rain is falling like rhinestones from the sky

Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce

There aren't words to describes the raging awesomeness that is this song.  Bonus backward filming too! And sooooo much hair.

Morning,
Mav

80 days

title

Feel Good Inc. by The Gorillaz

This too:
Ghost Train by The Gorillaz

Sparingly,
Mav

have another because the Gorillaz are awesome
19-2000 by The Gorillaz

81 days

Now is the time....

I know, I know...I'm awful.  I skipped the weekend countdown.  Honestly I thought about it both days, but just didn't get up the give-a-shit to do it.  So I'll make it up to you today by catching up with those songs.

We are gonna work our way up in awesome rockness.

Bye Bye Blackbird by Joe Cocker
But we're gonna start off slow with a good bluesy tune.  This song reminds me of what childhood should be, or was.  Like when my dad was a kid in the 50's.  When a good Sunday was sitting in the backyard chasing bubbles.  After school you didn't watch tv, because there were only three stations and your parents watched them.  Kids actually played with each other and got out of the house and did stuff.  We are so lazy these days.  Even in the 80's and 90's teens would go hang out at the mall, but with online shopping that's way cheaper there is no point in going to the mall, unless it's an emergency or an absolute necessity that you can only find at the mall (which is ridiculous, you can get anything online). I feel like in a way the generations now are completely fucked.  By the time I want to retire there will be no social security and I highly doubt I'll have a pension. It sounds like a really bad thing.  People will have to work until they are practically dead.  At the same time, the people who got this country started didn't have pensions and social security.  It wasn't even a thing then! They were self-starters, motivated, financially savvy.  Future generations will have to channel these kinds of people and become them.  No one is going to help them survive. I'm not one to predict what will happen with any type of accuracy, but it seems pretty legitimate that the baby boomers are going to clean out social security. Thanks. At the same time, the government hasn't really protected it the way they should have.  Dipping into it for this, that and the other.  Shame on you! Why the hell am I paying into something I'll never even get to have!

Don't Speak by No Doubt
Not a lot to say, but glad the 90's fashion is over.  It really rears its ugly head in this video.

No One Knows by Queens Of The Stone Age
Gotta love Dave Grohl! This song just has a straight up funky beat that makes you want to jam.

Coming Down by Five Finger Death Punch
Here is an extra as an apology for missing the weekend.  I know that it just screwed all of you up on the inside something fierce. This song is hardcore along with it's video.  I'd say it even has some controversial imagery.  But that's what music is all about.   I love the animated portion! It's so bitchin! Never underestimate the power that one person has to change everything by just not walking away from a strange circumstance.  Remember, no one (who is a gamer) in their right mind would give away their gaming system unless it was completely busted (even then).
Check out other Five Finger Death Punch, they have a good sound.

Good news! My art professor from college finally responded and she still has my art portfolio! I've been thinking about taking some art classes at Univ of Co Denver and this will help me.

Not much longer and I'll be back to my normal, rambling, deep thinking self.  It's almost August after all.

Stagnantly,
Mav

82 days

thirsty thursdays

Club Love by The Cataracs
This song makes me want to dance.  I enjoy the video too.  I like to daydream about being a wildling sometimes and being war painted up. And I felt they did the club scene very tastefully.  It was cool, but not overdone.

Here's another Cataracs song just for fun featuring Dev.  I love music videos like this one.  They make me smile, because it shows just how normal everyone is. Also,  Niles "Cyrano" Hollowell-Dhar is hot.
Sunrise by the Cataracs featuring Dev

Here's an update.  I hate work, but I've never been contacted by the zoo and I don't think I will.  So I just relooked at this place in Colorado called Crow Canyon where I can do another dig.  I do love archaeology.  It's just a two month program and it's paid so I really don't think I can go wrong going for it.  And the more experience I have the more distant digs I could do.  I could just join on with a company and become an archaeologist by default.  But that is something I don't want to jinx, so I don't expect anything. But I will probably do this Crow Canyon thing the first year I am in Colorado, because I don't want to get too settled into a job or anything before I do.

Contemplatively,
Mav

85 days

86 the cannoli

Hello, fellow individuals!

Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers
This song is one of my absolute favorite songs.  It's so haunting.  I love the strings.  This is the original version with some pictures of Bill.  I'm also going to put the live version on here.  It's still really good quality, and it gives you an idea of what he looks like when he sings.  Also, the drummer's smiling face is kind of hilarious.
Ain't No Sunshine Live

My movie of the week is Soul Kitchen.
This trailer is a bit deceiving.  It makes it look like a comedy, but it's really not what I would categorize as a comedy.  It has some very funny moments, but overall its more of a shits hitting the fan and crazy shenanigans movie.  If that even makes sense.  It is a German movie, and it is completely subtitled.  But I love Adam Bousdoukos.  The movie is extremely satisfying and you will cringe and be angry and elated with the characters.  Check it out.  It's on Netflix.

