Because my neighborhood is under a boil advisory. Yee freakin' haw.
In Case You Didn't Know...
Jimmy Fallon is Kind of Killing It!
Jimmy Fallon is officially a part of the great line-up of The Tonight Show including Jay Leno and the immortal Johnny Carson -- but he has managed to bring his signature episodic format to the more tedious monologue, something funny, guest, music. There is a kind of interjection that includes pre-taped videos (just this week alone, Brian Williams Raps "Rapper's Delight", "The Evolution of Dancing" with Will Smith (below)), and last nights genius in-studio game of Charades with Emma Thompson, Tim McGraw and Bradley Cooper. I'm still dying over that last one. There is something special and different in the way that Fallon interacts with actors and celebrities. Don't ask me to describe how it's different, it's like he just wants to have fun with his guests and cameos (Stephen Colbert showering him with pennies Monday night, anyone?) and in that way, makes them seem much more human. Maybe Jimmy Fallon is going to make late night cool again; becoming the late night host for us Gen Y'ers who love his nostalgic for the 80s and 90s humor. You have to appreciate that!
Speaking of Talk Shows...
Has anyone seen this? Oh dear God... no words. I have no words...
Josh Groban does Valentine's Day
Stop my beating... well, it's not my heart,
I'll say that much...
Mr. Little Jeans and Madison Release
Some Bitchin' Electropopping Sounds
Two of my favorite moniker-named dance vixens seem to be on the same brain wave this week. Madison released "Start a Fire," an electric... fiery if not for lack of a better word... electropop dance song complete with echoing choruses and catchy "ooh's" you'll probably end up singing a long to; and Mr. Little Jeans (Monica Birkenes) releases another tease of her ever changing but consistently electronic sound on Tuesday with "Good Mistake which is full of her signature lo fi electronic beats and her affinity of throwing something amazingly profound into the lyrics, "surely what you remember what you're good for there's much more in life."
A Very Grimm Valentine's Day
A little predictable to the devoted Grimm fan? Yeah maybe a little... Hysterical? Oh hell yes. And what of Rosalee and Juliette's friendship? Make it look a little less arm-length and I think I really love this! (Note: on E! Online's "Save a Show" feature, Grimm is on the block! What?! This should be happening... go on there and VOTE!)
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| I like to READ pullover ($28, meandmytee on etsy) |
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| GAP Oxfords ($60, gap.com) |
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| Wuthering Heights T-Shirt ($28, outofprintclothing.com) |
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| Poe-Ka Dot Tote ($18, outofprintclothing.com) |
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| Alice in Wonderland Long Sleeve ($40, outofprintclothing.com) |
Side A: An Alternative Valentine's Day Playlist
Side B: Love Song Covers
Beatles and Celebrities "Come Together"
for one Big Beatles-Love Fest
(And it was AWESOME!)
... And that made me a very very happy girl.
It really was the perfect definition of a Love-Fest leaded by Dave Grohl, the perfect Beatle fan who collaborated (and help create) my favorite non-reunion moments of the nights with a lesser known Beatles rock tune, "Hey Bulldog" ("...it's a quintessential Beatles rocker," He explained his song choice, "Paul's rolling bass line. The trademark Ringo drum fills, George's gritty distorted guitar. And that sound that only the back of John Lennon's throat could produce." Backing him up on "Hey Bulldog" included ELO front man and close Beatle-friend Jeff Lynne and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" included mind-numbing and breathless rock n roll courtesy of Grohl on drums and mind-altering dueling solos by Joe Walsh and Gary Clark Jr. (I'm still not over that solo..)
