Thursday, March 27, 2003 02:30 p.m.
I've been listening to Utada Hikaru again lately. I love Hikki... but the cool hardcore kids give you funny looks when you drive by with "Automatic" bouncing out of your open car window. At least I wasn't singing along. Especially because "It's automatic... soba ni iru dake de" is the only line I really know. I just fake the rest. And I sound stoopid.
But I don't care. Ha ha!
Because it's a really nice day outside and I'm almost done with the tons of stuff I had to do this week. All I've got to do is finish up mounting graphic design stuff for the student show. I've been in a bit of a tizzy all week because I found out the stuff had to be in at the last minute. There is a serious lack of communication here.
I am not Rainman. Definately not Rainman.
If you can't think of what to get me for my impending birthday, I want this, this, and this. Gifts of cash will also be accepted.
Now it's time for "Weird Search Phrases that Have Lead People to My Blog."
I hate Power Point. Hee hee.
Okay. That's enough out of me. Werd.
Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:56 p.m.
Well, this isn't going to be a long rant about the war. Mostly it's because I honestly don't know what I think.
I think war is terrible. Innocent people on both sides of the conflict are going to die, and that shouldn't happen. I know personally people that are probably going to be sent to Iraq and that's scary. But then, sometimes, I also agree with my Xplo-sama and I think that the whole world would be better off if the whole Mid-East were paved over.
Hussein is a tyrant and a dictator. He's a bad guy, obviously. People have compared him to Hitler, even. But is he that big a threat? I don't know.
I do know that calling them "Freedom Fries" is retarded and Tony Blair is kinda cool. In a "British Prime Minister" sort of way, you know.
Anyway, I'm sure I'll figure out what I think as the war goes on. Or something.
On a different note, hippies are so annoying. Especially PETA. I'm sure you've seen this website before... comparing meat production to the Holocaust. The frickin' Holocaust. Okay... I'm all for stopping animal cruelty. People do some pretty sick things to animals and it sucks. But I'm sorry... comparing a chicken farm to Auschwitz is just... ridiculous. It's not shocking me into vegetarianism... it's making me roll my eyes. Shove your "Holocaust on Your Plate" and get in the kitchen and fix me a hamburger! Stupid hippie crap... (See, I can have an opinion on some things.)
What about the Holocaust of the Plants? Put up your lawnmowers, you NAZI BASTARDS!
You know, you only have to hear the first few bars of "Come on Eileen" for it to get lodged in your brain. It's like "Yellow Submarine".
That's it for today. Enjoy the war, kids.
Wednesday, March 19, 2003 02:03 a.m.
Well, I guess it's high time I did the obligatory "What I Did on my Spring Break" entry. I'm afraid it won't be terribly interesting, though. Now, don't get me wrong. No matter what Will says, I did do stuff. So there.
I played a lot of the Dee Dee Arr.. both at the Grand and in Mobile, where I got to try Extreme for the first time. It was enjoyable... but unfortunately my stamina is shot to hell, so I didn't last very long on anything. Feh. I need to work on that.
The first step will be to stop eating dinner at around midnight, like I did tonight.
Anyway, back to Mobile. I also got Mars Vol. 9 at the mall there. Now, if you don't read Mars or just haven't read 9 yet, ignore the following:
OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!111
Now, what else did I do... I went and saw Old School. Funny, but too many shots of naked Will Ferrill. Oh my goodness. There was also shopping, eating out with friends, and sitting on the couch watching movies and playing Xenogears... which I will finish Real Soon Now.
It's thundering out... and it's making me all jumpy. I'm such a frickin' girl.
Everything I needed to know I learned from They Might Be Giants. "No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful." Words of wisdom, my friend. Words of wisdom.
Marine Pigeon Force. Yes. I said "Marine Pigeon Force."
Wednesday, March 5, 2003 12:25 a.m.
You know, it's really not a good thing when you're convinced you're having a terrible week and it's only Tuesday night. It's just because spring break is next week. This week is going to drag on as long and as painfully as it possibly can.
