woo super bowl sunday

i didn't have any super bowl plans this year, so i'm kickin' it at home alone today, cooking, cleaning, eating, not cheering for either team in any way whatsoever but watching the game as i end up doing every year. i could care less about football and find the game itself mostly boring (with the exception of the occasional insane play or injury), but i dig the commercials and halftime show (like most girls), and i do appreciate a good sports announcer. jennifer hudson just sang the national anthem and sounded great - game on. i did watch about a half hour of the puppy bowl and caught its national anthem, sung by a parrot, which was cool but decidedly overall less exciting than the super bowl.

i pigged out most of yesterday and continued with BLC (bacon, lettuce, cheese) sammiches for breakfast this morning - yes, plural - and decided the rest of my day should involve some exercise and decent food. so i walked around a few blocks and vacuumed. should have probably enjoyed the warmish 50-degree day more, but the promise of the FL sun and my sunshine in a few days keeps me from feeling too guilty. and so, instead of eating a bucket of fried chicken by myself as i considered, i had a delicious roundish meal featuring leftover roasted carrots & parsnips and a chicken cutlet, plus some wild rice (packaged) and brussels sprouts gratin with bacon. the brussels sprouts were kind of a hybrid of two different alice waters brussels sprouts recipes and they came out amazing. i have allowed myself to believe that eating brussels sprouts and bacon together cancels out the bacon (please don't try to convince me otherwise).

one notable bit of music news is that (i'm a little late getting to this) hype machine, aka music bloggers around the world, voted fleet foxes the #1 album of 2008. this makes me happy not necessarily because its my #1 choice but because every music magazine (well, at least spin and rolling stone) voted TVOTR's album #1. truthfully, i've listened to the TVOTR a lot more than fleet foxes, but i think both are equally amazing and that fleet foxes deserves some recognition for creating what was arguably 2008's most beautiful and original indie album. here hype machine offers a podcast show of their top 10 albums in full. the full list is here.




2009 looks promising musically as well, kicking off with the release of andrew bird's 'noble beast' which i cannot get enough of - it's seriously amazing - and, of course, success in getting phish tickets to camden in june, and thanks to my very good friend eytan, a promise to go to the friday jones beach show as well. despite many efforts, i've never seen phish live, so i'm pretty ph'ing stoked to finally live my 18-year-old dreams. lots to look phorward to.