LA MUSIQUE
9.30.2010
9.29.2010
anthem du jour
on your own-james yuill
*update: this song makes me want to destroy everything in my room in slow motion. i don't know if it's because i watched the music video or if it's just genuinely a good smashing things to bits song.
*update: this song makes me want to destroy everything in my room in slow motion. i don't know if it's because i watched the music video or if it's just genuinely a good smashing things to bits song.
9.28.2010
it appears i am not the only one...
this is more or less the story of my life. and when i say more or less, i mean exactly. but it's good to know i'm not the only one who is having a hard time taking childhood out back and shooting it old-yeller-style, slash whose inability to grow up is a surprisingly resilient trait that is not unlike the resilience of hollywood slasher film characters. although unlike friday the 13th part VIII: jason takes manhattan, my plight draws significantly less revenue at the box office. here is an excerpt from my mirror-image life regarding my failure to return calls/emails/text messages/smoke signals and the subsequent debilitating guilt that i retain:
"the longer i procrastinate on returning phone calls and emails, the more guilty i feel about it. the guilt i feel causes me to avoid the issue further, which only leads to more guilt and more procrastination. it gets to the point where i don't email someone for fear of reminding them that they emailed me and thus giving them a reason to be disappointed in me.
"the longer i procrastinate on returning phone calls and emails, the more guilty i feel about it. the guilt i feel causes me to avoid the issue further, which only leads to more guilt and more procrastination. it gets to the point where i don't email someone for fear of reminding them that they emailed me and thus giving them a reason to be disappointed in me.
then the guilt from my ignored responsibilities grows so large that merely carrying it around with me feels like a huge responsibility. it takes up a sizable portion of my capacity, leaving me almost completely useless for anything other than consuming nachos and surfing the internet like an attention-deficient squirrel on pcp."
on the bright side, i am convinced that once i have my own apartment and enough money to purchase a minimalistic/futuristic furniture scheme from ikea i will suddenly transform into an adult who is swiss-army-knife-like in her wide array of skills and capabilities. you will know when this change has occurred because i will start wearing those glasses (you know the ones) that are indicative of intelligence and responsibility but which also defy the gravitational pull of lameness.
on the bright side, i am convinced that once i have my own apartment and enough money to purchase a minimalistic/futuristic furniture scheme from ikea i will suddenly transform into an adult who is swiss-army-knife-like in her wide array of skills and capabilities. you will know when this change has occurred because i will start wearing those glasses (you know the ones) that are indicative of intelligence and responsibility but which also defy the gravitational pull of lameness.
9.20.2010
a not haiku for not haku inspired by tyson's
i saw the ghost of tower records and i said "i'm sorry for your loss (of physical life)." the ghost of tower records shuffled around.
and then i felt like i wanted to hug the ghost of tower records but i thought that he might swallow me up like no-face swallowed up those frog people. so i just said "no thanks i don't want any."
and then also "don't you think chihiro's parents were the worst people you ever saw?"
he said "i don't really know but i'm not even really no-face."
ohrightohrightohright i forget it sometimes.
and so then i said "don't you even watch the news?"
THE END.
and then i felt like i wanted to hug the ghost of tower records but i thought that he might swallow me up like no-face swallowed up those frog people. so i just said "no thanks i don't want any."
and then also "don't you think chihiro's parents were the worst people you ever saw?"
he said "i don't really know but i'm not even really no-face."
ohrightohrightohright i forget it sometimes.
and so then i said "don't you even watch the news?"
THE END.
i have entered the third dimension
i am now existing in three separate dimensions. the first dimension lasted from january 9th, 1988 until november 5th, 2007. that is/was my favourite dimension. the second dimension began somewhere in between november 5th, 2007 and the spring of 2008. that one smells/smelled like spray paint and hospitals and artificial heat. and now i have entered the third dimension. i don't know what it's like yet but i think there will be fluorescent lights and LSATs and GMATs and early bedtimes. i wonder what i am doing right now in the first and second dimensions. and i wonder if this is what simone weil meant, only different.
