i know, i know i've been absolutely terrible about updates but i have excuses, i swear. closing an issue of a magazine is hardly ever fun, but doing it when your boss is on vacation and a good portion of the rest of the office is out in la is really no fun. but that's all behind me and i'm now on to the exciting job of jury duty. and this morning i found out i'm cool enough to actually sit on the jury. i was told i cant' discuss the case so you'll have to wait for the details till about a week from friday. i'm kind of half excited, half annoyed that i have to sit on the jury partly because i'm stuck at my parents' house for the week because i'm still registered to vote and all that other fun stuff up here. i guess i should do a little recap of the weekend and what not. i saw jay bennett in hoboken saturday night and sorry, ryan, but i agree with catherine. the man (who i thought scarily looked like a cross between jack black and weird al with a bit of dave newsom thrown in) was bitter. so you're not in the band anymore. suck it up and play. no one needs to hear that your pick says "ocliw". get it? i actually thought the other guy singing with him had a much better voice. it might have been the chain smoking that was going on. but it is still live music and was only eight bucks so it still was worth it i guess. all right, the end. for now.
i'm a very happy girl. not only is today free cone day at ben & jerry's, but the guy from the computer place just called and i can pick up my good as new laptop. three days earlier than expected!
so i got a whole new look this weekend. well, only temporarily, but after a year, i'll be down right hot.for those who don't know, here's a hint: tom cruise and i now have something in common. as does faye dunaway.
Friday, April 19, 2002
apparently the reason ozzy shakes so much is not that he's completely burnt but because of his anti-psychotic meds that can cause parkinson's like tremors.
hoboken will be infused with a little culture next weekend. they're having their first annual film festival. could be fun to check out a few of the flicks, though i'm dreading going to the horrible movie theater they're screening them in. it's even worse than the old newark cinema back at school. the seats are smaller than any average sized person, there is no leg room and the few times i've been there, the film got screwed up in the middle. but all in the name of culture. (thanks to michele for the link, who really, really, really should be starting her own pita one of these days.)
Wednesday, April 17, 2002
i just have to say that technology sucks sometimes. i had to bring my four-month old precious ibook to a fix-it place today to have it shipped off to apple. my hard drive is kaput (john, your assumption was correct. guess you're good at what you do). i will now have to wait ten days to get it back, and when it returns, there will be not one song that i've downloaded onto my itunes on it anymore, or my precious solitaire and other random crap i have on there. furthermore, i won't get to play on the internet or talk on instant messenger for more than a week! before i ever had a home computer, i didnt' think i'd need one. but now i'm about to go through some heavy withdrawal. so a note to all y'all out there. back up your shite tonight.
just because of the amount of drink i consumed this past weekend, i have to steal this one from catherine and share with the world. binge drinking causes brain damage. yup, i'm in trouble.
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
all right the hot sunshine and the happy tunes in my headphones right now are making me appreciate the good things in life and uplifting my spirits a bit. therefore i think i'll forge ahead and give my update of the weekend past. though i have to warn you that after reading some other accounts, i've discovered i don't remember a good portion of it. i'm about to get big city for a while and recap: so catherine and i got a late start (partly because of my hangover from the work party the night before, but that's a whole other story for a whole other time) but finally made it to pete and kelly's by late afternoon and the festivities started shortly after. i finally met the infamous ken.butt (really only infamous because pete has a nephew who is maybe two years younger than him) and the bothums alcoholic neighbors. i held my ground for a while refusing to imbibe, but peer pressure screwed that up (catherine's always trying to get me shitty). nathan arrived after sitting in some dc traffic and was so famished that he made a bunch of people go with him to the supermarket so he could buy a whole chicken that he devoured—with his hands—in all of five minutes. after we drank a whole lot more, we made our attempt at the first planned event of the weekend: bowling. unfortunately, it doesn't work so well when there's some tournament from canada hogging the lanes. so instead, we drank (some of us straight from the pitchers) for an hour or so at the bowling alley bar surrounded by the finest of eastern, pa. we wound up back at the bothums where we got to rock out to some terminal lunchbox and as you can see by catherine's pita, i tried to be a rock star myself. more drinking and more drinking and we all finally passed out at some point but not before nathan could shatter one of the last remaining martini glasses. saturday was spent eating, watching nathan go through one of his "spells" and heading down to towson for some rock at the recher. svelte ryan met us at the hotel and we all drank some more. the concert kicked major a. might be the best gbv show i've been to yet. though admittedly, i didn't remember much of the antics till reading about them on other people's sites. i may not be as big an expert as the rest of the group i was with, but the band is off the hook. i even moshed. the drummer is so cool he stands on his stool and spreads his arms all wide and smiles for the crowd. bob pollard is so cool he smokes, drinks and does high kicks all at the same time. nate farley is so cool because catherine says so. the rest of the night was spent drinking in the room and listening to ryan and pete discussing non-pc lingo and us getting in trouble by various palestinians. they might have been the same ones who were at the gbv show in lancaster, but no one knows. shortly afterward everyone left the room so cormi and i could get it on (that's a joke, i swear!) anyhow, long-winded recaps that only the people who were there really care about aside, the weekend was a lot of fun. check out catherine and ryan's blogs for some visuals.
