my love for you is a stampede of horses.

"we stand worlds apart."

i'm moved by music.  i'm one of those thirty somethings that needs, craves, pines for a soundtrack to her everyday life.  i was just talking w/ my friend brooke yesterday about how i love that you can send music files w/ your gmail emails, and how wonderful it would be to send a "dear john letter" via email w/ a song attached.  (note to self: blog idea: songs to accompany those "dear john" emails.)  we both laughed w/ glee.

recently i've found the soundtrack for summer; the dodos/dodo bird, beware of the maniacs.  i saw the two piece band play at minnie wilde a few months ago.  i walked into the crowded little store on a thursday night and instantly i was overcome w/ emotion by the sound.  of course this had nothing to do w/ a recent break-up 2 hrs earlier.  no, nothing of the sort.  i was just completely moved.  they played the song the ball, and it instantly brought tears to my eyes. 

it's really hard to make a band/show atmosphere in a clothing store...but everyone around was entranced.  it was hard to ignore the thumping drums, which is a main part of the dodos sound along w/ layered harmonies.  i hate making comparisons but they're sort of like iron & wine meet the shins who then meet some hippies in a drum circle, eco-hippies mind you and preferably in dolores park because that takes the whole dirty hippie edge down a notch.  pheww.  i can't stop listening to it on repeat.  it's going to be a fine summer after all.

because paging sucks.

a few months ago i was really sick.  i wanted to draw...and normally i just use google images to find stuff.  but somehow i stumbled upon this site that has hacked into flickr, called flickr leech. it's a really amazing tool, and i'm not quite sure as to why flickr didn't come up w/it first.  basically, it's a search engine for flickr.  what it does is pull up 200 thumbnails of images from a specific date under flickr's criteria of interestingness, or users, favorites, pool, group, sets, etc...like the image below.
or you can search images like... puppies. love. graffiti. street signs. whatevs. and hundreds of thumbnails will come up w/ images for that search criteria.

apparently the guy that designed it did it because he was tired of going through pages and pages (the actual term is "paging", and flickr leech's tagline is "because paging sucks.") of photos of flickr's "interestingness" category.  he wanted to make a quicker, easier way to access the photographs.  that is exactly what he did. 

one of the neatest things about flickr leech is that it opens up the whole world of flickr in a heart beat.  just by clicking on one photo, it brings you to the original photo and let's you explore that person's photographs, their comments, their contacts, etc.  it's really cool and inspiring.

can i has plz.

my good friend katie sends me stuff she finds on the web all the time.  i actually have a specific folder in my gmail, so when those prized jewel emails come through, they have their very own home, ultimately making it very easy for me to reference. the latest, and i think the most amazing find yet (and ultimate time waster now that i am no longer on myspace.) is i can has cheezburger. i don't even no where to begin or what to say about this website.  other than it's a complete waste of time and makes me laugh out loud.  that's good enough for me.  apparently the website started to catalog and tag photos of lolcats.   who knew this stuff even existed? thank the lord for the world wide intra web.

normally baby talk drives me nuts, but there is something about the way these cats talk that is just hilarious...like for real ROTFLMAO hilariousness (i'm so sorry, forgive me, i get caught up in it all sometimes.).  because the website has started to get really popular, through digg and other social bookmarking sites some of the photos uploaded onto the site aren't that funny...others are down right ridic they're so funny.

there are lots of underlying themes/language that go along w/ the images.  you'll start to pick up the lingo as you waste time you'll never get back.
start wasting now: www.icanhascheezburger.com