Bear Tooth Theatrepub and Rancid

If I hadn't already written about snow days, I would have done it this week. Because school was canceled on Monday. Woohoo!

But I've already written about snow days, and while they are awesome, I don't think they deserve 2 posts. Moving on...

Sunday afternoon I went to see my favorite Christmas movie, White Christmas.

It was playing "on the big screen" at Bear Tooth Theatrepub. So pretty much it combined all my favorite things into one afternoon.

They call the Bear Tooth a theatrepub for a reason (although, I'm not sure why they don't spell it theaterpub...) It's exactly what it sounds like, a movie theater (or theatre, if you prefer) that serves beer and pizza DURING THE MOVIE. Amazing, right? It has regular movie theater seats, but they all have counter-style tables in front of them. You order your food, then servers bring it in during the movie.

Pure genius. You know what makes movies 10x more fun? Beer.

Hey punk fans, want to feel old? Time Bomb, this week's hot jam, was released 16 years ago. Tim Armstrong, Rancid's frontman is 46. My middle schoolers weren't alive when Time Bomb came out. Mind = blown

In all honesty, I always thought their name didn't fit their music. Rancid (the name, not the actual band) sounds more like a fake death metal band rather than a punk band with ska tendencies, but they didn't ask me. Granted, I was 5 when Rancid was formed, so I probably wouldn't have been their first choice for band-namer. Although, I was really into dinosaurs then so I probably would have picked Super Cool Triceratops or something, so maybe the shouldn't have overlooked me.

Time Bomb is everything a punk song should be: it's loud, fast, and short. And it has an organ solo. What more could you ask for? (I'm pretty sure all punk songs are short because the bands couldn't possibly keep up such a frantic pace for more than a couple minutes at a time. Time Bomb is just shy of 2 1/2 minutes.)

Tighten up those Doc Martens and check your mohawk...

Flagstaff, Mindy Kaling, and New Kids on the Block

I've lived a lot of places. (Alaska is my 6th state, and I'm starting to think about moving again.) One day I'll live somewhere permanently, maybe. But who knows when that will be.

One of my favorite places I've lived is Flagstaff, AZ.

I went to college at NAU (Go Jacks!) and I'm sure that's part of the reason I love Flagstaff; college was super fun. But I stayed around for a semester after I graduated working for the geology department and I loved it then too. Here are 5 of my favorite things about Flagstaff:

1. The peaks- The San Francisco Peaks are a left over stratrovolcano that would have been huge. You can see them from everywhere and they are beautiful.

2. Downtown- Downtown Flag has a good bar scene (as most college towns do), but it also has good shopping and restaurants and is a good way to waste an afternoon. In college on Friday afternoons, my friend Kali and I would often have Beer Friday. We'd head downtown in the afternoon, get a beer at Flag Brew and then window shop. Excellent start to the weekend.

This is actually from Hot Toddy Tuesday (which became Mojito Tuesday in warm weather) but Beer Friday looked a lot like this too.

3. Hippies- Flagstaff is FULL of hippies. (Coconino County is the only county that continuously votes democrat in elections) But what I like about it, is that it's liberal without hitting you over the head with it. (Most of the time)

4. Seasons - it has them. Flagstaff is at almost 7,000 feet, so unlike most of the rest of Arizona, it gets snow in the winter and it's not 1000000 degrees in the summer.

Fall in Flagstaff

5. Outdoor pursuits- I'm not even going to talk about the Grand Canyon because it's awesome and everyone knows it. But there is lots of other cool stuff too. Hiking, biking, climbing, rafting, patio drinking...

Enjoying the outdoors with my parents

Patio drinking: my favorite outdoor pursuit

Book Review Time!
I just finished Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling.

I knew I was in for a good read when I flipped to the back cover and found this:

I originally wanted to get it to read on my way to Nashville, but it was checked out. I'm really glad I didn't get it because I would have been that crazy person laughing to themselves on the plane. And nobody likes that person.

I like that it reads like something one of my sorority sisters could have written. It's approachable and real life-y. Yes she talks about living in New York and LA and going to awards shows, but it all seems so...normal. And amazingly funny. Good work, Mindy. Let's be best friends?

If you do the math, I'm too young to have been a New Kids on the Block fan. But lucky for me, my sister is 5 years older than me, so I was exposed to their wonder at young age. That sounds inappropriate, but let's go with it. We had shirts, pins, all the tapes, 2 videos, posters, even a sweater. (Yeah, like a sweater-sweater, not a sweatshirt.) I regret not having the sheets. I even got the Joey McIntyre doll as a gift one year. Joey McIntyre was, and is, my favorite. Because he's inarguably the cutest, duh.

This week's hot jam is Please Don't Go Girl. This song has everything a hot jam needs. Whispering/talking, the adorable Joey McIntyre singing lead, awesome 80's hats, microphone dancing, and only something like 12 words in the whole song.



Fun fact: If/When I get married my BFF Steven and I are dancing to this song. Weird? Probably. But it's happening. It will probably be choreographed.