for all those awaiting a fun, embarrassment-filled pita entry about my amazing weekend in harrisburg, pa, and towson, md, will have to wait a little while till i can summon up the funny. i got back yesterday afternoon to some really horrible news. one of my oldest, closest friends' mom was killed in an accident friday morning. i spent a good portion of my life with her and her family. i refuse to believe that something like this could happen to a beautiful family like that. that being said, it really made me think last night how important spending time with the people you really care about is and doing everything in life you want to do. you just don't know where life will take you and what will happen even in the next ten minutes. which is why i'm even more grateful for spending weekends like the one i just did with good friends, having good times.
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
another new eccentric twentysomething male writer is on the scene. jonathan safran foer. i have to admit he may even sound a bit more intriguing than eggers. it might be the fact that he slept with a picture of the 1984 olympic gymnastics team under his pillow. has anyone read his book yet? tell me what you thought. can you tell by my entries today that i'm desperate for some email?
this one is for the fellas: the best and worst men's bathrooms in the city. i find it very humorous that one of the worst is the village idiot. when i was there a few weeks ago, the women's room was not working and we were told to use the men's. after waiting on a long line, i was about to go in, when some bouncer dude came over to me and told me the women's was now working. let me just tell you that i feel for the men if their bathroom was worse than mine. i felt like i was trapped in a flooding cubby hole. after that, i held it for the rest of the night. i do have to say i didn't think guys really cared about this sort of thing. they're in and out in a few short minutes and don't have to worry about much since they're standing the whole time. i feel like the gross factor wouldn't be as big of an issue as it is for us chicks. am i wrong?
i finally picked up the new uncle tupelo today with the help of a birthday gift certificate and am enjoying it at this very moment. i have come upon a devastating discovery though. i believe my head is crooked. at first i thought it was just the pair of headphones i've been using at the gym, but now i see it's the same thing with the ones i have at work. the ear piece that rests in my right ear is always popping out. i can only conclude that my head does not fit the normal arch of a set of headphones and therefore is misshapen.
Monday, April 8, 2002
celebrated jared's birthday saturday night and way into sunday morning. we started out at the back page, which despite what citysearch says, does not have air hockey in the basement. jared and rich were lucky enough to find that out when they headed downstairs and saw two strippers helping out a private party. even after they left with their boom box, the waitress said they no longer have a bar downstairs. so we drank a few, ate some nachos and moved on. i was a little hesitant of the new location at first, seeing that when we walked in everyone looked as if they would have preferred to be at a frat party doing keg stands, but a few beers and i was good to go.
saw "kissing jessica stein" friday night. some pretty stereotypical single girl scenes like the leftover chinese food in the fridge and the sequence of bad dates (with a surprise cameo by the hip jim j. bullock), but overall i thoroughly enjoyed it. the woman who plays her mom is so great. if anyone wants to know what a jewish mother can be like, now you know. the best part of the night was how perfect the movie-going experience was. we saw it at the new sunshine cinema, which is a great theater in itself but i was so happy that not one cell phone rang, not one baby cried and not one person kicked my seat. worth every bit of the ten bucks. afterward my friends and i enjoyed some yummy smores at xando. who knew we were so fashionable?
