Philosophy Buffy style

05.31.05

Song of the Day: Edvard Grieg - Arietta

Continuing the trend from yesterday, here's another quote that struck me as extremely important the first time I heard it. It's from Buffy, of course, since no life philosophy is complete without a Buffy quote. I return to this one time and again:

"Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are. You'll see what I mean."

01:18 AM [link]

That's just fabulous

05.30.05

Song of the Day: Ashley Jade - Laid Bare

This Sunday-night-slash-Monday-morning, I stayed up way past when my body was calling out for sleep in order to finish up the final four episodes of Sex and the City. Since this show has consumed so much of my time over the last three weeks, I'm kind of lost now as far as what my next obsession is going to be. I will shamefully admit that I, the girl who mocks those who cry at sappy movies, totally burst out crying at the end of the very last episode. It didn't hit me like this when it originally aired, so I'll blame it on the body-crying-out-for-sleep factor, but there was something totally heart-wrenching about it.

And now I must share the show's final words. I may have blogged about this before, so bear with me, but ever since I first heard it well over a year ago, I have absolutely thought that it's the wisest, most important thing anyone has ever, ever said, and it is worth repeating over and over:

"Later that day, I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging, and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the 'you' you love, well, that's just fabulous."

05:04 AM [link]

Pressing questions:

05.29.05

Song of the Day: The Corrs and Bono - When The Stars Go Blue

Various questions in my head this weekend:

Why does my hair look awesomely fantastic only when it doesn't matter?

Why did Amazon list the last three tracks on Taylor Dayne's new remix EP as "tracks you won't hear anywhere else" when they're simply three tracks taken off her last CD - which I already own? And can I sue them for my $8 back even though I bought it elsewhere?

Why does Yahoo have an article about Takashi Murakami being "uneasy" with knockoff bags over a year after the peak of the Murakami bag obsession? And when will I get my cherry blossom Louie Vuitton bag? Or at least a Coach bag, in the limited edition Scribble pattern?

Why did I pass up the sale at the Gap? Do I really need more clothes?

Okay, if there's one question here I know the answer to, it's that last one...

07:42 PM [link]

Sexy voice?

05.27.05

Song of the Day: Kylie Minogue - Breathe

As a result of my sinus problems, my voice has become low and scratchy. I like to pretend that it's kind of sexy now, a big change from my normal voice, which I'm convinced sounds like a 12-year-old on helium. I think I'd like to test this sexy voice theory out by grabbing the first hot guy I see off the street and growling at him, "Take me, baby, now!" If he takes me, right there and then, then I'll definitely have to find some way to make my voice stay like this.

Then again, that's not likely to happen, given that A) that would require getting out of my pajamas and going outside (unless my new faux-sexy voice is enough to make a guy forget I'm wearing pajamas and no makeup), and B) in my neighborhood, the first hot guy I see on the street is 80% likely to be gay. Oh well. It was a fun idea while it lasted.

02:30 AM [link]

Hello, gorgeous

05.25.05

Song of the Day: Lucy Woodward - Dumb Girls

While I was watching the American Idol finale tonight, a trailer for a movie came on that made me exclaim,

"Hello, Gorgeous!"

I stared at the screen, trying to figure out where else I'd seen this man, since I was falling madly in love with every passing second and I needed to know where to go to start stalking him.

Then I realized, he was the Devil on Joan of Arcadia. Which was cancelled. Which would have prominently featured him if it had been given another season.

DAMMIT.

08:45 PM [link]

New trance hit?

05.24.05

Song of the Day: Dido - Sand In My Shoes

So it looks like DHT's Listen To Your Heart, a dance remake of the Roxette song, is starting to enter mainstream consciousness. It's the number one downloaded dance single on iTunes, which means that mainstream music listeners are realizing that there's more to dance music than DJ Sammy's Heaven, that song infamously lip synched by that fat kid online, and the Vengaboys.

My question is, why is it only the random 80s dance remakes that hit the top 40? The aforementioned DJ Sammy song is the perfect example of this. Take a Bryan Adams 80s song, turn it into euphoric vocal trance goodness, and suddenly the MTV crowd is acting like it's something new and exciting. Euphoric vocal trance goodness is not new, sorry.

Then again, if dance and trance become the next big thing after this stupid hip hop obsession that America has, I'll be pretty put off and you'll forever hear me insisting that I found it first, dammit! Fortunately (or unfortunately, however we might be looking at it), I don't think anyone else will ever understand the music I listen to. Sigh.

