It doesn't get much better than this.

Three of the most awesome people in one room, after way too many drinks, and a great conversation in german and spanish. Can't get enough of these guys, wish it wasn't such a short trip this time...sometimes still wishing it wasn't a trip at all...xoxo.

Looks like we got awesome.

Trust me, we did.

More of this please (never enough).

This was going to mpls.
Heading to Charleston tomorrow (T-Minus 5 hours) for Aly & EC's wedding. Cannot wait (get me there now).

I Can Read Movies

I've been thinking about posting these for a while, they're really great and I have a bunch more saved that I'll add soon. What better time than now? Cary sent me an amazing link to Better Book Titles and I knew I had to put these up.

Have you heard, it's hot

Two things I'd like to point out.

1) It's hot.
2) Earth is pissed.

It's hot everywhere, and if you look at all the videos on the weather.com homepage right now you'll find errupting volcanoes, flooding in 5 states, a bounce house that got blown away (with kids in it!!!), tornados, and a dude who dies after running a race. Conclusion: earth is pissed and weather.com is a lot racier than it used to be. With that said, it's supposed to be 102 here today. FML.

The homepage of weather.com - real life happenings are damn near as scary as that not very scary movie Maggie Gyllenhaal's brother starred in, I think in 2004.

What a dumb movie, it's clearly getting hot, not cold. (science).

Fresh Squeezed

I made ginger lemonade from scratch. It is amazing and looks beautiful. Feeling a bit like Lauren Michelle right now.

South By Southwest (sxsw)

Year One: Sam convinces me we need to go to sxsw in Austin, TX. I think it went something like this, "We should go to sxsw, that would rule." "Yeah, that would be awesome, let's do it."
Jenn + Eric + Nate + Sam + Me + 1,040 miles later, we were in Austin and he was right, it ruled. Fun Fact: Sam put me in a head-lock and drug me out of the Palm Door at 4am; I still contest the necessity of that action.Year Two: I've lived in Austin, TX for 1 month and 1 week and Sam, Tucker, Ryan, Jake, Travis, Hicks and Mikey come visit and play during south-by. James books them some shows, and we kick it all day and party all night. Tons of mpls peeps in town, tons of great music - pretty magical.
Fun Fact: Tucker bought Bill Murray a hot dog at Shangri La.
Year Three: I'm still not sure I've recovered from this past year. Over a year in Austin means I scored a platinum press badge, which meant I was able to go to all of the interactive events and parties, all of the film screenings and parties, and all of the music events and parties and I had press access. 10 straight days of madness. I would have skipped out on some of the early stuff, but Scott came down to kick it, and as the plans came together last minute I knew we had to get epic, and epic we got.
Fun Fact: Scott and I were in the press pit at Big Boi and it was nuts. I somehow didn't have my camera (WTF) but this picture I stole from the internet (Lorne Thompson's flickr) was probably taken by the chick I was standing right next to.
I'll say more about year three in my next blog post. This one already seems a bit long.