Week 56 (+23) In planning mode

56

-The number of Aubrey Holes (thought to have located wooden posts) in the first stage of Stonehenge.
-The number of men who signed the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776.


So I have been sick this past few days with it only hitting me the other night. I wondered why I felt weak and odd and it had me worried until all the rest of the normal start up signs of being sick hit me. Not fun. I spent the last night chilling and wrapped in a electric heated blanket watching crap TV until I felt tired enough to sleep. This morning I have mucus running down my throat and a lil hint of a cough every now and again. I always seem to be the one that holds out the longest in the family when sick. Then it hits me with 20 double barrow shot guns all at once. This time it is not that bad YET.

I've been working on a few projects and even got one that I'd been mulling over for a while done with. It was a sew project that I had been tinkering with in my head.

New music that discovered in the last lil bit:

This song is brought to you by a bored Rach. It is OAH by Alexander Rybak He is the 2009 Eurovision winner and a Norwegian musision.

I also like this song by Rybak.
Europe's Skies - Alexander Rybak


His music has a folk/gypsy/pop feel to them IMHO. To bad that his CD has to be imported at a cost of $30+ bucks.

Zircon - The Art of Zen

Found this one through FA. Tons of good music is link through the artist on FA. There is another one that I've been listening to on the laptop but I can't recall what it is or who it is by so that will have to be posted later.


Now onto the planning in the Planning post.

So the destination for Sibling Road Trip XI is going to be Oregon! The major things we are hitting up are Wildlife Safari and the beach! Sadly I was planning to try and make this trip shorter then the last one but ended up making it much longer. Two days there with a stop (when I say stop I mean for the night) in Winnemucca, Navada (5 hours) and another in Klamath Falls, Oregon (10 hours >.<) and then onto our vacation destination of Winston (3.5 hours) with two days for fun there. Then the inverse of it on the way home. Six days round trip. I tried so many ways to get the second leg of the journey cut down but I just could not find a place to stop and stay at. It looks like the place leaving Winnemucca is rather desolate until you cross the boarder into Oregon.

So now the grit of planning minus the money and hotel/motel stops that John and I have already worked out. Wildlife Safari is like a MASSIVE Bear County USA that we hit up in South Dakota. Bear County was a huge hit with everyone even more then I planned. I thought that all the other sibs would just kinda like it and I was going to be the only one that really, really liked it (I can't say looked forward to it as it was a surprise major side trip while in SD). But no it was a massive hit with them. Wildlife Safari is bigger and has not just North American wide life but African and Asian wildlife as well. After I looked it up and read their website about it and told Rach and John about it Rach was giddy as hell about it! A couple extras that we are also going to spring for while we are there is the elephant car was and the tiny train ride (kinda like they have at zoos). Rachel is extremely excited about the car wash that is to quote from their site "Guaranteed not to get your car clean!!!!!"



Did I mention that you get to stay in your car while they do it? John said about the extra cost of the wash "might as well since we are going to be there". It cost only about $10 bucks more then Bear County USA sans the elephant car wash and the mini train ($2 per person). (I kinda want one of the paintings that the cheetahs paint as my souvenir.)

Then either that day or the next the beach! I have a kinda stupid but fun idea for that. While we are having fun doing all the beach stuff they can gather up a lil bit of sand and put it in some small glass viles/jars I'm going to be picking up off of Etsy and bring it home as a memento of the trip and the day at the beach.



Been thinking if I want to bring food coloring as well so they could color it if they want in the hotel room later that day but the mess seem like a bad idea and I think the bottles with the sand alone will be cute enough. (Oy I feel like a half baked crafty soccer mom sometimes lol) I think that I should look up some sand castle buckets/kits and see if I could buy one cheep for the beach as well.



Anyway that is it for tonight.

New (forgotten?) music and art

Old classmate posted a song from OneRepublic on FB to his girlfriend and after giving it a listen and loving it I wiki-ed and youtubed them and after coming across the song below I knew I had heard them before!

All The Right Moves - OneRepublic


^The music video for this song is great! It reminds me of something Abney Park might do. Very dirty Victorian and oh so addictive!

Anyway I was trying to recall where I have heard it before and I think that is was on x96, maybe the deep x-cuts they do with new bands and songs or such. Most the time when I hear a good song/band that I do not know I try and catch the name or some of the lyrics and jot them down to look up and I think that is what I did with this one but I lost the paper before I looked it up online. I HATE when that happens and I miss out on something as cool as this band. But HA-HA I now have them! MINE!

Another band that I found through the always funny Dooce is Animal collective. She posted the song "my Girls" for the background music on her end of the year clip review.

My Girls - Animal Collective


Defiantly worth a deeper look and listen.

I might have just almost smashed the CD/band goal for '11. LOL love feeling less guilty and free going off the mainstream circuit for awesome groups and great music.


