My parents are so anti-Bush, it's so cute.

I finished the dog sweater! But now I have to crochet the edges, ooo no, scary. Maybe I should crochet the edge, too. And I have to fix up the birthday socks I made.

I am going to try to sell more books tomorrow.

I still feel all weird from last night, argh. Does this mean I have to start drinking beer or somthing? Oh crap.

I want to buy the new Rebecca magazine, I am crazy, And Interweave, I mean Homespun sweat pants! Crazy!

Oh I want a blonde starlet wig (or haha why do I want to say sheytl?) as last night I discovered pink cardie + leopard print underwear = jayne m. I am looking rawther full figured lately, oh bother. Once I move, I will probably not be doing the half a box of donuts a day routine anymore. Eliminate 500 calories a day? I can eliminate 1000 easily!! Can I at least drop 10 pounds by May? By my calculations, I am going to have to be on a diet for six months. I just can't get motivated to start in this environment. Oh well, I'll have the Big Kitchen and an arsenal of Cooking Light recipes (and a sous chef to handle the raw meat)

I have been listening to "Bye Bye Love" from All That Jazz on infinite repeat in order to bump it up on the top 25 most played. Jesus Christ Superstar is numero uno gameplayer on that list.

I listened to the Japanese bach record... it's ok. And the Israeli Song Festival 1971. It's so Eurovisiony! The cover has a blonde on stage and next to the stage, a huge orchestra! Mmmm strings and wind intruments in pop, mmmm.

I really really wants some greasy food. I guess I'll be stuck making some eggs and cheese rather than buying a hamburger somewhere. I hope I can sell some books today.

(haha, I have found a sneaky way to increase Play Count)

Oh I was smart to not drink all the hawaiin punch. Now I can drink some sugary beverage.

Oh dear, I had multiple boozes last night. Vodka, rum and schnapps. I went to bed soberish, and still woke up with a headache. That's gone, but the tummyache remains. Maybe it was all the snacks I ate. I had bean dips, tortilla chips, popcorn, a cookie, a burrito, chicken, and rice. When I got home I sort of wished I had snuck another burrito in my pocket.

I got to go to the special secret bathroom! The host pulled me off the very long bathroom line, and into another apartment.

I came up with a rejoinder to the "bros before hos": "chicks before dicks". If/when I see M at work next week, I will make sure to bump fists with her and recite this new creed. And call out her loser coworkers for not coming to the party.

The orange blast cleaner used with swiffer clothes does work a treat, although it sort of soaks through onto the actual swiffer. But who cares? I am going to try this out on the horrible bathroom floor. I also need to work on the drain; I found a D-I-Y repair article that suggested a bent wire hanger, and I can't remember if I kept the one I had! I am sure there is a big gray blob of hair and skin cells in the tub drain, ew ew ew. Boiling water and vinegar and baking soda is aonly doing so much. But I should still try it again.

So if they are reviving Fiddler and have done another million revivals, when will they do Evita again???

Ugh party recap later when the booze effect wears off.

Haha going to parties always makes me think, gee I need to keep all my records becuase one day I will throw a massive party and have a proper sound system blah blah blah.

I have something horrible to show you! Well, horrible, because it makes me a horrible person.

TMC movies: From Here to Eternity and West Side Story. Ooo! Not as many tears at Chez Gilbert as would be expected with showtunes, death, and prementrual heightened awareness (I have cried watching the BBC's I Heart the 80s, ack)

Oh god so many typos this month.

Have you seen the Jesus movie tie-in necklaces? With the nails? Can we please change the second commandment "thou shalt not make unto thee any tacky
graven images"? Also, I don't think Jesus died to become a bobblehead. It's as bad as those Precious Moments figurines. Which is worse, gory tortured Jesus or twee Jesus? I keep thinking the answer to who killed Jesus was not Jews/Romans/God but "afterall it was you and me" but then I remember I am confused and that was who killed the Kennedys, oops.

I'll stick with Jesus Christ Superstar. It's not like it's less accurate than Gibson's movie. Plus, better tunes!!

I can't stop listening to "Gefilte Fish" I love the way the back up singers sing "GE- Fil - Te! Fish!" (well at least I think that's what they are saying) I also love Eshet's version of Hava Nagila. It's got weird disco poppping sound. Also he's got a listenable voice. After listening to offkey prepubescent boys singing to a backing track that Aqua or Hi-NRG singers would reject for being to synthy, well I like the deep booming voices! That can hold a tune! And are backed by real instruments!

So apparently there is an intense stomach bug going around (was that wht i had this summer? but mine leasted a week rather than a day) and what do I do? I eat paella and tuna macaroni salad from a deli buffet, I am surely tempting fate! I should have just gotten a sandwich for toher reasons anyway.

