Midweek Random

Edit to Fall Music, (post below): Rosanne Cash. Black Cadillac: The Concert. October 13th. This is going to be so fabulous. I'm spending too much on concerts and I don't care. 

This is the cutest thing I have ever seen in my life. I'm totally serious. I love him, and am restraining myself from flying to Argentina to sit by his pool. And in the interest of competely embarrassing myself, please note that I have visited this page a few times, and per the comments on the last photo on the page, have shouted "GRITEMOS!" back to my monitor each time, and I still have no idea what that means.

Little Miss Sunshine was almost funnier the second time. I was glad to find out that Paul Dano is 23 because that made it slightly more tolerable that I thought he was so...compelling, for someone playing a (ha! liars!) 15 year old. On the other hand, David Foster Wallace's book The Girl With the Curious Hair is depressing me. Therefore I have stopped reading it for now.

Family Guy reruns gave me fits on Sunday. I need this shirt but it looks...faded. Please indulge me a few of these, because they're much funnier spoken aloud. Really.

Tom Tucker: Well Diane, I have an exclusive story. And I... can't figure out how to check my e-mail from home.
Ollie the Weatherman: [off-screen] Did you check your TCP/IP settings?
Tom Tucker: Yes I did, Ollie.
Ollie the Weatherman: [off-screen] Enable cookies?
Tom Tucker: Yes, Ollie.
Ollie the Weatherman: [off-screen] You want this dog?
Tom Tucker: No thank you, Ollie.

(Ollie's voice is necessary to this one...and the more I explain it the less funny it will be, but I've been walking around saying "Enable COOK-ies? You want this DAWG?" to myself for a couple of days now so...there that is. Why do these things crawl into my head?)

Stewie Griffin: Look, I really don't want to go to hell, but I can't stop my nature. I'm just a hateful person
Brian Griffin: You're not hateful, you just need to control your anger. Like I do.
Stewie Griffin: oh, you mean by being sauced all day! Wait a minute! Of course! That's it! If I'm drunk I'll be calm, and if I'm calm I'll be nice, and if I'm nice then I won't go to hell. Fix me a highball, I'm going to get good and tight!

Okay, that's all of that.

Re: a personal ad I randomly saw on a vegetarian recipe site (totally true. I'm not making it up. Not like I ASKED to see this.) When I see "Burner, Trancer, Raver, Spiritualist...", I would not want to answer your ad, even if you promised me yummy mushroom stirfry.

I'm going to Austin next week. To see my GIRLS. I'm excited. I intend to do a two-step with a cowboy while I'm there. Or at least in the same room with a cowboy cause, you know, I'm shy like that...

Suri Holmes Mapother Cruise Mission Impossible is a beautiful baby. It's just...true. And I still don't like Katie Couric, whereas I'm still oddly pulling for Rosie O'Donnell, because I always loved Rosie before she went quite so nuts. I can't help it. Her kids look pretty happy, so that's probably the important thing.

I cannot decide whether to go to Vegas or New Orleans in October. This is a silly quandary, especially noting that all things considered, I'd rather be in Indianapolis. ; )

I'm also a geek, because I wrote to my iLife professor and asked him if he could send me the syllabus early so I could, like, look at it, and think about it, and visualize ALL THE COOL STUFF I CAN DO WITH EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE COMPUTER EQUIPMENT THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO ME. And he wrote back, "Here it is, if you simply can't WAIT until next week. ; )" That was funny (not sure if it's funny ha-ha) a little bit, that he added the smiley face to indicate just what an overzealous geek I am. And he did include the link to his own mac homepage with the "syllabus" on it, which was the most nontraditional one I've ever seen. So now I'm going to be the queen of digital media in my own mind. I'm going to make my own podcast, and no one will listen to it probably, and I don't care...because I'll know how to do it, by God. And also how to do other things, although I don't exactly know what they are yet. And thus, you have my autobiography.

Speaking of iLife sorts of things, Lauren got a Macbook and I'm totally jealous. When I see her in Austin I may get to actually touch it. ; )

I think I'm missing the Kix reunion show this weekend because I'm teaching photography at this woman's retreat all weekend. I'm not so bothered because I'm afraid Steve Whiteman will be all weird and old and I'd just get depressed. That said, Alice in Chains is sold out on October 24th and I can't even deal with that. It's not Alice in Chains. One does not misrepresent Alice in Chains, for fear of awakening the gods of grunge. What. Ev. Er.

And all THAT said, I'll end with what I'll humbly say is the absolute coolest baby gift ever. I bought it for my senior prom date and his wife, whose little boy is due in October. Dudes, seriously:

A Metallica onesie! Plus I'm going to pick up a copy of the Metallica version of Rockabye Baby for them...This new daddy-to-be and I went to the Monsters of Rock show together in hackcough1988I'mwaytooyoungtobethisold some year together, and saw Metallica and the Scorpions and Van Hagar and Kingdom Come and MF'ING DOKKEN SUCKAS and did I mention Metallica was there? Right.

And yes, I will buy them something else in addition to this heavy metal goodness, although what else a baby could need besides a diaper and these Metallica accoutrements is beyond me. But it'll be something of SUBSTANCE, like, OFF THEIR TARGET LULLABYE CLUB REGISTRY and everything! Like, a sage green "first seat" or an aquarium something or other, or something, because I'm cool like that. And while I'm purchasing it, I will not cry silently at all that I haven't produced a child from this rocking dna yet who will maybe someday totally rock out to the extra copy of the Metallica lullabye cd (but not the onesie, cause I'm not totally crazy, just halfway) that I've socked away. Because I won't. So shut up if you think I will.

Comments

[Lauren]

Hell yeah you're coming to see me. I cant wait.

[marit]

i'm thinking that we might need to go on a dognapping mission.....

[Killer B]

No way! Have a great time in Austin! LUCKY!