This is Halloween!

[kaiserkuchen]

And I am doing absolutely nothing for it, besides visiting Michelle and Elli for a bit later tonight. Can't say I really mind I guess, still have many more years in front of me to do the whole Halloween bash and dress-up thing where I don't have the niggling pressure of imminent BAKK2 thesis at the back of my head. Am basically at the 50 page mark now, with no more than three or four pages more to come if at all from some extra theory padding. I have been staring at it so long that I cannot feasibly tell how my prof will like it. I remain hopeful for a pass, first and foremost, though I admit that the embers of what used to be the fire of my nerd pride still hope for at least a 3 or MAYBE, TPTB willing a 2?

Have been existing in weird semi-work/semi-distraction limbo these past few days still, so here be another attempt at flushing some of my open tabs by posting them here:

MUUUSIC: I had heard a bunch of these Live Lounge covers seperately before, but I had no idea that they were from an entire series. Covers are always something I enjoy listening to, and these are pretty fantastic.
Lily Allen does The Kooks "Naive" ...Lily Allen's singing voice remains endlessly charming to me, and I love what she does with a song that I am already very fond of.
White Lies do Kanye West's "Love Lockdown" ...say what you will about the dude, but Kanye really has a flair for songs, and these songs lend themselves so well to being covered by others. (See also Exhibit A, Kris Allen and Heartless, ahem). The dude's voice is kind of strange, but it fits the song.
Jamelia does Linkin Park's "Numb" ...I admit to having been a massive LP fan back in the day, and I miiiiight still have some of their songs on my ipod ("Bleed it Out" has ridic lyrics but gets me pumped up like woah, ngl), so obviously I am not that much of a hard-sell to like this. Still! I think it's a fab version that might appeal to LP haters, too.
Lee Ryan does Foo Fighters "Best of You" ...I was thrown a bit a first to who this dude was, but it was the hot one from that one UK boyband! "Blue" or something like that. So on that factor I am kind of fond of this version, though NOTHING EVER can top the Dave Grohl vocals on the original ♥
The Fray doing Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" ........LAWWWWWL, just. Ahahaha. And still, the dude's voice is fantastic.
The Noisettes do The Killers "When We Were Young" ...This is by far my ~favorite~ of the batch, and I really like what they do with the song. It sounds so lovely with the female vocals, ahh.

Random lulz:
The gossip corners of the internet seem to be a-flutter with news of Anderson Cooper in India with his supposed boyfriend? ...first off, good for Andy and daaamn that hotel looks swank. And secondly: DAAAAAAAAAAMN the arms on those two. This is veering into Jared Padalecki at his beefiest category now! I am also again in awe of the sheer information seeking stalker-power</> that many denizens of the internet seems to possess. No wonder Anderson is off somewhere in India for his holiday.

A Very Potter Musical ...yes, yes... FIVE MILLION YEARS LATER THAN EVERYONE ELSE, I also finally get around to watching this. Am halfway through and it is amazingly random and somewhat amusing, and I can't stop clicking the next part to see what weirdness will happen next, so there is that. Also, Voldemort is kind of hot. As is Harry. Ahem.

Comments

[mcollinknight.livejournal.com]

Those songs are amazing - I LOVE LILY ALLEN, SHE IS SO PRESH AND YET BADASS. (lol 'Heartless' i c whut u did there)

I *LOVE* the WWWY one, that's wonderful :)

I hope Andy is happybeans <3

[kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com]

I am still clicking back and forth from my word doc to the YT tabs aaaah for srs WWWY is so wonderful (when the chorus does this AHHHHHH thing? Bliss). And I think Lily Allen is so cute-- the delightfully retro dresses she wears sometimes! Her videos are also always entertaining, have you seen the one where she's all 70s retro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1R356wMv4Y)? (and muhahaha he is Pocket Idol and thus imminently sneakable in such posts yanno ;DD)

I do too ♥ He deserves the break!

[laulan.livejournal.com]

I'll click through all the links later, but this is just a drive-by comment to say AHAHA Linkin Park--I still listen to them sometimes when I get depressed, because the lyrics are so HILARIOUS it usually cheers me up and makes me start laughing. XD

[kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the lyrics are certainly ....special. But their melodies ~strike a chord~ in my cheesy, cheesy heart and it really is energizing. See also my relationship to Papa Roach and "Last Resort" lolol