Friday Favorites #7

This past week or so I discovered that Aaron has never watched Dexter before, so we have set a goal to fix that. We are currently on season 2 and he's totally loving every minute of it, plus I'm enjoying re-watching them again. Reminds me of exactly why I love this show so much. 

Hocus Pocus has to be one of my favorite Halloween movies. Thank goodness it's almost Halloween and the perfect time to watch it!

Knitting inspirationg + great photography.

"A Chickadee In The Hand" by FastTrackPhoto (Quantis)

Claire Hummel's amazing Disney and reality inspired artwork

Claire Hummel's website

Little fact about me: I am majoring in art history and hope (fingers crossed) to become an art librarian (or something in that type of field) in the future, and when I found the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) site it got me so excited. Not to mention that they do art book reviews monthly on their website. Too cool. My geek-ness is showing!

ARLIS/NA book reviews

While looking for Chopin videos on youtube, I came across Yundi Li, an amazing Chinese classical pianist. He is known for being the youngest person to ever win International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in 2000, at only 18! I may not seem it, but I really love me some good classical music, and Chopin is top notch for sure. Check out this video of Yundi Li playing Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2.

I wish it got cold enough in southern California to wear stuff like this!

"BB Dakota" on Karma Loop

Love this outfit found on LOOKbook. I always wear dark colors/mostly black (not on purpose! It's just most of what I own in black) and I'm thinking maybe I should start wearing lighter colors like this.

"101811" by Tricia G. on LOOKbook

Music Suggestion / Television: Buddy Greco - "Around the World" / Pan Am

So whilst searching Hulu for something interesting to watch I came upon Pan Am, a new show on ABC and so far I'm totally into it. The whole style of the show and the questions I have, I'm really looking forward to watching more and finding out what is really going on. Plus, the soundtrack is wonderful. I love some good 50's-60's music and this show has a good selection, even after only the first two episodes I've seen. For a short list of songs from the show, try this site, it was the only thing I could really find (search Youtube if you are interested in just listening to the songs, because that site wants you to purchase the songs on Amazon) , I suppose the actual soundtrack will come out when the season is over. 

One of the songs that I would suggest, that fits so well with the show and is really catchy, is this one by Buddy Greco.

Television: An Idiot Abroad Season 2 tease

Me, my boyfriend (Aaron), and my parents are all very big fans of The Ricky Gervais Show, the podcasts, and An Idiot Abroad, and when Aaron and I heard that there was going to be a season 2 of An Idiot Abroad we were both very excited. Karl Pilkington is hilarious and I cannot wait for the next season the show. 

Being an introverted type of person, and I'm guessing that Karl is somewhat introverted as well, it blows my mind to see to what distances that Ricky and Stephen push Karl to. A few months ago an angry phone call from Karl to Ricky made it to the internet and it made me feel a bit sad for Karl and how Ricky and Stephen do seem to push him around, but on the other hand I think how lucky Karl really is. He gets to travel abroad to many different places and now experience things that most people will never ever get to do in their lifetimes. He's incredibly lucky to have been given such a (although difficult and strenuous) opportunity. 

Here is the phone call from an angry Karl Pilkington to Ricky Gervais over filming for An Idiot Abroad 2:

A bit sad, right? Well, yeah, a bit. But then look at this sneak preview of the upcoming second season. Looks fantastically hilarious in my opinion:

Video can also be found on the official site, here.

Now that looks fun! And you can't feel too terrible for Karl knowing that he is earning tons of cash to set him up for a comfortable life. He even says so quite simply in this BAFTA interview:

Frankly, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for this show to premiere on the 23rd. In England and Iceland it plays on the channel "Sky1" while here in America it is shown on "The Science Channel". I remember reading a review about it being on "The Science Channel" and someone saying something like, "What is scientific about An Idiot Abroad? The only thing science worthy is Karl's head." [Or something like that.] Hilarious. 

Is anyone else out there as excited for this show as I am? I hope so! 

Ciao miei cari!