namaste_vintage

Hahahahaha. No.

Music is very important to me. I think, if I had to define myself category-wise, I'd pick Writing - Music - Reading. I share my love of music with everyone I know! Same with books and my own writing. :)


POLL TIME! I'm so indecisive and I know that you have opinions on this!

Poll #1508132 Website Priorities
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4

Which would you like to see me write about first on my website?

If something else, what do you want to read by me?

I've got several things to work on, but I have no idea where to start.

While White Rabbit Studios had a wonderful start in August of 2009, I'm super excited to see what 2010 holds for us. Mind you, my business partner and her husband and child are planning on moving within the next couple of years or so...but I still think it's important to plan on us being a partnership indefinitely. Because we'll probably find a way to maintain the business, even with miles between us.

Anyway, 2010. Onward to a new year full of new ideas. We are hoping to master the photo booth and be able to offer it as part of a wedding package. We had a "booth" set up for an art show a Lowe Mill and we had an absolute blast! You can view some of our favorite shots here. We have two weddings we are definitely planning to set it up, including my friend Billy White's wedding (lol it's a nice day for a White wedding!) I'm really excited for that wedding. His family are characters and their friends will make for great photo booth subjects. He and his gorgeous fiance are getting married at Burrit, and Steph and I already know that place is nothing but great backdrops. We'll probably get in touch with some of our other brides and see if they are interested. I don't want to promise too much until we've got every detail of this down...

Another thing we are hoping to add is the option to have Super8 video. This is exciting because although Super8 doesn't record sound, it will be SO much fun to add a sweet song and create a montage of happy memories for the loving couple and their families. I also want to boost our film options and hopefully build an online portfolio for it.

I'd also like to have some pre-made options for Save the Dates, birth announcements, invites, etc. I know this is more Andy's territory, but I think I could whip up some templates to at least get some fresh design on our page.



After sitting on the idea a while I've finally gotten my butt in gear and got Hi-Fi Weddings started. Unconditional love and thanks to Andy for helping me execute the details for this new design, that I adore! I'm sending out emails to all of my favorite bloggers tomorrow in hopes they'll fall in love with this idea and will be interested in mentioning HFW on their blog. In exchange, I'll give them a free ad spot. My head is spinning with ideas for this site. Do I want to do a formatted type post and a Q & A of sorts? Or do I just want people to submit what they want, and I'll just blog about it? I'm kinda thinking the latter so I don't push myself into a corner. Music will be the main content, and I'd like to set it up where you can hear the song and even purchase it. Should I do itunes or amazon or or or? I'd also like to do monthly mixes...or at least seasonal mixes of love songs and such. I'm hoping to build up some content and have enough to launch it all by Valentine's Day. Eventually, I'd also like it to be a place where brides can find like-minded vendors to be the perfect fit to their wedding day. Whew...I guess time will tell how this venture goes.

A few things.

1. This


2. That
http://bit.ly/8RXtkv?r=td ♥ ♥ ♥

3. The other thing
http://bananamisconception.com

My first order of business on my website will be writing reviews of the three John Green books and tidying up the FOTC page... and I'm thinking a list of everything I love and am obsessed with would be good. So people will be aware. I love a LOT of things. :) We might have common interests you don't even know about yet!

it's been awhile since i showed off my tattoos. i feel like the scissors need touched up. i want more but am not sure what i want yet. i'm thinking about a dolphin jumping through a ring of fire with some stars and butterflies. (totally kidding. that was not to be taken offensively. do you know how much crap i deal with because of mine?)

day off work; unable to sleep so i woke up early, made cheesecake for tonight's little dinner party, washed the dishes, went to the post office to send letters & spent too much money on postage stamps, ate a croque-monsieur, organized all of my music, downloaded some new music, trudged around in the snow. by the way, the snow today is so light & fluffy it looks fake!

in march i will have had this journal for SEVEN YEARS. holy moly that's a long time.

I can't stop listening to Lady GaGa

wishing I had some/all of the Wes Anderson/Owen Wilson movies

and thinking of John Green books.





