holy vocals and procrastination week

i have accomplished the following items this week:

- completing my final assignment for Design Visualization (class #1 complete)
- completing my final essays for my history class (class #2 complete)

still awaiting completion:
- final submission for construction tech (Wednesday 5 PM) (class #3)
- final presentation/model/board for studio (Friday) (class #4)

in addition, i have managed to find time to complete all of the following procrastinatory items:
- creating a LinkedIn profile (which will technically be useful at some point)
- making a list of Chicago architecture firms
- making a list of buildings that i want to see, worldwide (to be gradually revisited)
- cleaning my apartment (which really actually did need to happen)
- eating all the snacks (#teamgoldfish)
- buying alcohol for this weekend
- reading a book for a book club (which is actually about structures/architecture)
- watching 11 episodes of "The Good Wife" in one day (shouts out to Saturdays)
- emailing a christmas list to my parents (complete with a few hours of internet research)
- online shopping/browsing for others' christmas gifts
- creating a thorough weekend itinerary for my upcoming trip to chicago
- reading nearly every buzzfeed article that is remotely relevant to my life
- taking nearly every buzzfeed quiz that is remotely relevant to my life
- youtube binge-ing, which brought me through the following collection of videos:
beyonce via facebook started it all - i can't resist her voice/sexy. then i started wondering if a good cover of it existed, enter Mackenzie Johnson (the most-viewed cover of Jealous):

then i spent about 30 minutes listening to her videos.. only because girl got PIPES and hella videos:
which led me to this gem:

which was impressive and made me very jealous. then i looked up the original of the above song but it sadly reminded me that Eric Hutchinson stopped recording good music a long time ago and that the only way to listen to him is via live album or actually live. RIP non-pop-sounding Eric Hutchinson... also in all of the live videos of him, bro looks COKED OUT. Dude, I'm not sure what you're using, but they make Visine and other things for that. Maybe he's been wearing the same pair of 2-week contacts for like 3 months? Can't say I'm not guilty of that last one.  All this reflection on my old musical tastes got me thinkin about good ol Ben Rector (who still, fortunately, is making good music and is also excellent live). Which brought me over to his youtube channel to make sure he isn't releasing any music any time soon.

Unfortunately, nothing posted BUT it brought me back to one of my favorite covers of all time:

wowza. great song, great cover. now i want to go sing.

(continuing list of procrastination activities)
- writing this blog post...