Thursday, October 30, 2008

 Watching your formerly sucky home team go to the World Series for the first time ever and be an awesome underdog Cinderella story is great. Watching your formerly sucky home team go to the World Series for the first time ever and then lose is lame. The end of that is that you're supposed to win. OH WELL, we did good getting there. So there's that!

Here's a superficial reason i love the Obama campaign: GOOD GRAPHIC DESIGN. The logo, which is so perfect! The font! Gradients! Clean, pretty aesthetics! Sadly i appreciate that quite a bit. QUITE A BIT. It's pretty silly. But that's me.

LET'S GO BARRY! WE GO PLAY HOOP!

I have such a brief yet unpleasant history with presidential elections, i hope this one can turn things around and not make me disillusioned with the world again. I was six months short of being old enough to vote in the Bush/Gore debacle, and that filled me with so much impotent rage i cannot even tell you. WTF Florida? I hate you. And then of course i voted absentee in Bush/Kerry, so that was a fun throwaway vote! Ha! Ha ha! Haaaaaaa. Hey wasn't it great when Bush got re-elected when he never even won in the first place? OH GOSH, AMERICA. THE FUN TIMES WE'VE HAD.

Anyway, i'm voting on Tuesday, in case you couldn't tell! You should too, if you can! Or if you haven't already! YAY VOTING. It's like a really boring Choose Your Own Adventure! CHOOSE WISELY, if you don't you could end up being murdered high up in the snowy mountains and you do not get to go to page 78 and get the reward money for turning the bandits in to the authorities. It happens.

- 12:30 AM

Monday, October 27, 2008

 A current trend that i hate: shirts with artificially pre-faded designs. WHY HAS THIS CAUGHT ON. If i want my shirt to look old and worn, i will wear it and wash it a lot. It's not that hard to do, you know! Making a shirt pre-faded means that it will only take like half the time for the design to wear out to non-existence, not even to mention turning you into a douchebag for wearing a shirt that looks old but is actually new. Uhhh... THANKS? It reminds me of that fake commercial on SNL in the '90s for three-legged jeans, with Tim Meadows saying "hey, it's not any dumber than acid wash." But this IS. It IS dumber than acid wash.

A current trend that i love: long shirts for girls! Actually they've kind of gotten to a point where they're excessively long, but i guess that's okay. Babydoll shirts were the bane of my existence for a long time, they're so wildly unflattering and who the fuck wants to wear a shirt that makes it a constant battle to keep your midsection covered? NOT ME.

CLOTHES!!!! Argh.

- 7:40 PM

Friday, October 24, 2008

 Following from the William Ayers "controversy" of incessant conservative fear-mongering, my older brother and i started singing "in the ayer, ay, ayer" all the time, you know, from that song, and we said it so constantly that it morphed into saying lots of words that rhyme with "ayer" trying to one-up each other with stupid phrases. So in addition to saying "Aaaaaayyy-ers" all the time, we say things like "in the next few years your hair is going to get GRAY-ER!" and "photoshop files have lots of LAY-ERS!" and even after going through the whole alphabet, today i still came up with "i don't listen to all the naySAY-ERS!". This has been going on for at least two weeks.

I am currently seeking to continue traveling down my long slow path of self-improvement. Today i went cold turkey to break my six-year addiction to chapstick. (WHOOOAH, I KNOW, RIGHT! Slow down, don't go too crazy, self!) I keep gradually building up my wardrobe with slightly more flattering/current/GIRL-ISH? clothing and getting rid of some of my old shitty clothing, as i need somewhat better clothes both for work and also for not looking like a schlub all the time. It is a slow process! Forever21.com is the best because clothes-shopping in real life tends to deaden my soul! I currently need a haircut and am wondering how i might be able to style my hair better (my hair which is the longest it has been in forever because i felt like growing it out for a change a couple years ago and now i have long hair!) and yesterday was also thinking about dying it, which i have never done before- with the exception of temporary red streaks- and am probably too chicken to do at all, but my hair is such a bland brown/yellow/dark-blonde gross color it makes me a bit weary. I was a total lamer and photoshopped pictures of myself to see what i would look like with lighter or darker hair, and while technically it would make more sense for me to go lighter and toward my natural blonde color, somehow it looks weird and dark hair is way cooler and makes me look kind of grown up! Sort of! I DON'T KNOW. I have never known how to make myself look good. :/ Earlier today i also felt kind of eager to start painting again, as my uncle is commissioning me for one (1) piece of artwork that i need to get started on. And i want to do some figure drawing in order to pretend i am still an artist, but i have been too lazy to go to the open sessions they have around here. HMMM. AND i am finally reading books i've been meaning to read as part of my daily routine, and i am still pondering the things i need to sell on ebay because i am constantly obsessed with organizing and minimizing my belongings (or at least switching out crappy belongings with awesome belongings).

