Sigga What?

This just in through the Schell grapevine (and from Relevant)-- Sigur Ros’ frontman, Jónsi Birgisson, is working on a solo album that will be out this April. Word on the street is that they were almost done with a full-length album when this all took off for ol’ Jónsi. He’s the high-pitched backbone of this group, so this should be a fun album. It’s going to be in English, not syllables from an obsolete Icelandic language, but even so, it still might be hard to make out the words from his baby bird/angel voice. The tiny bit of sampling that is on his website, and the youtube music video sound pretty fun. If you are not currently a fan of Sigur Rós, then you need to re-evaluate your life. This is a band Andrew introduced me to 2002-ish and they’ve had some good music since then. Check it out.

Also... Watched a great movie on HBO a while back with MJ… “Temple Grandin,” starring Claire Danes (as Temple) who sports some Shirley Temple locks. I have to say; she did a great job and as fellow HBO star Big Edie would say, she was an autistic smash. She’s a fine cowgirl and may have introduced herself in the following way: “Are you a scientist? Hi, Temple Grandin, nice to meet you. Are you a scientist?” This reminds me of when Karen Lesser busted in my room freshmen year and asked me if I was a poet. I told her that if I was I didn’t know it. She told me she thought I was anyway. Yep, Karen also said Hitler was “a famous man from the Holocaust,” so I didn’t listen too much to her predictions about my life. I’d like to see an HBO special on her life. I don't know anyone that wouldn't.

Finally, as promised, here are some pictures that I've taken on my grandfather's old camera. They are in order and you can see the art grow as we go. I think we've finally figured out how to use it properly and here are some of my favorites so far:

I'm still a little surprised that the camera works and I've been very pleased with this fun discovery. I took some sweet pictures of Frank with it while in NOLA but we'll have to wait and see how they actually turned out.

P.S.: I'm working on an art project for a work video. For those who don't know, it's a stop motion (flip-book style) movie of scenes I'm painting. It's about 1600 screens for a 2 minute curriculum video. So stay tuned for that because I'm finishing it up tonight. Probably can't post it but might try to show it to you soon.

Happy end of the week! Rainbows and honey bears,

schell

Ramblings of Procrastination

It's finals time, so everyone has their nose in the books, except for me. I'm not sure what's gotten into me, but I just can't motivate to study for the two finals that I have tomorrow.

The past few weeks have been filled with ups and downs.

I was SUPER excited to have sunshine and 40 degree weather for a few days. I think my S.A.D. is subsiding. I can only hope the same for Liz Lemon.

I've finally recovered from the plague. My black lung cough will sometimes resurface when I'm outside, but I'm otherwise healed. Get excited.

I've had a really hard time missing out on the birth of baby Emma. I'm not really sure why, I missed Jon and Sarah's wedding, so it's par for the course! I guess it's the first realization I've had of the trade-offs that I'm going to have to make in my life. I definitely don't regret moving to Chicago. I guess it was just my first realization that I'm not going to be physically beside you celebrating the great moments in your lives, and supporting you during the difficult ones. I guess this sentiment is fitting to the blog. I still miss you guys already :)

I went to see Citizen Cope Friday night. God love him...he's so messed up during a show, I'm just impressed that he's able to stand the entire time.

I just bought the Mumford & Sons CD and plan to buy tickets to see them at Lincoln Hall on the 24th of May. Thanks Melba for the tip.

Pooja also gave me Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance, I forgot how much I liked that song.

I bought chocolate covered, peanut butter filled pretzel bites at Trader Joe's last week. Pretty sure they should put a warning on those about how addictive they are. good grief.

I've been listening to Jump Little Children a lot lately. If you haven't listened to them in a while, do yourself a favor...go listen to them. now. go.

OK. I guess that's enough for now.

Make wise choices,

ashlarae