What you should see:
i know this show isn’t new to many of you, and i know my friend Haley-O is a HUGE fan, but the husband and i recently started watching season 1 of Rome and we are hooked. Admittedly, we had to watch the first episode 3 times because, well, erm, it was confusing. There were so many people with bizarro names, like Servillia, and too many of them looked EXACTLY the same. but overall, it’s highly entertaining, and highly addictive.
What you should listen to:
Band of Horses – Cease to Begin
I just picked up downloaded their sophomore album because i loved their debut album, Everything All the Time, so very much. and this album doesn’t disappoint. and i just knew it was going to love it…any band that puts a song called Detlef Schrempf on their album is aces by me 😉
What you should buy:
buy for me, at least. i’m ALWAYS taking pictures of myself. and other people. and there’s always an extra arm in there and sometimes the angle is always wrong…but with the XShot, you can take pictures of yourself without them looking stupid in them…you’ll only look stupid WHILE taking them. It misght just be worth it…
Where you should go:
duh. this one’s a no-brainer this week.
The Walden Galleria Mall in Buffalo. I mean, certainly it’s NOT the best mall i’ve ever been to..but i spent the majority of my day there yesterday and had a grand ole’ time. I mean, it has a Cheesecake FActory, so you know it’s going to make me happy…but it’s also got an Urban Outfitters (love) and Lucky Brand Jeans (love) and an Apple Store (love love love) It’s not too far from the border for all you Toronto readers…and it’s totally worth the day trip. (and if anyone wants to go – EVER – i’m totally up for the road trip!)
also…one of their huge anchor sporting-goods stores is called
and the husband and i got a good kick out of that.
because we are 12.
i totally went and bought the last two xshots in my city… i also saw it featured on canada am. too cool.
That camera arm looks funny but it can’t be any funnier than the “hey can you tell I took this picture myself?” picture.
Never heard of Rome before, I’ll have to check it out.
Love the Galleria. There are two B&BW’s in there. TWO!
I am so in love with Rome. We own season 1, and there appears to be a season 2-shaped box under the tree…fingers crossed!
We have a Dick’s here, too. The funniest part to us is that it used to be called Galyan’s. Which my husband always pronounced “Gay Land’s.” So it went from Gay Land’s to Dick’s. And we are still laughing about it, 2 years later.
ROME is supposed to be coming to HISTORY CHANNEL not sure when but looking forward to watching it!
I am totally 12 when I have to make a trip to Dick’s in order to buy balls (golf) for my husband. I’m always like,”I’m going to DICKS to buy BALLS!!!” Maturity is so overrated.
Also, that 3rd arm camera thing is brilliant.I so need that.
Definitely you HAVE to watch ROME!!!!! It is ADDICTIVE and gorgeous and OMIGOSH. I wish they’d kept it up!
Even funnier than the fact there is a store named Dicks, is that one of the other Western New York Dick’s stores took over the location of a home improvement stored called Busy Beaver.
Scott in Buffalo