1. These shoes that I want are suddenly on sale.
2. I get paid tomorrow.
October, 2008
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Two interesting facts:
October 31, 2008 by ms. xandra
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Apparently.
October 30, 2008 by ms. xandra
1. Apparently I have an idea for a dissertation topic! Who knew?
2. I am officially not Canadialand-bound this Christmas because instead my family is coming here. And apparently we are going to Disneyland, possibly on Christmas day, because the park is, in fact open. Which just sounds…magical beyond all sense. Or something.
3. Whoever put together the playlist that was on when I was at Hipster Coffee this afternoon is apparently someone I need to, like, make out with or something, because it was the perfect blend of Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Nico, and Nancy Sinatra.
4. I have been doing so much of the worst kind of writing to have to do lately: by which I mean, very short, very specific abstracts and statements of intent and things in which you have to justify your entire existence and ask for money and/or the opportunity to spend money and go to a conference and I hate it. I want no more of this writing where the meaning of every “the,” “and,” and “it” must be considered, nevermind the meaning of the phrase “Beth Ditto and the vocality of abjection” which is a phrase I made up today and I couldn’t tell you what it actually means if my life depended on it. Apparently my favourite kind of writing is when I just get to be decandently vague.
5. Apparently I have started my other blog here. It’s very new and under constructiony still – I promise it will get better as soon as I start my weekly FASHION FRIDAYS OMG (!!!) posts, wherein I take a reprieve from bitching about music and instead talk about clothes.
6. Saturday I am doing something that is apparently quite mad – I am taking the bus to dowtown and then walking to the beach. We’re walking all of Wilshire Boulevard, from One Wilshire (the building that houses, like, the internet) to the ocean in Santa Monica. Feel free to place bets on whether or not I make it past Fairfax.
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Well…good.
October 28, 2008 by ms. xandra
Oh, lord, the most ridiculous things happen to me. Or rather, I tend to throw myself headlong into the most ridiculous situations without an apparent second thought.
I can’t even talk about this. It’s all too stupid. I am still recovering from having just viewed Death Bed: The Bed that Eats (the BEST FILM in the HISTORY OF CINEMA, see it immediately), and now is just not the time. But…who knew that sometimes maybe the missed connections actually kind of work, with potentially mortifying results?
Well, whatever.
Yours truly,
Ms. Xandra A., who probably shouldn’t go back to her favourite coffee shop anymore.
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Calendars!
October 25, 2008 by ms. xandra
So! It is the time of year when I start thinking seriously about next year’s calendar. I know, I know. It’s kind of weird and obsessive. I’ve already bought my agenda/planner thingy (because two years ago I had the Taschen Illustration Now agenda and I loved it SOOOO much and this year they didn’t make an Illustration Now one so when I saw one for 2009 in the store I bought it immediately), but I am still looking for the ultimate calendar for my desk area. So this morning I have been browsing Etsy, and so far these are the ones that I like:
Gay Animals from Spinster Summer! (Currently my favourite, and not just because of the awesomeness of her shop name, although that is a contributing factor.)
Famous birthdays from Beau Ideal!
Letterpress and silkscreen from Ilee!
and Cupcakes (I am thinking maybe for the kitchen?) from The Mittskicks!
Yay, shopping shopping shopping! Now if only my paycheck would come.
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A Very Important Thing that I have just found out about!
October 24, 2008 by ms. xandra
The Lost Skeleton Returns Again is premiering in Los Angeles on November 9th! And I get to work at the screening, which means I will get to maybe become best friends with the lady who plays Animala, which will be awesome. Oh, my glamorous life as a Hollywood socialite.
If you have not done so, please go watch The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Trail of the Screaming Forehead, like, immediately.
Also, I have no idea what this is, but I cannot wait for 2009 because it sounds like it will be the Greatest Film of All Time.
Also also, in case you haven’t noticed, I am, like SO into outer space these days. But it’s a very specific vision of outer space. It is, like, outer space in the mind of a twelve-year-old boy in approximately 1953. It’s a magical place to be.
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Look, everybody has a dealbreaker.
October 24, 2008 by ms. xandra
WHICH IS WORSE:
a) Not knowing who Trotsky is?
or
b) Not knowing who Joy Division is?
I am not going on a date with this person, even if that means I’m an elitist jackass. Insert arugula joke here.
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Midnight oil
October 23, 2008 by ms. xandra
1. Oh, I have had the best Halloween costume idea yet. In fact, it might just be my best ever idea yet. I’m not revealing the full details here yet. It’s a surprise. It involves a lot of makeup in a colour called “Hot Rod Metallic Green.” And a laser gun. And a pencil skirt.
2. Which of the following do I want more? I can’t decide. You should tell me.
a) an electric ukulele,
b) a bass guitar,
c) a sewing machine,
d) a tattoo of Dorothy Parker.
Please note that I cannot actually afford to get any of these things. This is all just conjecture based on the question “what if I happen upon a sack of gold doubloons in the middle of the sidewalk tomorrow?”
3. On Friday, my Canadian friend Shelina and I are going to see a Canadian band play at Spaceland. Shelina and I (and it’s worth pointing out that we’ve only known each other for, like, a month, and are from opposite ends of the country) both have weird, tangential friend-of-friend connections to said band, which is doing nothing to disprove the common trope of “all Canadians know each other.” Sometimes there is nothing to do but to embrace the idea of being a walking cliche.
4. Is it elitist to be wary of going on a date with someone because they have never heard of Leon Trotsky? Probably. Also, do I talk about theremins too much? I feel like I talk about theremins all the time, with everybody, and probably spew a lot of crap because my two facts that I know about theremins, that I bring up in these seemingly daily conversations that I have with strangers about theremins, are:
a) Moog used to make build-your-own theremin kits,
b) This one time, Leon Theremin was kidnapped by the KGB (and wikipedia just told me that this fact isn’t even actually true).
5. My favourite thesis statement: “Ray Charles had a huge influence on poplar music.”
6. Ok, fine, I will tell you what my Halloween costume is. I am going to be a sexy librarian. FROM SPACE.
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Holy crap, it’s my apartment!
October 20, 2008 by ms. xandra
Inquiring minds wanted to know what my new(ish) digs look like – pictures are now on Flickr. Here is a tantalizing teaser to show you just how fucking rad my bedroom is:
Also, what you cannot see in these pictures is the epic amount of closet space that I have. I have so much closet space that I have an underwear closet, which houses nothing but a dresser full of underwear and all my frilly lady things.
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Breaking Fox Mulder news!
October 17, 2008 by ms. xandra
David Duchovny and Tea Leoni have gone splitsville! Oh, David. I’m here for you. Anytime. No, really, ANY TIME.
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Who is going to see Patti Smith on Saturday?
October 16, 2008 by ms. xandra
I am! I am!
SOOOO amazingly exciting. I heart Patti, in an almost indecent way.
Um, also, I think this might be the year I dress up as Barbarella for Halloween. Either that or Sam and I are going as Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. Next year I want to get enough people together to go as all the characters from Clue. I have obvious dibs on Miss Scarlet because it was my idea.
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