I scored a 63% on the "How Jersey Are You?" Quizie! What about you?
more later, but movies I have seen recently:
Dance with a Stranger (I missed the Martha movie for this!)
The Swinger
Tipping the Velvet
Left Luggage
I bought Martha Stewart Food today. Mashed peas! I am so making this! Egg and toast and cheese! Hummus sandwich! Veggie lasagna! Sock dogs! Oh wait, wrong MS magazine spinoff, um.
I went to F&B and had hot dogs. I need to find a recipe for sweet potato fries.
Oh, and I read an article about Midge. Midge! Honestly all those 'Barbie is bad' polemics never take Midge into account. I need to write a feminist essay on Barbie and Midge. I still think the pregnant Midge doll is weird though (and yet, I strangely want one). Poor Barbie, she'll NEVER have a baby of her own.
Damn, DO NOT wear fishnets in the daytime. Some guy, an ice cream merchandiser it seems, hands you his card so you think, ohhhhkay and then he says "here is my car, with my number, call me sometime so we can go out, what is your name, Rose, you're very pretty?" and you just go, "Ok! Bye!" And you think he drives by you later, but you ignore him. Arg, getting hit on by boys in cars! And "hello pretty lady" old men, ick. And then you run into someone you think is cute, and he shows no evidence of noticing the abundance of secondary sexual characteristics you have on display. And you think to yourself ,"I should just ask 'Hey, do I look especially trashy today? Or what?'"
Ha ha, and the new Bust theme is 10th Anniversary/Gay Men We Love. I mean, I know I'm turning into the horrible stereotype of the qunitessential Bust reader, but this takes the cake, I mean PAUL LYNDE AND CHARLES NELSON REILLY??? Ha ha, but if the allegation that I am a gay man trapped in a lady's body is true, maybe I should just bring this up next time I see someone cute and then go into explicit sexual detail why. OH HANG ON, I'm not a gay boy, I've made out with girls (ha ha maybe I should bring THAT up next time I meet someone I fancy, I mean I keep getting asked by a zillion other boys "Did you two make out? It would be cool if you did.")
I think I'm ovulating. This explains the display of flesh (ask Desmond Morris!) and the feeling of being a walking timebomb.
Oh my gawd, I just heard a reggae version of "Puppet on a String" Wow!! Which reminds me, when IS Eurovision?
I really need to get out of the house to go sta- uh, walking and reading in the park, or something. Read some Paul Fussell, girlie.
"25 greatest videos to get busy to"? Grosssss. Deep down, I don't think I get the whole genre of "turn on music" lists. I mean, if anyone ever played me a Marvin Gaye record, how am I supposed to NOT laugh? Someone did put on Melody Nelson which is almost as predictable but the whole experience was so high on both cliche and novelty factor that, well, you know. Okay, I did have the idea that I should try to use EVERY RECORD in my collection as a sex soundtrack, but that doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
I have decided that there is only one band that I would consider listening to while making out. If you know, maybe I'll let you. (Oh hey, they need to go on iTunes, Thanks for reminding me, Brain!)
Dear god, these allergy/sinus/headache meds are really freaking me out. My sinus headache is back, but I don't dare take more as I just feel REALLY REALLY WEIRD.
Ok, so I am quickly reading unread books from the purge pile. I read Matthew Rettenmund's Boy Culturein an hour. The only good thing is the "sexual index" in the back. I wish all novels had them, so I would know what pages to avoid. Eurg, sex scenes in novels!
I found a lecturer's blog! k-punk. I don't think I understand it, but boys and their music, aww, it's so sweet. I think I would have had a better time at grad skool if we could have discussed Roxy Music! That in every class instead of motherfucking Triste Tropique. please. Ugh. And less diaspora more THE Diaspora! Cause, you know, I know such things. (ha, a friend gave us a link to Pesach Chaim, and I was all OMG IT RULEZ, because, hello, it does!! Jewish Heavy Metal!!!)
Fuck, what was my point?
Okay, my new plan is this: even though I am broke and jobless, any money I make selling my crap in June is going into the Chococat Tattoo Fund.
Gee, I'm really going to do this, aren't I?
(Oh hah, at the White Star this weekend, I noticed a petition to make tattooing legal in JC!)
Oh my god, Zoe Williams does it again in her essay on bottoms. Wow, that was just so so bad. Where to begin?
Can I haul out the Super Bad V.C. Andrews article? Andrews is a better writer Williams. DEAD Andrews is better than Wiliams.
And if we're going to talk about stupid things in the Guardian and Observer, may I mention this Nigella Lawson column?
I know no women, although they may exist, who find the notion of male homosexual activity erotically exciting
Um, okay, whatever, you really need to get a wider social circle or something. Everything I've read seems to indicate that there's quite a siginificant population of woman who watch/read gay porn, not to mention the average young lady who likes to watch two cute actors smooch in movies. Sure she covers her ass with the 'although they may exist' line but really, she doesn't know ANYONE who likes it? I mean wasn't the point of, say f'rinstance, Velvet Goldmine to watch cute well-endowed boys make out? And, oh god, than there's the academy's favorite (well, besides riot grrl and dance music and 'cyberspace') SLASH.
