this song is slaying me this week…

“Hands” by The Raconteurs

Girl you got those hands that heal
Help me get in touch with what I feel
‘Cause you understand and you sympathize
And you know me best it’s no surprise

When you’re with me there’s a light and I can see my way
When you speak to me it’s a song and I know what to say

Girl you got those eyes that see
Help me find the good that’s inside me
‘Cause you’re the only one who really knows
How the feeling comes and why it goes

When you’re with me there’s a light and I can see my way
When you speak to me it’s a song and I know what to say

When you listen there’s a hope and I know I’m being hurt
When you smile at me and I know and we don’t have to speak a word
When you’re with me there’s a light and I can see my way
When you speak to me it’s a song and I know what to say

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watch the video (or listen to it), and be sure to catch the opening riff. I love that.

darker my love @ the independent


darker my love @ the independent
Originally uploaded by Willo.

I’m mostly posting this to test my “Blog This” feature on flickr, but while I’m at it, might as well let you all know I did post a few photos from last week’s Darker My Love/Pink Mountaintops show @ the Independent. They start here.

It was a good show. Darker My Love really impressed me with just what incredible musicians they were. I even pulled out some air-drumming I was so moved. heh.

update: OK, this layout is wrong, but I’m gonna leave it up here for now to show flickr support.

bagel radio’s best music of 2006

On last Friday’s 480 Minutes (aka Bagel Radio’s Friday Live Show), Ted counted down his top 10 albums & top 50 songs of 2006! I love seeing other people’s lists, and especially Ted’s considering he’s responsible for a large portion of my new music finds.

I’m not sure if I’ll get around to actually listing out my favs for the year, but I definitely have some swirling around in my head. Maybe I’ll do that on the plane back to Colorado on Friday? :) Either way, Ted’s are reaally close to mine (specifically that my #1 song of the year is hands down “Hospitalbeds” by Cold War Kids – that song is SO GOOD!!), so check em out!

In the same vein, my rock star show ho sistaaa Ali Mggeeeee recently put together a list of all the shows she’s been to this year. And, as you can probably guess, I’ve been standing right next to her for a good 95% of em. awww yaaa!

This year has been AWESOME in so many ways, particularly in the area of stellar music & kick ass friends. *sigh* I’m a happy, happy girl.

holiday festivities

A Picture Share!
all dolled up

Lastnight Ev, Sara, Chris & Mai put on a spectacular holiday party! They called it a Holiday ‘Tea Party’ because they had it on (cited from the invite) “December 16th to celebrate not only the traditional end-of-year holidays but also (looks at Wikipedia), um ok, hey, the 233rd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. We can each commemorate the Tea Party’s act privately. Our mouths can be like the harbor. Our liquor can be like the tea. Our hands can be like, like, like -hm- aggrieved patriots engaged in non-violent protest committing treasonous acts but who are also totally into giving gifts to loved ones.”

haha! Awesome.

Evan & Sara held it at their new place. A ‘penthouse’ downtown, that is breathtaking and something out of a movie where you are envying the character’s amazing, impeccably designed city apartment the whole time. Oh & we didn’t get to see it because it’s not installed yet – but it was *very* fun to learn yesterday that (just as I expected) Ev & Sara were the ones to purchase Courtney’s amazing cloud bed! I hope I get to see it all set up in it’s new home. I love (and Courtney does to) that it stayed within the ‘family’. Now she can go visit her creation instead of having to say goodbye forever. Very cool.

I got to see a ton of great friends and honestly I wish it could have gone on longer. It was fabulous.
Thank you E, S, C & M! xo

UPDATE: Photos posted! View the set!

partying with stache

ryan & max, mustache kings
ryan & max, mustache kings

My awesome brother, Max (pictured above on the right), & his fiance, Samara, came up from Santa Cruz last Saturday night & I was so stoked to have them partying w/ us!

We were all supposed to go to a costume party, but it ended up being lame so we just took our party to the Hemlock! A huge crew of us walked in all blinged out (the costume party’s theme was Robert Goulet style for the men – mustaches & sweaters, and the women had to show lots of skin, sequins & be tacky enough to like men with mustaches & cadillacs – ha!) and had such a great time we closed the place down.

ali, jess, max, me & samara

But you know us, we couldn’t just stop then, so what did we do? After party at Jess’!! w00t!

Insanely fun night! My crew RULES. You won’t wanna miss this photo set.

photos from the girl’s dinner & gift exchange

the girls (me w/ my new kick ass grates socks!)
Ali, me (with my new Grates socks!) & Misty @ Catch

I posted about this a few days ago, pointing to Misty’s post & photos, but hadn’t put my photos up yet. It was such a fun night & we all couldn’t have gotten each other more perfect prezzies. xoxo love you girls!

View photo set from girl’s dinner & drinks.

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There’s also a photo set posted from Monday night’s Panda & Angel show @ Bottom of the Hill, and a ton of other random day to day ones I’ve posted in my Flickr stream, like: my new bag from quietdoing.etsy.com (that I love!), a cute kitty I saw at Mat’s, a photo of Mat & I on his bday yesterday, the dresses that didn’t make the cut for last Saturday night, and photos from my new TREO 600 (I finally got one – yay!). :)

all dolled up!


All dolled up!
Originally uploaded by Aubs.

Saturday night there was supposed to be this super fun costume party, so we all dressed up but then the party was lame so we took over the Hemlock & then even afterpartied at Jess’ house. aww yaa! My brother & Samara were up too & totally rallied the dress up thing w/ us and we all had SUCH a blast. Big surprise, right? :)

Again I need to fix my camera/computer issues before mine will go up (I have a TON of really great ones!), but for now check out Aubrey’s set for a sneak peak.

UPDATE: All my photos are posted!

BFF dinner & gift swap


Willo Ali Misty
Originally uploaded by mistylwhite.

Friday night me & my girls Ali & Misty enjoyed a luxurious (4 hour) dinner at Catch & exchanged our gifts! These girls know me so well and got me the perfect prezzies!! So sweet…. LOVE YOU GIRLS! xoxoxo


misty gave me these awwwwesome giraffe socks from one
of my favorite bands, the grates! love!

I have yet to upload my photos – cuz my computer is freaking out all of a sudden and won’t recognize my camera – but you can check out Misty’s post & photos here.

UPDATE: my photos from this night are posted!