Music: Fiona Apple to release new MUSIC!!!!!

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Fiona, the legend, the master. Photo via last.fm
Fiona, the legend, the master. Photo via last.fm

OMG. OH emm effff G.

2012 is shaping up to be a phenomenal year of music. LA Reid tweeted today that new music from FIONA APPLE can be expected this year. Oh please oh please oh please let it be true!!

The instant I saw his tweet, “Criminal” started playing in my head. It almost makes me want to get wine drunk and sing “Tidal” at the top of my lungs. But that would wake my parents up. I’m cool you guys.

Also, she’s just so fucking talented. For real. I know I love me some pop stars, but Fiona is the real shit. She takes time in between albums, for what I don’t know. Maybe she gardens! It makes sense though, that artistic fury takes a while to build up inside of a person. Right, JT?

Pop music has it’s place in our lives, when we wanna get drunk and dance like straight up hussies. But there’s a time and a place for that. Just like there’s almost another time and another place for us to fall in love with the next Fiona Apple album. FIONA!!!!

“What would an angel say, the devil wants to kno-ooooooooow.” DAMN that’s a good line. “Criminal” is so fucking epic.

Music: Florence + the Machine GOING ON TOUR!!!

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Florence is FANTASTIC. Just look at her! Photo via florenceandthemachine.net
Florence is FANTASTIC. Just look at her! Photo via florenceandthemachine.net

I’M FLIPPING OUT. First St. Vincent announces tour dates, and now our favorite lady Florence + the Machine! This will be one ethereal concert. Her new album, Ceremonials, is one of the best albums I’ve heard in a very, very long time. I really really really hope she is coming to a city near you. If not, hop on a plane. It will be worth it! YAYYYYY!!!!!!!!

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE TOUR DATES

Apr 14 – Santa Babara Bowl, Santa Babara, CA
Apr 15 – Coachella Festival, Indio, CA
Apr 17 – Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, NV
Apr 18 – Mondavi Center – UC Davis, Davis, CA
Apr 20 – Comerica Theatre, Phoenix, AZ
Apr 21 – The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
Apr 22 – Coachella Festival, Indio, CA
Apr 27 – Hennepin Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
Apr 28 – Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI
Apr 29 – Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, MO

May 1 – Palladium Ballroom, Dallas, TX
May 2 – Verizon Wireless Theatre, Houston, TX
May 3 – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA
May 8 – Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
May 11 – Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT
May 12 – Borgata Spa & Resort Event Center, Atlantic City, NJ

P.S. Ticketmaster fees are so ridiculous and I hate them with a fury. I’m buying them in-person to avoid $16+ being wasted on those fools. Check your local theater’s in-person box office times to purchase in-person and avoid crazy fees.

Here’s Florence + the Machine’s “Shake it Out” video. Enjoy.

Television: Bored to Death

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Bored to Death is my male-counterpart dream life realized.

As a child, along with half of Nickelodeon viewers in the 90s, I was obsessed with Harriet the Spy. I used to sit in trees and spy on my boring, old, yet nice neighbors, hoping for something exciting to happen. I even had a makeshift spy kit: My dad bought me special binoculars, I used a foldable mirror from Claire’s to spy around corners and I wore my notebook in my pants, just like Harriet.

Really. They are.
Really. They are.

(While searching for a relevant link for Harriet the Spy, I came across this amazing NPR article titled “Unapologetically Harriet, the Misfit Spy,” which is an awesome read.)

Jonathan Ames is the more realistic yet still fantastical version of our childhood spy Harriet. He drinks white wine, puts his private detective ads up on craigslist (because he’s a struggling writer) and gets himself involved into some good old-fashioned hijinks. Plus, his two best friends, Ray played by Zach Galifianakis and George played by Ted Danson, are so, so cool.

There’s something so sweet and well-intentioned about the show. All three of the men are smart, talented and good to each other. It’s a healthy and refreshing counterpart to the suffocatingly male-stereotyped days of Entourage.

Boy, girl, billy goat, whatever you are, you’ll like this show. If you haven’t seen it, you must give it a try!

 

This is cool: Fuck! i’m in my twenties

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Read it. Read all of it. Spread it around. SO fabulous.

Author girl, preach it.

fuckiminmy20s.tumblr.com

So true. Photo: fuckiminmy20s.tumblr.com
So true. Photo: fuckiminmy20s.tumblr.com
This too. Photo: fuckiminmy20s.tumblr.com
This too. Photo: fuckiminmy20s.tumblr.com

Love: Zooey Deschanel and New Girl

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 Zooey Deschanel on a weekly basis. Finally! There’s only so much our She & Him discs can do for us to get our sweet Zooey D fix.

New Girl. I love her outfits, her unsure but sweet persona and her all-male, crazy roomies.

Schmidt, played by Max Greenfield, is awesome. He may be the best character on the show. You want to hate him, but it’s impossible. Who doesn’t know someone exactly like Schmidt? The slightly annoying yet good-intentioned guy, who for some reason thinks it’s cool to say things like “bromance,” show everyone his abs and be waaaaay to into his hair gel. The fact that he used to be chubby in college makes his ab talk and vanity excusable, because lets face it: Beautiful people from 0-60 are harder to love. Fact.

The only thing I dislike is the use of the word ‘Adorkable’ to describe the show and the truly angelic Zooey D. I can just see that word on back-to-school pencil cases and coming out of the mouths of people who are not adorkable, but really annoying. Bleg! She’s a cool miss, folks. That’s it!

Schmidt, put your shirt back on! Or don't. I don't know, I'm confused.
Schmidt, put your shirt back on! Or don't. I don't know.

Artiste: Louise van Terheijden

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My first Louise van Terheijden print. Photo: Louise van Terheijden via Etsy
My first Louise van Terheijden print. Photo: Louise van Terheijden via Etsy

Louise van Terheijden is one of my newly discovered favorite favorite favorite artists. Her pieces have a subtle and beautiful personality that she describes as being “colorful, transparent and poetical.” She is from the Netherlands and creates all her pieces in her own studio.

I love all of her work. I asked for one print for Christmas, and my brother gave it to me. It is beautiful. Take a look at her Etsy page. Her personal website goes into more detail about her past work. It’s written in Dutch, but you can still navigate the page and take a nice stroll through her work. It’s worth the temporary language confusion.

If I had no economical restraint, I would buy all of her Etsy prints. Curse you, terrible economy! Pick up a Louise, so we can be art buddies.

Titled "Don't Look Back". Such a beautiful sentiment! Photo: Louise van Terheijden via Etsy
Titled "Don't Look Back". Such a beautiful sentiment. Photo: Louise van Terheijden via Etsy
"Making a Dog", because who doesn't love dogs?! Photo: Louise van Terheijden
"Making a Dog", because who doesn't love dogs?! Photo: Louise van Terheijden