I have three random things to post. I hope it’s okay?
First is this song that I’ve been listening to quite often the past week:
Gotye feat Kimbra ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’
Agenda item #2
I feel pretty in these pictures, so I wanted to share them with you.
When you need a good photo of yourself for Christmas cards and it’s too windy for the tripod, the only thing to do is set your camera to the correct f-stop, figure out the spot your husband needs to stand in (and the amount of squat to get the right angle), and tell him exactly when to click the shutter and hope that he doesn’t screw up the focus. It works pretty well, as long as your hubby takes direction and won’t mess with the white balance.
Thanks, darling! 
And the third item…
I recently purchased this book for Marco:
It’s a counting board book with characters and themes from Romeo & Juliet! LOVE.
And there, folks, is a random post for Thursday.
Here’s my playlist for the week…it’s been a really crappy one, and I’ve been hitting the music hard (might need a DD, lol).
Forewarned is forearmed – my list is a little schizo? I’m all over the place.
Weeks with this song on repeat, and I still can’t turn it off.
The Head and the Heart – Lost in my Mind
Evidently I’m the last person in the world, but I just found this song last month:
The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
I can’t decide if I actually like this song, or if I like it because it reminds me so much of the Kinks (‘Lola’, anyone?). Maybe both?
Noah and the Whale – L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N
This one reminds me of early Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys (thanks to Adrian for the rec!)
The Naked and the Famous – Young Blood
And this song always makes me want to dance. Why can’t he stick to singing!?
Timbaland feat Justin Timberlake – Carry Out
Heard this on Stephen Colbert last week and almost peed my pants. It’s THAT good.
Yo-Yo Ma/Stuart Duncan/Edgar Meyer/Chris Thile – Attaboy
What are you listening to?
BTW, music recommendations are always welcome 
I love concerts (if you couldn’t tell already). I love sharing music with other people, friends, loved ones, people Ive never met…not to get super hippie-dippy but I love the communal feeling that a concert gives. Theres something about it that makes me happy, and last weekends Bridge School Benefit concert lived up to my hopes. The event is held every year at Shoreline Amphitheatre, and benefits a The Bridge School, an organization that educates children with severe disabilities. They’ve helped so many over the years, and several of their students have even graduated college! This year marked the 25th anniversary of this concert series.
The theatre was packed!! I have never seen Shoreline so full, and Ive been to a lot of concerts at that ole place.
The lineup for this year included:
Neil Young
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
Arcade Fire
Foo Fighters (Sunday only)
Eddie Vedder
Los Invisibles, featuring Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman Santana Guests
Beck
Mumford Sons
Tony Bennett (Sunday only)
Devendra Banhart
Norah Jones with The Little Willies
Jimmy Fallon (MC Saturday only)
Well, Jimmy Fallon did not show up (jerkface!) and because we went on Saturday we missed out on the Foo Fighters – but thats okay. It was such an exciting and amazing concert! Tim, Justin, and Adan were my concert buddies this round, and I couldn’t have asked for better companions. 
Really, how much better can it get: great friends, great music, and the stars above you? Were already planning for next years concert.
Mumford Sons were my favorite performers; I felt happy chills while they were on stage. Marcus voice is powerful. I really enjoyed Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds acoustic set. Dave was a true performer, giving the audience the interaction we crave (and cracking us up!). Eddie Vedder was enjoyable too, and surprisingly so – Im not a Pearl Jam fan.
I did manage a video from Mumford performing with Neil Young – Dance, Dance, Dance
Amazing sound, considering its my iPhone camera!
Stay tuned this week for a fantastic present to my readers… Can’t wait to share it with you!
I was super excited to hear this song on the radio the other day, and I just had to share my love for R&B ‘slow dance’ songs:
Love it!!
Ohhhhhh Al Green. Yep.
Tim thinks my Boyz II Men obsession is a little weird, but that’s okay.
…AND YET!!
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!? I was so close to Hugh! Probably the closest I’ll ever get…for now. Just kidding, Timmy!!
I did have to throw an elbow to get this close. I wish I’d brought my DSLR and the zoom lens, so I could get even CLOSER photographs! Phooey.
Saturday’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass was 5 kinds of fun.
Marco’s first music festival! It was awesome! He was the cutest boy there.
Dude! Fried pickles with Sriracha sauce! Sooo good.
Marco just loves banjos.
Gillian Welch was great; some of you may know her voice from The Decemberist’s latest ‘The King is Dead’, or from the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack. Anyway, her voice carried over the park, and even from our position we could enjoy.
Next festival: I’m wearing makeup. I LOOK LIKE A GHOST.
