Four years ago, I did this one word meme thing. I decided it might be kind of fun to do it again to see what's changed, and what hasn't. So here goes:
Yourself: Complicated
Your partner: Away
Your hair: Mousy
Your Mother: Happy
Your Father: Missed
Your Favorite Item: iPod
Your dream last night: Rambling
Your Favorite Drink: Water
Your Dream Car: Acquired
Your Dream Home: Bigger
The Room You Are In: Office
Your Ex: Forgiven
Your fear: Injury
Where you Want to be in Ten Years? Austin
Who you hung out with last night: Family
What You're Not: Petite
Muffins: Pumpkin
One of Your Wish List Items: Travel
The Last Thing You Did: Organized
What You Are Wearing: Jeans
Your favorite weather: Crisp
Your Favorite Book: Nonfiction
Last thing you ate: Salad
Your Life: Multifaceted
Your mood: Hopeful
Your Best Friends: Indespensable
What are you thinking about right now: Thanksgiving
Your car: Dirty
What are you doing at the moment: Listening
Your summer: Lovely
Relationship status: Committed
What is on your TV: Nothing
What is the weather like: Summerish
When is the last time you laughed: Earlier
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Monday, November 22, 2010
Thursday, September 18, 2008
The meme stolen from about half of the people in that list over there on the right.
1. How do you like your eggs?
My favorite way? Deviled. My most frequently ordered/prepared way? Scrambled.
2. How do you take your coffee/tea?
Tea, straight up. Coffee, no thank you.
3. Favorite breakfast food:
Potato, egg, cheese and jalapeno bkfst. taco with pico de gallo. Heaven on freakin' Earth.
4. Peanut butter:
Yeah...I'm sort of weird about peanut butter. But if I have to have it, creamy please, and all natural...you know, like you have to stir it up to mix all the oil and shit together.
5. What kind of dressing on your salad?
Any kind of vinagrette. Aside from a Greek salad, I deplore creamy dressings.
6. Coke or Pepsi?
Coke. Not diet Coke; the real thing.
7. You're feeling lazy. What do you make?
Bean and cheese soft tacos or a sandwich.
8. You're feeling really lazy. What kind of pizza do you order?
All veggie, sans bell peppers.
9. You feel like cooking. What do you make?
Oh man...pretty much anything. I'm all about entrees, sides, and salads. But I'm not good with desserts and baking. My favorite thing to prepare for a semi-fancy meal is a seared, high quality tuna steak, a really good salad, and some sort of starchy side. For a simple supper, a good entree salad with tons of fresh ingredients.
10. Do any foods bring back good memories?
King Ranch Casserole (also called "Mexican Chicken" around my house). It was one of those "go to" dishes my mom made a lot when I was growing up, and I've always loved it, despite the Velveeta.
Also, fried catfish. It's something that my dad excelled at creating, and I miss his version like crazy.
11. Do any foods bring back bad memories?
Broth and jello.
12. Do any foods remind you of someone?
Quiche reminds me of my grandmother. Purple-hulled peas remind me of my stepfather. Pistachios remind me of my dad. And Whataburger reminds me of Longview.
13. Is there a food you refuse to eat?
Any kind of mammal.
14. What was your favorite food as a child?
Fried shrimp. Apple Jacks.
15. Is there a food that you hated as a child but now like?
Salad.
16. Is there a food that you liked as a child but now hate?
Milk
17. Favorite fruit and vegetable:
Potato, even though that's kind of a cop-out vegetable. But I've never EVER met a potato I didn't like. Next in line? Spinach. Fruit? Those little tangerines that are in season right around Christmas time...Cuties? I could eat 10 of those a day.
18. Favorite junk food:
Doritos. Any flavor.
19. Favorite between meal snack:
Mixed nuts.
20. Do you have any weird food habits?
I eat the entire pickled okra, including the stem.
21. You're on a diet. What food(s) do you fill up on?
Tamari rice cakes
22. You're off your diet. Now what would you like?
Cheese and vodka
23. How spicy do you order Indian/Thai?
Medium to "It goes to eleven/Vindaloo Poo."
24. Can I get you a drink?
Yes, please!
25. Red or White Wine?
White (as long as it isn't Chardonnay).
26. Favorite dessert?
Key Lime Pie.
27. The perfect nightcap?
Nice tall cold glass o' agua.
My favorite way? Deviled. My most frequently ordered/prepared way? Scrambled.
2. How do you take your coffee/tea?
Tea, straight up. Coffee, no thank you.
3. Favorite breakfast food:
Potato, egg, cheese and jalapeno bkfst. taco with pico de gallo. Heaven on freakin' Earth.
4. Peanut butter:
Yeah...I'm sort of weird about peanut butter. But if I have to have it, creamy please, and all natural...you know, like you have to stir it up to mix all the oil and shit together.
5. What kind of dressing on your salad?
Any kind of vinagrette. Aside from a Greek salad, I deplore creamy dressings.
6. Coke or Pepsi?
Coke. Not diet Coke; the real thing.
7. You're feeling lazy. What do you make?
Bean and cheese soft tacos or a sandwich.
8. You're feeling really lazy. What kind of pizza do you order?
All veggie, sans bell peppers.
9. You feel like cooking. What do you make?
Oh man...pretty much anything. I'm all about entrees, sides, and salads. But I'm not good with desserts and baking. My favorite thing to prepare for a semi-fancy meal is a seared, high quality tuna steak, a really good salad, and some sort of starchy side. For a simple supper, a good entree salad with tons of fresh ingredients.
10. Do any foods bring back good memories?
King Ranch Casserole (also called "Mexican Chicken" around my house). It was one of those "go to" dishes my mom made a lot when I was growing up, and I've always loved it, despite the Velveeta.
Also, fried catfish. It's something that my dad excelled at creating, and I miss his version like crazy.
11. Do any foods bring back bad memories?
Broth and jello.
12. Do any foods remind you of someone?
Quiche reminds me of my grandmother. Purple-hulled peas remind me of my stepfather. Pistachios remind me of my dad. And Whataburger reminds me of Longview.
13. Is there a food you refuse to eat?
Any kind of mammal.
14. What was your favorite food as a child?
Fried shrimp. Apple Jacks.
15. Is there a food that you hated as a child but now like?
Salad.
16. Is there a food that you liked as a child but now hate?
Milk
17. Favorite fruit and vegetable:
Potato, even though that's kind of a cop-out vegetable. But I've never EVER met a potato I didn't like. Next in line? Spinach. Fruit? Those little tangerines that are in season right around Christmas time...Cuties? I could eat 10 of those a day.
18. Favorite junk food:
Doritos. Any flavor.
19. Favorite between meal snack:
Mixed nuts.
20. Do you have any weird food habits?
I eat the entire pickled okra, including the stem.
21. You're on a diet. What food(s) do you fill up on?
Tamari rice cakes
22. You're off your diet. Now what would you like?
Cheese and vodka
23. How spicy do you order Indian/Thai?
Medium to "It goes to eleven/Vindaloo Poo."
24. Can I get you a drink?
Yes, please!
25. Red or White Wine?
White (as long as it isn't Chardonnay).
26. Favorite dessert?
Key Lime Pie.
27. The perfect nightcap?
Nice tall cold glass o' agua.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Late to the party.
I'm in Colorado for work. I'm exhausted. But I thought about this meme in the plane all the way up here, and so I decided to do it. Some of my favorite bloggers have already done it some time ago, so I'm a bit behind the curve. But that is typical for me.
In case you've been sleeping, the rules are these:
1. Think of 10 movies you adore, then go to IMDB and get some quotes from those movies.
2. Post these quotes and ask readers to guess what movies they come from. NO GOOGLING OR CHEATING, readers, because that's just lame.
3. NEW RULE: One guess per reader, por favor.
4. Once a correct guess has been made, you credit the reader.
Simple, no?
Okay, let's get started...
(My apologies for the random underlining every now and again. It's a cut and paste thing...)
#1:
“Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail!”
Damn you, La Turista!! Yes, you DO know me so well. And yes, this is from The Color Purple. I personally love to stick my fingers out toward my enemies and lay this curse on them in my best Celie voice whenever possible.
#2:
“Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.”
La Turista strikes again. (I accidentally left out the rule where you're only supposed to guess one movie per person...oh well.) Uncle Buck. My very favorite John Candy movie. So sweet. So funny. And this scene? Where Buck tells off the principle at Maisy's school? Classic.
#3:
“Where do you get off behaving that way with women you don't even know, huh? How'd you feel if someone did that to your mother or your sister…or your wife?”
Ahh...Bookhart. This quote is from the scene where they make that obnoxious trucker pull over and then give him a tongue lashing before blowing his big rig away. But I'll never EVER forget laying eyes on Brad Pitt for the first time in Thelma & Louise. I went to see it with La Turista up at the old Lincoln movie theater up by Highland Mall, and I remember we both left the movie breathless. One, because of Brad, but secondly, because we'd never seen a movie about women quite like that.
#4:
When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew then that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest to me, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learn how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelists to see what I could get away with, and in the end it all came down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.
Yawn. La Turista. Again. She correctly guessed Dangerous Liaisons. I am a sucker for period films, John Malkovich, Baroque music, and Glenn Close. So the combo? Tres perfectique. I would give a jillion dollars to hoist my boobs up and get into one of those awesome costumes and play a role as meaty as the one Ms. Close owns in this film.
#5:
You know, I used to be in the music business, but now I'm what you might call retired. It's a refined name for bum.
#6:
Main Character: I can't believe it. I've been looking all over for this place. I don't know why, really. I spent a couple of days there when I was a kid, and, and I just remember having a really good time.
Old Motel Clerk: Me, too. My brother and I drowned a cat there once.
