“Oh, you’re doing your paper on Cecile Chaminade‘s vocal music? That sounds great. You should probably go and look at every score of every piece of music ever written by a woman who lived in France in the 19th Century. You’ll find them on some microfilm somewhere. Look at all of them and take extensive notes and compare them for no reason. That will make your paper really great. Also, email some funny old lady you’ve never heard of for reasons that will remain unclear.”
February, 2008
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Rational Advice Received from Professors (Number One in a Continuing Series)
February 14, 2008 by admin
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Yay!
February 14, 2008 by admin
This is my new favourite blog to read! It’s super.
Also, it reminds me of this one time in first year when I was taking an English class as an elective for some reason and my TA was trying to explain some concept to us and I have no idea what the concept was, but the way she illustrated it was by saying “Think of it this way – when you go to the grocery store, would you rather buy cabbages or ‘cabbages’?” (the second cabbages was further illustrated with the use of air quotes and was spoken with an appropriately skeptical tone.)
I have no idea what was trying to be explained, but I’m pretty sure it all made sense at the time. Now if you ask me what I learned when I took first year Reading Poetry and Drama, I will tell you, “I think we read Oedipus, also, there was something about cabbage.”
Anyhow, the moral of the story is that I am going to have to start thinking of snappy things like that cabbage thing right now so that I am fully prepared with a lexicon of wit with which to dazzle undergrads when I am their TA next fall for something inevitably boring like History of Operas That Are Thirty-Seven Hours Long and That Nobody Cares About (aka Wagner 101).
Other statements I would like to make on the internet this evening include:
1. Holy crap, there is so much face sucking going on in season four of Lois and Clark that it is starting to make me feel inadequate.
2. In addition to being St. Valentine’s day, tomorrow is also St. Cyril’s day, in honor of St. Cyril who invented the Cyrillic alphabet, which is clearly so much better than whatever St. Valentine did. So Sam and I are celebrating St. Cyril’s day by going for fancy dinner at Real Food Daily, where we will get roaring drunk and probably spend the evening yelling at each other (because I am currently experiencing near deafness because of this wretched cold, so in order to hear anyone they have to yell at me, and since I have no way of gaging my own volume I just yell right back) and being fairly obnoxious and making all of Los Angeles’ vegans in love really mad at us. Whatever, that’s what they get for celebrating the wrong holiday.
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Ho hum.
February 12, 2008 by admin
I am ridiculously sick. Like, deaf in one ear and goo dripping out my eyes kind of sick. Like, missed my first class in grad school kind of sick. And it sucks so much than usual because tonight there are so many exciting things going on in Los Angeles that I could be doing, including….
1. Attending a retrospective on the life and work of Anais Nin at the Hammer Museum!
2. Attending a Sad Slow Dance Party!
3. Attending a Rufus Wainwright concert!
Instead I will be sitting on the couch with tea, trying to read things that I’m supposed to have read for tomorrow but have barely started because I have been sick.
But, wait, what was that? Couch? Yes! I have acquired a couch! I didn’t have one before because when I bought furniture for my apartment I didn’t think that maybe I wouldn’t want to sit around alone all the time and thus didn’t plan for the eventuality of ever having anyone over so all I used to have was a collapsible chair (very classy). But now I have a couch, thanks to another musicologist who wanted to get rid of her couch (a lot of furniture makes rounds through the department that way). Of course, my first thought when offered the couch was, “Sweet! That will make it so much easier for me to make out with boys!” Because, you know, the boys, they are lining up at my door to be made out with.
Anyhow, Tanya wrote a pretty funny blog post today that will tell you a lot about our lives and the questions we classy young ladies must ask ourselves on a daily basis. (ie: Is he a hipster, or is he homeless? Is he hot, or is he a hipster? Oh, such mysteries.)
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Conversations that I have actually had with my grandmother this evening:
February 10, 2008 by admin
“My ears are all plugged because of my cold.”
“Onions! You should put onions on them. Cut one in half and put it on your ear and wrap a towel around your head.”
“Onions.”
“I read it a long time ago in a German magazine.”
“But all I have are some shallots.”
“Onions. You need to put onions on your ears.”
“Oh, wait, I have some green onions – could I just stick those in my ears?”
Note: No vegetables will actually be making contact with my ears this evening. Not even shallots.
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Dude!
February 9, 2008 by admin
I have just noticed that some of my blog posts from this week have disappeared into the ether! I shall investigate this situation and attempt to rectify it post haste!
Oh, blogger. You are such a fickle lover.
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Julie Newmar is . . .
February 9, 2008 by admin
a) my hero.
b) completely mad.
c) the owner of the best boobs you will ever seen on a seventy-four-year-old. Actually, the owner of the best boobs you will ever see on anyone, of any age.
Also, what is up with this cold that is ravaging my body? Did you know that it was possible for snot to drip out of your eye? Well, it is. This is new and truly revolting territory for me. I remain convinced that all I need is a Neocitran. One Neocitran and I shall be cured (or at the very least, able to sleep through the night). Of course, guess what doesn’t exist in Unitedstatesland? Neocitran.
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Reasons why I am so excited for this weekend.
February 9, 2008 by admin
Actually, there is only one reason.
1. I have discovered the existence of Clifton’s Cafeteria. (You really need to go to that website. And you really need to watch the flash intro. Please to so now.) Clifton’s apparently used to have several locations in and around L.A., including one that was Pacific Island-themed and had a meditation garden in the basement with a creepy Jesus statue that you could chill with! Now that one is gone, but it’s ok, because the redwood forest-themed location is still open, and, well, it looks just as awesome. And I am so excited. Because, well, look at that website! It’s amazing! And none of those photos were taken later than maybe 1964 or something, including the ones of the food. Anyhow, the point is, I am going there (which is all the way downtown, which is really, really far, but so clearly worth it) for lunch. Hopefully I can get macaroni and cheese. And maybe some pistachio pudding for dessert.
Los Angeles is the most WONDROUS PLACE ever. In the history of the world. Hands down. I’m so glad the state of California is paying me to live here.
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Fantastic news:
February 8, 2008 by admin
1. The guy in the next chair at the hair salon yesterday was talking about his alien abduction experiences. I love Venice.
2. Tomorrow I get to meet Julie Newmar! She’s got, like, the most remarkable cheekbones.
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Ok, you guys.
February 7, 2008 by admin
Who sent me this? Because it is basically fucking hilarious.
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Dear Everyone,
February 6, 2008 by admin
I am supposed to be working on a depressing presentation for class tomorrow about the holocaust. Instead, I found us this!
Also, young Kyle McLachlan . . . je t’aime.
Truly, madly, deeply,
Alexandra A.
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