Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
A faerie's heart beats fierce and free!
i was flippin through the channels and robyn was just on jay leno.she looks like an uglier hipster version of oona from the movie legend.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
if you were trying to come up with an idea for my birthday cake i've got a couple suggestions...
though if i'm gonna be honest i'd rather have the cover of raw power than lust for life on a cake....
i really just like the misfits one.whoever did that did a pretty amazing job.
goodye spectrum
so today they started tearing down the spectrum today.
I was trying to remember what I had been to at the Spectrum (often confusing what concerts I had seen there as opposed to the F.U. Center,Wachovia Center,etc,etc...) then I found a handy dandy website that listed every concert performed there.
So it turns out I had only been to 4 shows there.
NOV. 26, 1989 New Kids on the Block,Dino and Sweet Sensation
okay so this was my very first concert.go ahead and mock me all you want but you probably liked horrible crap when you were a kid too.hopefully, like me, you've overcome this early life obstacle.
i was given tickets as a gift for my 10th birthday. i went with my friend and her mom.instead of the sweet nkotb tshirt and giant pins i had planned to wear to the show i was forced to wear the equivalent of an easter or christmas dress (with a bow in my hair).at the concert my friend's mother would not let us stand up or scream. the opening act dino who had a one hit wonder with the song "i like it".
he had a mullet,looked about 45 (at least to this ten year old's eyes),had a beer gut and was shirtless wearing a leather vest.grossville.
with this atrocity being my very first concert it's no wonder at all i wound up really into punk rock in high school.
fast forward to my high school years....
MARCH 30, l997 Beck, Atari Teenage Riot and the Cardigans
this wasn't my second concert or anything,i had seen hundreds of shows between new kids on the block and beck,just not at the spectrum.
around this time i was completely obsessed with beck and wanted to have his babies.my aunt worked for some company that had some deal with ticketmaster and could get tickets before they went on sale.she called me up and asked if i wanted tickets to beck.i leapt at the opportunity.while on the phone with my aunt,sitting right next to me was my boyfriend at the time hearing at least half the conversation.he pipes in that we need to get a bunch of tickets so that friends could go too and we could all sit together.i wound up giving my aunt money for a ticket for myself,2 of my friends, and mark and about 13 of his friends. at 17 years old working a part time job this was no small chunk of change (i think tickets were about $30 each).my friends paid me back for their tickets immediately,the boyfriend said he would gather the money from his friends to pay me back. about two weeks before the concert i very suddenly stopped getting phone calls from the boyfriend,mind you this was right about the same time i had forked the tickets over to him to distribute to his friends.he was supposed to give me a ride to the concert and finally the day of the show i called him.i was pretty pissed but was honestly just looking to hitch the ride i was supposed to get when he told me that he wouldn't be able to get to the show in time so i had better just meet him there (easter happened to fall on the same day that year so dinner with family was unavoidable).so my friends and i take the el and subway to the show get to our seats and all of my boyfriend's friends are sitting around me.i inquire where he is and everyone goes pretty silent.okay whatevs.so i'm sitting enjoying atari teenage riot (whatever happened to them?)
(this is the song i would blast in my bedroom when i wanted to piss off my dad)
i loooooaaaaathed the cardigans.all the guys around me of course were in love with nina perrson.i found her annoying.
finally beck comes on.this was his era of "where it's at" and rhinestone cowboy suits,fake ship captain outfits and slick mod suits.i really have to say to this day he is and was an amazing entertainer.this was my first time seeing him (though i had tried getting tickets for his previous times in philly all to no avail).each beck concert after this one was a totally different experience.all great all just different.
(this isn't from the show i was at but it was from just a couple of months later)
at some point during the show my boyfriend's brother and one of his friends started telling me how much better i could do than him.at this point i'm not arguing that point with them at all and laughing along.eventually a confession is made "he's actually right over there in the other section making out with some girl he's also been seeing the past two weeks".i was livid.this jerk still owed me for about 6 tickets worth of money-they had all paid him and he pocketed it while telling me he didn't get it from them.i lost some money out of it but i cut my losses and decided i was better off never having to deal with him anymore.follow up to the story? this guy actually had the audacity to contact me online to ask me to go to a concert with him a couple weeks ago.oh yeah, i had a reeeeaaaaal good laugh at that one.
