This clip is a year old..cracks me up though.
Luke always spent xmas with me and the kids, then with us when I married.Xmas 2007 he brought Nikki home to meet the family. Wearing an eye patch and experiencing double visiona nd headaches. The following week he was to have the MRI scan.
I spent the last week alone. The kids got back at 4pm so this afternoon was nice.I needed the break and the fact it was xmas really wasn't an issue.
Merry Christmas friends and here's hoping for some good times in 2010.
I'll ;leave you with some Xmas tunes..
TOP RETRO
TOP CHEESE
TOP 'IF SOMEWHAT OVER-PLAYED' XMAS SONG EVAR
Busking: the practice of performing in public places for tips and gratuities. People engaging in this practice are called buskers or street performers. Busking performances can be just about anything that people find entertaining.
How cool is this?!
According to Hot Press and atU2.com:
Grafton Street came to a standstill late this afternoon when a group of superstar buskers gathered to give a unique performance. Bono, Glen Hansard, Damien Rice and Mundy made up the remarkable group, who joined other volunteers who were busking to raise money for the Simon Community. Hot Press caught them performing three songs, before the set finished, prompting a huge and sustained round of applause from astounded passers-by. “That was incredible,” one stunned onlooker told Hot Press. “I was out innocently doing my shopping when I saw a crowd gathered. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I had a closer look – you might expect to see someone like Mundy doing something like this for charity, but there were three huge stars there, giving it loads. It really added to the Christmas eve atmosphere. The only problem is I had one more present to get but the shop is closed now!” By the time the set was finished, Bono had dematerialised into the night air, but Hot Press chatted to Glen Hansard, who had clearly enjoyed the opportunity to return to his roots, in a reprise of his role in the Oscar winning Once. He signed autographs, had his picture taken with kids and chatted to fans. Among other songs, the superstar buskers played Bob Dylan’s ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’ and ‘You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere’ and a version of Mic Christopher’s ‘Heyday’, which had hundreds singing along, with Glen Hansard – Mic’s best friend – leading the line. The crowds responded by donating generously, with one Grafton Street shopper happily handing over €50 for the privilege of having seen one of the most star studded busking sessions in aeons.
Merry Christmas Voxers! Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!
I am writing this at 11:30pm EST in the USA on 12/24/09.
The house is quiet. My Mom and twin brothers have headed to midnight mass. My pita (pain in the arse) brother is asleep and there is peace here.
It wasn't so peaceful earlier though. Holy heck. We had a Christmas Eve nightmare! At around 630pm I discovered that the kitchen sink would not drain. UGH. My pita brother always thinks he can fix things....(insert eye roll here) He tried to plunge it. no go. He tried a liquid draino...no go. He tried to plunge it again....no go. He gets under the sink and starts to take apart the pipe and uses a shop vac to suck and then blow? WTF is he thinking?! We let him try for an hour and then we call in the professionals. We called Roto Rooter. On Chri$tmas eve. UGH!!!! LOL. He was here until just after 10pm but did get the job done thankfully.
Christmas can come now. I got to watch 'A Year Without a Santa Claus...my favorite Christmas show!
Merry Merry Christmas! : )
If you could kiss anyone under the mistletoe, who would it be?
Vox? Do you really want me to dignify that with an answer?!
You already know!!!
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The last time we mentioned Elizabeth and the Catapult, the song "Race You", went straight to the top ten on The Hype Machine. And it's easy to see why, the song is such a fun and cute pop song.
This Christmas song, "Christmas with the Jews", is also fun and cute (and not to mention quite short). But what you're thinking when you're listening to this song, is "er, aren't you forgetting Hanukkah?"
Maybe you can ask them if you see them live:
- 01/28/10 The Barn Clinton, New York
02/05/10 World Cafe Live Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
02/06/10 8x10 Baltimore, Maryland
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Maybe there was a problem with my download, but the MP3 track is 4:56, where the last 30 seconds of the song is complete and utterly garbage... it sounds like it was encoded in error and not part of the song. I've edited out the crap part for you.
The tour information they sent me is as follows:
- January 2010.
Fri 8 USA New York Terminal 5 w/Passion Pit.
Sat 9 USA New York Terminal 5 w/Passion Pit.
Mon 11 USA New York Union Hall.
Tue 12 USA New York Pianos.
February 2010.
Sun 21 Norway Oslo John Dee w/The Temper Trap.
Mon 22 Denmark Copenhagen Vega w/The Temper Trap.
Tue 23 Denmark Copenhagen Vega w/The Temper Trap.
Wed 24 Sweden Stockholm Debaser Slussen w/The Temper Trap.
Fri 26 Germany Hamburg Molotow w/The Temper Trap.
Sat 27 Germany Berlin Postbahnhof w/The Temper Trap.
