November 2009 Archives

alternate title: notes from my ongoing battle with white walls.

inspired by this blog post, i decided to make my own jewelry displays, so i headed down to the local goodwill and scooped up three picture frames and a purple blanket for a grand total of ~$18.

i popped the glass out of the frames and replaced it with rectangles i had cut from the $5 blanket (it was double-sided, so i had two flowery patterns to choose from!). i put the thing back together, added some pushpins ($1 at the hardware store downstairs), et voilà. now my jewelry is on display! plus i did it all for less than twenty bucks.

credit goes to linda may for having made a good portion of my jewelry (all but one of the necklaces i have hanging up). i apologize for having taken these pictures with my iphone, but i am a modern (read: lazy) woman.

hello. my name is k8 and i love cross-genre covers. especially when a female singer takes a pop song and slows it down. (i think alanis morissette first brought this phenomenon into my life with her inspired cover of "my humps.")

thanks to twitter, the other day i discovered t.v. carpio's take on "i want to hold your hand." i liked this so much it even convinced me to watch across the universe afterward, which i may or may not regret having done.

when trying to listen to beyoncé herself sing "crazy in love" a few days ago (thanks, spotify!), i came across the antony and the johnsons version. not my favorite, but deserves mention (i love the original so much!). listening to it prompted me to tell tyler about how much i love cross-genre covers, and he introduced me to yael naim's "toxic". in honor of my current guest's (LAUREN!!) affinity for britney spears, it's simply a must-have on my list of cross-genre covers that i think you ought to listen to.

this next one has the dubious distinction of having been featured on gossip girl, but i'll include it anyway. anya marina - whatever you like. (another tyler find. :-*)

AND i absolutely love-love-love imogen heap's "thriller". i listened to this a lot around halloween.

honorable mention goes to jonathan coulton's "baby got back" because sometimes i miss junior high school. (okay not really.) la face with the oakland booty.