The little bit of random...

If at first you don't succeed...

try,

try...

Google!

For about a week I had been trying to get a decent photo of Foot Locker's window display, and failed at all attempts. So googling an image was the next best option. The reason for the photo is because it's resemblance to Johnny Cupcakes. Johnny Cupcakes is a Boston based brand that sells cool items like shirts and accessories with their cupcake and crossbones logo. That was probably the worst description of a company, ever. So you are probably better off just going to JohnnyCupcakes.com. Their stuff is extremely cute.

So Foot Locker's theme is all about being "fresh" and "hot", which is a great concept but I don't understand how it goes with their display. The fridge displaying the shoes is an obvious, but the "hot" part, not as much. There should be something more possibly. I also feel as if they severely copied Johnny Cupcakes' long on going theme.

Similar much? A bit. Adorable and awesome? A lot! Johnny Cupcakes interior designing might be one of my favorites in store design, it's so much fun and creative. I've yet to visit one of the Johnny Cupcakes stores, but I really hope to soon.

Anyways, I'm not saying that Foot Locker's display isn't cool, I really do like the concept. But Johnny Cupcakes does it much better.

Oh and that "something more" to be added for Foot Locker's window...an oven displaying shoes possibly? It would go with the "hot" concept, portraying freshly baked shoes.

Day 63!

'Cuz if we're going out, we're goin' out with style

Such an awesome line up, Patent Pending and Bowling For Soup went on tour together. And of course I made sure I went to see them.
Isn't it amazing how well my camera phone works! (sarcasm)

I saw Joe before the show and gave him the Juicebox pillow I made. I'm almost certain he liked! Which was awesome, especially because he mentions it on one of his blog posts. Something else that was awesome, and at the same time probably made me look ridiculous... Right before playing their cover of Cascada's "Everytime We Touch" Joe told me to come up on stage and gave me directions. They basically went like this...when I say go jump into the crowd....What, what?? Yeah he told me to stage dive, something I had never done. Yeah no stage diving/crowd surfer in my 11 years of going to shows. Well standing on stage, I wasn't about to say no, so when he said to, I jumped. I have to admit, I may be the most incompetent stage diver in the history of stage divers. But that is not the worst of it. Two days later, my mother was at work telling her boss about the Bowling For Soup shirt I got her for Mother's Day. (My mom loves BFS, but thought she was too old to go to the show, which is ridiculous and not true.) While talking about the show she found out her boss and his friends went to the same show as me, and one of the friends happened to be at the stage when I dived, and he caught me. Awkward some? lol

You can always tell which photos are done with my phone, my basic digital camera and my fancier camera.

I can't remember if this is my third of fourth time seeing BFS, but it really doesn't matter, they are as good as I remember. Like really good. They are some of the funniest dudes, and their music is really great also. I think it seriously made my evening, as well as Dan's, (You can't deny it either Dan!) when they played the Phineas and Ferb theme song.  If you did not know, BFS sings the theme song for the best cartoon ever, Phineas and Ferb.

This was probably one of the best shows I have been to in a really long time. Can't wait to see Patent Pending, Catch 22 and the many other bands playing the Rec Center June 4th.

So we all jump around, and we fall to the ground
Like it's the last rock show of our lives.
-BFS

The little bit of random...

My sister works at this club called the Loop Lounge and to mark the half way point to Halloween, the club had a costume party. If you couldn't tell Heather went as a Sugar Skull... an awesome Sugar Skull may I say. I wasn't home when she left, so of course my mom made sure to take pictures so I could see how awesome she looked.

How amazing is her makeup? And this was done with just cheap drugstore brand makeup. Can you imagine if she had some super expensive make up instead? I'm thinking someone should change their career path, maybe do cosmetology? Just saying : )


























Happy Halfway to Halloween!

"At least, that's what they call it these days."

Day 62!

A couple of months ago I posted about a Patent Pending show I went to, where Joe (the singer/owner of Juicebox) gave me a hoodie to replace the one that was ruined. He gave it to me for free and wouldn't take the money for it, even though I insisted. He's seriously the nicest dude ever. I felt horrible about it and promised at the next show I would return the original hoodie to him.

























But really, what is he going to do with the hoodie? The inside was ruined making it unsellable. Sooooo instead I decided to cut it up and make it something a little more useful for him...

Like a Juicebox pillow!
I don't measure a thing and I'm not the greatest at sewing, but it didn't come out too bad.

If you still haven't yet, though I'm sure I've said it before, go check out Joe's clothing company Juicebox.
And you most definitely should check out  Patent Pending!

The little bit of random...

...the music edition

I did a speech about music the other day. It wasn't my own, but one from a website I had chosen to read. I chose it because it could have most certainly been my own speech. The first line..."I believe in the power of music." Goodness, don't I?

This last semester has been so ridiculously busy with school, my internship and work. And you can ask anyone I talk to, I hardly have time for them. But I will always, always, always, make time for a show, it's the one thing I live for.




















Two weeks ago I got to see the amazing Pink Spiders. They broke up for awhile and got back together only recently. I haven't seen them in a few years, and they were as good as I remembered. They didn't play my top two favorite songs, not even any from my top three, but I was promised when they go on tour, hopefully this fall, they'll learn the songs and play them. My fingers are crossed!

If you've never heard of The Pink Spiders before, you most definitely should check them out.
ThePinkSpiders.com Sweat it Out is one of my favorite albums, so go listen.

A week an a half later at the same club, I was able to see Jon Devoto do an acoustic set for his band Bird By Bird. Jon used to be in The Matches, and I haven't seen him preform since I saw the first Bird By Bird show when I went to California to see the last Matches show.

The show was soooo good. I can't wait for his full length album and his next tour with the full band. You NEED to check him out. I mean seriously, I demand it. myspace.com/birdbybird


So I'm fully aware that not too many people check out my blog here, however if you're that someone that does, I have a slight request.... I'm obsessed with, in love with, as well as I live for music. I'd really like some new music, so if you know any good bands/artists that you like and quite possibly think I will too, let me know! Please.

"Everyone told her it don't get much better"

Day 61!

Well hello Spring, glad you could finally make it.

I swear Jersey never gets the four seasons. It's either winter or it's summer. Finally we had a day where it wasn't 50 nor was it 80. Perfect.

"Spring is here and we're in full swing"

Day 60!

Happy Beltane/May Day!


















This year, since my sister accidentally bought my mother tickets to a Broadway show that happened to be on Easter, we didn't have a real Easter this year. Which is fine because my mother instead said we would celebrate Beltane, a Celtic holiday.

We weren't going to do anything totally traditional, other than have pork and I was going to make an Irish tea cake. However I messed all of that up. I'm kinda sick, well not kinda, really and I doubt anyone wants me to contaminate their dessert with my sickly cooties. Also I put my mom off schedule with cooking because she took me to the doctor today. So instead it's baked ziti! lol, love the thought of having an Italian dish during an Irish holiday.

Not to be completely not with the holiday,  yesterday afternoon with a couple of sticks from the yard, I made a few mini maypoles.  I wish I was capable of making an actual one, I used/danced around a maypole once, it was actually kind of fun. Maybe for the summer solstice, I'll see what I can do.

"and tell the whole world, to dance with me."