so whatcha want on your own?

i was watching my best of blur dvd last night and realized how the video for on your own looks a lot like damon is trying to emulate mike d in the beastie boys so whatcha want video.

i'm also going to freely admit here that i used to own a knockoff version of the kangol hat that damon is wearing in the video.a white fuzzy bucket hat. that i actually used to wear.in public.without a gun to my head. ahhhhh gotta love the 90s- what can i say?

REPEAT!!!

world series here we come! two years in a row, i can hardly believe it!

my face still hurts from smiling so much last night. i was like a 5 year old kid on christmas morning with a sugar high.
wish i had a ticket to the world series game this year too but i will just have to savor being at last year's winning game 5 :)

happy birthday p.s. i love you peter sellers

recommended viewing:ALL of his movies!

currently

rock and roll conspiracy theories

i'm suprised they are finally re-opening brian jones's possible murder investigation. personally i blame mick.

life often imitates art

...but while some parallels can be identified my reality isn't NEARLY this glamorous.

i want to go to fantasy camp!

Baseball Fantasy Camp with Ryan Howard and Jimmy Rollins - watch more funny videos

you were meant for me and i was meant for you

it's been a while since i've blogged but it's important to note

flight of the conchords understand my life

the operative word here is definitely dicks.
sometimes going out dancing feels like a night at the roxbury.

thank you economy!

i lost my job yesterday.




part of me is panicked about money and the other part of me feels incredibly relieved i never have to deal with that hell again. i feel positive and motivated. the world is my oyster. weird.

death wish 9 not starring charles bronson

seriously, holy crap!

do not bother me between 9-10 pm EST

clearly they haven't been hangin in fishtown

philadelphia is only listed as the 27th drunkest city in the country.

and here i thought my friends alone should probably have upped that number.

yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

so i don't know what's the sudden resurgence of pirates in the news.
did they hear of some ninja attacks and get jealous?
are they johnny depp fans?
was there a new dvd release of peter pan in somalia?
newly translated texts of robert louis stevenson?

regardless the resaon my opinion on this is
EPIC FAIL! PIRATES:U'R DOIN IT WRONG!



here are fifteen facts that the somalian pirates have neglected to take into account when deciding to become "pirates":


1. pirates drink rum and often sing.
2. they are looking for booty: i.e.-gold, jewels. i'd even cut them some slack if they were lookin for the other kind of booty.
3. they have sarcastic parrots.
4. they have swords-they SWASHBUCKLE!
5. they have skull & crossbone flags (aka the jolly roger) to denote their piracy status in the seas
6. they use cannons from their ships. their large old timey wooden ships. and when they aren't in their giant ships they use small wooden rowboats.
7. they wear eyepatches.
8. when they've lost an appendage from swashbuckling they compensate with a peg leg or hook hand.
9. they make people walk planks.
10. sometimes they use muskets.
11. phrases such as "arrrrrgh!", "matey", "ahoy me hearty","shiver me timbers" should be used with frequency.
12. they look for buried treasure with maps where X marks the spot.
13. if you're the cap'n you wear a frilly coat, buckled shoes, and a fancy hat. if you're first mate or part of the crew you wear a stripey shirt and a bandana. gold hoop earrings are a must. beards and bad teeth should often be seen.
14. women on board are generally wenches or barmaids they've kidnapped on their shoreleaves.
15. they get scurvy.

so get it right or pick another profession!!!

he hit me and it felt like a kiss

phil spector's wall of sound is about to sound a whole lot different since he was just convicted of second degree murder.

the genius producer/songwriter couldn't get away with what oj did. and i believe i know why.

may i present to the people:

exhibits a and b (phil's looks during the trial)-





and exhibit c (what spector looked like in his heyday in the sixties)-


now i may not know much about the law (other than what i see on law and order suv) but i would kind of think if he had a half-decent lawyer (which with his fortune i am certain he could afford) he would have been advised by the lawyer to look a little more normal to evoke sympathy. i mean yeesh!

it's been said that most geniuses are madmen. by spector's catalog of work he must truly be batshit crazy because he's been the creator of a lot brilliance.

p.s.-i wonder if when phil shot lana clarkson he exposed himself as a hermaphrodite?

r.i.p. harry

watching the phillies will never be the same again.

really sad

harry kalas just died.

a legend is gone.

boobies endorsed by boobies

my friend jesse who runs popporn made a movie.
why yes it IS a pornographic movie.

so you *may* not want to watch the trailer at work.
but maybe you're lucky enough to work at home in your jammies and watch this kind of thing all day anyway.



tits and comedy-always a winning combination.

here's to hoping there's a budding young russ meyers in our midst.

zombie sunday

this weekend is all about dyeing eggs, peeps, jellybeans and of course the zombie pub crawl.

blingringtastic

yesterday we finally came back in the 7th inning to amazingly win our first game of the season against the braves....whew!

before the start of the game there was the world series ring ceremony.

i'm not much for the bling but i have to admit this is looking reeeeeeeaaaal nice!


