| American Idol: Top 13 |
[11 Mar 2009|02:16am] |
I ended up watching American Idol tonight. Most of it, anyway. I haven't been watching so I don't know what or who I missed out on, but I'm starting with the top 13 this season.
Tonight was Michael Jackson night. I'm pretty sure that's a terrible idea. I tuned in late-- probably for the best, as I saw in the recap that the first girl appears to have brutally butchered The Way You Make Me Feel (my all-time favorite song. I think I'm dancing to it in my icon picture.)
I'm way underwhelmed by the guys this season. That last guy who played piano was pretty good, and that guy who played guitar (Kris?) was also good.
I'm pretty sure this girl is my favorite. Let's not lie-- Allison is going to be singing a Paramore song as soon as the circumstances allow. I would actually like to place a bet on it.
I like this Megan character, but I am pretty sure they just took Brooke from last season, gave her half a tattoo sleeve, and put her back onstage.
But really. This Adam Lambert guy? He has GOT to go. SERIOUSLY. Why are all the judges/the world kissing his ass? I have a feeling he's going to end up winning the whole thing, but he pretty much makes me want to vomit. Every move he makes looks way too theatrical and planned/calculated, yet everyone keeps calling him "a natural." Also, I can't decide what he looks more like: a grown up, emo version of David Archuleta, or the rejected oldest Jonas Brother (I imagine he got kicked out Menudo-style)
I'm interested to find out what this new "rule" is that they're announcing tomorrow. Probably not interested enough to actually remember to watch the show, but I assume I'll read it on twitter or something.
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| double-man |
[30 Jan 2009|12:35am] |
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I just had a lengthy hypothetical conversation with Kay about what it would be like if, after 15 years of friendship, she revealed that she was not only a man, but a man with 2 penises ("double man"). Sometimes I wonder how we have any friends besides each other.
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| Resolutions |
[13 Jan 2009|05:32pm] |
I just had to write this down somewhere and it was too long for twitter.
Brianna, re: her resolutions.
"Just because I forgot one of my resolutions doesn't mean I'm breaking it. Whenever I'm doing what I said I wouldn't do, or not doing what I said I'd do, I go "No wait, that's my resolution!" and I do it, or don't do it. But then I forget what it is whenever I'm not doing it or not doing it."
(is it weird that I actually knew what she meant?)
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| Top 9 Christmas Movies |
[14 Dec 2008|02:17pm] |
I was going to make a list of my top ten Christmas movies, but after deciding on 9 I couldn't decide what was the last one that should make the cut, so I'm stopping at a top 9. You may note the obvious absence of A Christmas Story. That's because that movie is terrible.
9. All I Want for Christmas
Baby versions of Ethan Embry and Thora Birch scheme to get their parents back together for Christmas.
8. Prancer
Little girl finds injured reindeer and nurses it back to health. Also makes friends with the town's crazy lady.
7. Claymation Christmas
Why this is awesome: (a) claymation, (b) made in the '80s, (c) hosted by dinosaurs.
6. Garfield's Christmas
I don't know which part of this makes me weepier- when Odie makes Garfield a Christmas present, or when Garfield finds love letters from grandma's dead husband. Also I really want one of these machines.
5. Love Actually
Nothing about this movie is not great. Except the paper I wrote on it for my film analysis class senior year of college (if you'd like to transported back in time to that night, click here). But really, there hasn't been a more heartwarming Christmas movie made in the last 10 years. Clearly the best storyline is Colin Firth and the Portuguese housekeeper. And Hugh Grant and his housekeeper. And those porn stand-ins. Ok, maybe I like them all.
4. Muppet Christmas Carol
Muppets rule. Michael Caine rules. The Ghost of Christmas Past is 100% terrifying.
3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
I watch this movie once a year, every year, on Christmas with my family. Every year we guess how old the little girl niece is now, someone looks it up, and we're all surprised. A year later, everyone forgets. Also, someone always has to point out that the brother is David from Roseanne, and one of the grandparents is the mom from Everybody Loves Raymond.
2. Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
This Christmas special is 6 years older than me. Back in the good old days of Sesame Street, when cookie monster ate cookies, Oscar the Grouch was actually grouchy, and Mr Hooper was still around.
Watch :24-5:20 for a Christmas song that will fill you with so much Christmas cheer that your heart will probably explode and spray eggnog everywhere (since all the Christmas cheer will have transformed your blood into eggnog) Also, note that the guy kissing on Maria in the subway is NOT Luis. Apparently Maria and David had a longlasting relationship until the 80's. Maria and Luis didn't get together until 1988. I had no idea!
