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this
music
is...

sigh.

There are no words. I can't even.... just... listen.

SASQUATCH

I've been waiting a whole year to go to Sasquatch Music Fest at the Gorge Ampitheater. The lineup this year is unreal... but I was so worried this month about finding a job that I never got around to buying tickets. Then this morning, after much procrastination (my specialty) I realized I didn't have work for the next couple days and could POSSIBLY find a way to go for Sunday and Monday. Craigslist stalking and Facebook status-ing later, I got myself 3 sets of 2 day passes.... UHH-MAAA-ZIINNGGG. It was a major trek to get them all ... I actually saw some places around Vancouver that I never knew existed... sad I know. I also didn't get kidnapped, robbed or murdered during my Craigslist meetups so I'm pretty happy about that.

I'm going with my two besties liz and mandie. Its going to be good... really, really good. Nothing is better than a beer, some beats and being un-showered.
AND look at the view.


P.S. Kid Cudie will most likely propose to me this weekend. No biggie.

"What should i do?"

This doofus pretends to be a yoyo master on television ...and when he can't actually yoyo..he whispers, "what should i do??" as if his MIKE doesn't work. What a tool. Entertaining nonetheless! enjoy.

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today's Big Thing.

Tastespotting

This BLOG is the most brilliant thing ever created on the www. Its a visual collection of people's recipes and reviews from everywhere! Amazing? You can create an account and add "favorites" to the recipes you might want to try out later. You can find almost ANY recipe on this site... and even if you don't "cook" it's a visual utopia... mmmmmmm. Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure. I just have the photos sans descriptions but make sure you check out the website for the food descriptions (makes it sooo much better while staring at the images). I'm droooling.

ba ba beaaats

Mike Posner. Singer songwriter and music producer from Michigan. Apparently he's doing an ivey league/ american tour because I heard about him from my friends at Yale and Claremont McKenna. Once you hook the nerds you got them all right? (JOKES! please don't kill me). I don't know if I really like his voice...but he has some good beats.

Local Natives

I was missing bizzy lizzy so I decided to check out what she was up to at MUCH Music... sooooo being the creeper friend that I am I stalked her blog and she said "listen to local natives" so i did. And I like... A LOT. I bought the CD. Thanks liz! Great tunes for the summer. Check out her blog HERE

Airplanes:

Summer Means Pretty Things

Summer wear. Here's a tip...try not to spend hundreds of dollars on clothing...it's amazing what you can find at Salvation Army.







Pictures stolen from LOOKBOOK

Lemonade

Cocorosie. Lemonade. Makes me want to laze in the sun and be uncomfortably hot.

Crude

When will we learn to stop killing our earth? When will we learn that if we keep exploiting the earth we will HAVE NO earth to live on at all? As Anderson Cooper once said (yes, I'm obsessed with him), "none of what is happening [to the earth] is occurring in a vacuum... all the problems are interconnected"; Pollution is a factor of global warming. Global warming is melting our ice caps. The ice caps are drowning islands and displacing civilizations... I could go on...

I wish we were all a little less ignorant... but it is so hard to not be when we live in a city and are so far from nature. We don't directly or immediately see the long term effects of what we are really doing to the earth. The smallest things make the biggest difference. For instance, when I see a water bottle in the garbage can, I can't help but take it out of the garbage and place it in a recycling. I know its not much, but I feel like I helped...just a little? I mean... why did someone put the water bottle in the GARBAGE in the first place? Don't we learn in kindergarten NOT to do that?

I don't even know why i'm asking...we all know the reason for this is LAZINESS. Here's an idea... why don't we stop being LAZY for once? Maybe it will save the earth.

Many times when we exploit resources, we also exploit and affect the indigenous people living on the land... and usually the indigenous people just deal and don't have much say.

Finally I encountered a current story where the unheard are being heard. A group of indigenous people in the Ecuadorian Amazon are standing up for their rights; They are suing Chevron for 27 billion dollars (which in my opinion is NOT ENOUGH at all). Texaco -which is now owned by Chevron- did NOT clean up after digging and extracting from numerous oil wells in the Ecuadorian Amazon- in fact, they just left them there- hundreds of pits of disgusting crude oil, seeping into the rivers and drinking wells. As a result, locals have been bathing, drinking, cooking with toxic water and have also been getting very sick from it. Below is a trailer of the film "crude".

Here is the 60 minutes clip better explaining the situation:


Task for the week: Do something good for the environment- maybe take a water bottle out of the trash? ;)