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because naomi changed her layout and it looked cool, i wanted to change my layout! now that i have i can't seem to figure out how to get my links on the page....so this layout may not last to long...although, it does look really, really cool!

In Rainbows

So i'll be honest...i was a little worried on the first run through of this cd...but my first run through is usually just listening to about 15-30 seconds of all the songs before listening to it all the way through...thank goodness i tend to look past first impressions. This CD is excellent. I'm going to mention a few of my favorites here...i wish i could talk about all of them but i'd probably run out of things to say and i should probably actually work :(

"15 steps"- when i first heard the beginning of this song, i thought for sure radiohead had sold their souls to the electronic pop gods, which scared the hell out of me. But not 45 seconds pass before they introduce their awesome guitar play, jonny greenwood, adding his simple yet perfect guitar licks...and then not too far after that they turn up the bass part and start really rocking the song out...it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. some of the lyrics for this song just state "one by one" and its really funny how it kind of feels like that when they are introducing all the instruments throughout the entire song.

"Nude"- they keep this track simple for radiohead. :) and i really, really love how radiohead can express the lyrics of their song by their music. this song is called nude...the beginning of the song is just bass and drums and voice...no one is doing anything fancy...lyrically the song to me is talking about what is going on in most peoples minds, and how we have all felt at times. i do have a bass problem, i love bass parts and this one is no exception!

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi- so this song is FULL of arpeggios...pretty much the same one but they have two guitars all over the place just continually playing arpeggiated chords and they keep getting faster and faster and "i get eaten by the worms" then everything starts calming down.. what is kind of cool to me is that at some points it kind of sounds like you are floating underwater...yes, that does sound weird but you will just have to listen to it. maybe fish hear arpeggios?? :)


House of Cards- okay so this song just makes me want to dance around my house with a smile on my face. nothing overly exciting about it really...they have a lot of vocal echo and i'm really not sure what is going on in the back ground...it sounds like someone is tapping the bass or another guitar with a drum stick...which i guess is totally possible. i like has there is one guitar line that kind of goes throughout the entire song like its keeping everything together.

Across the Universe

So Cindy, Whitney and I went this weekend and saw Across the Universe...for those of you who may not know, this is a musical about the vietnam war using all beatles songs...it was AWESOME! they did such a good job of not ruining the songs and of caputuring the emotional stress that that time provided...on all levels. There were some visual parts that had you trying not to blink because you weren't sure if you would miss something! One of my FAVORITE scenes: one of the characters had been drafted and he went for his physical with several other people. The song they were sing was I want you (She's so Heavy)...when they get to the end of the exam all of the men are singing the very dramatic "She's so Heavy" part of the song and carrying the statue of liberty. My gosh, it still give me chills! i wanted to get up and start clapping! but i didn't :)

I think everyone needs to go see this movie...there is an underlying love story in there too...just fyi!! :)

Tonight

So tonight you can come see Lisa Curl and I at Kamps...and its a free show! woohoo! we start at 7:30!!

Also, so i don't bore everyone with wedding stuff i've started a wedding blog on my wedding page....http://jennandcody.wedquarters.com/....so if anyone is interested in what is going on you can check it out there!

Whitney and i started working out last night....and i'm not sure that i should be hurting from just walking a couple of miles...but i am and my hands are swollen...its funny how fast you can become out of shape...i'm also going to start playing girls soccer....cody and i would totally play co-ed too but we can't find a team so if anyone knows of one, please let us know! :)

I've started reading a book called "Lamb, the gospel according to Biff, Christ Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore and its freakin funny. Has anyone read it?

Old Navy

Okay, so has anyone seen the new old navy commercial about the sweaters??...i'm in love with the singers voice on that commercial. Everytime i see that commercial i just want it to keep going and going, its way to short. so i've looked her up....her name is ingrid michealson...I'm thinking i may have to make a purchase...i listened to samples of the newer album she has out and its really good (i think) :)

I'll even post the commerical for you... :)


also, did anyone see pushing daisies last night...yet another series that we will be watching every week...there are getting to be so many...i think we are going to need a DVR! :)

Radiohead!!!!

okay...so good radiohead news for all of those radiohead fans out there....first "in rainbows" is done! woohoo! second you will be able to download it on Oct 10th...woohoo! 3rd, you get to say your own price for it!! woohoo! i know...it doesn't sounds possible but it so is...check out radiohead.com....and there is a really cool boxdisc that has LPs, CDs, and posters...i think HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY to me!! woohoo!!

Days like today

I'm tired and i'm irritable. I knew today was going to be a little on the rough side because we have a lot changes going on at work today...i've been taken away from my secure home...the place that i felt safe and thrown into the open waters where i know no one and i have no one but myself to rely on...so it seems right now! i know it will get better but right now i'm ready to go home! okay enough bitching...

so this weekend cody and i decide we are going to go to breakfast on Saturday morning...we live right down the street from a Jimmy's egg so we decide we are going to walk there. we get there and we see that they only take cash or checks (very weird these days) of which we had neither...so we go back home and get in the car to go to a little new coffee shop on 16th. we get there and we go inside to order and they didn't have breakfast like we were wanting but it was about lunch time anyway so we decided we would order sandwiches. cody tried to order and we were told that the bread hadn't arrived for the day so they couldn't make us sandwiches and it would be about 30 to 45 minutes...so we order an expensive cheese plate and teas and wait for the bread. it was lovely outside so we head outside as we sit down and put our teas on the table...the table collapses and we get tea ALL OVER US! so we laugh it off because by this time its just funny...and move to the other outside table. eventually the bread came and we got the rest of our food for free but it was one of those days :) lol! :)