Main Character: Is that right?
#7:
Character 1: Do you know what the hell we had to go through after you took the car?
Character 2: Yeah, it was a dick move on my part. That's why I'm paying for your meal. [looks down to count money] Here's 80 for the meal, and 200 for the car
Character 3: What did you do to my car?
Character 2: I made some love stains in the back. You'll see...
Yep, Jaye--it's Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. The best movie about pot and sliders ever made.
#8:
Female: How come you don't play during daytime? I see you here everyday.
Male: During the daytime people would want to hear songs that they know, just songs that they recognize. I play these songs at night or I wouldn't make any money. People wouldn't listen. Female: I listen.
Good call, Tuli. This quote is indeed from Once. I fell utterly in love with Dublin and Glen Hansard in this film. Amazing soundtrack.
#9:
Sicilians are great liars. The best in the world. I'm Sicilian. My father was the world heavy-weight champion of Sicilian liars. From growing up with him I learned the pantomime. There are seventeen different things a guy can do when he lies to give himself away. A guys got seventeen pantomimes. A woman's got twenty, but a guy's got seventeen... but, if you know them, like you know your own face, they beat lie detectors all to hell. Now, what we got here is a little game of show and tell. You don't wanna show me nothin', but you're tellin me everything. I know you know where they are, so tell me before I do some damage you won't walk away from.
The "Anonymous" Jimmy guessed correctly: True Romance. Although super violent, I love this damn movie, for this scene, if for nothing else--Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken at the height of their game, just chewing up the scene.
#10:
Female: God, don't you ever feel like everything we do and everything we've been taught is just to service the future?
Male 1: Yeah I know, like it's all preparation.
Female: Right. But what are we preparing ourselves for?
Male 2: Death.
Male 1: Life of the party.
Male 2: It's true.
Female: You know, but that's valid because if we are all gonna die anyway shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
Dazed and Confused it is, Sus. One of the most quotable movies ever, and filmed in Austin, to boot!
In case you've been sleeping, the rules are these:
1. Think of 10 movies you adore, then go to IMDB and get some quotes from those movies.
2. Post these quotes and ask readers to guess what movies they come from. NO GOOGLING OR CHEATING, readers, because that's just lame.
3. NEW RULE: One guess per reader, por favor.
4. Once a correct guess has been made, you credit the reader.
Simple, no?
Okay, let's get started...
(My apologies for the random underlining every now and again. It's a cut and paste thing...)
#1:
“Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail!”
Damn you, La Turista!! Yes, you DO know me so well. And yes, this is from The Color Purple. I personally love to stick my fingers out toward my enemies and lay this curse on them in my best Celie voice whenever possible.
#2:
“Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.”
La Turista strikes again. (I accidentally left out the rule where you're only supposed to guess one movie per person...oh well.) Uncle Buck. My very favorite John Candy movie. So sweet. So funny. And this scene? Where Buck tells off the principle at Maisy's school? Classic.
#3:
“Where do you get off behaving that way with women you don't even know, huh? How'd you feel if someone did that to your mother or your sister…or your wife?”
Ahh...Bookhart. This quote is from the scene where they make that obnoxious trucker pull over and then give him a tongue lashing before blowing his big rig away. But I'll never EVER forget laying eyes on Brad Pitt for the first time in Thelma & Louise. I went to see it with La Turista up at the old Lincoln movie theater up by Highland Mall, and I remember we both left the movie breathless. One, because of Brad, but secondly, because we'd never seen a movie about women quite like that.
#4:
When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew then that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest to me, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learn how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelists to see what I could get away with, and in the end it all came down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.
Yawn. La Turista. Again. She correctly guessed Dangerous Liaisons. I am a sucker for period films, John Malkovich, Baroque music, and Glenn Close. So the combo? Tres perfectique. I would give a jillion dollars to hoist my boobs up and get into one of those awesome costumes and play a role as meaty as the one Ms. Close owns in this film.
#5:
You know, I used to be in the music business, but now I'm what you might call retired. It's a refined name for bum.
#6:
Main Character: I can't believe it. I've been looking all over for this place. I don't know why, really. I spent a couple of days there when I was a kid, and, and I just remember having a really good time.
Old Motel Clerk: Me, too. My brother and I drowned a cat there once.
Main Character: Is that right?
#7:
Character 1: Do you know what the hell we had to go through after you took the car?
Character 2: Yeah, it was a dick move on my part. That's why I'm paying for your meal. [looks down to count money] Here's 80 for the meal, and 200 for the car
Character 3: What did you do to my car?
Character 2: I made some love stains in the back. You'll see...
Yep, Jaye--it's Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. The best movie about pot and sliders ever made.
#8:
Female: How come you don't play during daytime? I see you here everyday.
Male: During the daytime people would want to hear songs that they know, just songs that they recognize. I play these songs at night or I wouldn't make any money. People wouldn't listen. Female: I listen.
Good call, Tuli. This quote is indeed from Once. I fell utterly in love with Dublin and Glen Hansard in this film. Amazing soundtrack.
#9:
Sicilians are great liars. The best in the world. I'm Sicilian. My father was the world heavy-weight champion of Sicilian liars. From growing up with him I learned the pantomime. There are seventeen different things a guy can do when he lies to give himself away. A guys got seventeen pantomimes. A woman's got twenty, but a guy's got seventeen... but, if you know them, like you know your own face, they beat lie detectors all to hell. Now, what we got here is a little game of show and tell. You don't wanna show me nothin', but you're tellin me everything. I know you know where they are, so tell me before I do some damage you won't walk away from.
The "Anonymous" Jimmy guessed correctly: True Romance. Although super violent, I love this damn movie, for this scene, if for nothing else--Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken at the height of their game, just chewing up the scene.
#10:
Female: God, don't you ever feel like everything we do and everything we've been taught is just to service the future?
Male 1: Yeah I know, like it's all preparation.
Female: Right. But what are we preparing ourselves for?
Male 2: Death.
Male 1: Life of the party.
Male 2: It's true.
Female: You know, but that's valid because if we are all gonna die anyway shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
Dazed and Confused it is, Sus. One of the most quotable movies ever, and filmed in Austin, to boot!
Friday, August 31, 2007
Kryptonite
A few things that I am powerless against:
- Queso and chips
- Vinho Verde
- Puppy bellies
- Baby heads
- Rufus's voice
- Artichoke dip
- A good neck rub
- "Mr. Show"
- Office supply stores
- Autumn
- A really good avocado
- Garnets
- Roy Orbison
- Onion rings
- Belly laughs from little kids
- Clean sheets
- An interesting biography or autobiography
- Most documentaries
- Big orange and white cats
- The opportunity for a nap
- "The Office"
- Popcorn at the movies
- "The National Enquirer"
- Justin Timberlake
- Fritos and bean dip
- A nice smile
- Celebrity gossip websites
- iTunes.com
- Mosquito bites
- Willie Nelson
- La Croix sparkling water
- The Geej
- Goat cheese
- Nice male forearms
- A well made dirty vodka martini
- R. Kelly's "Trapped in a Closet"
- Fried catfish
- Jon Stewart
- Hee-Haw
- amazon.com
- Hounds
- "Uncle Buck"
- The smell of a really clean house
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Not even 50%?
Karla will be so disappointed...
| You Are 48% Evil |
 You are evil, but you haven't yet mastered the dark side. Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination. |
Thursday, April 05, 2007
So. Damn. Lame.
Sorry to do this to you, but here's a meme stolen from Blackbird via Badger.
10 FAVORITES
Favorite Color: Aqua
Favorite Food: Cheese
Favorite Month: October
Favorite Song: I have no fucking idea.
Favorite Movie: Probably "Raising Arizona"
Favorite Sport: College football
Favorite Season: Autumn
Favorite Day of the week: Sunday
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Mint Chocolate Chip
Favorite Time of Day: Between 10pm and midnight
9 CURRENTS
Current Mood: Tired
Current Taste: Orange juice
Current Clothes: PJs
Current Desktop: Bluebonnet photo I took at La Turista's house
Current Toenail Color: "Freshwater Pearl"
Current Time: 9:43pm
Current Surroundings: Guest room/office
Current Thoughts: I don't have to set my alarm tomorrow morning!
8 FIRSTS
First Best Friend: Stephanie Graham at Honeysuckle Montessori
First Kiss: Kyle Gilbreath at Skateland
First Screen Name: Marlaesque
First Pet: A tomcat I named Sharon
First Piercing: Ears. 7th Birthday. Merle Norman store in Kilgore, TX
First Crush: Jake Gladden
First CD: Something I ordered from the Columbia Music Club, I'm sure.
7 LASTS
Last Cigarette: Can't recall. Many, many years ago.
Last Car Ride: Home from work and Geej fetching.
Last Kiss: The Geej
Last Movie Seen: In the theater--"Reno: 911," at home, "The Miracle Worker"
Last Phone Call: Mr. Wonderful
Last CD Played: LCD Sound System
6 HAVE YOU EVERS
Have You Ever Dated One Of Your Best Guy/Girl Friends: Yep. Doing so currently as a matter of fact.
Have You Ever Broken the Law: Yes, but in misdemeanor ways.
Have You Ever Been Arrested: Thank God, no.
Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: Hell yes.
Have You Ever Been on TV: Not exactly but sort of.
Have You Ever Kissed Someone You Didn’t Know: Yes. Built to Spill concert at Stubb's. October 2002. It was awesome.
