So yet again my "Musical Monday" post is a day late, whoops. Although I had grandparents in town all yesterday so didn't really want to abandon them to blog.
Anyway here's some music I've been listening to and want to share with you this week, the theme: JUMP AROUND AND CELEBRATE (CAUSE NO MORE LAW SCHOOL)
Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend
I may be late to the Robyn train but I LOVE the idea of her dancing alone in a giant warehouse until it becomes her own private club, and I love how you can just tell she lets the music move her, I definitely might've done the same thing after turning in my last exam!
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us
NOT the way I expected these guys to look after hearing the song for the first time but I love this live performance cause you can see their enthusiasm and passion. The violin and brass section are great. I just jump around the room to this one "Mack-le-mo-o-o-o-o-ore"
Kimbra - Cameo Lover
This video for this song just emphasizes its awesomeness! I always have a dance party (sometimes just an imagined one in my head) when listening to this!
Now, just in case you're not in a celebretory mood like me, here's a particular genre I refer to as Angry Yell Dance Music, like when you're upset and you just have to keep moving or yelling but you don't want to actually damage any relationship/hurt yourself, just some time to wallow and take your emotions out by pretending you're dance/yelling the song at a person or sometimes just the universe... this is a good one
That's all I have for now. What do you think about these songs, they get you pumped? What do you like to listen to for celebration music? I'd love to know so please share!
Erm, so this was supposed to be up yesterday... maybe not the best start to my "weekly" update... but in my defense I had a championship soccer game at 10:15 which went into overtime and we WON, so I wouldn't have had this up before midnight anyways
So this is my attempt to try a weekly themed blogpost: MUSICAL MONDAY! The theme Tokyo Summer. Tokyo because it's about as far as I can get from where I am right now and summer because it's only a week away!
Tokyo
Tokyo by Imagine Dragons
How awesome would it be to go back in time and be one of the dancers in this video!
Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) by The Wombats
a fun video to an upbeat fun song!
Plans by Birds of Tokyo
"We made plans to kiss the stars at night, hopeless dreamers..."
Summer
Afraid of Summer by Lost Lander
For some reason it won't let me embed the video but here's a link to watch it, I love the way the music progresses and changes through the song:
Also, the title represents my thoughts exactly on the 2/12 months of studying for the bar
Heartbeat by David's Lyre
I know i just posted about this song but it's sooo entrenched in my consciousness I have to share again. The lyrics are so AWESOME "Summer comes, kisses the fields, but this heart won't beat forever"
Thanks for reading/listening!
What songs come to mind for you when I say Tokyo Summer? I'd love to know!
So this is my first attempt at a blog link-up. This is through Jenn at Going the Distance and Trish from Tales from Trish. Let me tell you, here in the midst of finals week a Happy Hour is just what I need!
What's In My Cup?
My virtual drink of choice: Shiner Bock. A nice easy, simple drink that requires no prep time (since I currently don't have any) and would allow me to return to my work after... lame I know but that's life right now. Plus there are certain times when a cold beer just hits the spot and now would be one of those times. Maybe when I get home I'll have to crack one open.
What's On My Mind?
Well obviously law school finals, the bar application (which I have yet to print and mail in, that's my task for Saturday through Tuesday because apparently printing the bad boy is muy complicado), and my current state of unemployment for next year are weighing heavily on my mind but I don't want to be Debbie Downer on my first Happy Hour with y'all so here are some of the things I'm excited about:
Graduation!
My Senior Year Apartment-mates at my undergrad graduation at this place 3 years ago.
Graduation is always a little bittersweet but this time I'm just super excited because it means no more school for this lady! EVER!
Babies!
I just found out that another friend of mine is pregnant, with TWINS! That brings the current count of friends with babies born (or to be born) in 2012 to about 6. And I'm super excited for all the new moms but it also makes me super excited that I don't have a new life to look after yet and can be very independent in my job seach (I've been looking at some opportunities in Europe, but if I do ever have kiddoes, they will be born in the USA baby!)
Weddings!
I'm in my first wedding at the end of May and am super excited for the bride-to-be. I went to her bachelorette party last weekend and it was suuuuper fun. I also attended a FAB wedding of a law school friend recently, and in August will go to the first wedding between two classmates, both good friends and a one former house-mate from 1L year, it'll be a great post-bar summer celebration for all of us!
Wow... "Babies!" and "Weddings!" I am such a girl, I need to share some sporty stuff to stop this from becoming a Pinterest board.
C-A-P-S Caps! Caps! Caps!