And then, after all of that, it's time to start working on my collection of cats to fulfill my ultimate goal of becoming a crazy cat lady.

- 1:45 AM

Sunday, September 28, 2008

 I am so excited for the new Bond movie. SO EXCITED. It's gonna be badass. It's hard to believe i used to think Daniel Craig was ugly. HA! More like best hottest awesomest James Bond ever, times infinity, plus Lord Asriel, thank you and goodnight. I watched The Invasion a little while ago, and even though that was an entirely bland movie, his character in it was adorable (plus it had him and Nicole Kidman making out like The Golden Compass should have had, ha ha ha SOB). And Layer Cake, of course, probably the reason he was cast as Bond in the first place. BASICALLY, Daniel Craig = A+++++

I finally started reading the last book in A Series of Unfortunate Events! FINALLY. I had to speed-read through The Penultimate Peril yesterday to catch myself up again, my memory was pretty foggy on a lot of the specifics, it's been so long since i read it. So now i've been reminded BIG TIME why i love those books so much. It's hard to believe that, like Harry Potter, i started reading them when i was in high school. That... was a long time ago. I used to think about how old i'd be when both of those series ended! NOW I AM THAT OLD. Ugh.

Oh and i was reminded the other day of the movie (i guess that's actually why i started on the book, come to think of it) because the song from its awesome end credits is in the commercial for that Flash of Genius movie. I was trying to place it and it bugged the hell out of me for a day or two before i figured it out. Anyway, it's actually a pretty good film interpretation of the first few books, it's got a ton of artistic merit, and i gained an even greater appreciation for the comedy of it when watching it on dvd. There's a special feature of Jim Carrey doing his screen tests for all the various Count Olaf disguises, and it's the most fucking amazing thing i've ever seen. It's just him doing hilarious improv as different characters, and it really makes you realize how much that guy is a comic genius. The whole thing makes me sad that it wasn't a success and they probably? maybe? likely? won't make any more.

- 11:45 PM

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

 Funny story: my dad is a Republican who hates Barack Obama! IT'S HILARIOUS. And by "hilarious" i mean "causes a great deal of tension", as he is the only member of my immediate family who is supporting John McCain. Which, fine, whatever, he's entitled to his opinion, but every single time Obama does or says any goddamn thing, he complains about it and gets aggravated and has to announce how sick he is of Barack Obama. And the moment somebody calls him on it he gets angry! Okay guy, guess what, the other 80% of your family doesn't whine about McCain every chance they get (EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE GREAT REASON TO), maybe you could shut up sometimes and be a little less annoying while the rest of us suffer your obnoxious opinion in silence. BLERG.

I love my dad, he's a good guy, he's intelligent in many ways, and we have a lot in common, but there are some things about him that i don't even remotely understand and bother the shit out of me. Like for example he's grossed out by homosexuals. YEAH. UHHHH. THAT'S MY DAD! Love means never having to punch your family in the face, but wanting to sometimes.

Anyway, politics. My nickname for McCain is "Jowly McGee"! My nickname for Sarah Palin is "Awful". :D

- 7:52 PM

Sunday, September 21, 2008

 I don't understand my relationship with weekends. All week i look forward to those two days off, and then when the weekend finally arrives, i... don't do anything. And feel sleepy and depressed. I love just sitting around playing videogames and shit, and yesterday i actually cleaned my car for the first time in a few years (HAHA, YEAH), and i watched some movies, but when Sunday rolls around i feel entirely morose. What. am i doing. with my life. I need to go out and make new friends because all of my current ones live somewhere else, but i honestly have no fucking idea how to do that. Every time i do something even a little bit out of my comfort zone in an effort to meet ANYONE, i just end up still being shy and closed-off and feeling completely out of place, like i don't connect with people on some very basic level. I enjoy being alone but i often feel lonely, and then when i'm with people i just want to be alone. My other problem is that i am always ignored anyway! But the moment some rare attention is paid to me i become uncomfortable and feel the need to divert it. It's like... i don't want to be ignored but i never give anyone any reason to pay attention to me because i am so intensely aware of my own AWKWARDNESS.

SO. THOSE ARE SOME ISSUES.

I re-read Coraline this weekend because a movie of it is coming out next year and i'm very excited! A STOP-MOTION ANIMATED MOVIE. I know i always get my hopes up about movies from books which is almost always ultimately futile, but... animation. It has the potential to be so awesome. :( It's such a wonderfully creepy book, and of course i have a great deep love for stories involving young girls going on adventures. It makes me so happy.

