Did you know that there is a trailer up, on apple.com, for “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?” Well there is, and you should check it out. Unless one of your favorite nearby coworkers is telling stories of his recent head injury. Again. Because lord knows, you are going to want to hear it again.
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Hey Kool Thing… c’mere…
Jodi has nothing to say today, so she’s posting a Sonic Youth song.
xox,
Amelia
MP3 File
Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great….
Mark Morford’s article this morning depressed me. I mean, he’s still my new boyfriend and all, but it was still a downer. I came home from work, read it, and immediately had to go hide under my covers and hum softly to myself. Eventually, Pru came and sat on me, and I felt better. So I got up, took a nice long bath, got something to eat, and then watched Revelations. Which is about, naturally, the End of Days. So I can’t type long, because I’m going to have to go back under my covers in a minute. It’s a good thing I’m not diagnosed with depression or anything. Or have a bookclub in Satan’s name. ummm…
Today was my first Stability Ball class, the exercise class I signed up for, which so shocked the world. Turns out, I’m not very stable, kids. I already knew that. I spent some time on the floor…. it’s hard to not just roll right off that so-called “stability” ball. The teacher said things like “Now for you, let’s just concentrate on staying on the ball, we’ll work on form later,” to me. Tessa was on the ball next to me, but Louise was across the room, and she was struggling as much as I was. The teacher would demonstrate the next exercise, Louise, slightly behind her, would make a horrible “you are fucking joking, right?” face, Tessa and I would start to giggle, and the teacher asked if she was going to have to separate us. I think we’ve talked one of my favorite ex-managers to sign up as well. We need a fourth for when we partner up. The worst part was, for warm ups today, we did squat thrusts. SQUAT THRUSTS!! I haven’t done that since 8th grade PE class when the coach decided it would be fun to pretend we were all in boot camp, and had us do hundreds upon hundreds of calisthenics like squat thrusts, push ups, sit-up and chin ups. And then made us run. Fun. But eventually, he was caught cheating on his wife, the cheerleading coach over at the high school, with a girl from her soccer team, a student. So I guess he got his karmic payback for that.
Aaaanyway, I’m already feeling “it” in some muscles. Oh yeah, you really feel “it” after one of these ball workouts. No, you do. I’m not kidding. I’m already sore. Leave me alone, I’m headed back under my covers now.
Are we sure it’s not Monday?
Because I just had a bunch of New Yorkers ambush me from their speaker phone, question my intelligence, my experiences, my honesty and worst of all MY PRODUCT!!! Usually, happy stuff like that only happens on Mondays. Dr. Stevil said it was painful to hear, so he put his headphones on. And he was only hearing my side of it.
meh.
I want to listen to some tunes to help reduce rage levels, but I haven’t had time to unpack, so everything is still in boxes which are stacked around me. I can’t find my headphones. Guess I’ll have to blog instead. Remember when I posted the song from Shivaree? I told you that I would post the song that hooked me, made me a fan. Since, if everything goes according to plan, I will be seeing them live tomorrow, at Neumo’s, I thought I’d play that song for you today. It’s called “Goodnight Moon” and for a wanna be gal detective, lover of mysteries and puzzles, is the perfect song. It’s a noir novel put to music.
Now I am going to see if I can dig out my headphones. I think I’ll keep everything else packed. It’s like working in a fort built of boxes. And cube walls. Except Kermie… I’m going to unpack my Kermit.
EDITED TO ADD: Dag nabbit! That’s not what my audioblog posts are supposed to look like. They are supposed to have cute little purple buttons. WHY ARE YOU PLOTTING AGAINST ME, WORLD??
In which Tessa receives a money shot in the women’s restroom at the Cinerama
Last night, Tessa, Dr. Stevil, KK , her b.f., Cheasy, and I went to see Sin City at the the Cinerama. But before we did, we went to Mama’s Mexican Kitchen, for food – yes, but mostly for margaritas. Now, I don’t drink often. I don’t like wine or beer. [technically I am allergic to beer.] And I never ever drink and drive. Since I’m always driving, I rarely drink. But I wasn’t driving last night. Steve drove us downtown, and we walked from the cinema to Mama’s. So I had a margarita. One is really all it takes with me. I’m a cheap date. One margarita for me, put me on par with those who had had at least two.
Consequently, everything was very very funny last night. Tessa, in particular thought I was hysterical. I thought I was hysterical. The concessions guy thought I was kinda funny, but I think he was enjoying Tessa’s reaction to me more.
Me: Stevil, go ahead and get us some seats, Tessa owes me a drink.
Dr. Stevil: where do you want to sit?
Me: uhhhhh…. I don’t care…. facing the screen!
Tessa: facing the screen! bwahahahaaa!
Me: well, what was I supposed to say? “Seat 209, please?”
So Tessa and I found the entire evening to be extremely funny. The seats in the Cinerama rock back and forth. In order to prevent anyone from sitting in front of her, or behind her, Tessa would rock back and forth spasmodically, whenever anyone approached. See? Funny! Even sober I would have laughed at that. The movie had extreme stylized violence and it was uproariously funny. Actually, the movie was very noir and full of dry wit, we would have enjoyed it without the alcohol.
