Earworm

Today's earworm is the Dead Flowers, not to be confused with the Rolling Stone tribute band.  Enjoy!

Earworm!

Those that have read my blog for a few years know that I kinda like Awolnation (December 2010 post) so it should be no surprise that the latest single is now an earworm!

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Enjoy! 

Today's Earworm

Stumbled upon today's earworm this morning and I've listened to it far more times than what's probably healthy. Hope you enjoy it as well.

Gallery 47

earworm

It has been far too long since I posted an earworm. I'm enjoying this band quite a bit today.

The Graveltones 

So you think you want to live in a foreign country?

I am in the 6th week of waiting on my visa to the UK to be processed.  It is a frustrating, confusing, expensive experience and from what I have read the US visa is even more so.  Once this is over with and we have an answer I will go into more detail either here or on a different blog about the good, bad, and ugly of it all but this is a good part of why I have been so silent here lately (that and I am quite lazy!)

In the meantime, take a listen to Elise Davis.  A very sweet friend of mine used to work for her family (she has known Elise since she was a kid) and invited me out to dinner and to listen to her and a few others perform.  Great stuff!

Earworms

Wanted to share a couple of songs/artists that have been on repeat on lately. Enjoy!

Icona Pop's "I Love It" has been making the blog rounds lately and rightly so, it's incredibly catchy and upbeat and this would make an awesome pick up the pace addition to the running playlist

Antero Lindgren "Cigarette Stump" for those days when you're feeling mellow or melancholy. Works for either mood or at least it does for me

It's not much of a secret that I loves me an accent and have a boot obsession that's a bit crazy so hearing the gorgeous and hilarious Craig Ferguson ruminate on about HIS boot obsession equals a very happy Gabby.  Fast forward to around 6:19 to hear only that part. Huge thank you to TWBrit for sending me this link!

Music to soothe the soul

If it's not obvious from my earworm posts, I am a huge music lover and I do love going to see live shows when I get a chance but I don't like attending them by myself.  Well, lo and behold it turns out that another friend also shares quite a few of the same musical tastes that I do AND goes to concerts as much as possible!!!  There also happens to be something of a surge of great bands playing in some of our smaller venues, for example, last week Awolnation, Hank III, Toadies, Cavo, and Lacuna Coil all performed in Little Rock.  Wow, what a tough choice to choose which ones to attend, eh?

Initially we settled on the Wednesday night Toadies show at Juanita's because I had a race on Saturday morning, unfortunately Awolnation played the same night at the same time in a different place so that ended up being a no-go (boooooo).  Absolutely no regrets about seeing the Toadies however, what a great band to see live and the opening act, Bobgoblin was amazing as well.

There is nothing quite like the feeling of a live show, the crowds milling about, vibration of the floors and walls, the music so alive that it shakes and moves through and off your body, mind, and soul--so incredibly primal.  I NEED that, can't believe it's been so long so since I've been able to slake that particular craving.  Yes, I crave music, I think I can live without most other things but music is not of one.  Although if I attend any more shows without ear plugs I may have to, lol.

It definitely helped the ambience that both bands acted like they were having a great time playing for us as much as we were enjoying being there.  Nothing worse than a group hitting the stage and acting like they are bored to distraction.  The crowds were smaller than I expected but it was a Wednesday night, aka a work night so I think a lot of people stayed home because of having to get up early.

Remember when I said initially earlier in the post about only attending the Toadies gig?  My friend and I were talking about Lacuna Coil not only appearing in Little Rock but HEADLINING the show and he said that he was going to attend after all because who knew when they would be here ever again and that if I wanted to ride along then he would pick up the tickets early in case it sold out.  A half a day of deliberation and I decided he made a very good point and we certainly have no shortage of 10k races in the area, lol.  

So yeah, at 9pm on Friday night I was again standing up near the stage waiting on the opening act Candlelight Red to start and making snarky tweets about the "fashion".  Again another stellar group that I hadn't heard of but I liked what they played  (even if 2 of 'em had faux hawks).  Their cover of Roxette's "The Look" killed! Unfortunately the only vid I could find to share has crap sound.  