- 11:40 PM

Friday, August 22, 2008

 So... lately most people i know are going through big changes! My little brother left for college yesterday, which is just about the weirdest thing ever and makes me feel VERY OLD. Wasn't i just in college? When did that end? MY BABY BROTHER IS LIVING ON HIS OWN NOW?!? Pretty hard to believe, and i'm sad he's gone. :( Also he is going to be smarter and richer than us all because he's majoring in aerospace engineering and already makes money doing 3D graphics. HA HA WHAT. THAT LITTLE JERK.

A few weeks ago my two best friends got married! I was a bridesmaid and it was a very exhausting- but happy- day. A few hours before the ceremony i was like "YEAH I REALLY DON'T THINK I'M GOING TO CRY DURING THIS", but i totally cried. I never understood people crying at weddings- i hadn't even BEEN to a wedding since i was like ten years old- but it's so different when it's people who are incredibly important to you. It was just very overwhelming actually seeing them really officially getting married and all dressed up and i looked across the aisle and my good friend the Best Man was weeping (awww) and i was like "WELL FUCK." and my heart grew three sizes!

AND aforementioned Best Man has now moved to Japan for a year! It's crazy! That is REALLY FAR AWAY! So we're planning on visiting him, because what better opportunity to visit FUCKIN' JAPAN than knowing someone who lives there! I'm super excited because holy crap, Japan. It's always a place i thought it would be awesome to travel to but never quite seriously thought i would anytime soon. For that to be entirely attainable now is pretty rad. YAY, THE WORLD. :D

And speaking of the world, OLYMPICS!!! I'm so sad they're almost over, and that swimming and gymnastics (my favorites!) are already done, because i get so into it and then when it ends i DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I went back and read old stuff i wrote about watching the games, and it would seem that i didn't actually start caring about them until Sydney (aside from gymnastics and figure skating which i was always extremely devoted to as a kid). This has been a very dramatic year, i've loved it a lot. The opening ceremony was the most ridiculous thing i've ever seen, even the COMMERCIALS are all pretty and inspirational and shit, it's awesome. So much better than the Super Bowl. And oh man, that Michael Phelps kid, right? I remember thinking he was totally dreamy in Sydney when he was FIFTEEN, hahaha. I actually watched a youtube clip of one of those old races and he came in fifth, and i was like "LOL FIFTH, THAT'S SO QUAINT". Who woulda thought that he'd end up becoming the greatest swimmer of all time. :O Also, I LOVE NASTIA LIUKIN SHE'S MY FAVORITE. And Usain Bolt is probably The Flash in real life, how is that guy so effortlessly fast?!? Plus Misty May and Kerri Walsh, still wiping the floor with every other beach volleyball team ever! Oh people who are incredibly great at what they do! Why so awesome!

- 10:10 PM

Sunday, July 06, 2008

 I don't want to go back to work tomorrow. Long weekends are so awesome but so evil at the same time, i get too used to being lazy. I didn't get anything done that i wanted to get done, i can't even remember what i did instead. Oh, well, i can tell you what i did today: i went ebay crazy. That happens to me every so often, there's a day where i can't stop searching for stuff. THERE IS JUST SO MUCH AWESOME OLD JUNK OUT THERE THAT I HAVE TO OWN. Like i started out searching for Muppets stuff, and i ran across some old ViewMaster reels which reminded me of the ViewMaster i have sitting in my closet and how i had meant to get some reels for it and also my brother's birthday is coming up and he loves stereoscopic pictures so i could get him some... and so right now i'm suddenly obsessed with ViewMasters. It's such old-fashioned photographic entertainment and yet they STILL make them! That's so cool! 3-D PICTURES!!! I want to make my own. Also, unrelated to ViewMasters but still on the ebay topic, i found a 1989 Rolling Stone with Ghostbusters II as the cover story. If i don't win it i'll probably die.

- 11:21 PM

Saturday, July 05, 2008

 Lately i've become fond of the color yellow. In recent years my favorite colors have been combinations of red/cyan-ish blue and green/blue, but now i seem to have developed a newfound appreciation of yellow. I guess it's always been kind of ugly or garish to me, and in that i think i like it. Suddenly i can see the happiness of it; it's pleasantly unpleasant. Of course i can't wear yellow clothes; as a kid when my hair was white-blonde it looked good on me, but now it clashes with my darker blonde hair and makes me look washed out. Speaking of which, i have also become more aware of fashion in the past year or two, my wardrobe hasn't evolved since like middle school and i'm finally working on fixing it. Like, wearing clothes that fit and stuff. SHOCKING.

