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Seattle
A round up of Seattle pictures. It was an amazing Labor Day weekend!
We spent quality time with Mark and Susanna's new puppy, Benson. He's adorable.
We went to the Boeing Museum of Flight, which was actually pretty fun!
A letter about the "potential psychology" of having women as flight attendants. So interesting!
And we went to Bumbershoot on Monday, which was amazing. We saw Best Coast, M83, Lights, and Passion Pit.
M83 - so freaking good
A lovely weekend!
Outside Lands Throwback
Last year at Outside Lands, a street fashion photographer snapped my picture for her blog. Check out the whole post here. Pretty much I feel like a rockstar.
The Project
After my whirlwind 5 week Europe adventure, I had just a few days to adjust to the California time zone before I left it again! two summers in a row now I've been a chaperone for my church's high school choir tour. Every summer the choir, Starfire, takes an original musical written by the lovely Carol and Dirk Damonte on tour. For the next two weeks we will be traveling from California to Colorado to share this musical, called the Project.
The Project addresses how church can become relevant to our daily lives, and become more than a repetition of old traditions and unquestioned creeds.
Last year, the Methodist Church had a wonderful campaign to "Rethink Church", which essentially challenges churches and individuals to go out an be the church in the world by incorporating our faith into our everyday actions. It felt like church was really taking a step in the right direction! Then, this year at general conference, the greater United Methodist Church voted down an proposal to agree to disagree about the acceptance of the LGBTQ community in church. Needless to say, it was an incredibly low moment for the UMC.
In a world where exclusion is backed up by Bible verses, The Project presents the teachings of Jesus in the way that I think they ring most true - that Jesus preached humility, forgiveness, and acceptance of every individual in the world as the path to God and love. And these kids preach it better than I ever could, so check it out!
Follow us at starfiresingers.com, and go to laumc.org/live to watch the live stream!
All You Need is Love
I just discovered that a Beatles concert I sang in (a fundraiser/worship concert at my church) is up on Youtube! I sing at 3:25 and 49:30. Check it out. Then hire me to sing. Woo!
Jamz
Tamaryn - Love Fades
Charli XCX - Nuclear Seasons
I feel like a dirty 80's hipster when I listen to these two. Love it.
James Roday
A few weeks ago James Roday recorded a Tears for Fears song in my friend Bill Hare's studio. I kind of invited myself along to be his intern for the day... I'm a huge Psych fan and was dying to meet him! It was a really cool experience, both to meet James and see Bill at work. Here's a behind the scenes video of the day where I make a brief (yet exciting all the same!) appearance around 2:50ish.
Natalie Lungley
This girl is AMAZING. She will be the next big thing.
I love Video Games, and hate Lana del Rey's voice. So this is perfect!
All My Friends
My friend Will Wiesenfeld of Baths covering LCD Soundsystems's "All My Friends" on AV Club. He is genius, download is album "Cerulean."
Baths cover LCD Soundsystem
Islands
This song makes the Halloween playlist for its video - The XX in music video purgatory:
Islands - The XX
Halloween Time!
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, however the lack of creepy music appropriate for Halloween parties makes me sad. So until the 31st, I'll post my favorite yummy and haunting music. Enjoy.
White Sea - Lady Killer
Morgan Kibby (from M83) heads up White Sea - her album "The Frontier EP"(2010) is fresh and delicious. Check it out. Also I'm doing my makeup like this for Halloween.
On Stranger Tides
Click here to listen to one of the tracks Rodrigo y Gabriela collaborated on with Hans Zimmer! Absolutely brilliant. I still don't understand how he didn't win the Oscar for Inception.