9.19.2010
9.17.2010
9.16.2010
anthem du jour
i am seriously going to have a meltdown if i don't get the eff out of here soon. my family is insane. i wish my laundry would hurry up and be done so i can make a break for it before maureen gets home from work. that's right, i'm running away from home at age 22. but if it helps, i've been trying to escape since age 4. it's been a long time coming. so, the anthem du jour is quite fittingly 'off and running' by lesley gore:
*update: i am now trapped in my own home.
*update: i am now trapped in my own home.
chopstick etiquette
it seriously drives me crazy when people rub their chopsticks together after breaking them apart. apparently i'm not the only one who thinks this is annoying:
seriously though, just don't do it. or i'll bring you back some nice, cute chopsticks from argentine chinatown that don't need to be broken apart. (if i ever get there, that is...) if you want more chopstick etiquette, read this.
seriously though, just don't do it. or i'll bring you back some nice, cute chopsticks from argentine chinatown that don't need to be broken apart. (if i ever get there, that is...) if you want more chopstick etiquette, read this.
9.15.2010
i've changed very little in four years...
found my 12th grade english project today and started reading through it. basically the assignment was to make a book of our childhood memories, future goals, etc. and i was kind of pleasantly surprised to see i really haven't changed all that much personality quirks-wise since my senior year of high school. take THAT, denison university. you can take away my soul but you can't change my core values (which have largely to do with foods i like and dislike):
"some basic things to note about me: i hate mayonnaise and cotton candy, and i eat my cereal dry. i cannot stand country music and i absolutely despise the band U2. i am deathly afraid of heights and i hate riding roller coasters. i love to watch tennis on television but i am very anti-exercise (what is the point of running unless someone is chasing you?). i am a procrastinator and extremely indecisive, and i get embarrassed easily. making people laugh makes me happy. i hate it when people yell at me because i replay it over and over in my head until i think i am going to be sick. my biggest fears are failing and getting old. sushi and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are my favorite foods, but not together. if i could be any kind of bird i would be a pigeon because they get to eat all day, they don't fly very high up and they get to people watch for a living. i don't like it when people say 'sweet' in reference to something good. i try my best not to cry in public, and i'm not a hugger unless it's an emergency. this is my life in a nutshell."
all basically still true. except i don't really like pb&j's so much anymore, and i'm slightly less anti-hugging. slightly.
"some basic things to note about me: i hate mayonnaise and cotton candy, and i eat my cereal dry. i cannot stand country music and i absolutely despise the band U2. i am deathly afraid of heights and i hate riding roller coasters. i love to watch tennis on television but i am very anti-exercise (what is the point of running unless someone is chasing you?). i am a procrastinator and extremely indecisive, and i get embarrassed easily. making people laugh makes me happy. i hate it when people yell at me because i replay it over and over in my head until i think i am going to be sick. my biggest fears are failing and getting old. sushi and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are my favorite foods, but not together. if i could be any kind of bird i would be a pigeon because they get to eat all day, they don't fly very high up and they get to people watch for a living. i don't like it when people say 'sweet' in reference to something good. i try my best not to cry in public, and i'm not a hugger unless it's an emergency. this is my life in a nutshell."
all basically still true. except i don't really like pb&j's so much anymore, and i'm slightly less anti-hugging. slightly.
anthem du jour
i'm not the biggest telepopmusik fan, but i've always had a soft spot for 'breathe'. plus i feel it's kind of fitting considering my current stuck-in-amerique-du-nord circumstances.