Also was toying with and idea for the short story for this year. I was thinking of revisiting the idea of the man behind the myth of King Arthur. I like the idea that "The Bear" is the main man behind the myth. I kinda want to do a exploration of the making of "The Bear". How he got the man and a bit of 'his' back story, or should I say that is what I want to make up. I was trying to think of what would you call it. It is not a true historical fiction as there is more fiction then history and there is nothing similar like mythical fiction it would just be fiction. lol yeah I'm an odd one.

The way it is forming up in my head right now is that he is sitting around a fire at night with many of the young people from his tribe and a few of his warriors after a hard day of training and hunting in the field when a youth asks him about ...oh say a scar, or how he became known as "The Bear" and start in with that being the true story. I also wanted to think that the way he became known as "The Bear" was from saving his own group of youth in training from a menacing legend of a bear while they where alone training in the wilds.

This idea kinda meshed and sprouted from the training that the Spartan youth went through out there alone as young boys/teens. I also think that the Arthur idea came from watching the movie "The Last Legion" where they took the idea that King Arthur sprang from Roman roots and a Roman Legionary. I hate that they think he had to be a non-home grown hero and myth.

So anyway the idea is there and it just needs to have time to grow from the sprouts.

Also I have been making over the walls of my space from dorm room 'chic' to something a lil more mature. I have pics but not on my computer. :/

Vampires Suck movie = EPIC WIN!

^That is all

Are we Human or are we Dancer?

This is a great song and it was filmed in Southern Utah!

In the song it says "Are we human, or are we dancer?" this was taken from a disparaging comment made by Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson meant that the US was making people afraid of stepping out of place and following their own beat. He was saying that people were only following the steps they were taught, and were also taught not to change them.

So very sad when people feel the need to play the puppet master and pull others strings in the dark, thinking the rest of the world can't see them acting as a puppet master.

Even sadder when people do it to their loved ones. I pity and feel remorse for such cold and unloving people. Even more for the people that are made to jump at the whim of these people.

I'm human! Flawed but very much human! No one pulls my string from dark places.


-Official music video shot in Southern Utah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6r4KT8-VX0

-Song:



I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line
Up to the platform of surrender
I was brought but I was kind
And sometimes I get nervous
When I see an open door
Close your eyes
Clear your heart...
Cut the cord

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Give my regards to soul and romance,
They always did the best they could
And so long to devotion
You taught me everything I know
Wave goodbye
Wish me well..
You've gotta let me go

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Will your system be alright
When you dream of home tonight?
There is no message we're receiving
Let me know is your heart still beating

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer

You've gotta let me know

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human
Or are we dancer?

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Are we human
Or are we dancer?




Interesting that even Disney has the answer to this message...
But I'll get to that later. Night ALL MY FRIENDS!

LOL errr >.>

Laughing With - Regina Spektor



Lyrics:
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor

No one laughs at God when the doctor calls after some routine tests
No one's laughing at God when it's gotten real late
And their kid's not back from the party yet
No one laughs at God when their airplane starts to uncontrollably shake
No one's laughing at God when they see the one they love
Hand in hand with someone else and they hope they're mistaken

No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door
And they say we got some bad news, sir
No one's laughing at God when there's a famine, fire or flood

But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they're 'bout to choke

God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
Ha ha
Ha ha

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they've lost all they've got
And they don't know what for

No one laughs at God on the day they realize that the last sight they'll ever see
Is a pair of hateful eyes
No one's laughing at God when they're saying their goodbyes

But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they're 'bout to choke

God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughing at God in a hospital
No one's laughing at God in a war

No one's laughing at god when they're starving or freezing or so very poor

No one's laughing at God
No one's laughing at God
No one's laughing at God
No one's laughing at God
We're all laughing with God

"...firefighters work a second shift with prayers of rain upon their lips..."

With help from v_too_far from wow_ladies and azul_ros from lyrics_quotes I was able to find the name of the song and the name of the band!

I just forgot I was part of a community called whatisthatsong. LOL why did I not ask there as well if not first lol...

(All people and communities from Live Journal FYI)

Anyway without further ado: Grapevine Fires by Death Cab for Cutie



Lyrics:

When the wind picked up
And the fire spread
And the people, strangers left for dead.
And the northern sky, like the end of day,
The end of days.

A wake up call to a rented room
Sounded like an alarm of impending doom.
To warn us it's only a matter of time.
Before we all burn [4x]

We bought some wine and some papercups
Near your daughter's school when we picked her up
And drove to a cemetery on a hill
On a hill.

And we watched the plumes paint the sky gray
And she laughed and danced through the field of graves
There I knew it would be alright
That everything would be alright,
Would be alright
Would be alright
Would be alright.

And the news reports on the radio
Said it was getting worse
As the ocean air fanned the flame.
But I couldn't think of anywhere I would have rather been
To watch it all burn away.
To burn away.

