Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes out on Wednesday, July 15. I've included themovie trailers below if you want to watch them. I highly recommend that you watch them actually, they're brilliant!

This movie is going to be amazing. No offense, Twilight fans, but the Harry Potter movies are in a whole nother league compared to the Twilight movies.

The one thing i'm confused about, regarding HBP, is its rating: PG. If i remember correctly, this book was fairly frightening. Hopefully the rating isn't a direct reflection of it leaving out essential parts of the book, especially if it's in order to allow more fans to see the movie in the theaters. Quality people!!!! that would make me and a lot of other HP fans pretty mad.


Trailers:

New Moon: 11.20.09

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON trailer in HD


OK. I admit it. I'm 25-years-old and am a tween lit reading, chick flick watching, pop culture obsessed, fantasy junkie and as embarrassing as you might think it is for me to admit what I just did...well it's just something I had to do.

I love the Twilight series and canNOT wait for the New Moon movie to come out! November 20, 2009. Mark it down on your calendars right...meow! You know i already have!

I actually wasn't super excited about the New Moon movie, especially after watching and laughing at the horrible acting and "special effects" in Twilight. Well, that was until I watched the New Moon trailer, which i have conveniently included in my post for your viewing pleasure :)The special effects look a gazillion times better, the acting too.

It'll be interesting to see if Taylor Lautner can pull off playing the leading male role in New Moon. I really hope so! I loved Jacob in the series and hope I can continue to appreciate the character in the movies as well. (Good luck to you Mr. Lautner!)

On another note, You have to read this FmyLife.com post about Twilight. I LOLed when i read it. I mean i love Twilight, but this girl takes the cake!

FMyLife.com: "Today, my girlfriend dumped me proclaiming she wanted someone more like her "Edward". I asked her who Edward was. She held up a copy her "Twilight" book. She was talking about a fictional vampire. FML"

Friday Playlist: I'm Good I'm Gone

Its been a pretty awesome week:

Obama was Inaugurated as our 44th President
Bush is FINALLY gone
I dyed a pink streak in my hair
I worked out 5 times this week
Finished reading New Moon
Baked 3 things this: cookies, rice krispie treats AND banana bread
Discovered a ton of new music!!!!!

But not all weeks are as awesome as this one. Another work week has come and gone and many times the only thing really getting me through the week is my music. So starting this Friday, today, I will post the playlist i have created for the week. Ok friends, time to peace out, shut down my computer, get off the world wide web and enjoy the wild world that is reality.

Thank you. Please come again

blog playlist #1

Happy Obama Day!

Today, January 20th, Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. Today I am proud to call myself an American and even prouder to say that WE, the American People finally came together for the greater good and elected someone we are proud and honored to call our President.

"Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."

For the full transcript of his Inaugural Address, go here: http://www.pic2009.org/blog/entry/president_obamas_inaugural_address/

And in honor of our 44th President, here's a lil playlist i've created:

As JFK said back in 1961, in his Inaugural Address: "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you- ask whta you can do for your country." It's time for change. Lets make it happen.

T.I.'s Whatever You Like

Yup. That's Mr. T.I. and he's uhhhhhmazin! His newest single "Whatever You Like" is so catchy, I can't stop listening to it. Its my newest song obsession, well this song and The Killer's "All These Things That I've Done" but I'm not making this post to talk about The Killers, that'll have to wait til my next post...

The radio stations in Portland haven't started playing this single yet. But I predict Jammin and the other Rap-tastic stations in the City of Roses will be all over this single within the next few weeks and before you know it, you won't be able to get away from it. It's gonna be everywhere.

So you might as well jump on the band wagon now and purchase this song off of iTunes before the rest of the cool kids do.

k, that was my break for the day. Back to work and back to some more of T.I.'s sweet sweet tunes.

PS: I think i really enjoy this song because it makes me feel a lil gangsta. Kangsta the Gangsta!

Who needs vowels when you got consonants?!

So I decided i'm pretty into bands with names that have no vowels, such as...

M83
Nsync
RJD2
TLC
TQ
112
B52

and last but not least...MGMT!!!! Woop woop. I'm pretty sure i started listening to them purely based on the fact that I was intrigued by their name. Are you supposed to call them Management? or M-G-M-T? Well after weeks (more like minutes) of self-deliberation, i decided that "calling them M-G-M-T is the way to go.

"Electric Feel" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtUI5MC9tVM) is currently my favorite song of theirs. Couldn't embed the music video, sorry, so check out the link to see it. "Kids", "Destrokk" and "Time to Pretend" are also pretty bad ass.

For all you Portlandites who are reading this, listen to the song and imagine yourself at the Fez, clad in a neon, spandex outfit, drinking gin and tonics and dancing in a group circle. Awesome huh :)

Taylor Swift: Should've Said No

The Academy of Country Music Awards were on CBS this past Sunday night and people are still talking about one spectacular performance by none other than country's lil diva, Taylor Swift. It was so bad ass. She's so bad ass!

For all you kids that hate country music, ya'll might change your mind after watching her performance of "Should've Said No" off of her album "Taylor Swift".

She starts out sitting on a stool, guitar in hand, wearing a hoodie and jeans and then she kicks her performance into high gear as she tosses her guitar off stage, tears off her hoodie and jeans to unveil her black dress. And oh no no no no no, it does not stop there my friends.

