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Friday, August 29, 2008

labor day weekend wuwu

Quote of the Day:
"When I tour, I'm neither homosexual or heterosexual — I'm hobo-sexual. So that basically opens yourself up to anything at all — you could have sex with a piece of cheese and it would be totally natural." —King Khan [Pitchfork]

I have no idea what that means... swiss cheese?

It's the end of the summer as I know it, and I feel fine... ish. I am weirded out by the idea of all the '09/'10/'11-ers going back to school. I want to go back to school. I registered for Justice online, so I can pretend I'm taking a Harvard class. Huzzahzles. I can't imagine I will actually watch any of the lectures, but it might be interesting.

Sachi's Political Commentary of the Week:
Does anyone else think that Sarah Palin looks a little like Ashley Banfield + Nia Vardalos with un poquito de TFeyzles thrown in? Does anyone else know who those people are? (p.s. Real life question: Is there a job I could do that would just require me to know names of famous people? I think I'd be good at that.)

Monday, August 18, 2008

more like romantic vom-edy



Welcome to the epitome of romantic comedies. Inspired casting, an original title, a brilliant poster... Does anyone else feel like they've already seen this movie? If someone told me that this movie had come out two years ago, I would've totally believed them. Let me guess. Kate Hudson's character is whimsical and flighty. She is dating the uptight but loving Jason Biggs until along comes (UH OH) his best friend, ladies' man and overgrown fratboy Dane Cook. Hilarity ensues???

If Hollywood can make good universally-liked movies using genres normally reserved for men (The Dark Knight) and children (Wall-E), where is the good romantic comedy? this is poop.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

it's the end of the weekend as we know it

The promo for The Margaret Cho Show looks wunderbar. I am loving VH1 for giving this girl a show. It looks like My Life on the D List except with a much cooler lady at the helm. Loooooove her.

When I was 16, I took Margaret Cho's book out of the NYPL and wrote down this quote from it:
"Never underestimate the power that you have in the world." Then, I put this quote on my blog along with these two:

"I have the strange feeling that I'm gonna be telling this to my therapist one day."- Lisa Simpson.

"When you look at pain as material, it makes all the difference in the world." -Francesca Lia Block

Could I have been a more emo little girl? With role models like that, a girl's sure to turn out okay, right?

P.S. If you're bored, check out The Line Starring Superbad co-stars Bill Hader and Joe Lotruglio and written by Boston hottie Seth Meyers and Harvard wunderkind Simon Rich.

the importance of getting lost

i wanted to describe this weekend as epic. and i can't say it was, really. but it was fun.

a tourist on how to enjoy new york:
Look at Google Maps for a second. Zoom right in. There are millions of ways to get lost, murdered, drunk, fall in love, etc. You can go missing very easily. Just open the door and start walking in any direction. With over 8 million people in the city (more hot girls than you’ve ever seen before) it’s kind of hard not to act like you’ve just escaped from prison. You might make people nervous with your sweating and your speed walking and your huge eyeballs. Actually, fuck it- that’s a great feeling.

Friday, August 8, 2008

8-8-08 bitchezzzz... in which i mostly just talk about sytycd

The soyouthinkyoucandance FINALE... as long as I got to see this again, I was sated:



I thought I would cry when they announced the winner. I didn't. I cried during Courtney and Katee's montages. I really wanted to see the Joshua and Twitch montages, too, but I guess that kind of ruins the flo-o-the-sho. What really makes me cry though is the above dance. Which is just gorgeous. There is no better dance representation of abandonment issues than this piece. This season may not have had the best dancers, but I think the top 8 are all just phenomenal actors/performers. Mark's crazy-eyes in the Wade Robson piece, Chelsie's sad face at the end of this, Twitch being hilarious in anything, Katee and Joshua in the Adele piece. Amazing.

Other things this season had a lot of:
-Girls who spell their names weirdly like Kherringttonn, chelsieieie and kateeeeeeiiiieeeeiiiiiooooo.
-teeth. Granted, every season has had the triple threat of enormous scary smiles from mary murphy, cat deeley, and nigel lithgoe. But add to that, Josh's braces, Twitch's gold teeth, and Katee's out of control smiles.

My other favorite thing about the finale:
Seeing Neil again. he is soooooo hottttt and altarboyz is perfect for him. Also Sarah, the original half-asian dance supreme-o.

Things I did not need to see:
Mary Murphy doing ballroom. vom.

Today is:
-the start of the Olympics
-the start of the Olympics of improv i.e. the Del Close marathon
-Tom Compton's birthday
-three 8's in a row. woooooo.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

a dissertation on fro-yos



i had my first red mango experience. here is what i noted:
-a red mango opens up one block from anywhere a pinkberry opens. what is up with that? their strategy is just to get the overflow from the pinkberry line?
-red mango is creamier and sweeter than pinkberry.
-red mango has a weird flavor to it that i couldn't pinpoint and eventually figured out was fake cheesecake flavor.
-red mango has more toppings choices than pinkberry.
-NEITHER RED MANGO NOR PINKBERRY IS AS GOOD AS BERRYLINE. tres le sigh... i miss berryline. i wonder how mamram is surviving without it.

on a separate note, i also miss bubble tea, but i haven't even thought about it until now. i thought i would be dying without it. this is what's called maturity, people.

Monday, August 4, 2008

from my blog when i was 16 years old:

"i have this idea of this lifestyle that i wish i was living, and i feel like all of these ridiculous shallow things are gonna get me closer to that lifestyle like having a boyfriend, playing guitar, going to concerts, getting a belly-button ring, sitting on the steps at st. marks place eating okonomiyaki, taking dance classes, maybe that's just who i want to be but don't have the time or energy to be that person right now. once i get back from college, i will be that person and i will be an actress and have the most amazing david-like actor boyfriend and the most amazing david-like gay best friend..."

for the record, david is a character/actor from the compleat works of william shakespeare, abridged who i had a supahcrush on immediately post-watching.

am i that person? medium. or maybe? i don't know. maybe i should have had loftier goals. a job, an apartment, a future. nah, the belly button ring has really helped shape my identity.

also, this is one of the less lame entries from that blog. ha. what a trip.

weekend superlatives

new favorite word: dramamedy. say it out loud. it's hilarious.

weirdest thing i saw: i saw a guy (homeless?) on the 1 train take from a plastic bag a boom box. then, he took out a jar of mayo and placed it on the floor carefully. next, he took out a box of tea, removed two bags and threw the box onto the floor. he gingerly used the two teabags to wipe off the top of his boom box, then placed those on the ground as well. this was all very perplexing.

new favorite monster: THE MONTAUK MONSTER!!! as scary as the maraschino cherry-eyed baby, but with half the scientific explanation and twice the photo-shopping.

least favorite thing about new york on the weekend: subway weekend service
second least favorite: paying full price for drinks

best equation: stepbrothers + 40sindatheater = ABSOLUTE HILARITY.

new favorite bar: the stone crow

new favorite book: female chauvinist pigs: women and the rise of raunch culture ~ Ariel Levy

thing i keep doing lately and i'm not sure why: raising my hand before i talk
e.g.

wow, way to get on the funny train three years too late: the New York Times' coverage of Tim and Eric
(sidenote: this is like how BWE used to have this thing called "...OF THE DAY" where they'd say like "Best excuse," "Worst haircut," etc. but eventually, they just stopped using superlatives and started writing whatever they wanted. Now I understand why.)