What is Love?

If you haven't picked up on this yet...I love love (I love being in love, I don't care what it does to me [1]).

I find myself watching and writing RomComs or writing a musical called Lovestruck. I have a playlist of 158 love songs (only my favorites). But I am also secretly cynical about what love really means.

I just spent a couple hours watching The Wedding Planner (while I did other things). And I'll tell you, I miss the days where every RomCom consisted of:

1. One person literally saving the other person's life because they are either: in a coma, about to get hit by a car, or about to get hit by a runaway garbage dumpster

2. A wedding (or two) called off at the altar. 

3. An Italian lover that comes out of nowhere. Or if the family is Greek a boy who is NOT Greek that comes out of nowhere.

4. The moment of PANIC when someone runs into an ex-lover that broke his/her heart and the consoling from the new lover that follows.

5. If you're lucky Hugh Grant, but if not there's always Matthew M. with a pager:

Of course he can't literally safe your life without it ending in a compromising pose. 



After having The Great Gatsby OST on repeat for the last month I have come to the conclusion that this song is the definition of love. You can hate on Lana Del Ray all you want, this is a good song. 

Real and true love is not for people in their 20s or in their 30s or in their 60s or for children. It's for people who are willing to love and be loved in all stages of their lives. It's about someone who doesn't care that your soul sometimes aches or that you have things you're trying to figure out. 

It's about someone who knows how to be child-like and enjoy the simple things in life. It's about changing seasons and changing circumstances and commitment enduring through all of those. It's also about someone who makes you want to party.



I've seen the world
Done it all
Had my cake now
Diamonds, brilliant
In Bel Air now
Hot summer nights, mid July
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child

Chorus
Will you still love me
When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?

I've seen the world, lit it up
As my stage now
Channeling angels in the new age now
Hot summer days, rock 'n' roll
The way you play for me at your show
And all the ways I got to know
Your pretty face and electric soul

[Chorus]

Dear Lord, when I get to heaven
Please let me bring my man
When he comes tell me that you'll let him in
Father tell me if you can
Oh that grace, oh that body
Oh that face makes me wanna party
He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds

[Chorus]

Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?
Will you still love me when I'm not young and beautiful?

[1] The Format.

Gasp! A guest post!

I did it! Someone thought I was good enough to write on their blog.

This is my response to some of the experiences I had at BYU's Women's Conference and thoughts on how vulnerabilities are what give us courage.

Check it out here.

SMASH, I miss you.

I'll admit it...I'm going through SMASH withdrawals. It was a perfect musical soap opera. A little self-indulgent but good at what being what it was. Amongst all the drama I also learned a lot about the world of musicals. I am sad that it got cancelled so I keep watching these highlights over and over and I will share them with you so you can know what you missed.

It started out about a group of people writing a musical about Marilyn Monroe but I loved it even more when they started working on a play Hit List. Here are some songs from that musical (roughly in the order they would be in in the actual play). If you're interested in the plot it is described here.



 




^Katherine McPhee's character sings this song in the actual musical, but I like this version.




















BONUS:


Watching these makes me think, "I want to write a musical--oh wait."

We should petition for Hit List to be produced as an actual play! Some of this songs are brilliant.

*Special thanks to John McAvoy for uploading all these videos.

'Til Our Graduation Day!!

Once upon a time we decided to do a nice thing for the local highschoolers and we wrote some lyrics and filmed some stuff and Happy Graduation! to all you people who are graduating. It's true what they say, college is better.


 

wedding wedding wedding

sneak peek at the most beautiful wedding ever...i cannot wait to edit the video!

after she got married i gave her a big hug and said, "you beautiful tropical fish"

and of course she got that reference

they sang "hey ho" and i probably could've died from the magicalness of it all.

Memorial Day

hai visto come sono cosi fashion?

As I have been thinking about famous blogs lately I realized this blog is missing a key element if I ever want to be famous bloggily and that is my awesome fashion sense!

So I'd like to introduce you to what I wore today, since pictures were taken and since this is one of my favorite outfits. 

Not the best picture because boys are in the way, but what can you do?

