Top 5 Songs Right Now

1. End of Time-Beyonce (Great high energy dance and love song)
2. FutureSexLoveSounds-Justin Timberlake (Sexy dance epic. I can see the dance floor every time)
3. I know Places- Lyyke Li (iTunes Sessions) (Acoustic, deep, searching. I know places too.)
4. CItizen Erased-Muse (All of Muse's tracks are pretty epic. This one is loud, wailing, shifting, dark, compelling and operatic. I love the opening electric guitar solo,)
5. Over You-Raphael Saadiq (Alternative, nostalgic, modern, danceable all at once. I love everything about this song.)

20 Things about me

It's an exercise I participate in occasionally on flickr with an accompanying photo. In honor of my approaching birthday I thought I might share it here with you folks. : )

1.I'm turning 37 this month and not sure how I feel about it.

2. I'm not really great at being a "grown up."

3. I like to laugh until I feel like my stomach might split open or I might hack up my lungs and fall over. LOL!! Seriously.

4. I tend to love my own company a lot because there are things that happen to me on my own that never happen around most people, but only some.

5. My brother played Barbies with me a lot when we were kids and I swear he liked it.
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6. I used to make the Leia and Darth Vader action figures kiss.

7. I love movies, old and new and I can talk about them for hours.

8, I LOOOOOOOOVE watching Tango dancers. Everything about Tango choreography fascinates me.

9. I am a true Gemini. "I am two people..." -Morrissey

10. I love different kinds of silences. Nature silence and new fallen snow silence are two of my faves. Certain night silences as well.

11. Music is healing to me. Literally, It has saved my life and turned things around inside me. It lives inside us all.

12. I like sarcasm and cleverly sarcastic people.

13. I wish I could be paid to travel.

14. I love being in planes because I love looking at the clouds.

15. I sometimes forget my iphone is a phone and many times have chosen to finish taking a photo rather than pick up an interrupting call. Duh! I'm taking a photo! Pleeze!

16. I hate garish overhead interior lighting and feel tortured by it whenever I have to endure it.

17. I judge people's insides by their eyes and their energy. Very rarely wrong.

18. I'm a book nerd and read to myself out loud very often.

19. I like to dance around in my apartment like a lunatic a lot.

20. I love the love that people put into the things they make.

Thinking is the new sexy

First episode of the second Series of Sherlock got off to a brilliant start. Near perfection from beginning to end with nothing wasted anywhere. I was on the edge of my seat nearly every minute. How does BBC do it? You start the episode of the second season of Sherlock with the Bee Gees "Stayin Alive" playing as Moriarity's ring tone and you have a fucking hit on your hands. It's just too good.

Watch Sherlock Season 2: A Scene from Ep. 1 on PBS. See more from Masterpiece.

221B (BBC)

Cumberbatch and Freeman

-Loner
-Can't stand to be bored
-drug addict
-Genius
-Loves the challege of a puzzle
-Drawn to the bizarre
-Perverse
-Selfish
-Enigmatic
-Haunted
-Multiple personalities

 ...I love me some Sherlock

When in the latest issue of "Rolling Stone" that Tim Freeman was starring in the new BBC "Sherlock" series as Watson, I knew I had to check it it. I adored him the BBC "Office" and I have always loved the character of Sherlock Holmes. This version set in a present day London, utilizes a young Sherlock's deductive genius along with the technology of cell phones, the internet and a partner who's as freakishly drawn to the crime scene as he is. I'm not familiar with Cumberbatch but his depiction of mental agility and impatience with what he perceives to be the mental ineptitude people in a young present day Sherlock is exceptional. And Tim Freeman as his partner Watson is perfect. They have that very rare quality in the partnership of the legendary pair which indicates their great regard as well as disdain for each other in equal amounts.

I started watching it on Netflix streaming last week and am now hooked. I know that there are a lot of crime scene mysteries on television that are huge hits but for me, nothing beats a Sherlock Holmes mystery because the most curious and fascinating element is Holmes mind at work.  And of course the inevitable, Moriarity whom I do believe is real.
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Design your own fabric!

Shahara Chevron Designed by me!

I was on my twitter account this week, looking for new design template themes for my account when I came across themeleon and flipped out. Their designs are so much nicer, more imaginative and full of pop than twitters default wallpapers. This lead me to Colour Lovers which themeleon was created by. Colour Lovers allows you create your own personalized color palletted and then create your own patterns for use as fabric, stationary, whatever!
UP-MY-ALLEY!

I designed Sahara Chevron as a test run and ordered a fat quarter swatch on Spoon Flower just to see what it wold look like. It's just amazing that that the internet allows us to do things like this. Design our own fabric and then order it! Gotta love DIY based sites. I'm not sure this means my apprehension towards sewing is over but well, we'll see how inspiring Sahara Chevron is and get back to you. LOL!