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Lex and Mais Rockin a Concert
This week we got to do one of our favorite things to do which is go see a concert. We went to see Santigold and Damien Marley. The show was absolutely off the hook. Santigold opened up for Damien Marley and she was so freaking awesome. She had dancers and let people come up on the stage with her and her beats were the bomb!! We loved her! Damien Marley was absolutely a joy to watch. He sounds a lot like his daddy Bob Marley. Gotta love reggae and the guy that has the stamina to wave a rasta flag the entire concert. That guys got some arm strength for reals. The only bad thing about that concert was Lex spilling an entire Budlight on herself and almost loosing her scripts down her shirt. Mais remedied both of these problems by sticking her hand in Lex's Shirt to find the missing scripts and she found a lonely beer that had been left behind by its owner and generously gave it to Lex. Luckily Lex wasn't roofied. Good times were had.
Mais, Scott (producer), Lex we be gettin Crazy!
Santigold Rockin it!
Santigolds Dancers were OFF THE HOOK!!
Thank God for People who know how to get their dance on. Get it Scott!
Oh Shit where's my scripts? Oh Thank God their still in my tits hahahaha
Damien Marley
Rasta Man Waving The Rasta Flag. How does he do it?
Mais and Trish Da Dish. She is Always at a good show, love you girl!
Food For Health:
PEACHES
This week our food for health is peaches. They are so sweet and juicy and yummy. We love them and they just so happen to be in season so its a good time to put them on your shopping list. Not only are peaches super yummy they are also really good for you.
Peaches contain 10 different vitamins. vitamin A, Which is important to healthy vision, vitamin C, an antioxidant and tissue-builder. vitamins E and K, Vitamin E is another antioxidant, while vitamin K is essential to your body's blood clotting capabilities. Peaches are also a source of thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B-6, niacin, folate and pantothenic acid. Healthy and yummy thats what i like to hear.
Vitamins are important for a healthy diet but don't forget about minerals too. Peaches have 333 mg of potassium. Potassium can help you maintain healthy blood pressure as well as prevent kidney stones and bone loss. Peaches provide some magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, copper, manganese, iron and calcium as well. These minerals work to support red blood cell, bone and nervous system health. All the good things are in those yummy furry fruits.
There is also a video on youtube all about peaches if you are interested in checking it out. You can search it under health benefits of peaches or copy and paste this link
(link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTJVYfB1Dfw)
This weeks recipe is a pretty delicious one. They are very much like a peach cobbler with a very yummy crumbly crust. Mais described it as "Bomb, Buttery, Crumbly." The Cocktail this week were really good, Peach Bellini. I'd even make some of these up and drink them for breakfast. We've got both those recipes in case you feel like getting your cook and drink on this week.
PEACH CRUMB BARS
yield: 24 bars prep time: 30 minutes cook time: 45 minutes total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
INGREDIENTS:
For the Dough:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cold
1 egg, lightly beaten
For the Filling:
5 cups diced or sliced peaches (about 7 peaches, peeled)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
½ cup all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan.
2. For the Dough: In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Use a pastry blender to cut in the butter, and then the egg. The dough will be crumbly. Pat half of the dough into the prepared pan. Place the pan and the remainder of the dough in the refrigerator while you prepare the filling.
3. For the Filling: Place the diced (or sliced) peaches in a large bowl and sprinkle with lemon juice. Mix gently. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Pour over the peaches and mix gently.
4. Spread the peach mixture evenly over the crust. Crumble the remaining dough over the peach layer.
5. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until the top is slightly brown. Cool completely before cutting into squares.
www.browneyedbaker.com/2009/09/25/peach-crumb-bars/
Peach Bellini
Ingredients:
2 ripe peaches, seeded and diced
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 teaspoon sugar
1 bottle chilled prosecco sparkling wine
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 teaspoon sugar
1 bottle chilled prosecco sparkling wine
Directions:
Place the peaches, lemon juice, and sugar in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade and process until smooth. Press the mixture through a sieve and discard the peach solids in the sieve. Place 2 tablespoons of the peach puree into each Champagne glass and fill with cold chanpagne. Serve immediately.
Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/fresh-peach-bellinis-recipe/index.html?oc=linkback
Place the peaches, lemon juice, and sugar in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade and process until smooth. Press the mixture through a sieve and discard the peach solids in the sieve. Place 2 tablespoons of the peach puree into each Champagne glass and fill with cold chanpagne. Serve immediately.
Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/fresh-peach-bellinis-recipe/index.html?oc=linkback
Peach Bellini, and Peach Crumb Bars
Champagne Made On Maui
Mais enjoying her Bellini
Lex enjoying her crumb bar
We Both like to drink Bellini
GET STOOPID:
Redbox pick of the week
This week we decided to go check out the red box and rented warm bodies. What a bizarre movie. It is after a zombie Apocalypse and the main character is a zombie his name is R (played by Nicholas Holt) He is walking around grunting and basically he seems to be bored. One day he's going out with his zombie friends looking for someone to eat when he comes across this girl named Julie (played by Teresa Palmer) He just so happens to be eating her boyfriends brains when he notices her and decides to save her from the other zombies.
