Currents as of Mid-September

Been a busy few weeks. Stone Temple Pilots and Cage the Elephant. Gaga. Mario Lemieux. 4.45 am visits from the cops to my house. Be jealous.

Without further ado...

Current Listening
Cage the Elephant
Saw these guys with the Stone Temple Pilots (what a strange experience) and while they're good live, I almost think they sound better on an album. Have some real faves on this one.

Robyn : Body Talk, Parts 1 and 2
Robyn is the ultimate proof that just because you hit it "big" super early on in a career...that you can't evolve so much that your later music career is even bigger than your start. These two albums are fan-freaking-tastic. They're Eurotrash to the extreme and I absolutely love everything about them.

Currently Reading
Serial Killers : Peter Vronsky
I admit it. I'm obsessed with true crime. I cannot stop reading about it. Vronsky's book was great because it's full of great info, but twists the "case studies" in effortlessly.

Dexter is Delicious : Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay still has me completely enthralled years after reading my first "Dexter" novel. Though it's extremely weird to read his novels with Rita very alive and Astor and Cody working as aspiring little monsters. Love, love, love it.

Currently Watching
Buffy the Vampire Slayer : Season 5
Sigh. Buffy. Still.

But...tomorrow I'm buying the second half of the first season of Glee, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the Big Bang Theory...so I'm gonna have tons of stuff to get me unhooked.

I'm super excited about new TV shows starting in a few weeks...("Sunny" starts this Thursday!!).

New blog look...

It may be a little creepy, but I love it. The image in the header was taken from a photo shoot that ran in Entertainment Weekly of Sarah Michelle Gellar recreating scenes from famous horror films and pictures that just embody the horror genre itself. I absolutely love this photo shoot just as much, if not more, than when it first arrived in my mailbox years ago. The photography is really, really well done. Plus, it's only fitting since I've started watching Buffy again.

Take a look at some other shots from the shoot.

SO EXCITED

And to think that once vacation was over, I was worried there'd be nothing exciting to look forward to. I was so wrong.

Late August
Stone Temple Pilots

Early September
Lady Gaga

Late October So You Think You Can Dance

Early December Chelsea Handler

Pure Perfection

After my trip to the tumor doctor on Friday, we hung around the southwestern PA area and went to Fallingwater. Fallingwater was a "country" home built for the Kaufmann family in the early 1900's and was designed by (be still my heart) Frank Lloyd Wright. It was absolutely beautiful and I am completely jealous that I cannot live there.

Most. Epic. Horoscope. EVER.

A few weeks ago in July...after the roller derby, we found ourselves at a very cool dive bar for the derby's after party. After a few too many drinks, the Pittsburgh City paper was opened...and I had the most EPIC horoscope ever written. I was also way too inebriated to understand a single word of it. So after ripping it out of the paper (with some help), I was able to save said horoscope and read it later...and even sober, I'm convinced it's the most epic horoscope ever...Now, after much traveling in my purse (where it ripped in half) and being buried under tons of loose change and other junk, here it is, in all it's glory. Enjoy.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

In 1965, two Russian cosmonauts orbited the Earth in the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. Due to equipment problems, they had to land the vehicle manually. Instead of hitting the target area, they mistakenly set down in rugged mountainous country covered with deep snow. While they waited overnight inside their capsule, wolves gathered outside, howling and pacing. But the next day their recovery team reached them and scared off the hungry predators. Soon they were safely on their way back home. Let this little tale be an inspiration to you, Cancerian, as you come in for your landing. Even though you may not end up quite where you intended, there'll be a happy ending as long as you wait for your allies to be ready for you and you don't try to rush your re-integration.

LOVE it. Epic squared.

Currents As Of Late July

Sorry it's been awhile...first there was Conan in Boston...then there was my totally epic trip/reunion with some of my most favorite people ever in Las Vegas and LA (miss you bitches!!!). But here it is finally...a blog update of what I'm loving most right now.

Current Listening
Maroon 5 - "Misery"
I have this real love/hate relationship with Maroon 5. I love their faster stuff but hate what they consider to be a ballad. This song is fantastic...but what makes it even better is the video where Adam gets his ass kicked.

Bodyroxx featuring Luciana - "What Planet You On"
This is all Mari's fault for introducing me to a song that is so simply Eurotrash that I cannot stop putting it on repeat.

Stone Temple Pilots - Thank You
Off to see them on the 28th. Starting to get really pumped about it.

Currently Reading
About five different things right now. Nothing really worth writing about.

Currently Watching
Coupling
I really fell in love with Coupling the semester after I got back from London...and finally just bought the 2nd season on DVD. Either I just forgot about some really epic episodes (not likely) or I just really never saw them all...but some of these are new to me...which only makes me love it even more. It really bums me out that the seasons aren't longer.

Inception
Best movie of the summer, hands down. Hell. Best movie of the year, hands down. I've loved Christopher Nolan ever since the first time that I saw Memento in high school. Inception only upped its game. Plus it had Joseph Gordon Levitt in it...and I'm convinced that he's been nothing but pure love since (500) Days of Summer (okay, so he's kind of been pure love ever since 10 Things I Hate About You).

Thank God...

Daniel Craig's been cast as Mikael Blomkvist in David Fincher's adaptation of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."

Brad Pitt had reportedly been up for the role and if he would have been cast, I would have totally boycott everything to do with the American adaptation of the book.

So excited to see what Craig does with the part!