The Kooks' facebook announcement today was that they have a new video for their new song "Always Where I Need To Be" which I just finished watching. I'm serious all the Kook's songs are so catchy, no lies. You listen to them once and it gets stuck in your head so you keep coming back for more. This new song is so amazing, it has pretty much every quality I look for in a song. If I were to write a song or be in a band (still workin' on it) that's exactly what I would sound like.
The video is partially filmed in New York City, more specifically in Central Park. They filmed it at the fountain and the archway bridge thingy where I visited while I was there. NYC is such a beautiful city, I guess it kind of fits...ideal song, ideal setting. As you may or may not have gathered from my post or rather 'rant' I love this song and video, so watch it- or you're missing out big time.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Video of the Week
Friday, February 1, 2008
Video Of The Week
Okay, so I've had alot of spare time on my hands, alot of which was spent on youtube. I was originally looking for the high school musical parody (MadTv style) when I stumbled across the "Pizza Hut Rippin' & Dippin'" parody. Honestly, this video's really funny, and it's actually not too far off from the original. I also like it because it makes people realize how disgusting 'cheese baked into the crust' really is. There was also another pizza joint pardoy called "Donimo's Pizza" which is also really hilarious but they wouldn't allow me to copy the html code on youtube, so check it out on your own. Think of this video as a celebration of term 2! :D
Friday, January 25, 2008
New York City Christmas: Day 2
The next morning was bright, sunny and warmish. My mom decided to let us sleep in so she went the Amish market a few blocks from out hotel to get some yogurt, coffee, bread & jam etc. Once we all had coffee in our veins, we headed off towards the subway; which reminded me of this part in "Teen Angst? Nahh..." by Ned Vizzini when he jumped the turnstiles and got caught by the police. We decided to go the legit way and buy us some metro passes to use during the next few days. 
I've been on the metro many times before like in Montreal and Toronto, but only when I visit. Going on the subway is so fun, plus you can get from Manhattan to Soho in like 5 min. when it could've taken us, like, an hour or more. We then got off on Canal Street and were immediately harassed to spend our money.
After canal, we headed through chinatown and into SoHo and Greenwich village. Surprisingly, we didn't do that much shopping, we only went into H&M, Girlprops and Coach, but didn't buy anything. At that point we were all starving so we decided to try and find a nice restaurant where we could sit and eat a sandwich. We finally decided on an authentic looking Italian cafe. We all got a panini(except of course for my picky little sister who got pasta) and this "chocolate mousse" for desert (it was basically like eating fudge from a bowl) which was all really delicious. After that, we strolled over to the arch in (the name has slipped my mind at the moment) "____" square near NYU and where Harry left Sally in the movie "When Harry met Sally". It was amazing that people had made this thing out of this huge slab of stone. 
We then started heading back to times square through Greenwich village so that it wouldn't be completely dark by the time we got back. We stopped by a few vintage stores and a drugstore to get some awesome neon orange and yellow nail polish. One thing that made me sad is that we never got the chance to go to urban outfitters, because they don't have them here in Canada. Our goal while walking back was to stop by Macy's, just to say we had. Since it was Christmas Eve, I don't think it could've been any more crowded, it was INsane. When we finally managed to get in, we just pushed past all the people to get to the escalators which we just kept going up and up and up...Did you know that there are like 9 floors in Macy's? It's so cool, and the even cooler part is that after the 6th floor, the escalators are wooden? I bet they're from the original store. We went all the way to the top and then looked around at all the Christmas trees. What was funny is that they were all decorated at the bottom because the people were too lazy to decorate all the way to the top.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
New York City Christmas: Day 1
The night before, we had been driving for 7 hours, stopping for burgers 3/4 of the way to Coldspring NY (where we were staying the night). We were staying in Coldspring because then we'd have more time in NYC if we just took the 45 minute train trip on either sides of the trip. We almost didn't get on the train until my mom yelled at us that the train was moving so we jumped on as it was about to leave the station. Excitement already? It was promising, not that the trip already wasn't...anyways, the trip in was really nice, lots of river-side towns. When we got into actual NYC we went through Harlem, which funny enough, looked a lot like Montreal QC.
When we finally arrived in Grand Central Station it just hit me that "wow I'm in New York City". It was really crazy, I was so excited for the next few days. We then went straight to out hotel; the Belvedere, and checked out luggage. We took the camera and set off for times square & fifth ave. Both were almost exactly the way they are in the movies (except we were seeing times square in the morning).