5 THINGS
Thing You’re Wearing: Glasses
Thing You’ve Done Today: Read books to The Geej
Thing You Can Hear Right Now: Distant cars driving by my neighborhood (my windows are open)
Thing You Can’t Live Without: Laughter
Thing You Do When You’re Bored: Channel surf
4 PLACES YOU'VE BEEN TODAY
1. The Geej's school
2. Whole Foods
3. My office
4. Galaxy Cafe
3 PEOPLE YOU CAN TELL ANYTHING TO
1. Julie
2. Thelma Jane
3. Mr. Wonderful
2 CHOICES
1. Black or White: black
2. Hot or Cold: hot
1 THING YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE
Relax
10 FAVORITES
Favorite Color: Aqua
Favorite Food: Cheese
Favorite Month: October
Favorite Song: I have no fucking idea.
Favorite Movie: Probably "Raising Arizona"
Favorite Sport: College football
Favorite Season: Autumn
Favorite Day of the week: Sunday
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Mint Chocolate Chip
Favorite Time of Day: Between 10pm and midnight
9 CURRENTS
Current Mood: Tired
Current Taste: Orange juice
Current Clothes: PJs
Current Desktop: Bluebonnet photo I took at La Turista's house
Current Toenail Color: "Freshwater Pearl"
Current Time: 9:43pm
Current Surroundings: Guest room/office
Current Thoughts: I don't have to set my alarm tomorrow morning!
8 FIRSTS
First Best Friend: Stephanie Graham at Honeysuckle Montessori
First Kiss: Kyle Gilbreath at Skateland
First Screen Name: Marlaesque
First Pet: A tomcat I named Sharon
First Piercing: Ears. 7th Birthday. Merle Norman store in Kilgore, TX
First Crush: Jake Gladden
First CD: Something I ordered from the Columbia Music Club, I'm sure.
7 LASTS
Last Cigarette: Can't recall. Many, many years ago.
Last Car Ride: Home from work and Geej fetching.
Last Kiss: The Geej
Last Movie Seen: In the theater--"Reno: 911," at home, "The Miracle Worker"
Last Phone Call: Mr. Wonderful
Last CD Played: LCD Sound System
6 HAVE YOU EVERS
Have You Ever Dated One Of Your Best Guy/Girl Friends: Yep. Doing so currently as a matter of fact.
Have You Ever Broken the Law: Yes, but in misdemeanor ways.
Have You Ever Been Arrested: Thank God, no.
Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: Hell yes.
Have You Ever Been on TV: Not exactly but sort of.
Have You Ever Kissed Someone You Didn’t Know: Yes. Built to Spill concert at Stubb's. October 2002. It was awesome.
5 THINGS
Thing You’re Wearing: Glasses
Thing You’ve Done Today: Read books to The Geej
Thing You Can Hear Right Now: Distant cars driving by my neighborhood (my windows are open)
Thing You Can’t Live Without: Laughter
Thing You Do When You’re Bored: Channel surf
4 PLACES YOU'VE BEEN TODAY
1. The Geej's school
2. Whole Foods
3. My office
4. Galaxy Cafe
3 PEOPLE YOU CAN TELL ANYTHING TO
1. Julie
2. Thelma Jane
3. Mr. Wonderful
2 CHOICES
1. Black or White: black
2. Hot or Cold: hot
1 THING YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE
Relax
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Pictures (because I'm too tired to actually write anything).
I'm suffering from severe brain mush syndrome. Work's cranked up to mach 5, and The Geej is wearing me out too. I guess this last birthday really did a number on me, because Internets, I'm feeling OLD and worn the hell out.
So in lieu of actually posting something that might make me have to string together actual words that make a wee bit of sense, my I humbly submit a few images, including some Me/Not Me stuff I forgot to include the first time around.
Enjoy. I'm going to shave my legs and hit the hay.
An absolutely stunning cake that The Geej decorated during our Sunday playdate with the Malcontentettes. It was jolly fun. You gotta hand it to Mama M., she's way more homemakerly than I could ever be. I mean, you should've SEEN the selection of sprinkles this gal had on hand.
A fashion statement made by The Geej. Apparently she did this during the last 30 minutes of school, and wanted to keep it this way so I could see it. Then she wanted me to keep it this way so Earl and all of her babies could see it. And while we were talking to my mom on the phone, she was saying, "Look, Dah! See my chirt?" Man was she ever proud of this innovation.
Speaking of The Geej, I took her to the doctor yesterday due to this persistent cough she's had that suddenly stopped responding altogether to any kind of cough meds, and they weighed her. She still weighs less than 26 lbs. The girl's a wisp.
Okay, now to the me/not me hooey.
Me:
Not me:
Yep:
Nope:
Always: 
Never:
Nodding in approval:
Shaking head in disgust:
Oh yes:Hell no: 
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Me/Not Me Meme
Totally stolen from the goddess/genius who is Badger.
And me:
And might I just say: Hardest. Meme. EVAH!
Me:
Not me:
Me:
Not me:
Me:
Me:
And me:
Not me:
Me:
Not me:
Much:
Not so much:
Not me:
Me:
Not me:
Me:
Not me:
Me:
And also me:
SO not me, it's not even funny (get it? FUNNY? They're comedians!! Har har!):
Me:
Nauseatingly not me:
Me:
Not me:
Me:
(Phobically) Not me--it took a LOT for me to image search "eel":
No:
What I hope I'm NOT:
What I'd like to be:
Friday, January 05, 2007
Some things I will probably never do (or will probably never do again).
Eat veal.
Go "noodling" for catfish.
Try to snowboard.
Smoke a cigarette.
Snort coke.
Drink Pepsi.
Get divorced.
Vote Republican.
Cheat on a test.
Own a ferret.
Think clowns are funny.
Like the music of Dave Matthews.
Buy a "Bratz" product.
Shop at Wal-Mart.
Take free time for granted.
Do a round off back handspring.
Go to Detroit.
Basejump.
Get a "Brazilian."
Understand the Russian adoption process.
Have a nose job.
Stop loving cartoons.
Rollerskate.
Drink Absinthe.
Attend Mardi Gras.
Stop missing my dad.
Take Ecstasy.
Play polo.
Drink coffee.
Stop having nightmares about hospitals.
Own a Jack Russell terrier.
Drive a stick shift.
Fly a crop-duster.
See/communicate with my ex-husband.
Admit how old I really am to myself.
Be fearless about flying.
Get around to writing that book I'd love to write.
Be in a moshpit.
Eat proscuitto.
Finish reading the dictionary.
Stop loving Jon Stewart.
Understand the sense of entitlement, self-importance, obnoxiousness, and "I'm so much smarter than ANYone" bullshit that saddles most 20-somethings I know. Yeah, I said it.
(Speaking of 20-somethings...) Be ashamed for digging Justin Timberlake.
Try to make a "Baked Alaskan."
Grow beets.
Understand how George W. got elected as our president. Twice.
Under appreciate a good night's sleep.
Go "noodling" for catfish.
Try to snowboard.
Smoke a cigarette.
Snort coke.
Drink Pepsi.
Get divorced.
Vote Republican.
Cheat on a test.
Own a ferret.
Think clowns are funny.
Like the music of Dave Matthews.
Buy a "Bratz" product.
Shop at Wal-Mart.
Take free time for granted.
Do a round off back handspring.
Go to Detroit.
Basejump.
Get a "Brazilian."
Understand the Russian adoption process.
Have a nose job.
Stop loving cartoons.
Rollerskate.
Drink Absinthe.
Attend Mardi Gras.
Stop missing my dad.
Take Ecstasy.
Play polo.
Drink coffee.
Stop having nightmares about hospitals.
Own a Jack Russell terrier.
Drive a stick shift.
Fly a crop-duster.
See/communicate with my ex-husband.
Admit how old I really am to myself.
Be fearless about flying.
Get around to writing that book I'd love to write.
Be in a moshpit.
Eat proscuitto.
Finish reading the dictionary.
Stop loving Jon Stewart.
Understand the sense of entitlement, self-importance, obnoxiousness, and "I'm so much smarter than ANYone" bullshit that saddles most 20-somethings I know. Yeah, I said it.
(Speaking of 20-somethings...) Be ashamed for digging Justin Timberlake.
Try to make a "Baked Alaskan."
Grow beets.
Understand how George W. got elected as our president. Twice.
Under appreciate a good night's sleep.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Kiss my ass, 2006.
What a year, no? And it's going out with a bang what with The Godfather of Soul, Gerald Ford, and Saddam all biting the dust within a week of one another. I am happy to say that I am actually going out to celebrate the close of this strange year, and I'm super excited. If you've read this blog for any length of time and/or know me personally, you know what a psychotic Xanadu fan I am. So it makes TOTAL sense that I wouldn't be able to pass this event up, right? I mean, come ON!! That shit was made for me!! Plus, I haven't been out for NYE in at least 5 years. I'm not a big New Year's kind of gal anymore. In my twenties, sure. But now it all seems sort of asinine. I'm sure after tonight it will probably be at least another five years before something comes along that's tempting enough to lure me out of the house on NYE. Now I just need to go figure out what the fuck I'm going to wear...
This year was filled with high highs (falling in love with Mr. Wonderful, my promotion at work, making it halfway through potty training The Geej, the Geej's wonderful new school, etc.) and very low lows (the whole hospital ordeal, putting Ellen to sleep). I want next year to bore my socks off. I hope that it is utterly uneventful, but with my track record, I don't see that really happening.
I haven't made any resolutions per se. However, I have figured out a kick ass tattoo I want to get, and I'd like to have it designed and ready to go by April 5th--the date that the Geej's adoption was finalized. And the area of my body where I want this thing to go could use some, uh, firming up. So I guess that's sort of a goal/resolution.
Speaking of The Geej, she did something hilarious yesterday. I was talking with Mr. Wonderful on the phone, and she was playing near by. I told him "shut up" in a playful way, and suddenly, she was walking around saying "Shut UP! Shut UP!" to everything. She walked up to Earl and said, "Shut UP, purring!" And then she continued her tirade by saying, "Shut UP, door!" "Shut UP, Christmas tree!" "Shut UP, window!" And on and on and on. Sigh... That's going to be a hard one to explain she she goes back to school.