Well, okay, the last one's nothing new.

But STILL. Weeeeird of me! :O

white bean aioli - like hummus, but lighter and fresher. SO GOOD.


chickpea-quinoa pilaf - simple but delicious, and we'll have leftovers for days.

I took hundreds of pictures on NYE, but because of my lack of skill with my new lens (not to mention my excessive consumption of very cheap champagne), they were mostly terrible. Fortunately, this one turned out. 2 of my favorite people!

( plus a few polaroids )

FIRST ENTRY OF 2010! YAHOOOO!

...I hope this really is my first entry of 2010. That'd be embarrassing if it wasn't*.

First Vlog of 2010:



My sister's birthday is on Tuesday. Hafta embarrass her somehow...



*Also, it would give away the fact that I have a TERRIBLE memory. Really. It's bad.

this video is so terribly sad but really beautiful.

Last Minutes with ODEN from phos pictures on Vimeo.

This year has been a good one. And, this new year I feel is going to be just as good--and ten times more busy. I'm going in with energy and lots of hope.

The week went by quickly. I had off since my son was home for winter break. My sister, her husband and my three year old niece came for a long visit. We ate at the Italian place downtown on New Years Eve and brought our own wine. All the white lights on the trees and the bit of snow we got made it so wondrous! We hung out in pj's, shopped, went to the bead boutique for some jewelry goods (my sister likes to make a necklace each time they visit), Chinese food, some cooking in, Belgian waffle making and coffee shop visits. New Year's Eve was game playing, dressing fancy (for the Italian) and some drinks and lots of laughing. If you can spend the moment into the new year laughing so hard your belly aches, you are doing well.

Last night we met my dearest friend in Frederick and got to meet her fiance'. We ate veggie burgers and dank beer with orange slices (I want orange slices every time now! Yum!) and visited for hours. After we stopped off for coffee and they gave us tons of free donuts (late night). Haha So good.

Today is lots of resting and relaxing. The week will start tomorrow and we'll be back to the daily. Hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's Eve!

so mike and i have decided to try and go vegan in 2010. scary! but i'm motivated. last night we had a hankerin' for chocolate chip cookies, so we took out our shiny new copy of the veganomicon (thanks mom!) and found a recipe for these chewy chocolate-raspberry cookies. we trekked to the grocery store in the freakin' blizzard, came home and voila! they're incredibly rich and "chewy" is an understatement, so the hardest part was not running out for a gallon of milk to wash them down with.

i'm going to try to make every recipe in the book that doesn't contain rosemary (which makes mike violently ill) or fennel (GROSS) and document them here. can you tell i recently watched julie & julia? yeah.

+ new tea mugs & yummy tea.
+ can't stop listening to the new beach house album.
+ a surprise $70 in my bank account. (interest rebate!)
+ buying birthday presents. well, presents in general.
+ these cute toms shoes.
+ finishing all four seasons of dexter.
+ making mail art & writing letters a little more.
+ finding a roll of film from 3+ years ago. can't wait to get it developed.
+/- sleeping in too much. it feels great but also makes me feel like i'm wasting the day.
- wet socks due to people not taking off their shoes.
- my messy, unorganized, cold room.

Happy Birthday to the_siobhan!

Did you get snow for your birthday! It's been snowing since last night in Boston and we are supposed to get more snow the next two days.

We did it! We've finally chosen our top 20 Albums of 2009...along with the top 7 inches of the year. And while we were at it, we included our favorite shows from '09. If you have a "best of" list of your own, you should share it with us!

