Yesterday when I was at work, one of the co-workers came up to me with a framed picture. He handed it to me and said "look, I found it when I was packing for my move." I am confuzzled, until I look at the picture. It is of the co-worker when he was very young, a few other people I know, and The Kief. Yes, The Kief. And oh my god was he ever beautiful. Co-worker (CW from now on) worked on some documentary where they interviewed The Kief and his mom. So CW got to light him. And he told me stories about how The Kief came in all hung over (which makes me think some lucky girl got to feel the scruff the night before), chain smoked the entire time (swoon!), and seemed a little down and heartbroken because this was only a few weeks after the Julia Roberts fiasco. I have never been so jealous in my entire life. He met THE KIEF! And while I was probably only about 11 at the time, I am still quite sad that I wasn't there.
But, at the same time, I know someone who knows (met, whatever) The Kief. That gives me a Kief Separation of 2. I think... Is that how that works? Or is it just one? Either way, it's still a really small number, wheeeeee!
In non-Kief related news, this link came in my weekly Popbitch email, and it is the funnest game ever! The song that plays is awesome. I need to download it, because it is the height of cheese. Anyway, since the instructions on the game aren't in English, what you have to do is, uh, rub your hands over the champaign bottle until it pops. Go play. And sign up for the Popbitch email while you're at it, it is the highlight of my Thursday.
I've discovered that if you want to get to sleep sometime before 4am, there are some things you shouldn't do. Like start listening to Courtney Love's latest album, America's Sweetheart at around 1am. Because instead of getting you lulled into a peaceful frame of mind (perfect for sleeping) you will end up dancing around your apartment, singing along (quietly, so as not to piss off the crazy man who lives below you) and basically just rocking out. That album is so much fun! WHEEEEEEE! I mean, I think I listened to Mono about 20 times in a row before I even moved on to the rest of the album. It is great. And it felt really good to get my rock on, since I generally listen to Sad Bastard Music. Which I love and all, but sometimes you just need to toss your hair around, jump up and down, and think about getting a heroin addiction (not that you ever would, just because it seems like a rock star thing to do.)
I also signed up for Audioscrobbler although it seems to hate me. It won't let me log in at all, for some messed up reason. I already love the site though. It's so fun to see what people are listening to. Although, if you see Britney's Toxic on my list I don't know how it got there. Really. It's some weird bug in the system, it's turning up on One's list too. And we certainly don't like it, or listen to it, or dance to it. No.
Moving on, Roomie and her boyfriend left yesterday for Cancun. Which makes me kinda want to hate them. But, they have left me all by myself here at the apartment, which I LOVE! If I had all the money in the world I would totally live by myself. Roomie's is great and all, but it's nice to be able to hole up in my apartment and not have to have any human contact. Since, you know, I generally hate most people.
In celebration of having the apartment to myself, I've invited friends over for dinner. Because since I don't have to see people, of course now I want to. It should be very nice though, I'm going to make a ton of pasta, and probably some garlic bread and we will crack open a couple of bottles of wine. Should be lovely.
Listening to: Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
"I follow where my mind goes..."
My Russell Crowe crush is back full force. There was a brief period where I thought he was the most beautiful man on earth right around Gladiator and Proof of Life. God! Proof of Life! *sigh* Anyway, then he started acting like a pompous ass, and sleeping with Meg Ryan, yuck, and the lust died. But Master and Commander brought it back. I really liked it. I love all those old war/boat movies. Have you seen any of the Horatio Hornblower movies? Love them. Something about those old uniforms, and the water. Yum.
I also rented the Matrix, which I will have to watch at some point before tomorrow. So I guess I'll watch it tomorrow morning before I go to work. I don't even want to see it that much, but I want to know how the series ends. I hope it's not as crappy as the second music vid, I mean, movie was.
New music rec time. I have so much love for a song called Bad Luck by Royal City. They're local boys, the song is great, with a really cool video. You can listen to the song here. Just scroll about halfway down the page. I haven't personally tried the link, since I have the cd, but hopefully it will work. It's a wonderful song.
I've also been listening to Malcolm McLaren's About Her. I fell in love with it during Kill Bill Vol. 2, and I'm so glad I downloaded acquired it. It's a beautiful song, and it takes some lyrics from what is possibly my most favourite "song my parents listened to when they were young" She's Not There by the Zombies.
