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New Lyric Video for SOFA KING COOL!
I always have fun singing with my friend, Kimberly J. Brown! Check out our "Singing Shenanigans"!
Every episode includes a bit of Improv, laughing until we cry & a lot of bloopers. ;)
It's not every day your BFF surprises you with a trip to the set of THE VOICE!
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STOKED TO BE NOMINATED FOR BEST MALE VOCAL BY THE HOLLYWOOD MUSIC IN MEDIA AWARDS!
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Fun Shoot with
Jason Vrolick
Photo/Styling BY BRIDGET MARIE COLLECTIVE
Lulu wanted her picture taken too.
This is Sofa King Cool!
My Song "SOFA KING COOL"
WON the ELECTRONIC / DANCE / AMBIENT category in the PRESTIGIOUS UK Songwriting contest!
HEATHER DUBROW'S WORLD debuted at #3 on the iTunes Charts! Check out the theme song below!
(Produced with Lennon Leppert)
(Produced with Lennon Leppert)
OBEY THE DJ
(Written with Debra Gussin)
Featured on the FINAL season of 90210.
Check out the lyric video for M.I.A.! (By Joan CONTRERAS)
The song was a FINALIST in the
John Lennon Songwriting Contest!
Honored to COLLABORATE with legendary Drummer/Producer/Arranger Denny Fongheiser / Sonic Bliss Music on a new song "IF U"
SQUIRRELS USE THEIR TAILS AS AN UMBRELLA TO PROTECT FROM THE SNOW.
ART & THE INTERNET
BY HAYDEN FONGHEISER
I'm really pissed off right now by our social culture. I go on Facebook or Twitter and everyone is talking about the same thing. With no unique opinion about it. Everyone watches the same things and says the same things about them. It's causing all of our art to be the same. I recently watched Manhattan and was amazed and moved by the story and cinematography and was inspired to create until I realized that everything they talk about in that movie, would now only be used in bad television or a buzzfeed video. Humorous anecdotes about dating can no longer be used in cinema. Instead we get a shitty version of something potentially deep, relatable or profound in a garbage three minute video titled "Shit Girls from LA Say on Dates". And I blame social media for that. Everything is so fast paced now, we shit out these ideas and videos without actually taking the time to think about what or more importantly why we're making it. Manhattan is almost 35 years old and I'm still watching it. Will I be watching that buzzfeed video 30 years from now? I sure fucking hope not. Why? Because it's not quality. And no one seems to give a shit about quality. It's like they've forgotten what quality is. They've forgotten what originality is. A YouTube star could do a scene from a woody Allen movie and post it as their own and completely get away with it. Because no one is cultured anymore. It's also why were shallow as people. Because what were consuming is shallow. Fast food. Garbage.
Gluten & Dairy free protein pancakes! |
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This is a protein pancake I found on a body building site. I’ve made it my own since finding it and I really love making this almost vegan alternative to pancakes.
1 pack - or scoop of vegan - plant based protein powder (Vanilla for this recipe)
1/2 Cup uncooked oatmeal -Blueberry Chia works great
1/2 Cup egg whites (Whites from 3 eggs)
1/2 Banana
1/2 cup fresh blueberries
2 tsp baking powder
First things first we have to make our sub for not having flour. That means we need to take the oatmeal and put in a blender, food processor, or I use a nutribullet (power blender). Grind the oatmeal until it becomes like a flour. Add the baking powder and protein powder and mix again. Add the wet ingredients; the eggs and banana. Mix all ingredients together. Take off blender and add in blueberries and mix with a spoon.
Note: if mixture is too thick, I like to add almond milk, eyeball it, just a little at a time until the mixture is more like a batter.
Heat up the skillet or griddle oround a med heat, too hot and your cakes won’t cook well. Butter it with vegan butter, I love Earth Balance, or use coconut oil to grease up your pan. Add the batter and create pancake shaped circles about the size of a cd. Let sit, be patient, once you see bubbles form and pop, grease your spatula, quickly slide it under neath the cake and in a soft, smooth motion, flip over and cook the other side. Finish up making all the batter and plate with the other half of the banana, the rest of the bloobs, and maybe a sprig of mint for fun. Enjoy your Saturday morning pancakes with a nice cup of fresh coffee or tea, with a dash of cinnamon and honey. Enjoy!
