5 posts tagged “milwaukee”

i have to explain to you the awesomeness of tomorrow night. see below:

Halloween

not only is serena ryder playing, whom i've just adored as of late, but they have a fashion show and a ton of awesome artists...there's also a super special musical guest that they aren't releasing until noon tomorrow. uh...and a breakdancing contest...for real.

dude.

i can hardly contain my excitement. not to mention this is the first time i haven't gone to a house party filled with excessive amounts of indie hipsters in the last three years. omg.

i took a couple pictures a few weeks ago of a bathroom in a bar called the river horse. we went to see a band from detroit called i,crime. there's something neat about it.

Poster

Bathroom wall 1

*sidenote - i think i'm going to add "taking more photos" to my list of new years intentions.

Show us your favorite landmark in your current hometown.

Calatrava

this is part of the milwaukee art museum...to the right of the calatrava in this image is lake michigan, to the left is downtown milwaukee. the "wings" of the calatrava open and close given the wind speed coming off of the lake. 

marie claire magazine named milwaukee the sexiest city in america.

apparently the editors were interested in how "robust" milwaukee is in terms of entertainment, thus making us sexy. true, there is always an ethnic, music or church festival going on just about every week here in the summer...but i think that's because people in milwaukee like beer, and it's a reason to drink it.

i wouldn't necessarily consider milwaukee sexy in terms of its residents and i doubt that was the magazine's qualifications. they likened milwaukee to a cool bar that no one's heard of yet. will i live to see the day that milwaukee becomes hip? and not just the far off land of beer and cheese?

Milwaukee_view

Milwaukee_Skyline

Milwaukee River

so with a little writing inspiration from my neighbor amber, i've been thinking about starting a little bi-monthly or quarterly yoga newsletter. i think i'm a pretty decent writer...so my plan is simply to photocopy it and mail it out to all the yoga studios, natural food stores, massage clinics and gyms in the area...nothing too major. through my job, however, i do have a lot of printing connections if i ever want to get crazy with it.

but here are my thoughts on it so far:

1. design is key...i went to school for almost two years for graphic design, so i have some concept of it.

2. i'd like to purchase a new yoga product for every edition and review it...whether it's apparel, a new mat, a mat cleaner, a CD...whatever.

3. i'd also like to review a yoga book in every edition...added benefit: it would get me to read more frequently.

4. i'd like to have an article on yoga in entertainment...while i sometimes think it's ridiculous, a lot of people get into celebrities and their yoga so i can't leave them out.

5. i'd like to try to get an interview with a local yoga studio instructor...this one might be a little more difficult than i think. if i can't get an interview with an insturctor, maybe i can talk to other people in my class and get a more in depth interview on why their taking yoga an how it's influenced their life.

6. i'd want to have a listing of yoga resources...websites, books, etc.

7. any other articles about yoga in the news.

8. i'd want to have my e-mail address, my blog address and my myspace page all listed so anyone who reads it can contact me with suggestions, comments on improvement, so on and so forth...

- now i just need to come up with a name for it...hmm...suggestions? i'd like to keep it local...so something that has to do with milwaukee...brew city yoga gazette? i don't think i should incorporate beer into the name...that's not healthy.

- maybe once it's up and running, i can contact the local publishers in the area...i was just out to dinner on saturday and ran into a local wellness magazine they had in the doorway. a place like that might publish me? that's pretty far off into the future though.

...these are all just thoughts and ideas i wanted to get down...this may not go anywhere at all...who knows! it's pretty exciting to think about it though.

it doesn't look like i'll be able to fork over the $3000 i need for yoga teacher training anytime soon without putting it on a credit card, which i don't want to do, but this is another way i thought i could share my yoga excitement with others inexpensively.

- there's no guarantee these studios will distribute my newsletter amongst their students, but maybe i can offer some free advertising or something...that's a whole different issue to deal with.

ahh...so many things to think about on a monday morning...

sidenotes:

- yesterday was the 3 month anniversary of the day i quit smoking. yea me!