Went shopping today, wheeeee! I got the absolute cutest pair of shoes. They are adorable, and I love them to pieces. I also got two bras that FIT! That doesn't happen often, so when it does it's cause for rejoicing.
24 last night? Kicked ass. As always. Thank god for that show, we'd have some fairly crap television without it.
Listening to: Malcolm McLaren - About Her
"Well no one told me about her, the way she lied..." And:
Royal City - Bad Luck
"Bad luck came with wide, horrible flashing eyes..."
For One, because I know how much she loves stories about my mom.
Mom and I were talking yesterday, and I asked if she'd seen Without a Trace on Thursday. I wanted to talk about how much better I thought the Sweet Baboo looked after his haircut. Anyway, I asked if she had seen it, and she said, and I am quoting verbatim here "No, your father made us watch that pissing CSI instead." This of course, made me laugh my ass off because the only person who hates CSI more than me is my mom. She then went on to tell me about the plot, and then says "So that evil Catherine is trying to get a DNA sample from some woman, and she's protesting it and saying how her daughter just died, so back off, and I [Mom] said 'Yeah! You stupid ex-stripper, single mom bitch!' And your father and your brother both looked at me like [here mom makes a face that pretty much looks like WTF?]" BWAH!!! I nearly died. My dad and my brother really don't get the CSI hate, and they don't seem to get the extreme Cat hate that mom and I both share. Anyway, this just completely cmsu. I love my mom.
Then I just told her about the Sweet Baboo's hair, and I mentioned how everyone online calls him the Sweet Baboo too, and she was very proud. Then she said that my dad saw and article in the paper and pointed it out to my mom by saying "Look, here's a picture of your Baboo." In a completely serious, non-mocking tone. Hee! My parents are fun.
Speaking of fun, I saw Kill Bill Vol. 2 last night, and loved it. I think I may have liked it better than the first one. Mind you, I should probably watch them both in a close time frame before I make that my absolute decision. It was completely awesome though, and you must all go see it. So fun. Although, silly me, somehow managed to forget that it was opening night. I rarely go see movies opening night, because I hate people. I like to avoid crowds. Of course, our theatre was completely sold out. Which means I had people sitting beside me who I didn't know. I hate that. Thankfully, he was very nice and didn't hog the armrest, or do anything creepy.
NEW 24 TOMORROW! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I swear to god, the president had better be damn quiet tomorrow. No speeches!
Also, NEW QUEER AS FOLK MONDAY, WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I've missed my hot nekkid men. Glad to see they're back. It's been a looooong time.
Oh yeah, I guess Alias is on tomorrow night too. Earlier tonight I was really bored at work and I spoiled myself about Alias. And the sad part? It didn't really spoil me. None of it surprised me. There weren't any wowing twists. It was just... meh. Really, I can sum up the whole season with that word. Except for GothVaughn. I heart me some GothVaughn.
*facepalm* I can't believe I just typed that.
Listening to: Franz Ferdinand - Michael (aka the hottest song ever)
"Stubble on my sticky lips..."
Life was busy this week. All with the working, and holidays, and more working. I shouldn't complain about the work though, because with the work comes money. And I heart money. So so much. Because Money is going to help me buy a computer. In fact, with the holiday pay I made working on Good Friday, I should be at least 1/4 of the way to my goal, so yay work!
Kris has asked for my thoughts on Jersey Girl. I liked it for a romantic comedy. I didn't like it so much as a Kevin Smith movie. I love Kevin Smith movies! They are insane, crazy, so funny, and just off the wall. That's why I love them. I think Mallrats is a genius movie. So clever. But Jersey Girl wasn't like that. It was a touching/heartfelt/kinda romantic comedy. But there was that little edge of Kevin Smith that you could see shining through. The odd comment that would make you laugh out loud. I did enjoy it. I also was shocked to realize that I enjoyed Ben Affleck. Especially Ben Affleck in old, worn in jeans and a t shirt. He looked mighty Yummy, and I haven't thought that way about him since before Bennifer.
I realized today that one of the guys I work with has an illegal dish that gets him American channels. AND a few months ago he was so very kind as to tape me the second series of The Wire in the Blood off of BBCAmerica. So I batted my eyelashes, smiled all pretty and asked him to tape Touching Evil for me. He said he would! YAY! So I shall be caught up on it soon.
