A more comprehensive post about my weekend is forthcoming, because let me tell you, it was one to write home about as it prominently featured the B-52s, strange twists of fate, Murakami, a boy and Felt Club, but for now I just wanted to say that I’m kind of getting excited about the Golden Compass movie because those books are the most wonderful books in the world and they make me so, so very happy, and it looks like they’ll be screening it at the Crest, which is my favourite little movie theatre in my neighbourhood (there are, like, six little movie theatres in my neighbourhood so that’s saying something).
November, 2007
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Hurrah.
November 19, 2007 by admin
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Oh, for fuck’s sake.
November 17, 2007 by admin
Please excuse me while I go choke on a cruller.
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Merely Erasure
November 14, 2007 by admin
I arrived half an hour early for the Lydia Lunch reading tonight, because I inhabit an alternate universe where Lydia Lunch represents the pinnacle of fame and celebrity, and I figured all of Los Angeles would be scrambling to get in and that I wouldn’t even get a seat, but I didn’t have to arrive half an hour early, because there were only about fifteen people there. (And that’s when I remembered that I probably constitute my very own subculture.)
But anyhow. It was kind of magical, if you can call a nihilist reading about drugs and sex in the underbelly of New York magical, because they decided that we wouldn’t use the theatre, and instead we all just hung out in a courtyard and Lydia read us a bedtime story from Paradoxia, and it was really exciting and vital and alive.
Sometimes I let myself lose sight of who I am and what I stand for. Sometimes it is words that can bring me back.
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Hell yes!
November 14, 2007 by admin
We’re having a pretty ok* lunchtime over here in Alexandraland – largely because our ten page paper is done two entire hours before the deadline, and because Erin from Dress-a-Day has invented the Vintage Clothing Patterns Wiki, which is one of those Best Inventions in the Universe, ever.
We are also really enjoying writing as though we are the monarch of our own sovereign state
*Yes, only ok. Because of (fuck!) boys (and just when we thought they were wonderful!). But the wealth of vintage sewing knowledge that is now at our fingertips (or will be, soon, once people start filling the wiki with knowledge) sort of puts everything into perspective.
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Dear Leslie Hall,
November 14, 2007 by admin
Have I mentioned to you that I watch that video of yours that I posted below at least once every half hour or so? And that it makes me so happy? And that I think we should go dancing together and be best friends forever or something? Because you’re so great? And I’ve been trying to figure out if you’re really funny or just really insane, but I can’t decide and, you know what? I don’t think it really even matters.
So, right. Let’s go dancing. I probably won’t wear a gold spandex catsuit because I’m not quite that brave. But I’ll wear something that involves a plunging neckline and a lot of tulle, which is a look that I can pull off rather nicely – just ask the leering drug dealers at Club Abstract.
And then after we go dancing, we can sit around and discuss imponderable questions, like, for instance, what to do about boys. I feel like you, of all people, would know, because I think you are a contemporary artistic genius.
Ok, but first I need to finish my homework.
Love,
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Four blog posts in one day? Wow, there must be a paper due.
November 13, 2007 by admin
Those who are privy to the location of the sort-of-but-not-really-top-secret livejournal on which I write about my feelings without disguising them in glibness may be interested to know that there have been some things posted for the first time in over a year (the rest of you will have to be content with me teasing you). It’s just, well, I’ve been feeling some feelings lately and with those feelings came the need to write about those feelings. I know, it’s totally gross, isn’t it? Feelings are so icky and I kind of hate them. I even kind of hate the word “feelings” so I probably won’t use it anymore in this post because it, also, is icky. I wish I could just be an emotionless automaton, but what can you do?
Repress everything. That’s what you can do!
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Today’s quotable quote, courtesy of Assistant Director Walter Skinner:
November 12, 2007 by admin
“Agent Scully, if I am carrying Marilyn Monroe’s purse, do you assume that I’ve slept with JFK?”
Oh, Walter, you sassy man.
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A brief list of things about which I am pretty much stoked:
November 12, 2007 by admin
1. Felt Club next weekend!
2. The Murakami exhibit at MOCA!
3. Lydia Lunch! Holy fuck! In person! On Wednesday night!
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A brief list of things that I think are fantastic today:
November 12, 2007 by admin
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Yeah, in about a million years.
November 10, 2007 by admin
So, I’m not gonna lie, I’ve totally got a major internet fangirl crush on Chris Leavins from Cute with Chris (and also Slings and Arrows). And, I mean, he’s also a Canadian. Living in Los Angeles. Like me. So, like, it could happen. Maybe.
Anyhow. Go watch Cute with Chris. It’s pretty much fantastic.
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