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02-17-12

Friday Favorites 007: Chairlift

I’ve never been the kind of person that likes a band just because the singer is hot. I have to be taken by the music. But when the singer is just as gorgeous as the music is then it creates something irresistible. This week’s favorite is the band, Chairlift, based out of Brooklyn, New York, and the lead singer, Caroline Polacheck, is as beautiful as she is talented. Their new album, Something, has been on repeat in my apartment since it first came out. If you haven’t heard it yet, please listen to it and if you’re just as taken with it as I am maybe we could go check them out at the Magic Stick in Detroit on March 29th together.

In the meantime, here is Ghost Tonight, my personal favorite song from the new record.

And as an added bonus, here is Chairlift covering another one of my favorites on Australian radio.

02-11-12

Friday Favorites 006: Flipboard

I’ve been hooked on Flipboard since it first came out for the iPad. My use has only increased since they have come out with a just-as-good-if-not-better iPhone version. When I first downloaded it, it took me a minute to figure out how to make it useful for me, but then I started importing all of my RSS feeds from Google Reader from their folder groupings, importing Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and now I only have to go to once place to read, literally, hundreds of web pages every day. It takes an app like this to keep up with the pace of the world today and not get overwhelmed.

02-04-12

Friday Favorites 005: 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters

If you know me well, then you know I love coffee more than just about anything. Right now, my favorite coffee roaster is 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters, based out of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. They embody the kind of passion and care that is necessary to bring exquisite coffee to your cup. Not only do they understand and respect every step of the coffee supply chain, but they go through each one with extreme attention to every detail. If you’re not familiar with what it really takes to bring coffee from the earth to your cup, I recommend you read 49th Parallel’s section on Coffee Essentials.

At home, I am enjoying 49th’s Kenyan Karatina and I have also been hooked on their Guatemalan San Juan, served at the local Comet Coffee. If you’ve never had truly amazing coffee, this is it. Come over and I’ll brew you a cup!

01-27-12

Friday Favorites 004: Tiny Tower

Today’s favorite is, according to the iPhone App Store, the 2011 iPhone Game of the Year. I would tend to agree. I won’t bore you with the premise of the game, because you can read that for yourself, instead I will just show you my tower as it stands after many months of construction. Check it out here, in real time!

01-20-12

Friday Favorites 003: Philip Glass

Tonight I will experience Philip Glass conducting his operatic masterwork Einstein on the Beach, or four and a half uninterrupted hours of performed audio-visual poetry.
I am so excited.

Philip Glass