This is undoubtedly one of the greatest things I have ever seen.
You know something about Christmas? It was pretty awesome. I might just bother going into that more later. Anyway, I finally got to reading Mary McCarthy's The Group which I found at the local library book sale for like five cents and let me tell you something, this is one frigging awesome book and where has it been all my life? I'm only about on page 160 because of the adult ADD and all but man is this a sweet piece of historical literature that should be required reading for everyone who can read. Show me anything about naive coeds trying to make it in the Real World set between 1930 and 1970 and I'm sold. Sold!!! It reminded me to dig up this list (even though Salon sucks) because there is one book on there that sounds entire universes beyond awesome (#1) and given the others in the list I have to believe it will rule and I must find it. Must!!! I might just have to read White Oleander now out of appreciation. You know, someday.
Oh boy, I'm all packed up and ready to take a little trip, but I'll be back soon and I might even manage to check in here in the meantime. So special. Oh, and the Top 10 turned into the Top 15, incidentally. You can see it here if you are so inclined. Happy, happy.
For someone who never hesitates to buy notebooks at every spare moment, I sure do have trouble when it comes to actually writing in them. That's a whole nutty disorder that I'd probably be better off detailing someday at DiaryLand. But anyway, I was sitting here at my desk ready to scribble my Top 10 Albums of 2003 out on the back of an old napkin (no lie) when I realized that I have five -- five!!! -- notebooks sitting neatly at an arm's reach.
In case you haven't caught on yet, I'm totally retarded.
Anyway, I grabbed one at random and it turned out to be my original Ruby Trax notebook, the one in which I would sketch out all my horribly ill-fated Grand Plans for this site, and it proceeded to give me gigantic hilarious hilarity in addition to paralyzing terror at continued proof of my own procrastination and inactivity. Kim heap big talker, you know. I'll have to put these pages up at some point (there aren't many, naturally) but here's a list I have to share Right This Second:
Hahaha Agnes B., I'm so shallow. I think #1 was out of business like a year before I left the city. And check out #10! Hoo irony eh.
Hi! Do you have a copy of the Saint Etienne Christmas 2003 EP that you could give me? That would be super. Or even if you could tell me where I could find one, because I need it. It's the holidays and I'm greedy.
We got a big storm blowing through here which is exciting since we hardly ever get weather around here. A lot of wind but not a lot of rain and the creepy overcast skies that I love love love. I kind of miss getting weather, but I don't miss the getting-a-foot-of-snow kind of weather at all if you know what I mean. The wind blew a birds' nest into our backyard, though, which makes me a little sad since it's not like those things are easy to make or anything.
Promo copy for an R. Kelly interview feature at my former place of business: Some say he's in hot water, but Kelly's enduring popularity makes it seem more like a Jacuzzi. Yes, a Jacuzzi filled with URINE.
My milk-shake brings-all-the boys-to-the yaaaaaaaaahd. I spent the entire day in bed sick, except for the part when I got out of bed and came over to the computer. Like right now! I blame going out and socializing with actual people last night. People carry germs. Campbell's chicken noodle soup and real Coke with real sugar and "Family Guy" on the DVD, that was today. It could be much worse. Oh hey, I neglected to mention that my flight back to CA on Xmas did indeed qualify for a first class upgrade, so I'm flying first class with my signature style. So exciting.
We ended up watching Foxes, in case you were wondering. TWO TICKETS TO THE ANGEL CONCERT. Oh man, adults don't understand us teenagers in this society we live in today, and they say we're too grown up but man, in this society we live in today, we have to grow up fast because adults don't understand us teenagers in this society we live in. Today. I can't get enough of that movie. Cherie Currie looks like an albino corpse through the entire thing, it's fantastic. Also, poor dead Adam Faith. Which reminds me, poor dead David Hemmings. :(
OK, I have to admit that that song is playing only in my head. But it was on in the car! Woo! Anyway, what did we do today? We went to our local TREE-LIGHTING CEREMONY and saw SANTA. We waved to Santa and he said "Merry Christmas!" and we were all like "Merry Christmas!" and it ruled. Plus with a $1 donation to our local food bank we got HOT CHOCOLATE and a COOKIE. This was an outstanding way to usher in the holiday season. THEN, we went out for SUSHI and my husband proceeded to eat not just one but TWO pieces of JELLYFISH sushi which was a little out of control and at one point almost made me throw up just watching him, but he handled it like a champ and only gagged once whereas I gagged like 30 times just sitting there. I was so proud! After all the gagging of course. Then there was lots of BEER and we drank the beer and now we're home and it's time to watch MOVIES. I think we're in the right frame of mind to watch, say, Birth of a Nation. What do you think? Check it out, I'm enabling COMMENTS on this one.
I don't know why I enjoy this movie so much, but I do. I think it was when Matt Damon started being awesome on "SNL" I changed my mind about him. Also, being what appears to be a friendly awesome dude on Conan. Hey, so I'm going to be flying on Christmas Day, which on the one hand kind of sucks considering that the flight is still frigging expensive but on the other hand is awesome that I can spend Christmas in two states. I think my flight also qualifies for me to do a first class upgrade with my frequent flyer miles so I'm going to try to scam that in the morning. That would ruuuuule.
So I had a bit of a Dark Weekend of the Soul when I tried putting an apparently corrupt font file into my Font Reserve (yeah I paid $90 for it, shut up) on like Tuesday or Wednesday and it decided to basically die, right. So I tried getting rid of that and trying Suitcase and let me tell you something, Suitcase sucks bad. "Hi, I will die if you try to put more than 20 fonts into me at one time, that will be $100." Uh what. Then all my applications started dying. Then yesterday I magically managed to finally completely uninstall and reinstall Font Reserve and plonk all 6,500 fonts into it AT ONCE, then find a helpful Apple Support message suggesting that yes, I do indeed need to have both Helvetica and Helvetica Neue on at all times. BING, happy days. And to think I came thisclose to doing a system reinstall. If Extensis keeps favoring sucko Suitcase over Font Reserve I think I will riot in the streets. I'd also like to thank them for the helpful tech service message they sent me today: Greetings... At present we do not support Font Reserve under Panther (OS 10.3). The ellipsis was my favorite part.