I guess I'll finish up this post by doing a fun new meme that Jaye made up.
Open iTunes. Click the column header for "Play Count". What are the first five songs listed?
Independence Day--Elliot Smith
Crazy--Gnarls Barkley
Black Sweat--Prince
Yellow Sarong--Yo La Tengo
Pitseleh--Elliot Smith
Click the column header for Last Played. What are the first 5 songs?
I Won--The Sundays
Street Spirit (Fade Out)--Radiohead
A Prayer for England--Massive Attack
Going Down to Liverpool--The Bangles
Get Happy--The Bud Powell Trio
Click Party Shuffle. What are the first 5 songs?
Easter Song--A Man Called Adam
The Hollow--A Perfect Circle
Not Too Soon--Throwing Muses
Tears of God--Los Lobos
The Space Between--Zero 7
Click the column header Year. What are the first 5 songs from 1994?
The first five songs from The Beastie Boys, Ill Communication
Click the column header My Rating. What are the first 5 songs?
Um yeah...I haven't ever rated anything.
Finally, look at the bottom of your iTunes window. How many days of music do you have?
25.4 days
Happy New Year folks!!
This year was filled with high highs (falling in love with Mr. Wonderful, my promotion at work, making it halfway through potty training The Geej, the Geej's wonderful new school, etc.) and very low lows (the whole hospital ordeal, putting Ellen to sleep). I want next year to bore my socks off. I hope that it is utterly uneventful, but with my track record, I don't see that really happening.
I haven't made any resolutions per se. However, I have figured out a kick ass tattoo I want to get, and I'd like to have it designed and ready to go by April 5th--the date that the Geej's adoption was finalized. And the area of my body where I want this thing to go could use some, uh, firming up. So I guess that's sort of a goal/resolution.
Speaking of The Geej, she did something hilarious yesterday. I was talking with Mr. Wonderful on the phone, and she was playing near by. I told him "shut up" in a playful way, and suddenly, she was walking around saying "Shut UP! Shut UP!" to everything. She walked up to Earl and said, "Shut UP, purring!" And then she continued her tirade by saying, "Shut UP, door!" "Shut UP, Christmas tree!" "Shut UP, window!" And on and on and on. Sigh... That's going to be a hard one to explain she she goes back to school.
I guess I'll finish up this post by doing a fun new meme that Jaye made up.
Open iTunes. Click the column header for "Play Count". What are the first five songs listed?
Independence Day--Elliot Smith
Crazy--Gnarls Barkley
Black Sweat--Prince
Yellow Sarong--Yo La Tengo
Pitseleh--Elliot Smith
Click the column header for Last Played. What are the first 5 songs?
I Won--The Sundays
Street Spirit (Fade Out)--Radiohead
A Prayer for England--Massive Attack
Going Down to Liverpool--The Bangles
Get Happy--The Bud Powell Trio
Click Party Shuffle. What are the first 5 songs?
Easter Song--A Man Called Adam
The Hollow--A Perfect Circle
Not Too Soon--Throwing Muses
Tears of God--Los Lobos
The Space Between--Zero 7
Click the column header Year. What are the first 5 songs from 1994?
The first five songs from The Beastie Boys, Ill Communication
Click the column header My Rating. What are the first 5 songs?
Um yeah...I haven't ever rated anything.
Finally, look at the bottom of your iTunes window. How many days of music do you have?
25.4 days
Happy New Year folks!!
Friday, December 08, 2006
500th Post!
This is number 500, folks! Yay!! So why not celebrate with a meme? I'm pretty sure La Turista was referring to me when she talked about her weird friends. So, here goes.
6 Weird Things About Karla May
1. When I fill my car up with gas, I always ALWAYS have to make sure the dollar amount ends in either a "5" or a "0." As in, $12.32? Not okay. $12.30 or $12.35, perfect.
2. I love peanuts. I love Snickers bars. I love peanut butter on saltine crackers. But I will NOT eat any kind of peanut flavored food or anything else that has peanuts/peanut butter in or on it.
3. When I laugh really hard, my knees buckle. I literally fall down laughing, and there's nothing I can do about it. I am a total freakin' spaz.
4. There are certain words that I hate the sound of so much that they can make me gag if I hear them.
5. I haven't eaten anything with hooves or fur since 1994. And it's not because I'm some big animal rights person. (Although I have many friends who are, and I respect the hell out of their opinions.) Here's why I made this choice: I figure, if I eat something, I should be willing to kill it. I could never, ever kill a cow, lamb, deer, rabbit, or pig. But I've fished, and would do so again. And if it came down to me and a chicken or turkey, and we were on a desert island? I could take that fowl down.
6. I hope to one day own a goat as a pet.
6 Weird Things About Karla May
1. When I fill my car up with gas, I always ALWAYS have to make sure the dollar amount ends in either a "5" or a "0." As in, $12.32? Not okay. $12.30 or $12.35, perfect.
2. I love peanuts. I love Snickers bars. I love peanut butter on saltine crackers. But I will NOT eat any kind of peanut flavored food or anything else that has peanuts/peanut butter in or on it.
3. When I laugh really hard, my knees buckle. I literally fall down laughing, and there's nothing I can do about it. I am a total freakin' spaz.
4. There are certain words that I hate the sound of so much that they can make me gag if I hear them.
5. I haven't eaten anything with hooves or fur since 1994. And it's not because I'm some big animal rights person. (Although I have many friends who are, and I respect the hell out of their opinions.) Here's why I made this choice: I figure, if I eat something, I should be willing to kill it. I could never, ever kill a cow, lamb, deer, rabbit, or pig. But I've fished, and would do so again. And if it came down to me and a chicken or turkey, and we were on a desert island? I could take that fowl down.
6. I hope to one day own a goat as a pet.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
1 Word Meme
Stolen from Angry Pregnant Lawyer. That's right: It was the first time I ever went to her blog, and I stole something. What's she gonna do, sue me?
Oh, wait...
Yourself: Overwhelmed
Your partner: Away
Your hair: Dyed
Your Mother: Generous
Your Father: Gone
Your Favorite Item: Sanity
Your dream last night: Bizarre
Your Favorite Drink: Water
Your Dream Car: Paid
Your Dream Home: Mid-century
The Room You Are In: Office
Your Ex: Immature
Your fear: Hospitals
Where you Want to be in Ten Years? Healthy
Who you hung out with last night: Geej
What You're Not: Quiet
Muffins: Pumpkin
One of Your Wish List Items: Landscaping
The Last Thing You Did: Ate
What You Are Wearing: Jeans
Your favorite weather: Crisp
Your Favorite Book: Nonfiction
Last thing you ate: Indian
Your Life: Full
Your mood: Edgy
Your Best Friends: Amazing
What are you thinking about right now: Thanksgiving
Your car: Clean!
What are you doing at the moment: Typing
Your summer: Rough
Relationship status: Deep
What is on your TV: Off
What is the weather like: Autumnal
When is the last time you laughed: Sunday
Oh, wait...
Yourself: Overwhelmed
Your partner: Away
Your hair: Dyed
Your Mother: Generous
Your Father: Gone
Your Favorite Item: Sanity
Your dream last night: Bizarre
Your Favorite Drink: Water
Your Dream Car: Paid
Your Dream Home: Mid-century
The Room You Are In: Office
Your Ex: Immature
Your fear: Hospitals
Where you Want to be in Ten Years? Healthy
Who you hung out with last night: Geej
What You're Not: Quiet
Muffins: Pumpkin
One of Your Wish List Items: Landscaping
The Last Thing You Did: Ate
What You Are Wearing: Jeans
Your favorite weather: Crisp
Your Favorite Book: Nonfiction
Last thing you ate: Indian
Your Life: Full
Your mood: Edgy
Your Best Friends: Amazing
What are you thinking about right now: Thanksgiving
Your car: Clean!
What are you doing at the moment: Typing
Your summer: Rough
Relationship status: Deep
What is on your TV: Off
What is the weather like: Autumnal
When is the last time you laughed: Sunday
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
That really hard meme that all my blogging buddies have been doing.
Now it's my turn, I suppose.
1. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
Karl Rove.
2. You can flip a switch that will wipe any band or musical artist out of existence. Which one will it be?
Toby Keith. Duh.
3. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
Paris "Lazy Eye/Stinky Crotch" Hilton.
4. What is your favorite cheese?
GOD that’s a hard one. Um…a really good chevre, like Pure Luck Farms.
5. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your immediate disposal. What kind will you make?
Leftover smoked turkey breast from Thanksgiving, lots of avocado, German mustard, iceberg lettuce, thinly sliced perfectly ripe Roma tomatoes, and Swiss cheese on lightly toasted whole wheat bread.
6. You have the opportunity to sleep with the movie celebrity of your choice. We are talking no-strings-attached sex and it can only happen once. Who is the lucky celebrity of your choice?
Viggo Mortensen.
7. You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Who do you pick?
Howe Gelb. But I’d want strings attached.
8. Now that you've slept with two different people in a row, you seem to be having an excellent day because you just came across a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk. Holy crap, a hundred bucks! How are you gonna spend it?
An exquisite meal at a really nice restaurant.
9. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?
Denver (to see Mr. Wonderful). I know. It’s sappy, but it’s true.
10. Upon arrival to the aforementioned location, you get off the plane and discover another hundred-dollar bill. Now that you are in the new location, what are you gonna do?
Use it to supplement the rental of a really swanky hotel room for Mr. Wonderful and I for the night.
