moving to tumblr

Hello all five of my readers! As you've probably noticed, I have not updated my blog in quite some time. This is due to my incredibly busy schedule as an RA, researcher, full time student, and girlfriend!
I'm making a move to tumblr and will no longer be updating this blog. No guarantees that I'll keep up with it there either but I want to try it out.
So, you can find me on tumblr at http://hixsongirl.tumblr.com/

Thanks for following me and I hope you follow me to tumblr!

Alice in Wonderland SET!!!

I'm SO jealous! I want to go play in the wonderland!

New funny vids

Hello all! Here's some funny videos I've run across today :)

See more funny videos and Music Videos at Today's Big Thing.

See more funny videos and Cute Animals Videos at Today's Big Thing.

Magic

This is not only the magic of literature and reading, but the magic of Harry Potter and of J.K. Rowling's imagination:

Happy 4th of July!!!!

The 4th of July is my FAVORITE holiday!!! (After Thanksgiving) That has everything to do with the fact that I'm a pyro :)
Plus, I love cookouts, good music (which will be provided by my brother's band, The Keith Lee Trio) and July :)

Here's some non lethal but still fun fireworks for you to enjoy!

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today's Big Thing.

Tilly and the Wall Concert!!!!!!!!!!

So, if you haven't heard of Tilly and the Wall, that's ok. They're an indie pop band from Omaha and they are amazing! I discovered them on npr a year or so ago and instantly fell in love.
Well, they came to a city close by and I finally got to see them!!! Here's a poor quality video of the better parts of the night :)
Be impressed with my mad editing skills ;)

Michael Jackson is dead...what? you didn't know?

It's no surprise really that the media is hyping this up so much. And yet people seem surprised and annoyed by how much attention MJ is getting for dying. Actually, I'd say people are more annoyed with the tone the multitude of stories are taking. Almost everything is mournful with an oh-MJ-you'll-be-missed-so-much kind of tone. These annoyed people like to think they are clever by calling the media out on the bluff, pointing to the fact that in recent years, the same journalists were attacking him for being a weird, semi white, semi black, semi male, semi female, baby hanging, delicate nosed, pedophile.

While this is very true, I'd like to point out that the reason the media is taking this tone is because Michael Jackson was once loved by nearly everybody. He was revolutionary in his career. He was the king of pop! The way he's been for the past decade or so (really, the entire time I've been conscious of him...wasn't around when he was making good music) was ruining the way people wanted him to be. They want the Jackson 5 and Thriller.

So, it makes total sense that now he's finally out of the way, we can go on remembering him the way we want him to be instead of who he really was.