Totally obsessed with this. Photographer is led around the world by his girlfriend.
Original link here.
Totally obsessed with this. Photographer is led around the world by his girlfriend.
Original link here.
Here are some things that are making me happy right now:
Leonard Cohen Chelsea Hotel#2 cover by Lana Del Ray. Her voice, and his lyrics.
“I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, you were famous, your heart was a legend you told me again you preferred handsome men, but for me you would make an exception”
“I don’t mean to suggest that I loved you the best, I can’t keep track of each fallen robin. I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, that’s all, I don’t even think of you that often”.
Love.
My parents came to visit a few weeks ago, and it was my dad’s birthday. I wanted to make him a birthday “cake” but I wanted to make him something he would really like, and he loves banana cream pie.
I found this recipe on Pinterest, and made it for him. I really don’t like bananas, they are one of my most hated foods, my mom told me even as a baby I wouldn’t eat them, so I wasn’t really expecting to enjoy this pie, but it was amazing.
The crust has a hint of cinnamon which is absolutely essential, and really adds a lot to the overall flavour. The creamy filling was cool and delicious, and it wasn’t super banana-ish. Even after a huge dinner at Texas Roadhouse, this pie was so good that I had to have a second piece.
Last Friday night I was lucky enough to see Lucero in concert at the Fillmore again, I saw them last year too. We had a great night, stopping for tacos and margaritas at Tacolicious beforehand, and the concert was a blast.
Lucero was awesome as usual, and I really enjoyed their opening band Langhorn Slim and the Law, especially “Do You Believe in Past Lives?” and their Leonard Cohen cover “Tonight Will be Fine”.
I love going to the Fillmore, it has so much musical history, and such a neat vibe, it just feels like a really special place.
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| The Fillmore: Heart and Soul of the City |
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| I’m still not sure why they give out apples, but I bet it’s a good story |
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| soooo many band posters |
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| and signed pictures |
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| Langhorn Slim and the Law |
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| Lucero |
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| Date night |
A short film made in 1956. I saw it a few years ago, and it’s kind of stuck with me ever since. There are always going to be people who try to make you feel bad to make themselves feel better, or who try to kill your dreams because they are too afraid to try for their own.
Just watch it, and see if it doesn’t brighten your day.
I was asked to be part of a a shoot for Earth Week at work. We had a blast filming, we got to be silly and the crew was really fun. Here is the finished result, there is an intro video, and then a different Earth Week video for each day this week.
Yes, I still have the vest.
Here are the 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar story artist Emma Coates. I like numbers 2 and 11.
Link here.
My parents came in to visit us for a couple of days last week, and it was really fun showing them around. I tend to try to pack as many things as possible into when they visit, I figure if they have lots of fun they are more likely to come back and visit sooner, right?
It was my dad’s birthday so my mom got us all tickets to the Sharks game (they lost, damn you Burns) and then we went to Capitola and tried almost every margarita on the boardwalk. We had supper at a really great restaurant in Aptos called Cafe Rio, I highly recommend it. I don’t even eat seafood, but I ordered salmon (since I’m trying to be more adventurous) and it was A.MAZ.ING.
After that we went wine tasting, had lunch at BJ’s and did some beer tasting, and then did some sight seeing before we went to a little town called Port Costa and went to The Warehouse Cafe, which is now definitely top 5 for my favourite bars in the world, and is certainly my favourite bar in California.
It’s a very eclectic mix of people and decor, they have a life sized polar bear, a bartender named Gina who is a crazy Italian in the most endearing way possible, and beers from over 450 different countries, and they ONLY serve doubles. All of this located right on the bay, in a run down old shipping warehouse that you can wander around in for ages and continue to find something cool around every corner. As my Dad said, “It’s like a place from a different time.”
We finished up with supper at Texas Roadhouse and then went home to eat the banana cream pie I made for my dad’s birthday cake. It was a really wonderful couple of days, and I can’t wait until they come back again. Sadly, my phone broke right before they got there, so I didn’t get to take as many pictures as I would have liked, but I did get a few.
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| ominoussss |
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| love them |
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| I don’t know if I could drink all of that, but I would like the opportunity to try |
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| derek’s new buddy |
This is very eye opening. We are our own worst critics, and we judge ourselves so much more harshly than we deserve. It would be very interesting to try this and to see the difference between how I would describe myself, and how a stranger would describe me.
Find out more, here.
My first year living in Hawaii, I was introduced to the South Shore Grill by my boyfriend at the time. The relationship didn’t last, but SSG and I have been an item ever since. One of the best things they have there (although everything is delicious) are their desserts, especially their peanut butter temptations.
Now that I’m not living on the island, I don’t get these delicious treats every week, and it’s quite sad. When I went back to Hawaii in January we took my mom to SSG so that she too might know the joys that are peanut butter temptations. I’d never even thought about trying to make them myself, since I couldn’t fathom the wizardry that would be necessary to get the Reece’s into the cookies without baking them into a melty disaster.
My mother took one look at the cookies and declared “They probably just push the peanut butter cups in right when they come out of the oven.” I’m pretty sure that’s why we have parents, for exactly such moments as those.
I was able to find a recipe, and made them last week and they were amazingly delicious, and so simple to make (literally 15 minutes from when I started to when I took the first bite) that I was kind of embarrassed I’d never thought to make them before.
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| basic peanut butter cookies in a mini muffin tin, bake about 8 minutes |
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| push in peanut butter cups once they come out of the oven |
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One final tip is to make these on a night when you are home alone, so you don’t have to share with your husband.
Not that that’s what I did. I would never do something like that, especially knowing how much Derek adores these cookies. Obviously.
loveliness. 
