Blink Kitty Love

ATTENTION: APRIL

Things we are paying attention to:

The Mets -- just dropped out of first place.  But we are very happy it's baseball season again.  We like our Crackerjacks.  

GIrl in A Coma.  Saw them in concert last week.  Played some of our favorite songs ("One Eyed Fool", "Smart", "Walking After Midnight"), which sounded SO much fuller bolder better live.  Have been driving around with their latest CD, Exits and All The Rest, in the car stereo.  Need to finish off Adventures in Coverland by buying the third EP so we can burn it to a CD and add it to the car mix.

Joan Jett and The Blackhearts were off to play Lollapalooza concerts in South America (yes, minor case of travel envy).  Good video interview with Jett about her expectations and excitement. What we want to know is did she like any of the South American (or other) performers? We need some new music for spring driving.  Although thanks to that interview, we are going to try Jane's Addiction.

Goodjoe.  We want this design by kevlar51 to be a shirt so if you're a Goodjoe voter go give it a high five.

And we'll give you a t-shirt of the week since we're in a rock and roll mood.  And it's been too long between robots (and t-shirts, we have shockingly been fiscally responsible recently aka broke).  But the Sex Drugs shirt from shirt.woot is one we must have.  

 

Good night.  Play yourselves out.  

 

 

 

 

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!

 

 

 

MONSTER TONGUES

Ok, actually monster tongue twisters.  We like monsters, you know that.  And we like tongue twisters, which we've been finding out thanks to the tweeteriffic tips and twisters of @VOvoiceactor. And then there was our author of the recently published Feedstore Chronicles handy for discussing grilling and bacon buddy @traviserwin, who said this:  "There ought to be a woodchuck type tongue twister involving Sasquatches in Saskatchewan."  We, of course, just now realized we forgot the Saskatchewan part, but that can be amended.  So, anyway, we RTed the tongue twister request and @VOvoiceactor folks (who are also creating a fun and funny little series called Shelf Life) did us a favor and said come up with one yourself.  So thank you and here it is.   We'll add in Saskatchewan (or something close, feel free to shuffle it around and see if it works better before skateboards):

 

Monster Tongue Twister #1 (Because you really want a bunch of them)

Street-savvy (Saskatoon) Sasquatch squashes skittish skateboards.

Watch or read, your choice:

 

 

 

Good night!

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.

SHIRTS TOO MANY SHIRTS

This is one of our three Twitter lists.  The others?  "Causes Food Cravings" and "Music or Funny or..."  These represent our favorite current categories of conversation.  So we're going to hit you w/ our t-shirt thoughts, singers/songs we just found (or recently realized we actually like) and what snackles should be enjoyed but not spilled on your favorite articles of clothing.

 

TK mood: skews all over the place  eating:  cheeseburgers topped w/ BBQ sauce, crunchy onions, coleslaw, potato salad and chunks o' cheddar

T-shirt stylings:  favorite current t-shirt:  Pinkerton by Chris Dixon  (we think this reflects what may go in in the TK mind on a near daily basis.)

He tends to acquire black shirts w/ strange creatures:

Music: Katy Perry, yes for some reason TK is hooked on "California Gurls*"

*we're pretty sure it's not because of the video since that whenever TK is watching it, there's the same look the "Hush" episode of Buffy causes.

 

Tinker mood: active, sweaty, half a mile ahead of you, crawler...   eating:  watermelon

Tends toward tank tops but when pressed admits to owning a few shirts w/ arrows on them:

Scott Pilgrim soundtrack because we want the movie NOW.

 

Tammy mood:  cute, nearly always cute, but sometimes beautiful     eating:  something sweet

 

Falling in love with Usher's  "DJ Got Us Falling In Love"

 

 

Ty mood:  all American goes with the denim t-shirt

eating:  chips, dips, salsa...no plates or utensils involved

"Cooler Than Me" Mike Posner

And that's all there is, baby.  Enjoy the rest of your summer.

 

 

 

 

BEATLES MANIACS (AT LEAST FOR A HARD DAY'S NIGHT)

The only band our official mascot and Twitter peep @tuffycat loves more than us is The Beatles.  Can't really knock a guy for that.  So instead we've started a round the table, pass the saspirilla, tweetnip and pretzels conversations about our favorite things Beatle (or post Beatle).  Join in.  We'll let Tuffy start us off: 

 
 

Tammy  mood:  serious (or even silly sometimes) love songs always

Movie choice:  A Hard's Day's Night because it's just a slice of perfect

"I give her all my love
That's all I do
And if you saw my love
You'd love her too
I love her"

"And I Love Her"   The Beatles

"I can wait another day, until I call you
You've only got my heart on a string and everything a' flutter
But another lonely night might take forever
We've only got each other to blame, it's all the same to me love"

"No More Lonely Nights"  Paul McCartney

TK  mood:  Team Drum

Movie:  Help.  Because, and we quote, "These things happen."

"I'd ask my friends to come and see 
An octopus' garden with me 
I'd like to be under the sea 
In an octopus' garden in the shade." 

"Octopus's Garden"  The Beatles

"Gotta pay your dues
If you wanna sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
You don't have to shout
Or leap about
You can even play them easy."

"It Don't Come Easy"  Ringo Starr

Tinker:  mood:  smiling

Movie:  Life of Brian because it's always good to have friends and fun side projects and laughter

"Somewhere in her smile she knows 
That I don't need no other lover 
Something in her style that shows me" 

"Something"  The Beatles

"Fab! Like this all over, you said to me.
Fab! And you really got a hold on me.
Fab! Long time ago, when we was fab." 

"When We Was Fab"  George Harrison

Ty  mood:  in a different neighborhood and thinking maybe it's all about the performance

Movie choice:  Quadrophenia for its raw energy

"Everybody calls me the quiet one
You can see but you can't hear me
Everybody calls me the quiet one
You can try but you can't get near me"

"The Real Me"   The Who

"When everything feels all over
When everybody seems unkind
I'll give you a four leaf clover
Take all the worry out of your mind"

"Let My Love Open the Door"  Pete Townshend

VINTAGE

With a cameo from our friend Kristyn Burtt of The Web Files, who shares our love of cheeseburgers.

#FOOD OF THE WEEK

We're brilliant and we're coming up with a food system; call it the Blink Kitty Love diet if you need to, but play/tweet along:

Wednesday:  #pizzaday

Thursday:  #cookieday

Friday:  #eatsomethingdarnhealthyday

Saturday:  #grabacheeseburgerday

We are now taking suggestions for the three remaining days.  Drop a comment here or @ us (@blinkkittylove)  If not, you may end up with #frenchfriesdippedinmilkshakeday or #chocolatechipcookiesinfrenchoniondipday.