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Some amazing, sci-fi inspired music entertainment for you on this Saturday:
YACHT Utopia / Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire)
YACHT is so weird. And so awesome. I love them. Travis and I are going to see them in concert tomorrow at the Brooklyn Night Bazaar. I am pretty pumped.
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I am feeling discouraged today. The internet feels especially negative lately.
Let’s see if I can scrounge up some positives…
♥ Leftover strawberry-rhubarb pie made by my friend, Lauren
♥ “Super Bass” by Nikki Minaj
♥ “Antiques Roadshow” went to Eugene, OR, and found a $500,000 Norman Rockwell painting!
♥ Tonight is the kick-off for the fall Team In Training season – and Travis is training this season!!
♥ List me a few more in the comments…
Off topic: Should I spring for HBO so that I can watch True Blood and Game of Thrones? Or, just wait it out and get ‘em on Netflix?
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Travis and I continued our NY music and culture tour last night… well, we actually went to Hoboken, NJ, but I consider that almost in the city… We went to see The White Buffalo, a solo, acoustic, folk/rock n’ roll musician.
The first time Travis saw The White Buffalo it was in Eugene and he came back practically giddy about this new, opening act musician he just saw. The White Buffalo (I think his real name is Jake Smith) does have an awesomely powerful voice and a badass, western style. He is a funny guy who comes off as super laid back, cool, and talented. I really enjoyed the intimate concert at Maxwell’s.
Love Song 1 is my favorite of his songs… so far. Supposedly, he has written hundreds of songs!!
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Park Slope friends, go see The White Buffalo tomorrow night at Union Hall!! Tickets are only $10 and you won’t be disappointed.
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Travis and I went to see “The Book of Mormon” on Broadway yesterday and I loved it so much that I had to jot down a quick review…
Some things about me: I am not that into live theater. Live singing and acting make me really nervous, mostly because I am so incredibly terrible at both that I transfer my own fears of embarrassment onto the performers. This nervousness is basically the reason why “The Book of Mormon” was my very first Broadway show experience. Also, I am fascinated by religion, so this was the first musical that I felt I HAD to see.
“The Book of Mormon” was written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the guys behind “South Park.” It has gotten impeccable reviews. I appreciate “South Park.” It is genius and hilarious, which I love, but it is also crude and vulgar. Some of that same shock-value humor is used in “The Book of Mormon.” I think that everyone who goes to the show will be expecting it, but if you’ve never seen “South Park,” the strong language used in the musical might offend… not that it should. It is all hilarious and true. And we are all adults, right?
With the disclaimer about “adult” language out of the way, I can get on to the love fest… What a fun, happy, adorable, smart, life-affirming show!! Even Mormons are finding the show “surprisingly sweet.” It is about two Mormon missionaries who are assigned to Uganda and the challenges they face in such an unfamiliar place. It is also about how humans and religion are flawed and funny and ridiculous, but that doesn’t mean we should stop trying to do good. We can have hope and faith in goodness, even if the details of religion are a little weird.
Parker and Stone describe “The Book of Mormon” as an “atheist love letter to religion.” That is a perfect description. I am not an atheist. I sort of consider myself pan-religious — open to all, devout to none — and “The Book of Mormon” affirmed my personal philosophies. So much so that I cried at the end. Not because the story is THAT touching, but because it felt so good to know that there are other people out there who are thinking the same things I am.
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If you want a taste of “The Book of Mormon,” you can listen to all of the songs from the show here on NPR. (Remember, I warned you about the language.)
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I am still trying to figure out how I feel about being thirty… or maybe I’m just trying to be ok with time passing.
These words (from our favorite urban lyricist, naturally) are really speaking to me today:
May the best of your todays
Be the worst of your tomorrows
But we aren’t even thinking that far… know what I mean?
So we live a life like a video
When the sun is always out and you never get old
And the champagne’s always cold
And the music is always good
And the pretty girls just happen to stop by in the hood
And they hop their pretty ass up on the hood of dat pretty ass car
Without a wrinkle in today
Cause there is no tomorrow
Just some picture perfect day
To last a whole lifetime
And it never ends
Cause all we have to do is hit rewind
So let’s just stay in the moment, smoke some weed,
Drink some wine,
Reminisce talk some sh-t forever young is in your mind
Leave a mark that can’t erase neither space nor time
So when the director yells cut,
I’ll be fine,
I’m forever young… – JayZ
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Recently, I have been reading/viewing the blog Kind Over Matter daily. It is sort of a combo of feel-good indie crafts and positive inspiration. They share hopeful illustrations and quotes multiple times a day. I really like that it is sweet and uplifting without being super-cheesy or specifically religious.
I have been wanting to post my own version of an uplifting illustration in Kind Over Matter style. While I was thinking about what I wanted it to say, the song “Secret Crowds” by Angels and Airwaves kept going through my head. It is a song I listen to often when I run and it always gets me pumped up. AVA (the band name abbreviation) is a side band created by Blink-182 guitarist, Tom DeLonge, and here is a perfectly descriptive quote from my sister-in-law, Chelsea, one of their biggest fans: “AVA is AWESOME!! They’re an amazing punk bank spreading a postive message!” Right on. (Plus, they just came out with a new album, LOVE, that you can download from their website FOR FREE! sweet.)
That is probably too much description for something that was meant to be a quick snippet of inspiration, but just listen to the song. I love how the lyrics use such urgent and aggressive words (violence and fire) to express the imperative of spreading hope and love.
spread hope like fire; spread love like violence