03:08 PM [link]

Stuffed up head

05.23.05

I am now fully aware of something that I should have figured out earlier this weekend:

It's sinus problem time of the year. And I forgot to take another decongestant before leaving for class. My throat is in pain, I feel like cotton is stuffed in my ears, it feels like there is a vise gripping my head, and I think I have little aliens living under my eyes who are trying to push their ways out.

Oh, the joys of being alive. Sigh.

06:10 PM [link]

Done!

05.19.05

Song of the Day: Billy Miles - Sunshine

I'm sitting here in the middle of a huge blanket of fog wondering, "Where the hell did the rest of Chicago go?" At least I assume it's fog. Evil fog, preventing people from finding their way. With this much moisture in the air, no wonder my hair was trying to jump off my head today.

As of this morning, I am no longer a first year law student. I took my last exam, and I am done! Free! No more schoolwork until...well, this weekend, when I have 80 pages of stuff to get through for the start of summer classes on Monday. No rest for the wicked, it seems.

03:54 PM [link]

May God smite you all

05.18.05

Song of the Day: U2 - Beautiful Day (Paul Oakenfold 2004 Mix)

So all the good news for the week was confined to yesterday. Today, CBS announced that it is cancelling Joan of Arcadia.

How do you cancel a show about a girl who talks to God? Isn't that asking for a lightning bolt up your ass or something? And they had just revealed why God talks to her in the season finale, it's not like I'm dying to know what happens next or anything.

So now my TV viewing is going back down to almost nothing in the fall. There will be Arrested Development and Scrubs, but from what I've read, Scrubs doesn't even have a place on NBC's fall schedule yet, they just say that it will be on at some point. Yeah, that's reassuring.

10:08 PM [link]

Video game news

05.17.05

Song of the Day: Annie Lennox - Pavement Cracks (Gabriel & Dresden Club Mix)

This post will mean nothing to people who don't play video games, but I must cheer.

The Playstation 3 is going to be backwards-compatible all the way back to the original Playstation, and Nintendo's next console is going to have an online system where you can download almost every Nintendo game ever released.

That news better not change. If it did, it would be as tragic as the Fashion Gods announcing that they're never making any more strappy sandals. Ever. And that's pretty damn tragic.

Later afternoon edit: Just when I thought my day couldn't get any better, I scored two pairs of Diesel jeans and a skirt for $35. Damn, it's all good.

01:47 PM [link]

Friend bashing

05.14.05

Song of the Day: SheDaisy - Get Over Yourself

I've recently been admonished for not updating this window into my mind. My only defense is that I didn't want to bore anyone with gripes about exams. What I have to say today is a result of watching the first three seasons of Sex and the City in one week and contemplating a multitude of my own relationship thoughts lately. So here is my Carrie Bradshaw-ish question:

When did it become okay to insult your significant other's friends and family?

Before venturing further, of course, most likely, every person you date has that friend, or that relative, who absolutely drives you up the wall. But when there isn't a single person who doesn't elicit an eye roll and a sneering, "Oh God" when you bring them up, how could anyone think that's acceptable?

Imagine this. You have your family, who has been there since the day you were born. You have your friends, who often have been there for years upon years for you, offering loyalty and support. Suddenly, this new significant other comes along, and after having only been in your life for a few months, starts putting those people down as if he (or she) is somehow better than them. They don't give any thought to why you might have picked these people to be in your life, or as to how they'd feel if their own sibling was insulted.

And then when you ask them to please stop, because you really don't want to hear them judge the important people in your life, how is it any different when they instead say things like, "Well, I have my opinions, but you told me to not say anything, so I won't"?

My most recent two boyfriends found it completely acceptable to rudely and vocally judge situations going on in my parents' lives, choices my sister makes, decisions that my best friends make, the things that my friends say to me about their dating and sex lives, and even how I happened to meet certain friends. From both of these oh-so-decorous men, I felt like none of the people in my life was exempt from eye rolling, smart comments, and general rudeness right to my face.

Which makes me wonder. If these significant others thought I was so horrible at picking out friends, did they ever wonder why I would be any better at picking people to date?

What does it take to get some common decency these days?

05:21 AM [link]

Dishwasher time

05.10.05

Song of the Day: DJ Sammy - Long Way To Go

I know it's time to do dishes when I have to eat out of Tupperware because all the bowls are in the sink.

