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okay so The Dark Knight was awesome. very awesome.and Heath Ledger as the Joker was !@##!$@OMG...

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:09:56 -0400

okay so The Dark Knight was awesome. very awesome.

and Heath Ledger as the Joker was !@##!$@OMG yes.

Laurie Anderson - O Superman

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:55:13 -0400

Laurie Anderson - O Superman

i’m high up in a glass tower. there’s a thunderstorm outside and it’s fun to look...

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:14:00 -0400

i’m high up in a glass tower. there’s a thunderstorm outside and it’s fun to look down on people getting drenched.

the best things in life ARE NOT FREE

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:03:36 -0400

losing weight is awesome. but then you end up spending too much money updating your wardrobe for clothes that actually fit. and often, the sexy sizes have already been purchased by the sexy people, because that’s what they do. gosh. i quit.

though i did find a really really cheap pair of awesome white shoes.

As frustrating as it has been living in Atlanta without a car for the past year, I’m really...

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:40:10 -0400

As frustrating as it has been living in Atlanta without a car for the past year, I’m really fucking thankful that I got rid of my car last year. Everyone should move closer to public transit, green markets, and walkable neighborhoods =D

I don’t mean to rub it in, but I’m hardly feeling the sluggish economy except for the fact that food costs a bit more at the grocery.

But I’m sure things are bound to get worse.

Shpongle - A New Way To Say Hooray (via theduderinok)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:24:36 -0400

Shpongle - A New Way To Say Hooray (via theduderinok)

why so serious?

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:21:00 -0400

I am hella excited about the new Batman movie coming out this summer, The Dark Knight. Awesome actors, what looks to be an awesome story, and a follow-up to an unexpectedly awesome film. Except for a few flaws. Do you think I would let anything go unscathed?

I feel like Christopher Nolan, the director/writer, can get a little too serious sometimes. And not in a way that I find particularly compelling, casual or innate. There’s something about his writing that makes me feel like he’s trying too hard to hit a certain note. Memento was pretty good, but then Insomnia just killed me at the end. Talk about forced poetics. And then the Prestige had a lot of marketing going on and not so much substance as I was expecting. Batman Begins was great because it was a series revisited, a reinterpretation and a visionary spectacle (much in the way that I felt Casino Royale did good for 007), but that tinge of forced seriousness leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Like, I was just raped with a squirt of morality.

I got extremely happy when I saw the second trailer for The Dark Knight which featured a lot of Heath Ledger’s Joker. “Why so serious,” he asks, and immediately I started getting ideas of a dual film. Perhaps Nolan is working with the Joker’s character and foiling the general atmosphere of the first film with a fresh, less serious story (that can still be compelling). Two action packed films with contrasting personalities driving the plot, each informed by their respective core conflict.

That would be brilliant. But who am I kidding? Nolan has his style of film, which I don’t really see moving beyond its own smugness. Warner will want to capitalize on themes and formulas that worked for the first film, so I doubt they would take the risk of altering too much. Plus the menage a trois is inevitable, so I feel like my dual film idea is moot from the get-go.

Whatever. I’m still really excited to see the film. I have a reason to like almost every actor in the film, from Maggie Gyllenhaal’s lusty lazy eyes to absolutely everything (and I do mean everything) about Christian Bale to what looks to be a successful reinterpretation of the Joker by Heath Ledger. One can only hope. Plus there are toys.

You see? This is what happens when I can’t fall asleep and it’s almost 4:30 in the morning.

Alanis Morissette - Crazy

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:49:04 -0400

Alanis Morissette - Crazy

we can never have what we want, can we?

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:09:08 -0400

good public transit options, liquor sales on sundays, intellectualism (or even an attempt?), a waterfront, water, an ethnically diverse gay population.

tear :(

"You say potato, I say vodka."

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:30:00 -0400

“You say potato, I say vodka.”

- Karen Walker

you took your coat off and stood in the rain

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:30:19 -0400

you took your coat off

and stood in the rain

from my head down to my legs

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:11:57 -0400

i love eggs.

my hangover helper this morning was a bowl of udon noodles with two eggs poached in the broth. i don’t know what it is about eggs that makes them so deliciously versatile, but it works for me!

this article on the perfect hard-boiled egg is absolutely fascinating, and it’s making me wish i had a crock pot.

Benny Benassi - Satisfactionyeah this takes me back.

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:26:16 -0400

Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
yeah this takes me back.

it’s absolutely useless to take a shower in this weather.take one step outside and you feel...

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:16:02 -0400

it’s absolutely useless to take a shower in this weather.

take one step outside and you feel like you need another one. immediately.

Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:59:30 -0400

Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler

accompanying photo from Garden Vigilantes: Peter Rabbit Must...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:37:13 -0400

accompanying photo from Garden Vigilantes: Peter Rabbit Must Die

Garden Vigilantes: Peter Rabbit Must Die

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:36:00 -0400

Garden Vigilantes: Peter Rabbit Must Die: When gardeners go ballistic in response to pests in their patches… seriously, one of the best reads on the New York Times in a while.

anyone who knows me knows how i hate running. but i also hate my body, so i run, hating it whilst...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:28:47 -0400

anyone who knows me knows how i hate running. but i also hate my body, so i run, hating it whilst i’m doing so in order to change what i hate. and no, it doesn’t have to make sense.

during the winter i would sweat profusely, but now during the summer in the humid heat i’m sweating even more so. and for at least 20 minutes after i finish. when does it end??!

i’m still sweating :(

"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they..."

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:33:23 -0400

“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.”

- Eudora Welty

Roasted Chicken (yum)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:57:44 -0400

There was an episode of The Barefoot Contessa a few years ago (when I had a tv, sad face) where Ina Garten went to her local butcher in the Hamptons, picked up a (very) fresh chicken, went home and mixed up lots of chopped garlic, dijon mustard, salt, pepper and god knows what else, and then slathered the mixture on the chicken and threw that baby in the oven. I love run-ons.

Anywho, all that stuck from the show for me was what I’ve listed above. Plus some extra virgin olive oil. Duh. A squeeze of a lemon puts it over the top.

There’s nothing like a whole roasted chicken to work over for the remainder of the week. I start with the breasts and day by day work my way to the more juicy, tender parts. Mmm… I sound like a pervert.