ryan's tweets of the day:

• 17:51 RT @daveshumka: You know who else is a really hot dead guy? Michael Hutchence. No necro. #

Somewhere in the abyss I have a CD that a boy made for me, entitled "Songs for AliVic's Car: No Girls Allowed." There had been complaints that I'd been listening to too many female singers... I think it was around the time that a couple of female compilation CDs had come out - She Will Have Her Way and maybe something else?

This morning, I was given a mix CD by a different boy (I think the 2nd in as many weeks)... This one is called "Girl Power" and features nothing but female artists. It's an eclectic mix - some ballads, some dancey stuff, some rock, some covers, some old stuff and some new stuff. It's good.

I'm giving it it's second listen right now, after playing it first thing this morning. In between times, I've been listening to nothing but female albums :D

I've been listening to the soundtrack compiled for the unnamed zorker & postgoodism collaboration. Plenty of good nostalgia there.

I suppose swmartin's choice of HR Pufnstuf was inevitable. We should just be thankful he didn't go for the Bugaloos. I know I watched HRP when I was tiny, but it's all locked up in some inaccessible part of my hindbrain: Witchiepoo and talking flutes... I'm not sure it made sense to me then, and listening to the theme song, it definitely doesn't make sense to me now.

I thought I liked Music Box Dancer, but perhaps it was just the contrast between it and disco. Those drippy strings just kill it [and despite the liner notes, I think that is the Frank Mills original].

"The Cat Came Back" may not be great art, but I must respect a song that includes 'trinitrotoluol' in the lyrics. And it's good to see/hear Rowlf's versatility, playing an instrument other than the piano.

I prefer Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo," but Bill Haley's rockabilly cover from '54 is pretty cool. Oh, and hit the link to find out how CCC helped bring down the Berlin Wall.

Wow, I still love "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"; I don't know if Ian's nostalgia matches mine, but I was introduced to the song in Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates. This was back in the day when the two or three non-network channels on the air would show Three Stooges and A&C and WB cartoons... the solid foundation of my cultural literacy. Probably with the bajillion cable channels, kids today can watch Laff-a-Lympics or Scrappy Doo, but should they? Well, it's probably better than The Magic Glittery Skanky Fairy Show. Anyway, this song started my interest in Big Band. BWBB was nominated for the 1941 Best Song Oscar, losing to "The Last Time I Saw Paris," a song so inferior that it has no Wikipedia page. (Oh, and just for the hell of it, here's a mashup of BWBB and its derivative Candyman.)

Bing Crosby brings his inimitable stylings to two songs. His inimitable styling drives me bonkers. Bing may have made "Mexicali Rose" a hit, but Gene Autry did it better. As for "When Irish Eyes are Smiling," I prefer any version that is not sung by Bing Crosby, including this.

For the first time in months, all my clean clothes are away. There are dirty clothes in the wash basket, but that's fine. There is nothing on the floor or my wardrobe that shouldn't be there... My boots are nicely lined up against the back wall, instead of in a pile.

It's not perfect, but my room is pretty damned tidy. I even vacuumed, which I haven't done for a while!

I'm kinda torn, though, between being pleased at how my room looks, and being pissed at the spots of mud that I seem to have tracked in at some point, which are now visible!


I was in a funk this morning... thinking about how much I still had to do before I could be my own person... before I don't have HB's stuff taking up space in my house (and him trying to make me feel guilty for it)... I need to downsize, but at the same time I need to buy things - my own fridge and tv, for starters. I made the mistake of looking on AllHomes this morning... very uninspiring! (The good news is, if we rent this place out, we'll be able to ask more than I thought we would...)

bah.


I dunno why all my LJ posts are whingey lately (and all end with an apology for said whinginess!)... Most everything is great for me at the moment... I'll do my best to be more upbeat next time!

1. We cracked open Here Comes Science today, by They Might Be Giants. I was sorta wondering how they were going to handle the whole "science versus revealed knowledge" thing, and if they'd need to dance around it. Well, not wondering any more. Track one, first verse:




Awesome.

2. This is my teacher. She's going to do a site redesign soon, after which I'll linky-linky her site. She is awesome.

It's already confusing enough trying to remember how old I am.