I also discovered that it is girls who know the phrase "bros before hos" and not boys. Huh? And while aspersions were made about the quality of menfolk that I must be associating with in order to know this phrase, I must say , I think it would be a step UP, to hang out with boys who actually said it. I think many of my male acquaintances just THINK it.

Downside to spening the day with people who don't knit. No one says anything abiut your handiwork! You would think a sweater with skulls would be COOL but blah.

I can't decide what to wear this weekend! Would a dress be too dressy?? Would my sweater be too warm? What skirt? Or jeans? Ohhhhhh tooooo complicated. Maybe I will save my original outfit for work?? Maybe I should wear the black dress, I haven't in ages.

Oh my god, so now saying that you think focusing on the looks of women musicians is boring and tiresome is no longer acceptable??? Wait, why am I surprised? Ugh ugh ugh.

Oh well time to go to Brookyln and be filmed for tv with the humorless feminists of Bust.

I really should turn off the radio, the DJ commentary is driving me BATTY.

After being annoyed with the local video store, and their not having the second disk of a 2 disc set, I still rented another movie, but it was my free one from the rent ten get one free card. And that's the last you'll get of MY money!

I am glad I watched the commentary for In the Cut because my ewwwww blow job oh no!! reaction was mitigated by the fact that it's a stunt dick (ie fake). I did like how the movie totally captured hot LES summer. They mentioned the doggy sculpture in Tompkins Square Park, and I remember the 100 degree weather when viewing it. Oh summer, in some ways I wish you were back.

And one of my professors died, which I am so bummed about, and I am extra bummed the website still has still has her listed as department chair. Oops! I am getting phone calls from Drew again... they leave no message, but caller ID tells no lies!!! I also got a letter to display/sell something for the art show at the summer reunion. Ohhhhh but I have such great great ideas, involving embroidered pillows and converting photos into latch hook or cross stitch. Or my long standing interpretation of "Ceci n'est pas un pipe".

Today on the sidewalk I saw an empty pack of Dunhills. Who the hell in JC is smoking Dunhills???

Last week I saw a commercial for low carb orange juice/ Will this madness ever end??? I am obviously on the high carb diet, mmmmmm doughnuts! Cereal! Noodles! Fruit punch!

Also creepy: the McDonald's "Control Freak" commerical. No, the problem with your date, lady, is that he's taking you to McDonald's. Mind you, I am still waiting for a date to buy me a proper dinner. A fast food first date when you're over the age of say, oh, 15, is just one way to guarantee no second date. If all you have is $5 for food, just spend that on a drink for me instead, ok?

Tomorrow I shall go to the library and try out the mad world of library DVD rentals! $1.50 for three days vs $3.50 for one day at the video store, hmmm.

I finsihed the skully sweater, oooo! In time for TV! And I can wear it with purple tights and pink fishnets, and won't that look cute? And I can go up to cute boys and say "Oooh, it's so soft, feel meit!" I also finished oen hat and started another. The wool-ease, as seen in Knit It is kind of, uh, dumb. I changed the color pattern a bit. the other hat will go with my sweater.

More facts and figures!

Nearly 60% of my recently played list on iTunes involves women performers. I don't get people who say their music library(or book library!) has only ten percent (or whatnot) women. I mean, try harder. There's so much boring boy music and fun girl music, so why?

I am going to reread all my chyxx in muzick essays and books this week, maybe. I am so cranky about this topic lately.

sk8r boi Avril Lavigne
River Deep, Mountain High Lena Zavaroni
jesus christ superstar jesus christ superstar
Asteroid (Pearl & Dean Theme) Peter Moore
1951/ What About the Boy Ann-Margret/Oliver Reed
Your Disco Needs You Kylie Minogue
Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son (Radio Edit) Kim Kay
Activ 8 Altern 8
Machine Gun Commodores
Sympathy for the Devil Bryan Ferry
a.c.d.c. sweet
I Want That Boy The Chantelles
Next Joe Masiell
London Girls The Vibrators
Saint Tropez Brigitte Bardot
Danger! High Voltage Electric Six
Rainbow High Julie Covington
Hava Nagila Mantovani
American Generation The Ritchie Family
what i did for love a chorus line
Just Keep Walking INXS
Victoria The Kinks
Set You Free N-Trance
Gloria Umberto Tozzi
bye bye love all that jazz

this is my top 25 most played

wheeee i'm a boy now!!!!

Tonight's Roseanne rerun takes place at a church bingo hall. It looks... strangely familiar. Oh no, lucky trolls!

I wonder if there's bingo upstate.

Why do I feel like I've taken a double dose of Sudafed?

