Holler! So it's already 15 days into 2011, and we have so much to talk about.
 First, resolutions:

1. Watch more documentaries. (watched The Cove last night! Oh man, if I ever get to Taiji, Japan I will punch Private Space in the face. If you've seen it, you know who I'm talking about. If not, rent it and have your mind blown).

2. Attend a real pow-wow. First things first, I need to befriend a chief, and earn their trust. I think this would be a really beautiful and fun ceremony, and I'm getting better at the drums every month (sort of, I play a child's drum set from ToysRUs that is intended for 4-6 year olds, but hey... sometimes all you need is that snare and symbol for the magic to come ALIVE). Plus, I LOVE smoked salmon, dressing up colorfully, and the concept of living off the land. If Costner can do it, anyone can.

3. Become fluent in Italian. This one is a repeater from a few years ago, and I was able-tongued enough to get around Italy solo and order cappuccinos and live la dolce vita for a few days, but this time around I'm going for the jugular: I need to obtain an actual godfather to have italian conversations with to appropriately learn about the Old Country, how to incorporate pasta into every meal (bonus!) and confidently justifying a post-lunch nap every day. Genius!

That's what I've got so far. Feel free to let me know your resolutions in the comments section of this post. A resolution is only as good as it's accountability (that totally sounds like a proverb! It IS 3:30am on the eastern seaboard, so my brain turns to Fortune Cookie mode at a certain point. I need to find a way to use that for good). But this way, we can keep each other in check. Like parole officers, but in a fun, new-years-resolution way.


I also have a few music videos that I watch slash listen to a lot, because they are my life anthems right now. I hope that you have a life anthem right now, and if you don't, do some googling or itunes-ing (is THAT a verb? If not, it will be in 2 months. Just watch) to find one.

I'd like to share mine with you. They all make me happy.

This first song I used to drive to all the time in highschool, windows down, fantasizing about living in pasadena and knowing what tequila even tasted like:

Amazing right?! I love this. Who are these clowns in Wave?! They look like a rich man's O-Town. Or a poor man's LFO. Can't tell.

The next video anthem is a cover that this british chick named Lissie does of Kid Cudi's "Pursuit of Happiness." Seriously amazing and highly addictive. This video changed my life for the better, and it's something that rarely occurs in nature: a british girl covering an american guy's hip hop song.
What's up 2011, lets DO THIS.

And finally, if geography and harmony had a lovechild, it'd be named ROCKAPELLA. Proof of that is this gem of a music video of these unaccompanied sensations singing the theme song to the hit afterschool educational show "Where In The World Is Carmen SanDiego?"  This is the "urban edition" with a special beat boxing medley, but the life lessons about petty theft and globetrotting and Female Kleptomania still shine through.

Halfway through the song it's no longer about Carmen and her shenanigans, it's about THE BEAT.
DO IT, ROCKAPELLA!

For anyone born in the 80s who watched this show growing up, there was always an ethical dilemma at the end of the show when the kid in the final map-and-light-post challenge would have to write the name of his dream destination state all huge in marker on this hidden piece of paper, in case he won and the suits had to fly him there.

Do any of you, faithful readers, remember what state you would have put as a child if you won the ultimate prize as a contestant on Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? 

I'd have put FLORIDA. For obvious reasons: Shamu was at Sea World Orlando. (But now after seeing The Cove I would have to go with Maine. Watch it, unless you want to continue utilizing your season's pass to Sea World, then definitely don't!)