1. Muppet Family Christmas
This one is best watched as-taped off TV from 1989 (I don't think I've ever seen the original uncut 87 version), with all the original commercials (Playskool dinosaurs are big and strong and tough!) Not only is it a heartwarming tale of a son bringing all his friends to crash at his mom's for Christmas, but then the Sesame Street gang shows up! As if that wasn't enough, Kermit and Robin find a Fraggle Cave in the basement. I used to have dreams when I was little about finding Fraggle caves in my basement. Apparently after 89, there were a bunch of edits and a lot of songs got cut because of song licensing. Also, the muppet babies are in this. Here are some highlights:
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[02 Nov 2008|07:58pm] |
Let's see.
Since the last thing I wrote, I finished up at Fuse, went to California (pictures on Facebook), went home for a week, and then this weekend I worked on the TV broadcast of the NYC Marathon. The job itself was easy enough, I was just a PA/runner, so I drove people around, stocked coolers, etc. However, the hours were kind of absurd. Friday I was there 9-6:30, which was fine. Saturday I had to be in Jersey City at 5:45 to pick up crew guys and drive them to where they needed to go. Today I had to be in Jersey City at 4am. That meant leaving my apartment at 3:15, which meant getting up at 2:45, which meant going to bed at 8pm. I'm pretty sure I haven't done that since 2nd grade, except for maybe that time in high school when I had the stomach flu.
In any case, it was a cool experience. I was stationed at the finish line, so today I got to watch the men's & women's top few people finish. They started the women about half an hour before the men, but the men ended up catching up so there was only about a 10 minute difference between the first woman and first man. Four of the top ten men were American, which at first I chalked up to the fact that maybe there were more americans running since it's here, but people who've worked the marathon before were surprised. The best was after a couple hours and it wasn't the competitive runners finishing anymore, the announcers were just shouting out random people as they crossed the finish line (and they were finishing atleast 2-3 people ever second) "Congrats Bob, you finished! Sue, Jane, keep up the good work! Joe, Pete, you look good!"
It was definitely nice working with new people. Working with the same people for so long, everyone sort of just got used to each other and I kind of forgot about that fact that I am actually good at my job/a good worker. An SVP of one of the sponsoring companies showed up and her credentials weren't ready yet, so I walked her around for 5 minutes and then picked up her laminates for her and she couldn't thank me enough. You don't get that kind of appreciation when you've been at the same place for so long (and also when everyone is so busy that no one has time to breathe, let alone thank anyone)
Now my life is back to chill factor 10, tomorrow I'm gonna do laundry and work on a t-shirt quilt I started the other day, then I'm going to a show. Saturday-Tuesday I'm going to Phoenix with my mom to visit my grandparents/be warm.
Right now I am sleepy and my feet hurt. Good night :)
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| ch-ch-ch-changesss |
[29 Sep 2008|10:09pm] |
I quit my job today.
Well, technically I quit Friday, but I finalized it and actually told Jenny and Jillian today. It was really hard (I apparently cry a lot, as evidenced by Friday) but it's definitely time and it's definitely for the best. Jenny and Jillian were really reassuring actually, and completely understood and even congratulated me. Jenny said she did the same thing when she was my age, took a couple months off and traveled, and then when she got back she got an AP job.
It was actually really hard, the dust had barely settled after I told everyone I was leaving (I'm still pretty sure most of the office doesn't know) when Joel, who I haven't spoken to since he neglected to invite me to his birthday, called and IMed me to offer me a job on a new pilot he's working on at MTV. Basically he told me I had to email the producer NOW, and that he'd already talked to the producer and I was pretty much guaranteed the job (a PA job, possibly paying not too much more than I'm making) but I'd have to start the 13th. My plan was to finish up at Fuse til the 14th, then go to California for 5 days, so I would've had to either cancel Cali (TOTALLY NOT HAPPENING) or leave my current job 2 days sooner than I'd just said I would. Not to mention the fact that I was also planning to take a month or so off from life to just chill and focus on Inklings.
Basically it was all happening so fast and before I'd even decided what I thought, I had opinions coming at me from all sides and I couldn't even figure out what I wanted to do, so I ended up sitting in people's cubicles and crying for a while until I decided to just stick to the plan and be jobless for a while. Maybe if I wasn't so stressed from the fact that I've taken a grand total of 5 days off in the 18 months I've worked there, I wouldn't cry when offered a job. In any case, all the people I work with want to help me find something once I'm ready to work again, and with any luck Naomi and I can make something happen with Inklings and I won't HAVE to work for other people again.
California's going to rule so harrrrrrrrrrrrd. Also I might come home to Buffalo to chill for a bit.
Quitting was combination liberating/terrifying. Mostly terrifying because out of all the friends I have in the city, 95% of them are work people. Like out of the 15 or so people out for my birthday a couple weeks ago, 10 were from work, one friend from college, two roommates, and two former coworkers. So I need to get better at keeping in touch with people I don't see every day, or else my friend pool has been drastically cut.