1 pack - or scoop of vegan - plant based protein powder (Vanilla for this recipe)
1/2 Cup uncooked oatmeal -Blueberry Chia works great
1/2 Cup egg whites (Whites from 3 eggs)
1/2 Banana
1/2 cup fresh blueberries
2 tsp baking powder
First things first we have to make our sub for not having flour. That means we need to take the oatmeal and put in a blender, food processor, or I use a nutribullet (power blender). Grind the oatmeal until it becomes like a flour. Add the baking powder and protein powder and mix again. Add the wet ingredients; the eggs and banana. Mix all ingredients together. Take off blender and add in blueberries and mix with a spoon.
Note: if mixture is too thick, I like to add almond milk, eyeball it, just a little at a time until the mixture is more like a batter.
Heat up the skillet or griddle oround a med heat, too hot and your cakes won’t cook well. Butter it with vegan butter, I love Earth Balance, or use coconut oil to grease up your pan. Add the batter and create pancake shaped circles about the size of a cd. Let sit, be patient, once you see bubbles form and pop, grease your spatula, quickly slide it under neath the cake and in a soft, smooth motion, flip over and cook the other side. Finish up making all the batter and plate with the other half of the banana, the rest of the bloobs, and maybe a sprig of mint for fun. Enjoy your Saturday morning pancakes with a nice cup of fresh coffee or tea, with a dash of cinnamon and honey. Enjoy!
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RESTAURANT HOURS & THE CIVIL WAR
BY HAYDEN FONGHEISER I'm bothered by the fact that I don't know more about history. I was making lunch plans with a friend and he suggested a restaurant that closed at two. I never eat there but I knew it closed at two. Why do I know that but I know nothing about the civil war? It's not that I'm not interested or wasn't taught about the civil war; it just didn't stick in my mind. So why did this restaurants business hours stick in my mind? It's not like I love restaurants or obsess over the hours they open. Maybe I remembered that one because a restaurant closing at 2 is such an odd hour to close. As I'm writing this I'm trying to think about some fact I know about the civil war. I know they used bayonets and they had to fill their rifles with gunpowder after every bullet fired. But I can't remember the important parts. The who, what, when, where, why. Was the civil war the one with Paul Revere and the red coats? God, I feel like an idiot! This should be common knowledge! This is important shit to know! Anyway, Eggs N Things closes at 2. 
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OTHER (GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED) GUN EPIDEMIC
by Anonymous Submission I considered posting a newstory about Mario Woods, the 26 year old black man who was killed by a "firing squad" of police, despite his body cowering from the police and the only weapon in his possession being supposedly a 6-inch knife that was barely visible in several bystander videos. But i thought Id post these thoughts first... it seems grimly ironic that our nation is currently gripped with conversations, rhetoric, and politics addressing the epidemic # of mass shootings and overall gun violence following the San Bernardino shooting. That same day, Mario Woods was shot 25 times by some 6-plus police officers surrounding him. The mother of Mario Woods, and community members and activists alike, say there was a better way of handling the situation. One can point at his rap sheet or what motivated them to apprehend him in the first place, but the reality is no proper understanding, investigation or justice was made possible, once they executed him. The violence, loss and pain is disproportionate--and there is no denying that race plays a factor into this inequality, as journalists and the public are quick to compare arrests of white mass shooters to the response that black people receive in non-mass murder cases, armed or unarmed, innocent or suspect. When speaking about the extent and scope of injustice and the terror of police, that black people live with, there is nothing non-black folks can offer to relate. These systemic injustices have been occurring for a long time, before Facebook, before #BlackLivesMatter, before Rodney King, before before before... At a time, when the nation is mourning, enraged, demanding, begging and praying for a change to our gun laws and our public safety, we also need to collectively refuse and resist the (also-gun) violence that kills hundreds of black people in our country every year, at the hands of the police. The policing systems in our country have to change..and your presence and commitment is required on this matter (too).
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