The firemen worked in double shifts,
With prayers for rain on their lips
And they knew it was only a matter of time.



LOL I got the little bit I caught wrong but mine rhymes better IMOP ^_^

Bad Reputation

So I heard this song on one of the episodes of "American Chopper" and just loved the beat. Anyway I was just wondering what version you like best?

1. Original version and original music video
Bad Reputation - Joan Jett



2. Rock Band 2 version Updated version of the same
Bad Reputation - Joan Jett



3. Cover version by Avril Lavigne of Joan Jett's original
Bad Reputation - Avril Lavigne




I like the updated version of the original and the cover version. I might dislike the original because the sound quality is off but whatever.

Just 'cuz music heals the soul and makes me happy

I love this song!

Marti's Last Stand - Enter the Haggis (vid cut the end off the song >.>)


LOL this one too

What I've Done - Enter the Haggis (live vid sucks but could not find another >.>)


And the song that has been bugging the shiz-nit out of John and another of my favs...

Gasoline - Enter the Haggis (this vid is also live but the quality is rather good/okay ^_^)






Been rather well as of late. Not over this by any means but I am doing better and I CAN SEE RESULTS O.O! Holy Hell in a hand basket, shock of all shocks!

Anyway just living along side this shit and not paying it any mind is working as well and living as normal as I can and keeping my mind on other fun stuff (like WoW *cough* lol).

Just gotta keep trucking along and remembering that this crap is all a thought habit and a over surge of adrenalin needing a outlet.

I hate saying it is all in my head even though it is but, it is a scary thought as your brain is "YOU" and whatever goes in and comes into brain is how you see and perceive the world and life. That is why this crap is so horrible.

Anyway I need to shut up about ruminating on this cack any more.



Anyway two more for the road!

No More Stones - Enter the Haggis (kinda quiet fan made music video)


Had this bastard stuck in my head for days after hearing it lol XD

One Last Drink - Enter the Haggis



I bet ya can't tell that I really like this group and my new CDs from them can ya ^_^ MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I really need The Streets CD lol

The Edge of a Cliff - The Streets



I'm really okay, thanks,
there's nothing to witness
I said as I looked back from the edge of a cliff
The old man looking down lent over the ridge struck with a grin as if a blessing had hit him.

I slumped on the jut of the cliff
Just leave me alone, this is none of your business
I will, said the old man, but just one thing,
And what he said was so lovely it stunned me.

He said: I lay right there once at the edge of the rock.
I was ready to jump, I was ever so lost,
But this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgot

Chorus
For billions of years since the outset of time
Every single one of your ancestors has survived
Every single person on your mum and dad's side
Successfully looked after and passed on to you life.
What are the chances of that, like?
It comes to me once in a while
And everywhere I tell folk it gets the best smile.

And then the old man walked away and out of sight
Til the sound of him hiking turned to the sound of silence.
I just froze in a profound surprise and from down on my pride I found a smile to my eyes.

And for many days again I've been passing the same cliff and on many occasions I'd chance on the same thing.

Laying in the moss, in the same way I was would be another man looking like he needed a change of luck.

So I'd say: I lay right there once at the edge of the rock.
I was ready to jump, I was ever so lost,
But this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgot

Chorus x 2

More Streets to walk down

The Escapist - The Streets


All these walls were never really there,
Nor the ceiling or the chair.
I’m eking weeks of peace at the beach
I see the breezes weave the trees,
These walls, you’ll find, are yours and mine
Defined not by them, I
I’m in times that lie behind my eyelids,
The sunset still the rising silence,

(Chorus)
I’ll not feel no fear
Cos' I‘m not really here
I’m nowhere near here

There’s no rain on roof that grates and beats me
My favourite tree breaking light to pieces
Sprinkling, sharded light on me
Throw a stone as hard as you can
And hearing with hand not here at land
Nothing taxi, dusting sand
My window world spins and twirls,
The walls then fall, I recall the sort
White clouds white wash faded spotless
The weighty shadows, ranges of rocks
The cold is all illusion thought up
Stroll on the shore, snooze and explore
All possibilities in each new morning,
‘til satisfied reaching out, yawning
Fish in a big dish, some rice and spice,
Salt over shoulder, never salted so tight
The truth I have told was silence sometimes
But who’s soul does not hide any crimes
Wrapped in walls, encircled by work
The walls fall - the story occurs
No barrier, no boundary or ‘low us ID’s
The freedom to stay off straight
Be fiend or friend, cause no harm but charm - the peaceful end

(Chorus x2)

Pale, ancient woods, strew white sandy bays
This ugly room pales away today
I’m swimming in the ocean
I sink slow motion
Fingers, toes, floating
Every year ‘til yesterday
I see the eternal setting sea
I compare all this to me,
It’s all fleeting momentary me
I blink my eyes, this is reminding me
Life flies in the blink of an eye
The old die for reasons, new tides for seasons
New life born is like teasing
All these walls were really never there
Nor the ceiling or the chair
I’m eking weeks of peace at the beach
I see the breezes weave the trees
I am not here at all,
You are dearly fooled,
I see bristling trees, the shush at the sea
Mischievous
Fluttering seagulls
No.
I’m not trapped in a box, so I am glancing at rocks
I’m dancing off docks
Since this stance began
That’s where I am

(Chorus x2)

So done.

