...the score to Twilight.
-t
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Abso-freakin-lutely Hysterical
I stole this link from my friend's blog because it's freakin' fantastic:
Dear Old Love
Thank you AJ, for a wonderful find.
-k
Dear Old Love
Thank you AJ, for a wonderful find.
-k
Top 15 - Broken
So, remember that dramatic streak I hinted at last week? Well when faced with separation from D, I naturally fell into my music. Seriously, I would just sit and listen to certain songs over and over again. On that note… this weeks list….
Spark – Tori Amos
Like A Friend – Pulp
You Were the Last High – The Dandy Warhols
Scream – Ima Robot
Still In Love – The Stills
Time Is Running Out - Muse
Strange and Beautiful (I Put a Spell on You) - Aqualung
My Happiness – Powderfinger
Stupid – Sarah McLachlan
It Already Is – Pete Yorn
Destroy Everything You Touch – Ladytron
3 Libras – A Perfect Circle
The fragile – Nine Inch Nails
Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking – Snow Patrol
It’s Been Awhile – Staind
Prior to getting back together D and I became good friends. Every once and a while I would make her a mix of the music I was listening to (many on this list found their way to her ear) and I would secretly wish she would read between the lines.
-t
Spark – Tori Amos
Like A Friend – Pulp
You Were the Last High – The Dandy Warhols
Scream – Ima Robot
Still In Love – The Stills
Time Is Running Out - Muse
Strange and Beautiful (I Put a Spell on You) - Aqualung
My Happiness – Powderfinger
Stupid – Sarah McLachlan
It Already Is – Pete Yorn
Destroy Everything You Touch – Ladytron
3 Libras – A Perfect Circle
The fragile – Nine Inch Nails
Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking – Snow Patrol
It’s Been Awhile – Staind
Prior to getting back together D and I became good friends. Every once and a while I would make her a mix of the music I was listening to (many on this list found their way to her ear) and I would secretly wish she would read between the lines.
-t
Monday, December 8, 2008
"Articulate Schnook"
Chuck
Monday, 12/8
Chuck Versus the DeLorean
If I didn't know how far ahead TV shows work, I might think that the producers of Chuck had read my last post and decided to act on it. For the first time in who knows how many episodes, Anna was back in the picture, brow-beating Morgan into adulthood via cohabitation. (I for one would've never pegged Anna as a "shabby chic" kind of gal, would you?) The Sarah-centric episode did not disappoint, even if it was much less violent than Chuck Versus the Cougars. But best of all, Chuck was back to his sincere, quick-thinking, somewhat bumbling but incredibly charming self.
I have one little complaint: there was a sad lack of nearly-naked Awesome in this episode. However, I will admit, Gary Cole was excellent as Sarah's con-man father, especially when he kept referring to Casey as "cop face." But I couldn't help but wonder: did Sarah get the memo about the TPS reports?
Next week's episode already has me nervous: apparently, Casey gets shot! Since it's probably the last new episode until the new year, I'm at least hoping there's some mistletoe shenanigans involving Chuck and Sarah. COME ON! Get these two crazy kids together already!
Monday, 12/8
Chuck Versus the DeLorean
If I didn't know how far ahead TV shows work, I might think that the producers of Chuck had read my last post and decided to act on it. For the first time in who knows how many episodes, Anna was back in the picture, brow-beating Morgan into adulthood via cohabitation. (I for one would've never pegged Anna as a "shabby chic" kind of gal, would you?) The Sarah-centric episode did not disappoint, even if it was much less violent than Chuck Versus the Cougars. But best of all, Chuck was back to his sincere, quick-thinking, somewhat bumbling but incredibly charming self.
I have one little complaint: there was a sad lack of nearly-naked Awesome in this episode. However, I will admit, Gary Cole was excellent as Sarah's con-man father, especially when he kept referring to Casey as "cop face." But I couldn't help but wonder: did Sarah get the memo about the TPS reports?
Next week's episode already has me nervous: apparently, Casey gets shot! Since it's probably the last new episode until the new year, I'm at least hoping there's some mistletoe shenanigans involving Chuck and Sarah. COME ON! Get these two crazy kids together already!
10 Things I Love, part 3
Nectarines
Catch Phrase
Nordstrom receipts
Google
Wikipedia
Letter openers
Odd numbers
A4 paper
Driveways with stairs in the middle
John’s imitation of the mosquito
-k
Catch Phrase
Nordstrom receipts
Wikipedia
Letter openers
Odd numbers
A4 paper
Driveways with stairs in the middle
John’s imitation of the mosquito
-k
ABC + Fables = ?
According to Aint It Cool News, ABC has confirmed a pilot about the DC/Vertigo comic Fables. Holy Shit!!! I love this series, I really do. Anyone who has been to my house has seen the artwork that D and I made from the covers of all the comics. Fabulous Fables collages.... but along with my fangirl frenzy comes my serious doubt that ABC has what it takes to bring this series to life. Plus the tone of the comics is better suited to film or cable. Bah!!! I don't suppose Rachel Weisz and Clive Owen would leave their amazing movie careers to come play Bigby and Snow?
-t
Sunday, December 7, 2008
It's Sunday after all...
I followed for a bit but I realized quickly that we were going very different places.