I think I'm just having one of those weeks (months, whatever...) where I just feel like I can't get anything right, and therefor nothing goes right.
Or I just need to catch up on my sleep.
So today is Mardi Gras. There was a little "carnival" here at school. For the sound of it, it was incredibly reminicent of the Halloween carnival we used to have every year in elementary school. Everyone else went, I think.
I opted, however, to stay in and watch a movie. The Rules of Attraction. It was actually really good. I really didn't know what to expect from what I remember of the trailers, but I certainly didn't expect it to be as dark as it was. I'd like to read the novel it's based on one day.
Ghengis Khan was a stud. The man was nasty, but you have to hand it to him... he was an evolutionary success. >.>
I love websites that catalog things that people have found. Especially discarded notes. They're like cryptic little peeks into other people's lives. Found Magazine and Royal Journal of Found Art are awesome. Things like this just get your imagination going, don't they?
Monday, March 3, 2003 08:20 p.m.
Well, I had a pretty slow weekend. Nothing much at all happened Saturday. Not terribly thrilling (but when am I ever?), I know, but I still like nice, quiet, do-nothing Saturdays every now and again.
Besides, you people should know by now that this is not the blog to read if you're searching for excitement and scandal. This is where you go to find out what video game Annie is playing these days. (It's "Devil May Cry" this week, by the by.)
Sunday my folks came for a visit and to bring me the drawing that's going in the collegiate show. We ate Japanese for lunch and then hopped over to Starkville to see "Chicago," which I really, really enjoyed. I've only ever heard a few songs from the musical ("All that Jazz" and "When You're Good to Mama"), so it was nice to see and hear the rest. It was so good, Richard Gere didn't even annoy me as much as he usually does.
It actually made me want to dance. Which, as my friends may already know, is laughable. I've been forceably removed from dance floors in the past. (I won't go into detail. It wasn't pretty.)
My mom went antique shopping today and bought a commemorative plate from Queen Elizabeth's coronation. I walked up to her and she whipped out this ornate china dish with a portrait of QEII in the middle and for some reason, I burst out laughing. I think it might have been because the first thing that ran through my head was Eddie Izzard saying "Back in the 50's, the queen was quite sexy in a... not very sexy sort of way. Shag the Queen"
Or it could have been the fact that my mother was standing there with a plate that had a portrait of Queen Elizabeth on it. Either way, I guess you had to be there. And by there, I mean inside my head.
Now let's see, Aris-chan says all the cool people read Little. Yellow. Different., so in a last, desperate attempt at a little bit of coolness, it's on my favorites list. It should be on yours too, if you still want to sit with us at lunch.
Oh, and here's another very readable blog I found this weekend. I swear. Some people have the most well written, interesting, and witty weblogs. It's enough to make me want to put more effort into my own writing (but then I remember why I'm not an English major).
I recently bought a month's subscription to Serializer, which has some of the best webcomics around. My favorites are Pup by Drew Weing, The Salon (Braque, naked Picasso, and too much absynthe! Woo!), Red Eye, Black Eye (an awesome travel journal comic), Square Fiction (by the guy who did When I Am King), and the reason I actually bought a subscription, Half Empty by my beloved Derek Kirk Kim (Woo... did that sound a little stalkerish?). Sometimes I wish I could have gone to an art school and majored in sequential art. Those indy comic guys are so cool.
And finally, I end my linkwhoring with KIKKOMAN.
Background Noise: Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
1. "research on avirl lavigne" I imagine he didn't quite find what he was looking for.
2. "'my teeth filled'" I can't help but wonder what this one was hoping to find...
3. "andrew w k 'give me a break' kit kat" Sorry dude. I liked his stuff better before he sold out. Party hard.
4. "avirl lavigne wallpaper" I must have misspelled "Avril" somewhere along the line... I keep getting these guys...
5. "anime with a cat like man" Nyo?
Background Noise: Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Background Noise: Billy Idol - Flesh for Fantasy
Background Noise: Kingston Trio - 500 Miles
Background Noise: Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
