Sara Recommends

Smiling Hill Coffee Milk
I am a skim milk person by nature, but sometimes the whole milk with a splash of lovely flavoring is just heaven in a mug. And I love the old glass bottle it comes in. It reminds me that something as simple as milk is not to be taken for granted.

Headphones
We all know that the iPod changed my life. You joke until you know. But I hate those damn earbuds. Give me headphones. Far superior to those damn ear buds. And they have improved since I was a kid, they now come in a style that fits over the ears and behind the head -- and are still hidden by my hair. I remember when I was in high school I always felt like I had my own personal soundtrack walking down the hall. It made my observations of people different. They moved to music, to lyrics. I find myself doing that now.


Knitting
I recently learned how to perl after getting the knit stitch down. I have been crocheting for a long time and its nice to learn something new. But some how knitting seems to carry more street cred with the crafters. Don't worry, I am not giving up on my crochet roots. Yeesh, I do have some integrity.

JK Rowling getting her fine self back the the computer and work on book 7.
I am just saying.

My Life Without Me
This movie manages to do what other movies like Stepmom fail at again and again. Stepmom pushes those sentimental buttons that make you cry like a sieve, but you hate yourself for it afterwards. Sarah Polley plays the main character, who at age 23 and with two daughters and her husband all living in a trailer in her mom's backyard, finds out she is going to die in two months. She does things she has always wanted to do, and does ordinary things that we all take for granted. It's beautiful and raw, and honest, and purely organically sentimental. The good kind that is reflective and does not leave you with scummy feeling.

Not making a music video for a period movie that involves a mediocre pop song and the star in a modernized version of their period costume prancing and looking moody.
Girl with a Pearl Earring. Great film, but the video cheapened it a bit, and made no sense whatsoever.

Frankenstein Day
February 14th. Um, I can't wait! This by far is the best holiday in February. Let's look to Mr. Ham for some more guidelines on it.

Keeping your old college textbooks just in case someone needs to use it.
I knew there was a reason I hung onto all those old clunky psych textbooks! That someday, eight years later a friend would need to find an obscure therapist that was ungoogable. Yes, I said it, un-googable. We used books, yes books, to find him!

Sad Bastard Song for the moment
Sideways - Citizen Cope

Let's get it on song for the moment
Juicy - Better Than Ezra

Song to mock your friends who maybe trying the dating world by singing it to them loudly in parking lots for the moment
All out of love -- Air Supply

iPod 4 evah

So, to quote Jay on this: "This is the best thing to happen to me musically since I discovered Bob Dylan."

Yes, it's a sickness, but I have felt the evolution of my music listening turn round and round.

So I want to make some good playlists and need some suggestions. The following playlist titles are in the works and I want recommendations for songs to put in each of them:

-Sad bastard songs - songs that basically are wallowy and just good for those broody days

-Screw you and your little dog too - revenge, breakup, angry, pissed, and kinda cranky

-Let's get it on - songs to knock boots to, but maybe more preferably to make out to. Kissage tunes are always a plus.

-Batmobile on a sunday afternoon - songs that are great for driving and all around fun, and this could morph into the dance mix as well... Batman and Robin Jungle Boogie maybe.... but never ever the Superman shuffle.



Please recommend. I love hearing what people have to say about music. Except you. Don't look behind you, you know who you are. Ah, ah, ah, no pouting. Just accept the truth.

Total shameless self promotion

February 23rd @ Geno's on Congress Street
Poetry Night
with musical accompaniment to the poets

Featuring Robin Merrill, poet goddess who is not afraid of boots or Mary Kay,
and two other poets to be named, and..... me.

Yes, kids here it is, my big break. The deal is the poet reads and the band... yes BAND,grooves out to what the poet is performing. Its only 3-4 poems, but daaaaaamn, does it sound cool. I am going to check it out this month so I can see what Robin got me into. Nervous much? So, come and check it out, pencil in your calendars, book your flights, get the horse ready for a trip, because I am hoping to live up to the rockstar label Baron gave me!

Babel

This website, Lost In Translation, will take your English phrase, translate it to two other languages, one right after the other, then back to English. Confused yet? See here:

Original English Text:
I wish I had a boy to kiss and call my own.

Translated to French:
Je souhaite que j'aie eu un garçon pour embrasser et appeler mes propres.

Translated back to English:
I wish that I have a boy to embrace and call my clean.

Translated to German:
Ich wünsche, daß ich einen Jungen habe, zum mein sauberes zu umfassen und zu benennen.

Translated back to English:
I require that I have a boy to cover and designate to my clean.

Other fun ones:

This:

Into each generation a Slayer is born, one girl in all the world, a Chosen One, one born with the strength and skill to hunt the vampires with the strength and skill to hunt the vampires, to stop the spread of their evil

becomes:

In each production in all they take to an assassin, a girl, selected,
taken with the resistance and the authority, the vampires with the
resistance and the authorities the proven one, in the vampires the
proven one, the end of the order to arrest to the diffusion
(atomizaton) of his malvagità.


This:

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose

becomes:

The freedom leaves sufficient a other word for anything with
destroying ignition