The evening kind of ended badly, with Tim, Marco, and I walking across the entire city to get to our car (towed). No lie. Golden Gate Park to Mission Street next to the Bay Bridge. But…even that couldn’t exactly bring me down. LOL
Amazing concert on Monday night! It was probably one of my favorite Jimmy Eat World concerts. Last year was great (I’ve really never seen them perform a bad set), but for some reason, at this concert, I felt so happy, alive, energized, and super-excited for every song! they played ‘Bleed American’, and it was really exciting to hear a few songs that I’d NEVER heard live before (‘Cautioners’ and ‘If You Don’t, Don’t). After that, Jim joked “Now, we’re going to play ‘Clarity’ backwards!” and proceeded to play ‘Goodbye Sky Harbor’ – WHICH IS ONE OF MY FAVORITEST SONGS! It’s funny, when I first heard the song, I remember thinking that I’d never get to hear it live, because it was such a complicated (and long) tune. Now, I’ve heard it 3 times (Clarity x10 tour Feb 2009, Sept. 2010, and Sept 2011) and it’s so fantastic the way they worked it out! Jim uses this delay-type doo-hickey (yep) that records his live voice over itself, so they can do the neat harmonies and such. It’s hard to explain, but it’s SO COOL.
(performing ‘hear you me’)
Anyway, unfortunately, Tim had to leave for a business trip right after the concert, and he was gone all week. Marco and I were quite busy, and I’ve been exhausted trying to work, take care of Marco, cats, dog… I ended up eating late dinners and spending about 30 minutes sitting down. Ugh!
Tuesday night:
Pad Thai and reruns of Gilmore Girls
Wednesday night:
Pizza and Rolling Stone magazine (Oh hai, Jon!)
Thursday night I folded laundry and read blogs while catching up my The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
Still busting a gut over the Radiohead special on Monday’s The Colbert Report. Hipster paramedics!!
| The Colbert Report | Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Dr Pepper Presents Stephen Colbert’s Rocktember with Radiohead | ||||
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As you can see, I know how to party. Ke$ha is soo jealous.
so tired. bed time now?
Tonight is the Jimmy Eat World concert, and I am SO PSYCHED! They’ll be playing all ‘Bleed American’ tracks, plus a few more songs to round out the show. ‘Bleed American’ is not my favorite album, and purists will tell you it’s their most commercial (yeah, it is, but it still has good songs, and I’m going to rock out to it with a full heart and a one, two, shimmy-shimmy-shake).
For those of you unable to attend tonight, here’s a few tracks from the album:
Bleed American
Sweetness
I’m hoping they’ll play this version of ’Your House’:
Cautioners
Whee!! This will be my 11th Jimmy Eat World concert, which is super awesome.
Just occurred to me: I can grab more merch for Marco!
But also…yesssssssssssss!!
Lookie what I FINALLY got in the mail (happy birthday to meeee!)
I’m a little concerned over the rumours flying all over the interwebs about changes made to the movies, and am keeping my fingers crossed that Yoda still looks like the Yoda I love on VHS (yep, still got ‘em), only slightly less grainy. I know that you live in Northern California, George!! *shakes fist*
I can’t wait to watch this with Marco!
And people say nothing good ever comes in the mail.
I love the post office. My local branch has the nicest people ever! They smile whenever they see me, ask me how work is going (they remembered that I got promoted), and always tell me to have a beautiful day.
How can you hate it? Plus, they have stamps! I love stamps. Yes, I am a nerd. This is not news, readers. But I actually use my stamps, thankyouverymuch. I’m not one of those weird collectors. one day i’ll be rich and have books of stamps okay
I was geeking out at the Post Office when I saw these, and they are currently in use for my outgoing mail:
{poor NASA.}
The new Pixar stamps might be purchased soon:
Further nerd news: WTF Netflix?! So disappointed in you.
OK, I need to talk about something that will up my cool quotient…
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is just a week and a half away! OMG OMG OMG. HUGH LAURIE!!!!!!! I might faint.
Whoops. That didn’t help. LOL
Today’s music is brought to you by the number 9
John Lennon – Number 9 Dream
Damien Rice – 9 Crimes
Nena – 99 Red Balloons
fyi – IF YOUR EARS ARE SENSITIVE TO CURSE WORDS, JUST SKIP THE NEXT VIDEO.
Jay-Z – 99 Problems
The Beatles – Revolution #9
I love George Harrison. I don’t know that I can REALLY pick a favorite Beatle, because they were all so wonderful and different – but George was special. Referred to as ‘the quiet one’, he was also the youngest – he joined the Quarrymen when he was 15!
I think part of it is because Christopher (my godfather – for lack of a better word; I’m not baptized, but there’s no other term that comes close to his importance) looks a lot like him. I remember the first time I saw a picture of The Beatles, and I thought Christopher WAS in the band.
1987
Anyway, Martin Scorsese made a documentary film about this extraordinary musician, and I can’t wait to see it. ‘No Direction Home’, the Bob Dylan doc, was really good – so I expect this will be pretty rockin’. Literally. Yep. I said it.
And my favorite Harrison composition:
Who said George didn’t sing great pop songs!? This song is just awesome – and I love the video:
