Aparently Michael Cera has a girlfriend.
My dreams are crushed.
I would leave him post-it notes around his hotel room, too! Hold out for me, Michael.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
No internet
I haven’t updated in a while. That is due in large part to the fact that I still DON’T HAVE INTERNET. I had it at my new place for like a day but that’s it. I’ve spent many a lunch break on the phone with customer service which resulted in NOTHING. So finally I said “Could you just send someone here to fix this?” and to my surprise they said yes and are giving me a credit for the time that I wasn’t able to use the internet. I didn’t even have to ask for it! So, hopefully Tuesday all my internet issues will be resolved and I can go back to fililng everyone in on the mundane aspects of my existance.
Here’s a teaser: I plan on discussing the pure joy I derive from Premier Week!
Havin’ A Gay Ole’ Time
On Sat I was pretty bored. I had to wake up EARLY (8:30!!!!!!!!!!) to let in the bug removers and I had to stay out of the house for 4 hours. In that time I got just about everything accomplished that I had planned to do during the entire week. I went and read my book (Unaccustomed Earth) and had breakfast at Starbucks – which was lovely. I then went to my fav gift shop, Silver in the City, in hopes of finding a birthday gift for my sis. Instead I found a few gifts for myself including a new clutch, a key chain, and a make-it-yourself card kit.
The purchases were necessities I promise you this. Since I didn’t find anything there for Carrie’s birthday I decided to head to Mass Ave Toy Store. Maybe I could find something there for baby. Well, of course I didn’t find anything I was happy with for Carrie’s birthday, but I did find myself a sweet necklace (for only $16!!) and a present for my mom’s birthday
MOM IF YOU ARE READING, AVERT YOUR EYES
I found this lovely 2009 date book. It’s illustrated and has birds on it. Mom loves birds.
I then sat on a bench for bout an hour and talked to Kate on the phone. I finally just drove to Target where I got Carrie and Adam their birthday gifts – Catch Phrase for Carrie and 30 Rock Season 1 for Adam. I may have also bought It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 3 for me (Don’t judge – I had bugs in my house. It was a very traumatizing experience. )
Anyway… the moral of this story is to say that when I got home I was bored. I had a lot accomplished and my roommate was gone. I texted Jenn, “What are you doing tonight.” Luckily, nothing. She and I decided to go to Tallbot’s Street – a FABULOUS gay bar where we could dance our hearts out.
I put on my day-glo tank top that I’ve only worn once and gave myself some big ole hair. Jenn and I get there, have some libations (red headed slut and vodka water splash of lime), watch a drag show featuring COLD HEARTED SNAKE. ONLY MY FAVORITE MUSIC VIDEO EVER!
For a more detailed and entertaining account of the evening, please check out Jenn’s blog on it. And if you haven’t – bookmark her blog bc it’s FANTASTIC!
My favorite moment of the evening:
Jenn and Bess breaking it down on the dance floor – Glitter falls from the sky.
Jenn: This must be what heaven is like
I also want to paint you a picture of our dancing style. I think it most emulates this girl
Flea Update
Still have them.
Even after the exterminator came on Sat, fleas are still cohabiting with Schultheis and I.
I had to spend 4 hours out of the house EARLY on Sat for their removal and their still there – blurg!
Hopefully, they’ll be gone after this Sat.
Genius
I have a special connection to my ipod. This does not make me a unique person. I don’t’ know anyone who has an ipod and doesn’t feel like they have this special bond. But me and my pod we’re something great when we’re together (which is allll the time). I’ve decorated ipod with a sticker that says “every day is an adventure” that I got from an outdoorsy store where I bought a water bottle. (Like I would buy anything but a trendy water bottle at an outdoorsy store).
But ipod and me – it is a true and untainted love. I mean it’s the keeper of many of my favorite things: The new King’s of Leon song Sex on Fire, Outkast songs that instantly make me think of Frat parties freshman year at Sigma Chi, David Sedaris books to make me laugh, and Office and Greek tv episodes. Really it’s like a time capsule of all things that make me happy. If you can imagine, ipod’s and my love just grew deeper.
I got to work this morning and started with my morning rituals: Got a Mountain Dew, opened my work email, open my personal email, and opened itunes.
When I opened my itunes it asked me if I wanted to upgrade to version 23098234.2
“Sure.”
This download takes a while, and I try to wait patiently even though I just want to listen to Tyrone by My Morning Jackets. Let me tell you, the wait was so worth it. Itunes now has something called Genius. And it lives up to it’s name.
Genius knows how to anticipate my unspoken desires. If you click on a song on your itunes and then Genius button, it will create a playlist of songs it thinks you will enjoy based on that song. I must admit, I was a little weary. Could technology really anticipate that I like an eclectic mix of music. I have playlists with Tom Waits and Miley Cyrus. Would it know that?
Well check this out. I’ve been really into Bon Iver Skinny Love the past few days. Let’s see what it creates for me.
1.Skinny Love – Bon Iver
2. Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
3. The National – Fake Empire
4. Good to Sea – Pinback
5. L.E.S. Artistes – Santogold
6. Electric Feel – MGMT
7. Metal Heart – Cat Power
8. Strange Times – The Black Keys
9. Normandie – Shout Out Louds
10. Anthems for a 17 year old – Broken Social Scene
11. Track 11 (From the Crane Wife) – The Decemberists
12. All of My Days – Alexi Murdoch
13. How it Ends – Devotchka
14. Off the Record – My Morning Jacket
15. Track 7 – Matt’s Mix
16. A & E – Goldfrapp
17. Start a War – The National
18. Hold on, Hold on – Neko Case
19. M79 – Vampire Weekend
20. I Woke Up Today – Port O’Brien
21. is there a ghost – Band of Horses
22. Ragged Wood – Fleet Foxes
23. New York – Cat Power
24. 2080 – Yeasayers
25. The Dress Looks Nice On You – Sufjan Stevens
WHAT AN AMAZING PLAYLIST!!!! The fact that it could pick up that Track 7 from Matt’s Mix fits with Sufjan Stevens blows my mind!
You’ve done it again Apple. Well done.
I stand and applaud you.
ewww update
Look at this from the Bohart Museum of Entemology website:
Fleas are bloodsucking parasites of pets, livestock and humans. These are laterally flattened and wingless insects. Fleas can travel rapidly by jumping, using their legs and a spring-like mechanism in the body. They are capable of spectacular leaps, covering distances up to one hundred times their body length.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
ewwwwwwww
This morning in between snooze 2 and 3 I got a call from my landlord. For fear I was going to get evicted for sleeping in I immediately answered and tried to sounds perky and awake.
Let me play out the phone call for you:
Landlord: Bess, hi. It’s your landlord
Perky-morning-Bess: Hi! Good morning! How are you?
Landlord: Fine. The girls next door called and have found fleas in their place. Have you noticed anything.
FLASHBACK TO SUNDAY EVENING
Sarah (roommate): Bess, i swear I found fleas in our house
Me: Yeah right. Fleas – whatever!
BACK TO THE MORNING CALL WITH LANDLORD
Me: Actually, Sarah has seen some but weren’t sure that’s what they were
Landlord: Wow, yes, so I’m calling an exterminator today can you let them in
Me: ABSOLUTELY I WILL LET IN THE BUG KILLERS!
Ewwwwwwwwwwwww I’ve been cohabitating with fleas. I feel so dirty!
Conspiracy Theory
I think I might be a conspiracy theorist. Or at least a Rock n’ Roll conspiracy theorist.
There used to be this show on VH1 all about rock n’ roll conspiracies. However, Google has finally failed me. There is no information to be had about the show. It makes me wonder if I maybe dreamed it. I swear I used to watch it. There were only like 2 episodes on the show but it was FASCINATING.
How did I recently rediscover my pension for rock conspiracies? Let me explain:
Jenn and I have been marveling on the wonder that is Sam Cooke. I’ve been obsessed lately. He just have the best voice. It just sends me to such a happy place. There’s so much soul and life in it. So, Jenn told me that she thought he was killed by a prostitute. This led to a big search which revealed that “they” think his murder was actually done by the mafia and record execs. It’s actually very interesting stuff.
I then remembered the VH1 show.
conspiracy #1
Kurt and Courtney-
She totally killed him. It was no suicide
Check out this website. There is some pretty damning evidence right there.
Conspiracy #2
Charles Manson vs the music
From his wikapedia page:
The events that would culminate in the murders were set in motion in late spring 1968, when, by some accounts, Dennis Wilson, of The Beach Boys, picked up two hitchhiking Manson girls and brought them to his Pacific Palisades house for a few hours. Returning home in the early hours of the following morning from a night recording session, Wilson was greeted in the driveway of his own residence by Manson, who emerged from the house. Uncomfortable, Wilson asked the stranger whether he intended to hurt him. Assuring him he had no such intent, Manson began kissing Wilson’s feet.[18][19]
Inside the house, Wilson discovered 12 strangers, mostly girls.[18][19] Over the next few months, as their number doubled, the Family members who had made themselves part of Wilson’s Sunset Boulevard household cost him approximately $100,000. This included a large medical bill for treatment of their gonorrhea and $21,000 for the accidental destruction of an uninsured car of his which they borrowed.[20] Wilson would sing and talk with Manson, whose girls were servants to them both.[18]
interesting huh… the wiki page is actually pretty terrifying. I don’t recommend reading at night when you’re alone
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