guilty pleasure: dance movies

One of my guilty pleasures* in life is watching dance movies. 

Then re-watching them.

Then re-watching just the best dance scenes.

You've heard the saying, "Those who can't do...teach."
Well I've reworked it a tad:

"Those who can't dance...watch."

I may or may not have owned the Step Up trilogy at one point in time.

Yes...trilogy. 

But then they remade Footloose, 

and I fell in love with Kenny Wormald. 

The end.

*Other guilty pleasures include unashamedly repping Katy Perry, drinking wine at home alone on a Friday night w/ 3+ episodes of Friday Night Lights, and trying to reenact Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown's No Air video.

will pay for good music

I've made some great musical purchases lately and wanted to share them with you/encourage you to make the same purchases. I like to think my taste in music isn't too shabby. Some of these I've highlighted on my song-a-day Tumblr...but only hearing one song from any one of these artists will not do your life justice. 

Paying for good music that will define your days is never a bad thing. 

Treat yo self.

Coldplay — Mylo Xyloto 
Chris Martin with that open-face piano. Just enjoy it.
 

M83 — Hurry Up We're Dreaming 
Your head might spin...but in a great way. 
This album is slowly becoming somewhat of an obsession.  

Allen Stone — Allen Stone 
Homeboy can siiinnng. And he's performing on Conan!   
Gungor — Ghosts Upon the Earth 
Lead singer Michael Gungor sums it up best: 
“Musically, it’s kind of odd. We rock pretty hard, 
then we pull out the banjo and sit around and cry together.”  
Neulore — Apples & Eve 
Their first album as a whole tells the heart-wrenching story of the "fractured space between the original man and woman," written from Adam's perspective to Eve.  
And one that I'm quite thrilled to purchase on its quickly approaching release date of November 1...
Florence + The Machine — Ceremonials

another earth

On May 21, 2011, also known as the day the world was supposed to end, Amanda, Heidi and I took a drive through downtown Seattle to get to the Egyptian Theatre on Capitol Hill for a Seattle International Film Fest flick. We saw "Another Earth," which I found to be quite fitting as the the time changed to 6:01pm and ambulance sirens started blaring around corners. For a surreal second, I wondered if all the talk was true...

But I got over that real fast, and we snuck up into the balcony of the Egyptian just in time to catch this film...

I highly recommend.

It's got some great scandal to it.
And beautiful music such as The Cinematic Orchestra's "To Build a Home," featuring Patrick Watson.
Sweet like honey.

And my fav Tweet about the supposed rapture:

Ellen DeGeneres: "Love Britney's song, Keep on Dancing Till the World Ends.

Or as the guy standing on the corner calls it, Keep on Dancing...Til Saturday."

Dear Kristen Wiig,

...can you possibly be this incredible in real life?

...if so, can we be friends?

...will you be a bridesmaid in my wedding?

Saw this last night with some of my Seattle BFFs and was in literal TEARS with laughter.

Not too over the top by any means, and had tons of truth in it.

I highly recommend.

 

How cute is she?

"I'm ready to paarrrrrtttaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!"