I HOPE YOU'VE ENJOYED THESE PONDERANCES. I dunno man. Colors. I think about them a lot. My room is painted red! Kelly green is my favorite! Purple is also making a comeback! OH, purple/orange, there's another awesome combo that i've been a fan of for a while now.

UHH, FASCINATING??!? Why do i let myself type things late at night.

Oh hey fourth of July, right. I saw fireworks, they were neat. They always make me feel wistful or something, especially when the weather is warm but pleasant like it was tonight. I also watched a lot of The Twilight Zone like every other year, that's always fun. Man i love being creeped out by that show. LOVE IT.

- 3:42 AM

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

 Why is it that the more i edit my photos, the less happy i become with them? UGGGGGGH. If i over-color-correct them they look way too unnatural, but if i only minimally edit them they're completely bland. I should be better at this by now. :/

Today on Sesame Street the letter of the day was 'M', and i said that the number of the day should be 24 (my current age) and then it would be an episode just for me. The number of the day was not 24, but right after i had said that there was a skit with the Count watching an episode of 24 (except it was 24 seconds, you see, not 24 hours). So it was LIKE the number of the day was 24. In any case, it did not end up making my day any luckier.

- 10:07 PM

Saturday, May 31, 2008

 Well, my 24th birthday was better than my 23rd, despite still being depressing because I AM OLD. The number looks way more grown up than i actually am, i don't like it. In any case, i had to work but it was on location at a dog beach (DOGGIES!!) and i got to go home early and lounge in the pool, and i had Dairy Queen for dinner (i friggin love delicious shitty food. Cheeseburgers that remind me of childhood! Peanut butter cup Blizzard that is always and forever my favorite! HAPPY TIMES) and watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade to top it all off, because it is awesome and it was the only one i hadn't seen some or all of on tv recently. If there is only one thing the new movie was good for, it is that it gave me a resurgence of Indy love. And also an excuse to go to New York and hang out with nerds. And also LEGO INDIANA JONES GAME oh i am so excited.

So basically i spent my 24th birthday acting like it was my 10th birthday? Yes, i am pretty great, i agree.

This week i was working with people from Chicago, and it was funny because they were completely awestruck by NATURE. Not that i do not also enjoy nature, but living in Florida my whole life i am very used to it, so for city folk to come around and be amazed by the fish and birds i see every day somehow makes me feel kind of superior or proud of my upbringing or something. But on the other side of the coin i am still always pretty amazed by big cities, or really just different environments in general. It's just interesting the things we can lay claim to as average parts of our lives. FLORIDA, man. Sometimes i like it! Even though i say i'm sick of it! I just don't like constant, oppressive heat and humidity and never having experienced a real winter, that's all. :(

- 4:33 PM

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

 So apparently summer movie season has kicked off to an AWESOME start. WHO KNEW. I seriously haven't been so excited about current movies (both before and after seeing them) in what seems like a long time. My extended comments: Iron Man and Speed Racer. While i am super, super happy that Iron Man is doing so well, i'm kind of friggin upset that Speed Racer has bombed so horribly because IT DOESN'T SUCK. That actually makes me feel bad, i want to go up to everyone involved with it and say "it isn't a bad movie! I'M SO SORRY." It was so entertaining! Guess what, the incredibly ridiculous cheesiness was INTENTIONAL! Shocker! How have so many people missed the point so completely? God, i feel just as disillusioned as i did back when i hated Transformers, i don't understaaaaaand.

ANYWAY. I am totally seeing Iron Man again on Thursday and i want to see Speed Racer again at some point but then oh wait i am going to New York next week to see Indiana Jones, what. INSANITY. Nerdy, nerdy insanity.

I LIKE MOVIES.

- 12:45 AM

Friday, April 18, 2008

 Well, Vegas was, uh, interesting? I like flashy things, and it was certainly flashy! But also very bizarre. The fake famous landmarks make the Strip kind of like a large-scale miniature golf course, but a miniature golf course with gambling and prostitution instead of mini golf. The entire extent of my gambling was to spend one dollar on a Star Wars slot machine. I feel that basically sums up who i am as a person, and also HAHAHA i fail at Vegas. Oh and i saw the Beatles Cirque du Soleil show, which is not punk rock of me at all, and some of it was sorta lame, and the rampant Beatles commercialization these days is disheartening to say the least; but for the most part trippy choreography to awesome music is pretty great and makes me happy. So THERE.

Also: In-N-Out Burger is delicious, and sleeping on an airplane is impossible.

