Icelander Hafdis Huld is adorable, quirky and has an awesome voice. Her video for “Tomoko” is pretty funny. Plus she reminds me of Zooey Deschanel
Definitely something worth checking out if you’re into something other than Beyonce, Kanye and those damn Fallout Boys.
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I couldn’t watch the Bears vs. Colts game for a couple of reasons.
1. I’m still bitter about them throwing the Superbowl. They get that eff’in far and hardly hold onto the ball. Nice. Jackasses.
2. I don’t like Peyton Manning’s face.
3. It’s too early for football. I’m still holding onto summer with all my might and simply refuse to admit fall is around the corner.
I was happy to see that the Bears won 27-24. I was unhappy to hear that good ‘ol Rex hasn’t improved. The Bears’ quarterback fumbled the ball three times and threw an interception. I am excited to see Garrett Wolfe play. I knew him in high school (my cousin dated his friend) So I think it’s pretty awesome. He was a great player and deserves to have made it to the NFL.
Let’s hope this win is only the beginning and Rex’s faults aren’t a hint of the new season to come.
I’m not quite sure how I felt about that video last week, but I am glad secrets are being posted again.
Here are this week’s favorites:
Be sure to check out the rest of the secrets posted today over at PostSecret
Is it just me or does Lisa Marie Presley look like she’s on drugs? Like always.
I’m a HUGE Elvis fan. Big surprise, I know! I had posters of him in my room when I was 16…what? I was only like 20 years late. Anyway, I was almost disturbed when I watched this video I found on Perez, and not for the reasons you may think.
Sure the babies in the cribs with guns is quite unsettling…but something about her virtual duet with Elvis just bothers me. “In the Ghetto” is a beautiful song on it’s own. But she doesn’t do it justice. While I love Elvis, I can’t say I adore his daughter. I agree with Perez when he says she could have found a more creative way of thinking.
Click here to watch the video.
Has anybody else heard of Walk Hard, a music biopic spoof? Is anybody else strangely turned off by it? I know it’s meant to be funny, but I’m not really seeing the humor. They’re taking some great artists (Elvis, John Lennon, Johnny Cash) and beautiful movies (Ray, Walk the Line) and making fun of them with their character Dewey Cox. It’s like they’re trying to make a “Scary Movie” or “Epic Movie” out of these people’s lives.
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I don’t think this is a movie I’ll be seeing in theatres. And Jack White as Elvis? Really?
The cast of Family Guy will hit Chicago next month to present, live and uncensored, a “classic episode” of the animated series. Perhaps you love the show but would rather see it delivered by actors on book accompanied, Rocky Horror-style, by hundreds of Stewie groupies reciting their favorite punchlines. If so, get your butt down to the Chicago Theatre box office tomorrow morning in time to nab the close-enough-to-smell-Seth-Green’s-mousse seats.
A hit at Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival, Family Guy Live! is five actors recreating an episode plus bonus material, singing “memorable musical numbers,” and answering your hard-hitting questions about the making of a cult classic living in perpetuity on YouTube.
Behold this video excerpt of the live show and a gateway to thousands of Peter, Lois and Stewie clips, legal or otherwise:
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Family Guy Live! plays at The Chicago Theatre, 175 North State Street, Chicago, September 15 at 7 and 10 p.m. Tickets are $39.50 - 69.50 and go on public sale Friday at 10 a.m. at the theater box office and Ticketmaster.
Info and article courtesy of the folks over at Chicagoist.
Construction projects will cause changes and delays on two CTA routes beginning this weekend.
The O’Hare branch of the Blue Line will be on a single track between Grand and Division from 8 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Saturday, and then again from 8 p.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Sunday.
The single track will be in effect Mondays through Fridays, from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., until mid-September.
Blue Line service will be suspended between the Western/Milwaukee and Clark/Lake stations Aug. 24-27 and Sept. 7-10. Bus shuttles will be available.
Normally this probably wouldn’t affect me much. But because of my clinic shift and student rep meeting next week, I will suffer along with many other blue line commuters. A single 30-minute ride, turned into a 50-minute ride with delays will now turn into a “find another eff’in way to get home suckers!”
Good luck.
This has been an ongoing battle for a while now. It frustrates the hell out of me. I think the people over at Chicagoist summed it up well.
BP to Lake Michigan Residents: We Feel Your Pain, But We’re Dumping Anyway
Mayor Richard Daley all but endorsed a proposal by Alderman George Cardenas to put a tax of 5 to 25 cents on bottled water during budget negotiations this fall. The tax would vary depending on container size and would help to generate revenue for the city’s water fund. They also hope it will steer people away from plastic bottles that “burden the city’s waste system,” Cardenas said.
Joe Doss, president and CEO of the International Bottled Water Association, believes the proposal is a bad idea. “Increasing the cost of bottled water might encourage people to buy a less healthy beverage,” he said.
When asked whether it was fair to punish people for following doctors’ advice to stay hydrated, the mayor said, “Well, it all depends what effect you’re having upon the environment—not just upon their body, but upon the environment.”
Newly appointed Environment Commissioner Suzanne Malec-McKenna said she’s not concerned that a bottled water tax would discourage the healthy habit. “The bottom line is, we want people to drink water and we have some of the best water in the United States that you just turn on in your tap….There are a lot of different ways to hydrate,” she said.
Bottled water has been under attack from environmentalists across the country. Oil is used to make and transport plastic bottles. Empty bottles fill up landfills.
Earlier this year, San Francisco and Los Angeles jump-started the campaign against a drink that has come to epitomize good health — by banning non-emergency city purchases of bottled water. Ann Arbor, Mich., followed suit.
New York is encouraging a return to tap water in a “Get Your Fill” campaign that offers consumers who agree to boycott plastic water bottles a free stainless steel container to fill at the tap.
Last year, Illinois ranked No. 7 in the country for bottled water consumption—with every resident drinking an average of 21 gallons. That amounted to a 48 percent increase over five years.
They’ve raised gas prices (although they are going down now). They upped the cost of milk, the CTA….why not our water? I know that Chicago, and the state of Illinois, have an enormous amount of debt…but consumers shouldn’t be punished for it. I think they just slap the name of “environmentally friendly” on their plans to fool us thinking our money is actually helping. In reality, our money doesn’t do a thing.
For example, if they do raise fares on the CTA, where is that extra money going to? Are we going to see cleaner trains? Will seats and turnstiles that are often broken be repaired? Will there be better lighting in some of the underground tunnels where people wait? Could they afford to hire some more pleasant people who actually help the customer instead of blow them off? I wouldn’t mind paying more money if I knew I’d see some changes around the CTA. Personally I think the CTA will lose customers. I think people who buy bottled water will keep buying bottled water.
Daley wants to make Chicago into the greenest city in the U.S. Well how is that going to happen when the fare to take the train is too much or the condition of the trains and buses are horrible and we just decide to drive? I still don’t see how he’s planning to hold the Olympics here if we can’t even please the people of Chicago with our transportation.
It seems that I’m enjoying covers more than original songs as of lately. Specifically of “Umbrella” by Rihanna. A few weeks ago I posted about John West’s cover of Umbrella and this week I’m posting about a voice a bit more well known.
Mandy Moore recently covered the song, admitting that she doesn’t typically listen to Top 40 music and this song was her “favorite of the moment.”
She’s slowed it down a bit, just like West did, but I personally like how the song fits her voice…or vice versa.
Click here to watch the video, or click here to have a listen.