Got another song for you.
Don't Go by Fefe Dobson
Some of you may remember her, or still love her. She's all punk now, and doing soundtracks for tv and movies.  She's really fun and this song makes me laugh.  Me and my brother used to listen to it and be silly and dance and just laugh and laugh.  And! Check out her boyfriend in this vid is Drake Bell.  The only time he was every truly attractive (when he didn't say anything).  Whatever happened to him?

Genuinely,
Mav


86 days

four score and seven days to go

Cinder and Smoke by Iron & Wine
I love Iron & Wine.  They have such a smoky sound that just wisps through your mind filling up all its recesses with emotion.  This song is no exception.  I've uploaded one of their songs before (Upwards Over the Mountain) and I heard this one the other day as I was exploring them and just fell in love.

Whimsically,
Mav

"Be humble for you are made of earth, be noble for you are made of stars."


87 days

Infinity times Infinity

Walk Idiot Walk by The Hives
How much you wanna bet they got the idea of this video while playing scrabble? I really love this song.  It's really jammin, and it's kind of a classic to me.  Not just the suits, but a music video where they are actually playing the song, held inside of one room where some weird stuff happens.  This song would be pop up video material easily! For all his strangeness (like looking like my friends idiot roommate) Pelle Almqvist has a great voice (and his life clearly has more direction than said roommate's).  It's clear and strong and noteable.  So check out the vid and try not to have just another monday monday.

Unwaiveringly,
Mav

PS: If you want a good youtube playlist for work maybe or cleaning the house check this out!


88 days

raindrops on puddles

Glory Box by Portishead
This video is strange and its dirty and grungy.  The song is great, I almost recommend listening to it before watching the video because it's really great to jam to.  It's got that slow, grinding rhythm.

Lazily,
Mav


89 days

Saturday Night Fever

Jolene by Dolly Parton
This music video comes to you with all the greatness of the 70's.  Dolly Parton is a legend, and this is one of my favorite songs by here.  I try to give live vids as much as I can as long as the quality is good and this vid fits the bill.  Gotta love that lavender jumpsuit with the glitter belt.  Such big tits. I love her voice in this song, it's haunting.

I also have a movie of the week for you.  Silent House is a really great movie.  It's shot in real time, one take.  Elizabeth Olsen does a phenomenal job.  Usually you watch a scary movie and the lead character is whimpering and making all kinds of noise, but Elizabeth Olsen is so obviously wanting scream and stays dead silent.  Definitely check this movie out.

Mav

90 days

Happy friday!

War Pigs by Black Sabbath
Just thought I'd get a little change rage going in your blood.  This song is one of my favorites by Black Sabbath.  My friend in the marines in Cal (shout out!) says they run in cadence to this song.  There were videos of them playing live, but I felt this one fit the bill.

Defiantly,
Mav

PS: I've added a page that contains all my pictures that I have put up and I will continue to add to it as time goes on.


91 days

3 months

Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second by Starfucker

Gratefully,
Mav

Grasshoppers take the subway just like rats

Wicked Game by Chris Isaak
I absolutely love this song.  This is the first time I've watched the video, and I wish there was less woman in it.  Chris Isaak is so scrumptious.  I wanted to see him rolling around on the bed, smoking a cigarette or something. Maybe that's just what I felt the song denoted.  But listen and fall in love with his melodious voice.

I've been struggling since I started this countdown to not give more than one song of the day, knowing that I could just use it the very next day, BUT I just cannot hold back any longer.  The amount of music out there is staggering, and I am sure that giving an extra song of the day every now and then won't hurt anything.  Besides I have a great one.

Love That Burns by Fleetwood Mac
Really chill to this song.  Just lean back, close your eyes and drink in the music.  Feel your body slowly groove to its bluesy beat. Light up a bowl if you can. Or a cigarette.  Or just jam. Damn, make love to it! I just had to give it to y'all so that you may know the greatness that is Fleetwood Mac. I know it isn't an actual video.  There was a vid that had a pretty decent slideshow of Fleetwood Mac, but the quality was real shit.  Of course I will go for quality and if you feel so inclined you can search the song yourself on youtube.