The rest of the movie is basically about R becoming a human again and because he is changing it starts changing the other zombies as well. The bad guys are now these things called bonies. These are zombies who get real nasty and turn into something even worse and go around being all kinds of nasty. The ending was happy and it was a real fuckin weird movie.
Mais thought it was interesting idea that when zombies eat other people's brains they get to see their memories....and it was kinda funny how he saved the brains and would eat them randomly. I also liked his funny narrations.
Lex liked the visual that they did when the zombies hearts started beating again. They had them glowing red inside of their chests. It was pretty awesome.
We gave the movie 3 snaps
Netflix Pick of the Week
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
This weeks netflix pick is a movie called The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou. It's an oldie, but definitely worth watching. It's a Wes Anderson film, which are my favorites. All his films have very dry humor, but they're also super weird funny....We dig it!
The film stars Bill Murray he is Zissou, an eccentric Oceanographer he sets out on a journey to take revenge on a "Jaguar shark" that ate his partner Esteban. Bill Murray does a great job being eccentric and it is amazing how he can keep a straight face while talking about this Jaguar shark. Ned Plimpton played by Owen Wilson thinks that his zissou is his father but his mother passed away and neither zissou nor ned knows for sure but ned decides to go ahead and join Zissou ship crew he also uses his inheritance to support the voyage.
We just love Bill Murray, which is in most of Wes Anderson's films, along with Owen Wilson, a Maui local, and Cate Blanchette. Mais' favorite is all the music and sea creatures, especially the jaguar shark. Wes Anderson's films have a lot of cool music in them, stuff you don't necessarily hear on a daily basis. In this film in particular is chalked full of David Bowie songs in portugese. I mean that's just awesome! If you haven't seen this movie or any of his movies, you should definitely check them out, I recommend it!
Website of the Week
Thugkitchen.com
OMG we came across the best funniest website for this week it is called thug kitchen.com This website is hilarious the motto for the website is "eat like you give a fuck" it is a recipe blog that also won best new blog of the year award.We love this blog it is visually appealing and funny and the recipes are nom nom. Its good for a laugh and everyone needs that.
Lex did grill the shit outta lettuce and it is good!!
App of the Week
Zombie Booth App
This app is quite terrifying…you can turn your friends and family into zombies. The creepiest part is that when you first turn them they are all 3D and movie around coin weird shit…eek!! It's a really fun app to play around with…but be pre-warned it's pretty crepy to see yourself or your friends as brain eating zombies. Although at least you'll know what to look for! The best part is that it's free! That's a bargain bitch.
Lex as a zombie. Ok that is just nasty!
Mais decided to go as Christmas Zombie. EWWW!!
Scott the Inside out Universe Producer as a Zombie AHHH!!
What's Yo Status?:
Guns
So this week Mais had the great idea to sharpen our gun skills, just in case there is a zombie apocalypse. There's actually a pretty sweet shooting range here upcountry in Hailiimaile ran by a super sweet man named Ed. He lives on the property and is a really great instructor on proper gun handling. We don't promote violence, but at the end of the day everyone should probably be able to shoot a zombie in the head if push comes to shove.
It has been a while since either one of us has shot a gun. When we got there we weren't sure if we should let them know if we'd shot a gun before, so we didn't. Ed was on point about showing us the proper techniques and was very impressed with our aim on our first fire! We nailed that shit!
That clay pidgin didn't know what to expect. Lex had a bad day that day, and let me tell ya that blowing up that skeet was a pretty good feeling. We ended up shooting with three other experienced gunman, which were skeptical as to whether we'd shot a gun before because our scores were pretty awesome.
So basically, if y'all don't have your skills up to par, you should check out your local gun range. There's bad guys out there that just pick up a gun and start shooting it….so I feel like the good guys should be able to shoot those bad guys before they're in range to shoot you first. Support the local range it puts money back into the community…support local!
Peeps shooting some skeet
The Guns
Mais and Lex holding our guns
Lex, Ed, And Mais
We Will Shoot You B!
Postcard of the Week
Urban Dictionary Word of the Week
ZOMBIE
when a girl is sucking a guy off he shoots cum in her eyes so she cant see....and she walks around with her arms extended looking for a towel to wipe her eyes with.....looking like a zombie
"adam gave adriana the zombie this morning she fell down ....full thriller style."
