Song of the Moment: Wonderful World - James Morrison

Kind of obsessed with "Wonderful World" by James Morrison. I love the tone of his voice, and it's such a song where you're just driving in the car, spring day, windows down, and sing. Although it talks about wanting to cry, but that's besides the point. I love it.

First heard it from a contestant on American Idol... Alex Lambert (not Adam). Sadly, he just got voted off. Yes he was awkward and shy (performance-wise), but did you not hear his voice?!? Amaze.

Alice in Wonderland

So a couple of weeks ago, Ian and I went to the midnight showing of Alice in Wonderland. To much of his surprise, it was my first midnight showing. The thing is, I'm not a huge fan of crowds, and my thinking is, the movie's gonna play for a few months, I'll go when there aren't a bunch of crazies everywhere.

And now, I'm going to say this out loud, and hopefully none of you will judge me... I don't think I've ever seen the original Alice in Wonderland. I believe I've seen snippets of the cartoon series when I was younger, but then again, I'm not sure. Although, I do know little things about it, like the twins, and how she falls in a hole, grows and shrinks, and there's some sort of tea party. That's it. So going into this, it was just another movie to me. Keep this in mind when I tell you what I thought. But then again, one of my friends told me I didn't need to know the story to understand this film, because it's kind of like a "part two". ok.

So the movie was directed by Tim Burton. We all know he's a twisted man. Also, Johnny Depp is in the movie, should I say more? I liked the movie. It was surprisingly funny, and the 3D moments were nice. I was excited to see Anne Hathaway, and I liked her, but she seemed a bit trying. Does that make sense? I still like her tons though. I don't know who Helena Bonham Carter is, but she rocked it for me. And I'm pretty sure the "twins" were on the show Little Britain. All in all, I'd give it a 5.1. Keep in mind, I'm a pretty harsh rater (well, I'd like to think that). So yes, I said I liked it, and a 5.1 is above average. There you go.

The Perfect Garage Dance Party

I know what you're thinking already, and it's not the kind of dance party I'm about to talk about. I'm legit, talking about a dance party in a garage, and when I say "garage", I'm talking about a parking garage. Yes, like the one that costs money by the hour.


Here is the recipe to the perfect garage dance party: Four gay guys, one straight girl, an electric blue Toyota Yaris, three IPhones, Lady Gaga, and a parking garage. Here's how to make it perfect: You park in the garage per usual. After work, go out for some cocktails, come back to the car with the ingredients (the people), open your windows (or doors) and blast Lady Gaga. This will cause everyone to dance.


Why a parking garage you ask? Great acoustics.

Song of the Moment - We Are the World 25 for Haiti - Various Artists

I know, so cheesy, but I'm a sucker for various artists singing together. I'm just a huge fan of diversity and many different things combined. Like in dance, I like it when you fuse hip-hop and ballet together or contemporary and ballroom, it just makes things so much more interesting. Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie got back together to get these artists in the same room to record this remake. With this song, there are all kinds of artists. You can hear all the different tones and sounds in one song. You can hear artists from Barbara Streisand to Kanye West, Tony Bennett to Mylie Cyrus, and even Adam Levine from Maroon 5 to Isaac Slade from the Fray. I just think it's amazing to hear all the changes in voices and to know all these people took the time to collaborate for a great cause.


Although I am obsessed with this song at the moment, there are a few things I'm not a huge fan of: Justin Bieber starts the song off. Um, you're a baby and you have one song. Really? Quincy and Lionel, what were you thinking? Also, I think it's cool that they incorporated the rappers in the song , like Will.i.am, LL Cool J, and T-Pain, but their rapping went on for, what I believe, is a tad bit too long. I think it's incredible that they brought back some people that are a step away from being on "Where are they now" though, like: Enrique Iglesias, Busta Rhymes, and Toni Braxton. For a song like this, I'm a little upset they didn't have powerhouses like Carrie Underwood, Mariah, or even Gaga (Have her take Justin Bieber or Nick Jonas's place. haha).




My highlights: Celine Dion and Josh Groban. In a song like this, their voices are so distinct that it just makes the song incredible. P!nk and Jennifer Hudson were also pretty fab.


Song's on repeat.

Awkward.com

For those who know me, I'm pretty awkward. But you know what? I believe it's part of my charm. I'm that person that likes to point out when a situation is awkward. "um, awkward..." haha and I love it when my friends tell me "Um, it wasn't awkward until you said it". Which may perhaps be true, but who doesn't like an awkward moment? I like to say I'm having an awkward decade. And you know what? It's not just me, I believe it's this whole generation. But really, who isn't awkward? I've recently heard the best thing that ever came out of ones mouth "Awkward is the new black." Yes and yes. Amen!

There are many variations of awkward though. There are the people who are funny awkward. So awkward.com you love and die everywhere. And then there's that quirky awkward. Cute and fun. But then there are those people who are SO awkward, they make everyone around them uncomfortable. You know you're really awkward when you make everyone AROUND you feel awkward. You know who I'm talking about. So awkward that you feel bad. Awful, I know. But then again, that's just who they are.

I believe awkquidity, (yes, I'm copyrighting it) adds character to a person.

Can you believe I just wrote a whole segment on "Awkwardness?"

Man, it's cold outside!!!

Yeah I said it, it's COLD outside. I cannot WAIT for the warm weather to come. Times like these, I wonder why I'm still living in New England... You'd think being born and raised here, we'd get used to the weather. Well you know what? It's still damn cold. Although, what I've noticed about us New Englanders is that, we like to complain. We complain when it's too cold, too hot, too snowy, too humid. The weather is never good enough for us.

So I guess I'm really fine with this weather, I'm just being a normal New Englander. This is me complaining... It's cold outside. And according to weather.com, it's supposed to snow tomorrow. Let's see if it really does, because last week, everyone got all crazy, and when I woke up, there wasn't any snow in sight. Fun.

I want summer. I want the sun. I've been counting down the days til summer since the first frost last year. I like the sun, I like wearing flip-flops, I like wearing shorts, I love the beach, I want to tan, I love being outside. I want to jump and take a picture on the beach like these two people.

Let's do it.

Happy Valentine's Day

I know I'm a day late, but Happy Valentine's Day! Hope everyone got everything they wanted, whether it was a beautiful dinner, a night out, a night in, movie night, or just nothing, I hope it was a good day. I've heard many different things on this day: guys getting treated for the day because it has always been about the girl, people hating life because they don't have valentines, and people having the nice dinner. Either way, I hope it was what you wanted it to be.


The boy and I had a beautiful dinner in the North End. I rarely venture out to the North End, and might I say, it's insanely cute. So quaint and lovely. I enjoyed it very much so. Now if only the weather wasn't brutally frigid.