APRIL, 2005 Duran Duran
my duran duran tickets were another birthday gift(tickets went on sale months before the show around my actual birthday).duran duran had reunited and just put out a new album with a couple of pretty decent tracks.we had pretty good floor seats.at some point simon lebon invited some girl onstage and she took full advantage of the situation by shoving her tongue down his throat for a good 30 seconds or so.it was pretty funny.they actually sounded pretty great and it was a fun show.
during careless memories the giant projection screen behind them showed this.
MAY 10, 2008 The Cure
ahhhh....the cure.it was a long time coming for me to get to see them.my seats were great.i had a fun time and they were great,really great, but i have to admit i was slightly disappointed.the cure were actually TOO perfect. too tight as a band,it sounded EXACTLY like the albums.no variation at all.every chord played exactly as you know it.i don't know why but it just didn't feel as exciting and live as i had hoped.
the setlist that night:
open
fascination street
a strange day
alt.end
the walk
the end of the world
lovesong
kyoto song
pictures of you
lullaby
maybe someday
the perfect boy
from the edge of the deep green sea
the only one
push
how beautiful you are
in between days
just like heaven
primary
never enough
wrong number
one hundred years
end
Encore 1:
if only tonight we could sleep
the kiss
Encore 2:
freakshow
close to me
why can't i be you?
Encore 3:
three imaginary boys
fire in cairo
boys don't cry
jumping someone else's train
grinding halt
10:15 saturday night
killing an arab
so yeah,they're tearing down the spectrum for a new complex they're calling Philly Live! (and yes the exclamation point is actually in the name) which will supposedly be done by Spring of 2012.it's a little bittersweet but it'll be interesting to witness the change.i wonder what my first concert there will be...i can definitely tell you for sure it will NOT be me going to a new kids on the block reunion show.
I was trying to remember what I had been to at the Spectrum (often confusing what concerts I had seen there as opposed to the F.U. Center,Wachovia Center,etc,etc...) then I found a handy dandy website that listed every concert performed there.
So it turns out I had only been to 4 shows there.
NOV. 26, 1989 New Kids on the Block,Dino and Sweet Sensation
okay so this was my very first concert.go ahead and mock me all you want but you probably liked horrible crap when you were a kid too.hopefully, like me, you've overcome this early life obstacle.
i was given tickets as a gift for my 10th birthday. i went with my friend and her mom.instead of the sweet nkotb tshirt and giant pins i had planned to wear to the show i was forced to wear the equivalent of an easter or christmas dress (with a bow in my hair).at the concert my friend's mother would not let us stand up or scream. the opening act dino who had a one hit wonder with the song "i like it".
he had a mullet,looked about 45 (at least to this ten year old's eyes),had a beer gut and was shirtless wearing a leather vest.grossville.
with this atrocity being my very first concert it's no wonder at all i wound up really into punk rock in high school.
fast forward to my high school years....
MARCH 30, l997 Beck, Atari Teenage Riot and the Cardigans
this wasn't my second concert or anything,i had seen hundreds of shows between new kids on the block and beck,just not at the spectrum.
around this time i was completely obsessed with beck and wanted to have his babies.my aunt worked for some company that had some deal with ticketmaster and could get tickets before they went on sale.she called me up and asked if i wanted tickets to beck.i leapt at the opportunity.while on the phone with my aunt,sitting right next to me was my boyfriend at the time hearing at least half the conversation.he pipes in that we need to get a bunch of tickets so that friends could go too and we could all sit together.i wound up giving my aunt money for a ticket for myself,2 of my friends, and mark and about 13 of his friends. at 17 years old working a part time job this was no small chunk of change (i think tickets were about $30 each).my friends paid me back for their tickets immediately,the boyfriend said he would gather the money from his friends to pay me back. about two weeks before the concert i very suddenly stopped getting phone calls from the boyfriend,mind you this was right about the same time i had forked the tickets over to him to distribute to his friends.he was supposed to give me a ride to the concert and finally the day of the show i called him.i was pretty pissed but was honestly just looking to hitch the ride i was supposed to get when he told me that he wouldn't be able to get to the show in time so i had better just meet him there (easter happened to fall on the same day that year so dinner with family was unavoidable).so my friends and i take the el and subway to the show get to our seats and all of my boyfriend's friends are sitting around me.i inquire where he is and everyone goes pretty silent.okay whatevs.so i'm sitting enjoying atari teenage riot (whatever happened to them?)
(this is the song i would blast in my bedroom when i wanted to piss off my dad)
i loooooaaaaathed the cardigans.all the guys around me of course were in love with nina perrson.i found her annoying.
finally beck comes on.this was his era of "where it's at" and rhinestone cowboy suits,fake ship captain outfits and slick mod suits.i really have to say to this day he is and was an amazing entertainer.this was my first time seeing him (though i had tried getting tickets for his previous times in philly all to no avail).each beck concert after this one was a totally different experience.all great all just different.
(this isn't from the show i was at but it was from just a couple of months later)
at some point during the show my boyfriend's brother and one of his friends started telling me how much better i could do than him.at this point i'm not arguing that point with them at all and laughing along.eventually a confession is made "he's actually right over there in the other section making out with some girl he's also been seeing the past two weeks".i was livid.this jerk still owed me for about 6 tickets worth of money-they had all paid him and he pocketed it while telling me he didn't get it from them.i lost some money out of it but i cut my losses and decided i was better off never having to deal with him anymore.follow up to the story? this guy actually had the audacity to contact me online to ask me to go to a concert with him a couple weeks ago.oh yeah, i had a reeeeaaaaal good laugh at that one.
APRIL, 2005 Duran Duran
my duran duran tickets were another birthday gift(tickets went on sale months before the show around my actual birthday).duran duran had reunited and just put out a new album with a couple of pretty decent tracks.we had pretty good floor seats.at some point simon lebon invited some girl onstage and she took full advantage of the situation by shoving her tongue down his throat for a good 30 seconds or so.it was pretty funny.they actually sounded pretty great and it was a fun show.
during careless memories the giant projection screen behind them showed this.
MAY 10, 2008 The Cure
ahhhh....the cure.it was a long time coming for me to get to see them.my seats were great.i had a fun time and they were great,really great, but i have to admit i was slightly disappointed.the cure were actually TOO perfect. too tight as a band,it sounded EXACTLY like the albums.no variation at all.every chord played exactly as you know it.i don't know why but it just didn't feel as exciting and live as i had hoped.
the setlist that night:
open
fascination street
a strange day
alt.end
the walk
the end of the world
lovesong
kyoto song
pictures of you
lullaby
maybe someday
the perfect boy
from the edge of the deep green sea
the only one
push
how beautiful you are
in between days
just like heaven
primary
never enough
wrong number
one hundred years
end
Encore 1:
if only tonight we could sleep
the kiss
Encore 2:
freakshow
close to me
why can't i be you?
Encore 3:
three imaginary boys
fire in cairo
boys don't cry
jumping someone else's train
grinding halt
10:15 saturday night
killing an arab
so yeah,they're tearing down the spectrum for a new complex they're calling Philly Live! (and yes the exclamation point is actually in the name) which will supposedly be done by Spring of 2012.it's a little bittersweet but it'll be interesting to witness the change.i wonder what my first concert there will be...i can definitely tell you for sure it will NOT be me going to a new kids on the block reunion show.
Monday, November 22, 2010
"I am a Sagittarius. The most philosophical of all the signs. But anyway, I don’t believe in it. I think it’s a bunch of bullshit, myself..."
"...But I tell you this, man, I tell you this I don’t know what’s gonna happen, man, but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames"- jim morrison.
a list of some famous fellow sags.
hahhahha
this one is very true.
i guess if i want to look like a drag queen i could try this look.
the most accurate one for me probably,that is if i were a manic schizophrenic,haha
a list of some famous fellow sags.
hahhahha
this one is very true.
i guess if i want to look like a drag queen i could try this look.
the most accurate one for me probably,that is if i were a manic schizophrenic,haha
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
in case you were wondering in some small way
i started thinking about the tv show small wonder today.i can't remember why but it just popped into my head.
i wonder if i would still actually like it if i watched it now.it was definitely one of my faves as a kid.there were a lot of strange concepts in that show.the dad in the family worked for some kind of robotics company and made vicky the robot for some reason having to do with helping kids with disabilities so i don't understand why they needed to bring the robot home to pretend it was their adopted daughter so that it could acclimate to family life...a family life that didn't include any children with disabilities anyway (unless you count the son jamie's chipmunk cheeks a disability).but besides that, it's a robot.what's to acclimate???!!!
and despite the fact that the family sent her to school,it was a total secret that she was a robot.for starters, no one was supposed to notice she only owned one dress, or that she couldn't eat or drink til like at least the third season?
one of the other weird things was i always thought that instead of having a robot/caretaker relationship or even a brother/adopted sister relationship jamie and vicky seemed to have some kind of underlying sexual tension.yeah that's right i said it.kinda creepy.i thought his rejection of annoying neighbor harriet was more because he secretly pined for vicky than his disdain for harriet.
if that show were on the air today instead of being a robot people would probably have just assumed she was autistic or had asperger's syndrome.michael cera or jesse eisenberg could have been her love interest.
anyway, i got to wondering whatever happened to all of the actors on that show?part of me assumed they had all died of crack addiction in natural child actor fashion or something.but nope-they're alive!
vicky lawson aka v.i.c.i. and her puffy bangs.
she's now a nurse in boulder and looks pretty normal.
despite the rumors from the 90s jamie did not grow up to be billy corgan from smashing pumpkins.though i have to admit that would have been pretty hilarious (though not all that far fetched considering jimmy from degrassi grew up to be drake).
i can't figure out what he's doing now but it's not acting.apparently he golfs a lot.here's him now.
harriett was the annoying neighbor who was totally in love with jamie.what a creepster.and those 80s bowl bangs! yeesh!
she's now an acting teacher in connecticut.here's what she looks like now.
i wonder if i would still actually like it if i watched it now.it was definitely one of my faves as a kid.there were a lot of strange concepts in that show.the dad in the family worked for some kind of robotics company and made vicky the robot for some reason having to do with helping kids with disabilities so i don't understand why they needed to bring the robot home to pretend it was their adopted daughter so that it could acclimate to family life...a family life that didn't include any children with disabilities anyway (unless you count the son jamie's chipmunk cheeks a disability).but besides that, it's a robot.what's to acclimate???!!!
and despite the fact that the family sent her to school,it was a total secret that she was a robot.for starters, no one was supposed to notice she only owned one dress, or that she couldn't eat or drink til like at least the third season?
one of the other weird things was i always thought that instead of having a robot/caretaker relationship or even a brother/adopted sister relationship jamie and vicky seemed to have some kind of underlying sexual tension.yeah that's right i said it.kinda creepy.i thought his rejection of annoying neighbor harriet was more because he secretly pined for vicky than his disdain for harriet.
if that show were on the air today instead of being a robot people would probably have just assumed she was autistic or had asperger's syndrome.michael cera or jesse eisenberg could have been her love interest.
anyway, i got to wondering whatever happened to all of the actors on that show?part of me assumed they had all died of crack addiction in natural child actor fashion or something.but nope-they're alive!
vicky lawson aka v.i.c.i. and her puffy bangs.
she's now a nurse in boulder and looks pretty normal.
despite the rumors from the 90s jamie did not grow up to be billy corgan from smashing pumpkins.though i have to admit that would have been pretty hilarious (though not all that far fetched considering jimmy from degrassi grew up to be drake).
i can't figure out what he's doing now but it's not acting.apparently he golfs a lot.here's him now.
harriett was the annoying neighbor who was totally in love with jamie.what a creepster.and those 80s bowl bangs! yeesh!
she's now an acting teacher in connecticut.here's what she looks like now.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
silver fox
sure he is like the same age as my dad but roger sterling from mad men aka john slattery is kind of reeeaaaallly sexy. a total silver fox.
am i wrong here?
check out the young john slattery. hubba hubba.
and here's his high school yearbook photo.
am i wrong here?
check out the young john slattery. hubba hubba.
and here's his high school yearbook photo.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
appendix to prisencolinensinainciusol
best video yet-my friend kell doing the song at baby ketten karaoke in portland a couple of weeks ago.
brilliant.
brilliant.
Monday, November 8, 2010
strange magic
completely out of nowhere today i have had "magic" by olivia newton john stuck in my head.don't know where the hell it popped in from but it is majorly stuck.
because that's been stuck it's gotten me thinking on a few things.
for starters-i'm assuming everyone involved in the film xanadu self-dosed themselves with quaaluudes or something. i mean how else could that movie have been made? and in particular i'm talking about gene kelly cause really,what the fuck is he doing in THAT movie???
another thing it got me thinking about was the beaver trilogy.
one night in portland about 7 years ago (or at least around that time) i was at a found footage night at the old blackbird venue.we had no idea what we were about to see.a suprise mystery feature.we were floored.
i've talked about the beaver trilogy for a loooong time with a lot of people and most people have never heard of it,let alone seen it. which is a damn shame as it is AMAZING.
so with olivia newton john stuck in my head today and all of my talking about this lost footage over all these years i figured i'd try looking it up once again.
this time i was in luck....while i wasn't able to find the entirety of the trilogy i was able to find a few clips.
groovin gary
sean penn
crispin glover
apparently you can now buy the beaver trilogy from filmmaker trent harris's site. i'm thinking i might just have to buy it soon and have a special screening some night at my apartment.
because that's been stuck it's gotten me thinking on a few things.
for starters-i'm assuming everyone involved in the film xanadu self-dosed themselves with quaaluudes or something. i mean how else could that movie have been made? and in particular i'm talking about gene kelly cause really,what the fuck is he doing in THAT movie???
another thing it got me thinking about was the beaver trilogy.
one night in portland about 7 years ago (or at least around that time) i was at a found footage night at the old blackbird venue.we had no idea what we were about to see.a suprise mystery feature.we were floored.
i've talked about the beaver trilogy for a loooong time with a lot of people and most people have never heard of it,let alone seen it. which is a damn shame as it is AMAZING.
so with olivia newton john stuck in my head today and all of my talking about this lost footage over all these years i figured i'd try looking it up once again.
this time i was in luck....while i wasn't able to find the entirety of the trilogy i was able to find a few clips.
groovin gary
sean penn
crispin glover
apparently you can now buy the beaver trilogy from filmmaker trent harris's site. i'm thinking i might just have to buy it soon and have a special screening some night at my apartment.
i'm gonna miss him
i wish i had been able to get a ticket to tonight's roky erickson show but it sold out before i could get the cash together for my ticket. daaaaaaaamn.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Yeah they do bad drugs and on Top of the Pops I could close my eyes but the fun might stop and all those crazy people need crazy times
i turn 31 in 25 days so i've been looking at some artifacts from the year i was born.
here's a taste of the music from 1979 that was on Top of the Pops.
here's a taste of the music from 1979 that was on Top of the Pops.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
stop breathin stop breathin for me now write it on a postcard dad they broke me dad they broke me....
8 hours in the er last night and somehow this was not my prescription.
8 hours,3 breathing treatments,xrays and multiple checks of my blood pressure and acute asthmatic bronchitis was the diagnosis.unless i still feel as bad in two days in which case i need to take antibiotics because i might have walking pneumonia TOO.at the very least i am not contagious.
8 hours,3 breathing treatments,xrays and multiple checks of my blood pressure and acute asthmatic bronchitis was the diagnosis.unless i still feel as bad in two days in which case i need to take antibiotics because i might have walking pneumonia TOO.at the very least i am not contagious.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
psychoanalyzing myself via mad men
halloween is over,and it was pretty uneventful this year.however i'm guessing the holiday got me sick because i've been home for the last three days hacking my lungs up with what seems to be asthmatic bronchitis,strep throat,flu or a sinus infection. all i know is that i can't breathe,my asthma inhaler isn't working all that great and every time i cough i go into a fit where i cannot stop and it turns into choking/gagging.without cable stuck with regular tv-mostly political campaign ads and election coverage-making me want to vomit even more.
i watched all my netflix and havent emerged from the apartment to a mailbox to return them and not worth a second viewing.i stopped my mad men viewing for some horror stuffs.and now i am going through withdrawal.
it has come to my attention that even though i know that (like everyone else)i should be in love with don draper i'm kind of crushing on asshole pete campbell aka vincent kartheiser.
i couldn't stand him as connor on angel but i think that was just the story arc i didn't like.
not sure what it is about pete campbell that i'm attracted to- he's sleazy, manipulative,a liar,smug,brown-nosing,completely insecure but wants desperately to seem dominant....okay okay,so maybe i've dated a few guys with those character flaws in real life.
i'm also realizing that vincent kartheiser kind of resembles the last guy i really fell for (well he looked like vincent kartheiser plus damon albarn from blur plus brett anderson from suede)so maybe that's why.
yeah yeah yeah....so i have a type.
i watched all my netflix and havent emerged from the apartment to a mailbox to return them and not worth a second viewing.i stopped my mad men viewing for some horror stuffs.and now i am going through withdrawal.
it has come to my attention that even though i know that (like everyone else)i should be in love with don draper i'm kind of crushing on asshole pete campbell aka vincent kartheiser.
i couldn't stand him as connor on angel but i think that was just the story arc i didn't like.
not sure what it is about pete campbell that i'm attracted to- he's sleazy, manipulative,a liar,smug,brown-nosing,completely insecure but wants desperately to seem dominant....okay okay,so maybe i've dated a few guys with those character flaws in real life.
i'm also realizing that vincent kartheiser kind of resembles the last guy i really fell for (well he looked like vincent kartheiser plus damon albarn from blur plus brett anderson from suede)so maybe that's why.
yeah yeah yeah....so i have a type.
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