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Tuesday, May 27, 2003
if i worked closer to bryant park, i'd be all about this lending library. it makes me so happy that they put so much trust in new yorkers.
a crappy three-day weekend with the weather and all. at least i got a trip to target out of it and caught up on my movie watching: "igby goes down". amazing movie, yet obscenely depressing. makes you wonder what the point of life is when all is said and done. "gosford park", which i still don't understand all the hype about. everyone said how funny it was. i'm not sure i laughed out loud once. bah. and finally "priscilla queen of the desert". here's where i show my movie ignorance, because i thought it was made in the 70s or maybe early 80s, until i started watching it and couldn't figure out how they could have had some of those songs on the soundtrack or why the guy from "memento" looked about the same age. also just a soso movie with a few chuckles here and there.
here's hoping field day fest won't be canceled after all, but it ain't looking good my friends. why does long island not feel the indie love?
i got a kick out of the times last week trying to describe a camel toe in so many words.
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
where has the time gone? man, have i been slacking. and sadly, i haven't been doing anything too exciting to take up the time.
there was the jesse malin show a few weeks ago, which was just soso. billy joe from green day came out for the encore to play some tributes to "their two favorite joes": strummer and ramone. though when jesse malin left the stage, he mentioned something about seeing us all july 4th, which leads me to believe he's playing the free show with ryan adams.
i procured a bunch of great cds from work recently: yyy's, the new pornographers, which you can hear about in today's times, dashboard confessional, pete yorn and idlewild. i can't remember the last time i've had this much new music all at once. woohoo
i had a change of heart last week and decided to purchase tickets for the dead. yes, jerry is long gone and they dropped the grateful from their name, but daytripping to an outdoor concert in july. you really can't go wrong.
in other music news, rhett miller is finally giving some love tonew jersey come august. of course my local music store isn't selling tickets yet, but no worries.
i've been a bit obsessed with reading jayson blair news, but today's observer story where he finally talks takes the cake. he seems so proud of what he's done. though the guy does have fame now, and with a book deal, he's sure to have fortune.
the bothum baby shower was this weekend. my first friends who are parents to be. yay babies!
Friday, May 2, 2003
the siren festival lineup was announced this week. indie music and the cyclone. and it's free!
the best writer on network tv has to go ahead and quit the best show on network tv. this doesn't look good for next year.
i would now like to rant about my distaste for certain aspects of the upper east side. sure they have a nice big park and all and those places on park avenue sure are pretty, but some of the people just drive me crazy. after watching a fun softball game in the park last night, i joined the team for drinks at the godawful brother jimmy's. for a moment i thought i was back at a frat party freshman year. my first sign that i didn't like this place was that the bartender did not inform me of the dollar bud drafts for "ladies" when i ordered my $4 yuengling. bah. after we gave the waitress plenty of business with several buckets of wings and pitchers of beer, she rewarded us with a fishbowl for each end of the table filled with some sort of spiked fruit punch, a fake lizard and several really tall straws. we had to race to see who could suck dry the bowl first. we lost. i will admit this was sort of fun. but i won't admit that i can stomach the packs of girls in black pants and barely there shirts and boys in button-downs and khakis swarming the streets trying to get into other similar establishments. after we started to feel our drunken stupor, jared and i hightailed it downtown for some more laid-back and late-night drinking at the pool beg.
the big excitement in our office yesterday was watching them film a scene from spider-man 2 outside our window. unfortunately there were no sightings of toby in a skintight red unitard, but i did spot a guy who looked exactly like chris robinson and i was then informed that it actually was chris robinson. we were entertained by the two nuns who were supposed to be looking like nyc tourists or something. and the kirsten dunst ad on the fake crosstown bus. the real excitement came when a bunch of my coworkers decided to crash the set and take a picture wearing bizarre outfits. but you'll have to buy a future issue of the magazine to see the results.
after hearing about it from my friend sylvia (ha!) i saw urinetown wednesday night. not your typical broadway musical. but that's a good thing in this case. funny, lively, thought provoking perhaps. and the candy we stocked up on at toys r us beforehand made the theatergoing that much better.
the minus 5 show cat and i went to tuesday night was awesome. that down with wilco album kicks ass. tweedy was in fine form smoking a butt onstage and then apologizing to the "citizens of new york" when he realized that was a big fat no no. wilco band members came back out for a superlong encore where they played some "minus fur" stuff but no wilco, sad to say. and scott mccaughey has a sort of resemblence to luke spencer. weird.
