Showing posts with label Providence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Providence. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2009

TGIF

This picture represents...maybe half of the tea supply in my suite. We live by the stuff.

Friday Fill-Ins has a first-sentence-of-books theme this week. The first one is the only real answer I know; the rest are made up.

1. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit!!!!"
2. "My tonsils are huge but that ain't no matter."
3. "After dark the rain began to fall again, as per usual in Providence."
4. "Pirates, looking suspiciously Johnny Depp-esque, streamed out from the hold of the Spanish galleon."
5. "There was a hand in the darkness, and suddenly my chicken parm was gone."
6. "Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, so always wear a helmet when riding a bike."
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to sleeping, tomorrow my plans include sleeping and Sunday, I want to sleep!

If you haven't before, check out The Low Anthem, an interesting band from good ol' Providence. Rolling Stone calls them "a trio of neo-hippie rockers...the Low Anthem craft homemade, warm-hearted Americana populated by train workers and road trippers on their second album, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin." I particularly love their gorgeous, often chill-inducing, harmonies. They're probably the biggest band to come out of Prov in recent times - while they've been popular around here for a while, they seem to have had a sudden rush of fame and have been playing at some of the biggest music festivals in the country. The fun part - not only did they all go to Brown at some point, but I played with Jocie (the trio's only female member, and youngest) in the pit for "Merrily We Roll Along" freshman year! She's such a nice person - I really enjoyed getting to know her - and I'm thrilled that she's making it big, doing what she loves. Brown music concentrators, you too can go far.

Friday, March 20, 2009

TGIF


Happy (belated) St. Joseph's Day! Hope everyone ate lots of delicious zeppole (see above). I know I did. In related news, if you are ever in need of an Italian bakery in Providence, Scialo Bros (on Federal Hill, of course) is pretty fantastic. Nice people, great pastries, frequented by locals.


1. Why do we have to push ourselves so hard, constantly on the move?
2. Tweeting and checking Google Reader are now habits.
3. I have not yet secured a summer internship and it's freaking me out.
4. I had never heard the phrase "Moustache March" and it is not a tradition in which I think many people should participate.
5. I'm staying up late when I shouldn't, the way I always do.
6. How was I to know that I'd get so attached to my spider plants, Aragog and baby Charlotte?
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to sleeping?, tomorrow my plans include heading up to Boston to visit my brother, and Sunday, I want to see Bill Nye the Science Guy give a lecture at Northeastern!
This music video is great. I feel like these guys are just having a ton of fun. And I can't pretend I don't appreciate the night/knight pun in their name, given my Ellington roots.

This song's for the people who count.





The Saturday Knights - "Count It Off" from Lincoln Leopard Films on Vimeo.