11. A demon rises out of Hell and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. It is...?
King Estate Pinot Gris
12. Rufus appears out of nowhere with a time-traveling phone booth. You can go anytime in the PAST. What time are you traveling to and what are you going to do when you get there?
1960s London. I’d become an English version of Chrissie Hynde—hailed as a music and fashion pioneer--and I’d somehow end up briefly married to David Bowie.
13. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
Everyone gets to sleep as late as they fucking want. And if you’re a “morning person” who wakes up at the crack of dawn and wakes others who are trying to sleep up, you get sent out to sea on a rickety raft.
14. You have been given the opportunity to create the half-hour TV show of your own design. What is it called and what's the premise?
It’s a show called, “You Want the Truth?” Really rich people who are surrounded by “yes men” all the time consult me and ask me the questions that they want to get a 100% honest, no strings attached answer to. The catch is, they HAVE to do whatever I advise.
15. What is your favorite curse word?
Fuck. So simple. So versatile. So perfect.
16. One night you wake up because you heard a noise. You turn on the light to find that you are surrounded by MUMMIES. The mummies aren't really doing anything, they're just standing around your bed. What do you do?
Ask them, “So…are we gonna party, or what?”
17. Your house is on fire! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don't worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what's the item?
I wish I had something really sentimental to say like, “My great grandmother’s wedding dress. She wore it as she entered Ellis Island.” But no. Sadly, it would probably be my computer hard drive. It’s got my entire iTunes library, every digital photo I’ve ever taken, and a lot of writing and personal documents on it.
18. The Angel of Death has descended upon you. Fortunately, the Angel of Death is pretty cool and in a good mood, and it offers you a half-hour to do whatever you want before you bite it. Whatcha gonna do in that half-hour?
First 20 minutes: Put on my favorite music—LOUDLY—and have crazy sex with Mr. Wonderful. Next 8 minutes, huddle up with The Geej, Mr. Wonderful and my Mom and tell them how much I love all of them. Last 2 minutes, smoke a righteous bowl of weed and eat some Frito's and bean dip.
19. You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what's even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What's it gonna be?
Teletransportation.
20. You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
The first half hour I spent with The Geej. FINALLY meeting her—just the two of us in the orphanage director’s office on a horribly frigid December night in Russia. Holding her. Smelling her. Thinking to myself, “I can’t believe she’s real.”
21. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
Watching my father die.
22. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool stuff... you can move to anywhere else in the world! Bitchin'! What country are you going to live in now?
On a goat farm on the Cornwall coast of England.
23. This question still counts, even for those of you who are under age. You have been eternally banned from every single bar in the world except for ONE. Which one is it gonna be?
Donn’s Depot.
24. Hopefully you didn't mention this in the super-powers question.... If you did, then we'll just expand on that. Check it out... Suddenly, you have gained the ability to FLOAT!!! Whose house are you going to float to first, and be like "Dude, check it out... I can FLOAT!"?
Well, because he only lives about 10 houses away and would get a total kick out of it, I’d have to say my friend Chaz.
25. The constant absorption of magical moonbeams mixed with the radioactive vegetables you consumed earlier has given you the ability to resurrect the dead famous-person of your choice. So which celebrity will you bring back to life?
Gilda Radner
26. The Gates of Hell have opened, and Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person, etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?
My dad.
27. What's your theme song?
“But I Did Not” by Howe Gelb
1. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
Karl Rove.
2. You can flip a switch that will wipe any band or musical artist out of existence. Which one will it be?
Toby Keith. Duh.
3. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
Paris "Lazy Eye/Stinky Crotch" Hilton.
4. What is your favorite cheese?
GOD that’s a hard one. Um…a really good chevre, like Pure Luck Farms.
5. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your immediate disposal. What kind will you make?
Leftover smoked turkey breast from Thanksgiving, lots of avocado, German mustard, iceberg lettuce, thinly sliced perfectly ripe Roma tomatoes, and Swiss cheese on lightly toasted whole wheat bread.
6. You have the opportunity to sleep with the movie celebrity of your choice. We are talking no-strings-attached sex and it can only happen once. Who is the lucky celebrity of your choice?
Viggo Mortensen.
7. You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Who do you pick?
Howe Gelb. But I’d want strings attached.
8. Now that you've slept with two different people in a row, you seem to be having an excellent day because you just came across a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk. Holy crap, a hundred bucks! How are you gonna spend it?
An exquisite meal at a really nice restaurant.
9. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?
Denver (to see Mr. Wonderful). I know. It’s sappy, but it’s true.
10. Upon arrival to the aforementioned location, you get off the plane and discover another hundred-dollar bill. Now that you are in the new location, what are you gonna do?
Use it to supplement the rental of a really swanky hotel room for Mr. Wonderful and I for the night.
11. A demon rises out of Hell and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. It is...?
King Estate Pinot Gris
12. Rufus appears out of nowhere with a time-traveling phone booth. You can go anytime in the PAST. What time are you traveling to and what are you going to do when you get there?
1960s London. I’d become an English version of Chrissie Hynde—hailed as a music and fashion pioneer--and I’d somehow end up briefly married to David Bowie.
13. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
Everyone gets to sleep as late as they fucking want. And if you’re a “morning person” who wakes up at the crack of dawn and wakes others who are trying to sleep up, you get sent out to sea on a rickety raft.
14. You have been given the opportunity to create the half-hour TV show of your own design. What is it called and what's the premise?
It’s a show called, “You Want the Truth?” Really rich people who are surrounded by “yes men” all the time consult me and ask me the questions that they want to get a 100% honest, no strings attached answer to. The catch is, they HAVE to do whatever I advise.
15. What is your favorite curse word?
Fuck. So simple. So versatile. So perfect.
16. One night you wake up because you heard a noise. You turn on the light to find that you are surrounded by MUMMIES. The mummies aren't really doing anything, they're just standing around your bed. What do you do?
Ask them, “So…are we gonna party, or what?”
17. Your house is on fire! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don't worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what's the item?
I wish I had something really sentimental to say like, “My great grandmother’s wedding dress. She wore it as she entered Ellis Island.” But no. Sadly, it would probably be my computer hard drive. It’s got my entire iTunes library, every digital photo I’ve ever taken, and a lot of writing and personal documents on it.
18. The Angel of Death has descended upon you. Fortunately, the Angel of Death is pretty cool and in a good mood, and it offers you a half-hour to do whatever you want before you bite it. Whatcha gonna do in that half-hour?
First 20 minutes: Put on my favorite music—LOUDLY—and have crazy sex with Mr. Wonderful. Next 8 minutes, huddle up with The Geej, Mr. Wonderful and my Mom and tell them how much I love all of them. Last 2 minutes, smoke a righteous bowl of weed and eat some Frito's and bean dip.
19. You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what's even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What's it gonna be?
Teletransportation.
20. You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
The first half hour I spent with The Geej. FINALLY meeting her—just the two of us in the orphanage director’s office on a horribly frigid December night in Russia. Holding her. Smelling her. Thinking to myself, “I can’t believe she’s real.”
21. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
Watching my father die.
22. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool stuff... you can move to anywhere else in the world! Bitchin'! What country are you going to live in now?
On a goat farm on the Cornwall coast of England.
23. This question still counts, even for those of you who are under age. You have been eternally banned from every single bar in the world except for ONE. Which one is it gonna be?
Donn’s Depot.
24. Hopefully you didn't mention this in the super-powers question.... If you did, then we'll just expand on that. Check it out... Suddenly, you have gained the ability to FLOAT!!! Whose house are you going to float to first, and be like "Dude, check it out... I can FLOAT!"?
Well, because he only lives about 10 houses away and would get a total kick out of it, I’d have to say my friend Chaz.
25. The constant absorption of magical moonbeams mixed with the radioactive vegetables you consumed earlier has given you the ability to resurrect the dead famous-person of your choice. So which celebrity will you bring back to life?
Gilda Radner
26. The Gates of Hell have opened, and Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person, etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?
My dad.
27. What's your theme song?
“But I Did Not” by Howe Gelb
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Welcome to My Nightmare, Part 2*.
Thanks to the fabulous Mags for this loverly meme.
Let's see what it's like in my hell, shall we?
Drinks in my hell:
Buttermilk
Absinthe
Coffee
Red Bull
Wheatgrass shots
Diet Coke (or any diet drinks for that matter)
Sweet tea (you know, the kind you order in southern restaurants or at Milo's)
Bongwater (not technically a drink, but still...eww.)
Food in my hell:
Beets
Unagi
Veal
Licorice
Mayonnaise
Burnt microwave popcorn
Bleu cheese
Thousand Island dressing
Butterscotch anything
Occupations in my hell:
Maid at a frat house
Person who picks up roadkill
Toby Keith’s road manager
Line worker at a slaughterhouse
Whitehouse Press Secretary under George Bush
The nurse at the pediatrician’s office whose only job is to give babies and kids shots
Road construction worker in Texas in August
Person who has to clean out port-a-potties after some big music festival
Rodent exterminator
Music mix in my hell:
Toby
Celine
Slipknot
Big and Rich
post-Van Halen David Lee Roth
Norwegian death metal
Anything sung by Elmo
President in my hell:
GWB. OMG. WTF.
Only author in my hell:
Anne Coulter
Husbands in my hell:
A chain-smoking hardcore born-again Christian active military sexist/racist republican jack off with a Napoleon complex
Kevin Federline
Robin Williams
Tom Arnold
Only activities allowed in my hell:
Shopping for bathing suits
Getting bitten by mosquitoes or other types of bugs (horseflies, chiggers, spiders, etc.)
Putting away laundry
Having a gynecological exam
Dealing with car trouble
Dieting
Standing in line at the Social Security office
Doing my own taxes
Sitting in traffic
Cleaning out the garage. In August. In Texas.
