Aaron and I have recently started watching Breaking Bad (pretty awesome show, by the way, I didn't think I'd like it which is why it took me so long to finally watch it, but it's actually pretty good) and there is one character who at one point listens to this song by Quartetto Cetra, an Italian vocal quartet from the '40's. Italian language/culture/music/basically anything Italian, I love. I miss Italy everyday so this song just helps me feel a little closer to my Florentine home.
"Crapa Pelada," according to Wikipedia, means "bald head." The rest of the lyrics in the song are a little bit older type of Italian, so it's hard to find a true translation of the lyrics, only Wikipedia was able to tell me what "crapa pelada" meant!
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!
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!
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!
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.
One of my current favorite TV shows is True Blood. Yes, it's one of those vampire-craze type shows, but it's what I like to call the adult version of all the other vampire things out there (Vampire Diaries, Twilight, etc.). One great thing about True Blood is that at the ending credits they always play really great music (which they always include in their soundtrack albums) and this song is one of those songs. The video for the song is pretty good too, I like the old timey look of it all and the Day of the Dead aspect of it. Perfect for upcoming Halloween.
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.
Me, my boyfriend (Aaron), and my parents are all very big fans of The Ricky GervaisShow, 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 luckyKarl 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!