Sun 28 Germany Cologne Gloria w/The Temper Trap.
March 2010.
Tue 2 Germany Munich Atomic Café w/The Temper Trap.
Wed 3 Germany Frankfurt Nachtelben w/ The Temper Trap.
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My favorite track is "One Hundred Dollar", you can simply hear the anger as singer Andy Hull asks to borrow $100. While the song is short and doesn't offer much explanation, you, as the audience makes up your own background to the song. Anyway, the song is from their latest album, Mean Everything to Nothing, they'll probably be playing loads of their new songs on tour:
- 01/29/10
Salt Palace Convention Center^ Salt Lake City, Utah
01/30/10 The Fillmore^ Denver, Colorado
01/31/10 The Black Sheep* Colorado Springs, Colorado
02/02/10 The Marquee* Tulsa, Oklahoma
02/03/10 Juanita’s Cantina Ballroom* Little Rock, Arkansas
02/04/10 New Daisy Theatre* Memphis, Tennessee
^ with Brand New
* with Harrison Hudson
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Finally, we have Sia. This actually has nothing to do with Christmas, unless you count getting a new music video as a holiday gift. But just talking about the video for "You've Changed" isn't enough to warrant its own article, so I thought I might as well stuck her here.
Sia has always seem to me to be this child trapped in a grown-up's body. The latest video is wonderful, it features this weird stop-motion, "dress up" video-gamey feel to it. I don't know who's idea it was, I'll bet it's a combination of Sia's child-mind and director Dennis Liu of @radical.media, but it came together pretty great.
Be sure to watch the high-resolution video of it (you'll need it to read the song lyrics scrolling at the bottom).
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Woooo hoooooo! Maybe BBC Radio knew it was my birthday this week! They broadcast highlights from the second U2 show at Wembley Stadium on 8/15/09. I was at the first show too on 8/14/09 so whatever they decided to share I was going to LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They shared eleven songs! The sound quality is amazing! LOVE IT!!!!!
U2.com put the link up for easy listening. I am secretly hoping that I will be able to find these songs **somewhere** to add to my iTunes!! : )
The songs live from Wembley:
Breathe
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Until The End of the World
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I'll Go Crazy (Remix)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Ultraviolet
With or without You
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01/23/10 Ampere München
Discography
01/24/10 Studio 672 Köln 01/26/10 Magnet Berlin 01/28/10 Rocking Chair Vevey 01/29/10 Ziegel Oh Lac Zurich 02/01/10 Prinzenbar Hamburg 02/09/10 Thekla Bristol 02/10/10 Hare & Hounds Birmingham 02/11/10 Brudenell Centre Leeds 02/12/10 ULU London 02/13/10 Audio Brighton
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Straitjacket Escape ♥ photo by Dave
The straitjacket incident was obviously the most epic moment of the night, but the theatrics didn’t end there. There was interpretive dancing, rogue boomerangs, and a pretty intimidating box accordion. Throw in a picturesque stage setting and a watering can attached to the drum kit, and it wasn’t an average Webster Hall show. The band managed to take a spacious, relatively normal venue and shift the atmosphere to match that of the album: warm, enthusiastic, and frenzied.
Fanfarlo ♥ photo by DaveWith only one album, they had a limited supply of songs to play. My personal favorite, “I’m a Pilot,” drew from the band’s most appealing quality: their infectious camaraderie. This was most apparent during the encore, when they had run out of songs to sing, so they resorted to the obligatory cover, Low’s “Just Like Christmas,” featuring opening band, Freelance Whales. Anything holiday-related is instantly a cheese-fest, but throw in a cavalcade of instruments and a dozen earnest musicians and it becomes easy to suspend any cynicism.
(I really wanted to end this review by writing, “...and by the end of the night, you could say that the entire audience had shed an emotional straitjacket – and put on a fringed vest of love.” But I won’t. Swearsies.)
Photos by Dave:
Fanfarlo ♥ photo by Dave 
Fanfarlo
Fanfarlo
Fanfarlo & Freelance Whales
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I think I might be nesting.
Two weeks ago I got a new bed and it is heaven!!!
This past Friday Mom and I went to a furniture store here called Boston Interiors. I was looking for a new bureau. The store has one room dedicated to their Cottage Collection and every time I go there I want the whole room!!
So Tuesday morning my new bureau is being delivered.
Here it is:
Side view
Making a list, checking it twice... How's your holiday shopping going? Who's left on your list?
Vox, I've been done with my shopping and wrapping for some time now!
I am off Christmas week to relax and enjoy! : )
Sad news today out of Hollywood.
Brittany Murphy died at the age of 32. Very tragic.
I was a fan and thought she was a good little actress ever since seeing her in Clueless.
Rip.
