My friend Jay is the drummer in this band - The Manvils.
They recently moved from Vancouver to Toronto, I guess there's more of a music scene there. If you're in the Toronto area and get a chance to see these guys play, (maybe this weekend!) definitely do it.
Anyway I just looked them up on YouTube to see if there's anything new going on because yes, I stalk my friends like that all the time. If you're in a band it's just that much easier.
I found this live video of them from last year, and man have they ever grown as a band. Their live show is so tight! Ryan and I saw them play last year too, and maybe because it's always awkward to meet your significant other's old friends or maybe just because we had tickets to see the Red Elvises and had to take off right after the Manvils were done, Ryan was kinda doing the watch checking thing when they first started playing. By the end of the show both of us were like 'whoa!'. They're a real fun band. Okay I'll shut up now but watch this video. I know you have seven minutes to spare or else why would you be looking at blogs? huh? HUH? That's right. Watch it now.
I have a little gang of internet super friends (ISFs) and mother fuckin' @_coreygirl_ just sent me like a billion candies and a book too! My favorite things! Also? Postcards and a head massager that looks like it might get caught in my hair, if I know me. Which I do.
Some of these candies are very mysterious and I'm a little scared of them. Double Decker? Salty licorice? Random candy from the Arabian veggie market that was probably in Eckel's jacket pocket for three weeks? Mysterious German candy?
Sure, whatever. I'll eat the crap out of that candy. And Corey gave me written permission to not share any of it with anybody, and I may just exercise that right.
Here are pictures of my amazing haul. I feel like I just went trick or treating. In case you're wondering, I took them out to the front of our house because indoors was too dark. DAMN YOU, WINTER EVENING LIGHTING!
Thank you Corey! I haven't read this book yet, so that's an extra mega cool treat! :)
Want to get to know this cool lady? Okay, click here to see her twitter, and here to see her blog!
Bet you weren't expecting that one! Surprise! That's right fellas and ladies, I took your precious meme and turned it upside down. This isn't about what my least favorite chore is or what I eat for breakfast...vaccuuming and oatmeal btw...nope. I'm feeling philanthropic at the moment, and thought I'd give back to this wonderful blogging community.
I follow eighty seven bajillion blogs, and here are 24 of my favorite moments or features from a few of the awesome blogs I love.
Just to cover my ass here, I'm gonna tell you guys s-l-o-w-l-y and clearly and bigly that all these videos, photos and excerpts are coming from the blogs mentioned, so basically I did not create any of the content in this post. Please go visit each of these people, they are amazing. And if anyone's bummed that I'm using their stuff, please let me know! I don't want any hard feelings, I'm just trying to be nice here. Geez. Relax.
Benjamin and Elise - That time it snowed in New Zealand, they were so excited about something that I'm generally very blase about, stereotypical Canadian girl that I am.
Conspiracy Inc. - Allan's black metal birthday party...I love when people aren't "too cool" to dress up and paint their faces. Really though, you should click through and see the other partygoers! LOL!
Delightfully Tacky: Elizabeth's posts on her adventures in the brave were what got me really interested in blogs in the first place. That was a few years ago, and she is still killing it with her cool gigantic hair. :)
Eep, I'm a Blogger! Other than the amazing blog title (haha) she also does some pretty good "stumble sunday" posts that rival the best TILT posts I've seen. I'm a big fan of huge lists of interesting links.
Hue and Hum - the awesome custom shirts "lady hue" makes are so great! I would love one that looks like Sgt. Pepper would wear it. If he were a real person and not just a concept album, of course. Here are a couple of my favorites she's done so far:
I Go By Katie: all her photos. Everything in her life looks so clean-cut and well-lit. And she always has photos in her posts, which I love. Everything is illustrated so well. See?
Jess of The Doe or the Deer: has mastered the art of instagram+blogging. Normally I just skip over instagram naval-gazer posts, but hers have a certain je-ne-sais-quoi to them. (You can click through to see their original posts.)
Little Chief Honeybee: well, everybody on the whole internet is abuzz about this, but Kaelah's new mobile business is so cute!
Mary Rebecca's Blogging Worldwide series, in which she shares lists upon lists of amazing bloggers, separated geographically. You can find people in your hometown, or people across the world. Really cool idea.
No Ordinary Rollercoaster - when Ben went to Ethiopia. I loved his very honest North American perspective on everything that was happening.Especially when he talks about the traffic, LOL!
