come they told me

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to summarize 2008

i did a lot of this:

lookout! emo shark!

oh poor emo shark, you were only twelve! you had so much to live for! it didn't have to end this way.

my favorite line in the article is " It is unclear why the shark jumped out of its tank. "

i should fly down to the bahamas and tout myself as a shark psychologist. "well really, it could have been any number of things that could have prompted this apparent suicide. possible long term depression and suicidal thoughts due to being shunned by the hot new shark in the tank, or perhaps she was being ridiculed by the other female sharks for the way she hoarded all the chum at dinnertime. or perhaps the shark just spent her life watching the humans enjoying themselves and thought the slide looked like a fun time unaware of the chlorinated pool of death awaiting her at the bottom. since no note was found we will never know".


thanks to my favorite guilty pleasure for alerting me to this tidbit.


all that said, i totally want to go to the atlantis resort now and shoot through the shark tube.awesome! (that is if i can manage my paralyzing fear of heights to make it to the top of the slide).

conversely:
seriously though, could you imagine being the person in the waterslide and you look behind you and see a fucking shark coming down?!?!?!?!

monica's a lucky woman

sheeeeeeiiitttt, i'd marry chandler.

so guys really DO think with the other head afterall

my personal extensive research has been rendered inconclusive but apparently scientists have linked semen quality to intelligence.


somehow i doubt the scientists made the testees (hardy har har) go through the same rigorous trials as the average single female would to get these findings.

weird science

a japanese inventor made his own fembot.

it was inevitably going to happen sooner or later.




instead of going out to the bars to meet guys it just might be a better idea to go this route-maybe i should stay at home and start working on my boyfriendbots. of course i will have to make a few models: the jon spencer, the james mcavoy, the christian bale, the justin theroux, the jarvis cocker, the ewan mcgregor. i could have my own army of hot dudes. yeah i'm going to have to get right on that-the more i think about it the better of an idea it seems.



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why do the walkmen suck....

when jonathan fire*eater were sooooooooooo effing goooooood???!?!?!???!??!?!?!!?



i saw that the walkmen are playing here this week and i know everyone loves them. everyone but me anyway-i guess i'm still stuck in the past.sigh.
i decided to listen to some jf*e while i was getting ready last night.so cool, so smooth, so sexy.i wish i could have gotten to see them when they still existed. actually i just wish they never broke up.

stuart lupton started a new band- the childballads- recently but i haven't heard much yet.
here's a somewhat recent performance of them doing a jf*e song "no love like that"


here's the kills doing a cover of my favorite jonathan fire*eater song "the search for cherry red"


le sigh.....

let the right one in

I saw this movie last night in the theater

and I am still trying to wrap my head around it. I *think* i liked it but it was not even REMOTELY anything i was expecting.

{with a title culled from a morrissey tune it's already off to a good start-"let the right one slip in"- from viva hate

Let the right one in
Let the old dreams die
Let the wrong ones go
They cannot
They cannot
They cannot do what you want them to do
Oh ...
Let the right one in
Let the old dreams die
Let the wrong ones go
They do not
They do not
They do not see what you want them to
Oh ...
Let the right one in
Let the old things fade
Put the tricks and schemes (for good) away
Ah ... I will advise
Ah ... until my mouth dries
Ah ... I will advise you to ...
Ah ... let the right one slip in
Slip in
Slip in
And when at last it does
Id say you were within your rights to bite
The right one and say, what kept you so long ?
What kept you so long ?
Oh ..

i don't know if the writer was inspired by mozz or not but the lyrics are pretty apt}



i wouldn't consider this a vampire movie or even a horror movie really. the fact that there's a vampire in it is merely incidental.it feels very foreign, very arty and at points it seems really long. that isn't to say it wasn't interesting.it's more of a conversation piece.in fact it's not unlike watching a david lynch movie in some ways. it leaves a lot of open ends, a lot of plot points that you struggle to make sense of but still unforgettable and visually stimulating.

there are aspects of the story that are quite sweet and almost romantic. there are other aspects that are quite disturbing.

it's definitely not your typical movie-it's very dark but it defies genre. it certainly defies any kind of horror subgenre-it's not gory, it's not campy (i did laugh hysterically at one point but i don't think it was supposed to be that funny-i think that was just my warped sense of humor), there is no t&a (which as we all know is a main foundation of any good horror flick), no snappy one liners (albeit the film *is* swedish).
all that said, it's not a rush to the theater kind of flick and i'm not sure i would even watch it a second time. i think this one is going to take a couple of months to sink in fully with me.

seperated at birth: night of the creeps

i happened to be flipping through the tube the other day and perchanced to come upon some bit with local nbc10 morning news anchor terry ruggles.

i'm more of an abc 6 news girl myself ("there's that news van again!" and cause really no one beats jim gardner...no one!) but somehow or other i got hypnotized watching terry ruggles try out different salons in the area that are currently "going green" by having facial masks slathered on his face. he has been a staple in the philadelphian news collective for my entire life and he's always been a bit of an oddball.
the guy has a completely bizarre way of reporting any bit of news. there's a lot of stammering, odd pauses and staring into space and honestly he seems a bit...touched.

anyway it's recently occurred to me that it's possible the the ruggles is just one in a set of creepy mccreeperson seperated at birth triplets.

a holy trinity of creepiness. a creeptastic triumvirate if you will.

so there's weirdo news guy terry ruggles.



there's the longtime local dick clark wannabe jerry "the geator with the heater" blavat. (i will never ever understand this guy's purpose...is it just to annoy and be obnoxious?)



and then of course there's famous creepster character actor willem dafoe.


i swear. they are all cut from the same cloth.

(i'm sure this is good source material for nightmares for AT LEAST a week...did i purposely try to find the creepiest pictures of each of them? oh you bet i did! )

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