queezy k

Not the hair kind! Indie Fixx Studios, which sincerely showcases amazing indie crafts, is having a giveaway right now and is asking people to mention them on their blog/site/whatever in order to enter the contest. Well. Sprout Studio, one of the participating giveaway stores, has some amazing goodies that I want to buy for everyone (female) on my Christmas list. They combine - my personal favorite things - vintage buttons and beads, with jewelry and other accessories. I'm particularly drawn to these swallow bobbie pins and these dangly bird earrings.

/End plug.

Listening to: Noah and the Whale. I've been hearing their catchy song about the sun and the fun and the drinking all over the place but I finally picked up the album - really good!
Reading: I just finished the first book of the Southern Vampire mysteries (that True Blood is based on) and they are okay, I probably won't be reading another, but I am interested in watching the show. I was going to see if they sell it on iTunes, but they don't, so I'll be watching it on my computer at home. Books: trashy, kind of dumb, but interesting concept. Maybe better with Anna Paquin?
Eating: Theo Chocolate tour with my coworkers yesterday. I recommend, plus you get lots of chocolate samples, and their "confections" are amazing. You can't really find them anywhere (unlike the Theo or 3400 Phinney bars) because their shelf life is so short.
Watching: The new season of the Office started last week, and it was aMAYzing! Oh television, I missed you. I'm not sure how many episodes of Mad Men are left, but this season has been darker than last season, but so good.

Also: I'm really busy at work right now and I just realized this afternoon HOW busy; I'm a little stressed out now. Also, the dangly little caterpillars are hanging from every fucking tree at UW and it makes me paranoid and really itchy, the idea of them getting on me and in my hair. Thinking about it right now is making my skin crawl. Maybe if I carried an umbrella, I would feel safer.

This:

addict

And this:

wino

With this guy:

me/casey

It's Friday! At least there's that. The past two days have been a bit overwhelming. I don't have much more than that, so I'll leave you with this.

03 Custom Concern

Modest Mouse

WE ARE CONTROLLING THE SHUFFLE FUNCTION ON YOUR PLAYLIST.

Lately, I've been playing a lot of Super Mario Bros. I bought it on the virtual console for the Wii and it uses the wireless wiimote (as opposed to having to plug in the Gamecube controller, which is a pain) so that's been my new "I'm tired of reading about that dickhead Mr. Casaubon" thing. It's great because I just put our iTunes library on shuffle and listen to whatever pops up while I play. I noticed - awhile back - that inevitably at most every five songs and often times every two songs, a Modest Mouse song comes on. I mean, it makes sense - we have practically every Modest Mouse album, plus some live stuff, so we are bound to him them more often than other bands with only 1 or 2 albums. However, the weird part is that for bands like Radiohead, the Flaming Lips, and Sparklehorse, of which we also own multiple albums, do not follow the Modest Mouse rule. If anything, we're lucky to hit one song of any of theirs on any given go.

Thus, the mystery of Modest Mouse on shuffle continues. I get 10 points every time on of their songs come up - last night I think I earned myself about 60 points in an hour-and-a-half. The points are indicative of how I'm winning but at what and why, no one really knows.

I also get ten points every time I correctly identify a film on television that I've never seen before in the first 5 seconds of flipping to it. I get five points for the same thing if I have seen it before.

I am the only person who follows these rules and it only involves me yelling " Ten points!" and pumping my fist in the air, while Casey absentmindedly tells me good job.

I had a 20% off coupon and 10.00 off anything at the Gap so I combined them and splurged on these new things. The sweater may or may not fit so that might be a returner. I like the Gap for jeans, but have found that their tops often fit kind of funny. I love the pants though - on sale, work appropriate, from the European collection.

sweater

pants

July 25th is the release of the X-Files sequel. I'm interested to see how they manage to pull together a movie about a television show that ended over five years ago - six if you count that it won't be released until 2008. It's not old enough to be retro but old enough that many people have pretty much forgotten about it. As for me, I stopped watching about a half-season after the first movie came out, so the last couple years are a bit of a confusing blur for me anyway.

Variety link via AVClub