three things…

The first.  In case you haven’t noticed, there is a very cool header at the top of the page.  Mmm hmm.  My little brother took pity on his not-as-technologically-proficient-sister and made it for me.   Far better than what was on there before, let’s be honest.  Thank you Tux!

The second is that my very excited post two weeks ago about my new iPhone no longer stands. Unfortunately, it now only works when connected to an external power source and even that’s only so-so.  Hooray for advanced technology!  Stupid phone.

The third is this awesome clip.  We watched a DVD of a West Coast Swing routine to this song today and it’s been stuck in my head for the last eight hours.  So I thought I’d share the love.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

iron + wine

I’ve been putting this song on repeat for the last couple of days, so I thought I’d share it with you.  It’s called flightless bird, american mouth by Iron and Wine.  Yes, it is from the Twilight soundtrack, but I found this cute film clip made by blue90714 on YouTube that doesn’t feature any images of the Twilight characters at all!  Win.

I hope you enjoy, let me know your thoughts…

la musique!

I’ve been wanting to share these sites for awhile, and figured that I’d just put them in one post for you.  They’re all music-based, and two are interactive, which is awesome.  One was recommended to me by a work colleague from the Amazing People Club, and I found the other two sites via Stumble Upon.

- A word for the wise, since I’ve been using StumbleUpon, I have been procrastinating for far longer and more easily than ever before!

The first site you just sort of sit back, and watch, amazed that somebody A) thought to do this, and B) that they had the time to.  It is a ‘song’ composed only of Microsoft sounds available on every Windows computer.  They speed up, slow down, repeat certain parts, and just basically blow your mind.  Go here.

The second site is interactive, and is made up of a whole group of YouTube videos of people playing different musical instruments.  You press play randomly, and it all comes together nicely to form a musical piece.  I liked my first one the best, but didn’t pay attention to the order that I clicked, so haven’t been able to repeat it.  Go here to try it out yourself.

The last one is also interactive, and was probably my favourite because it is a very unique way of creating music.  I’m not even going to try to explain it, because when I attempted an explanation last night, my friend just stared at me blankly.  So go here and have a play around with the matrix.

That’s all for now folks – thanks for stopping by!