Falling apart

03.30.06

Song of the Day: Tori Amos - Raspberry Swirl

My pants are falling apart on me as I speak. They're a several-years-old pair of Sevens that I've worn, apparently, one too many times. I'd noticed that the seams were starting to look a little threadbare, so I was expecting that they were on their last legs, but I didn't expect them to go so soon.

Today as I put them on, I grabbed ahold of the belt loops to pull them on, and totally ripped the beltloops right off, putting small holes where they used to be sewed on. Whoops. That should have been my first clue that maybe it was time to retire them, but it didn't really affect their wearability, so I continued getting dressed.

Unfortunately, while I was on the bus, the button above the fly decided it had had enough and fell off. Double whoops. So now I'm hoping that I can make it through three classes without the zipper breaking, or some other sort of tragic event. As soon as I get home, these are hitting the garbage, and then I'll have to find a new pair of jeans to obsess over until they wear out.

10:45 AM [link]

Busy week

03.27.06

Song of the Day: Madonna - Get Together

Today I hauled the n3rd back to the airport and then came home to sullenly sit around in my now-quiet apartment. Highlights of the week:

* Cupcakes! Pear flavored cupcakes, caramel and coffee flavored cupcakes. Mango flavored cupcakes. Cupcake bakeries seem to be the new trendy thing, and unlike most trends, this is one I can get behind.

* Girodet exhibit at the Art Institute. Totally amazing. My favorite was Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes. The detail in it was just breathtaking; the small version on this website doesn't do it justice at all.

* Improv at The Second City, Chicago's famous comedy club where people like John Belushi, Mike Myers, Tina Fey, and Steve Carrell got their start. It was a rather last-minute decision, so the main shows were sold out, but we got to see an improv show with people who were just starting out. Their lack of experience was obvious at times, but I'm all about the funny, so it was a good time.

* Movies included V for Vendetta and Thank You For Smoking. Both were really enjoyable, and Thank You For Smoking was hilarious.

And finally, since Amy wanted to see the new hair, here's a picture of me and the n3rd. The hair is freshly washed there, so it's pretty fluffy and not as sleek as it normally looks.

11:07 PM [link]

Sleep tugging

03.23.06

Song of the Day: Ace of Base - Unspeakable

So, last night the n3rd decided to tug on my hair until I woke up. I rolled over, asked him what he wanted, and he kissed my forehead and went back to sleep. Today, he swears he has no recollection of this and insists that I must have been dreaming.

To get back at him, I drooled copiously on his chest when I fell asleep while watching MirrorMask.

I'm such a good girlfriend.

12:11 AM [link]

Random bits

03.17.06

Song of the Day: Reina - Find Another Woman

Warning: sheer rambling from an exhausted mind ahead.

From the comment on the previous entry, I seem to be boring people with my lack of updates. I spent the last week in Los Angeles enjoying the warmer, but not quite warm, weather, along with an overnight trip to Las Vegas (nothing prettier in this world than driving through the desert at sunset). On my uncle's whim, I now suddenly have highlights and bangs, the latter of which was unexpected and a little strange. I've been tossing my head every five seconds to try to get them out of my eyes.

I had some very cool packages awaiting me when I walked in the door this evening, including an autographed copy of SHeDaisy's newest CD, and an autographed and numbered copy of Amber Benson and Christopher Golden's Ghosts of Albion: Initiation (to match my autographed copy of their Ghosts of Albion: Accursed). This proves that if you're one of my favorite people and you want me to buy your product right away, rather than waiting for a few months, all you have to do is offer to sign it and I'll be all over it.

Other books purchased this week include: Christopher Golden's The Myth Hunters (part 2 not out until spring 2007? EVIL.), Douglas Preston's The Codex, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's Dance of Death, and Alan Moore's V for Vendetta. I read V on the plane, and all I can hope is that the movie trailers haven't lulled me into a false hope of an excellent movie translation. I didn't enjoy V as much as Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but that's probably because League had the dryest, wittiest humor, whereas V is virtually humorless.

I need a sugar daddy to buy me more books and comics. Please?

I'm so sick of travelling that I'd take a stand and refuse to step foot inside airports for an entire year, but I have to head back to Midway tomorrow to pick up the n3rd. So much for my conviction; at least I don't have to actually get on the airplane.

I will hopefully be writing again soon with my actual thoughts on the movie version of V, since the n3rd and I hope to see it this weekend. Everyone cross your fingers that it won't be a disappointing pile of gunk like the movie version of League was!

01:51 AM [link]

Conviction sucks

03.06.06

Song of the Day: Poe - Hello

You'll have to excuse my week-long gap between blog entries; I've been playing "pathetic little sick girl" for the last few days, and any blog entry written in this time was likely to say, "Oh god I feel like I've been hit by a truck" over and over.

It seems like NBC is really pushing their new Law and Order show, Conviction. They put the first episode on iTunes as a free download before it ever aired, and then they repeated it after its initial Friday timeslot. I caught the Saturday repeat quite by accident, and I was interested in what J. August Richards has been up to since Angel was cancelled, so I decided to watch it. The verdict? It sucks.

From all the buzz, it seems like this show was supposed to be "the legal drama that focuses on the characters". There was good reason for the L&O team to want to try this. Grey's Anatomy is "the hospital show that focuses on the characters" and it's the best thing on TV right now. Bones is "the crime solving show that focuses on the characters" and it's had a very healthy run so far. Its totally endearing characters are the only reason I watch it. So why wouldn't "the legal drama that focuses on the characters" also work?

Someone needs to tell Conviction's writers that "focusing on the characters" does not mean "show who they're sleeping with, with lots of romping-in-bed scenes."

Aside from the problem where the characters' personalities all seem to stem from their sexual habits, there was another thing that totally got under my skin and made me unable to buy into the show. The entire DA's office was run by people under the age of 30. The only person who actually looked like he was the appropriate age was gunned down halfway through the episode. Conviction seems to be nothing more than a bunch of young, pretty things having sex with each other, all dressed up in the disguise of a legal drama. And it wasn't even done well.

I think I'll pass.

01:27 PM [link]