But the best part of the evening came after the movie, with Tessa, in the women’s restroom. She walked up to the sink, hit the soap pump and squealed.
Me: what happened?
Tessa: I hit the soap and it shot me square in the face.
Me, laughing hysterically: And I didn’t even arrange to have that happen! It’s like a gift to me!
Tessa: I got a money shot! It gave me a money shot!
Me currently unable to speak coherently.
Tessa: I feel like a porn star.
Me: I’m so blogging you on this one.
How would Christ benefit from me putting my tongue in someone’s mouth?
As Dr. Stevil just said, “something good did happen today.”
Orgazmo is finally out on dvd, with tons of extras and drunken commentary!
Hooray hooray! Are you Sancho? No you are not! Neither is Scott Baio Sancho.
Everybody say “Geddy Lee!”
With you it’s all about cameras, conspiracies and alien girls from hooter planet!
I read, somewhere, that unexplained bruises and contusions can be signs of alien abduction. This has always concerned me, because I am constantly bruised or contused. Naturally, if I were abducted, it would be in the middle of the night, and I would not remember it. Perhaps this is the cause of my frequent insomnia? Anyway, last night the aliens must have picked me up by my left leg, and tried to detach it by shaking me violently to and fro. Because I am experiencing a strange pain in the hip/leg joint of my left leg. Like I did something yesterday to pull or strain it, and now I am paying for it. It’s a sharp pain when I move certain directions. All I did yesterday, that could POSSIBLY be called strenuous would be hunt for Easter eggs. And that would be an extremely generous assessment, to call it strenuous activity. And, since I don’t have an excuse like Romy’s, I can only assume that the alien’s tried to pull my leg off. Probably thought it would work just like a Barbie leg. [my Barbie’s legs were always falling off. My Barbie took part in MANY strenuous and questionable activities.]
My cable has been out for about a week. At first, I thought it was because of the wind storm. Then I thought maybe Pru disconnected something when she was spazing out. Turns out, it has been disconnected. I’ve never seen the bill, I guess my step dad takes them. I called him on Friday to find out, but he never returned my call. I’d worry more about it, except that it’s probably a good thing to have no tv. I am missing the Daily Show, I admit. I guess I will probably do something about it soon. If I did the whole lent thing, I’d give up tv. Of course, lent ended on Sunday, so I guess it’s too late for that. Oh well, you know where that road leads, the one paved with good intentions.
That’s why I decided early on to sabotage my highly scientific brain with cartoons and sugar.
Remember the spiders who go potty on your teeth? Well, there is a regular spider potty party going on on my teeth right now. Don’t tell my mom. Evildeb made cupcakes over the weekend. She’s trying to get rid of all her topping doo-dads. You know, sprinkles, sugar, candies… stuff like that. I think she wants them out of the house. So these cupcakes had multi-colored sugar granules sprinkled on top, as well as flowers built out of m-n-m’s and little white candy ball thingies. I was unable to determine what flavor the frosting was, because it tasted like Sugar Frosting. Like butter and brown sugar and rainbow sugar. It crunched. I don’t think any more sugar could have been added to it. It was pretty good.
Evildeb: How as the cupcake part of the cupcake.
Jodi: it was… interesting. Did you make up this recipe yourself?
Evildeb: No.
Jodi: You know what it tasted like? It tasted like, a bit like… bran.
Evildeb: now, you see, I only had whole wheat flower and I was trying to decide if you could taste the difference.
Jodi: Yes, you can.
Evildeb: so you got a bit of extra fiber…
Jodi: and that’s nice!
This weekend, because I have such an exciting life, I noticed that my netflix “friend” Lisa had more movies rated than I did. And I could not let that happen. So I sat at my computer, rating movies until I had over a thousand movies rated! Ha-HA! take that, Lisa! She only has 446 rated. Even Arifa has more than that! Evildeb has the fewest. But now that she knows I did that, I imagine she’ll sign on and rate more movies. Because she’s competitive like that. Unlike me.
Did you know they now have chocolate Lucky Charms? They do. and they are goooooooood.
THIS IS THE BEST NEWS EVER!!!
Or at least the best news this weekend.
JOSS WHEDON IS GOING TO WRITE AND DIRECT THE WONDER WOMAN MOVIE!!
That’s right, all caps and bold, baby! That’s how exciting this is. This is the official teaser poster. Click for larger image.
I learned this from River, and if you go to her site, she has a lot more news about it, as well as other comic book super hero movie news. I’m worried about casting. That is my biggest concern. If they are seriously thinking of Jessica Biel, I wouldn’t be happy with that….. well, I just have to have faith in Joss.
Yes, it will, Precious, won’t it? It will get the hose!
Oh Pamie does crack me up. Do you know how long it took me to adjust my response to actor Ted Levine’s voice, when I started watching Monk?
The blog of Jame Gumb, the serial killer known as Buffalo Bill, from Silence of the Lambs. Join him as he details his life with Precious and Catherine of the Well. Read his poetry!
http://www.pamie.com/butterfly/
Excerpt. Response to a CNN article about serieal killers:
“What’s true about serial killers is that they’re basically losers. In their own mind, they have never distinguished themselves in the way they’d like to.”
Uh, you’re basically ShUt Up!