Blog: Erica likes music

Patio Living: The Gallery Wall p. 2 : I hope you’ll come over and visit me at my new blog Patio Living .  I just finished my first big project - creating a gallery wall!  Hooray! patioliving : To hang our gallery wall, we used the newspaper template method we read about on Young House Love . Basically you measure out the dimensions of your frames and then create templates of them cut out of newspaper. Then you tape them all onto the wall in the arrangement you have [...]

Patio Living: The Gallery Wall p. 1 : patioliving : At long last! The gallery wall is complete! But before I get to that, I’ll start at the beginning. As I mentioned, we decided to pretty much replicate the Ikea Ribba Frame Gallery Wall tutorial from Heart Tree Home . Seriously, there is no way we could have managed this without that tutorial….

Patio Living : I started a new blog!  I hope you’ll check it out  :) It’s all about home decor and DIY projects and my attempts to have a grown up apartment

I suspect not!  I really miss blogging but am at a loss with how to start / what to post again.  I really don’t have the time to blog about music in any meaningful way these days.  Sad face.  Being a grownup is oh-so-blaaaaaaah.

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Last Thursday my friend and I attempted to get our alcohol on at Blockhead’s in Murray Hill.  (Yes, I’ve lived in NYC two years and persist on frequenting these college-filled chain establishments.)  So we’re waiting for a table when there is a blowout knockdown fight.  I attempted to retell this story but everyone clearly thought I was blowing it out of proportion.  Wrong!  There’s a video!  I’m in the background near the start of the video in the purple and blue.  I am not in the background at the end of the video because when confronted with violence, I run!

Awwwww an It’s Always Sunny wedding!  Shucks though, it appears my dreamboat Dennis Reynolds Glenn Howerton is off the market!  [via Green Wedding Shoes ]

“I’ve wanted for a long, long time to just have a song where Amy’s voice is just left alone in a very simple setting with a very simple set of chords and just let her do what she does, which is magical. That song was one of the first tunes we wrote. We thought it was kind of goofy. So many songs come from just goofing around. It was blues, for Amy. We just wanted to have a ‘blues for Amy’ song. When you have a voice like that, you gotta use it.” - Stars’ Torquil [...]

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“ He said ‘The sun gives life, and it takes it away But like all the greats, it’ll burn out someday’ She said ‘I don’t mind, I don’t want to get bored I don’t want to end up beached on this shore I want to be that star’ And then I can shine for you, and then I’ll burn for you. I’ll shine for you. That’s what I’ll do. ” - “Rocky Took A Lover” by Bell X1 I did not like [...]

Just discovered Cost Plus World Market and am kind of obsessed.  File this away for when I have my own place and can’t rely on my roommate for all manner of furnishings and kitchen wares.  How adorable are these stacking mugs?  Only $10!  via The Kitchn

Stars - “We Don’t Want Your Body” Stars’ new album The Five Ghosts comes out tomorrow!  Loving everything I’ve heard so far, especially this song.  It has the bones to have been an incredibly popular mainstream pop song (somewhere in Get Him To The Greek, Diddy is pounding his hands on desk and saying, “This could have been a game changer!”) but thankfully instead is a gorgeous Stars song. Stars’ upcoming tour dates: 9/22 - Rochester, NY — Water Street Music Hall 9/23 - [...]

World Cup crayon carvings …love the World Cup, hate that I can’t watch more of the matches this year.

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!!! - “A New Name”

Loving Joe Petruccio’s sketch per Mets game blog .  Particularly enamored with this pretty number because it features my Mets boyfriend Ike Davis.  Hello!

Lucky Soul - “My Darling, Anything” Simply adorable.  I love when I rediscover music floating around my iPod.

This video of an adorable proposal in Madison Square Park was brought to my attention via my Facebook newsfeed…  because I know the guy from high school!  Not to be a total girl but it is soooooooo cute.

I FINALLY joined Twitter!