Make You Say Wow
3:39 pm | Video | Listening | 0
Bob Log III is playing tonight at Rudyard’s. I’m going. You should too.
There is more video awesomeness here.
The Death and Life of Ice Cream
8:57 am | Video | Watching | 0
Hope you have a hot, sticky, wonderful July 4th.
Little yellow buzzing
2:23 pm | Video | Two Wheels, Watching | 2
I only wish I’d learned this kind of stuff in my motorcycle safety classes.
Oh, I have another video for you too, but it’s in very, very poor taste.
I *was* Angela Chase
12:18 am | Video | Girly, Watching | 1
Sorry. I just spent the past month watching every single episode.
Races, wrecks and wheelies
12:11 pm | Photo Album, Video | Two Wheels | 2
Friday is my birthday and I am unnaturally excited about making my way down to Gruene and New Braunfels, TX, for the recently resuscitated Texas United River Rally. There will be scooting! And tubing! I have never been to the Guadalupe River. I am entering the last two years of my 20s! I am camping alone in my tent but will be surrounded by friends old and new.
Here is a collection of silly videos from the last rally that had no place to live, so I mashed them into one great movie instead.
Sandblast II from Brittanie on Vimeo.
All James Brown, all the time
9:02 pm | Video | Watching | 2
Jesus, James Brown’s widow is my new hero.
Best line: My husband would not let anybody see him not made up. I was his hairdresser, trust me. He had to be fly, okay! All the time!
(Via Dlisted)
Black and proud
9:24 pm | Video | Listening | 0
I know the 40th anniversary of the assassination of MLK was roughly a month ago, but above is an amazing video of James Brown performing in Boston the night after the shooting, and here is the accompanying story of how JB prevented a massive riot from happening that evening. (Via AskMe)
Happy Easter Monday
10:59 pm | Video | Watching | 2
My glamorous life makes Sheila E. jealous
8:47 pm | Video | Listening | 4
What has two thumbs, several hundred gem sweaters and is totally awesome? Leslie Hall, whom I’m going to see perform with her band, the LYs, in about 15 minutes. It will be an bitchin’ start to my early weekend. Hence:
Tonight’s show comes fresh off a seven-day shift at work, my FIRST seven days at work, to be specific. It’s a little overwhelming. I’m hoping my hair doesn’t fall out again. But the Lord of Non-Profits has blessed me with a rare two-days-in-a-row off, and as soon as I ace my Spanish test tomorrow morning Christopher and I are going to drive to Austin. We’re in the market for tube amps.
Friday night we have tickets for the ballet. Gershwin Glam. I booked them specifically for Friday because it’s Leap Year Day. I used to have a cousin — related by marriage, not blood — who was born on Leap Day, 1980. Her name is Christie. Her birthdays were always a big deal. We’re the same age and were very close when we were kids, though since my mother left my stepfather in the mid-1990s I haven’t spoken to her, which makes me kinda sad.
Happy birthday Christie, wherever you are.
Museum museum
2:27 pm | Video | Watching | 0
It’s a beautiful day outside. I started the morning with a fantastic longer-than usual run down by the bayou, at which point it was already nearly 80 degrees. Came home, showered, resurrected our former long-standing Sunday tradition of riding the scooters to The Black Lab for brunch, sitting outside, morning cocktails. 
It’s a great day to be outdoors, but now I have to go to work, where, as Cortney said, I’ll be surrounded by beautiful things all day.
Tonight I’m going to a black-tie Oscar party. Day-Lewis or Bardem, either one can have me. The rest of Hollywood I could care less about. Christopher and I watched “She Gods of Shark Reef” last night. Roger Corman. He’s a guy who made the movie business fascinating. Unfortunately, “She Gods” is not one of his best, but you can watch it in it’s entirety on Google video.