103 diamonds for each of the wins last year. yowza.


cole was on the news last night saying how he wouldn't wear it because it's too heavy and that he'd lose it and that the only ring he'd wear is the one that counts the most...his wedding ring.

charlie's dealings with the afterlife

i really want to see this!

my favorite day of the week

super saturday

i'm more than super psyched for tomorrow.

saturday i get to go to the phillies exhibition game against the rays with cole hamels pitching


the seats are supposed to be pretty damn good and now that pat burrell (or as i called him fat squirrel) plays for the rays i get to heckle him for real. and then the real season starts on sunday against the braves.

and then after that i get to see one of my absolute all-time favorite bands the brian jonestown massacre.they are probably the one band i've seen more times than any other band-although i haven't gotten the chance to see them in about 4 years at this point and i've been going through some major withdrawal. they're the only band i actually own underwear of and one of the only bands i've ever considered getting a tattoo of (though at this point i'm glad i never did...the other band was spacemen 3).

here's one of my favoritest favorite songs that i hope they play this time around:





my only hope is that the hoopla over the movie "dig" (a film that i have an extremely passionate and unwavering opinion on that i won't be writing about here but ask me about sometime in real life) will have been forgotten at this point and there will be far less douchebags at the show than the less time i saw them.




this time around matt hollywood and joel are playing again. come to think of it i'm not sure that i have ever seen any lineup of the band more than once-well i guess i should say on more than one tour.

AND they are opening up with asteroid #4 (who are my favorite current philadelphia band second only to th' sounds of kaleidoscope).



i was actually at this show-in fact i might have dj'ed at it)



and tonight i get my new camera with which to document everything.

i think it's going to be the best weekend in a long time.

life as i know it

mind games

the top 100 april fool's day hoaxes of all time.


#24 would actually come in handy in my life.
#51 i really do wish existed.

and obviously #71 is my favorite :)



this seems an appropriate song for the day...

i'd have you anytime

so having had a dream about george harrison this week (which i now realize i had due to my neighbor blasting "got my mind set on you" over and over again at some point this weekend) prompted me to wandering around on the net looking stuff up about him.

i always knew he had a son about my age and that he was also a musician but i had no idea HOW MUCH he looks like his dad-it's pretty amazing! i'm going to go as far as to say he's even hotter than his dad.



dhani harrison....just wow.

AND his music is really really great-unlike some other famous offspring.



apparently his band thenewno2's (how could i not love them when their name is a reference to the prisoner?) cd was just released yesterday.












i kind of totally want to marry him. and obviously i'm not the only one when there are apparently facebook groups with such titles as: "dhani harrison is one fine hunk of man", "dhani harrison is hot (and so is his father)", "all i want for christmas is dhani harrison" and my favorite group title "i was GOING to exhume george harrison until i saw his son dhani...".

i'm starting a 12 step program

hello my name is stephanie and i'm addicted to lost...

i can't remember the details but...

i know i had a dream about george harrison last night?!



(he was *always* my favorite beatle).

$100? psssshhhhhh... it's worth it

oh wait... i guess i need a pool right?

shamwoe

the shamwow guy was arrested and attacked by a hooker. for reals.



billy mays would never find himself in such a situation. (though i'd be willing to bet that oxyclean probably gets out hooker blood better than the shamwow). what's next the snuggie family beats up a sports team mascot?

do want

there's got to be some holiday coming up that buying me a gift for is totally necessary right?

cause i totally want this shirt.

psychedelic kidstuff

and we wonder why we turned out the way we did??


















and i probably don't even need to mention alice in wonderland right?

consider yourself warned

the zombie apocalypse is upon us. get yer shotgun ready. aim for the head.



if you need supplies they're available.

maybe neil gaiman wrote the book of love

i read this quote today and i think it really pinpoints something we have all felt before.


"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ or ‘how very perceptive’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love."- Neil Gaiman

my life really has started to resemble my favorite tv show

and i think you know what THAT means

nostalgic nerd alert

i screwed around with this list on facebook today but after more introspection these are my final top 20 favorite video games of all time:

1. Tetris

Tetris will ALWAYS be my favorite video game and no matter how much trash you talk i will ALWAYS kick your ass at it. i often sleep and dream this game. seriously-even still.i can't remember the highest level i ever got but it was definitely between 50-60 something range (i wonder what the highest level there is?)i remember my family actually holding off dinner and cheering me on and flipping out incredulous at how high a level i had gotten.
the songs constantly get stuck in my head at random times and as a personal tip never go with song b- if you are on a higher faster level or when the blocks start stacking close to the top that tune will panic you and induce the most stress and cause you to lose.

geek confession #1 (and this is a doozy!): i've actually toyed with the idea of getting a tattoo on my back of cascading tetris pieces.