SNEWS:
7 SCIENTIFIC REASONS A ZOMBIE OUTBREAK WOULD FAIL!
The first reason is because they have too many natural predators there would be some hungry animals hanging around and unfortunately for a zombie they are pretty slow and dumb but I'm not talking only animals I'm also talking about the bugs too. Zombies in any part of the world with a fly problem are going to be swarming with maggots in short order, meaning that most of their soft tissues will be infested, and their eyes will be very quickly useless. Makes sense
Reason number two: they can't take the heat. Dead bodies bloat because of the gases created by the bacteria that our body naturally creates, meaning that in warmer areas even Abercrombie Zombies are going to start getting fat in the first few days. After a few weeks of this, the nasty, bloated zombie army is going to start doing something that is simultaneously the most awesome and disturbing thing a zombie can do: they will start exploding. The warm, moist conditions in the tropical and subtropical parts of the world (or even just summer in the temperate parts) speeds this condition, meaning a July zombie outbreak pretty much anywhere would be over in a few weeks just by virtue of the rampaging monsters bursting like rancid meat balloons. Thats just nasty man
Reason number 3: Not only are they gonna have problems in the sun they are also gonna have some problems with the cold When flesh is alive, it's got all sorts of defense systems to keep it that way. When it's dead, you have to throw it away in about a week even if you seal it up in plastic and keep it at a carefully modulated temperature. Now, your first inclination may be to think of cold as dead meat's friend, after all, the surest way to defeat that week-long deadline is to freeze steak, keeping it fresh for months. But don't forget: Unregulated cold does awful shit to formerly living things. If you live far enough north, the zombie apocalypse will probably work itself out the first time it tries to go outside. The first zombie-killer is the simple fact that the human body is mostly water, and water freezes. Once the temperature drops to freezing (or near it with a high wind chill), zombies will become significantly more rigid. I mean freezer burn will deffinetly be a problem
Reason number 4 Biting is a terrible way to spread a disease. Nearly all of the zombie movies agree on one thing: They reproduce like a disease, one that spreads via a bite from the infected (like they have a virus carried by zombie saliva or whatever). But this also means their spread should be subject to the same rules of a normal epidemic, and biting is a shitty way to get an epidemic going.
Lex: moving on to reason #5. They can't heal from day to day damage. All the dings and bangs zombies will suffer after tripping, walking off of bridges and stumbling around on dark cloudy nights will eventually leave them limbless, toothless and with every bone in their body broken. Seriously, in the event of the Zombie Apocalypse, just stay inside, watch all the episodes of 24 back to back, then walk out on your lawn with your Corpse Rake and tidy up (you will have to buy a Corpse Rake, however, if for some reason you don't already have one).
Mais: Reason #6 The landscape is full of zombie proof barriers. This is a group that doesn't know how to find roads or bridges. They just go wandering off aimlessly. Mountains, major rivers and canyons would thus quickly be home to piles of broken zombie rags stinking up the scenic views. Even if zombies had the foresight to not walk over cliffs or into raging rapids during the day, nightfall would result in most eventually walking into rivers, over cliffs and off of bridges, diminishing their numbers.
Lex: And last but not least reason #7. weapons and the people who use them. Im pretty sure the human race would be ablee to shoot a few zombies in the head if need be. Bye zombie assholes.
Far Out:
Heart Chakra
The heart chakra is located in the center of the chest and is the color green in the auric field. The Heart chakra is about love, kindness and affection. When it is open, you are compassionate and friendly, and you work at harmonious relationships.
When your Heart chakra is under-active, you are cold and distant.
If this chakra is over-active, you are suffocating people with your love and your love probably has quite selfish reasons.
To balance this chakra try bringing some green in your life wear the color green go outside amongst the green plants and take notice of them with a loving gaze. Take some time to yourself and visualize the color green in the area of the heart chakra. Be loving to the people around you and let those people love you. Try not to get into the mind state of the grass is always greener and instead focus on genuine gratitude.
As always there is yoga that you can do for balancing this chakra. A blocked heart chakra can also mean a blocked throat chakra and they are both closely related. The balance for this chakra is a tone. I am going to do the tone of my heart chakra. You take a deep inhale filling the lungs and then you say AHHHHHH until the air is out of the lungs, you inhale until your lungs are full again and on the exhale you do the tone. Try visualizing the color green in the heart chakra while you are doing this. Don't be shy to make a nice full sound and really let the tone of your heart chakra come out.
Thanks for checking out our blog this week. I hope you found it as enlightening as we did. Check out our show by scrolling down a clicking play or check out our website lexandmais.com become our facebook friend under lex mais. Thanks to our producer Scott Harding at Inside Out Universe Productions.
GOOD TALK!!
Music Selection
Santigold, Creator
The Shanghai Restoration Project, Breakdance Of Yao
Oldie Pic of the Week
Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody
Listeners Choice Thanks Amy Nadarevic
Lorde, Royals
Producers Pick of the week
Theophilus London, Flying Overseas
The Knife, Heartbeats
Nancy Sinatra, Bang Bang
Brett Dennon, Day By Day
Jack Johnson and Paula Fuga, Country Roads
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