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Resonate

Like, I'm so sure.

Even if you don't like the band, Journey, you totally have to watch their new video above. It's like, soooo bonus.

Remember the Salahis and, like, how they crashed a White House dinner?  Turns out Michaele Salahi left her husband Tareq (his name is so gross!) for Journey's guitarist Neal Schon!!!!  So, like, on Valentine's Day, the band released the video to their latest single, "Resonate". It is SOOO AWESOME.  Michaele and Neal make out and EVERYthing on the beach. Just like I do!!!  It is so totally awesome!

But Tareq (that name is so barf) has filed a suit for $50 million against Michaele for "a lost-reality show contract for $150,000".  What-EVer.  He's so mean because the video is, like, KILLER.  I'm in junior high school and I should know when something is like, really, really, really good.  

One of my friends (NOT!)  asked me what "resonate" means.  As if!  Who cares if you can make out on a beach?????!!!!! Duh! That is so totally rez!

 

The Bark Side

 

Volkswagon does it again with

its Super Bowl game teaser!

Seaweed

Seaweed from Tell No One on Vimeo.

 

A simply unique video that Matissta

found interesting and wanted to share.

Pretty

Let's hear it for poetry and how it can help us express

what we really need to express.  

Listen to Katie Makkai define the word "pretty".

2012 Golden Globes

 

The Sassistas! are watching the Golden Globes Awards!

We Bought A Zoo

 "What do you like better? Animals or humans?"

That is the question at the heart of a surprisingly sweet and very smart film, "We Bought a Zoo," that Flannista saw yesterday afternoon with treesta. It was the perfect cure for a sucky year. If you want to know why you like animals and love humans, if you want to know why good writing makes all the difference in a film, if you just want to feel frickin' grateful to have 20 seconds in your life when you do something outrageously courageous, drop everything and see this film.

I loved it, and so did treesta as we dabbed at our happy tears as the credits were rolling.

The movie, based on a true story, is about a father named Benjamin (Matt Damon in a winningly likeable performance), a lonely widower with two kids -- his wife died six months before -- who revives his lust for life by purchasing a ramshackle country house with a dilapidated zoo attached. Bottom line, a depressed dad comes to life and lemme tell ya, I bought it big time. There is darkness in life, but that doesn't mean there can't also be harmony.

Contributing to the whimsy and beauty of the film is a soundtrack by Jonsi, the guitarist and vocalist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Ros.  I was first introduced to Jonsi in June, when my artist friend, Tim Lowly, told me to drop everything and buy Jonsi's latest CD, "Go".  I did, and it is one of my favorite CDs of the year.  Click here to hear "Why Not" -- a cut from Jonsi's soundtrack to "We Bought A Zoo".

I could go on and on and on . . . but won't.  At the moment, I'm so grateful to feel happy about the warmth and beauty that is as close to me as the local theater and my iTunes library.

But back to the question at the heart of this film: What do you like better? Animals or humans?"

Open Fire

FABULOUS NEWS!

 

Flannista finally installed the fireplace she's longed for in her home.

Just in time for the holidays!

Stay warm and cozy!

Marcel

 

The Sassistas! came across this utterly charming creature

and what can we say?  Marcel made our day.

Hope Marcel makes your day, too.

Murmuration

A chance encounter and shared moment with one of nature's

greatest and most fleeting phenomena.

Flannista came across this video while trolling on Facebook recently. This jewel makes it worth sifting through the drivel that comprises most of that platform. 

Take in the wonder.

 

Never Forget

Ten years ago, four months after September 11, 2001, the National Association of Counties hired Flannista to produce and direct a lobbying video to ensure that funds for homeland security would also be earmarked for county governments and not just state governments.  Most of the First Responders that day were county employees. Flann had a very short turnaround for this project -- two weeks, and could not have done it without her life-long shooter and editor, Mike Speltz.

This short film went on to win a New York Film Festival award in the Non-Broadcast Government category in the Summer of 2002.  It was first shown to 2,500 First Responders at the Capitol Hilton Hotel in February 2002 -- just six months after that awful day.  Attorney General Ashcroft was in the audience as well as the First Responders featured in the film.

To hallow the 10th anniversary this weekend, the Sassistas! would like to share this short, 9+minute documentary featuring the quiet nobility of ordinary Americans who simply showed up for work that bright, clear morning.