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| I will never understand the Yoko Ono hate -- a pioneering feminist/poet/artist had one of the greatest love stories with a HSP revolutionary as John Lennon was. Stop believing that this amazing woman was the cause of the Beatles breaking up! |
And then "the great reunion" with a bevy of standards coming from either Starr or McCartney individually or together: "I Saw Her Standing There," "Hey Jude," "Get Back," "Yellow Submarine," and my absolute favorite moments in "Matchbox" and the infamous Shirelles cover "Boys." It was during somewhere in the middle of Ringo's set that all the charisma that is known as the Beatles became truthfully hypnotic with the whole room's arms up in the air making the peace sign. The Beatles are apart of us, and I sobbed like a little girl. It's truly something when we say we love The Beatles, but it's another thing to truly see it displayed on camera with close ups of your average celebrity enraptured by the music. The Beatles are apart of us. The Beatles music speaks to us like nothing else. It was then I realized that this little scuffle band from Liverpool speaks such volumes because they happened at a time when the human race was discovering themselves and from that, they were in the right place at the right time to design pop culture and rock-n-roll as we know it complete with sobbing pre-teen fans.
Thank you, Paul and Ringo for a majestic night.
....My only question is where the hell was Freda Kelly (their fan-club secretary and close friend) to enjoy this night with her, as she called McCartney and Starr back in the days, big brothers?
....Why am I learning about Ed Sheeran just now? This guy is amazing!
Josh Groban *HAS* been the Greatest
Philosopher of All Time, Where
Have You Been, Huffpo?
No complaints though, really, but this is so much win.
SO.
MUCH.
WIN.
Charlotte Church Continues to
"Glitterbomb" and Melt My Face
With the New Look!
Annie Gives Us (but mostly Russia)
a Big "Russian Kiss"
The only way to retaliate against politics is a good song. So leave it to one of my favorite people, Norwegian songstress who-simply-cannot-suck Annie to stick it to Russia. I was surprised when I saw the song's objective (and the video!), I half suspected this is something that Peaches or someone else more bent on the shock factor would take on but in a way, this makes me respect Annie SO MUCH more than I already do. Plus, I love that haircut!!!
Anyway, "Russian Kiss" is a great collaboration with visual artist Bjarne Melgaard and Annie's frequent lover in song, Richard X. Based on a 90s club song "French Kiss," Annie's embellished tune has been turned around to be a magical retaliation against Putin's anti-LGB Legislation. [I leave the "T" off because they are not the ones attacked for the moment...] And while I'm a person who keeps bedroom things in the bedroom without a double standard; I think what had to be done to get a message to Russia was bad-ass but for me personally, the video didn't do much for me. But I absolutely love that Annie did this... once my surprise wore off and the male groans left my ears. I like girls, I don't need to hear that. =)
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It was 50 years ago today (or the relative day you're seeing this...) when rock-n-roll gave itself mouth to mouth resuscitation and produced The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. So naturally as a proud Beatlemaniac, I feel it's my duty to share my favorite little known and/or underrated tracks that came from the brilliant mind of these four fabulous song writers/musicians. All I've Got To Do
And Your Bird Can Sing
Another Girl
Anytime At All
Baby You're a Rich Man
Baby's in Black
Bad Boy (Larry Williams Cover)
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The Ballad of John and YokoBoys (The Shirelles Cover)
Chains (The Cookies Cover)
Do You Wanna Know a Secret?
Don't Bother Me
Don't Let Me Down
Don't Pass Me By
Every Little Thing
Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby (Carl Perkins Cover)
Free as a Bird
Getting Better
Glass Onion
Good Morning, Good Morning
Got to Get You Into My Life
Hey Bulldog
Hold Me Tight
Honey Don't
I Call Your Name
I Me Mine
I Need You
I Should Have Known Better
I Wanna Be Your Man
I'll Be Back
I'll Cry Instead
I'll Follow the Sun
I'm a Loser
I'm Happy Just to Dance With You
I'm Looking Through You
I'm Only Sleeping
I'm So Tired
I've Just Seen a Face
It's All Too Much
It's Only Love
It Won't Be Long
The Inner Light
Little Child
Long Long Long
Matchbox (Carl Perkins Cover)
Misery
Mother Nature's Child
Mr. Moonlight
No Reply
The Night Before
Old Brown Shoe
Only a Northern Song
The One After 909
Paperback Writer
Rain
Real Love
Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry Cover)
She's a Woman
She Said, She Said
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Tell Me What You SeeThere's a Place
Think For Yourself
This Boy
Two of Us
Wait
What You're Doing to Me
When I Get Home
Within You, Without You
Words of Love (Buddy Holly Cover)
Yer Blues
Yes It Is
You Can't Do That
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
You Really Got a Hold On Me (Smokey Robinson Cover)
You Won't See Me
You're Going to Lose That Girl
For lack of a better blog post title, I didn't know how to lump all of these majestic wonderful things (Kishi Bashi, bitches!!) together, so there you have it.