Me in the Library *RIGHT NOW* Sporting my CAPs gear
The Washington Capitals made it through the first round of the playoffs! In a nail-biting Seventh Game against the Boston Bruins they clinched the victory with an overtime goal by a lesser known player Joel Ward, which just shows you that anyone can make a solid contribution to the team at any moment!
Well that's all the time I have for now, I mean that last picture was kind of awkward to take in the middle of the law library so I'll have to have some actual work on my computer screen before more people walk by and judge me.
First you're ready to go although something is missing and someone behind you is chewing loudly... you know you gotta have some dubstep/techno, to drown out the noise around you and to keep you awake on the late night library sessions
Nero - Promises
(and of course the totalitarian dystopian Orwellian video to match goes well with what we all feel about higher education during finals week)
mix it with some folksy/indie/hipster stuff to remind you how it's never to late to say "scew it" and run off to the west-coast and become a hippie...
The Lumineers - Ho Hey
Or run away to England:
Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle
until you remember those six-figure student loans. So you want to go back to when life was simple and your parents did everything for you:
Lushlife - Teenage Dream
Then like any hopeless romantic you know it's time for something mildly epic love story to let you know you can always find love... once this paper is over.
Gossling - Wild Love
(holler at the red string, LAP classmates, you know where it's at)
Next thing you know you're listening to former Disney Channel star Selena Gomez and dancing at your carrel thinking
Selena Gomez & the Scene - Hit the Lights
And then you start to get a little crazy and find something like this:
Grimes - Oblivion
If you're me you think "I'm less than 6 months older than her, and I also have dyed my hair interesting colors yet she's a Canadian music star performing at SXSW and I'm about to finish law school, she's employed and I'm not."
To cheer yourself up from looming unemployment and studying for the bar you find this little gem:
Cosmo Jarvis - Gay Pirates
Even though if you listen to the lyrics the song is kind-of depressing, there are awesome lyrics like: "It's you my love, you're my land ahoy, yeah you're my boy" and I dare someone to listen to this without calling "Yo Ho Sebastian" out at least once!
And then this:
Luke Million - Arnold
After someone shushes you for laughing out loud in the library, you get to work...
Then pretty soon you decide you need to have a song for a montage to while browsing the internet, oops I mean studying your outline, which leads you to some 80s jams.
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Thinking about John Hughes passing makes you think existential thoughts and become sad so you listen to something that reminds you summer is coming, but also that you won't live forever
David's Lyre - Heartbeat
For some reason, that does the trick and now you're refreshed and ready to work... only it's two hours later. At least you have tomorrow to study-- oh wait, tomorrow's the final?
... and you haven't finished outlining cause you've been reading my blog?
...well there's always this classic to fall back on in times of need:
oh your final is on Virginia Procedure... whoops!
At least you've got some fun new music?
If you've enjoyed the small selection here, I'm always wanting to share music I love with people! Comment, e-mail or message me somehow & I'll give you some more recommendations!
So I'm sure by now you've heard of Draw Something, the pictionary-like game with no rules where you basically play with (as opposed to against) other iPhone, iTouch, or iPad users and guess what the other has drawn, earning coins based on the difficulty of the drawing. The coins allow you to buy more colors, and then be able to make cooler drawings. Here are some of my best so far (I know they can't touch the "all-time best of Draw Something tumblrs but I have fun and this blog is my oyster so by golly I'm gonna post them)
your choice of "Taylor"s
camo is fun to draw and I've never seen a rule that you can't write slogans
i love how simple this one is, (done when I only had one shade of brown)
I've drawn this one maybe 5 times, it's become a favorite
She guessed at the hat + braid
this one was fun
She got this pretty quick
I find the squid's expression HI-larious!
smushed fossil + field... got it! Also, i will now refer to driving long distances as burning a lot of smushed dinosaurs
"But Bitz... Spring Break ended a month ago..."
Yeah, well some of us had stuff like law school to do and kept forgetting to upload the footage to the computer...
Anyway, I recorded a little recap video of the whole trip as soon as I got back, it just took awhile before I had the time to get it up on the interwebs. There is actually a 1/2 hour of footage from the trip and I made a lil movie for each of the ladies but since I have yet to ask their permission for eternal glory on the interweb (and I haven't had THAT much time to make a highlight-reel or edit out faces) , I haven't included all my footage. That might occur later. So stay tuned:
check out my horribly awesome Aussie accent at 3:28-408, and then at the very end
Also, let's take a moment to think how this is only my fifth numbered vlog entry and I had already forgotten which number I was on when I uploaded it...
As I face the last two weeks of law school and finals, we can be sure I will either ignore this blog completely... or devote all the time and energy I should be spending on my studies here instead.
