...Tejano music lost its brightest star. This lovely girl gave me the music my mom would play when cleaning the house and for all the family bbq's at the park every Sunday during my childhood. She also loved hot sauce like no other, was an aspiring fashion designer and taught me all the Spanish I'd ever know. Can you see why I loved this lady so?
Okay, in the past, I've done Tuesdays where I post videos I'm currently obsessed with or just simply find amusing. But it's been a while, so I'm going to post several. :)
The first is a new video/song from Kelis. Yes, that Kelis. The "milkshake brings all the boys to the yard" Kelis. I heard this song the other day and it's been in my head ever since. Plus, I really like the video even though it makes no sense. From an artistic visual point of view, I find it kind of alluring. Take a gander.
Secondly, is my current female crush/idol. Annie Clark (better known as her moniker, St. Vincent) has come under my radar in recent months and I just can't seem to stop listening to her latest release aptly titled 'Actor'. Flash forward to a couple of weeks ago and as I blindly surfed YouTube, I clicked and clicked, clicked again, then clicked some more until...
WHAT?!
Can it be?! St. Vincent and ANDREW BIRD have a duet together?! And not just ONE duet, but a whole SHOW?! My eyes were not deceiving me, and for about an hour straight I repeatedly watched the two songs that struck my little violin-loving heart - Annie's "What Me Worry" and this little diddy right hurr:
Fun fact: Mr. Bird invited Annie to be part of his tour after this chance duet encounter. I hope they have babies.
Here is a tune from a band I just came across the other day - Local Natives. Much more powerful when you know what the song's about. I loves it and look forward to hearing more from this band in the future.
And last but not least, a video from 3 years ago or so. When I was madly obsessed with everyone's favorite Office couple - JAM. More recognizably known as the adorable pairing that is Jim Halpert and Pam Beasley. This video documents their heart-breakingly "why can't Pam just leave Roy already?!" romance set to the tune of Mat Kearney's 'Bullet'.
Oh, I rooted for them. I rooted hard. And look where they are now...married with a daughter. You go JAM, live on forever.
Okay, so this isn't the big move I was planning - but my impulses got the best of me in wanting to just up and go...and I also didn't have any money to support me. So there goes that plan - for now. Maybe I just need a vacation, eh?
At least moving in with friends saves me TONS of money and will get me out of my comfort zone. Besides, I was getting that sense that it was time to change the atmosphere again. But as it is, I've been stuck inside packing for the past two and a half days. And with all this silence, I'm starting to scare myself. I do that, thanks to my over-active imagination, and also the fact that everything clumped together in the darkness has the potential to be hiding some unknown intruder just waiting til I close my eyes to sleep and...AHHHHHH!
The tips of my fingers hurt from playing my Mandolin-dolin and I'm also starting to look into going to Connect-i-cut for my friend's wedding in May. One of three I shall be attending. ::inhales:: Ah, Let the spring love bloom. Everyone altogether now: Awwwwwwww.
Anyways, I write to tell you of my new interest. His name is Keats. John Keats.
(The soft, golden locks of hair and gentlemanly, day-dreamy eyes did it for me)
Retreating to my favorite sanctuary, I browsed along the aisles and for some reason I picked up a collection of letters he wrote to his dear beloved Fanny before he died. They had planned to get married, but his sickness took him away at the young age of 23 causing Fanny to go into deep mourning not deciding to settle down/marry until she was 33 (only having been 18 when she met Keats).
It wasn't so much the letters that were moving (although the feeling starts to get pretty tense as Keats' sickness become a primary topic in the letters), but the poems inspired and written for Fanny are what did it. It...was moving. And voila! I now have a new literary interest in my bones.
I guess I'm excited because it reminded me of why I settled on being an English major.
Thank you, Mr. Keats.
Now my next quest...looking up how to prepare Enchiladas.
P.S. San Fran's not exciting?! I have a friend visiting the town right now and he complains that he's bored out of his mind there. How can this be? It ranked higher than Austin for cities I should visit.
So disappointing. But then again, I wasn't impressed with Cali when I went to Hollywood. And now that Conan's off the air...I really have no reason to ever set foot in the state again. Oh well.
P.S.S. Listen to Florence and the Machine. That girl can sing.
P.S.S.S. I'm going through a Michelle Branch Rewind?!