I’ve never been more certain of my own demise or disfiguration than I was in the cabs and bus-cabs on the way home from the market today. I had fourteen adrenaline rushes, I aged seven years, I had two hours of post-traumatic stress disorder, and I spent thirty minutes planning out my next cab requirements so that I could mentally prepare with a Gravol cocktail with a Xanax chaser.
Rockstar Diaries: um...their dog reminds me of someone I know!
Suzy Krauze and the Skyscrapers: the first time she vlogged it was so cute my brain exploded.
Time won't wait for me - Kristin's most recent post on an adult patient in the Operation Smile recovery room in wherever she is now in India...it brought tears to my eyes. I love what she's doing, and I love her way with words...and there's a tie for the 't' section, because I also look forward to reading Caitlin's blog To Make Love Stay on Thursdays. Her TILT posts are some of my favorites!
Um...I don't follow any "U" blogs. so here's a cute picture of tank and I this morning. Yes, this is how I'm blogging: on the floor, 20 pound dog head in my lap. Not pictured: big ol' cup of coffee.
(hello)Vanny - all the 8-bits posts. Again, it's just tons of cool links to random stuff.
Write In Color - basically this entire blog is amazing. It's kind of in the 'self help' category of blogs, but is so beautifully written that each time Melody posts, I feel giddy.
(Coffee and) Zombie Movies (haha I was reaching for a 'z' okay?): Chelle's illustrations KILL ME. She is so good at expressing hilarity in her drawings. Like, I'd put her up there with Hyperbole and a Half, guys. So it's serious. She actually drew my blog's header too, so we're like, practically best friends now.Click through to read the amazing stories these belong to:
My awesome friend Kimberly is doing something awesome and I'm all like "awesome". She's going to be walking in the AIDS walk in New York on the fifteenth, and has a really cool idea for soliciting donations. Check out this email she sent me:
Nooooooova!
I just registered for AIDS Walk New York and am super excited about the event! I want to do as much as I can to make a difference in the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS. Here's my idea: You dare me to do something then you donate money to my team. I will then videotape this and post it to Facebook for your your entertainment. I anticipate making a HUGE fool of myself for a great cause.
A few of you have already sent in some great ideas, keep them coming. Please email any stunt ideas to kimberley.williamson@gmail.com and feel free to challenge your friends to dare me. All I ask is that these stunts not put my life in danger; I'm trying to SAVE lives :)
I would really appreciate your help. Please sponsor me for AIDS Walk New York. Just click on the link below to visit my personal fundraising Web page. It’s fast, easy, and safe to make a donation online with a credit card, debit card, or paypal! After making your donation, you may be able to double your donation with a matching gift! Please consult your human resources department, or use the matching gift search engine on the AIDS Walk New York website, to find out if your company has a matching gift program!
I think you are awesome. Thank you for giving me your extra pennies for supporting AIDS Walk New York and for helping to put an end to this epidemic.
Follow This Link to visit my personal web page and help me in my efforts to support AIDS Walk New York
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If you can help this girl out, or want to see her do something totally embarrassing, please please do so ASAP! She's a really cool person and I love this idea.
Danielle writes one of my number one favorite blogs; Sometimes Sweet. In this post of hers, she really hits the nail on the head regarding what it is about blogging that keeps us all coming back. It's not all narcissism and confessions after all.
Anyway, I think it's a must read for bloggers and non-bloggers.
Enjoy, and you should follow her blog if you don't already, she's fantastic.
Isn't it funny how I turned the words around, so like, it sounds like he was dragging me around. Not really. He's a good walker and everything but after a while it's like "where the hell else could we go?". He showed me. First we found this interspace time travel portal made from snow.
We found some...wood. And clover. That part was kind of boring.
But he peed on it and I thought it was funny. Good boy.
And then he took me to this army bunker, also made from snow.
You can see the windows for canons or rifles or what-have-you.
After that we found the tracks that were obviously made from some kind of UFO and not the neighbor's 17 year old son's friends when the parents were out of town,
because he swears he didn't have a party. Of course we believe him!
And then Tank took me to the end of the road. Where there is just like, a wall of scary trees. Or so I thought. I guess the other neighbors with dogs take their dogs for walks up there and Tank could smell them,
or else my dog is just super smart, because he immediately found a trail!
I was kind of like "no, I dunno, maybe we shouldn't...I don't know if this is these people's yard..." but he insisted, and I was bored at home anyway so off we went into the great unknown woods.
Turns out other humans had been there before, as evidenced by this bottle in the tree. Real nice, jerks!
It was a really pretty walk.
There were mossy trees, mossy rocks, fungus of all shapes and sizes...