- 5:08 PM

Sunday, April 13, 2008

 I am going to Las Vegas this week! I have never been there before! Well, with the exception of being at its airport last year. In any case, i want to play blackjack but know i will fail at it and it scares me?? I've only played in video games and not for real money. :( I TOTALLY WANT TO PLAY THE SLOTS THOUGH, just like those old ladies with purple hair wearing visors. Yessss. I am very excited about the LIGHTS. Like the first time i saw Times Square at night! I'm a pretty huge fuckin tourist!

I leave in an hour and i've actually finished packing! Amazing.

- 5:01 PM

Saturday, April 05, 2008

 Here's what happens when you watch the 3-hour Battlestar Galactica miniseries and then the fourth season premiere all in one night: you dream about Roslin getting elected as President OF THE UNITED STATES and then being assassinated the same day. ...Whaaaaaaaaat. It made me very, very, very sad, i actually woke up half-crying because it seemed so real. Whaaaaaaaat.

IN ANY CASE, i totally remember how much i like that show even though it's not as good as it was in the beginning anymore. My dad finally decided he wanted to see it (GREAT TIMING) since everybody has been talking about it lately and it's, like... good. Heeyyy, now i finally have a reason to buy season 2 on dvd!

I watched The Shining a couple weekends ago because it was on cable, even though i had just re-watched it not too long ago. Somehow i couldn't NOT watch it. It is, without a doubt, my favorite horror movie (i think of Alien more in the sci-fi category, otherwise that one is... also my favorite). So goddamn creepy. Although my fear when watching it is fairly detached just because i enjoy it so much as a film, and so much of it is hilarious. ("Wendy, darling, LIGHT of my LIFE." ahahhahaha JACK.)

I am currently very much into watching Sesame Street. It makes me happy. I really, really love that they've put some of the old stuff on dvd. MUPPETSSSSS. JIM HENSON. <3 Also: Fresh Prince is one of the best sitcoms ever. I LOVE TV.

- 12:14 PM

Friday, March 21, 2008

 I just saw Sunshine, and it's really bugging me that it could have been an awesome movie, but the latter half of the plot totally lamed everything up (which i pretty much knew going into it, but still! you always hope for the best!). Otherwise, it was freaking GORGEOUS with awesome special effects, acting, direction, editing, music, pretty people in space... BASICALLY EVERYTHING I LOVE??! Except that it sucked in the end. SO SAD. The music video montage over the end credits was nice for imagining it was an excellent, moody, pretty film without having to consider the inexplicable crappiness. I like how i find Cillian Murphy totally creepy-looking when he's playing a bad guy, but totally hot when he's playing a good guy. :D Gotta watch 28 Days Later again, at least that one's not a let-down. Also: zombies. And Christopher Eccleston!

- 11:33 PM

 Yesterday i had a tv on while doing very boring/repetitive work, so i got to watch, in order: Sesame Street, Fat Albert, The Price is Right, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Family Feud, America's Funniest Home Videos, and The Cosby Show. It. was. AWESOME. And today i didn't have to go to work at all! THANKS, JESUS!

Watching Sesame Street reminded me of being a kid (duh, of course) and it got me thinking about Reading Rainbow (but you don't have to take MY word for it!), and this one show i totally loved, Zoobilee Zoo. Those characters look kind of freaky to me now, but they really imprinted themselves on my memory because seeing that picture i can only think "HOLY CRAP, THAT SHOW." I'm pretty sure the pink kangaroo was my favorite. I remember when i got to see Ben Vereen at Disney World as a kid and the whole reason it made me excited was because of Zoobilee Zoo!

I signed up for Netflix today, which is pretty momentous for me. I've been keeping a list of movies i need to see (also: books i need to read. EVEN LESS LIKELY TO BE COMPLETED) for quite a while now, but the thing is i watch movies so infrequently that the list has only gotten larger and i have made almost no progress in crossing anything off of it. So i kept saying i ought to sign up for Netflix, but i didn't, because i'm lazy and don't like spending money ever. And then finally this week one of my friends who has it (like everyone else in the entire world!) convinced me to just DO IT, and now here i am. I just went through adding stuff to my queue and it was GREAT, i added one thing and then in the suggestions that pop up afterward there were four more movies that i want to see and it was basically just a continuous cycle of "ADD ADD ADD ADD ADD ADD". Except it is not fruitless like a list that just sits on my desk not doing anything, i will actually get to watch these! I'M EXCITED. So many movies that i've always intended to watch but never have! AND TV SHOWS TOO! Yessssss. Good idea to sign up right when the writers' strike is finally over. Ha ha haaaaa.

- 4:40 PM