@DailyRehash Yeezus Twitter Reviews

Katie July 17, 2013 0 Comments

Kayne’s “Yeezus” Twitter Reviews | DAILY REHASH | Ora TV

Daily Rehash is a great site that posts some hilarious vidoes and goes over the top trends on Twitter – see above where Eric goes over some recent Hip Hop releases. Dare you not to laugh.  I’m totally out of my element with hip hop too – the only thing I know about the album releases for that day? Hanson released ANTHEM. (And Stephen Kellogg released his solo album as well)

I also didn’t realize that Kanye had an ad for Yeezus that was a remake (knock off?) of American Psycho with his sister in law’s (? Just what is Kourtney to him anyway?) husband in it.  Interesting.  Check out the Daily Rehash clip to see what I’m talking about.  They actually play both together incase you have no idea what American Psycho is. (Like me.  There are approximately 3843298320432 movies I’ve never seen and “need to”.)

AMF Summer Unplugged

Katie June 21, 2013 0 Comments

What is your favorite thing to do in the summer to keep from being bored?  When I was a kid my mom used to take us and some of our friends bowling.  We all stunk at it, but my little brother had an interesting approach – he’d lean the way he wanted the ball to roll.  Sometimes it actually worked!  Now that I’m stuck at work all day in the summer, I long to go back to having summers off to be lazy and have some fun at the bowling alley!

Spare your kids from boredom (and the heat)! Two free games every day for each child ages 15 and under registered in the Summer Unplugged program* (Shoe rental not included, but they’re worth paying for.) Sign-up here for free bowling all summer long! AMF Summer

*You can register up to six children in the program. If you would like to add more children, you will need to create a new account using an alternate email address.

Adults won’t be left melting in the heat! An AMF Summer Pass is just $34.95 and includes two games per day for the pass owner and up to three guests ages 16 and up. (Shoe rental not included, but they’re worth paying for.) Sign up here for AMF’s Summer Pass AMF Summer

New for 2013:

One simple sign-up, no coupons to be emailed or printed! Simply present your membership card or your name at your local AMF center and you’re all set to go!

“Stay and Play” option – additional games can be added for just $1.49! So if the competition is hot and the weather is hotter, you can keep the strikes coming and stay cool for less!

The Summer Unplugged and Summer Pass programs run May 13, 2013 through September 2, 2013. Members can redeem their bowling games every day from open until 8pm usiing their membership pass, member ID, first name or other unique identifier.

With over 250 locations, AMF is where America goes bowling! Find an AMF Bowling Center near you

I participated in this campaign as a member of One2One Network and am eligible for a prize drawing by making this post.  All opinions stated in this post are my own.

Crayola’s Big Colorful Birthday Adventure

Katie April 22, 2013 0 Comments

The original 8 crayola crayons are celebrating their 110th birthday!  To celebrate, they are throwing a birthday bash at the new fun-onemal Crayola Experience, the world’s only interactive Crayola family attraction.  Right now, they’re out on a colorful adventure to spread the news and you’re invited to join the fun!

How can you join in on the fun? You can FOLLOW the crayons on their adventure, LEARN more about each color and enter to WIN a trip for 4 to celebrate their birthday at the Grand Opening of the all new Crayola Experience coming this May, 2013!

Visit the Crayola Facebook page and click “enter now” for your chance to be first in line when the Crayola Experience reopens.

The new Crayola Experience features four floors of new interactive exhibits and one-of-a-kind attractions that will bring the magic of color and your child’s creativity to life! The winner will be among the first to experience the fun, along with a three-night, all-expenses paid stay. It’s an experience your kids will never forget – and neither will you!

(I received this information to post from Crayola.)

TwentyTwo

Katie April 10, 2013 0 Comments

TwentyTwo is a community for artists and fans to share short audio clips. Artists can post clips to their followers and fans can send clips back.

It’s a more personal and creative way to connect with the artists you love.

The app was developed by Robert Schwartzman, front man of Rooney (and a great solo artist as well)

A little bit about the app from Robert:

“We released the app a few months ago and are constantly building out new features. We’re also actively letting artists and fans know that it’s a place to connect and build a following. You can also share posts to Twitter and Facebook.

We’re excited about this app because it’s a more personal and creative way to connect with fans, and vice versa.  It’s more and more common that musicians, artists, or personalities have other people representing him/her/them online…in other words, you’re not actually connecting with the actual artist.  On 22, it’s all audio updates, so artists have to be involved and willing to engage with fans.  What’s cool is that every artist does different types of audio posts, so it’s whatever you choose to make it.

I’m very excited about the response we’re getting so far from users.”

Right now the 22 app is only available for iPhones, but they are looking to bring it to more platforms in the future.  I am not so patiently awaiting it becoming available for Android!  This sounds like a really awesome idea and social media is HUGE for bands with promotion these days and this is a very unique and fun way for bands to interact with their fans – they can give audio updates, snippets of new songs they are working on, or really whatever they want.  If you are a fan – download the app, check it out – and most importantly – let all your favorite artists know about it and encourage them to use it!