Monday, April 28, 2003
for all you ice cream lovers out there: don't forget tomorrow is free cone day at ben & jerry's, and wednesday is free scoop night at baskin robbins. i scream, you scream we all scream for ice cream!
just what we need: a 24-hour reality tv channel.
the question now is whether i'll take advantage of apple's new online music service or will i just keep "borrowing" from the glass onion?
spring has sprung! it's about damn time. today might have been a bust what with the rain dampening the parkinson's unity walk in central park, and a packed theater last night for a mighty wind, but today's perfect weather more than made up for it. what's better than a sunday afternoon of a nice run along the water followed by delcious ice cream, a pedicure and then of course drinking beers and eating a greasy dinner outdoors?
slate on the the white stripes.
leanne informed me the real reason tori isn't doing the 90210 reunion is because she can't stand to be in the same room as shannen dougherty. haven't they gotten past all that?
Thursday, April 24, 2003
by the way, i have an extra ticket to the wilco summerstage show in june if anyone wants to buy my ticket. just let me know.
"i want the pictures of my partial birth abortion back" as only the onion can.
woo hoo! let's hear it for a 90210 reunion next month. i am devastated, however, that there will be no donna-david action. i wonder if jim and cindy will be flying back from japan.
last night's west wing episode got us talking about whether you can really stand an egg up on the equinox. i've had people tell me they were able to do it and michele said they did it every year in science class. turns out they could have stood up the egg any day and there's nothing really special about the day of the year.
i wasn't able to procure tickets for the hush hush wilco show tonight at irving plaza but i did burn their australian ep last night in a little over two hours. a damn long time for six songs, but well worth it when i had good tunes for my walk to work this morning. and tonight's nyu show also gives catherine and i hope that they'll be sticking around nyc this weekend and playing the minus 5 show next tuesday.
all right, it seems as if i finally learned how to post pictures with the help of imagemagician.com and betsy. now if i can only figure out how to get them slightly bigger. speaking of pictures, and the white stripes, which was the reason for these pics in the first place, here's a good one of meg in her high school days.
Monday, April 14, 2003
after his team lost the national basketball championship last week and just before the "one shining moment" montage, i believe roy williams said something about bonnie bernstein doing her job as a reporter and having to ask the question whether he was leaving for chapel hill or not, but that "he doesn't give a shit about unc." i guess he didn't really mean that.
so when i first heard about it, i was really excited to go to this field day fest but the steep price and the fact that it takes place on the same day as the belmont stakes is making me have second thoughts. as if driving to long island in the summer wasn't bad enough. though perhaps if some west coast peeps want to fly east for it, i could be persuaded to join in the fun.
Thursday, April 10, 2003
someone had to be a huge real world freak to bid on this condom jar from the las vegas house. i'm surprised they didn't also auction off the infamous fork brynn threw at steven or the nasty chair in the confessional room that probably every roommate had sex on.
here's a cool site for all you fab four friends: the beatles discography. learn insane details about every beatles song ever written.
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
the white stripes play summerstage! the kickass concerts just keep coming.
seeing as passover is next week, i thought i'd do a link for you chosen ones. the difference between sweet and savory matzo brie. i personally grew up eating the sweet kind for breakfast with sugar sprinkled on top and never knew there was another version, but now i'm sort of intrigued. anything to make the tasteless cardboard have more flavor is cool with me.
speaking of new york, i've been watching the ridiculously annoying yet addicting "to live and date in new york 2" on sunday nights, and this past week, my roommates and i were confused what the deal was with british chick victoria, who had made a comment about being embarrassed that the tabloids back home were all over the fact that her dad was in jail. after michele did a bit of internet research, we discovered that her father, a political bigwig back in england,was charged with perjury and victoria was arrested as well. and now she can't find a man in new york. poor girl. i also had a laurie sighting a few weeks ago on my way to mexican radio. she was coming out of an apartment building with no man by her side.
i've been meaning to link to this since last week: new york magazine's 35th anniversary issue. from the greatest scandals (tawana brawley!) and headlines (my personal favorite, "close but no cigar,") to the 100 people who changed new york, this issue rocks. read it now.