Just as the song seems to die down, she walks to the back of the stage and stands underneath a waterfall and ends the performance soaking wet, on her knees, just like an effin rockstar!

I'm pretty sure i'm obsessed with this song now, purely cuz of her performance. I hope its on the radio over and over again. You might think I'm crazy, but i'm tellin ya, just watch the video and then you'll understand.


Oh yeah! She also won Top New Female Vocalist of the Year. hoooty hoooo. I'm such a Taylor Swift groupie now, haha.

Confessions are obsessed with Confessions

Helloooo! (PS: i just said that in a Jerry Seinfeld voice) Its been awhile since I've posted something. Sorry! Between work and being the incredibly "popular" individual that I am, I've had limited time for myself. And I've decided to spend that time eating copious amounts of food and... yeah i guess that's about it. Anyway, I digress...

Yesterday, I was doing some research for work and came across this really bad ass music blog Confessions of a Would-be Hipster. Confessions of a Palindrome... becomes obsessed with ...Confessions of a Would-be Hipster?! haha, that's funny, don't you think?! I hope so, otherwise why you readin my blog fool? WOW.. did i really just say that? ok, I'm embarrassed, back to the blog, my bad....

This blog does a great job of not only spotlighting a variety of indie artists that only the cool kids aka hipsters know of (jk), but also providing free song downloads with each new post! oh holler! You should definitely check it out if you're into cool and hip music ;).

So i spent a fair amount of time reading through the blog and found my newest song obsession, Voxtrot's "The Start of Something".

Voxtrot's "The Start of Something"

The sun is finally deciding to make an appearance in Portland, which means I'll be rocking out to this song all the time. I can just see it now... running on the waterfront, with my ipod, this song on repeat. Ah what a life!

Cary Brothers: The Glass Parade

Last week I went to one of the most original concerts I've ever been to, The Hotel Cafe Tour. Ingrid Michaelson headlined the tour but she didn't act like a big wig at all. Cary Brothers, Meiko, Jessica Hope, Jim Bianco and William Fitzsimmons were also part of the tour and the show seemed more like a bunch of friends that got together to have a jam session, but a professional jam session (not one of those where the same riff gets repeated for a good 20 minutes) instead of a formal concert. They each took turns playing three songs each with a mini story about each song before they played so you could get a taste of each artist. It was awesome. The only way I would've enjoyed this concert more was if I was sitting at a table with a cup of coffee.

I initially bought a ticket to the concert because I wanted to see Ingrid, but I left the concert really pleased with the performances of the other artists as well, especially Cary Brothers and Meiko, so pleased actually that I went out and bought Cary Brothers' newest cd: Who You Are. I knew his songs "Blue Eyes" from the Garden State soundtrack and "Ride" from the Last Kiss soundtrack but i was never a CB fan til now. I always thought Cary Brothers was a band, not just one guy named Cary Brothers. I think a lot of people think that.

At the show, he played "The Glass Parade" and I just fell in love with it. The Youtube video isn't great, so just listen to the lyrics and his voice. oh my goodness his voice is just one of the softest, sweetest sounds I've heard in a long time. It's the kind of voice where you just want to believe everything he says. The lyrics are amazing too.

I'm not really into guys with long shaggy hair, its actually a deal breaker for me, but for him it works. i could be into him...



The Glass Parade- Cary Brothers
Just a voice inside your head
Whispering all the hope is dead
All the time you had to prove
That no one really loves you

I found you in a reflection
You didn't want me to see
I will give you all i have
Just look up, break down and believe

This is a glass parade
A fragile state
And i am not trying to break
And the stars are shining
The moon is right
And i would kill to be with you tonight

Wish you told me all the truth
So afraid to face an absolute
All the fights you had to lose
All the fear was put upon you

I found you when you were broken
Too many cracks of deceit
I will give you all i have
Just look up, break down and believe

This is the feeling, falling
So much i want to say
Show me the same emotion
Show me what's at stake
How much can you take
When you realise your fate?

Hold me now as the car lights fade
And we are dancing in the glass parade

It's just a voice inside your head

Side note: Meiko sang this song called "You and Onions Make Me Cry." AWESOME! The song pretty much was all about hot dogs and crying because of onions and boys. I am a fan of any song that incorporates food into the lyrics.

Cool Happy Genius Heroes

TGIF everyone!

So I'm not a depressed individual by any means but if you didn’t know me and looked at my project playlists and cd mixes you might think otherwise. This song adds to that misperception.

I don’t know much about this group, The National. Actually I don’t know anything about them, other than that they’re from Brooklyn. I haven’t even heard any of their other songs, but I really like this one "Santa Clara."

It s the kind of song you want to listen to when you’re down in the dumps. With the lights off, door closed, laying on your bed, and this song, just blaring from your stereo, on repeat… haha, ok, so once again, I’m not a sad person, but I do have my moments when I am sad and when I am, I want to listen to this song, along with "The Funeral" by Band of Horses, "Where have you been" by Manchester Orchestra, and even "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol.

Not too sure what this song is about but my prediction is that its about loved ones that have passed on and how you don't have to worry about them cuz you know they're finally at peace.

"Cool Happy Genius Heroes"