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A girl living, loving and writing in Los Angeles.
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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Happy Global Warming!
I really want to see An Inconvenient Truth because I am a dirty hippy and I really need a kick in the pants to stop driving everywhere, but instead I've seen the following drivel this summer instead of AIT:
- The Break Up
- The Devil Wears Prada
- A Scanner Darkly
- Monster House
- Cars
- Pirates of the Caribbean 2
- My Super Ex-Girlfriend
This past week has been busy busy busy, and unfortunately marred by a very disgusting and unwelcome house guest (who has fortunately left). On Sunday, I went to ComicCon for the first time and marveled at the amount of crap on this planet. I did two paintings this week, rewrote my cover letter, applied for 12 jobs, sold my couch (I still have a coffee table for sale for anyone who is in San Diego & interested). I hope to finish The Time Traveler's Wife before the end of the week; it is addictively good.
I have to confess that I love The Girls Next Door.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
The Lookout
I've been job hunting for three weeks now, and it's been utterly depressing. Sometimes I just feel like I'm barely keeping my head above the water while paddling the hardest I've ever done.
I can't even enjoy my last summer because the pending move and necessity for a job is looming over my head like a persistent cumulonimbus. And I know there will come a time that I will mentally idle in these moments, these idyllic days where I spill out generous amounts of time painting, watching Gilmore Girls and Project Runway, and reading in the late afternoons, and be wishing I were here again.
How do you really learn to stave off the stress when you're constantly too painfully aware of your situation?
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
I know this much is true.
1. I believe that the most important thing adults can do is educate our children well.
2. I believe in handwritten letters.
3. I believe the humanity will not survive another 100 years.
4. I believe that it is essential to have sundae-making ingredients in your fridge at all times.
5. I believe in being socially responsible.
6. I believe in egg salad sandwiches, sushi, pesto pasta, vegetarian tacos.
7. I believe in good friends curing all.
8. I believe in good mornings.
9. I believe that one person can make a difference (start now).
10. I believe in TV therapy.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Love (Prime)
"The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something." -- Andy Warhol
All I've been doing is eating sushi and fair food. Carbs carbs carbs!
The funniest thing about love is that you can never predict it, and how much we all drag our feet as we're pulled into it just out of fear. Fear of ever committing fully because if it all falls apart, you may not get out alive. Well, maybe what you do get out of is worse than not getting out alive. Not maybe - for sure. And I identify it in myself more and more, that I'm still secretly crossing my fingers behind my back when really all I want to do is hug the boy and keep him close to me forever. So that's it. I'm going to do it.
Let it all go man. On a long enough time line, the survival rate is 0 anyway.
Relationships sure are strange, in a way I'm sure I'll never eloquate. Maybe that's why I keep chasing myself in circles figuring it all out in novel, short story, screenplay, etc.
PROJECT RUNWAY 3: I miss Santino. Those are my thoughts so far.
I finally finished Wicked and I'm going to start The Philosophy of Andy Warhol prompted by both the exhibit at SDMA and by the fact that this is one of my best friend's favorite books.
Where is everybody?
Sunday, July 09, 2006
"It's like the Neverending Story, but with no Luck Dragon!"
I am so sad I spent 3 hours watching Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which from now on will be referred to as the Boringest Movie Ever. But apparently I am not alone in this, as it made $132 million this weekend.
However, Ask A Ninja's review of the BME almost makes it worth the film being made JUST so that this review could come to be.
I'm still trying to figure out the direction of this site, so please comment what you'd like to see more of.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Who would I be if I wasn't always five minutes late?
Last night I got caught up in starting a new novella, that I lost wind for updating to the masses. After swimming with Trinh, I went back to my apartment to shower and clean (now the bathroom smells bleach fresh, I would be such a good trophy wife). Every day I work out I put a little iridescent sticker on my calendar to get my little competitive self motivated -- currently I'm working through a sheet of alphabet letters I found in my old childhood sticker collection. Those Lisa Frank and glittery stickers that I coveted so carefully behind plastic sheets have finally come into their worth!
Most of my time lately has been eaten up by film watching, eating, cooking, reading, working, and overall hanging out with friends and Ryan. Which I love. Last night I ordered a pizza and made a spinach salad, then Ryan and I spent three hours doing laundry and watching Sin City. Then he worked while I started a new novella after deciding that I absolutely hated the one I had been working on in the past year, so I'm going to hack bits and pieces of it off for other stories. Sort of like organ harvesting. (I'd also been watching a lot of Grey's Anatomy).
A couple days ago I saw The Devil Wears Prada, which I surprisingly loved. It reminded me so much of my job last summer, minus one cute boyfriend and apartment. The True Hollywood Story would reveal that I lived with my parents, single and spiraling into spinsterhood. And Meryl Streep is just such a pleasure to watch! Adrian Grenier is too, but for different reasons.
One last thing: SPECIAL OFFER!!! Remember this photo last month? Well, I have a few extra work prints that I'm willing to part with if you email me that you'd like one (it's 8x10) -- it's completely free, you just have to send me a SASE. eMail me and we'll discuss more details.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
I promise promise promise there will be a big fatty post later this evening about all the things going on in this little corner of the universe; I do apologize profusely for the lack of updates and writing around here in the past couple months -- both to you the reader and to myself. It's appalling how little I've written in the past 5 months, and I'm planning on remedying the situation very very soon. Even if it is just in mindless blogging banter.
Thank you so much for sticking with me through all this. ;) To come this evening: new links, new photos, my thoughts on The Devil Wears Prada, Cars, and Freddy Vs. Jason, an introduction to 70s Hong Kong vampire zombie movies, and more.
But right now, I've gotta go SWIM so I can keep up my commitment to losing 10 pounds and getting buff! I love you all so very much for sticking with me!
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