Thingits: DanceDanceDance

One of my girlfriend's (the one who was named after wonder woman) had a buttday last month and as the trend goes, I got her a Momiji doll. Her name is DanceDanceDance. When she hears jingly music, she just wants to dance dance dance!

Daily Shots: 17 Downtown

Some no non-sense fotos taken in downtown.

A restaurant named after my favorite number. It's now a must try in my book. Bf! Hello!

Shattered windows. Business folks now left without a view.

Sometimes I really hate trees. And powerlines. They just always get in the way of getting a good shot.

Oh Really?: VGT Omnivore's Hundred

There's this neato thing that Zoobmania posted on his blog that I figured I would also do on mine! It's from the Very Good Taste blog and it basically goes through a list of a hundred things that a good omnivore should try in his/her lifetime. This is going to be VERY sad on my part because I don't eat beef (since 10th grade), I don't eat seafood (except for shrimp on some occassions) and I'm not a big fan of vegetables. I'm a mom's worst nightmare. I've got the most boring taste buds. Ever. People say it's all in my head but it's not! It's the buds man! They don't want to try anything! Why isn't bread and butter on this list?!? And I also happen to notice the grilled chicken sandwich isn't on here either! Not fair! I won't cross anything off the list though because I want to believe that one day I will try everything on this list, even if it makes me vomit.

Here’s what I want you to do:

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

22/100. I'm a foodie failure.

Musik Mundi: Band of Horses

There's a Ford car commercial that played a few months ago. It's a group of friends driving somewhere at night. There's a girl sitting in the backseat and she's in the middle between two people. Is that redundant? Is it assumed that she's already between two people when I describe her as being in the middle. Seriously. I've been in a verbal and grammatical funk as of late. I've been in a grammatical funk since I was born, but verbal? Not as funky. I can't seem to put together sentences anymore without first having to furrow thine bushy brows. And as for the use of the word assume, I used to always go 'ass-you-and-me' instead of simply saying assume. I can't remember where or what or who I got that from. Enlighten me please if you know! See how easily distracted I get? You should see the irritation on the bf's face when he's trying to tell me a story and I suddenly see something that catches thine eyes that I must comment about RIGHT NOW even it means instant interruption. Irritable he gets! I attribute it to the fact that my memory is WHACK and I feel that I must say what I want to say now before I forget about what it was that I wanted to say then. Got all that? Now back to you car commercial. So the girl that is in the backseat in the middle. Between two people. She has a really cute haircut by the way. The sun/moon roof to the car is open. And she looks up and stares at the stars in the sky. And she becomes entranced and in her own world. So much so that even after they arrive at their location and everyone gets out of the car, she is still sitting there staring. And whilst all of this is taking place, there's this equally entrancing song that is being played in the background. I love it! Every time it came on, I became just as entranced as the girl in the backseat in the middle between two people was. I figured it was a short piece that was written specifically for that commercial and didn't bother trying to look up any info on it. Until last night. Because I heard it again. It was used for the preview of the next CSI episode. Now I knew that it was a real song indeedy!

The song is by an AMERICAN rock indie band called Band of Horses. Gotta love that they're from here! And they were originally from Seattle! My favorite part of the song is the beginning where all you hear is the simple plucking of a guitar, one string at a time, and then the singer goes 'ooooh oooooooh, oooooooh, ooooooh'. Man it's great stuff!! I wish that they would sit next to my bed at night and repeat that part over and over again until I fell asleep.

*photo courtesy of amazon.com*


Band of Horses
Album: Everything All The Time (2006)
Song: The Funeral