-t
Brains?
I'm cooking up some brussel sprouts for dinner and it hit me... they look a little like tiny green brains. Awesome! Veggie Zombie Food!!!
-t
There is a God!!!
Catherine Hardwicke, the director of Twilight, has been fired. She was the genius who decided "talking heads" were overrated and music montages were a good sustitute. She was the worst part of Twilight and now we no longer have to worry about her fucking up the next one. Read the full story here.
-t
-t
I'm insulted! I think...
In my December newsletter from GoodReads, Salon.com cofounder Laura Miller suggests five books for "people who spent their childhoods peeking hopefully into wardrobes." (She's referencing her childhood enchantment with C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia.) While describing American Gods by Neil Gaiman, she says, "How do you translate the powerful motifs of European and British myth to America, a nation where the culture is historically shallow?"
Now, granted, the United States is the new kid on the block compared to Europe and England, but since that is through no fault of our own, I resent the insinuation that we are as a nation somehow also shallow. It's a problem I've run into before; Americans and non-Americans alike seem to enjoy deriding our country as frivolous, lacking depth and substance, obsessed with the material. Sure, we may have fondness for silly sitcoms, over-priced blue jeans and utterly wretched fast food, but we are greater than the sum of our parts. I'm not the type to go on a flag-waving, Star-Spangled-Banner-singing, patriotic-parade of one, and there have been times when I've been embarrassed of our presentation to the rest of the world, but I am proud to be an American. At the heart of it all, we are a a nation of helpers and hard workers, a nation of spirited people looking to enjoy life, a nation of immigrants who brought the best of our past and our hopes for the future with us. We may have gotten off-track lately, we may not have put our best foot forward, but to dismiss us as "historically shallow?" Overly harsh, and in my mind, untrue.
-k
Now, granted, the United States is the new kid on the block compared to Europe and England, but since that is through no fault of our own, I resent the insinuation that we are as a nation somehow also shallow. It's a problem I've run into before; Americans and non-Americans alike seem to enjoy deriding our country as frivolous, lacking depth and substance, obsessed with the material. Sure, we may have fondness for silly sitcoms, over-priced blue jeans and utterly wretched fast food, but we are greater than the sum of our parts. I'm not the type to go on a flag-waving, Star-Spangled-Banner-singing, patriotic-parade of one, and there have been times when I've been embarrassed of our presentation to the rest of the world, but I am proud to be an American. At the heart of it all, we are a a nation of helpers and hard workers, a nation of spirited people looking to enjoy life, a nation of immigrants who brought the best of our past and our hopes for the future with us. We may have gotten off-track lately, we may not have put our best foot forward, but to dismiss us as "historically shallow?" Overly harsh, and in my mind, untrue.
-k
Sinterklaasavond
Friday night, F and I celebrated Sinterklaas with his family. For those of you who don't know, Sinterklaas is "a traditional holiday figure in the Netherlands, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles and Belgium, celebrated every year on Saint Nicholas' eve (December 5) or, in Belgium, on the morning of December 6. The feast celebrates the name day of Saint Nicholas, patron saint of, among other things, children." (More info here.)
This year, instead of picking names, we decided to do what essentially amounted to a White Elephant gift exchange. There were eight of us participating, so we decided on three presents per person, for a total of 24. Each gift was to be accompanied by a traditional Sinterklaas poem, which hints at the package's content. We decided against elaborate wrapping, which is normally made out of papier-mâché and formed so that it also suggests the identity of the present.
Except that, my father-in-law decided that he wanted to do the elaborate wrapping and thus, these were two of the offerings:
Incredible, aren't they? The man is an artistic genius. I had to steal the pig back from my brother-in-law, but I was so enamored of the packaging, I didn't much care about the gift inside! My father-in-law helped me carefully cut it out of the back of the pig, and now the empty packaging sits on my dining table, with Frankenstein-like stitches up the back.
-k
This year, instead of picking names, we decided to do what essentially amounted to a White Elephant gift exchange. There were eight of us participating, so we decided on three presents per person, for a total of 24. Each gift was to be accompanied by a traditional Sinterklaas poem, which hints at the package's content. We decided against elaborate wrapping, which is normally made out of papier-mâché and formed so that it also suggests the identity of the present.
Except that, my father-in-law decided that he wanted to do the elaborate wrapping and thus, these were two of the offerings:
Incredible, aren't they? The man is an artistic genius. I had to steal the pig back from my brother-in-law, but I was so enamored of the packaging, I didn't much care about the gift inside! My father-in-law helped me carefully cut it out of the back of the pig, and now the empty packaging sits on my dining table, with Frankenstein-like stitches up the back.
-k
(Yesterday's) Photo of the Day
The end to a glorious day of climbing in the high desert:
This is one of my most favorite places in the world. Spectacular climbing, beautiful surroundings and, most of the time, no other people. Heaven.
-k
P.S. That's Chester, the golden retriever, in the lower left-hand corner. One the greatest dogs I've met.
This is one of my most favorite places in the world. Spectacular climbing, beautiful surroundings and, most of the time, no other people. Heaven.
-k
P.S. That's Chester, the golden retriever, in the lower left-hand corner. One the greatest dogs I've met.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
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