CHE BELLO obsesses over…
…Canadian singer/songwriter Allison Crowe.
Seeing as how I’m a poor college student, I’ve grown rather adept at finding free music on the Internet. But none of my discoveries has been of the magnitude of Allison Crowe, whose soaring vocals and raw power make me cream my pants just a little bit every time I hear her.
CHE BELLO quote of the day.
“Just because you go to the dollar store, doesn’t mean that you are poor. Just last week I saw a brand new corvette pull into the dollar store. Perhaps they owned the store, but it doesn’t matter. You can find a variety of different Thanksgiving decorations there.”
- an excerpt from a blog post by Shannon Frye, whose writings have been entertaining my boyfriend with their amazing insights and poor paragraph structure for quite a while. (Trust me, he’s been sending me pieces all evening.)
Disclaimer: This post may or may not have been written solely to satisfy Patrick:
“But I don’t want to make fun of her…”
“Why not?”
“Because it isn’t nice!
“Since when do we not make fun of people?”
“I…okay, truth.”
Today CHE BELLO received it’s 500th page view. It took a lot longer to reach that point on my old blog, so I guess I’m just cooler now. Check out my first foray into Photoshop! (The puppy is courtesy of The Daily Puppy, a website you should add to your feed reader for your daily recommended value of snuggle-aciousness.)
Thanks to all my blogging friends who visit frequently! (That would be Stephen, leading the pack.)
PS, my 500th page view post is so much cooler than Craig’s was. How ya like dem apples?
CHE BELLO’s quote of the day.
“Gigi! I just made out with you!”
“No, no, you didn’t! You’re GAY!”
“Ohhh, right! Well…awesome party!”
CHE BELLO’s family expansion.
I think it’s time to introduce the newest member of my family to all of my Internet friends.
Okay, so that isn’t an actual photograph of Alfred, my iPod Touch, but since he’s so young I felt it would be inappropriate. You never know what kind of iPedophiles are out there.
The other day I was walking across campus listening to my new Sam Amidon album (delicious reworkings of Appalachian folk songs; Amidon seems like a backwoods Sufjan Stephens, but with better orchestration and much more emotion) and sending an e-mail with Alfred. And I thought to myself, “So this is what it’s like to be technologically savvy.” It’s very very satisfying.
Alfred has been outfitted in a hot pink plastic case, and one of the pre-loaded backgrounds is a big pink flower that matches exactly. This has led some to allege that Alfred is a tranny, or at least a cross-dresser. I say let the child do what he wants.
CHE BELLO gets prehistoric.
Ground-breaking evidence that, even in the earliest forms of mankind, there were big ol’ make-up wearin’ queens.
CHE BELLO’s quote of the day.
“Can it be called bad sex if it’s too small to have sex? Or is it just bad rolling around in bed?”
CHE BELLO has man-crushes.
I find the cultural infatuation with “man-crushes” intensely amusing and fascinating. Watching straight males squirm when they try to express their feelings for another guy is intensely satisfying for me, in a twisted point-at-the-uncomfortable-guy kind of way. A blog post over at men.style.com on the topic has me asking some questions, though.
CHE BELLO’s not gonna pay.
Fellow theatre junkies, rejoice! (And also ignore that my source for this news is PerezHilton…I’m kind of ashamed.)
The producers of RENT have announced that they will be extending what many have deemed the greatest musical of recent decades. The seventh longest running show in Broadway history’s closing has now been pushed back to September 7th.
Anybody want to take a road trip in late August?
CHE BELLO’s down in the dumps.
As much as I try to keep cheerful and perpetually bubbly, I can’t help but whine a little right about now. I had the flu (which explains the lack of posting, at least partially), school is starting to overwhelm me just a little bit, and, on top of all that, our production of BARE was canceled after two performers dropped out. I could attribute this to a number of things, mostly poor planning on the part of our “producer,” but really all I can do is feel disappointed about how a great opportunity was ripped away from me through no fault of my own. I mean, how often am I going to get a lead in a regional premiere of a musical that I really, deeply connect with? (And let’s not even begin to talk about how perfect the music was for my voice.) I feel like this was my chance to make a huge impression on a lot of people, and now it’s gone.
I keep churning, but I’m getting absolutely nowhere.
