April 2009
Reluctantly Crouched At the Starting Line
So I’m trying to settle in and get used to living in a new city. Saratoga’s definitely a pretty place, but sometimes I feel like I’ve landed in some racetrack obsessed cult. There are horse statues all over the place and the streets are all named after racing lingo, and people have bumper stickers that say things like “Whinnying is Everything.” Toto, I don’t...
Ventures in Carpentry
So last night I put together some variant of this. It took me five and a half hours. They’re all different pieces that you arrange into a shelving/cabinet unit. Mine has a cupboard, a filing cabinet, and a bunch of shelves. I put each piece together and then organized them into a little unit.
I was so proud of myself. I’ve never built anything before, and even though I wasn’t...
Addicted
The first year of college, I put a TV in my dorm room, but Canadians don’t believe in giving university students cable so I only had one channel. I watched a lot of Funniest Home Videos even though I hate it. For the next two years, we got about 15 channels, most of which were crap, on a TV which was located in the coldest room in all of Canada. I mostly only ventured in there to watch...
Well, here I am, back in America. I miss Canada. I’ve moved back in with my mom, but I feel like I’ve left home. It hasn’t really sunk in yet that I won’t be seeing my best friends every day anymore. I feel like we should be doing shots and heading out to Stages wearing matching getups tonight. Even though it’s Monday.
I’m excited to get moved in, and my room...
I am packing up everything I own today. It’s both heartbreaking and comforting to see all your stuff packed away into piles of boxes. I can’t decide if it’s materialism or just sentimentality that makes me so attached to the things I own. I just know that I’m terrified of leaving things behind.
“Cried all night, ‘til there was nothing more.
What use am I as a heap on...”
– She and Him, “Sentimental Heart”
I don’t know what I’m going to do when all of this Easter candy is gone. Eating chocolate for breakfast has kind of become a Thing That I Do.
Can we talk about this? I don’t know why more people don’t seem to be appalled by this glaring problem with the film and television industries. It’s outrageous.
“A quick recap, for those unfamiliar with it, of the Bechdel rule (or Bechdel Test)
A film (or television show) should have:
At least two female characters
Who talk to each other
About something other than a...
Old Navy is definitely hit or miss for me. They make some really ugly junk (Eva and I bemoan their faux vintage tees), but I also have a lot of great pieces from there that no one ever believes are from Old Navy. Anyway, I bought the best, super versatile v-neck short sleeved t-shirts there the other day. They were $10 (canadian) each and they are completely ideal. They’re not too short or...
So, I went to see Crank 2: High Voltage (having never seen Crank 1) and I didn’t like it, because as it turns out, I’m not a 14 year old boy. Go figure. Anyway, my favorite thing about it were the shots of characters’ faces against the over saturated, turquoise skies, just before they killed someone, or were about to be killed (because that’s pretty much all anyone did).
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“…the heart attacks I’m convinced I have, every morning upon waking.”
– Jenny Lewis
And Though She Feels As If She's In a Play, She Is...
For the past few days I’ve had this feeling like I’m about to go on stage to star in a play, but I’ve forgotten my lines. It’s like I have butterflies in my stomach all the time, but it’s not exciting. The feeling has intensified to the point that it’s hard to leave my apartment without panicking that I’m forgetting something. I can’t fall asleep at...