I am in love with navy, white, and bright yellow combos. I recommend them for Spring? Can I do that? Can I tell you what you should wear this season? When you wear yellow it just makes everyone around you so happy and adding the navy keeps it from blinding everyone. Yellow and white by their lonesome is pretty great too. 

So there you have it. #fashion #fashion. 

Oh, I'll do this to be even more legit: 

shoes: promod 20E

skirt: Mamma Laws Made

t-shirt: Target $7 or $8

sweater: Forever XXI...probably $15

necklace: can't remember...$1

 and I'm not the only one.

#eatyourbirthday

Every year a week after my birthday when I realize I haven't used my free-birthday-scoop from Baskin Robins I think to myself, why do I always forget this? And why didn't I sign up for more free offers before my birthday?

This year, however, inspired by my friend, Diana, who said that she was going to try and go the whole month of May without buying food I decided I was going to do it--and I was going to find them all.

It started (like most things) with a post on Facebook...

So I went to all the company websites and signed up for their "clubs" (usually called the eClub but some of them have more cutesy names) and the emails started rolling in...

I started looking up more and more companies that are local to Provo/Orem and weren't on the list. I am hoping to be an inspiration to you all, because why shouldn't you have the most magical birthday month ever?

My advice is to sign up for them NOW even if your birthday isn't coming up because I have the dilemma of trying to cram my "welcome to the club" and "birthday gifts" into the same month...in two weeks actually because I started late. I have to go to IHOP twice before the month ends! I even have checklists and spreadsheets--this is not a joke.

Wish me luck! You can follow the food on Instagram at #eatyourbirthday. This is one of my most noble campaigns yet. 

Lovestruck...out.

Oh, I don't think I've complained about this on ye olde blog yet.

Since Feburary I have been working on a screenplay titled "Lovestruck: The Musical" it's a short film that got approved to shoot in the fall as a capstone project (we do two a semester in the film program).

Well, guess what premiered two weeks ago on ABC Family...

Lovestruck: The Musical

I wasn't super in love with the title or anything, but it had some clever bit of wordplay because it is about a playwright who loves love and a boxer who come together, you know combining love and striking. There is a hilarious bit of vandalism that involved rearranging the letters in Lovestruck to spell "love sucks" buuuut now I'm all out of luck.  

So I need a new title. I'll probably go with Luvztrux: The Muzakil.

txts n things

Since the semester is over and it is no longer required of me to write here every week you can see how strong my loyalty is to this thing. A handful of summers ago I posted every day. EVERY day. Not really sure how someone flighty and non-commital as I managed to do such a thing, but there is that knowledge that it is possible.

I was just reading my friend, Jennie's, blog (which is, unfortunately for all of you, private) and she had posted some text messages her husband had sent her years ago. 

I might be getting a new phone soon and I have been thinking about what a tragedy it will be to loose some of my texts and some of those memories.

I love having things written down and collected...that's why I email people who live two blocks away from me, that's why I blog...etc. Because they are tangible examples of love and affection. Spoken words and actions are great and all too, but they are easy to forget.

I think it is a good insight to the kind of life you lead...

-Adventure?

-Yes please

-Can you pick me up from Diana's?

-Is that where your quincinera was?

-Yes

-Will I need shoes?

-Nope. Especially when you see how I'm dressed.

-I know. Also, you're hawt, that is all.

-That is NOT all

-Ha, not what I meant. I meant, "you're hawt. That's all I have to say at this moment." 

-Just finishing up. I assume you've eaten dinner, right?

-I'm still hungry if that's what you're asking

-I could never make him happy

-What makes you say that?

-He's too talented for me

-Well that's not the MOST ridiculous thing I've ever heard you say, but...

-He looks better on camera...

-Unlikely 

-You look good

-Thanks. You look good always

-Thank you. Marry me.

-Okay

"Parks and rec is a good idea. Maybe we'll drop by in a minute to pick up a camera. Thought we'd give you a heads up, you know, because of the making out"

"For reals. I had fun. And I promise I'm not a tool"

"What're you up to tomorrow? Want to help make a million sandwiches?"

"And frankly, between us chickens..."

etc.