Am not growed up
04.30.07
Song of the Day: Nikka Costa - Everybody Got Their Something
Three weeks from today, I will be in Ohio, bidding adieu to my Chicago days and trying to pretend I don't have the biggest test of my life facing me in July. I thought I would have my apartment through the end of June, but the apartment lease manager called me today and offered me the option of clearing out a month early since there is a waiting list for studio apartments in my building. Since it fits in nicely with the plans I already had in motion, I said yes and rejoiced at the idea of saving a full month's rent. And then turned around and turned that money into the first few months' payment on a white 2006 Ford Taurus. Which means, in 3 weeks' time, I will be a law school grad who has a car in her own name for the first time ever. GROWING UP TOO FAST, FETCH ME MY TEDDY BEAR, PLEASE.
I have two. In case you were wondering.
Paris Street, Rainy Day
04.15.07
Song of the Day: Tiesto - Ten Seconds Before Sunrise
Every time I go to the Art Institute, I end up seeing things I've never seen before and forming new loves and hates. This is my current new favorite painting, while Joan Miró is my new "Whaaa? If you say so..." artist.
I have never been to the museum with the same person twice, so I get to launch into my tirade about contemporary art and no one says, "I know, I know, shut up." Like everyone else, Amy and Jeff did not wholeheartedly agree with me, so I'm thinking that I'm the only person in the world who isn't clever enough to appreciate a pile of candy or a bunch of colored squares being displayed in an art museum alongside Monet and Magritte and Toulouse-Lautrec. The most infuriating thing is how all the plaques on the walls use descriptive phrases such as "deceptively simple" to describe them. I don't think so.
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Shut them up
04.12.07
Song of the Day: Hooverphonic - Sometimes
Can we just set something straight? This whole Sanjaya business is pissing me off, and not for the reasons you'd suspect. The thing about him? Someone holding on every week even though they're obviously the least talented person on the show? It's so nothing new. Season 3, we had Jon Stevens making it to the top 6, beating out Jennifer Hudson. Season 4, there was good old Scott Savol of the creepy eyes who freaked everyone out, and yet made it to the top 5. Last year, even Bucky made it to the top 8, while "Chicken Little" stuck around for too long for the same reason Sanjaya has - he's cute and very young and all the little tweens are willing to sit there for two hours text messaging votes in every week.
Does the media ever mention this in their multitude of stories about the "Sanjaya Phenomenon?" Do they ever say, "Yo, this isn't actually anything NEW, this pretty much happens every season, but our profession is a big joke so we have to keep up appearances"? Do they ever bring up Nikki McKibbin, who made it to the top 3 of season 1 despite being hated by everyone? No, of course not, because that would be honest reporting.
So now you have people who have never watched the show sitting around talking about it like they know what's going on, and people honestly think that the Vote For The Worst site is making a difference, and the stupid journalists are all grinning about how they've Cracked A Big Story.
My issue here is with the journalists, since this stupid making-mountains-out-of-flat-ground trick of theirs is nothing new (the "OMG Harriet Meirs isn't a judge and Bush still nominated her for the Supreme Court what a stupid president ha ha ha" bit was one of my "favorite" offenders of recent years). Will any of them who writes another, "Oh my god, Sanjaya is still there!" article this week mention that Haley, who was kicked off, really deserved to go, and actually did way worse than Sanjaya this week? Of course not.
Seriously now, how about reporting some REAL news.
Wheeeeee Studio 60
04.10.07
Song of the Day: Sia - Drink to Get Drunk
So my woeful prediction over on Vox that The Black Donnellys would soon be axed came true, and much to my horror, instead of continuing Studio 60, NBC elected to put Ashton Kutcher's new wedding reality show in the timeslot instead. I'd long ago come to accept that Studio 60 was not going to get a second season, but I thought for sure NBC would let it run its course for this year.
But today! A light! In the dark! According to some entertainment blog (Popsugar, I think, not that I know the difference between these many and similar sites), they're currently filming episode 20. Who knows what will come of this, but let's hope that they'll at least give it a nice conclusion and stick it back on the infernal wasteland that Monday nights have become.
When everything falls in place
04.08.07
Song of the Day: Airlock - Drama 73
I love it when things come together nicely. My beloved Amy and her beloved Jeff will be visiting me this upcoming weekend, and they arrive Thursday morning. I was planning on taking the day off school, but my Antitrust professor has announced CLASS IS CANCELLED on Thursday.
Also visiting this month is the best friend (or, the best friend who is not a four-hour plane ride away, it gets confusing having two sometimes). Suddenly, everyone wants to see me! It is very exciting, but now I have to clean the apartment to super sparkling perfection TWICE in one month, which is making me wonder if having friends is worth all that effort.
Four weeks of class left before I can let go of my 'student' status forever. If I'm quiet here, I'm simply too bored to talk (but I'm never quiet over at Vox).