Random things

I don't have anything super important to post but since I am home from work due to a fine dusting of snow covering this fine city, I thought I ought to try to make some sort of cohesive blog post!

It is snowing like crazy outside, and I am so glad I stayed home from work. The coolest thing I found on the internet today while I was catching up on reading blogs is this super awesome stop motion video of a magical book shelf organizing itself!

The sheer patience and time it takes to create something like that is just astounding to me!

Tonight is a screening for the most recent film race that Matthew and I have participated in. I am super excited about this film and hope everyone loves it. I will post a link to the video when it is online. You can watch the one we did a few months ago here! I did most of the illustrations for it and am super happy with the way it turned out.

I finally listened to the new Radiohead Album, The King of Limbs, today and it is quite lovely. A little more mellow, ambient, toned down from In Rainbows but it is nice. I like it. It seems to fit my wintery mood of late. I intend to listen to it over and over and over again until I know it as well as In Rainbows which I LOVE.

I feel like 2011 is already zipping by and there are already so many plans for the rest of the year. Trips planned for March, May, July, August, October and December, not to mention all the awesome BBQs and hang outs that will be happening once summer hits! I can't wait. Sunshine that is actually warm! Quite a novelty.

In book news, I recently finished reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and was genuinely surprised at how much I loved it! I am excited for the movie, even though I have my doubts that the movie will stay true to the book. Here are a couple of quotes I liked: "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you." "Even for me life had it's gleams of sunshine." "Love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion."

I have made a sort of long-term goal (maybe ten years?) to read my way through as many of the supposed classics of literature as I can get through. In between each I will read something modern probably, just to break things up a bit and refresh my brain.

I am currently reading The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman and am about a third of the way through it so far. I like it just fine, am finding it easy to read and interesting, but it isn't blowing my mind or anything. Sort of comes across as a collection of short stories with loosely intertwined characters. We will see how it winds up.

What should my next classic be???? I have Picture of Dorian Gray and I think something by James Joyce on my Kindle so maybe one of those. I am completely open to suggestion on this, so help me out!

For Valentine's Day, my favorite gave me a Diana Mini. It is blue and covered in adorable little fluffy white clouds and I am anxious to see how the photos turn out! Another reason to wish for sunshine--prettier photos on real film! I will post some highlights here probably.

Ok going back to watching the snow and listening to jams. <3

Day 100, Beach House, Design, etc.

Day 100. April 10, 2010. Went to see Beach House live at Doug Fir, an amazing show.


You can also see a couple videos I took at the show here: http://vimeo.com/msuzanne/videos
the quality is terrible but you get the picture. It was so fantastic. I love Beach House! The opener, Bachelorette, was surprisingly good also.

This weekend I made myself a new background tile image. The image for the wallpaper came from an actual wall I took a photo of at a friend's house a couple months ago. I am really really happy with how it turned out.

You can see the finished product here on my blog, and also over at Shesagiant.com and on Twitter (which I am currently boycotting).
In the next few weeks, with the help of my extremely patient boyfriend, I am going to revamp my entire site, integrating this blog there, etc. The entire site feels pretty irrelevant to me at this point so it definitely needs some updating.

Happy Spring!

old lady

Well, today I am 28 years old. The celebrations over the weekend were fantastic and perfect and so fun. One of the best birthdays ever for sure.

Beach house was incredible. I could barely see anything because of tall dudes standing in front of me (story of my life) but it sounded amazing. Having listened to those songs zillions of times, hearing them so loud and live just made me so so so happy. They played a couple of songs I didn't know, so I am hoping for a new album sooooon. I didn't take any pictures cuz I get too frustrated at shows when the pictures turn out like crap. And I couldn't really see anything anyways!

After the show, we went to a bar around the corner to meet up with Mikey and SURPRISE! Meredith came afterall! those tricksters tried to fool me into believing that Meredith couldn't come.


Saturday morning my lovely friends woke me up with flowers, two kinds of jam from my favorite breakfast place (Jam on Hawthorne) a really pretty coffee mug, and wouldn't let me help them cook a gigantic breakfast. The rest of us played lots of Skip Bo and drank coffee and mimosas until the feast was served. So delicious!


After resting up the rest of the afternoon, we went to V's house for snacks/cake/predrinks.


Then! We went to the Alibi for some sweet karaoke jams. So many people turned out to wish me a happy birthday and I had a great time. Thanks to all of you! I have the best friends ever.

P.S. More pictures Here and Here.

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