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| Chicago! |
[07 Sep 2008|02:30pm] |
Chilling in Chicago right now. I really like it here, it's the kind of city where you have personal space and trees and bunny rabbits. I have a feeling I might move here sometime.
We hitched a ride here with Thieves and Villains for a show that they played last night with The Graduate. Our friend Brian was putting on an emerging artist showcase, so Naomi and I took a little vaca. Brian and his wife were nice enough to let us crash at their awesome place for a few nights while we're here. We left Thursday after work and got to Chicago around 1am Friday (technically it was Saturday I guess) It was pretty chill, until two of the guys told us how they'd been thinking about how, if they'd wanted to, they could have killed us and gotten away with it. We got all the details (including stealing our phones and texting our roommates that we'd decided NOT to go Chicago). That part was combination awkward/hilarious.
The show was awesome, all the bands were really solid. We ended up shooting a quick interview with this kid Chris who has a solo project called NeverShoutNever! He's 17, incredibly talented, and apparently really popular. The place was PACCCCCKED with 14-17 year old girls who screamed every time he walked by. I was up in the balcony when he walked onstage to set up his guitar, and I saw like 60 phones/cameras whip up to position to take pictures. Insane. The Graduate was incredible, but when ISN'T that the case? They had a super sweet light setup that made it look like a music video shoot. Also, they played Justified, which always makes me extra happy.
Today we're sort of chilling, possibly going to lunch or something with people we met last night, and then we're going to see You, Me and Everyone We Know a little bit outside Chicago (when we heard they were playing a show around here when we were already going to be here, we decided to stay an extra night to catch their show. Flying back to NYC at like 6am is going to be extra fun...) We're also hanging out with Brian and Keri's awesome dog, who totally rules except for his extra smelly dog farts.
Our stuff is sort of strewn all over their living room right now, so maybe I'll try to organize my life a little, so I don't have to do that at 4:30am while we're rushing to the airport :)
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[28 Aug 2008|05:04pm] |
What the fuck is this?
Are you a flip flop, or are you an ankle boot? You can't have it both ways.
If you buy/wear these, I will judge you. I'm sorry.
(PS I'm not sorry.)
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| More Warped stuff |
[25 Aug 2008|01:19pm] |
If you haven't already, it it would mean a lot to me if you checked out any/all of the Warped Tour videos I've been working on. I don't think I've gone to bed earlier than 3am all month, but it's been worth it because this stuff is some of the best we've ever done I think. I'm just past the halfway point, editing, I think, so there's still a long way to go, but I'm also really happy with what's been posted so far. My favorites so far are the trivia packages, the tour manager package, "bands following warped tour" and "beat the heat."
( look HERE.Collapse )
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| warped tour |
[29 Jul 2008|12:32pm] |
I just spent 4 days going to Warped Tour. I'm sunburned beyond all recognition (it's a pretty good idea to start a round of antibiotics when you're going to LITERALLY spend 4 days in direct sunlight). I'm also SO happy. I wish I were there right now. I can't wait until next summer when I can spend even more time on Warped. I interviewed 40 bands in 4 days, made buddies with a lot of new people, and actually started meeting people who had heard of Inklings before. One band saw Naomi shooting a set yesterday and asked what it was for, and when she said Inklings TV they were like "WE LOVE INKLINGS!" So great.
I don't want to go back to work. But atleast I can think about all the fun I had this weekend. Lots of driving. Not much sleeping. Or eating. Spent a MILLION dollars on overpriced water/gatorate. Went to WaWa for the first time.
I'm not so good with forming sentences right now. I'm going to go shower all the grime/layers of SPF50 off of me and go show off my sweet sock tan/burn.
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[23 Jul 2008|10:21pm] |
Today I got a camera shoved up my nose. It was a new experience. I had to really concentrate to force myself to breathe because all I wanted to do was freeze up my throat and not move. It turns out I have some pretty nasty ear infections, bad enough that two doctors were amazed that I wasn't in pain.
4 days of Warped tour this week. I'm excited, though worried because there's still sooooo much to do, and literally no time to do it in.
Time to eat dinner and try to get some work done in the next 2 hours before I go to bed.
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| a list |
[24 Jun 2008|12:00am] |
Things I Didn't Like Until I Moved to the City
Coffee
Beer
Sushi
Guacamole
avocados in general
Walking fast
Sweaters on dogs
Pit bulls
Bulldogs
Confrontation (not that I like it now, but sometimes I let it happen these days, atleast after drinking. Like that time I shouted at a guy for stealing a cab from me & Naomi, then he let us share it with him and it turned out he was the president of Italy)
Talking to strangers
Thai food
Cabs
High School Musical
Chipotle
Degrassi: The Next Generation
There's probably more I just can't think of right now. Also, I'm not sure why I decided to make that list.
