportunity to bring this conversation, and a message of hope and help, to concerts, universities, festivals and churches. We’ve learned that these are not American issues, not white issues or “emo” issues. These are issues of humanity, problems of pain that affect millions of people around the world.
We’ve learned that two out of three people who struggle with depression never seek help, and that untreated depression is the leading cause of suicide. In America alone, it’s estimated that 19 million people live with depression, and suicide is the third-leading cause of death among those 18-24 years old.
The good news is that depression is very treatable, that a very real hope exists in the face of these issues. We’ve met people who are getting the help they need, sitting across from a counselor for the first time, stepping into treatment, or reaching out to a suicide hotline in a desperate moment.
(http://www.twloha.com/vision/)
Love Is The Movement
As someone who battles with depression daily, and growing up suicide prevention wasn't something that was cool to talk about, this is an organization I can get behind. Not everyone wants to hash out their feelings with a therapist, and take medication because they have a mood disorder. For some people, it is easier to carve hateful things into their arm and burn that message into their brain.
I first heard about To Write Love on Her Arms a few years back when it was something a little more grassroots, but I believe in what it stands for.
One day of the year is statistically shown to have the most suicides on record: February 13th. TWLOHA is here to combat that, and show you that you are loved. This Valentine's Day, remember that you are loved, and love yourself.
Write "love" on your arm. It's simple, but it stands for a bigger message.
LOVE IS THE MOVEMENT
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"Renee is 19. When I meet her, cocaine is fresh in her system. She hasn't slept in 36 hours and she won't for another 24. It is a familiar blur of coke, pot, pills and alcohol. She has agreed to meet us, to listen and to let us pray. We ask Renee to come with us, to leave this broken night. She says she'll go to rehab tomorrow, but she isn't ready now. It is too great a change. We pray and say goodbye and it is hard to leave without her.
She has known such great pain; haunted dreams as a child, the near-constant presence of evil ever since. She has felt the touch of awful naked men, battled depression and addiction, and attempted suicide. Her arms remember razor blades, fifty scars that speak of self-inflicted wounds. Six hours after I meet her, she is feeling trapped, two groups of "friends" offering opposite ideas. Everyone is asleep. The sun is rising. She drinks long from a bottle of liquor, takes a razor blade from the table and locks herself in the bathroom. She cuts herself, using the blade to write "FUCK UP" large across her left forearm.
The nurse at the treatment center finds the wound several hours later. The center has no detox, names her too great a risk, and does not accept her. For the next five days, she is ours to love. We become her hospital and the possibility of healing fills our living room with life. It is unspoken and there are only a few of us, but we will be her church, the body of Christ coming alive to meet her needs, to write love on her arms."
(excerpt from The Story/TWLOHA.com)
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I first heard about To Write Love on Her Arms a few years back when it was something a little more grassroots, but I believe in what it stands for.
One day of the year is statistically shown to have the most suicides on record: February 13th. TWLOHA is here to combat that, and show you that you are loved. This Valentine's Day, remember that you are loved, and love yourself.
Write "love" on your arm. It's simple, but it stands for a bigger message.
LOVE IS THE MOVEMENT
---
"Renee is 19. When I meet her, cocaine is fresh in her system. She hasn't slept in 36 hours and she won't for another 24. It is a familiar blur of coke, pot, pills and alcohol. She has agreed to meet us, to listen and to let us pray. We ask Renee to come with us, to leave this broken night. She says she'll go to rehab tomorrow, but she isn't ready now. It is too great a change. We pray and say goodbye and it is hard to leave without her.
She has known such great pain; haunted dreams as a child, the near-constant presence of evil ever since. She has felt the touch of awful naked men, battled depression and addiction, and attempted suicide. Her arms remember razor blades, fifty scars that speak of self-inflicted wounds. Six hours after I meet her, she is feeling trapped, two groups of "friends" offering opposite ideas. Everyone is asleep. The sun is rising. She drinks long from a bottle of liquor, takes a razor blade from the table and locks herself in the bathroom. She cuts herself, using the blade to write "FUCK UP" large across her left forearm.
The nurse at the treatment center finds the wound several hours later. The center has no detox, names her too great a risk, and does not accept her. For the next five days, she is ours to love. We become her hospital and the possibility of healing fills our living room with life. It is unspoken and there are only a few of us, but we will be her church, the body of Christ coming alive to meet her needs, to write love on her arms."