9.14.2010
japanese robots (the best kind of robots)
i've posted this video before but i'm posting it again because i think it's really worth watching. and the prospect of robots taking over the world is terrifying so you should learn more about it so we can fight them together.
anthem du jour
you have to click on this one for it to take you to youtube because some asshole is trying to prevent people like me from easily sharing this wonderful song with everyone i know, aka all 1.5 people who read this blog. (meaning me and bailey.)
la guérilla-valérie lagrange
la guérilla-valérie lagrange
9.13.2010
politics, philosophy and boring things: rant
warning: this is boring. anyways, when i was studying political science in buenos aires, we had to read a lot of works that dealt with societal decadence and the role of the masses in shaping society; decadence is a subject of particular interest to me.
the word 'decadent' itself is interesting in that it can be defined one of two ways: 1. being in a state of decline or decay, or 2. marked by or providing unrestrained gratification; self-indulgent. i believe western society is already in a deep state of decline as a result of part 2 of the definition. i like technology and material objects just as much as the next person, but we are being set up for a huge fall because of our increasing dependence upon these kinds of goods for survival. for example, many people are becoming increasingly dependent upon GPS systems for navigation purposes; if this kind of dependence continues, we will stop teaching future generations how to navigate without the help of technological tools, and eventually arts like triangulation and celestial navigation will become obsolete and totally forgotten. now, i'm not saying this will happen tomorrow or anything like that; instead it will be a gradual process that we won't even notice until some sort of disaster strikes that prevents the use of the technological goods we've come to depend on.
if anyone is actually even reading this, which i highly doubt, i bet they're thinking i'm crazy and that this is impossible. but look at the romans...they lost much of their advanced technological knowledge during late antiquity, and a lot of this knowledge was never regained. the same goes for most of the great, highly advanced civilizations of the past. and the only ones who've really survived consistently are those that changed very little over the course of their existence, that haven't experienced high levels of globalization, and that never came to rely on modern technology as a means of survival.
one of the signs of a society in decay is a population shift from the countryside to cities. now, obviously not everyone is moving to big cities like manhattan, but land is becoming increasingly developed and urbanized. the reason for this rapid urbanization and development (as well as increasing technological advances) is because 1) we are dependent upon modern niceties, and 2) we are increasingly unsatisfied/bored with the things our surroundings have to offer. as a result, the masses begin to grow restless in their constant search for the next source of amusement. but progress is not limitless so this automatically is setting us up for a big fall. societal growth patterns mimic the human life cycle; it is born, it grows, and it dies, meaning an immortal society would be an impossibility; decline is to be expected. also, our extreme desperation for change and advancement will eventually cause us to open up the possibility for the rise of despots who will tell us exactly what we want to hear.
as a sort of side note about technological advancement, the government has been incredibly smart to make the internet limitless in terms of accessing information. there is so much information that we become distracted by white noise. it becomes much more difficult to see what is actually important when surrounded by all these distractions. also, the rise of social networking websites and blogging platforms has VERY smartly placed extreme emphasis on the importance of the individual. future generations will grow to be increasingly self-absorbed to the point that no one will be able to agree with one another, nor will they be willing to compromise. this means that there will be little to no possibility for mass uprisings, no revolutions. the government will be able to do whatever it wants without fear of dissent, and without ever censoring a single piece of information. kind of ridiculous.
well, i think i'm pretty much done ranting for the time being. you probably think i'm crazy but i don't really careee. THE END.
the word 'decadent' itself is interesting in that it can be defined one of two ways: 1. being in a state of decline or decay, or 2. marked by or providing unrestrained gratification; self-indulgent. i believe western society is already in a deep state of decline as a result of part 2 of the definition. i like technology and material objects just as much as the next person, but we are being set up for a huge fall because of our increasing dependence upon these kinds of goods for survival. for example, many people are becoming increasingly dependent upon GPS systems for navigation purposes; if this kind of dependence continues, we will stop teaching future generations how to navigate without the help of technological tools, and eventually arts like triangulation and celestial navigation will become obsolete and totally forgotten. now, i'm not saying this will happen tomorrow or anything like that; instead it will be a gradual process that we won't even notice until some sort of disaster strikes that prevents the use of the technological goods we've come to depend on.
if anyone is actually even reading this, which i highly doubt, i bet they're thinking i'm crazy and that this is impossible. but look at the romans...they lost much of their advanced technological knowledge during late antiquity, and a lot of this knowledge was never regained. the same goes for most of the great, highly advanced civilizations of the past. and the only ones who've really survived consistently are those that changed very little over the course of their existence, that haven't experienced high levels of globalization, and that never came to rely on modern technology as a means of survival.