Thursday, April 4, 2002
today is a great day. tonight, passover is finally over and i can eat bread again. i could never be one of those no-carb high-protein dieters. give me pizza! give me burritos! give me pasta! you'll find me here tonight, scarfing down bowls of pasta and free brushcetta.
is it just me, or does anyone else find it really bizarre that jason biggs was once nominated for a daytime emmy?
michele and i were leafing through the new vogue shape issue last night and i'd say we both pretty much agree with this article. first of all, pregnancy is hardly a shape. and yes, the majority of the women they chose to depict the different shape types—tall, short, athletic, thin—are all skinny. there is one plus-size model and they have her in pictures with a midget of sorts. is it supposed to be that she's a freak of nature? or to make her look bigger and taller than she actually is? i guess vogue is never going to have a 300-pound woman showing off $1,000 clothes, but this issue is hardly definitive of all the shapes out there.
turns out liam isn't a big fan of the strokes. courtesy of brian, who has finally updated his site.
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
it turns out i do not have as good fortune as betsy does. i wound up not winning third place in my ncaa pool because the prize i was still in the running for was if maryland won and if i came close to the total points at the end of the game. but considering i picked 163 and the fact that it was such a low-scoring game, i am not rich today. but who cares, it's baseball season!
if you're bored at work, try this online lego builder. not nearly as cool as the real thing but at least you won't lose all the pieces like my brother and i used to do. (via pcjm)
Monday, April 1, 2002
i just found out that if maryland wins tonight, i win third place in my ncaa pool! i was psyched to take home the $160 until michele just informed me that two other people have the same amount of points as me so i'd have to split the cash. phooey. but let's go terps!
as part of my bday gift, my roommates gave me postcards of the hanging the new dead album singing dylan songs. kicks ass. there is also a bonus second disc with live versions of "queen jane approximately" and "quinn the eskimo", which it so happens is one of my favorite songs these days.
it was a movie marathon weekend for me. friday night was "jay and silent bob strike back". the movie itself left a lot to be desired but what made it great were all the cameos and the various references to the three other kevin smith movies before this. check out the trivia page on imdb. some of it is explained on the dvd's bonus disc, but there was a bunch of stuff i wouldn't have picked up on. then saturday night was "the score. not the best heist movie i've seen and it lacked a bit of suspense, but it kept me entertained and you really can't go wrong with ed norton. then yesterday i finally saw "monster's ball". yes, halle deserved the oscar. but i'm kind of surprised that billy bob wasn't even nominated. although i can't stand the freak, he was excellent and definitely was as important a character as she was. i also found it interesting that halle berry is the third one listed in the opening credits after heath ledger who doesn't even make it through the first half-hour of the flick. isn't it great to be a woman in hollywood?
Friday, March 29, 2002
i may be one of the only people under the age of 35 who is saddened by this but abc canceled "once and again". such weepy cheese, but i love it. i guess now i can go back to watching the real world road rules challenge monday nights.
al roker is cool and all but i wouldn't mind watching these guys give me my morning forecast.
i do apologize for being so lax on the updates, but busy work weeks will do that to you. let's see if i can do a quick recap: last weekend, my friends took me out for a pre birthday celebration since passover prohibits the celebrating profusely. we drank margaritas and ate some delicious mexican food here and then got our drink on here. this week was spent working, cooking and preparing for passover. last night gail and i did an abridged seder with some friends. and considering no one got violently ill from our food, i'd say it went well. i have no real rehash of the oscars (it's just such old news already!) but there were hardly any dresses i liked and i am now stuck groveling to brian for a month since russell did not take home the statue. i hate losing.
