Singles awareness day

Ringing in 2011

I'm super freaking excited for new years even if I don't have plans yet.
Heres what I will be listening to, get pumped!

Top Music of 2010

Favorite New Bands-
1. Mumford and Sons



2. Beach House
3. Broken Bells
4. Local Natives
5. Cashes Rivers
6. Breathe Owl Breathe


Favorite CDs by Bands I already liked-
1. Maps and Atlases- they finally released a full length!



2. Gaslight Anthem- American Slang- And I got to see them live and it was amazing.
3. Kid Cudi- Man on the Moon II
4. Black Keys- Brothers
5. Crystal Castles
6. Brighten
7. I still don't have MIA's new album but I love this video


My favorite discoveries that have been around forever but still-
- faded paper figures
- Bedouin Soundclash


My least favorite part of 2010-
- Envy on the Coast broke up : (
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Things I'm looking forward to in 2011-
Blink 182- Year of the Rabbit?
this needs to be released. They need to tour and I WILL go.

Streetlight is coming back to town
Bassnecter is also coming but I don't know if I can go because its over break.

and all you see is love coming out, but none of us are free

My new loves.

http://www.myspace.com/cashesrivers









Saw them- he is so pretty-

I got your name tattooed inside of my arm
recorded version-


this will not define me this year

And now for a complete 180 to pick up the mood-

I like white rappers so what

Dubstep-


What I listen to to wake up-



and to end on a high note- This is always a good way to think!

German Potato Salad

This is less a recipe, than a suggestion. Because I don't measure often when I cook. Only when I bake.

But with
4 medium red potatoes
~ 3 tablespoons mayo
~2 tablespoons vinegar
~ 2 tablespoons whole seed mustard
4 slices of bacon, cooked and chopped. Using an ulu would have made this much easier, or if I had cooked it crispier.

Lemon Raspberry Muffins

Muffins the second recipe
Smitten Kitchen- Lemon Raspberry Muffins
SO have you ever started making a recipe, you know measuring out the sugar and butter and creaming them... then realizing you are missing an ingredient? I do, constantly. This time it was eggs. Of course I had started baking at 10:40, so too late to go them. If I had been cooking, not baking or if I had it I would have used apple sauce. But that isn't really abundant in my kitchen. So I used a oil to water ratio of 1:2 tablespoons, for a total of 3 tablespoons, apparently the weight of an egg. Between this substitution and my lack of a mixer to go the creaming, I will give these muffins the benefit of the doubt regarding the texture and make them again. They were a little dense with a thick crumb.

My inexperience caused me to push the raspberries too far into the dough so they became little pits, which is still cute and delicious.

The real downfall of this recipe is that I skinned 2 lemons for peel, and didn't use any of the juice. I want more lemony-ness!




Look how puffy and happy they look then...

Summer 2010

I abandon blogging when my life is going smoothly apparently.





My favorite to thing to come from New Haven CT. I was trying to figure out who they remind me of...


My summer sound track-


and now my summer dance song


food updates soon, I have been doing alot of baking and cooking delicious things.