I’m just putting this here because I think Evie needs to see it some day
This is my brother in law
I’m just putting this here because I think Evie needs to see it some day
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Myspace videos
Sorry, problem fixed with the videos. You should be able to see them now. Thank to Jen for pointing out the problem!
Speaking of technical issues, what’s the deal with the pop-up window things when you hover over the links on my blog?? I guess in time I could come to like it, but my first instinct is nuh-uh! I don’t know if you can turn it off or not. I’m also annoyed there is a search box at the top that doesn’t search my journal! And while I’m complaining about things, I wonder if I’m allowed to use Google analytics yet?
Videos
Naturally I put new Evie pictures up on my myspace frequently (see link over there to the right under General Links), and naturally you all check them religiously for updates, but I’ve also added a few videos. They have to be very short for myspace so I only have a few. I’ll have to cut some of the other ones down or compress them or something. In the meantime you have a couple to hold you over.
Marie Digby
So last Sunday morning Evie woke up with her first cold. I felt sooo bad for her! Imagine that you’ve never been sick before in your entire life, you just wouldn’t know what to think. Why did my nose stop working? What’s all this crap leaking out of my face? She was pretty miserable. In retrospect we were probably pushing it a little too much to hit up Wisconsin, Michigan and then Indiana 3 weekends in a row. This also means that Evie wasn’t in a very good mood for our big magazine photo shoot Monday night. More details on that in the future I’m sure. So now I don’t know if I caught what Evie had or if I got it at the same time as she did but it took longer to get its hooks in me since I’m so much bigger than her. But I’m pretty much a wreck at this point.
Okay, now for the title of this post. So I’ve been hearing on the radio this version of Umbrella that was not by Rihanna, but instead was by someone named Marie (pronounced mar-ee-ay) Digby, whoever that was. I kind of liked the version better than the original but I was kind of annoyed by it because I was like, “Isn’t there more than one song in the world? Why would multiple people record exactly the same song?” Well I happened across it today on YouTube. Apparently this is a YouTube sensation, so if you spend more time on YouTube than I do, you’ve probably already heard of her. It turns out she just has a bunch of videos uploaded that are just her singing and/or playing guitar/piano. She has an awesome voice (and it doesn’t hurt that she is drop dead gorgeous) and there is a good mix of original songs and covers. Anyway, it appears that her popularity on YouTube turned into radio air time, a guest shot on Last Call with Carson Daly and I think even resulted in her cover of Umbrella being played on The Hills. There is something very appealing about how simple the videos are and it is an awesome story of just filming yourself in your living room and through the power of the Internet you get discovered.
She really is amazing and I recommend you check her out. Here’s the original video:
Google Street View
Today Google went live with Street View for Chicago. It is really cool! I don’t know if you played around with it when they first put NYC, Las Vegas and San Fransisco, but if you haven’t you should definitely go check it out! Maybe it won’t be that interesting unless you live in Chicago (I certainly wasn’t interested until it came to Chicago) but at least give it a try. I already checked, we’re not dancing in our underwear in the windows or anything. They also added Philadelphia at some point. They didn’t go far enough out for me to check out my apartment or job, but I did sit and gaze at Jim’s Steaks. No, I really did.
And as long as you are checking things out, you might want to take a look at Read a Book by D’Mite. Best song ever! Sometimes when you want to teach important lessons, you have to speak to someone in their language (think Lil’ John) which in this case includes some foul language. Be forewarned! But I think the message is more important than the way it is conveyed…lessons such as personal hygiene, your body’s need for water and the importance of investing your money in land.
That is all.
Shane Halbach 