one of the signs of a society in decay is a population shift from the countryside to cities. now, obviously not everyone is moving to big cities like manhattan, but land is becoming increasingly developed and urbanized. the reason for this rapid urbanization and development (as well as increasing technological advances) is because 1) we are dependent upon modern niceties, and 2) we are increasingly unsatisfied/bored with the things our surroundings have to offer. as a result, the masses begin to grow restless in their constant search for the next source of amusement. but progress is not limitless so this automatically is setting us up for a big fall. societal growth patterns mimic the human life cycle; it is born, it grows, and it dies, meaning an immortal society would be an impossibility; decline is to be expected. also, our extreme desperation for change and advancement will eventually cause us to open up the possibility for the rise of despots who will tell us exactly what we want to hear.
as a sort of side note about technological advancement, the government has been incredibly smart to make the internet limitless in terms of accessing information. there is so much information that we become distracted by white noise. it becomes much more difficult to see what is actually important when surrounded by all these distractions. also, the rise of social networking websites and blogging platforms has VERY smartly placed extreme emphasis on the importance of the individual. future generations will grow to be increasingly self-absorbed to the point that no one will be able to agree with one another, nor will they be willing to compromise. this means that there will be little to no possibility for mass uprisings, no revolutions. the government will be able to do whatever it wants without fear of dissent, and without ever censoring a single piece of information. kind of ridiculous.
well, i think i'm pretty much done ranting for the time being. you probably think i'm crazy but i don't really careee. THE END.
9.10.2010
words that don't exist in english
via onemoretimewithfeeling.tumblr.com
L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.
Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
Pochemuchka: (Russian) A person who asks a lot of questions.
Pena ajena: (Mexican Spanish) The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation.
Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
Ilunga: (Tshiluba, Congo) A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.
saudade (sow-da-jee) (Portugese, Galician) the feeling one gets when realizing something one once had is lost and can never be had again
*i feel pena ajena ALL THE TIME.details details details. it's all in the details.
(perfect) details should be neither seen nor heard.
no. more. coffee. PLEASE. dear god.
i HATE fridays because i don't get off work until nine at night, so if i feel like going out right after i have to set up shop in a place like starbucks that isn't so far from dc. so i have been sitting in here for three hours and drinking so much coffee and i smell like coffee and i look like ryan atwood. whyyy. but it's making me jittery and hyper and i can't even sit still. and sometimes when i'm tired or distracted or the way that i am right now, i get certain words or phrases stuck in my head on loop. like at the beginning of the summer it was always this one: "things that i enjoy doing: nothing." i almost couldn't even remember that one because now it's "dear god..." followed by either nothing or by things like "...i hate tweens." sometimes it's not even words that get stuck it's images instead. like if i'm thinking about something i'm supposed to do and i can't think of it, the first image that pops into my head is someone building the frame of a house and hammering a nail into the wood and the sound of sawing. my brain is a weirdo. THE END.
beatz and bleepz: last american weekend edition
ohhh i do not feel like going out this evening. i am tired and i am stressed and i smell like i fell into a pot of coffee and went swimming for four hours. living in starbucks does this to you. i do feel like i SHOULD go out, though. i mean, it IS my last weekend living in america for a while. perhaps this playlist will be just what i need to put some pep in my step. ps this playlist is all over the damn place, be warned:
kids (alison wonderland rmx)-sherlock's daughter
open your eyes-steve angello & alex metric
neverest (treasure fingers rmx)-hey champ
mundocaso-gregor salto & florian t
cold as ice (foreigner cover)-specimen a
good life refix-katy b & geeneus
walking on a dream (go go bizkitts rmx)-empire of the sun
you know-allan guevara
mind blowing bonus. it's a remix of the opening and closing track from inception, which i've still yet to see but which i just gained immense appreciation for soundtrack-wise. i have a weird thing for certain movie OST's...they make my heart flutter.* especially ones by ludovico einaudi or yann tiersen. but anyways, bottom line...this is amazing. okay i'll stop talking now:
time (we plants are happy plants)-hans zimmer
*fun fact: when i am particularly moved by something, i often feel like i am going to sneeze. i don't know why that is...they say that if you stare at the sun for too long, your body makes you sneeze to involuntarily close your eyes...maybe i just get overwhelmed and my body doesn't know what to do except force me to close my eyelids and shut off visual stimuli. or maybe i'm just a huge weirdo who is allergique à la magie.
