Really excited for the weekend you guys … and the Downton Abbey premiere.
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For the next three minutes I implore you to hit play and read these words as if the world—the world in which we live was on the precipice of war. A war which the world had never seen, where people and society and rank were all being turned on their head.
For the show Downton Abbey, we have England as a back drop. For family at the center of the story it’s all about order. In many ways the order they had strived so long to maintain was falling to pieces nationwide with the industrial revolution shifting the classes, leaving their monarchy woefully underprepared.
Downton Abbey is a show yes, a commentary on the time and place—albeit fictional—that historians for large part believe could have existed, but moreover we find it serves as an escape for the viewers today from a world that is in large part suffering from a similar fate.
The first world is losing it’s grip on economic imperialism and the advances in technology, education and healthcare are bringing opportunity to regions as far flung as the mind can imagine and yet here we sit woefully underprepared and blissfully ignorant much like the monarchs of early 20th century Britain.
It’s an important show, a heartfelt one, and above all a brilliant one from all angles; the music could improve a bit however.
Season 2 premieres in the states tomorrow night on PBS. Kate Spencer wrote a great Season 1 recap on HelloGiggles should you need a refresher.
Our New Year’s Resolution: Deliver next year’s Christmas special before New Year’s Day… maybe even before Christmas.
We know it’s a little late for a Christmas special, but we’ve been busy wrapping your extra special gift, this twenty-two minute holiday episode right here…
A Very Drink With Dave Christmas
Dave invites host & comedian Damien Fahey, cocktail queens Alie & Georgia and The Mighty Regis to his backyard bar for some magic, cocktails and conversation. Happy New Year! We love you!
Special thanks to Suburbanmike, LifeofBK and SeanMObrien for making this possible!
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Black Starbucks cup.
It’s just a negative of a white cup. I wish it was real. Why are you not a real thing yet?!
thanks for the iced green tea today dude.
i guess being in my hometown isn’t all bad *shrugs*.
People will show you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be.
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Season’s Greetings from Florida
The Weepies - All That I Want (It’s Christmas time)
GPOYW - “thinking of growing it back out in 2012” edition
St. Vincent - Cruel
Kim Jong Il is gone, but his kingdom of insanity lives on - The VICE Guide to North Korea
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Hoagy Carmichael - Stardust (1931)
Featured in ‘The Beginners’
Strike the kerosene … watching Jim Hanft (Taken at Rockwood Music Hall)
Sitting in front of a TV certainly looks passive. But watching MTV made me want to grow up and be a creative person. It made me want to write, it made me want to get on stage. MTV was instrumental in my not being a banker, and not being a banker has made all the difference in my life.
