Today’s song of the day is brought to you by a text I received from my friend Emily yesterday:

“Remember when we tried out for theater in the park? :) you taught me my times steps in the parking lot.”

Yes, indeed. I did use to be a theater nerd. Participating in as many shows as I could, private voice lessons, and dance lessons for 13 years. Yikes. I invested a lot of time into something I wasn’t that good at but I did enjoy and I guess that’s what matters.

Almost exactly a year ago I saw Spring Awakening with my buddy Paige. It was the hot show of 2007 (you’ll recognize Lea Michele from Glee as the female lead) and this particular performance in Chicago was starring Craig from Degrassi. That’s right. And he was pretty decent and hot. The music from this show was amazing, the plot was pretty depressing and I didn’t love it. I couldn’t choose between a few song so I found them as a ‘medley’ in their Tony performance. It counts (my rules).

PS: For you musical haters (including my boyfriend), this will probably be the only song of the day like this. Don’t hate, appreciate.

thedailywhat:

Obligatory of the Day: Shrewd move inviting Keanu to your press conference, Apple. He has a knack for making everything else seem less sad by comparison.

[aaronbenson.]

Awww.

I keep finding myself wanting to blog and wanting to blog and plotting my blog entries out and then, uh, I forget. And I don’t like that. So I’m still going to blog n’ stuff but in the meantime, I’m going to post songs of the day. You know, because I was a DJ in college and blah. Cool story, hansel.

Today’s song of the day comes from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack (yes, yes, we all know that it was also a Bends b-side). I remember seeing that movie for the first time at the Trailridge dollar theatre near 75th and Nieman and being SO GODDAMN IN LOVE with Leonardo DiCaprio that I could barely breathe. Seriously. My three year JTT infatuation does not even compare. I really thought I was going to die from the hotness.

Anyway, this song is not only significant because of that hormone-filled time of my life but also because it was what got me into Radiohead. I bought the Bends, and then Pablo Honey. A little bit later, I played OK Computer non-stop. And so on and so forth.

So here is the first song of the day in this series (I posted the video with Leo pics, just because):

jaimepage:

hellaposer:

Balancing dog balances all over NY. Awesome.

someday!

This is a dream.

My mom just called to say that my grandpa had a heart attack (he’s alive). I hate to sound like a baby but between everything going on with my dad, Kevin’s mom, my finances and my childhood friend’s MISSING father, I cannot handle more bad news this summer. I WILL stop answering the phone.

/complaints

ilovecharts:

Click through for the interactive Eat Seasonably Calendar.

Obligatory NSFW cat picture

kristenfromkansas:

thedailywhat:

iPad Decal of the Day: The Giving Tree iPad decal, inspired by Shel Silverstein’s classic children’s title. This is all well and good, but where the hell can I get one. [geekygadgets.]

 i don’t have an ipad, but if i did, i would NEED this.

This actually makes me want an iPad.

jeffisageek:

popartinferno:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[via]

that is awesome!

This makes me want to end my life. Quickly.

I finally went to Arthur Bryant’s. Don’t hate, I know that I grew up here and why the hell had I never been to Arthur Bryant’s and what kind of child were you and what is wrong with your parents? I KNOW. I. KNOW. My parents hate Midwestern BBQ. You know, because EVERYTHING IS BETTER IN THE SOUTH. Anyway, I had it but not before getting seriously stressed out about the ordering system. That was embarrassing. And I got pulled pork instead of burnt ends. I really should plan things before diving right into them.

On Saturday I spent the day in Lawrence with my ole best friends Adam, Jon, Stevie and Jason. We talked about important issues like ‘Intervention’ and Lady Gaga and ‘Human Centipede’ and being a sweaty census worker. We also talked about a future trip in the future to Utah where I would visit four states in one trip (Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming). I’m thinking spring. Eh?

My buddy Ryan (who spends most of his life gawking at all of the things I’ve never done in my life) basically told me that I haven’t lived because I haven’t ever head SpaghettiOs with meatballs. Is this true? (I’m not sure I totally trust his judgment)