Apparently the original pop and classical opera singing pre-teen has been back and I didn't know until I was going through my Spotify for songs that I lost in the lieu of deleting a dropbox folder (nice going, B). So, I downloaded the songs that I lost from Charlotte Church, yes even some from that horrible pop album she made after she lost her voice and then I noticed new albums! I listened to all of them and Charlotte Church is indeed back, after four years of good throat rest. Her voice will never be the same but the strange Kate Bush meets Sarah Brightman-like trance works wonders with what voice she has now! And, she's still stunning. #teamWales
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
It's definitely a tight race in my mind between Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) and Julia Roberts (August: Osage County) but clear chances are that Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle) or Nyong'o will be taking it home.
And here's a picture of last week's episode of Community...
Charlotte Church is back and
No One Told Me?!
Apparently the original pop and classical opera singing pre-teen has been back and I didn't know until I was going through my Spotify for songs that I lost in the lieu of deleting a dropbox folder (nice going, B). So, I downloaded the songs that I lost from Charlotte Church, yes even some from that horrible pop album she made after she lost her voice and then I noticed new albums! I listened to all of them and Charlotte Church is indeed back, after four years of good throat rest. Her voice will never be the same but the strange Kate Bush meets Sarah Brightman-like trance works wonders with what voice she has now! And, she's still stunning. #teamWales
Essie Spring 2014 Preview
I don't know about any of you, but, I am kind of intrigued by testing what "Hide and Go Chic," "Fashion playground" and "spin the bottle" would look like against my skin tone... And hopefully it would look good! But then, you never know...
Mission Creek Festival: Second Wave
Announcement
S. Carey! Kishi Bashi! The Head and the Heart! Of Montreal! Wolf Eyes! Caroline Smith! It's like the Indie Rock Playlist up and vomited happy colorful rainbows all over this year's Mission Creek festival and I seriously could not be more pumped for anything in my life! Mission Creek is the best time of year... next to Revival's annual 50 percent off sale...
Happiness is a Dickens Bio Pic:
The Invisible Woman
Unfortunately, Simon Callow isn't playing him. Fail. (Doctor Who reference, folks. Yes, I have been converted...) But Voldemort is (Ralph Fiennes) and that's fine with me; Fiennes can play anything and make it look good. So can Kirstin Scott Thomas (the voice of my inner monologue) who plays Nelly Ternan's mother, one of the many people oblivious to Dickens and Nelly's 13 year secret affair. This is what bio pics were made for! Now the better question is when this movie going to be distributed in American theaters?
Oscars 2014 Predictions Score Card
Best Picture:
It's a very tight race between American Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity and 12 Years a Slave; but I don't have much investment in any of the movies so I'll let the Academy decide.
Best Actor in a Leading Role:
Once more, it's a tight race between Christian Bale (American Hustle), Chiwetel Eijofor (12 Years a Slave) and Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) but I would love to see Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street) finally get an award for a Scorsese film since it seems he takes his acting to another level underneath the cinema legend.
Best Actress in a Leading Role:
Chances are between Amy Adams (American Hustle) and Cate Blanchett but I'm really holding out for the veterans in Judi Dench (Philomena) and Meryl Streep (August: Osage County) but especially Meryl Streep!
Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
Jared Leto, Jared Leto, and Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club). There's no competition. NEXT!
Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
It's definitely a tight race in my mind between Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) and Julia Roberts (August: Osage County) but clear chances are that Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle) or Nyong'o will be taking it home.
Best Animated Film:
Frozen, no doubt. But it would be nice to see Despicable Me 2 win since they did create the minions!