Packing to move or for a trip
Putting together furniture from IKEA
*The original "Welcome to My Nightmare" can be found here.
Let's see what it's like in my hell, shall we?
Drinks in my hell:
Buttermilk
Absinthe
Coffee
Red Bull
Wheatgrass shots
Diet Coke (or any diet drinks for that matter)
Sweet tea (you know, the kind you order in southern restaurants or at Milo's)
Bongwater (not technically a drink, but still...eww.)
Food in my hell:
Beets
Unagi
Veal
Licorice
Mayonnaise
Burnt microwave popcorn
Bleu cheese
Thousand Island dressing
Butterscotch anything
Occupations in my hell:
Maid at a frat house
Person who picks up roadkill
Toby Keith’s road manager
Line worker at a slaughterhouse
Whitehouse Press Secretary under George Bush
The nurse at the pediatrician’s office whose only job is to give babies and kids shots
Road construction worker in Texas in August
Person who has to clean out port-a-potties after some big music festival
Rodent exterminator
Music mix in my hell:
Toby
Celine
Slipknot
Big and Rich
post-Van Halen David Lee Roth
Norwegian death metal
Anything sung by Elmo
President in my hell:
GWB. OMG. WTF.
Only author in my hell:
Anne Coulter
Husbands in my hell:
A chain-smoking hardcore born-again Christian active military sexist/racist republican jack off with a Napoleon complex
Kevin Federline
Robin Williams
Tom Arnold
Only activities allowed in my hell:
Shopping for bathing suits
Getting bitten by mosquitoes or other types of bugs (horseflies, chiggers, spiders, etc.)
Putting away laundry
Having a gynecological exam
Dealing with car trouble
Dieting
Standing in line at the Social Security office
Doing my own taxes
Sitting in traffic
Cleaning out the garage. In August. In Texas.
Packing to move or for a trip
Putting together furniture from IKEA
*The original "Welcome to My Nightmare" can be found here.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Hardest. Meme. Ever.
Wow, Bookhart. You really threw down the meme gauntlet. This one was TOUGH. But fun.
The Up to Three Music Meme!!
Songs that I Loathe to the Core of My Being:
We Built This City—Starship (Really. Is there a shittier song?)
Walk Like an Egyptian—The Bangles
Mony Mony—Billy Idol
Musical Artists I Loathe to the Core of My Being:
Toby Fucking Keith
Celine Fucking Dion
P. Fucking Diddy
Rolling Stones Songs I Love:
Faraway Eyes
Torn & Frayed
Prodigal Son
Beatles Songs I Love:
Because
In My Life
If I Needed Someone
Who Songs I Love:
Me no likey The Who, so I’m putting Pink Floyd songs I love:
Goodbye, Blue Sky
Wish You Were Here
Us and Them
Reggae Songs I Love:
Walking On the Moon—The Police
Could You Be Loved—Bob Marley
Red, Red Wine—UB40
Country Songs I Love:
Tattle Tale Tears—Faron Young
Long, Black Veil—Lefty Frizzell
Silver Wings—Merle Haggard
Movie Soundtracks I Love:
Cotton Club
Xanadu
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Musical Soundtracks I Love:
I got nuthin’ except "The Wiz". So I’ll give you three more movie soundtracks I love:
Ghostworld
Stealing Beauty
Boogie Nights
Cover Songs I Love:
Across the Universe—Rufus Wainright
Alone Again Or—Calexico
Man Who Sold the World—Nirvana
Contemporary Top-40 Artists I Secretly Love:
Justin Timberlake (but it’s not really a secret, is it)
Gwen Stefani/No Doubt
Beyoncé
Songs That Bring Me To Tears:
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Willie Nelson
Breathe Me, Sia
Into the Sunset, Neil Finn
Songs That Make Me Shake My Ass:
Black Sweat—Prince
Gold Digger—Kanye West
Crazy—Gnarls Barkley
Classical Composers I Love:
Vivaldi
Satie
Mozart
Rap/Hip-Hop Songs I Love:
Vivrant Thing, Q-Tip
How Do You Want It, 2Pac w/K-Ci and Jo-Jo
The Fabulous Ones, Blackalicious
70s Disco Songs I Love:
I Feel Love, Donna Summer
I Was Made for Loving You, Kiss
More Than a Woman, Bee Gees
70s Supergroup Songs I Love:
Melissa, Allman Bros.
Simple Man, Lynyrd Skynrd
Red Barchetta, Rush
Metal Songs I Love:
Too Young to Fall In Love—Motley Crue
Some Heads Are Gonna Roll—Judas Priest
Stinkfist--Tool
New Wave Songs I Love:
Love In Itself, Depeche Mode
The Killing Moon, Echo and the Bunnymen
Planet Earth, Duran Duran
Soul/R&B Songs I Love:
That’s What My Heart Needs—Otis Redding
He Loves Me—Jill Scott
Overjoyed—Stevie Wonder
Power Ballads I Love:
Lights—Journey
Waiting for a Girl Like You—Foreigner
Sister Christian—Night Ranger
Pre Rock-n-Roll Era Songs I Love:
Ill Wind—Ella Fitzgerald’s version
Be My Life’s Companion—Rosemary Clooney’s or The Mills Bros. version
Ain’t That a Kick in the Head—Dean Martin’s version
Punk Songs I Love:
Dirty Boots—Sonic Youth
I Wanna Be Your Dog—The Stooges
Lithium—Nirvana
Singer/Songwriter Songs I Love:
Waiting for my Real Life to Begin—Colin Hay
Save Me—Aimee Mann
Live Forever—Billy Joe Shaver
Music Videos I Love:
Sabotage, Beastie Boys
Big Me, Foo Fighters
Karma Police, Radiohead
None of the Above Songs I Love:
Autumn Sweater, Yo La Tengo
Nautical Disaster, The Tragically Hip
Independence Day, Elliott Smith
Guilty Pleasures:
Toxic, Britney Spears
Drive, Incubus
Yeah!, Usher
Songs to Have Sex To:
Simply Beautiful, Al Green
Cracklin’ Water, Giant Sand
Fade Into You, Mazzy Star
The Up to Three Music Meme!!
Songs that I Loathe to the Core of My Being:
We Built This City—Starship (Really. Is there a shittier song?)
Walk Like an Egyptian—The Bangles
Mony Mony—Billy Idol
Musical Artists I Loathe to the Core of My Being:
Toby Fucking Keith
Celine Fucking Dion
P. Fucking Diddy
Rolling Stones Songs I Love:
Faraway Eyes
Torn & Frayed
Prodigal Son
Beatles Songs I Love:
Because
In My Life
If I Needed Someone
Who Songs I Love:
Me no likey The Who, so I’m putting Pink Floyd songs I love:
Goodbye, Blue Sky
Wish You Were Here
Us and Them
Reggae Songs I Love:
Walking On the Moon—The Police
Could You Be Loved—Bob Marley
Red, Red Wine—UB40
Country Songs I Love:
Tattle Tale Tears—Faron Young
Long, Black Veil—Lefty Frizzell
Silver Wings—Merle Haggard
Movie Soundtracks I Love:
Cotton Club
Xanadu
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Musical Soundtracks I Love:
I got nuthin’ except "The Wiz". So I’ll give you three more movie soundtracks I love:
Ghostworld
Stealing Beauty
Boogie Nights
Cover Songs I Love:
Across the Universe—Rufus Wainright
Alone Again Or—Calexico
Man Who Sold the World—Nirvana
Contemporary Top-40 Artists I Secretly Love:
Justin Timberlake (but it’s not really a secret, is it)
Gwen Stefani/No Doubt
Beyoncé
Songs That Bring Me To Tears:
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Willie Nelson
Breathe Me, Sia
Into the Sunset, Neil Finn
Songs That Make Me Shake My Ass:
Black Sweat—Prince
Gold Digger—Kanye West
Crazy—Gnarls Barkley
Classical Composers I Love:
Vivaldi
Satie
Mozart
Rap/Hip-Hop Songs I Love:
Vivrant Thing, Q-Tip
How Do You Want It, 2Pac w/K-Ci and Jo-Jo
The Fabulous Ones, Blackalicious
70s Disco Songs I Love:
I Feel Love, Donna Summer
I Was Made for Loving You, Kiss
More Than a Woman, Bee Gees
70s Supergroup Songs I Love:
Melissa, Allman Bros.
Simple Man, Lynyrd Skynrd
Red Barchetta, Rush
Metal Songs I Love:
Too Young to Fall In Love—Motley Crue
Some Heads Are Gonna Roll—Judas Priest
Stinkfist--Tool
New Wave Songs I Love:
Love In Itself, Depeche Mode
The Killing Moon, Echo and the Bunnymen
Planet Earth, Duran Duran
Soul/R&B Songs I Love:
That’s What My Heart Needs—Otis Redding
He Loves Me—Jill Scott
Overjoyed—Stevie Wonder
Power Ballads I Love:
Lights—Journey
Waiting for a Girl Like You—Foreigner
Sister Christian—Night Ranger
Pre Rock-n-Roll Era Songs I Love:
Ill Wind—Ella Fitzgerald’s version
Be My Life’s Companion—Rosemary Clooney’s or The Mills Bros. version
Ain’t That a Kick in the Head—Dean Martin’s version
Punk Songs I Love:
Dirty Boots—Sonic Youth
I Wanna Be Your Dog—The Stooges
Lithium—Nirvana
Singer/Songwriter Songs I Love:
Waiting for my Real Life to Begin—Colin Hay
Save Me—Aimee Mann
Live Forever—Billy Joe Shaver
Music Videos I Love:
Sabotage, Beastie Boys
Big Me, Foo Fighters
Karma Police, Radiohead
None of the Above Songs I Love:
Autumn Sweater, Yo La Tengo
Nautical Disaster, The Tragically Hip
Independence Day, Elliott Smith
Guilty Pleasures:
Toxic, Britney Spears
Drive, Incubus
Yeah!, Usher
Songs to Have Sex To:
Simply Beautiful, Al Green
Cracklin’ Water, Giant Sand
Fade Into You, Mazzy Star
Friday, January 20, 2006
It's all about Meme.
