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September 12th, 2009
04:00 am
Yesterday I woke up at 7:30 in the morning. I didn't have to work, but I drank some tea, went out for more tea and a vegan cupcake, cooked myself food and read, went to Alex's new apt, and came back to Redmond. My mom and I were going to go to a movie and hang around Bellevue (eastside wooo) but I fell asleep at 6:30 or 7. Of course, I woke up at 2:30am pretty rested. I found my dad passed out with a makeup infomercial on TV, but that was about it. Even though I know I slept enough to be up right now, it feels insomniac because I ate a bowl of coconut ice cream and started listening to electro while using the internet. I can't think of a middle of the night activity that's NOT mostly for people with insomnia. TV? Yes. Anything that involves my face bathed in laptop glow? Yes. Reading? Probably. The important thing is I'm downloading so much electronic music right now.
Current Music: American Boy, Kill the Noise remix
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August 2nd, 2009
10:23 pm - Festival-stoked
Something I don't like about festivals in general is the way they divide up the good/similar acts, so that you'll buy a 3-day pass when they could've booked all the folk rock on Saturday and all the butt rock on Sunday. (That kept me from Sasquatch this year.) Something I don't like about Bumbershoot specifically is that it cost way too much when they upped ticket prices to $30 in '05, and now it's $50/day.
But! Advance tickets are $35 (and service charge-less if you get them somewhere in Fremont) AND I'll get to see all of the following on one day, while feeling like I missed nothing by not going Saturday or Monday:
SIFF fly films, Stuff White People Like live, some sort of Spencer Moody + poetry combo, "Flexion, a show that will stretch your perception of the human body", Best of Seattle Int'l Comedy Competition, SE Hinton, Eugene Mirman + mystery guest, Blood Squad, the Rockstar Energy Drink Vert Ramp (!), Patton Oswalt, MSTRKRFT, DJ Spooky, and/or The Helio Sequence.
And it's so well-scheduled that only the last 2 overlap. I can be doing something different and awesome, while drunk, all day, in the middle of a 3-day weekend. Yesssss.
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April 22nd, 2009
01:22 am
So Emily, what did you do in Austin last month?
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April 16th, 2009
05:16 pm
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Cassandra's Dream (2008)
Scoop (2006)
Match Point (2005)
Melinda and Melinda (2004)
Anything Else (2003)
Hollywood Ending (2002)
The Concert for New York City (2001) (TV) (segment "Sounds from the Town I Love")
Sounds from a Town I Love (2001) (TV)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
Small Time Crooks (2000)>
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Celebrity (1998)
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Don't Drink the Water (1994) (TV)
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Husbands and Wives (1992)
Alice (1990)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Another Woman (1988)
Radio Days (1987)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Zelig (1983)
Stardust Memories (1980)
Manhattan (1979)
Interiors (1978)
Annie Hall (1977)
Love and Death (1975)
Sleeper (1973)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Bananas (1971)
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971) (TV)
Take the Money and Run (1969)
What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
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March 24th, 2009
05:27 pm
Home from Best Vacation Evar in Austin.. I got off the plane, slept 4 hours, taught in Federal Way, came home. Still working on the part where I shower.
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March 10th, 2009
08:19 pm
Was anybody else wondering? http://www.myballard.com/2008/08/12/murals-popping-up-around-ballard-fremont/
In other news, tomorrow I'm leaving for Austin until the 23rd. I'll be doing SXSW stuff a lot of the time, but also groping my way around the city trying to decide if I want to live there.
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March 1st, 2009
04:34 pm - how I got a free buzz 2 Sundays in a row
Last week after a tense car ride where we kept getting almost-lost, my mom and Dan dropped me off near Benji's house where I was going to a meeting. I was really, really hungry and went into the Bleu, one of my favorite bars, for a veggie BLT to go. The sandwich took forever to get ready. While I was waiting, the semi-trashed trio next to me offered to buy me a drink but I was like "no thanks I'm cool with this water." After they left, the bartender talked to the other bartender about how he wasn't drinking that night and then turned to me and was like, "I overmade this cocktail. Do you want it?" And I was like, "Well, I'll see if I like it, I guess." So he poured me a martini glass full of gin, vermouth, and something to make it pink and fruity, plus a twist, and then set next to that one of those stout shotglasses full of a second serving. In case I liked it. I took a sip, it was okay, and then I noticed I was running late. I admit that I chugged the two cocktails in quick succession. Then I tipped the man for one sandwich to go, two drinks, and I finished my Sunday.
