music

new discoveries [not necessarily NEW new. more like, new to me...]

* Joy Williams: One of Those Days EP [just got it off itunes!]

* Tamarama: "Dusty Road" [apparently this is Jay's band. Jay, the australian guy from The City. yes, i do watch The City. it's my guilty pleasure]

* Asa [i will never be able to sing like her. heck, no one can. i love her voice. her music sounds like bob marley, corinne bailey rae, and ceu rolled into one]

* Hoobastank: "So Close So Far" [i didn't even realized they had released a new album until i saw it on the itunes store. the album is alright. there's a few good songs, and So Close So Far is my favorite. i believe this is the single they have out right now. but yea, i still like the self titled album the best. The Reason was pretty good too. but i liked EVERY single song in the first album. man, good times, good times =)

* Safetysuit: Life Left to Go [...is a great album. i like the lead singer's voice. and i like their music. it's very full, rich, in your face, melodic... rock. i suck at describing music, haha. i don't know if they're gonna be as big as, hmmm, Fall Out Boy or say Panic at the Disco. oh well. it seems as if the music is much better when the band is on the DL. haha.

allergic to magic...

i love her big eyes and her creative imagination... and the fact that she's speaking in french. okay, i mean, french people do speak in french [duh], but it's so adorable when a cute little kid is the one doing it. hahaha.

Once upon a time... from Capucha on Vimeo.

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All the things my feet thought to be firm
Are falling with urgency
And tearing back my false sense of security

You have been more faithful than the morning sun
You have been more faithful than knowing night will come
You have been more faithful than the changing of seasons

[more faithful by skillet]

snow!

twilight and the gorge

one of the cool things about watching twilight was seeing familiar locations [to us oregonians], like the columbia gorge, multnomah falls, oh and the woods! there's just something about the woods up here in the northwest. they're different from forests in other parts of the country. i can tell the difference. hahaha. for example, the "woods" in the decode video by paramore - not a northwest forest! it's probably a fake one, you know, somewhere in LA. haha.

i was randomly browsing through my flickr and came upon this image:


and i thought, it looks a lot like the first bit of the twilight trailer:


well, it's not shot from the exact same spot. they probably shot the movie from the washington side, facing the oregon side, and much further down [eastward]. i shot the picture from the oregon side, at the Portland Women's Forum State Park viewpoint [the one stop right before the vista house]. i thought it still had some similarities. i should just make the picture a little gloomier, maybe add some ominous dark clouds, and flip it. hahaha.