Tuesday, April 1, 2003
guess you can't download that radiohead cd here anymore.
amazing: werde gets a boldface mention on page six! next thing you know he's going to turn into a bloviator who likes to canoodle with wacko jacko and the hilton girls while eating at restaurants like butter and elaine's.
this probably came around ages ago, but still fun nonetheless: which stroke is your secret lover?. fyi, mine's fab.
the end of last week was marathon ticket buying time for me and i'm dreading my next mastercard bill. but i'll be pretty damn happy when i'm watching the minus 5, the white stripes and wilco in central park. speaking of music, i've aquired a bunch of new cds as gifts, downloads and freebies from work. the highlights: down with wilco (poppy, psychedelic, silly lyrics), supergrass (catchy tunes i can't stop listening to), yo la tengo's summer sun (great summer soundtrack) and the "i am trying to break your heart" dvd, complete with a separate disc of all extra footage. good times.
i haven't seen it yet but dave eggers has a new magazine out there. it seems to be somewhat scarce out in california at the moment so i'm curious what the deal is with new york.
so i shall quickly recap my big birthday festivities from this past saturday, which mostly involved food, but apparently my friends know me well enough to make that an important part of the day. plus we had to make up for the last few years since my birthday always seems to fall on passover and therefore all i get to eat is stale matzoh with no alcohol. but anyway, we started off the day with delicious brunch at the clinton street baking co. on the les and then headed over to the tenement museum, which was awesome. for those of you not in the tristate area, take a tour here. afterward it was off to the new nyc milkshake co. on st. mark's and now that our bellies were sufficiently full, we waited a few hours before heading back to the lower east side and meeting up with friends for dinner at essex and then drinks and pinball at ace bar. since i haven't figured out how to post pictures to the pita quite yet, you can check some out here. lots of drunken phone calls were made, namely to tell a certain someone her old nascar-loving roommate happened to be in the bar and to try to convince more people to stop by for a drink. but overall, good times. now i can carry on with being old.
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
there are certain times i really hate living in new york (ok, new jersey, shhh): when bands i like are sold out. here's hoping central park's summerstage is big enough to get me into wilco.
after reading all these articles about how iraq is violating the geneva convention, i was confused whether it meant taking pows in general or showing them imprisoned on tv. well the ever helpful slate explainer tells me that the geneva convention forbids countries from humilating their prisoners of war, hence the illegality of airing their faces on tv. it's kind of odd to think that there are actual legitimate rules for war and how you can and can not capture an opposing soldier. like either side is really going to play by the rules.
i guess this isn't such big news because of the war, but a public school forcing a gay student to tell his parents he's gay? what's that about? administrators made him cite a passage from the bible condemning homosexuality.how about those civil liberties our country prides itself on?
Monday, March 24, 2003
the other big tv viewing this weekend was of course the ncaa tournament. so many games were so damn close. we almost missed getting to the hours because of the nail-biting gonzaga-arizona game. i'm still alive in my pool, though i'm pretty sure i won't be seeing any of the winnings.
why talk about bombs over baghdad when we can discuss the oscars? i was shocked yet elated that adrien brody took home the best actor award. yes, jack was great, but adrien was amazing. and he took his mom! i didn't see too many fashion atrocities, but i'm sure joan and melissa will still have plenty to say. i thought it was utter hilarity that they were still trying to pull off a pre-oscar show by zooming their cameras in on random celebrities walking in on the red carpet and discussing among each other whether they looked good or not. i have to say the night was definitely missing joan misidentifying at least one celebrity to their face like she does on every e! pre show i've ever watched.
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