oh home.

(well this last one is from Madison...)

Watch. Love. This is the theme song of the week I suppose.

Music for summer road trips 1

This is my new band obsession. Perfect road-trip music. Enjoy-

Frontier Ruckus.

Late Happy New Years

I hope all of you are having a fantastic 2009 so far. I think this really will be a wonderful year. I will be graduating high school after all these years and hopefully moving on to bigger and better things.

One major change in my life is that I have decided to try out veganism. I have been a vegetarian for almost 2 years now and I think it is the next step for me. There are so many benefits of living my life that way- better for the animals, the environment, and my health. I've gone almost 4 complete days in a row now without consuming any animal products and I feel great about it. I made a delicious zucchini and lentil dinner last night. Yum. Plus, this just means I need to experiment a little bit more with my cooking skills. Definately a benefit.

Unfortunately, I will not have as much time in the coming months to keep posting all the time because I need to work on my scholarships, but I will try to post something at least weekly.

-Parisian fille

PS- this video is perfect advice. take it. it's free.

Vagabonding

So I know, it's after Christmas and all, but I know I'm still in the Christmas mood until at least New Years, so I thought I would post this cute little video of two men playing Jingle Bells in Switzerland. I found it when I was researching vegabonding- (a person who doesn't have a permantent home, who moves from place to place). I thought it would be really interesting to just take an entire year off after I'm all done with schooling(4-8 years from now, depending on grad-school). To pack a backpack with my new incredible camera, a couple of changes of clothing, and the basic necessities, and of course a sketch-pad/journal, and just take off. I would work odd jobs for room and board, and possibly write a book about my experiences.

I found a site with a bunch of links to different means of "sleeping for free" here. One of the ones mentioned that really caught my attention was the World Wide Opportunities for Organic Farmers (WWOOF). Currently, I have no knowledge what exactly I would have to know before going, but I'm sure there are plenty of places that would take me and then teach me the job on site.

at long last.

So, being a huge Harry Potter fan (laugh all you want haters...) since the third grade, I was excited today when i finally saw the trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince movie. The movie was supposed to be realeased last week, but a certain other fantasy book-turned movie (ahhem) stole the show and now we will have to wait until July to see the 6th movie.

ps. I actually love Twilight...

Dis Moi!

This video makes me think of France. This song was wildly popular and oh so catchy. And I love the group BB Brunes- so cute and so French.

Dis Moi by BB Brunes

Leatherdays

This summer during my stay in France, my friends and I got to see a talented young band- Leatherdays- from Manchester play a few times in the Alpine town of Chamonix. I think they have what it takes to go far in the business: they're talented, charismatic, (and good looking...). When we saw them, they had a couple of good original tracks, includingthe heartbroken, Frozen. They also covered some Kings of Leon, Free, The Doors, and other great rock bands of the like. This week, they just issued two tracks on iTunes and I encourage everyone to check them out! When they become big stars, touring the world, you can say you were with them from the beginning.

Kings of Leon Concert Review

Front Row! We Are Scientists
We Are Scientiststhe great KINGS OF LEON

"You better learn to crawl

before I walk away" from Crawl

Here are some pictures from the Kings of Leon concert I attended last wednesday, November 5th at the Rave in Milwaukee. It was so incredible. The Whigs, and We Are Scientists did a good job opening for them, but were no comparison to the headliners themselves. They started the show off with the first two songs from their new album, Only By The Night- Closer and Crawl. Then they proceeded to rock every one of their hits from their past and current albums, including an incredible preformance of Molly's Chambers that had the crowd overflowing with excitement. It's hard to pick a favorite that they did because every one of them were so high-quality and awesome.

What a night. I have a guitar pick, quite a few bruises, and dark circles under my eyes due to being forced to attend all my classes the next day as a souvenirs, and my love for KOL is abounding more than ever. All hail the Kings!

Here's the setlist. You can click on the under lined ones to see the video.

1) Closer 2) Crawl 3) My Party 4) Razz 5)Molly's Chambers 6) Taper Jean Girl 7) King of the Rodeo 8) Sex on Fire 9) Fans 10) Revelry 11) Milk 12) Four Kicks 13) The Bucket 14) McFearless 15) Use Somebody 16) On Call 17) Cold Desert 18) Slow Night, So Long 19) Knocked Up 20) Manhattan 21) Charmer

how to produce creatives

Made me chuckle.

Thanks swissmiss

have a sunny sunday!

I adore this video- cameras, fashion, rain, sun, subways, and Praha.

Really- have a sunny sunday.

Love. amanda

Dancing in Central Park

I love this city...

Updates:

Since my last post:

-I've been using my lomo camera more and more and am falling in love with it

-School started... and I only have 163 days til graduation!

-all of my friends left for college :(