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THE NEIGHBORS

So, here we are, the weather's nice, we're out in the universe playing some basketball, zooming around parks and we're people watching.  And not just so we avoid running into them.  They (possibly you) are interesting.  And so related songs are coming to the top of our playlists.  Drop a few more in the comment slot.  Let's make a crowd of 'em.  Or share your favorite place to people watch.  If the weather's ooky, we take a break to watch the clouds and the people, sitting at the counter at the local Starbucks.

 

Heard Joan Jett sing this live, fell instantly in love with a song we've always scorned and shoved in the too fluffy for us bucket with "People Who Need People".  No more.  No one has ever made the random person standing next to you sound cooler than Ms. Jett.  

Tinker (riding a skate deck or drinking a green tea lemonade) won the latest park circuit race so she gets to claim it as her entry in the pool.

"I am no better and neither are you
We're all the same whatever we do
You love me you hate me
You know me and then
Still can't figure out the scene I'm in
I am everyday people" 

"Everyday People" Joan Jett and The Blackhearts

 

TK (bike, green tea latte, cookie), often a bit on the grim side

"And you're shouting at me
I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced
But I'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel
From your head to your fists"

 

"People Are People"  Depeche Mode

 

Ty (scooter that pulled up lame with a flat he claims, iced vanilla latte), cheerfully optimistic, always curious

"Are all the different people
And all their different minds
And different ways
It would take a lifetime to explain" 

"Different People"  No Doubt

 

Tammy (roller blades, orange mango smoothy --we try to tell her it's not lunch), in a mellow mood  

"But I picture us standing there
Staying away from time
Just watching it like a river
As it slowly washes by"

"Pictures of People Taking Pictures"   Jack Johnson

NOTE FROM HQ

Howdy.  Welcome back.  First, Happy Year Of The Water Dragon.  May it bring you(and yours) health, prosperity + happiness.  Have been drawing Water Dragons as immersing myself in the Chinese zodiac animal of the year is how I recenter myself artistically. I started in the Year of The Water Horse, and the dragons are reminding me a little of that.  Doing them digitally with Autodesk's Sketchbook (bargain of a program) on my iPad. Instead of buying paint, paper or pens this year, I acquired a refurbished printer from Canon that did a good job of printing out the first batch.  

 

 

 

Next step:  to distibute them to family + friends.  I like that part of my Chinese New Year tradition.  It's a chance to reconnect with the people I like to talk to.

Music I've been listening to:  Joan Jett's Up Your Alley.  Really enjoying her cover of Chuck Berry's "Tulane" and "You Want In, I Want Out" still holds up as the reason I bought the album.  That and the cover.  On a pop note, happy Selena Gomez's "Love You Like A Love Song" has resurged on the radio.  Love the video.

Comic-wise, loving Demon Knights, Legion of Monsters and looking forward to Night Force so seem to be in a fantasy/monster mood. Except the Jughead, Kevin Keller, Archie and Kiss habit. Betty or Veronica?  Have an opinion? And back on monsters:  does anyone else want the Criterion Godzilla or at least a poster of the cover?

Have been posting regularly on the new Blink Kitty Love Signs of the iApocalypso art Tumblr.  You need to be checking in there, or following the fun on @blinkkittylove, which will get you everywhere Blink Kitty Love you need to be.  

I'll leave you with my latest two dragons, one cartoony, one not so and my thanks for stopping by.  Soon, back to tongue twisters or some other silliness.  Stay tooned!

 

 

 

FOURTH OF JULY GOMEZ

First, don't blow yourselves up.  No matter how easy the acquisition of roadside fireworks seems, no matter how tempting the application of flame to fuse appears.  Try the iFireworks app instead.

And thanks to "Love You Like A Love Song," Selena Gomez's new 80's inspired video with a kick ass karaoke flair, we're going to acquire our second Selena Gomez album.  And see Monte Carlo*.  Don't scoff.  Don't think of her as just a Disney dreamette or Bieber arm candy.  She's funny, sharp and has increased her singing + performing skill set at a tire squealing, engine revving pace that has been impressive to watch.  And we figure if enough money ends up in the Selena Gomez opening weekend pool, she can pull a Will Smith and start kicking aliens off the planet next Fourth of July -- we seem to need that now that the zombie tide is ebbing a bit (we hope, although you wouldn't be able to tell from the t-shirt world).  

So our Selena Gomez favorite moments:

TK  mood:  can't get enough wizarding

Selena Gomez as Alex Russo (WIzards of Waverly Place) saves the world, her boyfriends and/or her brothers every darn time.   And makes us laugh.  And drop things.

