HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

To all our friends, family and readers

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

So so so thankful for you!

p.s. official thanksgiving movie moment:

happy thanksgiving back.

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music mondays: bernhoft

this post is brought to you by NORWAY!

oh how i wish this man and i were friends. just so he could sprinkle some of his incredible creativity upon me. 

oh how i wish that he would come sing in LA so i could watch his ridiculous ways in person. 

bernhoft is the new definition of a one-man-band.

put your headphones on and WATCH this video. 

Jarle Berhoft

C'mon Talk

p.s. side note... i just had to put soy creamer into my americano. my heart is heavy. my soul is sad. my body does not like the hormones in milk. my americano has been altered. my americano has been wronged. my life will never be the same.

She Dances FUNDRAISER

She Dances held an event this past Saturday to raise finances and awareness and to have some fun tasting wine and bidding on items in a silent auction. So, after sewing like mad-women all day, we gussied up and drove downtown to attend. It was amazing to meet some of the people that run She Dances and learn more about the girls in Honduras and hear some encouraging stories about the growth of the organization and plans for the future.

It was so good, in fact, that we made a little video right after the event.... so you could feel like you were there with us. 

Victoria wrote a post last month about our little project to help support She Dances (read it here). That post and the info on their website will give you more than enough reason to give this holiday season.
Support She Dances by donating or buying one of their very cool shirts and by checking in our Etsy shop which will be up and running for black friday shopping madness . There. We've just given you 2 Christmas gift ideas. Go. Do.

love you. mean it. chow.

-v&l

music ...days: supplimental: TERRI WALKER

i love this girl. she's one of the most fun people on the planet.

terri walker is a fabulously beautiful, incredibly talented, smoulderingly soulful singer.

say that 3 times fast.

she collaborates with just about everybody and here is a stripped down, fun performance with Donae'o that i just love. she's just so good. and he's just so good. and fun. they just havin' fun. i love.

her newest project is due out December 5th - Twilight, a collaboration with jozif. if you know whats good for you, you'll find a way to get it.

jozif feat. terri walker  : twilight

music mondays: JASON JOSEPH

this music mondays post is brought to you by...

wednesday.

sorry about that.

however, it is a good thing because its mid-week, trudge-day, hoodies and coffee, just need a little groove machine to get the afternoon kicked off for a fantastic evening putting you in the mood to RULE the rest of the week.

Jason Joseph & the Spectacular

Don't Let Go

&

Electric Eel

here's the thing: a fantastically smooth yet textured vocal, tight rhythms, incredibly complex yet perfectly layered sections, always in the pocket... COMPLETE.
just good.
and live?
yes.
do i dare say better?
yes, yes i do.

los angelenos: you can sway to the smooth sounds every Monday at the Libertine and every Thursday at the Wellesbourne.

I mean, COME ON. the horns? ridiculous. 

here's to an amazing wednesday. oh, and see you tomorrow night.

-l

music mondays: HBIM

i'm a seattle girl. i love seattle music. i love seattle music culture. and thusly i have another seattle act to showcase.

imagine Ray LaMontagne meets the Black Keys. 

soul meets funk meets rock.

listen.

Hot Bodies In Motion

Old Habits

the official video isn't my favorite thing ever, so i present you with this one:

Old Habits - Hot Bodies In Motion - The Crocodile, Seattle from Streamlight Motion Media Co. on Vimeo.

i once had a theory about white guys getting their soulful voices from their beards but that has now been proven incorrect. 

-l


p.s. i know it says music mondays, but technically i start to write this on a monday and then by the time i get to post it... its tuesday. and "music tuesday in the wee hours" just isn't the same. i suppose i could change it to midnight music.....

babble: excuse the expression

excuse the expression if you would, but my husband is a badass.

this is not a costume.

this is real life.

a "weekend project" 

of completely disassembling all things brake related on our Range Rover and replacing rotors and linkages and wirey things... much more complicated than I can explain. While I was working with Victoria on Friday, he took his lunch hour and installed a new exhaust. Saturday afternoon he updated our olde timey Mercedes. I've witnessed him - no joke - laying underneath the wheel well - again, not kidding - lift the front end of the truck using only his finger-tips. Yah. I know.

Beyond his fixing everything and building me a table and camping in the snow and the rock climbing and other manly things, his badassness goes to a level that is beyond my verbal limit. Little things like watching cartoons with his ridiculous wife (may I suggest Phineas and Ferb?) and washing dishes while simultaneously playing with the dog, to bigger things like serving his friends and sponsoring a few kids so they can get an education. 

I mentioned a few months ago that you shouldn't waste time with someone who doesn't make you greater by being with them. The expression "my better half" very much applies in my life. And  he wants a partner - not someone who can change the brake pads and climb Everest - thats what he wants to do - but someone who helps bring the tools while he's under the car and runs the miles with him while he conditions for his climb to the peak. 

What I'm saying here is that whether you're awaiting that better half to come along or you already have your better half for always, work at being the best of yourself. Its not just about fairy tales and fulfilling your dreams of having someone there for you etc etc etc... you get to be the fulfillment of someone's dream, and honestly, that takes work. Being selfish is easy. Being a partner is about serving. 

So, whip your butt into shape: Be a better friend. Achieve those goals you've been wishing for. Wake up earlier. Stop negative talk. 

I'm saying all this to myself here.

I've been a part of a few conversations on this topic over the past week and its on my mind. Especially when I have someone who is so wonderful living in my house doing his best every day. Why should I do anything less?

-l

music mondays: victoria clemmons

this is a no-brainer.

not only is she an amazing person and one of my best friends and ridiculously wonderful.....


she's an incredibly talented writer, the kind that puts words to the pictures in your mind. pair that with the sweet melodies she sings and you are simply swept away.

oh and this chorus will get stuck in your head and you'll be singing it all day long and you'll catch yourself with a giant smile on your face because of it.

victoria clemmons

under the old oak tree

p.s. buy her album on itunes. its good.

-l