kids (alison wonderland rmx)-sherlock's daughter
open your eyes-steve angello & alex metric
neverest (treasure fingers rmx)-hey champ
mundocaso-gregor salto & florian t
cold as ice (foreigner cover)-specimen a
good life refix-katy b & geeneus
walking on a dream (go go bizkitts rmx)-empire of the sun
you know-allan guevara
mind blowing bonus. it's a remix of the opening and closing track from inception, which i've still yet to see but which i just gained immense appreciation for soundtrack-wise. i have a weird thing for certain movie OST's...they make my heart flutter.* especially ones by ludovico einaudi or yann tiersen. but anyways, bottom line...this is amazing. okay i'll stop talking now:
time (we plants are happy plants)-hans zimmer
*fun fact: when i am particularly moved by something, i often feel like i am going to sneeze. i don't know why that is...they say that if you stare at the sun for too long, your body makes you sneeze to involuntarily close your eyes...maybe i just get overwhelmed and my body doesn't know what to do except force me to close my eyelids and shut off visual stimuli. or maybe i'm just a huge weirdo who is allergique à la magie.
9.09.2010
confetti is only funfetti in colours and cupcakes
sometimes i just feel like i am so full of wasted energy that i am going to explode into little bits of confetti. but not the fun, colourful kind of confetti though. instead i feel like i am going to explode into something boring like tiny bits of newspaper or pages from anna karenina. speaking of which, what happens to all those little bits of confetti after the explosion? where do they all go? birds' nests? sewers? alaska?
anthem du jour
slowed down version of erik satie's 'gymnopedie no. 1' (also used in that behati prinsloo/behati prinsloo's boyfriend i-D feature 'meet me at the corner'):
and is it me, or does this song sound almost exactly the same (in the beginning, at least?):
and is it me, or does this song sound almost exactly the same (in the beginning, at least?):
9.07.2010
anthem(s) du jour
really feeling spanish yé-yé pop today, so we have 'dime que me quieres' by silvana velasco (whose video is trying to be all space age courreges, yeah?):
and then 'ninguno me puede juzgar' by violeta rivas:
and then 'ninguno me puede juzgar' by violeta rivas:
9.05.2010
9.03.2010
beatz and bleepz: the igotahaircut edition
a weight has literally been lifted off my shoulders; i chopped four inches off my hair yesterday. this has been an extraordinarily long time coming, and i'll be especially glad not to hear "oh wow your hair has gotten so long!" every time i see anyone i even remotely know. and i have so much more mobility now since the wingspan of my hair is no longer hazardous to innocent bystanders, meaning i plan to dance at least 23% more. preferably to these songs:
through the night (the swiss menergy rmx)-grum
chillin-modjo
another late night (bit funk rmx)-joman
my turn-louis la roche
anthonio (designer drugs rmx)-annie
worse it gets (rac rmx)-penguin prison
keep the lights on (artwork rmx)-wave machines
a short list for short hair.
through the night (the swiss menergy rmx)-grum
chillin-modjo
another late night (bit funk rmx)-joman
my turn-louis la roche
anthonio (designer drugs rmx)-annie
worse it gets (rac rmx)-penguin prison
keep the lights on (artwork rmx)-wave machines
a short list for short hair.
9.01.2010
ausntm cycle six episode seven!!!
the girls head to the mountains for a phreezing photo shoot. let it snow, let it snow, please let joanna go. i pray that next week we will finally have a genuinely australian competition, rather than australia's next top model plus possible top model immigrant. FINGERS CROSSED.
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