Do You Remember

Here are the directions:
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

I am It

Alexis tagged me, it was taking me a very long time to answer so I gave up and only answered the ones I wanted. Sorry Alexis, but here you go...

I'm Passionate About...
1. The Gospel of Jesus Christ
2. Family
3. Friends
4. Travis
5. Muse
6. Jane Austen
7. Twilight
8. Humor/Laughing

Can Listen to Over and Over...and Over Again...
Songs I could hear everyday
1. God Only Knows – The Beach Boys
2. I Will – The Beatles
3. Indefinitely - Travis
4. Don’t Panic - Coldplay
5. I Could Die for You – Red Hot Chili Peppers
6. Northern Sky – Nick Drake
7. Sweet Thing – Van Morrison
8. New Born – Muse
9. February Stars – Foo Fighters
10. D’yer Mak’er – Led Zeppelin
What I am listening to right now on repeat
11. Glorious - Muse
12. Get Up - Travis
13. Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Radiohead
14. The Good Old Days – The Lodger
15. Wake Up – Arcade Fire
16. I Second That Emotion – Smokey Robinson
17. Brightly Wound - Eisley
18. A Minor Incident - Badly Drawn Boy
19. You’re Ex–Lover is Dead - Stars
20. Cherry Tulips – Headlights

The past 8 books I've read...
1. How to Take The Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend
2. A Company of Swans
3. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
4. Elsewhere
5. The Host
6. Poison Study
7. City of Bones & City of Ashes
8. Pretties, Uglies, Specials & Extras

Things I say often...
1. What the – (I know I say this a lot because my niece will always add Heck)
2. Mother!
3. Never underestimate what you can find on the internet
4. Of course
5. Absolutely I do
6. Are you kidding me?
7. Seriously?
8. Bloody


Random Things About me...
1. Besides reading Jane Austen I have seen 17 movies either based on her books or her life. (Nine of which I own)
2. When I was a toddler I spoke with a French accent.
3. I own a lot of James Dean memorabilia (posters, magnet, trash can, book, license plate & a life size stand up.)
4. If I could be a super hero it would be Jem, my power would be to turn into a Rock Star.
5. Mimi & I wrote some fake Breaking Dawn quotes and just over a thousand people looked at them today alone. ~Crazy

Strung Out

I stumbled upon something that has made my day. It is called The String Quartet Tribute. If you visit their website you can see they have covered bands from Led Zeppelin to Radiohead, from Foo Fighters to Elliot Smith, from Snow Patrol to The Beach Boys and I have not even begun to scratch the surface they have around 280 albums to pick from. Here are a few of my favorite songs "strung out".

Weezer ~ Buddy Holly


Coldplay ~ Clocks


Muse ~ New Born


Muse ~ Time is Running Out


I love that whoever made the Muse videos put them to the music videos, I think it makes it better. You can also download the songs on itunes.

Back to you

I have these two friends Melanie and Melissa we use to work together and although it has been almost two years since we have worked together we have stayed close. We all love The Office and during the season we meet at Melanie's house and watch it together. On one of these nights a few months ago there was discussion about movies I had not seen (There Will Be Blood & No Country for Old Men) but I felt a need to contribute to the conversation so I said, the girl in No Country for Old Men is married to Dougie the bass player from Travis. Melanie laughed and said everything always comes back to Travis & Muse. Then her husband Jeff asked if Travis and Muse were connected I told him no, only by my love.

I wonder if Melanie was aware of how true that statement was. Today while at church a friend asked me what I thought of Travis's new EP another friend only heard us talking about music and asked me if we were talking about Muse. I had to laugh and say no Travis he responded with oh yes your real number one.

I started this blog September of 2007 and have done a total of forty four posts (including this one) in those forty four posts I mention Travis, eleven times (counting this post) & Muse, five.

Just to prove that I am not the only one who loves Travis & Muse here is a fan made video I found on youtube called Travis & Muse - Can't take my eyes off of you

Ode to Travis

This is the cover of Travis's new EP J. Smith, artwork done by Fran Healy. I have had their new song J Smith for a little while now but I just went and purchased the songs on the EP today. I have to say I am very excited for the whole album. The song I added to my playlist is J. Smith and if anyone is interested in reading some of the history of the song you can go here to read Fran's blog. http://www.travisonline.com/band/?id=175&p=1


Here are a few highlights: " Dougie then picked up the bass line like he'd been practicing it all week yet he hadn't heard this ever. It was weird. With the bass and drums locked in, the rest of the song began to roll out, lyrics and all. Andy arrived in the middle of this and casually switched his amp on and sat listening for a couple of minutes before doing his first screetch on guitar, kind of Jimmy Hendrix vibe, sparse then picking it up with some really gentle arrpegio to later unleash the beast that has been locked away since the solo of All I Want To Do Is Rock. "

"Such a lot happens in this song in a very short space of time. The main body of the song is 2 and a half minutes and the outro takes it to 3 minutes... and it leaves everyone that has heard it with the same puzzled face. Luke from the Kooks said it was mental. Paul McCartney said it sounded like nothing else we had done."

Just go to 1:40 how it builds until they top it off with the choir singing. I love it.

Just in case anyone wanted to hear these lovely chaps’ accents here they are guessing ringtones.

Death Cab Concert

Thursday June 19th 2008 I went to the Death Cab for Cutie concert at Mesa Amphitheater. Now I don't mind 110 and plus weather but I do feel bad for bands and wonder if they knew what they were getting themselves into. The lead singer mentioned that while singing he was imagining himself baking like a pizza or something and how he was almost all cooked and we could all eat him. The concert was very mellow with a friendly crowd. I even had a tall guy ask if I wanted to switch places with him, I was so shocked by his consideration that I told him he was going to make me cry. It was a good time. Here is the playlist: Here are some pictures:

Videos:

Daddy-O

There are so many things that I love about my dad here are a few:
~ When he laughs at his own jokes
~ His dance/dancing the twist with him & Debbie
~ Watching him play with the grandkids
~ His Generosity
~ How he never missed any of my games back in the day
~ His love of ASU sports/attending the ASU games with him
~ His love of music/movies
~ His love for his history and history in general
~ His crossword skills
~ His empathy for others - and how it often makes him cry