Frustrated at work lately. Don't really want to/probably shouldn't talk about it. Sometimes it feels like I can't be good at my job, and that the only time people notice I'm there is when I fuck something up or make a terrible joke. Whatever.
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| Never forgetting my keys again. |
[08 Jun 2008|09:41pm] |
Last night was my least successful attempt to go home ever. Actually, it was my ONLY ever attempt to go home, because usually I'm pretty successful, and then I just call it "going home."
Naomi and I were coming back from a shoot and it took over an hour to finally get back to my apartment (lugging my really heavy backpack, plus another bag). It was about 3:15 when I got to my door and realized I left my keys on my desk that morning. Kay's been in Westport since sometime last week, and Brianna and Wilhelm had gone to see some friends in Connecticut as well, so I was sort of stranded. I stood on my doorstep for a little while, trying to call Naomi since she'd just gotten off the subway 10 or 15 minutes before me, but we'd had a long day so I guess she'd passed right out. So she didn't pick up, and I couldn't figure out what to do.
Eventually I realized that the only place I could go was back to work (uggggh) so I texted Naomi one last time and hopped on the L (time: 3:30). I ended up back at the office around 4, and grabbed a pillow to head for the couch in the bathroom lobby. I made a sign that said "locked out of my apartment :( I work here. Not a hobo." and opened the bathroom door. The lights were off, and someone moved on the couch. I FREAKED OUT and learned that it was a night security on her break, with the same idea I had. I explained to her that I was locked out and had nowhere to go, and she was cool about it (though made no move to leave the couch.) So I headed to a DIFFERENT couch and was awkwardly jammed onto it, almost asleep, when Naomi texted me around 4:15.
I left work and jumped into the first cab I could find. The guy didn't want to go to Brooklyn, so I got out and got in another one. The driver was super nice and put up with me complaining about how dumb I am, so when I got there and was so relieved to be somewhere I could sleep that I gave him $25 for my $16.50 cab ride (I'm pretty much rolling in dough, let's not lie...) Naomi had fallen back asleep so I called her 9 or 10 times and she buzzed me in and let me crash on top of her roommate's bed. Thank god for southern hospitality!
I hung out there most of the day because I didn't know when Brianna was going to get home. It's 100 million degrees in the city this weekend. Tomorrow it's getting even hotter. The worst thing about about it is that you can take 2 or 3 showers in a day and still feel gross. And you can never dry off, because the air is so full of moisture already that it won't evaporate water off your skin.
Anyway, I'm glad to sleep in my own bed (and go to sleep before 5) but also I'm dreading it because it's gonna be soooo hot.
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| Procrastinating |
[06 Jun 2008|11:43pm] |
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Brianna brought home one of her coworkers' classroom hamster this weekend and I've been watching him for the last half hour or so. It's weird. He lives possibly the saddest life ever. This is what his day is made up of:
1. eat
2. sleep
3. poop
4. run on wheel
5. attempt escape
I feel bad for him, because he's so desperate to get out of his little 12"x10"x8" cage that he forgets all the ways he CAN'T get out. On top of the wheel? No dice. Through the bars? My head is too big, can't fit. Standing in my food? Still no. Maybe if I climb on top of the wheel?
I mean, I know that no matter how big a cage you put a hamster in, he will still spend 80% of his time trying to get out. But I still feel bad for little Creamsicle (that's what I named him.)
In any case, anyone in the NY area should go to this:
It's gonna be a blast. And no, "It's father's day" is not a legit excuse. Dads like free vodka, so bring him along.
Tomorrow I am interviewing this band. Probably the best band I've started listening to this year, so I'm psyched to hear them play some acoustic songs for Inklings.
Good luck, Creamsicle. But also, please don't escape in my apartment.
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[29 May 2008|09:00am] |
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This website makes me need kittens. FOR REAL.
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| Tonight on Fuse- Watch the last ever episode of The Sauce |
[22 May 2008|01:30pm] |
Tonight at 6pm (eastern) on Fuse is the last episode of The Sauce. This is the show that has pretty much consumed my life for the last 15 months. It was my first real job that was something I actually cared about, and it's been a bummer watching it all come to an end. Tonight's episode is a bittersweet look back at the best moments in the show's history, and I think it's one of the funniest shows I've ever seen, so if you have Fuse, please check it out.
Luckily, what made the show so great was all the people I worked with, and I get to keep working with (or near) a lot of them, so atleast we're not totally breaking up the fam.
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| I'm kind of a big deal? |
[03 Apr 2008|07:38pm] |
I did some photoshop fun for random projects at work, I guess People magazine likes it?
craaaazytown
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