what do you call a dog who digs up really old bones? a barkeologist! here is a recap ofmy review of the ryan adams show that i emailed to the other
ryan this morning:
the man is a drunkard. either that or he snorted some serious shit before the show. out of control i tell you. but he played for about two hours. most everything on gold he also ended with "brown sugar" but was not as cool as mick jagger because he kept swinging and throwing the microphone and kept missing it completely.there was no elton john but some dude in a cowboy hat in the vip section that everyone kept shaking hands with and taking pictures of. hopefully it will be in page six one of these days. oh yeah, and he sang some bizarre song about how celine dion makes him lose his buzz. a freak i tell you! so to sum up, there were some parts that dragged but most parts rocked.but i have to say as a concert venue, roseland sucks.
woo hoo! it's official! brian has his own site, where he expounds his "wisdom." there is still another site in the works, which he is considering a "more personal blog" but you can enjoy this one for now. i'm not allowed to reveal the other site just yet. i just have to say that he was against using pitas or blogspot or whatever, because he said it restricted his creativity or something like that. so just for fun, harass him about the design for a while.
i don't check the smoking gun nearly as much as i should. stephen from real world seattle just got arrested this week for trying to steal a car. but the best part is he had outstanding warrants for charges of prostitution! ew. lindsay definitely would have lasted longer on the challenge had she gone with a cool guy like david instead. but i dont' care what the smoking gun says, i will laugh every time i watch that scene of him throwing irene's stuffed animal in the water and slapping her in the car. now that's great reality tv!
i forgot to say a hearty "best wishes" to dorothy elizabeth yesterday. come the end of december, she'll be mrs. tony cremi (sp?) can't wait to party down in alabama.
Wednesday, March 20, 2002
if anyone out there wants to buy me a present for my birthday, i wouldn't mind these. smurfs and candy all rolled into one!
word up. fun with random words. and turn the volume up really loud on your computer before you click on it. hee hee.
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
i knew claire from "six feet under" was cool. if you go to this week's wake and look in her locker, you'll see she's listening to some kick ass music.
to get you all in the mood for the oscars this coming sunday, here's a little rant about joan rivers. it's a great little piece, but how could the writer neglect to mention that one of the worst things about joan is that she never has any clue who she's talking to? my favorite was at the golden globes when she told andie mcdowell that she loves her on csi.um, try again.
terror lingo. i think i'm going to start using, "that's so september 10," the next time someone says something trivial to me.
my sources told me that liza minelli was registered, so i had to check it out. especially after reading all about their bizarro wedding. besides the fact that she's a huge celebrity and has more money than one could know what to do with, she's been married three times before. so why then would you possibly need to register for more things? but after going to her registery, the answer is simple. you see, liza and david don't seem to be planning for a lifetime of wedded bliss but for some natural disaster or perhaps the apocalypse. instead of tiffany china and waterford crystal, they are asking for 100 big pete's emergency lanterns, seven swiss army knives in various colors, five little tool kits and 25 potable aqua tablets. but no need to fret, because while they will be holed up in some bunker in hollywood, waiting for the end of the world or perhaps for osama to come knocking at their door, they'll be eating in style with their 35 completespanish spice collections and their four century matchless two burner stoves.
Monday, March 18, 2002
i watched "ghost world" yesterday and enjoyed it, but not as much as i thought i would. not sure what it was that i was expecting, but what i saw wasn't it. excellent soundtrack though. and i have to say i'm a big thora birch fan. she does such a great job of capturing the whole teen angst thing in whatever movie she's in. which leads me to last night's episode of"six feet under" (despite what other people think, claire and thora birch just are so similar to me). the more i watch that show, the more i absolutely love it. everyone's character is just so insane in their own way that it's great. the mom laying the foundation of her house! nate not getting any! david and his desperation! i just can't get enough! if any of you haven't checked out the wake on the web site yet, it's a pretty neat little feature.
st. patty's day is now officially over, and i now officially have a less healthy liver. between the hoboken festivities a few weeks ago and drinking it up on saturday, i think i'm done for a while. but despite sucky waitress service, and green beer that stained my fingers, it was a grand old time. we even had visitors from all the way down south and i got to catch up with an old friend too. friday night i went to see jeanine garafolo. anytime you can laugh at dubya, the state of today's music and colonics is a good time. but i warn you: if you're planning on having a cheap night out with friends, caroline's is not the place to go, though many of you may already know this from your prom days. why do they still need to implement a two drink minimum, if you are so bold as to order a pricey meal? it should just be a certain fee you each need to pay. because what if you're not thirsty but are willing to pay $10 for two mozzarella sticks instead?
