Viral Video Vendredi: 1989

Admit it, you love Taylor Swift's new album, 1989, and have been listening to it on repeat for the past three weeks. No? You haven't? Well, haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate.

I have always been a T-Swift fan, though I mock her at times for her "surprised face" when she wins music awards and get slightly annoyed when she claims to be from Tennessee. I also hate her at times for looking effortlessly flawless every minute of the day. Let's call a spade a spade - I'm jealous of Taylor Swift and her glamorous lifestyle that's filled with fancy parties, famous friends, world travels, and to-die-for fashion. Womp womp.

If you've been living under a rock and haven't seen her kick-ass music video for "Blank Space," then stop what you are doing immediately and watch this video in its entirety. My coworker said that the male lead went to her fiance's high school - the jealousy level just got bumped to an 11 on a 10 point scale.

           

While I love 1989 and Taylor's fresh, sharp sound, this week's VVV is centered on a group called Superfruit who covered Swift's entire album in their own unique way in. Enjoy!

           

November Thankfulness Challenge: The 1/2 Way Mark

Happy Tuesday, readers (if you are out there)! We are little over halfway through the month of November, and there are only 10 days until we can stuff ourselves silly with turkey, rolls, and green bean casserole. This fun challenge has allowed me to take a step back each day, reflect on my life and its many blessings, and illustrate them through film. (The fact that this challenge takes mere seconds to complete doesn't hurt my success rate either). Take a look at what I have captured so far!

                

Viral Video Vendredi: Chimpanzee Riding on a Segway

I tell you, these work weeks are flying by as the holidays get closer and closer. I am traveling for the fourth weekend in a row - this time to Birmingham with Matt to visit some friends who recently moved there. We are looking forward to a relaxing weekend with these sweet friends, eating good food, watching football, and playing with their new Labrador puppy, Lola.

This week's VVV is 100% silly. My brother showed me this video years and years ago, and I remember rolling around in stitches on the floor after I watched it. Three words: chimpanzee, overalls, segway. You're welcome and happy Friday!

                             

Sink Your Teeth Into Serial

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend! I am currently editing the 400+ pictures that I took on our weekend getaway to Charleston, so look for my re-cap of this awesome trip in the next couple of days!

To tide you over until then...has anyone else out there been listening to the new podcast, Serial? 

 

Let's take a step back for a minute. There are podcasts out there about anything and everything. Want to learn a new language? Try out one of the Coffee Break language podcasts as you drive to work. I've been listening to Coffee Break French led by my homeboy Mark and my homegirl Anna. 

Anna et Marc 

I also enjoy the podcast Stuff You Missed In History Class, which covers a random as hell topic about a random event in history. Agent Orange? The Hindenburg disaster? All found on this podcast and increasing your bank of Jeopardy knowledge one car ride at a time.

But back to Serial, the podcast of all podcasts. As I've mentioned before, I love a good mystery show like Dateline or 48 Hours, and Serial is exactly like these shows sans video. This weekly podcast chronicles the real-life murder case of Adnan Syed, who was convicted of killing his ex-GF in 1999. 

Each week the podcast interviews different players in the game, plays recordings from the trial and police interviews, describes evidence, etc. I read that this podcast is literally developing as the weeks progress, so I'm not even sure if the producers know how it is going to end? It is killing me not to Wikipedia the crap out of this case and find out what the endgame is. 

If you love to binge on TV shows or movies, then this would be an excellent foray into the podcast world (especially with Thanksgiving road trips home coming up). Just don't blame me when you find yourself idling in your car for 15 minutes so that you can finish up your episode before going into the house...

Viral Video Vendredi: Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! Isn't the mantle above gorgeous?! Pinterest is such a tease with all of its festive mantles and front porches, neither of which we possess in our eighth floor condo. One of these days...

We flew the coop this weekend and are celebrating Halloween with tasty cocktails and pumpkin desserts from some of Charleston's finest restaurants. Today would also be the perfect day to take in one of the haunted walking tours that I have read so much about and have been dying to try out.

I wanted to send everyone off on this Halloween weekend with two of my favorite Halloween-themed videos. The first video is Jimmy Kimmel's inaugural "I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy" video, which was a genius idea and has gotten almost 49 million views on Youtube. The second video comes from the hilarious Ellen DeGeneres who sends her two biggest scaredy-cat employees to a haunted house and films them as they take in the sights. Enjoy!