Monday, April 27, 2009

hidden treasures!



So, I recently became obsessed with the LivingSocial application on facebook, and one of those "pick your top five" categories was "cereals from your childhood".

There was a cereal in the early 90's called "Sprinkle Spangles", and it was my favorite, tied with Captain Crunch. It was extremely short lived, only lasting 2 years, but I put that as one of my favorites. Kristin is the only other person I know who remembers this cereal, and we used to talk about it, although we thought it was called "Sprinkle Sprangles".

Anyway, I also discovered another cereal that was released simultaneously with SS, known as 'Hidden Treasures'. I LOVED THAT CEREAL. I had forgotten all about it!

They looked like Captain Crunch, but in the center of each piece was either grape, cherry or orange filling, or some didn't have any filling at all.

Anyone remember these?

This article gives some more info about these flopped cereals.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Chester French

Here is a music video that simultaneously amuses and frightens me.

I really like the song, it's an American Eagle song, and that's how I first heard it. The guy is really cute too. However, is the excessive violence necessary? Is this really the sort of thing that creates the atmosphere people want to be in while shopping? These are just questions that I have.

I mean, I think a couple solid punches would have given us the right idea. "Okay, this chick is badass and gets what she wants, and no guy of hers will get in the way."

Whatever, it's a decent song anyway.

I'm going to try to post a playlist of my favorite AE songs here tomorrow.

p.s. they get to listen to Ben Folds at Aerie! How rude!

Monday, April 20, 2009

Top 5 favorite easter candies




5. Peeps
4. Lindt Chocolate Bunnies
3. Cadbury Creme Eggs
2. Starburst Jelly Beans
1. Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs

YUM.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Music

While watching American Idol tonight, as one of the guest performers "Flo Rida" was performing, it really dawned on me how embarrassed I am that this is the music of my generation. I mean, one can argue that the music of my generation was more late 90's, like 'No Doubt' type stuff, but really, it's all been crap, and music is one of the many aspects of my life which sometimes makes me feel like I was born in the wrong generation.

There is good music out there even today. There really is. It's just really hard to find, and it takes a conscious effort. There's Death Vessel, There's Ben Folds, there are the Mountain Goats, there's Ben Kweller, Rilo Kiley, Belle and Sebastian and Kimya Dawson. Even some of the popular artists have some good songs out there. I admire a Regina Spektor song here and there, I love my Christina Aguilera, and I'm quite a MIKA fan these days, too.

It just sucks that the popular music, the stuff our generation will be remembered for, is so damned terrible. Just the name 'flo rida' is embarassing. I suppose it's some play on Florida, or I at least hope so.

This 'Flo' character took parts from 'You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by Dead or Alive, and those were the only decent parts of the song and the rest was all crappy rapping. I hate it. I truly do. I hate the radio, and I hate riding in the car with people who listen to the radio, because you can't do anything about it because it's their car, and they're giving you a ride, but the radio really sucks and it's all of the same songs over and over and 9 times out of 10 the songs are freaking terrible.

This is why I submerse myself in the bands I have already mentioned as well as The Beatles, Wings, AC/DC, Steve Miller Band, and a few other classics. What has happened to music? To even call this generation's music by that name is to stretch the word to the very edge of its meaning.

Also, completely off topic, this is so cool and everyone should watch it. Alex showed it to me just a few minutes ago.

Here's the link if you have a webcam and want to try it.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Complete Persepolis




I'm currently reading The Complete Persepolis for Classics of World Lit II.

It's pretty cool so far, the pictures are super cute. Maybe I'll add writing a graphic novel to the list of things I want to do.

I'm excited to see how it'll turn out, and it's really fun to feel like you're reading a comic book.

Here's a link to what the inside of the book looks like.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

I love this frozen yogurt.


This is the most delicious frozen thing I have eaten in a long time.

It's a cherry frozen yogurt, but the cherry flavor is that of real cherries, not fake maraschino flavoring. It has HUGE chunks of real cherries, lots of them, too, and the occasional dark chocolate chunk as well. It's so good! And even though it's frozen yogurt, I like it just as much as almost any ice cream I've tried (with the exception of Ben and Jerry's Cinnamon Buns- nothing beats it).

The nutrition facts are great, too. Each 4 oz serving (which equals 1/2 cup) has 140 calories, and 3 grams of fat. Not too shabby, weighing in at only 3 Weight Watchers points.

The bad part- it's not cheap. This 2 pint (two Ben and Jerry's worth) container I purchased at Crosby's Market was $4.29. Crosby's is definitely more expensive than a Market Basket, Shaw's or Stop & Shop, but even so, it's not going to be the same price as Hood or anything of that nature. This is true of most foods that are healthier for us, plus this frozen yogurt is also all natural.

Go for it! You won't be sorry- and if you eat an actual serving size every time, you'll get 8 servings- that's not so bad for 4 bucks.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Sunshine Cleaning


I recently saw Sunshine Cleaning, and I gotta agree with nearly everyone else who's talking about it. It was great. I went into the theater knowing very little about the film, actually, and was surprised at how dark it was. I had no idea what it was at all about, and without giving it away, it really was very dark.

The characters all had lots of depth, I was happy with all of the performances, and with the script and character development in general. The humor was light and dark at the same time, something that's not easily achieved. You'd find yourself chuckling, essentially at death, which doesn't happen very often.

The movie did leave me with a few questions and a few loose ends that needed to be tied up, and there were a couple story lines that either needed to be further examined and explained, or not examined at all.

You can definitely feel the 'Little Miss Sunshine' type style, and that's a good thing to me. The movie also had a soundtrack that made me want to run home and download all of it on Itunes.

Go see it! It was a good one.