Gah, CNN is running the Presidents speech again, and I am still bitter. I can't believe there was no new 24 tonight because of him. Even worse, they're running it on Sunday? That bites. I have to work on Sunday. Thank god we run Alias at 7pm up here, so I can tape both. Unlike tomorrow night, when I am screwed for getting Angel AND the OC. I'll have to tape Angel at home, and then tape The OC here at work in a sneaky fashion. There are times when it rocks to work for a tv station.
Do you think my life revolves around tv too much? Nah, I didn't think so either.
Roomie and her boyfriend have just booked a trip to Mexico for the last week in April. I will have the place to myself! I will have to sit around nekkid, and eat ice cream out of the carton, and sing really loudly (I'm sure the neighbours will love that). I'm really looking forward to it. It's nothing to do with Roomie, she's wonderful, but if I had enough money I would much rather live by myself.
And on that note, my shift is over and now I can go home! WHEEEE!
Listening to: Co-workers typing.
I saw the Rapture and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club last night. They were awesome. I'm at a loss for words other than that. It was really good, and that's about it. So yay them!
Moving on,
It's funny, there are about half a million people in the city I live in. Yet, when I pull up at a stoplight today, who is in the next car? My brother. I hardly even see him when I'm at home. Weird.
Last night, I taped the Swan. I thought I was taping Gilmore Girls, but apparently Global didn't run it. So I got the Swan instead. I watched about 5 minutes, right in the middle, where they were revealing one of the girls. It made me sick. This show is awful, and I hope that no one watches it because it's disgusting. The girl was going on and on about how she wasn't beautiful, and she never thought she was beautiful, blah blah blah. I'll be honest, she was a fairly plain girl. BUT the biggest problem she had was her self esteem. If she felt better about herself, that would show through. Instead, she had to have a ton of plastic surgery to feel better about herself. I guess one of the gimmicks about the show is that they don't have any mirrors in the house. I can't help but think that if they put the girls in that house for a few months, got them to work out and work on their self esteem, and then just gave them a regular old non-surgical makeover that the results would be the same. And then I guess they put them through a beauty pageant at the end? Jesus. I couldn't watch it. It was making me angry.
Going to see Jersey Girl tonight. This is the kind of movie I would normally avoid at all costs, but Kevin Smith is behind it and I think that man is a genius. I'll see anything he attaches his name to. So hopefully it won't be a complete suck fest, because that would disappoint me.
I posted some thoughts at the LJ about it being the 10 year anniversary of Kurt Cobain's body being found. I hope that the guys and Courtney Love stop fighting so they can release the rest of the Nirvana stuff they have kicking around. I'd love to hear it.
Listening to: Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea
"Give me a Leonard Cohen afterward so I can sigh eternally
I'm so tired and I can't sleep..."
I love CD's. They are so pretty. A new CD can seriously brighten my day. 5 new CD's can make my week. I was in at the college to voice track my radio show, and again I ended up with a whole stack of new CD's. Again. I still haven't listened to all the ones I snagged last time. I ended up with the new Vines CD (which made me very happy that I resisted buying it). It's really good. I think I may even like it better than Highly Evolved. It's a bit more mellow, but it still has it's rockin moments.
I got Sondre Lerche's new album, Two Way Monologues. I haven't listened to it all yet, but what I've heard I've really liked.
I also grabbed, but haven't listened to the new Alphie CD. I wanted to really love these guys, since people were always lumping them and Badly Drawn Boy together. But the songs I heard left me feeling meh. I hope this new album will give me a better opinion on them when I finally get around to listening to it.
On to my debate for tonight... stay in and catch up on some Farscape episodes? Or go out and try to have a life... It's a tough decision.
OH! And Pooh tells me that WEST! from Space: Above and Beyond will be one of the many Alias guest stars. This makes me a very happy girl. Because, I feel it's a very short move to go from West to Krycek. It makes sense in my world. We need to get Nick Lea away from CSI fast, because from what I've heard it's a sinking ship. Plus, I freaking hate that Catherine chick. Sydney crying is better than her.
Think I covered enough fandoms there? No?
"Knees."
How about now?
Listening to: Gomez - Catch Me Up
"Cause I shot down the moon for you..."
Watching: Veronica Mars, SG1
Reading: Hot Six
Listening: Coldplay
Lusting: All the TV Boyfriends
Wanting: JOB! Seriously.
Loving: New TV Obsessions
Quoting: "How was your date?" "You know, the conversation was lame, but the sex was great." Veronica to her Dad.
Next Concert: Death From Above 1979