2. we heart katamari

i don't know why this game is so addictive but it just is.rolling weird objects up into a giant ball. totally weird. totally japanese. totally fun.
geek confession #2: a few years ago a friend and i talked about being katamari characters for halloween. i can't remember why we never followed through with it.

3. guitar hero 3

ok so i know how to play actual guitar. and that's great but honestly when it came down to learning how to play guitar hero i was at a disadvantage because i would keep saying "that's NOT how you play it!".(i probably would have fared better doing this) it's like playing a weird version of simon with better songs. my brother and i played the game until we beat it. literally for about 11 hours straight. we didn't even pause to eat. the only "breaks" we took were to have an occasional cigarette (though most of the time we would just let the cigarettes dangle slash style from our lips while playing) put eyedrops into our extremely red eyes that were about to fall out. there are songs that i always *hated* before playing the game that i've grown to somewhat tolerate and in some case even actually enjoy a bit now through guitar hero association. i was kind of bound to love any game that has sonic youth's "kool thing" on it (though admittedly i think the songs i am probably best at on it are dead kennedys "holiday in cambodia", smashing pumpkin's "cherub rock")

4. california games

as a kid i remember going to kiddie city with my dad and brother with my report card in hand and getting to pick a video game as a treat for being on honor roll- california games was my choice.
loooong before tony hawk's foray into video games came california games. it included not just skateboarding (well halfpipe only) but also hackysack (or freestyle footbag as they called it), bmx, rollerskating, surfing and flying disc.

depending on your score you could get "sponsored" by the cool name brands of the time like ocean pacific, santa cruz, kawasaki, casio.
i swear this choice is not even remotely influenced by the fact that athere's a shark in the surfing competition.


5.burgertime

i don't know why but i was really obsessed with burgertime.i also had a board game that i was obsessed with called build a better burger. it's amazing i never wound up working at mcdonald's or something.

6.baseball stars

the forefather to any of the mlb or espn games, this was probably one of the first video games that you could actually make up your own team and players.


7.super mario bros 3

superior to the first two mostly only because you could turn into a raccoon and fly.


8.a boy and his blob

i don't know that i ever really figured out how to play the actual game but i was fascinated by the multi-flavored jelly bean aspect to this game.


9. megaman 2

bubble man, heat man, wood man, metal man, air man, quick man, flash man and crash man. this was a game i was reeeeeaaaaallly into for a long time.


10.paperboy

i can't remember why but *everyone* was totally into paperboy.

11.maniac mansion

to be honest i don't think i ever understood how this game worked but i think it was almost like a choose your own adventure type story. my favorite character was the trampy redhead punk razor naturally (she had a band afterall "razor and the scummettes").the game vaguely had something to do with horror or sci-fi and so i played it for hours on end.

12. the legend of zelda

this is most likely where all role-playing video games started-which i honestly never got much into after zelda.

13.donkey kong

most classic. really what else can be said?

14.mortal kombat II

i knew *maybe* about 2 combination moves on any mortal kombat game. most of the time i would just randomly furiously pound the buttons as fast as i possibly could.i don't know how but i won quite often this way.i would play boys and they would talk trash that i couldn't play because i was a girl.somehow i could always manage to hustle and subsequently impress in this game.

the game was kind of controversial at the time for its violence-you can decapitate people- but by today's standards it's probably suitable for a four year old.

15.duckhunt

i will always always always think of the dog giggle.


16.contra

i couldn't even tell you how many fights started between my brother and i playing this game. it usually had to do with being in a two player game and moving ahead of your partner and not fighting and just letting them get killed instead of helping...ahem. but it was good times!

17. street fighter

a few of my friends recently got the new versions of street fighter for nostalgia sake it seems. if i could partake in online gaming i'd probably be right there with them. fortunately though i have a life ;)



18. pong

so simple yet so hypnotizing.

19. teenage mutant ninja turtles

i was always april or raphael for the most part. more than on the NES i remember having to stop at the corner store for my mom with my brother and with whatever change we had from buying a loaf of bread or whatever we would play the tmnt arcade game they had there.

20. pitfall on intellivision

this was the second video game i can remember playing on intellivision.



honorable mentions:
the math fun electric company game on intellivision.

my very first video game! i remember there being a purple gorilla and it taught me math;
othello; ms. pacman;dead rising (though i only got to play that for a short period when an xbox was temporarily staying in my apartment), crazy taxi (though the arcade version was way more fun), sonic the hedgehog, castlevania, blades of steel, dig dug II, qbert, kid icarus and excitebike.