She Has a Point

Last year I couldn’t make myself send out our usual holiday cards. I wasn’t in the mood. It was hard to pretend that the holiday was anything other than something to suffer through in light of our year. I did write a short note that I emailed to those people on my card list who I had email addresses for and I attempted my first digital scrapbooking project that I sent along with the letter.

I am in very much the same emotional hole this year as I was last year. However, Starr thinks that we need to send out cards. She says that I need to stop moping around and participate in life. “We don’t want people to think we don’t care about them.” She even bought cards for us to send, because she knew I wouldn’t do it myself. So we will do it.

Today I need to compile my recipient list, address envelopes and write a short letter. However what I am doing instead is browsing blogs…being oh so productive as I avoid the task. As usual.

While doing this, I found the video below at Pastor Ryan’s blog This is Reverb:

wingsuit base jumping from doubleA on Vimeo.

I have officially added “wingsuit base jumping” to my It Looks Wicked Cool, But There is No Freaking Way Will I Ever Try That list.

While Life Swirls Crazily Around My Head

And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I’ve written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones

My Emotions Wrapped in Vines

 
I discovered both of these songs via a Fingertips recommendation fall of 2006.
 

Random Find: Someone Loves Cary Grant!

Starr, Skye and Rocket went to the drive-in theater tonight so I was spending a little time recovering from Rockets obsession with WWE (wow, I really don’t get that stuff!) and started clicking around on YouTube. It started with a search for XTC and ended up here:

I have always loved Cary Grant too…but I don’t have the time or energy to do the minimum around here (Starr relished pointing out the near dust bunnies on the dining room table today…thank you very much! Am I the only one in this house allowed to touch a duster?? I worked so hard cleaning downstairs and washing sheets this week, I gave up on the upstairs. Funny thing is, Rocket wants to sleep on the sofa in the living room. I don’t think he even looked at the stairs…throw him Starr’s dirty pillow and blanket and he’s happy. Who knew?)…let alone make awesome videos like this.
      
The person/people behind CGMTV have at the moment posted 58 videos adoring Cary Grant. It took me awhile to choose a second example, it ended up being like picking a name out of a hat, but here it is:

            
**I’m off to rent some Cary Grant movies**

CGMTV YouTube Channel

One of These Things First

Monday Mix

Starr’s tattoo was well received by her friends, coworkers and even her dad. She is still happy with it, and because of the meaning behind the symbol, there have been several friends and family members who have expressed a desire to get Sunny’s Heart tattoos for themselves.

Including me.

I was listening to my iPod this afternoon on the way home from the store and “Detlef Schrempf” came on. I wanted to share it, but couldn’t find an mp3, so here are the Band of Horses mp3s that I had, and a video. I love all three.

Do You Realize??

One of my daily visited music blogs, Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands, has a recurring feature where he posts YouTube videos of people doing covers of some of his favorite songs. Today he posted several videos of people covering “Do You Realize??” by The Flaming Lips. This song has been a favorite of mine for years, but I haven’t heard it in a while. As I was listening to the first video posted today, my first thought was “I like this idea”, my second thought as I started to get emotional was “I love this song, and it is so appropriate for the way I’ve been feeling lately.” I needed that today.

A reminder that we need to live life and love.

Do You Realize – that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize – we’re floating in space -
Do You Realize – that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize – that everyone you know someday will die

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes – let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It’s hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn’t go down
It’s just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do You Realize – Oh – Oh – Oh
Do You Realize – that everyone you know
Someday will die -

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes – let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It’s hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn’t go down
It’s just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do You Realize – that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize

I found this remix just now:

PostSecret Sunday

Inside Me There’s a Sad Machine

Here is a new song from Albert Hammond Jr.’s upcoming album “¿Cómo Te Llama?” which is set for release July 8th.

“GfC” – Albert Hammond Jr.

And and “old” one from 2006′s “Yours to Keep”

“In Transit” – Albert Hammond Jr.

Albert Hammond Jr. is also a member of The Strokes, and I thought that I would look for a song of theirs to post. I was unable to find what I wanted, but I did find the following video/song. I had never heard it before, I hear that it is an early version/demo/b-side of one of my favorite songs “You Only Live Once”. Either way…I like it.

I’m Going On