"Magic"  Selena Gomez

 

Tinker:  mood:  mischief, costumes + lightsabers

"I, I love you like a love song, baby
I, I love you like a love song, baby

And I keep hittin' re-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat"

"Love You Like A Love Song" Selena Gomez and the Scene

 

Ty  mood:  babysitting the nieces and watching the Princess Protection Program

More onscreen saving the girl heroism from Selena Gomez, plus princesses.  The nieces love princesses.  And creepy skeleton animals with bows (make a note of that t-shirt designers, there will be a need for Christmas presents.)

"One and The Same" Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato

 

Tammy    mood:  can't stop her feet from dancing

"And it's not like I'm hurting anyone
But I can't confess my rock, my rock and roll ways"

"Rock God"  Selena Gomez and The Scene

 

*The official Blink Kitty Love stance:  There's room enough in summer for both action movies and charming comic fluff.  And we'll be rocking our Rebellious Stripes shirt because patriotism never goes out of style, although we're tired of politicians absconding with it for questionable purposes.  

 

HISTORY + HOLLYWOOD

We're still feeling like we need a step away from cute, so here's a very cool hoodie with historical intent from Declaration Clothing Company.  We've decided that a modern super heroic type would use this shout out to America's founding principles as the base layer of an outfit, topped by a kicky jacket and a navy watch cap w/ a red and white star/stripe combo -- then add cargo pants (pockets for cool crime fighting gadgets!!!) and kick ass made in America boots.  Inspired?  We are. 

 And with President's Day coming up, we direct to you to Declaration's blog, where you can catch Today in Revolutionary War History posts.  Here's George Washington's victory at Trenton.

 One of our favorite freedoms is the freedom to be goofy and this fun Michael Buble Hollywood video is just that.  We want a stunt budget.

KICK SOME...

Shirt o' The Week:  Be Formless, Shapeless* by Zerobriant at Design By Humans.  We've loved the flow and power of this design since we first saw it.  We like shirts that make us want to go out and do something kick ass.  As soon as this one arrives, it'll go to the top of that list. 

 

 

Speaking of kick ass:  Nadia G of Bitchin Kitchen has a quickie Valentine's Holiday special posted.  To quote our favorite TV cook and quipster:  "Serve with love or french fries whatever."  That's our kind of Valentine's sentiment.

 

*we ordered ours so you can use our 10% off code:  2TPGN1

Friday I'm in Love T-shirt update:  Received shirt from Threadless, lots of ooky loooking black spots in the print where it looks damaged and/or like it has a pox, the art image on the Threadless site did not look that distressed so we sent ours back, with sadness and a demand for the return of our monies or a better print.  And then we played the song even LOUDER.

 

And no, we don't care if Monday's blue.

FRIDAY: ARE WE THERE YET?

We're* in love.  We're always in love on Friday because we always have The Cure in our heads telling us so.  And soon, we'll have a t-shirt telling the world.

This week's Shirt o' The Week can be found at Threadless, which tempted us further by putting it on sale for $14 since Valentine's Day is near (it's a love shirt).  They are also offering (we're not sure for how long) 20% off if you buy from a mobile device.

Spent last weekend keeping up with one of our favorite winter events, ESPN's The X-Games.  Some excellent snowboarding (Note: we don't care about snowmobiling, how about some more women's events, Tinker is frowning in your direction, ESPN.)  So our Superstar crush of the week shout out (that's what we're calling it this week anyway) goes to Kelly Clark, for the first ever frontside 1080 in the women's superpipe.  Golden.

 

 

*Any use of the word "we" with the phrase "in love" does not include TK (he prefers the Thursday options), who is trying to be clever for the Bitchin Kitchen's anti Valentine challenge.

Roses are red, violets are blue

We're animated, why aren't you...

 

Cheers!

 

Breaking news (insisted on by Tammy and because we won't collectively be in mood:  valentine again for two years or so), tonight's shirt.woot is worth a shout out for traditionalists (and because we love the usually more cynical but always worth the view art of BootsBoots):

 

ALL ABOUT EWE (AND OSCAR)

No, that's not a misspelling and we're not having a special Monday Shirt o'The Week post to annouce we've started watching Bette Davis movies.  What we are here to tell you about is the simple, funny and available for a limited time Ewe Boat shirt by JadenKale, artist and Tilteed curator.  Yes, we simply love puns and whenever we play Settlers Of Catan, we are harassed for how much our strategy involves hoarding sheep (Tinker's little brother likes to invent habits we don't have.)  But mostly, we're showing you this because every time we think about it we laugh.  Thinking...yep, still laughing.

