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Archive for February, 2009

(ok, this video has little to do with this post, but we listened to this song in the car on the way to church yesterday morning and now I can’t get it out of my head.  Also, ignore the weird graphics.)

 
Both of the following incidents happened within the course of about [...]

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WHOA.

Austin downloaded some tracks from Kanye West’s latest, 808s and Heartbreak, but I hadn’t heard this song until just now, when I watched the video.

(By the way, your computer screen isn’t screwed up; the video is just super stylized.)
Maybe it’s that I’d thought “Heartless” would be the one tune on the [...]

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MY V-DAY

Above is one of my very favorite early Beatles songs.  Listen and enjoy!
Yesterday I made a Valentine for one of the sweet youth group girls here, Carina, and in it I told her about some of the hatred directed towards Valentine’s Day in America.  Some single people are sickened by the holiday; [...]

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AN UNLIKELY SOURCE

My Gmail window has a toolbar that gives me a quote of the day.  Today’s quote?
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
-Marlene Dietrich
Rings true to me.  I clicked on the quote and it brought me to more, which are surprisingly succinct, [...]

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TIME FOR A NEW ONE

So, this video is my new obsession:

I’ve had actual dreams that involved puppet shows in the past.  I love these marionettes.  And now I live in a country that adores them.
On my short walk to the Meiers’ house from the bus stop every Monday-Wednesday, I pass by an apartment window, dressed [...]

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