Website: Modcloth.com
For the girl who is past her years of wearing punk plaid and neon jeans but still wants to make a fashion statement, modcloth.com may just be the site for finding clothes that can be worn anywhere from a corporate internship to a late-night coffee house. Modcloth started as a small hobby of two Carnegie Mellon University students, providing fellow indie clothing enthusiasts with photos and descriptions of unique finds up for sale. As an alternative to thrift shopping and vintage boutique hunting, eclectic clothes and accessories can be purchased online without any hassle. Although prices are higher than that of thrift shops and chain stores, Modcloth’s expenses support independent designers and keep money flowing in favor of small businesses. I enjoy regularly flocking to the sales pages and perusing items ranging anywhere from 20 to 70 percent off. In addition to clothing and accessories, you’ll find a wide range of apartment furnishings for sale, plenty of fashion updates, and well-written blogs. Guys may also find the apartment furnishings appealing and the clothes cute enough for their girlfriends to wear out to dinner and a movie (hint-hint).

Movie: Heavyweights
Long before Ben Stiller locked himself into his trademark of quirky nights at the museum and awkward family get-togethers, he made an appearance in a Disney movie as an arrogant fitness trainer at a summer camp with a crew of boys known as “heavyweights.” Before Demi Lovato could even walk her way across the grounds of Camp Rock, this 1995 movie Heavyweights starring Allen Covert, Tim Blake Nelson, and of course Ben Stiller served as a predecessor of happy-go-lucky camping flicks with Disney. I enjoyed the character of Lars, a foreign camp counselor whose sarcastic one-liners and outgoing attempts to create an exciting atmosphere about getting into shape causes him to be one-up by kids half his age. Because his character is a low self-monitor, his foolish phrases and awkward attraction to the camp’s Nurse, Julie, never fail to make me laugh and quote Lars throughout the rest of the day. As the kids bond with the camp’s former organizers who are on the verge of becoming permanently replaced, the wrongs of the new directors are discovered through a ruckus of kids and junk food.

Music: “Don’t Throw Me Away” – The Mumlers
I came across The Mumlers on iTunes. As a promotion, I was able to download their song “Coffin Factory” for free. The band portrays a nostalgic aura through their blend of indie and folk. In addition to standard instruments, The Mumlers’ second album, “Don’t Throw Me Away,” incorporates an upright bass, cello, trombone, trumpet, euphonium, clarinet, synthesizer, chord organ, glockenspiel and eagle whistle. Their “ruckus pop styles” are said by artist reviewer Alex Felsinger to have been derived from “dead folk musicians galore.” Don’t Throw Me Away is great to study to, relax to, or just listen to for the sake of entertainment. The various instruments give off a late 1960’s soulful ballad-like feel to many of their songs. I had fun listening to the different musical lines within the songs and picking out the different instruments being played.