Right now, there are no words to describe what it's like at work. "Crazy" doesn't cut it. "Manic" is simply too lame. But suffice it to say, I'm up to my nostrils in work and meetings, meetings, meetings. It's driving me nuts. I can't ever get shit done because I'm running from one damn meeting to the next. Part of this frenzy is due to the fact that my crazy-as-a-shithouse-rat boss is leaving the company after 17+ years. This coming Friday is her last day. The rest of the insanity is due to the fact that we have no real idea what's going to happen to our team--we know a big change is coming, but we haven't been told how her leaving is going to impact us.
All of this is to say that, although I want to be original and witty and insightful and whatnot, I simply cannot rally. All I want to do is sit out on my deck, stare out into the darkness, and have a very stiff drink. Or a stiff man. Whatever comes my way. (And as I near my 2 year anniversary of being celibate, I'm guessing that the stiff drink is the more likely companion...)
So I stole this. A meme. Here goes:
A-Z Meme
A - Accent: The East Texas accent is a bizarre animal. George Jones has it. So does Matthew McConaughey. Lady Bird Johnson has it, big time. So it vacillates between genteel deep south and inbred redneck. And then there are those of us who had the shit scared out of us by our voice coaches in theatre school who told us we'd be typecast as truckstop waitresses and abused wives if we didn't lose some our drawl. Let's just say, I have a love/hate relationship with my accent.
B - Breakfast Item: (Not every day, because I'd be the size of a Mini Cooper, but ultimate breakfast food), migas.
C - Chore you hate: Is shaving your legs technically a "chore?"
D - Dad's Name: James Austin. I briefly considered naming my daughter "James."
E - Essential everyday item: Gum.
F - Flavour ice cream: Mint/chocolate chip
G - Gold or Silver?: Silver
H - Hometown: Longview. County seat of Gregg County, Texas.
I - Insomnia: Primarily when I'm stressed. I usually have no problem getting to sleep, it's staying asleep that I can't do. Ambien is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
J - Job Title: Project and Communications Coordinator
K - Kids: One. The Geej. Nearly 18 mos. old. Amazing little person. More beautiful than I could've ever imagined. Smarter than me. A gift from God.
L - Living arrangements: Me. The Geej. The old lady cat. The young boy cat. A house that we just moved in to in November. The first place I've ever owned.
M - Mum's birthplace: Kilgore, TX. Home of the world famous Rangerettes!!
N - Number of significant others: Do toddlers count? If so, one. If not, zero. ZERO.
O - Overnight hospital stays: Three. All gynecological. All a TOTAL blast*. (*Not a blast. At all.)
P - Phobia: Roaches/"Water bugs" And eels. I fucking can't even visualize an eel with out getting the heebie jeebies. And you'd think that Unagi would be the ultimate revenge. But I can barely read that word on the menu without breaking into a cold sweat.
Q - Queer?: Experimented? Yes. Decided it was for me? No. Respect the shit out of it? Yes.
R - Religious Affiliation: None, really. Had the whole Southern Baptist thing growing up. Have had interest in Judaism and Universalist Unitarianism as an adult. Haven't pursued either with any kind of conviction.
S-Siblings: None. But apparently my mom had a 2nd trimester miscarriage before me. A boy.
T - Time you wake up: Weekdays--5:55am. Weekends--as late as The Geej will let me sleep. Usually 7:45-ish.
U - Unnatural hair colours you've worn: If you count my wig collection--aqua, violet, firetruck red, platinum, royal blue, pink, magenta, black, If you count my adventures into actual haircolor, there are many: platinum, dark aubergine w/hot pink streaks, dark brown with bright red streaks, dark auburn with platinum streaks, basic auburn, bright red. If it's in the red or blonde color spectrum, I've done it.
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: Beets.
W - Worst Habit: God, there are so many. I'll just grab in to my mental grab bag...um, ooh! What have we got here?! Oh..."Being Lazy." That's right folks: Any spare moment I can grab, I'm lying on the couch, gazing at the ceiling. I call it "down time." But really, it's time when I could be doing Pilates, or curing cancer, or sewing on buttons. So really, I'm just being lazy.
X - X-rays youÂ’ve had: Teeth. Neck. Foot.
Y - Yummy: Anything that has any one the following ingredients: Avocado. Salt. Cheese. A fried substance. So, like a skinned avocado, rolled in sea salt, dipped in batter, fried and covered in cheese would probably cause me to have a stoke with delight.
Z - Zodiac sign: Aquarius. Don't believe me?
All of this is to say that, although I want to be original and witty and insightful and whatnot, I simply cannot rally. All I want to do is sit out on my deck, stare out into the darkness, and have a very stiff drink. Or a stiff man. Whatever comes my way. (And as I near my 2 year anniversary of being celibate, I'm guessing that the stiff drink is the more likely companion...)
So I stole this. A meme. Here goes:
A-Z Meme
A - Accent: The East Texas accent is a bizarre animal. George Jones has it. So does Matthew McConaughey. Lady Bird Johnson has it, big time. So it vacillates between genteel deep south and inbred redneck. And then there are those of us who had the shit scared out of us by our voice coaches in theatre school who told us we'd be typecast as truckstop waitresses and abused wives if we didn't lose some our drawl. Let's just say, I have a love/hate relationship with my accent.
B - Breakfast Item: (Not every day, because I'd be the size of a Mini Cooper, but ultimate breakfast food), migas.
C - Chore you hate: Is shaving your legs technically a "chore?"
D - Dad's Name: James Austin. I briefly considered naming my daughter "James."
E - Essential everyday item: Gum.
F - Flavour ice cream: Mint/chocolate chip
G - Gold or Silver?: Silver
H - Hometown: Longview. County seat of Gregg County, Texas.
I - Insomnia: Primarily when I'm stressed. I usually have no problem getting to sleep, it's staying asleep that I can't do. Ambien is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
J - Job Title: Project and Communications Coordinator
K - Kids: One. The Geej. Nearly 18 mos. old. Amazing little person. More beautiful than I could've ever imagined. Smarter than me. A gift from God.
L - Living arrangements: Me. The Geej. The old lady cat. The young boy cat. A house that we just moved in to in November. The first place I've ever owned.
M - Mum's birthplace: Kilgore, TX. Home of the world famous Rangerettes!!
N - Number of significant others: Do toddlers count? If so, one. If not, zero. ZERO.
O - Overnight hospital stays: Three. All gynecological. All a TOTAL blast*. (*Not a blast. At all.)
P - Phobia: Roaches/"Water bugs" And eels. I fucking can't even visualize an eel with out getting the heebie jeebies. And you'd think that Unagi would be the ultimate revenge. But I can barely read that word on the menu without breaking into a cold sweat.
Q - Queer?: Experimented? Yes. Decided it was for me? No. Respect the shit out of it? Yes.
R - Religious Affiliation: None, really. Had the whole Southern Baptist thing growing up. Have had interest in Judaism and Universalist Unitarianism as an adult. Haven't pursued either with any kind of conviction.
S-Siblings: None. But apparently my mom had a 2nd trimester miscarriage before me. A boy.
T - Time you wake up: Weekdays--5:55am. Weekends--as late as The Geej will let me sleep. Usually 7:45-ish.
U - Unnatural hair colours you've worn: If you count my wig collection--aqua, violet, firetruck red, platinum, royal blue, pink, magenta, black, If you count my adventures into actual haircolor, there are many: platinum, dark aubergine w/hot pink streaks, dark brown with bright red streaks, dark auburn with platinum streaks, basic auburn, bright red. If it's in the red or blonde color spectrum, I've done it.
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: Beets.
W - Worst Habit: God, there are so many. I'll just grab in to my mental grab bag...um, ooh! What have we got here?! Oh..."Being Lazy." That's right folks: Any spare moment I can grab, I'm lying on the couch, gazing at the ceiling. I call it "down time." But really, it's time when I could be doing Pilates, or curing cancer, or sewing on buttons. So really, I'm just being lazy.
X - X-rays youÂ’ve had: Teeth. Neck. Foot.
Y - Yummy: Anything that has any one the following ingredients: Avocado. Salt. Cheese. A fried substance. So, like a skinned avocado, rolled in sea salt, dipped in batter, fried and covered in cheese would probably cause me to have a stoke with delight.
Z - Zodiac sign: Aquarius. Don't believe me?
That is the "water bearer." The symbol of Aquarius. It's (of course) on my lower back area. So typical, right? But I assure you: the circumstances around me getting this tattoo are not typical at all. But that's fodder for another post...
Night, night Freaks.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
I'm it.
Apparently, I've been "tagged." Not with spray paint on my substantially sized posterior, mind you, but metaphorically "tagged" in blog-speak. This is a new phenomenon to me. What happens is, someone, somewhere in Blogland thinks up five interesting questions, and then passes them along to (tags, as it were) another blogger with them. So my only blog buddy, the Texpatriate has now tagged me. So here goes:
1. Total amount of music files on your computer?
4864 songs; 12.9 days; 31.1 GB
And this is my work computer. So the fact that I've eaten up 95% of my memory with music is pretty funny. I'm stickin' it to the man!!
