February 10th

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The Day I Realized I Forgot How Much I LOVE the Live From Albertane album

I love Hanson. My relationship with Hanson has been on and off since 1997 (5th grade). Their most recent album is fantastic and reignited my love for them.

Today at work, I started my day by entering the office and immediately having multiple people come at me with chaos and drama. That is NOT something I need first thing in the morning.

I quickly set about trying to find some music that would not only make me less murderous, but actually elevate my mood to something resembling happiness and/or carefree whimsy.

I threw on some Hanson (This Time Around) and quickly realized that wouldn't be enough. I set about creating the Ultimate Hanson Playlist, not thinking much of it.

I've now been listening to this mix for the last two hours and it is doing WONDERS to combat my HORRIBLE state. Now I'm only mildly annoyed. What was my point?...

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OH! Yeah, my point was that I totally forgot how wonderful Live From Albertane is. 

All the voices had finally dropped. Taylor was sounding FINE! (and by "fine" I mean HORRIBLY ATTRACTIVE) They sang all my favorites (well, most of them anyway)

Now I've got Hanson-fever and am thinking about going home after work to watch all the DVDs of theirs' that I have (totally kicking myself for not having a VCR to watch all the VHS tapes I have)

(here's a little taste of the playlist)

(and no, Ariel did not create this list, I just used her Spotify account...)

DoTD

So, everyone knows I've hated Don Henley since the beginning of time.

Last night, my father and I were channel surfing and came upon The History of the Eagles on Showtime. Naturally I thought this was a nature documentary about the majestic Eagle and if you thought so as well you'd be just as wrong as I was.

Obviously it was a documentary about the band The Eagles. We came in right as they were reaching their first fame and I immediately knew I would be compelled to finish the whole thing (though I was unaware we were only on Part One...)

So I came to the realization that I don't hate the Eagles as much as I thought and I also realized that Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey were total dreamboats.

I INTRODUCE TO YOU, THE LATEST ADDITION TO KNICKNACKERY:

Dreamboat of the Day

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Today's DotD is a tie between Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh. Clearly I don't mean the Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey of today. Instead, I'm referring to Glenn and Joe as they were in the mid-late seventies.

enjoy!

my latest obsession…

 

bill skarsgård

 

the quietly hotter skarsgård brother

 

H.A.M. (or Hot Asian Men)

 

 

I once thought I wasn’t attracted to Asian men. I clicked this link and quickly discovered I was wrong…oh man, I was wrong.

February 4th…10th Anniversary of Facebook…

 

1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the 47 Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master’s death.

1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.

1902 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and activist, is born.

1913 – Rosa Parks is born.

1940 – George A. Romero is born.

1947 – Dan Quayle is born.

1948 – Alice Cooper is born.

1971 – Rob Corddry is born.

1975 – Natalie Imbruglia is born.

1976 – American rapper Cam’ron is born.

1977 – Gavin DeGraw (of One Tree Hill fame) is born…he’s also a singer-songwriter…

1987 – Liberace dies.

2004 – Facebook is “founded” by Mark Zuckerberg.

 

October 16th or HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTIN!

 

 

1793 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France is executed.

1831 – Lucy Stanton, American abolitionist, is born.

1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrates ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.

1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish author, poet, and playwright is born.

1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.

1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor is born.

1888 – American playwright and Nobel Prize laureate Eugene O’Neill is born.

1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States in Brooklyn, New York.

1923 – Roy & Walt Disney found the Walt Disney Company.

1940 – The Warsaw Ghetto is established.

1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.

1947 – American singer-songwriter and guitarist Bob Weir is born.

1958 – Tim Robbins is born.

1962 – Flea is born.

1977 – John Mayer is born.