April, 2007

  1. You just proved that blogs work!

    April 28, 2007 by admin

    Tonight at the Fringe Party, I hearby swear that I shall not do the following:

    1. Drink an entire 1.5 litre bottle of wine within half an hour of my arrival.
    2. Get inexplicably depressed about, oh, you know, life.
    3. Get walked home, sobbing, at 1:30 in the morning.

    Not that this has ever happened.

    Also, thank you Rocky Horror for being so great. I mean, I knew it was going to be great when I discovered that there was an X-Files cast member in the show, but how could I have possibly predicted that really fabulous green lab coat or Janet’s really nice underwear that I would totally buy if it were available in stores or that time when Magenta looked like She-Ra? Thanks, Canstage, for being the best theatre company I’ve never heard of. Also, I really liked wearing my bra (tacky and red with rhinestones, $8 at the Chez Zellers lingerie boutique) on the outside of my shirt and I think I might do that more often.

    Oh, and, last night I had this dream where this guy I know was dancing with me and was spinning me around and I think we were actually flying at one point and he was totally groping my tits and it was a really great dream and I really liked where it was heading (ie: towards fornication) and then the fucking muscular dystrophy association called to ask for money which woke me up and made me really mad because that was an amazing dream. A really amazing dream. Hot damn.

    Alright, I have successfully done emergency repairs on the skirt I want to wear tonight using my stapler (don’t believe them when they tell you I’m not classy) and I can feel that highly artificial pink energy beverage starting to kick in, so it’s probably time to go to that party.

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  2. Ceci n’est pas une liste.

    April 25, 2007 by admin

    So, things have been kinda tense lately. Mostly with regard to situations domestic, but hopefully that will get better, although I have been saying that for two and a half years, so who knows. But, yeah, tense. Like, gin-and-tonic around lunchtime kind of tense. Like the kind of tense where you find yourself quietly weeping in the kitchen and telling yourself that it’s because the book that you’re reading is just so moving, but knowing that it’s a lie because the book that you’re reading happens to be the current issue of Vanity Fair (which is actually a very good issue, in that over the top, slightly hypocritical way that only the Vanity Fair “Green” Issue, printed on 100% very shiny paper, can be, but, really, nothing to cry over).

    So I think it’s time for a list of things that make me not-so-tense (ie: happy):

    1. The Girls Rock documentary is really amazing. And I emailed the directors. And they emailed me back. Which is pretty much really cool.

    2. Los Angeles Los Angeles Los Angeles. I am moving to Los Angeles in a few months (actually, that does make me kind of tense, especially the applying for my visa part, but my impending proximity to palm trees, ocean, and really amazing musicological research makes up for it).

    3. I am actually popular all of a sudden, and have four (four!) different social engagements to choose from for Friday night (and from them, I have chosen Rocky Horror. Clearly, I must go with the one that will allow me to wear a corset).

    4. I just watched the episode of Lois and Clark in Season two where they finally go out on a date and they kiss and it’s really exciting and then that stupid Mason chick who wanted to go out with Clark dies in a big ol’ explosion. Kaboom!

    5. Oh, right. I’m done my undergrad. Funny.

    6. I am knitting a Princess Leia wig.

    7. Tomorrow night there will be a giggly sleepover with Leith, where topics of conversation will likely include: pirates, cheese, the Big S, timpanists, and those times when we went to see Star Wars in our pyjamas. And we will probably eat something that is bad for us, like maybe popcorn with cream cheese on it (surprisingly delicious).

    Oh, also, I am going to have a yard sale sometime soonish, and it will be the best yard sale ever, because I have lots of really fantastic crap that I need to get rid of because it can’t all come to California. And if you’re my friend I will probably give you my stuff for free. Watch this space for further updates.

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  3. Just for the record:

    April 12, 2007 by admin

    Seeing as how there has been some confusion, I would like to clarify by pointing out that Mon vagin à mangé mon chapeau: Un labyrinthe féministe, is not, in fact, a real film, and you will probably not be able to find it at GenX.

    However, you will be able to find it in my imagination. It stars a giant vagina-shaped puppet and a fedora.

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  4. Squeal.

    April 10, 2007 by admin

    45 colours of fishnets! I wish I had millions of dollars.

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  5. In France the ducks say "coin-coin."

    April 10, 2007 by admin

    Some sample dialogue from life:

    Alexandra: Mom got me a chocolate duck. Did mom get you a chocolate duck?

    Kristen: What? No. She just got me a regular one.

    Alexandra: What? But that makes even less sense.

    Kristen: What? Oh, wait, ok, I don’t actually know what you’re talking about.

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  6. Dear Emily,

    April 9, 2007 by admin

    Remember that time when I was talking about Terrence Stamp, and I was like, “he’s that ubiquitous Australian actor and whenever there’s an Australian actor in a film, it’s him. He’s in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and Star Wars Episode I,” and you were like, “no, the ubiquitous Australian actor is Hugo Weaving. He’s the guy in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, but he’s not in Star Wars, he’s in The Matrix” and I was like, “Are you sure?” and you were like, “Yes.” Well guess what I just realized! Terrence Stamp (who is in Star Wars) and Hugo Weaving (who is in the Matrix) are both in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which means two things:

    1. There are two ubiquitous Australian actors.
    2. I am not on crack.

    Love,

    Alexandra

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  7. You say pretentious; I say super-duper

    April 6, 2007 by admin

    Well friends, I have officially handed in the last paper of my undergraduate career. In classic academic asshole fashion, I managed to devise yet another scheme to avoid writing yet another paper, instead transforming the project into an (easily bullshittable) experimental art piece. (For another example of this type of work, I refer you to last year’s set of mixed media collages about Hildegard of Bingen, medieval nun, on which I got an A+.) This time, it was for The Dullest Class I’ve Ever Had to Take. Instead of writing a paper, I made a labyrinth. Yes, a labyrinth. Don’t even ask. Just go with it, and understand that it is a marvelous (read: very weird) thing.

    At this point, I would like to acknowledge my debt to Mademoiselle Aimée Goulagée, that pioneer of French Kristevan Avant-Garde cinema, whose revolutionary experimental film Mon vagin à mangé mon chapeau: Un labyrinthe féministe, was hugely influential to my development of this project. Thank you, Aimée, for helping me create what is undoubtedly some of the most important academic work of our generation.

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  8. Wheeeeee I’m moving to California!

    April 4, 2007 by admin

    Today I got my fancy new UCLA email address! This is exciting beyond words.

    (Also: The efficiency of the UCLA email system really drives home the point about how much WLU email really sucks a lot.)

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  9. Top ten reasons why you should come to my recital:

    April 3, 2007 by admin

    1. It will be my final act as a music student at Wilfrid Laurier University. This is significant, I guess.

    2. It will be awesome.

    3. You will laugh (there will be a song from Spamalot). You will cry (there will be some songs about dying).

    4. There will be a whole set of really amazing songs by my favourite composer ever.

    5. My friend Heather, who is co-recitaling with me, is a super fab pianist.

    6. It’s free.

    7. There will be tea. And cookies. And cucumber sandwiches if I can get my act together.

    8. There will also be a singalong featuring an old English song about drinking.

    9. I will hopefully be wearing a rather charming dress.

    10. There is a flying bus on the poster:


    In case you missed the details: Saturday, April 21; 3:00 PM; Room 318 in the Aird Building at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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  10. Oh, good.

    April 3, 2007 by admin

    Here’s hoping that the fact that I am wearing fishnet stockings to the final Baroque Ensemble concert this evening will make up for the fact that I have a chest cold and have basically lost my voice.

    Nobody actually likes Bach, anyhow.

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