Archive for June, 2008
Cats don’t like water normally. Usually they will do anything they can to avoid it. Some cats will splash in really shallow water (like ours), but they sure as heck don’t like being submerged. I give you the bathtub kitty.
Robbie Williams – “Angels”
When I was watching this video today I couldn’t help but singing along at the top of my lungs while Rob started organizing his stuff we had to evacuate. The version on the DVD I was watching has Bonnie Raitt taking on the guitar solo. It seems more appropriate though to show tis version from Glastonbury Festival 1998. As with Woodstock it seems that teh weather is always a little wonky at the festival, and it is kind of a running joke that if you go, it will involve people mudsliding in their swimsuits (or naked) at some point. Well, this performance by Robbie was during a break in the rain an the sun started peeking through and I thought it was totally appropriate for what we’ve been going through here.
And as a bonus, because I think every day deserves a Kylie Minogue song, here’s “Spinning Around” with Kylie workin’ her famous gold hotpants. Like Madonna, Kylie excels at booty-shakin’ pop/dance music. I just wish I had her butt to shake.
I have been attacking my closet with a slow and steady pace. Sunday night I started going through my closet. I needed something cheesy and mindless to watch and our DirecTV box is out in the bedroom, so I grabbed our Apple TV from the living room and brought it in the bedroom. I tested out the movie rental feature by renting 27 Dresses. It was exactly the kind of light-hearted, predictable rom-com that I was in the mood to watch. If you can believe I had 22 black dresses in my closet ranging form casual to dressy and my goal by the end of the movie was to halve the number of LBD’s in my closet. I am proud to say I achieved my goal.
Yesterday I got rid of more dresses in various colors. While undertaking that feat, I streamed episodes of AMC’s Mad Men on the Apple TV. I love the show and am so excited for the new season on July 27. Plus, the costuming is so wonderful and I imagine myself to be as hot as Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway (the redheaded office manager), so it made it easier to let go of clothes that didn’t make me feel great.
Anyway, tonight was skirt and pant purge night. So first I started with YouTube ABBA videos, but I was getting tired of finding a new one after one ended. Rob suggested hitting up our DVD closet. There was no ABBA, but there were tons of other musical goodies. I tried to watch Later…with Jools Holland on DVD, but it kept screwing up. So, I moved on to Kylie Minogue’s Body Language DVD. There were some skippable moments, but overall it’s a joy to watch. She has such great style and she’s just so cute (well, when she doesn’t look like Joan Rivers).
Anyway, when that was done, there was more work to be done in the form of folding clean laundry, so I popped in this Michel Gondry video anthology I have. Side A is pretty good, and I’m not familiar enough with his earlier work or the artists he worked with to be interested in Side B yet- maybe another night.
I have been watching the videos going chronologically backward starting in 2003 with the White Stripes “Hardest Button to Button”. I like how Gondry riffs on repetition in this collection. Visually, he uses two different views or combines takes and has lots of dreamy repetitive people walking around. Anyway, Michel Gondry is one of the things on the list over at Stuff White People Like. I do recommend at least heading over to YouTube and watching some videos. They are such nice eye candy and he definitely has a unique point of view and even when using the same “gimmick” of repetition in a few videos, he manages to keep it fresh.
Here are a couple of my favorite videos:
“Come Into My World” – Kylie Minogue – Kylies EVERYWHERE!
“Let Forever Be” – The Chemical Brothers – Hard to tell on YouTube, but uses video and film in a nice contrast.
“The Hardest Button to Button” – The White Stripes – Just a great pairing of simple visuals that really work with the music…
I’ll update more tomorrow, but for now I will give you 3 videos. Last night while we were sleeping, it stormed more and when we came downstairs today we discovered there had been about 3 inches of water at some point overnight because the carpet was squishy, water was dripping out of computers and stuff had floated and been carried over to other parts of the basement. It’s been a rough day and with the help of our neighbor Ryan and James and the guys at Five Star here in Indy, we have stuff moved out of the basement and fans and dehumidifiers doing the evaporation work.
And because I don’t want to leave you on a depressing note and for a little perspective (because there are people worse off than we are). Here’s some super cute kitties. note how the one at then end starts growling when they try and move his food while he’s eating. I don’t know how to embed this one, so just click this link: Attack of the Hungry Kittens
Later taters. I’ll keep you updated.
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