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Music, Television

Anne Hathaway Came in Like a Wrecking Ball

So I was watching The Tonight Show the other night and Jimmy Fallon was explaining how he was going to be on this new show Lip Sync Battle, and concluded his little spiel by saying Anne Hathaway would be on it and that people would be “talking” about what she was going to do.  This is what she did.  And it’s awesome:

I didn’t get to see the full episode yet, but she battles Emily Blunt.  I have no idea what Blunt did, but there’s no way she could outdo Anne Hathaway swinging around on a wrecking ball like Miley Cyrus.  I wonder if they decided to pair Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt together because they both played Meryl Streep’s assistants in The Devil Wears Prada…

Music

How I Spent My Morning

I woke up this morning two hours earlier than planned.  So as I was laying in bed, I was thinking about the song “Pompeii” by Bastille (featured as a #PhillipsSongOfTheDay, read here) and how that’s a totally epic song.  Then I thought, “how would I perform that acoustic?”

I’m performing in my first showcase at my school tomorrow; I’ll be playing three original songs (guitar and vocals), but I did have a moment when I thought I’d start off my set playing a cover song.  It was hard to choose which song to cover, but it was between “Let it Go” from Frozen, “Cooler Than Me” by Mike Posner, and “Team” by Lorde.  I wasn’t even considering “Pompeii” because I had no idea how an acoustic version would go.  Then I found this video:

Watch Bastille perform their hit “Pompeii”

 

From this video, I found these clips of Bastille covering “We Can’t Stop” by Miley Cyrus and “No Scrubs” by TLC.  I was stunned how they changed up these songs; they totally owned the songs and I think did a great job:

Watch Bastille cover “We Can’t Stop”

Watch Bastille cover “No Scrubs”

 

StoryTime

The Snow Can’t Stop

She opened the back door, stuck the yard stick into the snow, and examined it.  “We’re at eleven inches” my mom said.

If you’ve been following this blog since it’s beginning (hi mom!), you probably have picked up two things: I hate the snow/cold and I live in a magical place where it currently has freezing temperatures and has been snowing like crazy.  Today was weird because the weather reports weren’t too clear what was going to happen.  In fact, my school insisted on staying open, then closed half way through the day realizing the weather was definitely not going to flake out.

While I was working on my homework, I would casually glance out the window and just think the snow was so minimal.  I’ve lived through blizzards and Northeasters where the snow is coming down; this snow just looked like a simple dusting.  So when my mom said it had snowed eleven inches I didn’t think anything of it, for some reason the number meant nothing to me.

Then I actually went outside to shovel.  Well, now is when I was shocked how much it snowed.  The snow was up to my knees.  My freakin’ knees.  It was me and my small shovel versus a sea monster of snow. Gulp.

I’m going to regret saying this, and if you ever mention it I will deny this, but I kind of like shoveling snow (cue gasps).  It’s just a great opportunity to plug the headphones in and jam to music while getting a good workout.  I typically create playlists of songs to jam to while shoveling (check out my post “You’re Snow Shoveling Playlist“), but today I listened to one song: “We Can’t Stop” by Miley Cyrus.

I was inspired to listen to this song by the simple fact that it had snowed eleven inches in like an hour and wasn’t stopping.  As I was shoveling, the snow would tumble down upon itself or fly back into my face.  Everywhere I turned, snow was there and not letting up; my efforts were fruitless.  I felt that the snow was literally singing “We Can’t Stop” to me:

“We can’t stop

And we won’t stop

We run things, things don’t run we

Don’t take nothing from nobody

Yeah, yeah”

Mocking me, taunting me, that’s what this snow and winter has been doing to me.  It’s like mother nature knows how much I hate winter that she has decided to make each winter the most painful and annoying.  Well, just a heads up to the snow, in a couple of months it will be summer and you will be melted while I’ll be the one outside celebrating.  So, there.