Earth Hour

Turn Your Lights Down Low

EARTH HOUR is tomorrow, from 8:30-9:30pm. Turn your lights off for an hour to conserve, preserve, and think about our lives on this planet...

Happy Weekend!

Peace and love,

--christine

Stand By Me

Musicians across the world singing together via Playing for Peace


All-boys choir at Albert Hall via the BBC


John Lennon in New York

Today, I woke up and made a cup of coffee. I took a little stroll through the internet, and as per usual, I took a right at SuperForest. There I discovered a new blog and took a left at Gems Sty. A recent post featured an amazing video that really brightened my morning, as did the unexpected snow shower on this day, The First Day of Spring!

Well, I left my apartment and took many rights and left on an early errand thinking about the song... the Ben E. King classic Stand By Me. Beautiful rhythm, upliftng lyrics, excellent song right? How wonderful that it can endure and transform so many!

From "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music" featuring musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travels the globe, to The BBC series The Choir's 100 strong, all boys choir at the Royal Albert Hall (I extra-love that they have incorporated Sean Kingston's excellent mash-up/remix Beautiful Girl). And, of course, John Lennon's version from his excellent 1975 album of covers Rock 'n' Roll which I had recently been listening to a lot.

Happy weekend!

Love and peace,

--christine


PS. For those of you who are as traumatized as I am from the use of Leonard Coehen's Hallelujah in WATCHMEN, may I offer an antidote... the song played to clips from the incredibly fine film STAND BY ME. Trust me, it helps.

WATCHMEN sample it, loop it

Crazy old tune from Pop Will Eat Itself. A tribute to Alan Moore, comics, music, film, and all kinds of nerdery... and an amazing Obama/WATCHMEN poster art/remix I spotted on my way home at the West 4th Street subway.

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And, big thank you to iFanboy for adding me to their comprehensive Twitter Comic Book Master List! You can go there and check out all the slick amazing comics artists and writers who are sending out their 140-word missives. And, if you would like to follow my silliness and updatery I am http://twitter.com/christinenorrie

Happy weekend!

Peace and Love,

xo, christine

NYC GRAPHIC

Love and Style: Christine Norrie on Romance and New York City
by Christopher Irving, photos by Seth Kusher

Christine Norrie sits at a long table in her studio in Manhattan’s Fashion District, a petite Eurasian woman in a gray shirt with white stars printed on it, a maroon scarf wrapped around her neck, her black hair pulled back in a ponytail, and points out a pair of sneakers hanging from a light fixture.

“That’s one of my studio mate’s,” Christine says as she then points to piles of shoeboxes stacked on a wooden shelf hanging from the ceiling. “We have, maybe, 300 pairs of Adidas, Reebok, or the original Air Jordans right here.”

And that’s how the interview starts, as a conversation of pop culture and music (Norrie counts The National as one of her favorite bands) that evolves into a chat about comics, motherhood, love, and life in general…

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