still too young

merry new year and stuff

Hena — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:39:49 +0000

Hello world, welcome to the future. It is officially 2010, and while I am still internally debating whether to pronounce it “two-thousand-ten” or “twenty-ten,” I am almost positive that this will be a great year.

Anyway, the main purpose of this post is for me to tell you all that I indeed watched all the Doctor Who 2009 specials, including “The End Of Time.” I plan to write about it soon, when I have the time, and talk about David Tennant and his Doctorial awesomeness.

But uh, how about that regeneration?

I am still unsure about how I feel about Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor. I saw the trailer for the fifth season of Doctor Who, and he does seem sort of fun, but this is simply because he is The Doctor. And really? Geronimo?

I don’t know about you guys, but I am certainly not going to let “GERONIMO!” be The Doctor’s catchphrase. Christopher Eccleston’s “FANTASTIC!” was great, and David Tennant’s, well, everything was brilliant. “Geronimo” seems really lame.

Whatever though. In the words of The 10th Doctor, ALLONS-Y! 2010, here we come.

decembrary

Hena — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:44:00 +0000

Christmas is over and done with. Finally. I’m really a scrooge during this time of year. The only thing I enjoy about this time of year is the happy feeling I get from the people around me.

And Bender.

time travelation

Hena — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:27:45 +0000

This morning I woke up, happy to have an extra hour of sleep (thank you DST), but realized that it’s already November. This means the following:

About a month and a half until this semester is over
A lot of crappy Christmas music will begin playing everywhere
The winter air will take over New Jersey
I have to bust out the hoodie-scarf
I need to invest in a brand new peacoat
Hoodie wearing is not looked upon as weird during this season
I realize how much I hate the mall all over again

DEEP BREATHS, HENNY BABY. 2010 is gonna be okay.

damn, yo

Hena — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:47:06 +0000

Now I’m not saying that The Dark Knight was a bad movie, because you know, it was fucking AWESOME. But…

Damn that poster is amazing. Via io9.

i will become this animal

Hena — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:38:09 +0000

To those of you who have seen my (now retired) Chuck Taylors with things written all over them, one of the lyrics I’ve written there is “I WILL BECOME THIS ANIMAL.” It’s a lyric from one of my favorite Andrew Bird songs, Anonanimal. He recently released the (mostly) animated video to the beautiful song and it’s totally worthy of a post here.

I love how he’s in the video about half-way into the song. Oh, Andrew Bird, you are so dreamy.

fanart is ok when it’s for Imogen Heap

Hena — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:48:44 +0000

Dear Imogen Heap,

I love you. Please accept the following drawing of you as a token of my undying love for you.

Love,
Hena

(Made in Illustrator CS3)

we are not what you think we are

Hena — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:53:59 +0000

Hey, you know Mika, right? If yes, you’re awesome. If not, you’d better.

He’s this twenty-something singer-dude who sings in this amazing normal voice and a kickass falsetto voice and has pretty catchy songs that you’d pretty much immediately love. Here, have some fun watching these videos:

Now listen to his latest, “We Are Golden”, from his upcoming album which is also called We Are Golden.

Mika – We Are Golden

We Are Golden comes out the 21st of September.

First Train Home

Hena — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:17:35 +0000

I’m only posting this here so you can keep your sanity. The single is officially released on the 14th of July, so you’d better buy it. Not high quality, but still worth listening to.

Imogen Heap – First Train Home

waiting it out for Imogen Heap

Hena — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:14:49 +0000

Imogen Heap’s Ellipse comes out August 24/25th (UK and US dates) and the constant tweets on her Twitter only make me restless for this album. We’ve been waiting since 2005 for a new album, even though since then and now she’s released several songs that had nothing to do with her albums (see: Can’t Take It In, Glittering Cloud, Not Now But Soon). An entire album full of brand new songs to listen to constantly, on repeat, to use as our everyday background music is so tempting…and so close to life.

The photo above is from a photoshoot with the amazingly talented Jeremy Cowart. This is simply a sneak peak. The Hideaway Team has been offering some behind the scenes information about Miss Heap and her upcoming album, so definitely follow them on Twitter for more information and sneak peaks.

In the meantime, here is an MP3 version of Imogen Heap’s performance at Pop Tech! from several months back. Enjoy.

illustrator is more than just the pen tool

Hena — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:31:52 +0000

I have ideas on how to use this little image of myself in future designs, but I’m way too lazy to actually do it.