Great song!

Someone posted up a quote from this song in one of the quote communities and so I just felt like posting up the song for you to hear.


Everything is Borrowed - The Streets

Happy Joy Joy

So I dunno why but I just feel at peace and happy for no reason at all.

I was just going along and checking my blog/ fav sites online when the thought just came out of left field and hit me that I really am happy.

My life is not perfect or any of that kind of mish-mash but I really am just happy with how things are going and what is happening right now.

Sometimes we find joy and peace in the hecktive-ness of our lives and I've just had a taste of that lol. Odd but a nice feeling.

I hope all you my friends both far and near are feeling some kinda of joy and bliss this week.

*bops to the beat*

EDIT:

Oh more bliss I found another mix that is close to the one I was looking for lol! Talk about joy ^____^

Fragma - Embrace Me (Duderstadt Remix)

mp3 I can't find thee

I can't find the mp3 (to buy or free) for this certain mix of this song...

The mix is this one:

Fragma - Embrace Me (Doboy Ibiza Vocal Mix)

It is a DIFFERENT mix of the song in this youtube vid.


The mix in the youtube video is "Fragma - Embrace Me (Wippenberg Remix)" of the song "Embrace Me" by the Fragma Project (a German dance project) made up of four people.


It drives me nut when I can't find something so I lay down and grovel for a helping hand lol.





Tomorrow's I want to touch on Geocaching variation but I'm to dead for that right now.

New song for ya today ^_^

Long time no post lol

Ghost Town - Shiny Toy Guns

New beats for the day

Everything Is Borrowed - The Streets




That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings




1,2,3,4 - Plain White T's

Are we human or are we dancer?

Just thought that I would throw up this youtube video to this great little song from my last post!

Human - The Killers
You know you want to click me ^_^
By the way the video was shot in Utah. Kinda interesting.

Been hearing it on x96 and just love the chorus (a dancer is a puppet... are you a puppet? Taken from the disparaging comment made by Hunter S. Thompson about how America was raising a generation of dancers.)

Lyrics:
I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line
Up to the platform of surrender
I was brought but I was kind
And sometimes get nervous
When I see an open door
Close your eyes
Clear your heart

Cut the cord
Are we Human?
Or are we Dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we Human?
Or are we Dancer?

Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Give my regards to soul and romance
They always did the best they could
And so long to devotion
You taught me everything I know
Wave goodbye
Wish me well

You got to let me go
Are we Human?
Or are we Dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answers
Are we Human?
Or are we Dancer?

Will your system be alright
When you dream of home tonight?
There is no message we're receiving
Let me know is your heart still beating?

Are we Human?
Or are we Dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer

You got to let me know
Are we Human?
Or are we Dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we Human
Or are we Dancer?

Are we Human?
Or are we Dancer?

Are we Human
Or are we Dancer?

Another book for the list (and a another show to miss...)

So I just saw another ad for what looks like a neat show that alas I will not be able to see right now. It is on Sci-fi channel and I lack the illegal hooks-ups for cable lol.

Anyway the Show is called "Legend of the Seeker" and from the fallowing two youtube vids I think that if you like fantasy (LotRs, HP, Golden Compass etc.) then you might just like this as well.

Trailer:


And 10 min. show preview: Well worth the 10 mins in my POV...


Wow now that I'm hyped and depressed that I can't watch the two hour season premier tomorrow I should let you know that they have the first 30 mins to download off iTunes free lol!


But I guess that I can take salice in the fact that this awesome looking show is based off of books in the "The Sword of Truth" series by Terry Goodkind (11 books in the series ^_^).

*sigh* reminds me that I need to add the cable series of "EarthSea" to netflix (also based on a book XD). From the trailer on Netflix it looks kinda like HP set in the time of Arthur.


Anyone want to get me something for my b-day or Christmas has a few ideas now what I want lol. My free time reading list just keeps on growing and growing ^_^

New beats flowing through my ears

Just some new songs that have caught my ear in the last little bit.

First up for Craig the two Flobots vids for their song Handlebars:
Flobots - Handlebars
Original one


New one


Kate Voegele - Hallelujah


Kira Willey - Colors
**crap vid but the song rocks ^_^


Colbie Caillat - Bubbly


ben folds - you don’t know me