Hello and Welcome to Today,

First off, snow be gone! please, please, Puhlease, leave! I want to see the grass so bad i'm considering plugging in my hair dryer to an extension cord and drying off the lawn by myself, problem is ->


In other news, I'm really loving forest city lovers, especially their song orphans! And I'm re-loving tilly and the wall, potkettleblack! Sometimes I stumble upon music randomly and if it doesn't sound like the soundtrack of my life at that very moment i often put it on the shelf, later when i come back i find new appreciations for them, it's brilliant really, the reflective quality of time passing,

thus my equation for life, probably pilfered from someone else, but still:

CHANGE

_____________ = GROWTH

TIME

(change over time equals growth, slight play on words)

NewMusic

Music. -> Ya it's great but what has it done for me lately. I want new songs and it's getting harder to find ones that fit up to my standards. 1. they can't suck. 2. they have to be good
Pretty unrealistic I know, but I refuse to lower myself for sub par bands. My most favourite of late was the Kings of Leon, Lykke Li, and Emiliana Torrini, but I can only listen to songs so often before I start to develop a resistance for them. It's like I'm the flu and music is the vaccine that they have to keep updating year after year because otherwise i might just throw up.

So that analogy got a little lost, the point is I need new good stuff that no one has heard of yet so I can shove it there faces that I loved them first. I just realized that I sound a bit like a crack addict.... perhaps they have some kind of music lovers anonymous?.... COPYRIGHT! Steal my idea and I'll find you!

But to ward off anyone from experiencing similar conditions I'd thought I'd expose my hidden musical loves... (maybe I am cracked out/); Hitten by Those Dancing Days and My Boy Builds Coffins by Florence and the Machine skip to about 3:08 for just the song minus the interview, there are others but I'm so bored of them I can't bring myself to find the links to share.

florence from florence and the machine, image found here

The Wheelers

Yesterday I went to go see revolutionary road, and I must say it was quite beautiful. Leo and Kate were wonderful together [shocker!] and I think that the academy should create a new joint category for best duo, because honestly the interplay between them, the reactions they have for each other are just so intertwined it becomes one performance through two bodies. Not to mention the scenery, sets and costumes. '55 relived. The writing was also lovely the way the words held such power was truly and honestly evocative which is pretty damn amazing given the surface layer mundane quality of suburban discourse. It peels back that layer, shows a shadow of raw truth and then mucks it up again with complications of reality. It is a film definitely deserving of it's praise.

i love tv. I love the story telling aspect of it, and investing in flawed and funny characters. I love the imagination behind it and the way its crafted into a world like our own but not quite ours. The mid-season replacements are here and I have a couple of new favourites that deserve a mention:

The United States of Tara -> the pilot was great but I've experienced disappoint following pilots before so I'm tentatively waiting before I give it my full endorsement and go out all out crazy fan for it, but right now I think the writing is cracked out good, word to diablo cody, and the acting is great. The opening scene though where Tara is describing her work for the mayors wife and how her client wanted a gold diaper genie??!! Thats a bit of a stretch, but I totally believe in the acting talents of toni collette and her ability to be a million different people in one body.



Also Skins series 3 -> yes, I admit it, I like the sometimes sleazy british teen series. It has great music, and raunchy plot lines that I find amusing. Plus great accents in a variety of bristol ranges. I watched the premiere and while the cast is almost entirely new, and though I would have convinced myself of anything as long as Tony, Sid, and Chris came back, I can understand that in reality time moves forward and people/characters move on. That doesn't mean I have to like it. If I were Stephen Colbert I'd put the entire cast of series 3 on notice, but since I'm not, I'll just hope that they can live up to the high expectations of Tony Stonem and Sid Jenkins...

Finally a shout out for Lie to Me, tim roth = pretty great, but it's an eerily similar concept to the mentalist who can also root out lies better than a hog hunting for truffles. Don't know why that popped into my head... Scrubs and How I Met Your Mother surprisingly don't suck, it's not a huge surprise... but still.

I see Signs.

found here from here

I'm the kind of person who is always on the look out for signs. Street signs, road signs, 2-4-1 signs, but mainly I'm out there trying to be receptive to signs that mean something to me personally, in the figurative/metaphorical kind of sense. Sure this may mean I have some kind of brain tumor pressing against some section of my brain that makes me delusional, but I prefer to think of it as communing with the universe. I'm of the belief that we are all connected in a way that only physicists can comprehend, think energy and atoms, so for that abstract reason I like to believe that things aren't always random and at the same time that there isn't some grand authority figure in the sky waiting to smite me because I had a slice of pepperoni pizza on Friday. It's more of the butterfly effect, tweaked slightly; it's recognizing that actions all across the world, and those extremely close have consequences that maybe imperceptible to the conscious decision making process but are out their affecting things none-the-less.

this is a picture I took inside my towns new library, which is strictly verboten,

but i saw the reflection and thought, 'import a life? WTF?"

For example: Last summer, before one of my classes started, my professor, another student and I were talking, I can't really remember what about and I can't actually remember that other woman's name but what she said has since resonated with me. She said "You have to ask for what you want." Simple statement, yes, but I've come back to it again and again. Now, I'm not one who easily asks for help, I don't really like to be 'a bother' and I do not like confrontation so this concept of easily asking for what I want is definitely not as easy as it seems; but now it's there, in the back of my head constantly pushing my fear in the ribs and getting it's back up whenever I feel the impulse to give up without trying. It reminds me of that biblical cliche "ask and thee shall receive." Some out there may see me asking for signs and so I'm receiving them, but it's what I want. I want to believe that we are all connected. I want to believe that there is meaning to our actions. I want to be on the look out for new advice that rings true for me like an epiphany on a clear day illuminating one of life's little tools for getting by. So I invite you all to come and look for signs in the world that mean something to you; it makes the world seem to be a much friendly place than perhaps it is and it makes you feel like you might actually belong.