Due to the popularity of Law and Order: The Musical, Vols 1 & 2, I will now be working on a Golden Girls one HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

Also, why did Ann-Margret have to guest on Third Watch?????

So tonight someone recognized me, and I totally spazzed for thirty seconds thinking "why do I know you and how do you know my name?" but I think I faked it well until I realized who I was talking to.

Also nice was being away from people for a few weeks and then being welcomed back. Maybe this is the difference between women and men? Or between the rest of the world and, uh, urban hipster scum (not that I'm not the latter)

So now I get to remove myself from the world and start up from scratch a few years later, fucksticks.

iTunes is totally Julie vs Patti: FITE!!!

Somehow I managed to make it through yesterday without tears, what??? And that's with booze, too?

The party was, uh, interesting, and maybe I made some new friends, like what wonderful timing there. I'm overwhelmed with invites for parties and shows in Hudson County for the next month (overwhelmed = two). I also went to a party in one of those converted warehouse/industrial buildings, a little bit of seedy glamour here in JC, awww.

I also got people interested in the Law and Order project ("wow! that should be my premium theme!"), and in working on Volume 2 I have discovered at least half dozen more musicals featuring L&O guests stars. Which John Cullum show to choose???? And I now know there ARE records with Tovah singing. One day! One day I shall have them!

And what kind of tard forgets to include Ice-T? (This kind!!)

I browsed the cheap-o stalls at housing works, ooooo, I found a Cara Black mystery I didn't know existed! Yes! And another mystery involving estate sales and thrifting ooohhh. This was all on my way to be filmed & interviewed for Fine Living TV, anout, yes, knitting. I am getting good at answering these questions. I need to rent myself out VH1 special style.

Also, so there's a new book series about gays teens in high school? And the sequel is called Rainbow High? OMG HOW GAY is that??? I need to be DAZZLING!! (Oh yeah, note to self, remember to look up Patti LuPone on ebay)

And I got my intarsia cartoon bunny complimented by proper knitters, so I am soooo excited! It really is adorable, now comes SEWING. I have a Bloodbath and Beyond coupon so I think I may just buy a Hello Kitty pillowcase for the lining. I am soooooooooo twee.

You are Novelty Eyelash.
You are very of the moment, hip, and happening. You
are often seen wrapped around someone's neck.
Some see you as too flashy and ultimately
shallow, but you are having too much fun to
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Ahhhhh I totally forgot I broke a tenner at Shop-Rite yesterday and had less cash than I thought. I discovered that E23rd St has lotsa thrifts. City Opera has 30% off pianos!!! They had some cute books, but not $8 (well, $5.60) cute. They had two volumes of "Highlights of Jewish History", but I only got one. It's a school book!!! With exercises!"Answer in a complete sentence: Why did Mendelssohn complain about conditions in Prussia?" "Moses Montefiore or Lionel de Rothschild?"

This was worth the $2 I spent on "Ground Zero" : "I had no choice but to be promiscuous - no one ever wanted to see me a second time" SIIIIIGGGGGHHHH.

Also: why can I not find Brown Sheep Bulky in Clematis???? NOOOOOOOO!!!!! I am so fucked!!!! (It's not like I can't order it from a catalog, but arghhh)

The knitted part of my cartoon bunny backpack is nearly finished. Now I'll have to SEW and get a zipper YIKES!

I can't stop watching the "Bye Bye Love" final scene! It's so... insane. Even though it's really the wrong week to watch a song and dance number about someone dying of a heart attack. But really, why wasn't this in in the Fosse tribute I saw on Trio????

Also, I spotted at least FOUR actors who've been on Law and Order.

rent 10 videos get 1 free (one more to go!)
10 punches = 1 regular coffee @ Knit NY (halfway done! will they give me tea instead?)
10% off with $200 in receipts at Knit NY ($8 down, uh...)
My Needles on the back of a Knitting Hands business card (they don't have size 2 listed, WTF?)
Stich N' Bitch membership card (for 5% off Seaport Yarn)
Buy ten hotdogs get one free at F&B
$20 off after spending $200 at delia's (which I got after probably spending $100 there, boo)
Buy 10 sandwiches get one free at Cosi (which I got after going thee times, BOO)

cute iTunes shuffle moment: "Hot for Teacher" followed by Pulp's "PTA". They sound good together!!!.

I did not get pot roast at the rummage sale today but instead spent my money on renting All That Jazz YES!!!!!! I was very excited to see it at the video store (not so excited to see the 50 cent price increase) I also bought a paperback of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" with lots of photos in the hopes of selling it online somewhere for a profit.

I also got too excited for my own good to see a new Barry Maitland mystery. This year I have been finding new new mystery/crime authors and going through their entire series, or at least all the books that my library has. I have a little notebook of "Books Read" that I started a few years ago, but I always keep misplacing/forgetting it. Lately it has became the repository for which books by which mystery writers I have read.