Visa Giveaway looking for bloggers!

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American Girl Doll Giveaway looking for bloggers!

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Birchbox November

Katie December 28, 2012 0 Comments

Here’s the details on the November Birchbox that I received.  For those of you who might not know – for $10 per month you can get a box of samples in your ‘BirchBox’ and if you like what you try, all the full sizes are available for sale on their website.  It’s a nice way to try out some great products that you otherwise might not want to spend the money on.

ModelCo FIBRE LASXTEND Lenthening Mascara $24 (also has a mirror on the tube which is awesome!)

SOYJOY Cranberry Snack Packs ($6/5 bars)

Shea Terra Organics Whipped Shea Butter Ultimate Moisturizing Body Cream ($18)

Stella Cadente Miss Me Eau de Parfum 30ml ($69)

Oscar Blandi Pronto Texture & Volume Spray Travel Size ($11)

(The link above is my affiliate link. I receive points for each person that I refer to the site that signs up.)

Eric Hutchinson at Ridgefield Playhouse

Katie December 21, 2012 0 Comments

Before this concert, I didn’t know much about Eric.  A few of my twitter friends raved about him though, so when I saw that one of the local radio stations was holding a contest to see him I decided to enter and check him out if I won.  Of course, I ended up winning.  Then Friday we had the terrible tragedy in Connecticut and Sunday night I went back and forth on whether or not I should go but ultimately decided it would probably do me good to go out and have fun.

Before the show started, there was announcement on the PA and we had a moment of silence for the victims from Newtown.

The opening act for the evening was Jessie Payo.  She came out and said that she wasn’t sure how to perform for us in a time like this and wasn’t sure she should perform but ultimately decided as a performer it was her job to take us away for a little bit and entertain us and she hoped she could do that.   She has a great voice and I really liked her set.  She was funny too, teasing that she’d love to meet us after her set but that we should know that she is smaller than she appears and that she isn’t playing a guitar, but a ukelele and if we looked for Dora the Explorer in a polka dot dress we’d find her.

Then there was some sound checking going on and Eric took the stage and the piano.  As his set went on, I decided that my friends who raved about him were absolutely right and that I absolutely made the right decision to go to the show.(Even though I somehow always end up with the rudest people EVER behind me here! How I got water (i hope) splashed on my neck when no one was directly behind me, I don’t know.  Why people think they can talk through the openers set and that is ok, I don’t know.  Why people think it is ok to kick the person in front of thems seat over and over throughout the whole set, I don’t know.)  I also recognized his first song and last song – though I’m not sure from where or why.

Eric had a lot of great stories about the songs and how they came about – one in particular that he said he wrote in NYC in his new apartment and that his neighbor downstairs complained to the landlord and the landlord said that he couldn’t have band practice, he said he wasn’t.  The landlord said it sounded like someone was getting guitar lessons and he said – no, that’s just me.  And that it sounded like a full drumset was being played – and he said no – the more I like a song the more I tap my foot, and I am just THAT good that I sound like a full drum set.  And the landlord said – well what about the lady singing? And Eric said – no – that’s me too.  haha.  (He ended up giving the neighbor downstairs a copy of the new album when it was done and a not so nice note.)

He also had another story about how Snoop has sold the rights to the song “Drop Its Like Its Hot” to Hot Pockets and it will be used in commercials. He said that he pitched to Red Lobster and that his song “Watch You Watch Him” has been rewritten for use in their commercials as “Watch You Watch Shrimp” and went on to sing a few (hilarious) verses of it.

After he left the stage everyone gave him a standing ovation.  And the moment I knew I loved him? When he came back out and asked that we continue standing and then sang a “hit song he wrote a few years back” and broke into I WANT IT THAT WAY.  Apparently exactly what I needed was a huge boyband sing a long with everyone in the theater.

His tour is over now – but definitely check him out on his next tour if you get the chance – I highly recommend him!

Setlist (I apologize if any song titles are wrong)

Ok, It’s Alright With Me
Best Days
Talk Is Cheap
All Over Now
Watching You Watch Him
Food Chain
Alcatraz
Back To Where I Was (w/ Jessie Payo)
Not There Yet
Breakdown More (dedicated to Newtown)
Shine On Me
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (The Police, dedicated to Fergie)
The Basement
Oh!
Outside Villanova

I Want It That Way (Backstreet Boys Cover)
Rock + Roll

One direction setlist 11/30

Katie November 30, 2012 0 Comments

This is tonight’s setlist for 1d and is most likely also the set they’ll use tomorrow and at msg.

Up all night
Na na na
Stand up
I wish
Teenage dirtbag
Gotta be you
More than this
Live while we’re young
Tell me a lie
Everything about you
Moments
I want
Save you tonight
Little things
One thing
Kiss you

C’mon c’mon
What makes you beautiful