Cooking Up Some Trouble

Mainly just cooking,though. I grabbed a recipe from one of my favorite blogs, Cooking With Rockstars (link on your right), and put on Brandi Carlile before beginning dancing around my kitchen, mincing garlic and slicing carrots and, yes, drinking the Sauvignon Blanc my mom had chilled in the refrigerator. It's a chilly day for summer (50 degrees), and drizzling, so today was a perfect day for watching Wayne's World and making my house smell delicious. For tonight's dinner? Spinach and goat cheese stuffed lamb, coconut-carrot soup, roasted potatoes, and green beans.

Summer's been pretty lazy so far. Just the way I like it. Can't say I'm not excited for the more jet-set part of the summer to arrive, or that I don't miss Helena (I do), but there's something to be said for lazy Memorial Days, with nothing but a kitchen and iTunes to keep track of.

Something about chinese food and Abercrombie

So I can't help but be reminded when the warm wind starts a-blowin' that the cheesiest music with the most nonsensical lyrics used to tickle my fancy during the summer. Ming, this one is for you since you said you couldn't find it. This summer may not be seventh grade, but we will be just as ridiculous. And still listen to the Lyte Funky Ones.

Summer Girls- LFO

Mother's Day Messages

I am Fuel, You are Friends reminded me of all the great Mother's Day messages that are out there to remind us of the proper way to celebrate the moms in our lives. So here are a few. Starting with Mr. T's Daisy Duke-adorned dance celebration;



Treat Your Mother Right- Mr. T

Next are my two favorite Gonzaga grads, Barats and Bereta.



And last but very certainly not least, CNN's silver fox himself; Anderson Cooper. If anything made me feel bad about stopping by Hallmark to get a witty card with a sound byte chip in it for my mom, it's this showboat (or dreamboat) interviewing his mom in '03 for a Mother's Day gift.

Yes, well, sorry Cooper, we can't all buy our mothers fame for Mother's Day. But thanks for pointing it out, you well-informed son of a...Mrs. Cooper.

Wilconversion/Cinco de Wilco/A Warm Wilcome

Thank you to Jon for being the dutiful dude with the camera

All those horrifying puns were thrown out last night, and were promptly forgiven because it was a special enough night that all bad jokes were chuckled at, and then allowed to be healed by the two hour set that Wilco played. Once the show ended, I turned around to see my friend who had never heard Wilco before approaching me with the same dazed, slightly drunken-with-magnificence look on her face that I'm sure I had. I tried to keep from giggling and dancing a little bit, because there is nothing more irritating than a self-satisfied giddy friend dancing and singing, "I told you so!" After a few "wow"s and "holy shit"s I agreed to give her the Wilco/Tweedy from my iTunes. Which was the first thing that happened today, after a long breakfast peppered with things like, "wow" and "holy shit."

How awesome to see a band like Wilco for the first time having never heard them before.

Anyway, I have a pot smoke hangover from having some very enthusiastic mary-joo-wanna connoisseurs right by me for the whole set. But it was worth it to have my face more or less melted off.

I don't think I want to elaborate on the set in general, because I don't think it's necessary to. I do have one point from all this though;

I do not like how music has become a commodity, or a "cool" meter. You know, people who go to concerts just to prove they are the biggest fan, or when someone says they haven't heard a certain band and people jump all over them like "WHAT? ARE YOU A HUMAN? DO YOU HAVE A SOUL? I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'VE BEEN ALLOWED TO EXIST AS A CARBON BASED LIFE FORM!" (taken from actual conversation*)

I think it's completely cool when someone goes to a show of a band they don't know. It should be encouraged, not dribbled upon. And if they end up not having a conversion of biblical proportions, then whatever. At least they gave it a shot. Music is not Vitamin B. It does not have to be "good for you." It's whatever appeals to your taste buds. I like some cotton candy, for instance. Cotton candy would be in this case....early Relient K.

Speaking of catchy, here's the new single from The Lodger that has been stuck in my head (along with Do the Panic by Phantom Planet)


The Good Old Days- The Lodger

*I lied about that.