Sometimes with tears, sometimes with smiles, and sometimes with intermingled smiles and tears (Nathanie Hawthorne to Sophia Peabody)

Serious resolution: Be better!, that is to say be loving, kind, understanding, giving, spirited, courageous, patient, an accurate judge, hungry, passionate, playful, curious, romantic, a clean and strong fighter, clear-headed, precise, healing, peaceful, quiet, friendly, natural, gracious, generous, intelligent, beautiful, joyful. Somewhat in that order (aye so much for precision).

I want to always be there for all of you.

Just for laughs resolution: Be a (melody) composer-pianist in a rock band which has enough of a following to sell out small clubs. Or a professional fighter.

HAPPY NEW YEAR SWEETIES :)

Someday soon we all will be together

Home for good :)

1) Songs

a) Center of Attention: Jackson Waters (bonus track version)


b) At This Moment: Michael Buble


2) Videos

From our SYTYCD marathon:
a) Recipe for alphabet soup
1x Kent (alternatively mix 0.5x Fabian Hambuechen with 0.5x Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in very large bowl) <3
1x Neil <3<3
1x Travis <3<3<3
Kent + Neil + Travis = I cannot even begin to.. OJFIAESOGJOIGJ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-BcpJ-9a40

b) Nobody can resist What is 'technique'? I am just going to do my own thang Ivan and sweet Allison. This song has such a delicious beat, I am surprised they don't use it more often.


c) Bench dance forever. Travis forever and then more.


From Conan, demi-god if you will:





3) A few words
Merry Christmas sweethearts. Right now I bid your computer grow arms and give you the tightest squeeze you can manage without suffocating <3 :)

Aaand yeah I think that maketh a blog post around here. To a delightful year ahead :D

The inventors of harmony in parallel thirds.



Ok fly by!

You now have enough of me to last 6 days.

THE FRIENDS ARE HOMEWARD-BOUND! LET REAL LIFE BEGIN! :D (Guys, seriously, long distance smsing me to brag while Bono is blowing your minds? Not classy.)

I must share with you a most useful thing I learned in London: the humble thumbs-up. It's infinitely versatile - you can use it in, really, any situation. In particular, when you don't have an answer or don't want to come up with one, it's the perfect response no one can argue with. It doesn't really mean anything, yet somehow everyone walks away happy. All in a day, I thumbs-upped the Citibank credit card promoter, I thumbs-upped the stubborn old shaky-legged lady in the bus, and I thumbs-upped my but-her-heart-is-in-the-right-place corporate governance professor. Holla, use the THUMBS-UP today.


Now when I hear this song, all I want to do is... (well, you can't really say anything online anymore) eat a himym sandwich. Damn you Home at the End of the World and all your bad influence.

dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)
trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)
honour the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at the wedding)
never mind a world
with its villains or heroes
(for good likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)
in spite of everything
which breathes and moves, since Doom
(with white longest hands
neating each crease)
will smooth entirely our minds
-before leaving my room
i turn, and (stooping
through the morning) kiss
this pillow, dear
where our heads lived and were.

- dive for dreams, by (you know it) edward estlin cummings.