saw a screening of the revamped e.t. last night and it was just as good as i had remembered it. perhaps i'm a dork but i couldn't help but get chills when the popular score started playing as elliot flies across the moon. holly, who i ran into with catherine, was disturbed by how not-upset all the little kids leaving the theater looked. we all remembered being crushed when we saw it the first time. such a sad, heartwarming movie yet these kids were completely dry-eyed. but what was great was how funny some of the eighties-isms were. being that it's now a whole new century, you couldn't help but laugh at the green screen of the ekg machine and some of the props and such in the background. i must say though that the scene where they replace the guns with walkie-talkies looked completely ridiculous. who olds a walkie-talkie like that, like they're about to aim it at someone?
this entry is for brian, who is always going on about how insulting miss cleo is to the jamaican people with her fake incense burning and her crazy psychic talk. and now, guess what? turns out she's fakin'. she ain't even jamaican.
Thursday, March 14, 2002
this week's time out is dedicated to the joys of margaritas and reading it last night gave me such a jonesin' for summer. i can't wait for that first warm day to slurp fruity frozen drinks outside, chomp on some nachos and just enjoy the new york air. anyone care to join me?
i handed in my tournament picks this morning, having hardly any clue as always. so now let the games begin.
here's exciting news. judy blume has written another "fudge" book. am i too old to still want to read it? if everyone else is reading "harry potter" i see no reason why i can't indulge.
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
nannies seem to be a big topic right now. first with a story in the sunday styles section about trying to figure out who the real park avenue moms are in the book "the nanny diaries, and now a more serious take on domestic workers from the village voice.
Monday, March 11, 2002
another weekend come and gone. some highlights, some lowlights. say the anniversary party, which i actually quite enjoyed. but i have to say it was more fun to rewatch the film with the director's commentary. for those who don't know, jennifer jason leight and alan cumming wrote and directed it together, for their friends and cast their friends too. it was just interesting to learn the photos hanging on the walls were really shot by jennifer beals, otis is really jennifer's dog, and the kids in the movie are really kevin kline and phoebe cates's. overall good stuff. saturday my roommates and i ventured to lafayette to see the college acapella semifinals. sadly brian's group didn't advance, but he did win a cool award. and i won a free cd. so it was a good day.
women's magazines making up their sex stories? i don't believe it.
Thursday, March 7, 2002
for all those jewish dogs out there. just in time for passover.
i just learned that because i'm a cablevision subscriber, i'm not going to be able to watch any yankees games this year unless someone does something fast.
ted koppel responds to letterman taking over his timeslot.
Monday, March 4, 2002
apparently yankee management doesn't like players' sons to wear mets apparel even if it's really just a little league team.
Friday, March 1, 2002
earlier this week, the times was talking about how the newest craze is to download whole albums at one time off the internet. now they're talking about the same thing i was just having a discussion about last night: companies making cds that can't be copied, which is ridiculous. copying cds that you bought legally for personal use is not illegal. downloading songs off the internet and then burning a cd is. so why do they have to screw with all the kids who want to make mix cds like we used to do with cassette tapes back in the day? yes, there is a problem with selling bootleg cds on the streets of nyc, but why punish all the lawful citizens at the same time? plus, these new cds, because of the technology, won't play right on many computers. never mind that many people use their computers as their sole music listening device. so now people are going to have to shell out money to buy a separate stereo or discman too? and how about all the ipods that flew off the shelves this holiday season? if you can't listen to illegal mp3s downloaded off the internet and now you can't listen to songs that you legally copied off of cds that you purchased in the past, what's the point of the $400 toy? apple ain't happy about that one. anyway, here's a site that the article mentioned where you can check if a certain cd can be copied or not.
Thursday, February 28, 2002
just archived so if anyone's looking for my old stuff, click the little button on your left.fyi: i already made two updates this morning but they're stuck in the archives.