But back to the topic at hand. Really, the only good thing I can think of about Ms. Williams is "well, at least she doesn't spell her name with a Y"
Okay, so here are some pictures of some of my pals and me
Also, next month, I might be selling some crafts! (and books and CDs)So I've got three weeks to buckle down and make some more decoupage candles and marble magnets. I need to look throught my archives and see what I've got in the way of pictures. Who do you want on a candle? maybe I will take a trip to Newark sometime. The last time I went was a very cold day in December, now it might be so much nicer. Where can I get cheap wooden boxes? I can make nice decorative book boxes from that. Oh! And I can make my cute barettes, too, if I get enough supplies.
Last night before I fell asleep, I had this very vivid vision of St. Alfege's Church in Greenwich: why? I am not quite sure. It just popped into my head.
Yesterday when I went to check my mail, I saw that The Book Fairy had left a little present, a paperback of "Diary of a Mad Housewife". (Gosh, I love documents of 60s and 70s New York)
I have been reading some Zizek. I don't know why I like him, I just do. He can be funny.
Jacki Bond's "Reviewing The Situation" is ace! (Though I want that Sandie Show album with her version) Ugh, sooooo many RPM compilaation and re-issues that are calling my name.
Five years ago, at Edward's, Axis Sally and I saw a Happy 50th Birthday Manischewitz Cake Mix. WHY DIDN'T WE BUY IT????
I should go upstairs to retrieve my satellite bill and see if this weeks's Time Out got delivered there but because that would require putting on a bra, I don't really feel like it.
I'm making spinach casserole tonight! Gotta use that sour cream sometime. I prepared, cooked, and ate a tuna noodle casserole while talking on the phone last night. Aren't I talented?
Yum
I need a nice boyfriend who will take me out to dinner here. But I don't think I attract the sort of man who would do that sort of thing. God, I want some mousse au chocolat. The mousse we got at the MIJE hostel in France was so good. I also like the combination of buttered baguettes, hot chocolate and orange juice for breakfast YUM YUM. Oh hell, I want a boyfriend who'll take me to Paris.
Hey, when's Eurovision? (Massiel just started playing. That said, I'm not to thrilled with the shuffle/random feature on iTunes. I mean it goes Le Tigre, Electric Six, Mick Harvey, Electric Six, Erasure, Mick Harvey, Serge Gainsbourg, Le Tigre, The Freedom of Choice Compilation, GODDAMMIT iTunes, I HAVE 2000 other artists PICK OTHERS PLEASE.)
(Oh Jesus, I love that the Jersey Journal describes a Croque Monsieur as "the French version of a Cubano, the traditional melted cheese and ham." )
What I have checked out from the library:
Chris Scarre Chronicle of the Roman Emperors
Myrna Katz Frommer and Harry Frommer It Happened in Manhattan: An Oral History of Life in the City During the Mid Twentieth Century
Antonio Santosuosso Storming the Heavens: Soldiers, Emperors, and Civilians in the Roman Empire
Maurice Samuel In Praise of Yiddish
Paul Fussell Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear
Deborah Hayden Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis
Phillip Blom To have and to hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting
Simon Garfield Mauve
Richard Davenport-Hines The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics
Jonathan Zimmerman Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools
Okay so today, one DJ said "Hey! You sorta look like Ann-Margret!" Like, isn't that THE BEST COMPLIMENT EVER??? (Actually, I can kinda see some of my grandmother's face in A-M's, and well, I look a lot like my dad and his mother, so...)
Recounting records is for later BUT! I got this comedy album "The Jewish American Princess" and it has BEA ARTHUR on it. Oh yeah! And, then I ended up with, um, some free singles. And I saw some bonkers videos. There was a lot of Andreas Dorau, and it was sooo bizarre in that early 80s German way and then I realised, hey! This is the guy whose song is on some mix CDs some friends have sent me. Please tell me more about this person! I need to know more about weird German music!
Oh, and I got a Simon Frith book for $3, yay!
So I registered with friendster the other week, and HA HA last night using search, I found that a college friend M was already in my network. I giggle, as I am mainly still in touch with her because I ran into her on the internet about five years ago on the Hissyfit boards.
The whole netowrk thing is sort of making my head explode. Mind you, it's not the first time I've experienced the My friends! Know all my other friends! craziness. In fact that's basically been the theme of my whole year in JC.
Well the Pavonia Avenue yard sales were depressing. Come on you fuckers! If you advertise at starting at 10 don't start setting up at 10.30! But I got some more sleevless $2 sheath dresses, to wear when lounging around on those hot hot days.
So I was debating whether to watch Prick Up Your Ears or L&O, and I guess I'll got with PUYE. Wait, is Wallace Shawn playing John Lahr? Oh ha ha. (Oh, they bleep out swears, fuck.) Ha ha Antonia from I, Claudius is in it. I watched the WHOLE THING this week, and then I read this biography of Agrippina the Younger, and it hates fun: "There was no poisoning or incest, it's just rumours"
Oh god, I found the French in Action website. I've been, uh, taping it. Other possible tapings: During the wee hours Noggin allegedly shows 70s era Sesame Street, Electric Company, and Square One TV. But there website doesn't give schedule for 2am -6am SOB SOB.
Tomorrow I get to volunteer in the A/V Rom at the record fair, I guess that means serving coffee and cookies??? I don't have much money to spend this year. I've been planning my outfit for weeks. Well maybe a week.