Blink Kitty Love

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.

PROHIBITIONS

Shirt o' The Week:  We are amused by this Regan Smith Clarke manifesto t-shirt.  And we want to start collecting $50 from people, starting with Seth Rogen, The Green Hornet's writer and Seth Rogen, The Green Hornet's executive producer.  We figure Seth Rogen, the actor, did the best he could with the material he was given.  So drop that $100 in the pizza fund, Mr. Rogen, and we might forgive you.  Especially if someone has the sense to release the original TV series on DVD.  We didn't consider Green Hornet a total loss: Jay Chou had the easy charm and physical grace we like to see in our heroic crime fighters so we might consider taking a chance on a Kato spinoff.  

Speaking of easy charm + physical grace, our local Blockbuster is closing down so we wandered through looking for bargains.  And guess which movie star had the most movies on the wall:  Jackie Chan.  Movies we love (Drunken Master), movies we've never heard of (Gorgeous) and so many of each kind.  Wow.  See, Mr. Rogen, if you want to know how to do action, funny and (we guess you were going for) manly and bromantic -- watch the Rush Hours and take notes.  

Video:  P!nk is always out there taking video chances and we love her for it. So while her latest isn't as much fun as some of her others*, "F**kin' Perfect" is our video tip for the week.  Pass it along. 

 

* Our favorite (and the one we quote most) is So What.  "I'm still a rock star/I've got my rock moves" is how we summon our superpowers.  You?

 

 

HOWLING + VOLCANOS + TRENCH COATS

Seen The Green Hornet?  Nope, saving our money, but between the ads + our late catch of Tron: Legacy (go for the action, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, Garrett Hedlund, etc, but not the plot), we have spent the week crushing on costume design.  Yes, we want light up stripes on our clothes so we can skate at night and freak out everybody in the neighborhood.  And The Green Hornet media push made us remember another long coated, slouch hatted, leaping out from the night hero:  The Shadow.  Yes, he of the Orson Welles laugh (finally saw Me and Orson Welles this week; Tammy still thinks Efron looks pretty) and the Alec Baldwin acting.  And the exquisite and perfect costume and art design.  We want to eat at the Cobalt Club, we want to lounge in Shiwan Khan's robe that matches the rotating floor of his hidden HQ, we want to leap out in The Shadow's coat, hat, scarf.  (We already have our ring, please don't ask for details.)  Haven't seen The Shadow yet?  Go ahead.  We'll wait.

 

And the current T-shirt of the week.  Well, the disclaimer:  you might remember we have mentioned our weakness for/obsession with werewolves -- or maybe it actually counts as a habit of howling at the moon (and TK refusing to shave for three days a month).  So, while we might like to be picking an artsy shirt or a vintagey one to tie in with The Shadow, what we have to confess to is our obsession with Sean Anton Husband's The Curse of The Care Were.  It's our five years worth of pop culture reference shirt because they're not really our speed, but we cannot resist this howl of ultimate furry pink cuteness.  

And now that we've gotten that out of our system, how about something a little hotter than pink.  Like volcanos (ha, and you thought we just threw that in randomly) and one of the sexiest music videos ever.  Chris Isaak's Wicked Game dropped on the radio early in the week and we've been humming/singing it at random intervals. Herb Ritts posed Isaak on a volcano, but those shots were cut from the final version, leaving lots of frolicking on the beach. Here's the Wicked Game last.fm page with a live version of the song; we need to see some id before we link you to the actual video.

 

 

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.

VMA VIDEOS (AND WE GO ON HIATUS)

Hello all.  VMA time has rolled around and we love nothing (that isn't edible or Ahmad Jamal's "Jeff") as much as we love a good music video.

 

Here are our favorites:

 

Tammy   mood:  dance with me

"Baby let me love you downnn
There’s so many ways to love ya
Baby I can break you downnn
There’s so many ways to love ya"

"OMG"  Usher (feat.  will.i.am)

 

TK     mood:  feeling like drawing on the walls and/or fighting armed giant squirrels

"People moving all the time inside a perfect straight line
Don't you wanna curve away?"