I also took gay book: I will miss all those weird gay ghetto novels populating the shelves of the JC library. (I will also miss all the new knitting books they get, too, but for different reasons as I actually read those. My new library has ana abundance of quilting and Beatles books ARGGHHH. Well, maybe they have knitting, too.)

HA HA Movie trivia gay men should know:

"Who was originally cast then fired as Helen Lowell in Valley of the Dolls"

EASY PEASY!

"Who is Marni Nixon"

DUHHHH

"Name the only actress who has one the quadruple crown of Oscar, Emmy, tony and Grammy"

I will let you know the answer to that boys and girls, because you need to know about the awesomeness of this lady: it's Rita Moreno!

I also went to a silent auction benefiting a preschool co-op today, but I have $20 to last until Tuesday and that has to pay for another skein of Brown Sheep Bulky, another outing to Cause Celeb (and I did not mention that last week's show had an actor who I swear on a hundred bibles went to college with me, but I was too shy to accost him after the show to ask if he did, and too shy to ask any of the people at my table to ask him, maybe he will return next week!! And I will have imbibed enough booze to ask! And then I can be horrified about how downhill my life has been since college AND LOOK WHAT CAME IN THE MAIL the first reminder of this summer's college reunion, if school calls for money this year, I think I will laugh and cry and tell them I haven't had a job that has paid more than $7 an hour since leaving school, could they lend ME some money instead???) a trip to the church book sale, and some refreshment at KnitNY (because I have to show off my nearly completed Skully Sweater!!! And I haven't been to Stitch n' Bitch in a month.) so I didn't bid on anything. I did get some nice food treats at the auction though, so hey free lunch! It wasn't much, but after the recent donut binge, I think I should watch it. I did get slice of roast beef MMMMMMMMMMM PROTEIN.

I better tidy up my little blog, as there may be new visitors.

So then why am I going to share with you all that last night I had a dream in which I nearly got into a three way with Eric Stoltz and Mandy Patinkin? Oh my god, I have got to stop listening to Evita.

In another dream I tried to buy a copy of more! and limited edition candy bar that was a Bounty crossed with a Kit Kat. OH, HOW I WISH YOU EXISTED, CHOCOLATE.

At one of my knit clubs, one of the ladies brought in some issues of Rebecca and oooooo pretty. I had downloaded one of the free patterns of a knit tank and hot pants (or a bikini, whatever), and today I finally checked and it is for a 32/34 inch bust??????? I haven't had a chest that size since I was ten? Has anybody?

In another knitting sphere, there was controversy about talking politix, or more specifically CBS and they're not airing some liberally political whatnot, which was the first I had heard about it, because all I care about are records, yarn, boys, and 25 cent books, but more importantly this was the first time I had realised that the Superbowl was on this weekend! So, no mean to Bush commericals or mean to the Reagan tv miniseries, but naked breasticles, all right!!!!

But the best part of this is, even after seeing multiple screen shots of Janet Jackson's nipple, I still couldn't tell you who played or who won.

Also: I feel a cold coming on, oh bollox. More nyquil chugging tonight, hooray!

Another also: I may be having to knit something in ORANGE or YELLOW OH NO OH NO!!!!

Is tomorrow groundhog day, or is it tomorrow? March in 4 weeks! HOORAY. My mother's birthday present if moe than half done: I could finish it in a week if I hustle.

And today I feel as if I have had multiple weights lifted from my shoulders, and am excited new things and changes. Now i have to do this stupid lawyer letter notarizing dumbness. Ok, hi, yes I know this is taking me four monhts, but who had 5+ years to send it to me, ok??

I think I will be a writing a little piece about the Village Voice Fiddler article, and possibly Ellen Willis (thanks to my dismay and disgust listen to music boys discuss rock criticism and the New Yorker WITHOUT ONCE MENTIONING WILLIS HELLO, as well as the constant fretting over the work of Willis' contemporaries Christgau and Marcus). Oh no, you got Radical Feminism in my Rock Crit!

2004 is turning out so weird! Yet I have a good feeling about it. Or maybe I am just feeling happy as a defence against packing and related errands. I think this year I will get back into a size 10, though. And I'll get to learn how to download things! And show the interweb world photos of my kittycats! Because that's what we all need, more kittie pix.

Then again, isn't 28 supposed to be a weird year? Or I guess that's next year for me.

I wonder if I can sell enough 70s tv show novels and knitwear to finance a trip abroad this summer. I haven't been to London in over two years, and previously, the most I have gone between trips is fifteen months. Thinking about it still makes me feel like a complete fuckup though.