Best Directing:
It's definitely a tight race between David O. Russell (American Hustle), Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) and Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) but damn it, I just want the adorable little muppet otherwise known as Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street) to win his second Oscar (AND ONLY SECOND??!!)
Nailed it.
From Tina impersonating Barkhad Abdi ("I am the Captain now.") to Amy Poehler using Jennifer Lawrence as a stand-in for herself when bringing up her own Globes nomination, this year's Golden Globes started out with a bang. And like Glamour Magazine tweeted, "And for the 2nd year in a row, Tina and Amy made fun of everyone to perfection yet no one got offended. They are perfect" there is no better way to describe the opening monologue. They were perfect. And I'm also guessing the Somalian pirates will definitely take Tina's come-on to come up to her hotel room.
- (to side camera) "Scandal!" - Amy and Tina
- "Everyone, sleep with your limo driver before he gets famous." - Amy Poehler
- "He [Matthew McConaughey] had to lose 45 pounds for this movie or as actresses call it: being in a movie." - Tina Fey
- Julia Louis-Dreyfuss in sunglasses and fake cigar sitting on the "movie" side of the room getting heckled by her fellow TV comic actresses. (note she was sitting with Reese Witherspoon! Badass.)
"Now it's time for the president's speech, or for those at home, a bathroom break." - Hollywood Foreign Press President, Theo Kingma
Damn.
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
[Winning over Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave AND Julia Roberts for August: Osage County]
Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
[Winning over James Spader for The Blacklist]Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical
Amy Adams, American Hustle
[Winning over Meryl Streep for August: Osage County, really... OVER MERYL?]
Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama
Robin Wright, House of Cards
[Winning over Tatiana Maslany for Orphan Black. SERIOUSLY??! Hey Princess Buttercup, can you play 7 clones at the same time in the same scene?]
Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical
Andy Samberg, Brooklyn Nine Nine (Mr. Joanna Newsom)
[Winning over Jim Parsons for The Big Bang Theory]
Best TV Series, Comedy
Brooklyn Nine Nine
[Winning over The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family and Parks and Recreation]
The Point When I Dance
Around my Apartment
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyer's Club
Actor in Mini Series or TV Movie
Michael Douglas, Behind the Candelabra
Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
The Best Tweets
Who wants to be in charge of cropping the Emma Thompson shoes and drink screenshot we will all be using as our profile picture tomorrow?
6 years off from acting, and Jared Leto's eyes are still deep blue pools filled with our hopes and dreams. #GoldenGlobes
Obviously we have to update our best hair and makeup poll to include Alex Ebert. #GoldenGlobes
Tina & Amy took the tiller of the glorious garbage scow that is the #GoldenGlobes & sailed it to Atlantis. That is all. Good night.
The Best Little Moments
"Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow." - P. Diddy
"In the name of gender equality, I like to introduce my son from another marriage, Mr. Golden Globe." - Tina Fey, following Amy Poehler dressed up as a little boy asking if Idris Elba is "his" father.
"Like my mother said, go to hell and don't come back." - Jacqueline Bisset
"Yeah, bitch!" - Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) winning Best TV Series, Drama
Everything that came out of Robert Downey Jr.'s mouth.
"Acting is hard. That's what a very wise Shia LeBeouf once said." - Jim Carrey"Oh, look who's back in the TV section, hi Julia!" - Amy Poehler
"The only reason you're not here is because I wore more sequins." - Michael Douglas to Matt Damon, winning for Behind the Candelabra
"I love you and there's a special place in hell for you." - Tina to Amy on winning.
Diane Keaton singing during Woody Allen's honorary award. <3
"Like a supermodel's warm vagina, let's all welcome Leonardo DiCaprio." - Tina Fey
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| Melissa Rauch |
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| Lupita Nyong'o in Ralph Lauren |
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| Tatiana Maslany in Jenny Packham |
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| Michelle Dockery in Oscar de la Renta |
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| Kaley Cuoco- Sweeting in Rani Zakhem |
