Are you ready for some football???!

So someone recently told me that my blog is very music oriented. I can't help it...I LOVE MUSIC. You know what is music to my ears in the fall? The NFL music!!! That's right people..preseason football has officially begun and my boys are kicking the Colts proverbial ASSES. This is so frakking brilliant. There are certain times of year i love. I love the holiday season because i get to bake all the time and eat to almost excess. i love the spring time because of the weather and tulips. i love when ramadan comes around because it centers me for the next 11 months..and i absoultely love FOOTBALL SEASON. I love sports in general..but there is just something about football season. I wait for preseason with bated breath from the moment the NFL draft ends. Basketball is okay and i can tolerate baseball. I do enjoy a good hockey game and i love soccer mostly cuz of the cute boys...the game is good too i suppose...but there is just something great about football. What's weird is that i don't have brothers..at least real blood brothers. i have cousins and very very good friends who are just like my brothers, but i just have one girly sister and a dad who loves to watch cricket. So where did i get my love of football? who knows. growing up in dallas there wasn't a lack of sports teams to follow. But the cowboys now they just have always been my team and i can't wait to find out what game i'm going to this year. My mondays and sundays are officially booked. poor peyton manning someone wake him up from this slaughter that hopefully leaves the Colt in my boys dust.

Holy Frak!

So I do listen to a lot of music, but I also watch a lot of different TV shows. I blame my father. there's a picture out there somewhere of me when i was months old laying in his lap he has the tv on and a book open. I definitely get my habits from my father. I can never just watch TV, or listen to music, or read, i'm always doing 2 out of 3 of these things..one day i'll figure a way to do all 3 at the same time. This weekend was brilliant, i didn't move anything. Actually this is a lie, i moved some of the stuff from my car into storage so now i look less like a bag lady. Since i had nothing pressing to do this weeked i finally sat down and watched the first season of Battlestar Galactica. how the hell did i miss this show when it first came out??!!! normally i'm the first person to jump on to a new show, but maybe cuz it was on Sci Fi i missed it. anyways the brilliance of being 3 seasons behind is i can watch the seasons straight through. no waiting for the next week for a new episode. this show is so fascinating. It's got some crazy religious undertones you wouldn't expect from a sci fi show. It's also extremely well written and beautifully shot. Frak is a bad word in space apparently and i'm totally mixing that into my vocabulary...next time someone messes with me i'm gonna say "Don't Frak with me..i'm in no mood for it!" I also watched 2 new shows that are set to come out this fall. Can i just say that Pushing Daisies and Reaper are my two new favorite shows. They are both so oddly funny and whimsical. I'm not sure what it says about the entertainment industry that the theme this year is death, but the way these shows deal with death is so different. Definitely more uplifting and a pleasure to watch. Pushing Daisies definitely has an Amelie feel to it which if you haven't seen the French film..watch it..the travelocity gnome makes an interesting 3rd character. Daisies is gonna be starting Wednesday nights off for ABC on Oct 3rd. Reaper can be caught on the CW Tuesdays at 8PM beginning 9/25. On a side note i booked my mat kearney show..so very excited about it. the small amount i saw him earlier this summer just barely whet my appetite. i'm beyond thrilled that i get the opportunity to see him play again and this time a full on set of music. couldn't quite get through an entire post without at least saying something about music...ah well..i'll try again next time.

Stop Me!!!

"Stop me, oh, stop me Stop me if you think that you've Heard this one before..." Ever heard this one before? I did, and now i've heard it again. Back from years ago, reinvented as they say by a talented producer, Mark Ronson. British of course and uber talented. He's also kind of cute and great accent (of course i don't like him because of those particular attributes). He's worked with the likes of Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen who are all the craze this summer. He has his own album out now where he has collaborated with a few of his friends. Stop Me is a remake of The Smiths hit. It's got this great Jazzy vibe to it. I'm really loving how different the song sounds with Daniel Merriweather singing the lyrics. It has a great bluesy, jazzy feel to it that is absolutely different from anything out there right now. On the same note Mat Kearney has a completely different sound as well. I'm loving him. I love how he transitions from singing to speaking back to singing flawlessy. Thank GOD he's coming back to Texas, I might have to just follow him from city to city, dallas, to houston, to austin...i'm not beneath it you know. I'm not a music snob and I will listen to just about anything, but the same old stuff has been boring me lately. I guess i just need a change from the norm. Maybe the jazzy blues sounding music just matches my mood these days. Who knows why, but if it took a blue mood for me to discover the real depth of these artists then at least something good is coming out of the situation.

p.s. check out the video for Stop Me as well...visually it's one of the most interesting and appealing videos i've seen in a long time, its simple..but very cool.