(excerpt from The Story/TWLOHA.com)
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More Media Fire
Once again, the agriculture industry finds itself in a media storm.
I would just encourage journalists to put their money where there mouth is, and do what we were all taught to do...RESEARCH! I would encourage journalists to return to what they learned in school: understanding both sides of an issue.
The pork industry has taken a lot of heat recently because of the media's misbranding of H1N1 flu.
A lot of these scares happen because the public blindly follows what journalists are reporting. And it's not surprise that they do - Americans trust they are doing their job. However, in an age where information is available at every fingertip, this shouldn't be the case any more.
Read for yourselves.
National Pork Producers Council
Facts About Pork
Katie Couric's Report
Representative Rod Hamilton (R) was asked the other day if farming is just about making money. His response:
"You're darn right it is! If we weren't in it for the money, we'd be called gardeners!"
I would just encourage journalists to put their money where there mouth is, and do what we were all taught to do...RESEARCH! I would encourage journalists to return to what they learned in school: understanding both sides of an issue.
The pork industry has taken a lot of heat recently because of the media's misbranding of H1N1 flu.
A lot of these scares happen because the public blindly follows what journalists are reporting. And it's not surprise that they do - Americans trust they are doing their job. However, in an age where information is available at every fingertip, this shouldn't be the case any more.
Read for yourselves.
National Pork Producers Council
Facts About Pork
Katie Couric's Report
Representative Rod Hamilton (R) was asked the other day if farming is just about making money. His response:
"You're darn right it is! If we weren't in it for the money, we'd be called gardeners!"
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Return To Narnia
The first time they brought us through a wardrobe.
The second time the kids were transported from a train station.
Now, they venture through a painting.
SOOOO excited!
Check it!
The second time the kids were transported from a train station.
Now, they venture through a painting.
SOOOO excited!
Check it!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Won't You Be My Honey Bee?
I have been in love with this song since last year when she first posted it on her YouTube account. Now it's time to share the love with her official music video!!
Yes!
Yes!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Agriculture Awareness
Stupid people really make me angry.
But what I never thought I'd get so fired up about is the way mainstream media keeps portraying Agriculture. The most recent hijinx with ABC's portrayal of the dairy industry literally made me sick to my stomach because I so was angry.
What makes this even more outrageous, is that with all that is happening, there are people who are so relentless to attack the working AMERICANS...?
I wish people would get more EDUCATED!! Read Troy's comments at the bottom. Read his entire blog if you ever get the time.
If you are at the University of Minnesota on April 20th, come to the Northrop Plaza on the Northrop Auditorium Mall. There will be people representing many areas of Agriculture, as well as university students as a part of Agriculture Awareness Day. Come with questions, come ready to visit with animals and learn about agriculture.
I dare you.
But what I never thought I'd get so fired up about is the way mainstream media keeps portraying Agriculture. The most recent hijinx with ABC's portrayal of the dairy industry literally made me sick to my stomach because I so was angry.
What makes this even more outrageous, is that with all that is happening, there are people who are so relentless to attack the working AMERICANS...?
I wish people would get more EDUCATED!! Read Troy's comments at the bottom. Read his entire blog if you ever get the time.
If you are at the University of Minnesota on April 20th, come to the Northrop Plaza on the Northrop Auditorium Mall. There will be people representing many areas of Agriculture, as well as university students as a part of Agriculture Awareness Day. Come with questions, come ready to visit with animals and learn about agriculture.
I dare you.
As Long As I'm With You, It's Just Another Rainy Day in London
I'm sitting here looking at the impending snow storm thinking to myself that I left my heart in London. : (
Once I made this discovery, I looked on the U of M's Study Abroad web page...
the final deadline to go to London for May is March 1st.
I think that my Valentine this year will be the fair city that I left so long ago.
p.s. Check out A.J. McLean's solo album on youtube. It's mega sweet.
Yes I'm on a BSB kick...but like I said, it's snowing outside.
Once I made this discovery, I looked on the U of M's Study Abroad web page...
the final deadline to go to London for May is March 1st.
I think that my Valentine this year will be the fair city that I left so long ago.
p.s. Check out A.J. McLean's solo album on youtube. It's mega sweet.
Yes I'm on a BSB kick...but like I said, it's snowing outside.
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