"Strawberry Swing"  Coldplay

 

Ty    mood:  new cities, new adventures (and willing to collaborate with Alicia Keys any time)

"In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
Theres nothing you can’t do,
Now you’re in New York"

"Empire State Of Mind"  Jay-Z & Alicia Keys

 

Tinker     mood:  shredding her way across the universe/into your heart, old school

"but it was not your fault but mine
and it was your heart on the line"

"Little Lion Man"  Mumford & Sons

 

And yes, as danceable and often as we find Katy Perry and Lady Gaga on our iPod and in our ears, "Telephone" and "California Gurls", the videos, are not for us.  "Teenage Dream", that we one we like.

 

So do you have any big plans for the Fall?  We're taking a break from the band.  Ty and Tinker are going off to separate schools; Tammy's fronting a jazz band on a long swing of a tour and TK's house sitting for her while maintaining the usual level of shenaniganing.  So thanks for all your visits and we hope you enjoyed your views to the world the way Blink Kitty Love sees it.

 

We'd also like to give a shout out to two of our biggest fans, Kristyn Burtt of The Web Files and many other adventures who is always willing to talk cheeseburger (and we have video proof) and Sandra Payne of Purse Dog TV who has moved onto other projects (making a short film is the current one, we believe) after a year of producing The Web Files (and who also feeds + houses the band mascot @tuffycat, one of the coolest cats we know.)  Thanks!

 

And if you find yourself missing us, well, mention it to Santa (or one of his elves) and maybe something can be arranged.  Or follow @mdnightmaverick in case we sneak back on an impulse (we do verge on the impulsive).  Have a good night, always.

CAPE, MASK OR ARMOR?

Iron Man 2 opens -- well, somewhere there are midnight showings getting out now + the I've seen it buzz will begin.  We loved the first one, we mostly lean toward love when there's a superhero coming live off the page of a comic near you (why isn't there a comic near you, darn it? It's one of the great American art forms -- ok, maybe the French and the Japanese and the Belgians (yes, we've heard of TinTin) have the comic book tradition but we're still claiming it for us.)  And now, comics seem like one of the better ways to catapult your idea to the big screen. Skip the screenplay, go straight to pounding the internet and the convention floor with your graphic novel.  And tell 'em the band sent you.

So, we'll hit you up with some comic movies, inspired songs, graphic novels..we'll start w/ movies and see how far we get.  And the first to bat is Tammy.

Tammy (The Terrific) 

Movie:  Dick Tracy -- he's a comic, we're letting it pass.  

Part:  Breathless Mahoney

Song:  Sooner or Later by Madonna, from the album "I'm Breathless," inspired by Dick Tracy*

Graphic Novel:  Phonogram, Volume 2:  The Singles Club  because music IS magic (and she wants to be drawn by Jamie McKelvie)

*official Dick Tracy soundtrack is a great ride through variety artists

TK (Back in Black)

Movie:  Batman (1989)           

Part: The guy in the suit, who doesn't want to be the guy in the suit

song:  Arms of Orion  Prince with Sheena Easton

Graphic Novel suggestions:  Scott Pilgrim (haven't you read them yet?)

Ty (A Blink and A Wink)

Movie:  Flash, the TV series      

part:  The Flash

"Flash" by Queen**

Graphic Novel:  Whiteout, the original, the first, the only

**yes, that's a different Flash, but Ty wouldn't mind being the guy on the sky sled, either. 

Tinker  (Tinker)

Movie:  Hellboy             

part:  Hellboy, 'cause who doesn't love kittens and kicking ass (he's mostly CGI anyway)

song:  Jimmy Olsen's Blues  by The Spin Doctors 'cause who doesn't love Lois Lane

Graphic Novels:  Hopeless Savages  ultimate cool

CHUCK MUSIC

Caught tonight's Chuck and we ALL agree it was AWESOME(did you see the handcuff dance/fight?) and yet NBC has still not announced Chuck's renewal for a fourth season.  So we've decided a little Chuck love is required.  And since NBC did something sensible in the promotional area by posting a music playlist Chuck made for Sarah (she claims to know nothing about music), we've developed our own Blink Kitty Love style save the show strategy. Check out the playlist to show the network suits you're interested in humor, music, action, romance and fun.  Because of course you are. Then pick your favorite song. We did.  What's yours?

(And if you're a Digger, go here and help bump the playlist up the charts.  We don't want to have to start rehearsing on Monday nights.)