ALBUMS:
1. Box Elders - Alice & Friends (Goner Records)
2. King Tuff - Was Dead (Colonel Records)
3. Smith Westerns - Self Titled (Hozac Records)
4. Jail - There's No Sky (Oh My My) (Self Released)
5. Fresh & Onlys - Debut (Castle Face)
6. Nobunny - Raw Romance - (Burger Records)
7. Goodnight Loving - Self Titled (Dusty Medical Records)
8. Girls - Album (True Panther Sounds)
9. Fresh & Onlys - Grey Eyed Girls (Woodsist)
10. Hunx & His Punx - Gay Singles (True Panther Sounds)
11. Thomas Function - In The Valley of Sickness (Fat Possum Records)
12. Thee Oh Sees - Dog Poison (Captured Tracks)
13. Jacuzzi Boys - No Season (Florida's Dying)
14. The Strange Boys - And Girls Club (In The Red)
15. Pine Hill Haints - To Win Or To Lose (K Records)
16. The Dutchess & The Duke - Sunrise / Sunset (Hardly Art)
17. Harlem - Free Drugs (Female Fantasy Records)
18. So Cow - So Cow (Tic Tac Totally)
19. The Resonars - That Evil Drone (Burger Records)
20. Yussuf Jerusalem - A Heart Full of Sorrow (Florida's Dying)

7 INCHES:
The Magic Kids - Hey Boy / Good To Be (Goner Records)
Girls - Lust for Life / Life in San Francisco (True Panther Sounds)
Smith Westerns / Magic Kids - Imagine Pt. 3 / Superball (Fat Possum)
Goodnight Loving - Nothing Conquers Us / Scary Bad (Dirtnap Records)
Diamond Rings - All Yr Songs (Hypelighter)
Dan Sartain - Hungry End / Perverted Justice (Big Legal Mess)
Ganglians - Blood On the Sand (Captured Tracks)
Fergus & Geronimo - Harder Than It's Ever Been (Woodsist)
Fergus & Geronimo - Blind Muslim Girl (Tic Tac Totally)
The Oh Sees - Tidal Wave / Adult Acid (Woodsist)

SHOWS:
Nobunny & Rock N' Roll Adventure Kids @ Vertical House Records
Magic Kids @ Gonerfest Memphis
Hunx & His Punx @ Gonerfest Memphis
Spellcaster Maritime Ball (Quintron & Ms. Pussycat, Thomas Function) @ Spellcaster Lounge New Orleans
Goodnight Loving @ Bamalama Huntsville
Box Elders @ Bamalama Huntsville
Thomas Function, Puppy Hearts, Geoff Geis @ Vertical House Records
Fresh & Onlys @ Gonerfest Memphis
Box Elders @ Gonerfest Memphis
Pine Hill Haints, Counterclock Wise, Revival Now @ Crossroads

been doing a lot of lil secret stuffs (mostly 1/2 pg comics), lil by lil, these couple of weeks...my goal is to compile these all in a brand new ZINE
( calling it 'squinty' )
~*~
listen to this:

i am made of literature
i am nothing else and cannot be anything else
i am nothing but a mass of spikes going through me

oh kafka you're so sexy. i'll let your mass of spikes go through me anyday.

"wait, what?",
sua

copy pasted part from wiwt:
guys i have to confess to you that i'm a little bit upset right now... i was all prepared to celebrate taco 2010 by eating a taco at midnight (the food, not the sexual way) with a taco-obsessed buddy but he missed his train and now at midnight i wll most likely be staring at strangers on the bus to the station. boo!

( that is the face of taco rage )
~*~
anyway i really wouldnt mind spending nye alone n all, but the fact that i have plans and they are being all messed up by dumb train times and me having to be in the city to get stuff and then being stuck here is all...dumb. yesterday though i went to macy's and went to the fragrance section and smelled all the perfume and accepted all the lil white fragrance cards. creepy? yes!
~*~
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS:
-TAKE WHAT'S MINE
-cut off ties with everyone who makes me feel uncomfortable
-quit being so uncomfortable
-stop being satisfied with being alone
-start reading again!!!
-DON'T CUT HAIR!
-leave no one unloved. never make anyone feel unloved.
-get a boyfriend who will buy me food and underwear.

um, i think that's it for now. because i am perfect otherwise you know. har har har
ADDITIONAL NEW YEARS RESOLUTION:
-quit stupid attempts at humor
~*~
loving you 1990-2010-and beyond,
sua