her own eyes

alternatively titled: all pop songs really are the same.

fine, fresh, fierce
we got it on lock
west coast represent
now put your hands up

so i put my hands up
they're playin' my song
the butterflies fly away
i'm nodding my head like yeah

my heart, it pounds
yeah, you got me
with my hands up
put your hands up

somehow this morning all these songs were stuck in my head at the same time. or maybe the "put your hands up" line was stuck in my head and when i tried to figure out which song it was from, these all came rushing in at once. (now put your hands up! oh, oh, oh)

why yes, i did hike to the top of the highest waterfall in north america. oh, nbd, just an elevation gain of approximately the tallest building in the world. (picture by aarti)

this is a follow up to the cross-genre cover post.

apparently the video for anya marina's "whatever you like" features daniel vosovic AND andy from weeds!

perfect.

1582 Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian Calendar.

1803 SCOTUS decides Marbury v. Madison, establishing judicial review.

1836 Winslow Homer is born.

1877 Ettie Rout, 'the wickedest woman in Britain,' is born.

1955 Steve Jobs is born.

1956 Judith Butler is born. "Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."

1968 "Miss Bell, you have made the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century." Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source is published in Nature.

1970 National Public Radio is founded.

1999 Lauryn Hill becomes the first woman to win five Grammys in one night for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Beyoncé topped her this year with six).

SOLANGE KNOWLES covers "stillness is the move" by DIRTY PROJECTORS mixed with "bumpy's lament" by SOUL MANN & THE BROTHERS which you might recognize from such songs as "xxplosive" by DR DRE and "bag lady" by ERYKAH BADU. (via bitch)

goal: log into library account.
step 1: try at least 4 different variations on what i think my password might be.
step 2: give up trying to remember and click "forgot my password."
step 3: check e-mail and find link to reset password.
step 4: before resetting password, try logging in one more time. IT WORKS.

goal: obtain stopwatch so i no longer have to count running intervals off in my head.
step 1: dismiss iphone as viable stopwatch option because i don't want to carry it with me when i run.
step 2: run for a week without stopwatch because keep forgetting/being too lazy to get one.
step 3: finally make the effort to go to walgreens for stopwatch. they don't have it.
step 4: cross street to cvs. no stopwatch.
step 5: return home and start looking on amazon.com for stopwatch. some wristwatches come up, in addition to the ones i was picturing that i'm pretty sure we used to use in gym class in elementary school.
step 6: realize i HAVE a wristwatch lying around that probably has a stopwatch function.
step 7: find watch. figure out how to work stopwatch feature. go for run.