living in california

so, we've grown pretty accustomed to living here... oliver and i took marc and maureen to hollywood last month while they were visiting, and for those of you who've never seen a celebrity, here's batman... walking home.

muzak

i've decided to copy a few friends and do the music thing, we'll see what oliver thinks of it! these are just a few songs i've been into lately.. i'll have oliver add a few when he gets a hold of the account!

also, that falling slowly won an oscar for best movie song -- oliver and i heard it this summer and it's so good. really great. and their acceptance speeches were really great too. made my night.

here's a link to them... the video's off of youtube since it's copyrighted or whatever, but here's the text..

speeches

i love how glen hansard ended with just "make art! make art!" and jon stewart gave Markéta Irglová another chance on stage after the orchestra started pre-maturely and she was shooed off. he walked her back out and just said this is your moment! you should get to enjoy it! or something.

CHIPPING PARENTS VISIT

We had a great time this last weekend with mom & dad (chips). They spent a couple of days here and we saw the local sites and got to go to Disneyland with them! Fun.

Also it was dad's birthday on Sunday and we [minus Em - she had to study :( ] all went to Laguna beach and they (the parents) LOVED it.