I'm in love with this music

I often will look up my favorite artists in itunes... and then look at the "listeners also bought" list to find new music..... today i started with andrew bird... who i wrote about before, and continued to bon iver... which i stumbled upon before... but today gave him a second chance..... I am in love with his song skinny love!!!! So I decided to google him.... which took me to his myspace..... on his myspace i saw another band.... Bowerbirds...which i thought was funny... ha birds... like andrew bird... anyway... I LOVE THEM!!!!!!!! Here is a music video of theirs..... the video is a little weird... reminds me of fleet foxes video in a way... which is funny because bon iver reminds me of fleet foxes in a way.......... anyway... enjoy!  I love the lyric ... it takes a lot of nerve to destroy this wondrous earth.

I just that accordion! 

Here is their story...

The roots of the Bowerbirds lie in the Raleigh, NC, indie rock trio Ticonderoga, who were led by singer and guitarist Phil Moore. During the recording of the trio's second album, 2005's The Heilig Levine LP, Moore took a job tracking birds for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, which involved living in a cabin in the Carolina woods, far from civilization. Moore's girlfriend, a visual artist named Beth Tacular (born Beth Salmon) joined him in the cabin to work on her painting; at night, Moore began writing songs influenced by the couple's rustic, natural surroundings. When Ticonderoga split up on tour supporting their second album, Moore and Tacular started their own band, the Bowerbirds, with Tacular teaching herself how to play the accordion and acquiring a marching band-style bass drum to keep rudimentary time....( this was taken from http://mog.com/music/Bowerbirds/bio)

It is my dream to live in rustic natural surroundings while i paint and my husband writes songs, and i learn the accordion and marching band bass drum!!!!! hahahaha    

Also, Bon Iver recorded his album deep in the woods in a cabin!!! I like him.... a little high pitched.... but i still like it.     

p.s. both skinny love by bon iver and in the talons by bowerbirds is free on amazon

 

David Gray: Beautiful Performer

David Gray is an artist I would love to see live. In fact he is on my top 5 to see..... coldplay is number one, but i am seeing them in 2 weeks!!! 

I love this live video... he sounds great live, and his concerts look like a lot of fun. Also, i think his crowd is a little more pleasing than a lot of concerts i have been to with a bunch of tweens and obnoxious college students.... although, i may be wrong!

The Cello in this video is beautiful, and the drummer is a riot!!

This song is from his album white ladder... one of my favorites albums of all time. It even remains the top selling album of all time in Ireland, eleven years since it's release! ELEVEN YEARS!!! It's hard to believe that i was in 8th grade when i first saw babylon on VH1. Oh dear! Life goes by so quick!!!! 

new panera

I am sitting here in our newly decorated Panera Bread! It is beautiful! The walls are covered with fresh paint, eggplant purple and sunflower yellow. They have paintings and tapestries on the walls and it is so beautiful! The paintings are funny, but look like something you would see for sale at little independent cafe. All of them have a loaf of bread in them. One is a large loaf hovering over a cube of butter, another is a woman posing on a chair, in her lap her hand is resting on a french baguette. My two favorites:  7 loafs  floating in the air, like a dream or something. The other, a dog sitting next to the kitchen counter, nose in air directing towards the fresh loaf. I'd take a picture but the place is hopping! Lots of people are showing up now, it's a cooler, rainy day. People must want coffee or soup today!! I sure do!! I got a hazelnut coffee and now i am thinking of swinging by the grocery store to buy some soup to make later. I have about an hour before I have to go pick up Ethan, one of my "nanny kids". So, off i go to b&n, then giant (grocery store). 

Lush!

While I was out in Indiana, I was on a mission to find a dress to wear to my sisters wedding. I searched high and low in PA, but failed. I also failed in Indiana and Kentucky.  In the end I wore a dress I already had. While on this pointless mission, we were walking through macy's, I caught in the corner of my eye....... A LUSH STORE!!!! I was speechless....my mouth dropped and my eyes grew wide. I glanced back at my friends and dashed over to scope it out! It was actually in the macy's, like clinique has a little kiosk space. 

I have never been to a Lush store, but always wanted to. 

All of their products are hand-made. They make lotions, shampoos, soaps, deodorants, etc. and they don't use any harsh chemicals!!!  www.lushusa.com

I bought two shampoo bars. I love them! I wet my hair and slide the bar across my scalp 4 times... and voila!!! I have soap in my hair all ready for massaging and lathering up. It lathers better than shampoo liquids in my opinion. They claim it is the same amount as three bottles. Only, after looking online do I see the claim is three 250ml shampoo bottles. That's more like 1 and half normal sized bottles! But it doesn't use bottles.

I definitely recommend you try it out for yourself!!!  I do not regret buying the two bars, which is coconut, and the other patchouli.  I will only treat myself to this since i spent 15 dollars on it......i don't know.... i see how long they last and if it cost more or less.

Yikes!!

Thunder over Louisville
Bushkill Falls
My sisters wedding
Well, it has been 2 weeks since i last posted! Thought I was going to be pretty committed to blogging.... guess i was wrong. 

These past two weeks were pretty crazy and packed full of things to do. First, visiting my friends in Indiana, then my sisters wedding, and then my cousin visiting me.

I had a lot of fun in Indiana. I ate at great restaurants and saw a cool fireworks show, Thunder over Louisville. 

My sisters wedding went well. No crazy mishaps. 

And I had a lot of fun with my cousin Aly. We went to Bushkill Falls, which i have been craving for a long time. We went on the harder hike, which turned out to be really easy!!! Here are a few pictures of my past 2 weeks!!!