The other day my friend asked me what I recommend we do about the staggering negative effects we (humans) have on our home (earth), and it made me think.  I have mixed feeling about it.  Part of me wants to change things and hope people will be more respectful of the planet and want to take care of it.  Either way we don't have to fuck it up as much as we do.  People are so prone to take things for granted.  We have so much technology, but we don't really utilize it in ways that are the most beneficial.  I mean, look at Telsa.  The man had inventions for free energy for everyone and it was destroyed because people were greedy.  At the same time I feel there is an inevitability to the situation.  Was not all change at some point feared?  Nothing lasts forever.  The biggest thing is to remember.  In the end of it all there's nothing left but the experiences.  The people you loved, the knowledge you gained and passed on.  I feel you can really only change yourself to be a better person and take the world as it comes.  Enjoy it all.  Every good and bad experience teaches you, helps you understand yourself and gives you the ability to teach others so that they may understand themselves.  Think on it.

Elucidatingly,
Mav


93 days to go

IIIIII

Somedays by Paul McCartney
This song is just wonderful.  Love Paul McCartney. There is no official video, but I checked out a few different fanmade ones and this one is the best.  It has a bunch of nice pictures of Paul.  Really listen to the song though, it's almost haunting.   But I suppose that's the talent you find within Paul McCartney.

Nostalgically,
Mav

"In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."

94 days to go

Another week's beginning, another week's ending

How Will I Know by Whitney Houston
We all remember this Whitney.  We all miss this Whitney.  I remember I was watching MtvU with my boyfriend at the time about 2 1/2 years ago (shout out! It's ok, we're friend now) and this song came on and I was jammin' out.  He looks at me and asks, "Who is this?" and I was like, "Are you kidding? It's Whitney Houston!" and he says, "OMG! What happened?" Haha we all know what happened....

Mav

"Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men."


PS: Song page updated.

One more down

just made it right under the wire

Expectations by Belle & Sebastian
It's not an actual video, but I think it fits the song pretty well.

Bedtime now,
Mav

90 + 7

Into Your Arms by The Maine
The guys in this are that whole original hipster with their v-necks and hair and blazers and stuff. Patrick Kirch (drummer) is pretty cute though. John O'Callaghan's mouth gets so weird when he said "arms" in the chorus.  It's like he is trying to open and close it at the same time (it looks normal in the very end though). Overall, I really like this song.  It's happy and upbeat.

Also, I got a new kitty today!  His name is Endor. He's such a cuddle bug.

Mav

100 days of posts countdown: day 98

People get their panties in a wad over the tiniest thing.  I'm cruising on facebook (go figure) and I see that one of the pages I follow has changed it's main topper photo thingy.  Not their profile picture but the banner at the top.  It's hard for me not to say Jolly Roger because my facebook is in pirate English.  Anywho, the picture is of an incredibly rotund hedgehog and people are spouting off how the owner should be charged with animal cruelty and taken to jail.  I'll agree the hog is fat, but usually (I realize this is not always true and that some people are actually cruel, but it's a minority) overweight animals as pets comes from not being properly educated about how to take care of the pet.  Almost never does it have to be something as drastic as jail time because their puppy got pudgy.  I'm not saying that if you see a super fat animals you shouldn't say something, but lets use those brains people. I would suspect that the overweight problem happens before the owner truly realizes it (because they love their little snookums poo and like giving them treats when they do tricks or to hear them squeak when sitting on their lap, we've all done it) and then it's a tough thing to tackle, just like in humans.  And if they have kids that always give the pet treats when mom & dad aren't looking...I guess what I am trying to say is that people jump to conclusions all too quickly about what needs to be done and who is in the wrong without truly thinking about what might be the circumstances behind it.  The overweight pet is an example. In this day and age we are so prone to blame and so forgetful to understand.

Kiss of Life by Friendly Fires

Candidly,
Mav


"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.  Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

Down to Double Digits

Heart Song by Automatic Loveletter
Juliet Simms makes some of the ugliest facest in this video I've ever seen.  It's so unflattering.  I'd almost recommend listening to the song without watching the video first, because all you will see is her distorted face. Overall, the video is very strange anyway.  It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.  Her walking around, singing into a hairdryer.  It doesn't seem to really go with the song. Her in the shower.  It's like all she really wanted to do was show off her body, but she got a butterface.  Also, freeze frame the moment they show her feet and take in the gnarl.  What I can say is that the song itself is really good.  I like her growly voice and the emotion in it, even if the music video leaves something to be desired.  This band has a lot of talent even if they have kind of fallen into the background of the musical industry. Take it with a grain of salt, don't judge a song by it's video.

Mav

99 days

100 days bitches!

It's Alright by Huey Lewis and the News

Enjoy!

Mav

WHAT!!!!! One and one hundred days!