Yes, easily amused. It's our middle name. And yes, still laughing. 

As for crushing, we're back to burgers.  And 5 Guys.  And french fries.  

 

Nothing beats natural lighting. If you haven't tried 5 Guys yet, you should find one. They're amazing and affordable. Our burger buddy, @KristynBurtt, frequently taunts us with pictures, sending us heartlessly out into the cold to cure our craving. And then we throw french fries at her.   And kudos to the aforementioned, french fry dodging @KristynBurtt, who is starting her Oscar coverage odyssey for Star Pulse and Mingle Media TV tomorrow. We're looking forward to some inside information. Who are we rooting for? Natalie Portman, Tangled (with a vote or two for How To Train Your Dragon), Colin Firth (Tammy doesn't care what he does, she just cares that he's Colin), Inception (Tinker likes the cinematography), Amy Adams (Ty always a fan) and we're really annoyed that the Joan Rivers doc was skipped over -- although to be fair, we haven't seen it yet, but we like to be unreasonably annoyed about something every once in awhile. Be glad it's not you. Also, Diane Warren's "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" which allowed Cher to have the best song in a movie where she was not the best singer. Show stopped, hand over award. And we did like the job Pharell Williams did with the Despicable Me score -- fun and fresh.

NEW CRUSH + SHIRT O' THE WEEK

The Crush:  Nadia G of Bitchin Kitchen.  Yes, she rocks the kitchen, our world and makes burgers that look like this (graphic lifted from her site):

 

And so you don't miss us too much, we're going to do a shirt o' the week.  Remember, none of you are kicking into the pizza fund regularly so you won't be seeing fancy, expensive shirts, but we think the sites we frequent give value for money.  And make great shirts.

The Shirt:  So this week, it's cmdixon2 at Goodjoe with The Last Straw.  We'd like to wear it when we hit the movies over the weekend, but we'll have to wait for a couple of weeks to do that.  We're still hitting the movies though.  Which movies?  Tammy's opting for Black Swan and popcorn, Ty and Tinker are excited about The Fighter and munching on Reese's Pieces and TK, well, honestly, TK's seen Tron: Legacy too too many times (although we did hear a rumor he'd been spotted tearing up at a Tangled screening or two -- and not just during the dying parts.)  TK's snack of choice:  whatever's leftover in his jacket pocket from the last time.  We don't ask to share.

The Last Straw:  

 

And have you seen Joan Jett in The Eyeliners' "Destroy" video?  It's one of our 2010 favorite moments. 

Happy New Year.  Stay safe.  We wish you good times + good friends.

BOOK COVERS

No, not mood: Halloween yet.  We're still laughing over Easy A.  Which had some great tunes but no soundtrack album.  Which got us to thinking about cool movies based on books we're pretty sure some of us slept on instead of read and the excellent cover songs that have appeared in them.

So let's start with the wonderous Emma Stone + Easy A*.  Seen it?  No?  You're missing an actress walking away with your attention like no one else has this century (yes, we are that kind of clever).  And for the cover:  The Dollyrots covering Joan Jett's Bad Reputation, perfect song for the movie.

Next up: Ten Things I Hate About You** where Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger teach us that even people who are bad at dating can be good at passion (and paintball).  And yes, we do watch the movie just to hear the Letters To Cleo cover of  "I Want You To Want Me" some nights (always brings on the dancing + the air guitar.)

Clueless***: Alicia Silverstone and company taught us everything we needed to know about fashion (and driving -- don't do it in LA) in this movie.  Choice cover:  "Kids In America"  The Muffs

And the cover we really want:  Kristen Stewart rocking "I Love Playin' With Fire" in The Runaways**** (yes, based on a book, although probably not one "they" want you to read in school.)  Not on the soundtrack, not available as a single.  Boo.

Speaking of boo, enjoy your October.  We are currently planning our Horrifying Processed Food Product Costumes for Chipotles Boorito charity FUNdraising event.  $2 Burritos, a good cause ($1,000,000 for Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution)...there may be pictures.  TK's thinking of going as glowing nuclear yellow processed cheese food dip (we're really hoping someone tries to dip something in him.)

 

And the answers to the quiz you didn't know about:  

*Scarlet Letter

**The Taming of The Shrew

***Emma

****Neon Angel

OUR FESTIVAL MIXTAPE

A mash up of scenes from a day (or three) in the life of Blink Kitty Love: