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Monday, September 29, 2008

Weekend in Boston: SO GOOD. 2(Bubble tea) + 1(highlighter party) + 1(trip to the Kong) + 4(sneaked-in trips to the dhall) + 100(friends whom I miss dearly)= amazing.

Also, don't ride MegaBus. They are con artists. BoltBus4lyfe.

A belated happy birthday to my mom.

An amendment to my previous statement about the new PC commercial:
It's good and it's a good counter to the "I'm a Mac," "I'm a PC" ad. But it plays into the idea that your computer should be your identity. What's brilliant about the Mac commercials is they remind you that your computer is your identity, while simultaneously inferring that PCs don't work that well. It's like if someone ran a negative campaign ad about you where they were like "He's ignorant about the economy, and also he wears bow ties," and you ran a response campaign that was like, "I DO NOT wear bow ties. I wear all kinds of ties," and then took pictures of yourself wearing crazy hipster ties in a desperate attempt to look cool, which only makes you look like you're trying way too hard. It makes you look overly defensive like someone's grandma in skinny jeans. No offense, grandmas.

Finally, love this quote about what SNL will be without Amy Poehler from EW's Popwatch blog
"It depends on how long some of the other recurring mainstays -- like Kristen Wiig's bevy of twitchy/bitchy characters and the digital video realizations of whatever Andy Samberg thinks about when he's (seemingly!) exceedingly stoned -- will become tired."
I love how in the last two weeks, they've had Tina Fey on twice and Chris Parnell on once. They're just like "We can't find new talent that you like. How bout these guys? Remember these guys???" I'm still pulling for everyone to fall in fandom for Bobby Moynihan.

Friday, September 19, 2008

ARRRR!

Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, mateys.

Also, did anyone else kind of buy into the new "I'm a PC" ads?



Did they actually get John Hodgman to do it or is that some other dorky guy in a blazer at the beginning? Look, there's a guy there who "blogs for Obama." And if there's anything young people love, it's BLOGS and OBAMA! I'm kind of joking, but I do actually really like this ad. It's like they took Mac's ads and turned them around to serve their own purposes.

Personally, though, I'm still a Mac... even though I'm typing this from my PC at work.

fun fact of the day

In Malaysia, when they play Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" on the radio, they bleep out the word "girl."

Saturday, September 13, 2008

rainy days turn me emo

[[No One Will Ever Love You ~ The Magnetic Fields]]

You know you are getting old when you see groups of teenagers on the subway and you just fucking hate them. Like they are loud and cooler and skinnier than you, and it just fills you with rage because they seem like they're having SO MUCH MORE FUN THAN YOU WILL EVER HAVE AGAIN. they're not really though. i am always thinking about how much fun i used to be having when really when i was in it, it wasn't necessarily that fun. i feel like that's what substance abuse problems must be partly based on: trying to get back to some fun place you think you remember having which maybe were never even as good as you thought they were. erg.

A quote (which I should mention was introduced to me by Sam K):
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)


As lame as this sounds, I am rediscovering my love of music.

Friday, September 12, 2008

spoiler alert!

not really. i am pissy because emeffing jezebel can't put an emeffing spoiler alert up on their spoiler-filled page and now i know which projrun designers premiered at Fashion Week. gosh, jezebel, i thought you'd be better than that.

my new show update:
I have given up on 90210 and am giving True Blood one more episode to hook me. I'm halfway through the pilot of Fringe and not bored yet, but I don't like those non-serialized CSI type shows, so we'll see. I'll also prob tune into the Ex List, just b/c I loved Elizabeth Reaser on Grey's.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

my two new favorite songs right now for moments of poignancy and feeling lost in this big wide world:

new york, i love you but you're bringing me down~ lcd soundsystem

favorite lyrics:
"So the boring collect/I mean all disrespect/In the neighborhood bars I'd once dreamt I would drink."
"But you're still the one pool where I'd happily drown."

i am all props to gossip girl for using this song, but i think i'm going to stop watching gossip girl now. it is no the o.c., i will tell you that much.

america ~ Simon & Garfunkel

favorite lyric:
"kathy, Im lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
Im empty and aching and I dont know why"

had a long conversation with katie today about EL FUTURO, the job search, how we are all basically fucked, even though i am not now. i should be crying out with joy for being not, but i am too freaked out by the idea of being a grown-up to do anything but cling desperately to the past.

nelson: "It is so much better to be freaked out than bored. That would be the worst." It really would.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

if you're going to wear your heart on your sleeve, cover it up with a sweater.

this has been a tumultous week, to say the LEAST.
a lot has happened in the last seven days. i wrote it all down here, but then i deleted it. if you want to know what's going on, give me a ring. just so that you don't freak out, it's about half really awesome and half kind of depressing.

i don't think i've processed any of it yet.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Fact of the Day

Did you know there are only 18 Starbucks-es in all of Brooklyn? CRAZY.

Monday, September 1, 2008

this trailer makes me pee a little



too exciting.
reasons i am excited for this movie:
-the title alone
-jay baruchel (loved him since undeclared, love him more since he wore adorkable glasses in tropic thunder)
-a girl dressed up as a christmas tree
-new york city!
-guy from spring awakening
-michael cera
-michael cera playing guitar!

and now a digression on michael cera: i wish he could play other characters... maybe he can. but he hasn't yet. however, with each movie he does, that exact same character gets slightly more desirable to girls...
2003-2006: George MIchael, Arrested Development- could not get a girl for the life of him, had a crush on his cousin, dated Bland- I mean Anne. My friends used to make fun of me for having a crush on him. (This may be because I was 3 years older than his character, but WHO'S LAUGHING NOW, BITCHES?)
2007: Evan, Superbad- hopelessly dorky in front of his crush but somehow manages to win her over
later 2007: Paulie Bleecker, Juno- Now, not only does his crush eventually like him in the end but he also manages to get another girl in his crush's absence.
2008: Nick, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist- Has a real girlfriend at the beginning of this movie and then, another girl starts liking him during the movie.

Doesn't this say something about the cultural zeitgeist? That now dorky awkward guys don't even have to fight for their cousin's affection but rather have cute skinny girls just hanging on their every word and fighting each other for them. Gosh. There was a time when I was alone in my dorklove.