saved my life

i was already feelin rather tired and a little hungover yesterday, damn you robbie & dutch blitz, and then i got elbowed in the face on the subway. so monday has been deleted this week, and we're gonna go ahead and start over today. whoop! okay! reset. good. i had baklava for breakfast. now the grammy bits that were best bits... (leaving out riri just because i juuuuust had that song up in here.)

 

 

come ON annie lennox! you are too freakin great, i can't: even. okay happy monuesday.

saved my life

duuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh it's yoncé.

(i could have put up a video of me & lissa singing 'firework' or 'like a prayer' or 'scrubs' or 'we can't stop'... but i have a feeling that you had to be there to experience the true epic joy that was pouring out our faces... also no one filmed it. so lucky you. god bless that tiny karaoke room with incongruous videos of completely random stuff.)



i wanna be the redhead with the bow top. also jay-z doing a cameo-roll-through makes me like him WAY more that i used to.

happy monday, knee pad dancers!

ff

can't talk now, euggie's 30th birthday, byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeee!!!







happy friday, HAPPIER BUUURRRRRRTHDAAAAAAYYYY!

ff

i don't even care about all the bad, i'm giving you good today. we deserve a little good. and this whole week has been coloured by robyn, aka coloured with PURE ABSOLUTE JOY. okay. yoncé.

{rebecca traister for the new republic}

* beyoncé's vma performance was the feminist moment i've been waiting for

oh. and, speaking of this week and its colouring... colour me surprised! did you think i would ever be linking you to playboy on feminist friday? bet you didn't.

* flowchart: should you catcall her?

okee dokes, i love you all. happy friday, power-house popstars.

ff

I'M A GROOOWWN WOMAN! I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT!

beyoncé released a secret-surprise visual album last week and the internets went INSANE. explodeexplode. (i'm super sad i lost my voice to a cough/cold, because all i want to do with my friday is belt out 'pretty hurts' over and over and over until i get evicted for beyoncéing the neighbours.) let's check out some of the good writing on the album, yoncé, feminism, and pop music.

* chris randle anticipates the revolution

* malaika jabali talks breaking from respectability 

* rookie team does a big ol' round table

i woke up like this... i woke up like this... flawless.



now i can't share the actual whole song/video with you, but i can tell you it is great. and i CAN share the talk from which she samples. chimamanda ngozi adichie. so thrilled she is getting the pop-music bump. there is so much greatness in this talk. so much. yes yes great good.



(and because chimamanda is amazing, here's another talk she gave about the danger of the single story. lovely and fine.)



happy friday, dancers.

saved my life

did anyone else catch it? beyonce's halo? yup. she's a total angel.

(lame, erin. but. you know. true. too.)

on this exhausted-post-superbowl-celebration monday, what else is there but BEYONCE FOREVER!
(first person to get that tattooed on them gets my eternal love and admiration.)



who runs the world? YOU DO, the internets. (and also. girls.)

saved my life

OH MAN!

this can't wait till monday. sorry! TOO AWESOME!

can we please give this kid a peace prize or something? because i truly believe he is the key to world peace. maybe he can just be king of the universe? amazeballs times 18 million.



happy thursday!