2. The last CD you bought was...
I bought three at once, actually: Alpinestars "White Noise," Rufus Wainright, "Want Two," Innocence Mission, "Now the Day is Over"
3. What was the last song you listened to before reading this message?
The Louvin Brothers, "If I Could Only Win Your Love." It was playing on KOOP's Tuesday morning show, "Country Roots." I gotta say, for a small city, Austin has some rather good independent radio. KOOP's morning programming alone is worth a yearly membership to support this station. "The Country Swing and Rockabilly Jamboree?" Awesome. "Soul Sauce?" Kick ass. "The Lounge Show?" Terrific.
4. Write down five songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you.
Man, this is a hard one. Just five? Jeez. If I seek out a particular song to listen to, it's for one of three reasons: a) PERFORMANCE: I wanna sing it at the top of my lungs, b) MOOD ALTERATION/ENHANCEMENT: I'm feeling sad and want to cry my eyes out to a sad/meaningful song OR I'm feeling sad and a want a good song to cheer me up, c) BODY MOVIN', GITCHER BODY MOVIN': I wanna rock out and/or dance my butt off like the uncoordinated goob that I am.
So the following list represents a little bit of all of these reasons.
1- "Cracklin' Water" by Giant Sand.
Howe Gelb is a fucking genius. A fucking SEXY genius. If you listen to this song really loudly with your headphones on, you feel like he's whispering in your ear. I just love this man.
2- "Untitled" off of Green by R.E.M.
"...and keep her strong, while I'm away from here..."--THIS song has become a prayer to me. I listen to it all the time with The Geej in mind.
3- "Alone Again Or" by Calexico
An amazing remake of the song by 70s group "Love." (It was also covered by The Damned at one point.) I dare you to listen to this song and not feel that happy, variety show feeling by the end. 95% of what Calexico does is flawless. This band is one of my favorites.
4-"Every Hour Here" by The Innocence Mission
A song about realizing that God is always with you, even if you don't realize it. Not preachy, just lovely. And Karen Peris's voice is ethereal and dazzling.
5- "Hush" by Tool
It starts out with the singer screaming, "FUUUK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!" at the top of his lungs. The kind of thing that make mothers ship their kids away to military school for listening to. Maynard James Keenan and company at their raw, scary best. Anything off of this album immediately transports me to a time in my life when it was all about sex, drugs and rock-and-roll. In other words, an absurdly irresponsible and fun and dangerous time that seems a gazillion years ago.
5. What 3 people are you going to pass this baton to and why?
Um, I don't have any real "blog friends" other than the person who sent this to me originally. At least I don't think I do... So, I'm going to tag random bloggers who've posted comments on my site: Like this chick, and this guy and this gal in the off chance they check in with the old Pine Curtain Refugee from time to time. TAG, YOU'RE IT!
1. Total amount of music files on your computer?
4864 songs; 12.9 days; 31.1 GB
And this is my work computer. So the fact that I've eaten up 95% of my memory with music is pretty funny. I'm stickin' it to the man!!
2. The last CD you bought was...
I bought three at once, actually: Alpinestars "White Noise," Rufus Wainright, "Want Two," Innocence Mission, "Now the Day is Over"
3. What was the last song you listened to before reading this message?
The Louvin Brothers, "If I Could Only Win Your Love." It was playing on KOOP's Tuesday morning show, "Country Roots." I gotta say, for a small city, Austin has some rather good independent radio. KOOP's morning programming alone is worth a yearly membership to support this station. "The Country Swing and Rockabilly Jamboree?" Awesome. "Soul Sauce?" Kick ass. "The Lounge Show?" Terrific.
4. Write down five songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you.
Man, this is a hard one. Just five? Jeez. If I seek out a particular song to listen to, it's for one of three reasons: a) PERFORMANCE: I wanna sing it at the top of my lungs, b) MOOD ALTERATION/ENHANCEMENT: I'm feeling sad and want to cry my eyes out to a sad/meaningful song OR I'm feeling sad and a want a good song to cheer me up, c) BODY MOVIN', GITCHER BODY MOVIN': I wanna rock out and/or dance my butt off like the uncoordinated goob that I am.
So the following list represents a little bit of all of these reasons.
1- "Cracklin' Water" by Giant Sand.
Howe Gelb is a fucking genius. A fucking SEXY genius. If you listen to this song really loudly with your headphones on, you feel like he's whispering in your ear. I just love this man.
2- "Untitled" off of Green by R.E.M.
"...and keep her strong, while I'm away from here..."--THIS song has become a prayer to me. I listen to it all the time with The Geej in mind.
3- "Alone Again Or" by Calexico
An amazing remake of the song by 70s group "Love." (It was also covered by The Damned at one point.) I dare you to listen to this song and not feel that happy, variety show feeling by the end. 95% of what Calexico does is flawless. This band is one of my favorites.
4-"Every Hour Here" by The Innocence Mission
A song about realizing that God is always with you, even if you don't realize it. Not preachy, just lovely. And Karen Peris's voice is ethereal and dazzling.
5- "Hush" by Tool
It starts out with the singer screaming, "FUUUK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!" at the top of his lungs. The kind of thing that make mothers ship their kids away to military school for listening to. Maynard James Keenan and company at their raw, scary best. Anything off of this album immediately transports me to a time in my life when it was all about sex, drugs and rock-and-roll. In other words, an absurdly irresponsible and fun and dangerous time that seems a gazillion years ago.
5. What 3 people are you going to pass this baton to and why?
Um, I don't have any real "blog friends" other than the person who sent this to me originally. At least I don't think I do... So, I'm going to tag random bloggers who've posted comments on my site: Like this chick, and this guy and this gal in the off chance they check in with the old Pine Curtain Refugee from time to time. TAG, YOU'RE IT!
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Forced Creativity/Disclosure
Not feeling all that inspired lately. Is it the foggy, crappy weather? I'm not sure. So I'm basically just going to copy what my blogging cohort the Texpatriate has done. She's my idol, so I don't feel weird copying her. I'm kind of like Jamie Lynn to her Britney. So enjoy. Or not. But here goes:
l. What time did you get up this morning? Well...my ALARM went off at 6:51. I didn't get my lazy ass out of bed until 7:40. Damn you snooze button!!
2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds. But not too many and not too gaudy. Just elegantly presented and flawless.
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? "House of Flying Daggers." Breathtaking.
4. What is your favourite TV show? The Daily Show
5. What did you have for breakfast? Can of La Croix sparkling water, lemon
6. What is your middle name? Nunya. As in "Nunya" business...
7. What is your favorite cuisine? Hard to say because there is little I don't like. But if I had to choose, I'd say Tex-Mex.
8. What foods do you dislike? Bleu cheese; kiwi; beets; sweet potatoes; coffee; lima beans; anything that ever had hooves or fur
9. What is your favourite crisp/chip flavour? Salt and vinegar.
10. What is your favourite CD at the moment? Alpinestars, "White Noise."
11. What kind of vehicle do you drive? Volkswagen Jetta wagon. V6. Not your mama's station wagon.
12. Favourite sandwich? Anything made by someone else. Why is it that sandwiches that other people make for you always taste better?
13. What characteristics do you despise? Closed mindedness and comfortable ignorance.
14. Favourite item of clothing? A pair of pajamas I've had since 1988. They've been washed so many times they're as soft as silk.
15. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Portugal or Greece
16. What colour is your bathroom? 50's Pink and black tile with black walls.
17. What colour pants are you wearing? Gap blue jeans.
18. Where would you retire to? Riverfront property in the Texas Hill Country
19. Favourite time of the day? Early evening.
20. What was your most memorable birthday? Thirty third. Just months after my husband had walked out on me, 3 dear girlfriends joined me in Las Vegas and we had a magnificent meal and went to see Charo's lounge show. It was wonderfully cheesy.
21. Where were you born? Longview, Texas. County seat of Gregg County.
22. What's the last thing you ate? A dark organic chocolate-covered cherry.
23. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Sky blue
24. Favorite flower? Gerbera daisies and gladiolas.
25. What fabric detergent do you use? Whatever's on sale.
26. Coke or Pepsi ? Dr. Pepper
27. Do you wish on stars? Only falling stars. I wish on red cardinals when I see them.
28. What is your shoe size? 7 1/2 or 8, depending on the shoe
29. Do you have any pets? Ellen, 15 1/2 year old cat/professional grump; Earl, 3 1/2 year old cat/plus-sized comedian; Jambone, 9 month old Beta
30. Last person you talked to on the phone? Chaz A.
31. What did you want to be when you were little? Carol Burnet or Gilda Radner
32. What are you meant to be doing now? Writing and appearing on "The Daily Show" and/or singing back-up and playing mandolin in a bluegrass band
33. What do you first notice about someone? Usually their smile/teeth.
34. Siblings? Nope. I'm an "only."
35. What was your favourite toy as a child? My imagination and the "World Book" encyclopedia set my parents got me when I was seven. Yes, I was a dweeby kid.
36. Summer or winter? Summer.
37. Hugs or Kisses? Depends on who's giving 'em...
38. Chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate
39. Living arrangements? Renting an adorable mid-50s bungalow; huge yard
40. When was the last time you cried? Day before yesterday.
41. What is under your bed? Sweater storing thing; dustbunnies; storage thing with pictures and frames in it
42. How many countries have you visited? Mexico, Canada, England, Scotland, Russia
43. In how many cities have you lived? Longview (not really a "city", is it?), Austin, Birmingham, AL and Chicago. Spent three months in Oxford England in 1990.
44. Favourite movie of all time? "The Color Purple" (drama); "Raising Arizona" (comedy)
45. Mountains or beach? Beach.
46. The current friend you have known the longest? Lisa C. We went to Montessori school together.
47. Full names of your potential kids? The Geej
48. Usual bedtime? Rarely before 11:00pm
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