It's been a hot minute I know. I'd say a lot has been going on but thinking about it now, it doesn't seem all that exciting.  I went on a couple dates.  The first one was considerably better than the first.  We were actually able to hold a conversation and we laughed and had a good time, but I didn't feel any real connection with him.  It seemed more like hanging out with a friend.  Nothing wrong with that I suppose.  The second date (the next night, I know I'm a playa lol) was thick with awkwardness.  I thought at first that I was more interested in him, but when it came down to it we didn't really connect on any level.  Speaking of men, a certain morsel of happiness and grief has returned to me after vanishing for a month.  What is up with that?  Yes, he had his excuses and reasons why he never contacted me, but this isn't the first time.  I can't just put everything on hold waiting on one man to get his shit together and realize I'm awesome when there are others who might be waiting in the wings or just around the corner to tell me they've realized just that.  Life may be too short to not give him the benefit of a doubt, but it's also too short to expect perfection and put all my eggs in his basket, because he will most likely drop that basket and they will all break.

So Colorado is looking like my most conceivable plan of escape yet!  I know I've said Australia for a year and California and wherever else (but if you wanted a solid story line you would read a fiction novel), but Colorado is actually cheap enough and accepting enough.  I don't know how many of you have looked into going to Australia long term, but it's a bitchton of money.  Australia is also kind of like the French of the southern hemisphere (but they are a lot friendlier to tourists).  I say this because they really don't care for outsiders.  It can be exceedingly difficult to get any type of visa, and they have work regulations that make it even more difficult for foreigners to work on whatever working visa they may have been able to attain.  Lucky for casual travelers you can go there with no visa for up to three months.  That seems like the least foolhardy idea at this point.  Not to mention what it would cost to take my cat down there with me.  For three months I can get my brother to watch her for me.  However, due to the increasing difficulty of raising funds, my trip to said Outback may be pushed back farther than anticipated.  I will get there one day though! I WILL dive the great barrier reef.  Mark my words! (did you mark them? Here's a highlighter. What?  Oh yea, I have blue.)

I attempted to tie dye a shirt last night. And the results will either be amazing or awful!  I have a bet riding on it so I'm hoping for the beautiful.  I also hope I didn't ruin my shit, but part of me just has this feeling that it will be terrible.  Dye covered hands, and cotton soaked disappointments.

I've been eating a lot of fruit.  Trying to be healthy, ya know.  Speaking of healthy, don't buy bottled water from Nestle.  The current chairman and CEO of Nestle,  Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, actually said that he thinks water should be privatized and monopolized and he would only allow people 30 liters of water per day for drinking and hygiene.  Wtf? That's something like 2% of what we use in total.  I understand that maybe we do use water a bit frivolously and that maybe some regulations could be made to protect our precious resource, but this is a bit extreme.  Mr. Peter (last name too long) would charge exorbitant prices for the extra water used over the 30 liters.  What about washing clothes, or dishes or cooking with water?  Are the impoverished supposed to be expected to pay these sums or will they simply get sick and die from dehydration? Not to mention the amount of water that Nestle pumps out of the Colorado Rivers underground reservoirs.  They take more than their share and now we find our aqueducts running into California to be running lower and lower (a state that is 85% agriculture! no more California white peaches).  Those reservoirs are necessary during times of drought. Maybe the water from your tap tastes like balls wrapped in iron, but a simple filter should take care of that, and a simple filter is all water bottling companies use anyway.  It's cheaper, it's easier, and it keeps money away from the progressive liberal despot.  Oh and for those of you outside the US,  he wants to make it a global monopoly so everyone in the world would be affected.

My mom's wedding went well.  I was unsure at first about it.  Not exactly happy about her marrying this man. When my mom walked down the isle and said her vows she was absolutely beaming and I could see how happy she was and I just couldn't bring myself to be unhappy about it anymore.  Just like my mom has to deal with all the guys I bring home and she supports me and lets me make my decisions, I have to be that person for her as well.  It's still kind of weird and I'm still not very fond of him, but I've come to accept it.  Bit late now to be upset anyway.  Though I have heard that mom is a planning fool when it comes to "new family" trips.  Apparently we are going rafting, which would be fun if it didn't include 5 kids under the age of 13. Sigh. C'est la vie.  Life is funny how it works.

Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met) by Panic! At The Disco
Today's song of the day was brought to my attention (with no intention of it being my SOTD) by my bestie (shout out!)  and I decided that it was better than a hot, blue-eyed, blonde of hair Swede.  There were some live videos but the quality just wasn't as good and I want you to experience the awesomeness of the song first, of course.  

The Boxer cover by Mumford & Sons with Jerry Douglas
Had to post this awesome Simon & Garfunkel cover.  Not only do I love this song anyway, I love the harmony that M&S brings to the table.  Beautiful. 

tumultuously,
Mav


PS: starting tomorrow (though I suppose today actually) I'm going to update every day to countdown.  Most days will probably just be a song and maybe a little blurb but some others will probably be longer actual posts. So...be ready for that. haha


"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."