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[bootsnblossoms]

Today I worked a full day, went grocery shopping, made dinner, had an endless confrontation/battle of wits with Q, did two loads of laundry, put away all the Christmas decorations and the tree, and reassured T that no, I wasn’t crying about Q, I’m just allergic to all the pine sap and it makes my eyes water :P Oh, I also hired someone to clean my apartment Friday! And scheduled time to get my car checked out because the Check Engine light keeps going off and in. And sent in my resume to be on the Chamber of Commerce’s LGTBQ business pro group’s board.

That’s it. That’s all I have left. No more to give. Time for…

*drumroll please*

The Best Christmas Gift Ever courtesy of the most Epically Wonderful Lover Mine aka @zooeyscigar.

It's bourbon that's been mingling with cocoa nibs and a vanilla bean since the week before Christmas, strained into the most perfect little glass flask.

I've only poured a shot's worth - both because I wanna make it last and because I'm sure I'll fall asleep before drinking the whole thing - but yeah. Reward. EARNED.

Thank you, handsome 😘

[miss-hartzler-blog]

Release: November 2006

Director: Paul Fedor

Filmed in: Hollywood

Album: The Open Door

The clip, as the site of MTV, is a clash between Amy Black and Amy White, the sadness and the happiness. According to Amy, the director put a wonderfully atmospheric music: "Lithium is about making the choice between the comfort of sorrow and the idea of happiness. You get in these cycles where you are in bad situations or relationships or anything and it's hard to get; out of it yourself because everything is so negative and heavy. "It is more or less about it, be free. (...) A metaphor for happiness from a negative point of view. It's like: I do not want go crazy and not feel anymore" said Amy Lee.

[miss-hartzler-blog]

Release: April 2004

Director: Philipp Stölzl

Filmed in: Los Angeles

Album: Fallen

The clip displays Amy dressed alternately as a teenager futile, a 'pop idol' prefab and a rich girl and glamorous. Amy does a criticism. Just as the inspiration for the lyrics, artists that are sold through lies and, in some respects, these lies come to relate to his own career. The perception that the words are empty of an idol can be perceived both by fans as by the idol, the face is represented in the clip and the cause of unhappiness. Amy tries to convey the emptiness of some artists, the coldness, lack of content, and the how much advertising is nothing in front of lack of be happy or love yourself. 

[miss-hartzler-blog]

Release: December 2003

Director: David Mould

Filmed in: Barcelona, Gothic Quarter

Album: Fallen

The music used is the version of the band, that is the 12th track of the second wave of the Fallen CD. It is available for download on evanescence. In the clip, Amy is a ghost, In the clip, Amy is a ghost, she never touches the ground. Is possible to understand the lyric in two ways: there was a separation of a couple or one of them died. It can be inferred that the clip Amy is dead, and Ben, in the interpretation would be the fellow who still lives; both, however, can not get rid of each other's presence "but you still have all of me." The clip was recorded two weeks before Ben leaving the Evanescence.

[miss-hartzler-blog]

Release: September 2003

Director: Philipp Stölzl

Filmed in: Berlin and Los Angeles

Album: Fallen

The video for Going under was based on the movie "The Evil Dead". Amy designed the corset that she wears in the clip, that cost $ 2,500. It was she who managed white clothing used in underwater scenes. Amy caught a cold during filming. 

[miss-hartzler-blog]

Release: April 2003

Director: Philipp Stölzl

Filmed in: Romania

Album: Fallen

The clip with the participation of Paul McCoy, singer of the band 12 Stones. Ben did not understand what the director wanted to show with the video; the question between dream and the reality is the issue staged. The band played a little war with snowballs during breaks. Amy really had to climb part of the scenery. To appear that Amy was going down, she was arrested on a system with wires so that the fan could make wind. For the scene where Amy falls back on the clip (for about 25m), we used a stunt.