Livin' in the sprawl

Lame, I know. I haven't posted in a year. This sweet video of hippies dancing will make up for it though.

Dance or Die

 As it turns out, excercising isn't a complete waste of time. Apparently if you work out, it makes it easier to physically exert yourself down the line, when it's actually fun. Tonight after about 10 minutes of accidental excercise at Ladies 80's dance night, I started feeling that I may accidentally have a heart attack if I didn't change my slacker ways. After panting and tripping my way through the first 3 songs, I generously volunteered to be "that" girl for the night ie: the person who is dancing with such incoherent intensity you're not sure if they're a lunatic or iniebriated. Since we went early and only a few other dancers were there, I felt obliged to really put on a good show for the bystanding bar patrons. This was somewhat embarrassing, since it was just a few years ago that I could jump like a jack rabbit for at least 2 hours straight without breaking a sweat. And thanks to my tri-color, stolen from my mother's closet, fluorescent leggings and Wonderwoman belt, I was not only the most delirious dancer but the most conspicuous as well. And yet it was awesome. Next time I'll be wearing an even more obnoxious outfit, and workout even less beforehand (if that's possible) to better pay my respects to the 80's.

*The pics are a throwback to sophomore year at BYU, Cami and me at "80's club", and yes I wore the same pants.

I'm the Star of the Keytar

So my new favorite band is fictional. Yesterday, I rented the movie "Yes Man" only to watch the following segments with Zooey Deschanel's fictional band Munchausen By Proxy. I love the songs, and the over the top cheesiness of the performance, crazy costumes, and silly song lyrics ("I'm the star of the keytar", "I'm not your late night booty call") all make me laugh. Also I love how they have only 5 fans who she greets by name in song (Hello Jake, Penelope, Rodrigo, Phillip, Zachary!).  I almost like these songs better than the ones performed by Zooey's real band She & Him, mainly because there is a lot more synth and a DANCE beat. Yesss!
Watch this one too, it's amazing

Holey Moley Me Oh My

I'm obsessed with this song. The lyrics are so cool and campy,they tell such a sweet love story. Plus-there's whistling, and it's a male/female duet! What could be better?



Alabama, Arkansas,
I do love my ma and pa,
Not the way that I do love you.

Holy, Moley, me, oh my,
You're the apple of my eye,
Girl I've never loved one like you.

Man oh man you're my best friend,
I scream it to the nothingness,
There ain't nothing that I need.

Well, hot and heavy, pumpkin pie,
Chocolate candy, Jesus Christ,
Ain't nothing please me more than you.

Ahh Home. Let me come home
Home is wherever I'm with you.
Ahh Home. Let me go ho-oh-ome.
Home is wherever I'm with you.

La, la, la, la, take me home.
Mother, I'm coming home.

I'll follow you into the park,
Through the jungle through the dark,
Girl I never loved one like you.

Moats and boats and waterfalls,
Alley-ways and pay phone calls,
I've been everywhere with you.

We laugh until we think we'll die,
Barefoot on a summer night
Nothin' new is sweeter than with you

And in the streets you run afree,
Like it's only you and me,
Geez, you're something to see.

Hearing Damage

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes; most of which never happened."
-Michel de Montaigne

This quote runs through my mind when I start the needless cycle of worry. For some time I thought it was by Mark Twain, and you can see why. Witty one liner, rhyming name, Montaigne... Mark Twain. Funny, cause I was just bragging about my super human hearing powers. So much for that.

The Runaways; A.k.a Women's Lib Diatribe 2.0

Saw the Runaway's biopic last Friday and I have mixed emotions about it. Firstly, Dakota Fanning should not age any further. Can she just stay 8? It was pretty disturbing to watch such young girls being subjected to all the exploitation and debauchery of the 70's music scene. On the flip side it was legit. Fairly accurate storytelling and (appropriately) the music rocked, not to mention it brought attention to one of the few commercially and critically successful female rock bands of the time. It seems that an instrument playing all girl "rock"  band is practically myth in the music industry. It just seems there is a shortage of truly legitimized all girl groups. There are a few I can think of but it seems that while the rock genre hosts a plethora of female solo acts (hoorah), a handful of frontwomen, and an even fewer number of female instrumentalists in bands. This equates to an overall shortage of all girl rock get ups, which means it's even less likely there will be stand outs I suppose. It's sort of dissappointing and I guess I could blame some sort of misogynistic agenda, but I'm not sure sexism is entirely to blame since most people don't favor musicians because of shared chromosome composition.