Lacuna Coil was well worth the 0145 bedtime, hey I'm old, that time is a killer, lol.  Such amazing voices and energy........much, much, much, better live than on the studio albums and their albums are gorgeous.  They played a solid 2 hours with an acoustic set in the middle which was the only "low" point in the show.  It went on for 2-3 songs too long, most everyone was getting restless.  Probably would have been ok if there had been more seating in order to kick back and just chill but with most people standing it was a bit much.  It was also definitely nice not to have the ubiquitous groupie standing at the side of the stage who was alternately texting then throwing up her arm while making the duck face like there was at the Toadies show (did I mention I was feeling snarky, lol).  

After over 3 hours of headbanging (in heels, no less) and going to bed in the wee hours of the morning only to get up at 0545 for the Toad Suck 10k, let's just say that my time was less than stellar but I will save that for another blogpost--oh the anticipation! or not ;-).  

A pic for the obsessive Marshall fan TWBrit, personally I think the Texas flag is the best bit

Tuesday Tune

Since I don't drive through Austin on a bi-weekly basis I now actually have to go searching for my new to me tunes--oh the horror of having to actually do my own research eh?  Anyway, whinging aside, I wasn't looking for music when I stumbled across Dirty Beaches--what was even cooler than the awesome sound was to find out that he's a one-man band and has an active blog.  Yes, I realize his sound and technique won't be to everyone's liking but it is a change from the ever-increasingly monotonous sound of what's being played over the radio waves (wow, did that term date me or what?).

Earworm Sunday & a gorgeous sandal

While searching about for some new music tonight I stumbled upon Girl in a Coma.  Wow, just wow......I've ended up staying up later than I planned listening/watching vids of these women and after 15 miles spread out over 3 different runs today, that's quite a feat.

I'm also in a bit of love with these Rachel Zoe sandals.  While it's a higher platform than I would like, it is in proportion, it doesn't immediately scream "clubfoot" like so many of the shoes out right now.  The rich chocolate brown/black combo is one I've always had a soft spot for and while the snakeskin might be a tad shiny, it does add some intriguing texture.  Best part? There's no bloody zipper up the back of the shoe ruining the line of it!  While that adds some awesome edginess to boots, I feel it takes a great deal away from the sleekness of sandals.  Alas, I will just have to admire these from afar because they cost way more than I'm willing to pay right now.

Rachel Zoe Parton via Piperlime 

(no I don't get paid anything if you click on the link, unfortunately)

LoseAThon update

The LoseAThon thing is a friendly little competition started and administered (thankfully!) by @hellasound as a result of a bit of twitter joking around to encourage eating right, drinking lots of water, and exercising more--a bit of keeping each other accountable if you will.  My first 2 weigh-ins after the initial one showed some great progress but take one day of sushi and 3 HobNobs cookies (I'm NOT calling them biscuits!) and the scale showed a gain of 3 pounds this morning, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  

So, my lesson learned? While sushi and sashimi is an EXCELLENT night before a long run fueling meal for me, it's not good for the scale the next morning. Oh, and British snacks are just evil.

BTW, buy some music while you're over at the hella sound site, it's a bit on the excellent side!

Music recommendation

Just had to share this music recommendation from MacDaddy's comment on my "New to me tunes" blog post.  Loving it!

Typhoon "CPR/Claws Pt. 2





Love all the cycling in this vid from them

this rocked my world

Sister Machine Gun is (was, I suppose since they're no longer recording) one of my go-to bands when I'm in the mood for some industrial and this video I found today (technically yesterday now) completely rocked my world.

Desert Island shuffle pic

It's been a while since I've done a desert island pic so when my zune popped Goose up on shuffle mode I was kind of psyched because this is one of my favorite late night trucking, keep me awake bands........also kick ass for your running playlist

 "Black Gloves"
"Bring it On"
"Can't Stop Me Now"