Oh, and Thanksgiving is coming up. And Or and I are hosting. It will be our first official Thanksgiving. How exciting!

ryan's tweets of the day:

• 09:26 From what I see 40 yr olds doing now, in 10 years I'll be at some sort of sad modern rock reunion tour. I predict Toad. Semisonic will open. #

We were sitting at the dinner table and Mimi was really acting out. Cory and I kept asking her what was wrong and why she was acting like that after such a fun day - her school birthday party.

She started crying and said, "I'm just so sad. I'm so sad."

"Why are you sad, Mimi? What's the matter?"

"I'm just so sad that you guys didn't get me any birthday presents for my birthday today." And she started sobbing.

"Mimi, your birthday isn't until Sunday. It's not your birthday today. You're still 3."

"Oh. Then can I have some more noodles?"

For the record, the big hits of her gifts from the party were the toothbrush, toothpaste, and bandaids that I'd suggested. Also someone bought her a tinkerbell jewelry box, which she hasn't put down. But she came home, ransacked all the gift bags until she found the toothbrush and toothpaste. She wrestled the toothbrush out of the container and, I later found, used a screwdriver to poke a hole in the foil under the toothpaste lid.

She then brushed her teeth and examined her entire bodies for injuries until she had successfully adhered 2 Hello Kitty Bandaids. The kids were like a flock of angry, starving seagulls at the beach, trying to give Mimi their gifts for her, and I could barely keep track of what was from whom. She was just ripping paper left and right, cards strewn about and the kids were passing the toys around. But when she got to the toothpaste, she yelled, "MOM!!! LOOK AT THIS!!! IT'S MY VERY OWN TOOTHPASTE!!! I DON'T HAVE TO USE YOURS ANYMORE!!! YAY!!"

My favorite thing about the party, though, was this card. I wonder if it's cultural or a language difference?

"TO MIMI, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I WISH YOU TO BE MORE LOVING AND OBEDIENT DAUGHTER TO YOUR PARENTS."

Very strange, but I'll give that an "Amen."

http://twitter.com/nibletsays/statuses/5461216877

nibletsays: "We don't want my breath to stink like garbage. We want it to stink like mint."

Ladies and gentlemen, Cher Guevara.


I think you're welcome.

Brilliant forward planning on my part, today.

On a day where I am stopping off on my way home from work so a doctor can look at my girlie bits, I am dressed in a short black skirt, red fishnets and FMBs...

Talk about practical!

1. Franklin College has an organic food buffet for $7 that always includes nonfat FroYo. Today's flavor was Mounds Bar. Mm.

2. Rivers Cuomo wrote one of the songs on Adam Lambert's new album. As if I weren't already excited enough! His first single is so danceable! It's going on my workout mix.

3. I almost started crying while reading one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's love sonnets to my class. Predictably, it was "How do I love thee, let me count the ways..." Tomorrow is Tennyson's "Ulysses" and I fear I'll have the same problem.

4. My mental "happy place" is next summer's trip to Europe. Other than the Netherlands, I don't know where else I'm going. But I kind of want to travel about. For like a month. Why not--I have the summer off! I guess I'll need to save up more money, though.

5. Can we just HAVE GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS NOW? What is the EFFING PROBLEM!?! GIVE IT.

More interesting presentations from the UCLA Film & TV Archive calendar.

They're doing a series on 1939. What did that year give us other than Gone with the Wind and the Wizard of Oz? And Stagecoach. And Mr. Smith Goes to Washington... And Beau Geste... And The Hunchback of Notre Dame... And Buster Crabbe's Buck Rogers serials... and...

Among the films in the series:
Jesse James (with edgyspice's favorite, Tyrone Power, in the titular role)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (with George Sanders as an evil Nazi)
The Cat and the Canary (with Bob Hope injecting his schtick into this remake of the silent classic)
Son of Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill)

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SALUTING ROBERT ALTMAN – THE LONG GOODBYE (1973)
Friday, November 13 @ 7:30 p.m.
IN PERSON: Elliott Gould, Kathryn Altman and Mitchell Zuckoff.

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ARCHIVE TREASURES – A SHERLOCK HOLMES DOUBLE FEATURE!
Monday, December 14 @ 7:30 p.m.
The Scarlet Claw (1944) and The Spider Woman (1944).