Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Friday, May 25, 2012

happiness is...


...finding the perfect Pandora radio station to listen to during a long run.

Lately, I've been a big fan of the Britney Spears Pandora station. Why Britney, you ask?  Well I feel a bit out of a the loop when it comes to pop / dance-y music and Britney was the first person that came to mind.  It's actually just the ticket to make a run breeze by.

Friday, April 6, 2012

dancing in the kitchen


I like to listen to Pandora while making dinner.  I had been thinking that a nice gift from the Easter bunny would be some portable speakers for my droid so that I can jam extra loud in the kitchen.  Then while reading 7th house on the left my mind was blown.  Those crazy kids showed me the best science trick ever.  A concave-shaped glass (our Harp glass was the closest thing we had that fit my phone) amplifies the sound leaving no need for the Easter bunny to bring me speakers.  Now I hope that means the Easter bunny will have more room to bring me peeps. 

Friday, October 29, 2010

wine: Hey Mambo



Pardon the delay in this week's feature wine.  It's the Giants' fault.  Please don't blame them.  They've been scoring machines, it's my fault really, I've been glued to the television. 

And we're back to the wine (...OK, one more shout out to the orange and black - two wins in two games - Heck ya! Fear that beard!)

OK, we're really back to the wine. Really, I promise. So the other day when I was in the wine aisle at the grocery store, I was on a mission to find more blends - because if there's one thing we keep learning from this blog is that this girl loves when wine is blended. (It's like chemistry only better and this science can actually be consumed, I wouldn't suggest drinking out of a beaker in a chemistry lab. I burned my arm once with sulfuric acid...I had to google what to do in order to get it off my skin...turns out soap and water does the trick.  True story.) 
Seriously.

So, while I was looking for some red wine, I found this secret aisle.  You know on Harry Potter when he has to go to through the wall to get to the train?  Yep, it was like that - a super secret aisle - conveniently named "Aisle 3".  Turns out aisle 3 opens a whole new world that I'm not sure why I hadn't explored. I think it's because it houses that Pinots, which I typically stay away from.  But now that I've found this fancy aisle named three, I have a wine frig stocked full of blends.  (and yes, I realize that this paragraph is in black type, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get to back to the normal type that shows up on both the blog and google reader...but, you are just going to have to go with it people or this post might not show up until the Giants are in game 4)...(are you now understanding why I sat 2 feet away from the tv screen last Saturday night watching the last outs of the Giants game before they won the NLCS? I'm a bit nutso about October baseball...it's OK though since Mike is too and we understand we are crazy.)
Yahoo!

You know what's also cool about this wine?  Other than the price (in $5 and under category) and the taste (4 stars), there's a story on the back of the bottle along with a simple yet eye catching label is the fact that when you see the name of this wine, you start to sing Rosemary Clooney's Mambo Italiano song.  And with that, enjoy the song and go get yourself a bottle of this wine. It's such a deal and you'll be singing down your super secret aisle of the grocery store (or the liquor store if you live in Minnesota.)

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

groo grux king


We haven't had itunes (or a computer for that matter) for months, make that a year, so now that we have BOTH, I feel as if itunes and I will never again be separated. My newest love is the entire Dave Matthews Album: Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King. Mike and I just watched a special on the making of this album on one of those fancy channels that I never surf to but Mike seems to find a way to get all the way up to channel 417, or something like that. Anywho, Groo Grux King refers to their saxophonist who died in 2008 after complications from an ATV accident. And just a good little tid bit of useless knowledge...Dave Matthews himself drew the cover with a pen, you can even see where the ink ran out. Ok, well I can't but in the tv special, Dave was able to point right to it. [credit]
And speaking of Dave...Have you heard his duet with Kenny Chesney? Oooo that's a good one too. Yep, I just downloaded it.