Ty  mood:  in the deep end but  swimming for shore

"Quit hanging over me,
Look at the hair on the back of my neck.
Standing up on the rooftops,
Remembering everything she said"

"Swim"  Surfer Blood

TK  mood:  metallic

"So you want to understand me
You just see what you want to see
There's no way I can help you out
You don't know what it's all about"

"The Girl and The Robot"   Royskopp

Tinker   mood:  half a skip step behind

"Heart skipped a beat
And when I caught it you were out of reach
But I'm sure, I'm sure
You've heard it before"

"Heart Skipped A Beat"  The XX

Tammy  in the mood for pretty boys and summer sun

"I’ve got wheels, I’ve got cutter spray
And a healthy sense of worth
Half of me is the gasoline
But the other half’s the surf"

"Holiday" Vampire Weekend

FEELING FRUITY

Yes, we said it.  Fruit salad, smoothies, straight out of the peel.  We're in the mood.  And there are songs for this mood.  And we (and by we, we mean TK) even have this mood's shirt.

TK (we think he's turning Japanese, we really think so)

"Peach Pie!!!!!  Pippikippippippi!!!!!

Peach Pie!!!!!  Pippikippippippi!!!!!"

"Peach Pie on The Beach"  Polysics

Tammy  mood:  mellow, sleeping in on the weekend

"And we can pretend it all the time, yeah
Can't you see that it's just raining
there ain't no need to go outside"

"Banana Pancakes"  Jack Johnson

Ty  mood:  working man

"lift six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)"

"Day-O (Banana Boat Song)"  Harry Belafonte

Tinker  mood:  patient

Maybe a girl will take it
Maybe a boy will steal it
Maybe a shake of the bough
will wake it and make it fall

"My Favorite Plum"  Suzanne Vega

WE'VE GOT IT BAD AND THAT AIN'T GOOD

Spring is in the air (good), technology is overheating (bad), flowers are blooming(good), the Mets are in the basement (typical) and we have a crazy case of Spring Fever (the good part) and NOT SLEEPING (the bad part)

Tammy   mood:  well, somebody has to pay attention to the fact that baseball's in season.

"The last time you came through
Oh darling, I know what you're going through
The last time you came through
Oh darling, oh darling, oh darling"

"Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Day"  Fall Out Boy

Tinker  mood:  Still in the Jett stream after seeing The Runaways

"You're living in the past it's a new generation
A girl can do what she wants to do and that's
What I'm gonna do"

"Bad Reputation"  Joan Jett and The Blackhearts

Ty    mood:  rockin' the stadium

"Paint your smile on your lips
Blood red nails on your fingertips
A school boy's dream, you act so shy
Your very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye"

"You Give Love A Bad Name"  Bon Jovi

TK    mood:  remixing + dancing the blues away

"손담비- Bad Boy"*

*and that's all we know about that and possibly all we want to

MOOD: VANCOUVER

The band is in an Olympic frenzy -- and not about Percy Jackson (we would have specified half Olympian, and although Tammy is always glad to see Pierce Brosnan in a movie, which is why we had to sit through -- well, you don't want to know and we REALLY want to forget it, the once every four years sporting spectacle takes precedence -- and TK hasn't finished the book).  No, we'll take athletes from around the world, sport, snow, NOISE, and Canada.  O Canada.  So in honor of the 2010 Winter Games we'll give you a quick run down of our favorite Canadian musicians + Olympic sports.  Yours?

Tammy   sport:  Ice Dancing   mood:  in need of a partner

"and every day you gaze upon the sunset 
with such love and intensity 
why it's...it's almost as if 
if you could only crack the code" 

"Calling All Angels"  Jane Siberry and kd lang

Ty   sport:  Freestyle skiing  mood:  colorful

"On the walls of the day 
In the shade of the sun 
We wrote down 
Another vision of us"

"Challengers"  The New Pornographers

TK  sport:  bobsled     mood:  the opposite of wandering the wide open spaces

"A vial of hope and a vial of pain
In the light they both looked the same
Poured them out on into the world
On every boy and every girl"

"Neon Bible"  The Arcade Fire

Tinker   sport:  SNOWBOARDING    mood:  whistling, cheerful and bounding through the snow

"There's a war inside of me

Do I cause new heartbreak to write a new broken song

Do I push it down or let it run me right into the ground"

"You Wouldn't Like Me"  Tegan And Sara