Today after working on going to Spain all day at Allegro, I got off the 44 in Ballard and was on my way to Laura Bee (it's like Reload for Ballard) to order a purse. I didn't really feel like it, but sometimes you have to do things. I had paused to look at a GARAGE SALE sign on a townhouse door when Angie walked up to me, finished her cigarette, and was like "you have to come in! my friends are moving and they're selling everything! there are a lot of books!" It was like she knew me. Then she insisted on feeding me a Pabst while I poked around. I initially refused on the grounds that I had just put some melon mint gum in my mouth, but she found me later and was like, "Are you ready now??" I scored an Edgar "Allen" Poe book (it's really like that on the spine!) and a kids' book called Antics for $2, plus the PBR. When I asked the condo's owner why she was moving, she said, "I'm drunk!! [pause] and broke! I might as well be drunk and broke in Maui instead of drunk and broke here!" which I pretty much agree with. Then I chewed some more melon mint gum so I wouldn't have beer on my breath when I ordered a custom purse.
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February 3rd, 2009
07:30 pm
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1331 Faye just reminded me of that really great feeling: drunk and convinced you need to get more drunk. I'm never convinced I need to get more drunk while I'm sober; it's really particular to about 2 cocktails in. Does that mean not wanting to get trashed is an inhibition?
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January 24th, 2009
09:17 pm - It's probably cheaper than living in New England
Did Alex and I spend $85 on heat last month? Yes. Were we blissfully warm and feeling maximum sympathy for Georgia? Absolutely.
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January 5th, 2009
12:17 am - keep your 20c
I didn't get the memo about the bag tax not happening anymore. Usually I only slow up the baggers at grocery stores where I get some money back for bringing a reusable bag- if not, I just let their paper/plastic system do its work. Today, since I thought there was a bag tax, I dutifully handed the Safeway checker my Sidecar for Pigs Peace nylon bag and left with the heaviest single grocery bag I've ever carried (2 jars of Ragu, cheese, yogurt, lemonade, etc.). I noticed none of the other shoppers looked outraged, at all. I googled, didn't get clear answers, and then seattle.gov turned up this page
http://www.seattle.gov/util/Services/Garbage/Reduce_Garbage_&_Litter/SPU01_003526.asp
Sorry to my Safeway checker, who did a really good job with the annoying bag.
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January 1st, 2009
10:43 pm
Alex and I have colds (hers is ending, I think mine is about to start) so we watched Buffy, The Office, Hitchcock's Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and then read for a while. I made soup, she did laundry. It was cute & domestic & there was zero going outdoors.
Start as you mean to go on, right?
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November 4th, 2008
09:17 pm
Nobody shot him during the acceptance speech; so far so good.
Also, Biden and Obama both have great-looking wives & Michelle is really smart & Jill is a teacher(!) so I don't know why everybody was so bent on Palin.
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October 25th, 2008
07:46 pm
Surely a few "undecideds" will end up voting with their emotions. Obama's grandma is really sick; McCain's volunteer really hurt herself but told everyone a 6'4" black guy (see South Park episode 514) did it because of her bumper sticker (this kind of sick probably elicits less voter sympathy).
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October 4th, 2008
12:06 am
Here's Matt Damon mostly making me feel eloquent for a minute and a half, but then: "I need to know if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago, because she's gonna have the nuclear codes."
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September 29th, 2008
10:04 pm
What, she was like, "Tina Fey looked pretty good as me, I'ma get that top!"?
Additionally, what is that creepy disembodied hand dangling from the waist of McCain's suit jacket? gross.
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September 17th, 2008
September 9th, 2008
11:01 pm
My business-school network has been growing like CANCER lately. My sent-mail box has like 20 people in it. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuullllllllbrrrrrrriiiiiiigggggggggghhhhhhhhhhttttt please
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August 31st, 2008
11:56 pm
God says, "seriously, don't vote Republican. I mean, really, you guys."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7591197.stm
"The storm has prompted the Republicans to scale back their national convention where John McCain is due to accept the party's nomination for president."
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August 21st, 2008
05:43 pm
Remember Jesse Camp? Wikipedia, you are so cool.
Matt: I think we decided not to go to Ashland this year, but I did see Ben's play and it was good. more later. I have to memorize a poem.
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July 31st, 2008
11:38 am
I'm pretty into:
the difference between my inbox and outbox. Inbox: a million different people, lots of listservs, whatever.
outbox: Alex and Hannah (my school friends), plus a couple to my mom and to myself from when I have to send paper drafts since my flash drive broke. that's it.
The time until school's over is countable in days. scary? not really.
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