After browsing on fifth ave for a bit we headed over to central park. Even in the winter central park's still really beautiful. We walked for a really long time, just checking out the sculptures, fountains, bridges, etc that are all fabulous.
As we walked on for a while past the trees and the fountain we came to the central park zoo. We didn't pay to go in but we were able to peek in in a few places to see the seals swimming and jumping around in their infinite edge pool. After walking through the central park zoo, we walked in a loop around the lake and went to the Belvedere castle on the hill which gave a really cool view of the great lawn. While marveling the view, it started to rain again (it had been raining on and off all day) so we decided to start to head back to the hotel.
While leaving central park, we passed by strawberry fields and it's "mayor", who's a homeless man who restocks the "Imagine" memorial for John Lennon with fresh flowers. I think that it's really cool that he buys flowers with the money he earns for John Lennon, people there really did love him. Supposedly Mike Meyers comes there all the time to check out his work. After we crossed the street to visit John Lennon's apartment building and where he got shot. It was creepy knowing I was standing in the exact place he died. It was a really nice apartment building in a fancy neighborhood looking over central park.
We started our walk back to the hotel, looking into all the amazing stores on our way. We got to the hotel and checked out the room and just chilled for a while. After about an hour, we put our shoes on again and set off to see times square at night and to find a restaurant. Times Square is absolutely crazy at night, when you look at the sky it's illuminated by all the lights. There are so many things to look at, and the m&m store screen is the biggest, most distracting screen I've ever seen. We also snook a look at the radio city music hall which was playing host to Ozzie Osbourne that night (no, unfortunately we did NOT go :P). After Times Square, we headed over to "Hell's Kitchen" (a restaurant district) to find us some eatin'. After weighing all our options, we decided on "Azteca" which served traditional mexican food. I decided to be adventurous and order Molé (chocolate chicken) which was really delicious and doesn't really taste like chocolate. After, we just came back to the hotel and watched 3 consecutive episodes of "What Not To Wear". They really got me pumped for NYC Shopping the next day!
Friday, December 21, 2007
Update & Video of the Week
Sup? This week has been kinda crazy, winding down to the x-mas (Or 'WINTER' as I should say) break. It mighta also been a bit wacky 'cause I've been on pennecillin lol (yeah, I know, pennecillin's not that kinda drug :P). I probably won't be posting for a while because I'm going to the Big Apple on Saturday (haha), but I'll prob. do a big update on my trip.
Today at my school we had an assembly so I got to miss geography. For all you other suckers, assemblies may be tedious and boring, but at my school, we do it up right. It was really great, especially the part where my teachers got up on stage to dance to "Soulja Boy". Let me explain; my school had a canned food drive and we were competing against our nemesis school and if we won, the teachers would humiliate themselves. We had 1000 more than them, so it was extra hilarious.
The video I chose for this week is Mae with "Suspension". I chose this because I've been hearing waaaaayyyy, wayyyyy, wayyy too much christmas music lately. Mae is supposedly a Christian band, so I guess that's kinda relative to Christmas, and the kid in this vid is wearing red tartan, so he's obviously in the spirit (either that or he's a grunge kid). This video's pretty inspirational, the kind that makes you wanna get up and give your annoying sibling a hug (pretty powerful stuff). This song was also on the Vans Warped Tour '05 cd, if by any chance you recognized it. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the vid, and remember, it's never too late for Christmas shopping so just chill out!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Video Of The Week
The VOTW this week is Lily Allem with "LDN". I first heard this song on SNL when she was the musical guest. I hadn't seen a songstress on the show for a very long time, so I was interested. It was later that I founf out that Lily's song "Knock 'Em Out" was the song playing in my Aunt Lori's car when we were coming back from shopping in Seattle. It's funny how sometimes a song you like but didn't get the name of comes back to you again. Anyways, I downloaded Knock 'Em Out on iTunes the minutes I found out the name and my sister reserved Lily's cd at the library to test out a few more tunes (we're in 54th place or something, I guess that proves how popular she is). Unfourtunately, she doesn't have a vid for Knock 'Em Out, so I had to "settle" for 2nd best (they're both great songs, don't get me wrong...). The videos' pretty cute and Lily's style can't be beat, so press play!
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Video of The Week
This week's VOTW is Saturday by Fall Out Boy (and Patrick Stump...). This is an awesome video because it's pretty much the only time (caught on film) that he's not wearing a hat (NO HE'S NOT BALDING!). I showed this video to my mom a few weekends ago and after she said she had no clue what the video was about. When you watch it, just don't try to understand the plot, listen to the music. Enjoy!
-Eva