I DO have an excuse; for those who haven't already heard me complain (and complain, and complain, and complain), I had a four-hour exam to deal with. I believe that law school professors sit around discussing how to achieve that "extra evil" label.

The sun is coming up. Nothing like 13 episodes of Sex and the City in a row to numb my brain after four hours of wrenching every Civil Procedure factoid I knew out of my brain.

I also realized that I totally adore Mr. Big when he isn't being all commitment-phobe-asshole-ish. It's a lot easier to watch this show now that I know she ends up with him in the end.

05:36 AM [link]

Interview time!

05.08.05

Song of the Day: Everything But The Girl - Missing

I don't normally play blog games, but Melantha provided me with five questions to answer in her Super Secret Livejournal that you're not lucky enough to read.

1. What is your opinion on www.datinghelpformen.com and the techniques within?

*rolls off the couch laughing* *starts to cry from laughing so hard* *shrieks something about ALWAYS BE COOLER THAN THE GIRL* *dies from the sheer hilarity of it*

2. If you could change anything about your appearance without effort, what would you do, if anything?

No more blonde roots. Magical genes that change as my hair color does.

3. What do you want to do after law school? (The world needs to know!)

Catch criminals, baby! While wearing Manolo Blahniks, of course.

4. What political causes do you advocate, and which do you think are ridiculous?

Oooooh, you're trying to get me in trouble here. I advocate a National Harry Potter holiday, and I think the death penalty is ridiculous. Why the hell are we letting these guys off easily with death? Half of them have found Lawrd Jebus in prison anyways and believe they're going to him when they die. How the hell is that punishment?

5. When will you be coming out to California? (Couldn't resist :D)

This summer, I hope!! We need to booze, shop, and run around pinching hot guys' asses. And go to Vegas. Because Vegas would rock.

04:59 PM [link]

Star Wars nerds

05.07.05

Song of the Day: Amber - Sexual (Li Da Di)

Time Magazine has not arrived in my mailbox this week.

It has Darth Vadar on the cover.

I wonder if Star Wars nerds know that stealing mail is a federal crime.

06:17 PM [link]

The Phantom of the Opera is here...

05.06.05

Song of the Day: Delta Goodrem - A Little Too Late

After an agonizing several-day wait, Blockbuster finally sent me The Phantom Of The Opera. Being a certified Phantom-junkie, I was dying to know how Hollywood treated the Broadway version of the story. The answer? Not too aggressively. It didn't break any new ground; it was a pretty faithful scene-by-scene translation to the movie screen. The only changes were minor and inoffensive - a swordfight between the Phantom and Raoul here, a change of when the chandelier drops there, some added explanatory scenes and lines to make it more movie-goer-friendly. The only real surprise was how young they made the Phantom. I was not expecting that at all.

I can't decide if I'm disappointed they didn't try something new, or if I'm downright relieved they didn't mess with what is already, in my opinion, absolute perfection.

In any case, time to leave behind that dazzling world and hit the books again. The two-week exam period hasn't even started yet, and I'm already sick of it all.

10:08 PM [link]

Brooke's brain

05.04.05

Song of the Day: Ben E. King - Stand By Me

In case anyone wants to know how my brain works, here's an example of a thought process that went through my head last night:

1. Bo sings "Stand By Me" on American Idol.
2. I go download "Stand By Me" and listen to it a dozen times.
3. I realize it's been a really long time since I've seen the movie Stand By Me.
4. I realize it's also been a really long time since I've seen The Lost Boys, which also has Kiefer Sutherland in it.
5. I muse that as cool as people think Kiefer is as on 24, he was at his coolest when he was a vampire.
6. I go to Blockbuster.com to add The Lost Boys and Stand By Me to my list of movies to rent.
7. I end up reshuffling my list to put both Hero and House of Flying Daggers at the very top.
8. I don't end up putting Stand By Me or The Lost Boys on my list, but I do decide that as much as I adore The Breakfast Club, the other two are the epitome of the Perfect 80s Movie. Just because they don't have Molly Ringwald in them does not lessen their perfection.
9. I decide, screw renting these movies, I need to own them.

Somehow I went from watching American Idol to deciding I need to spend money. Just like earlier today, when I decided that the extreme frustration I felt over not getting into a class for the fall and having to completely redo my schedule and get rid of my 3-day weekends in order to take a class I'm not even interested in just so I have a full course load led me to decide I really, really needed to buy a Starbucks coffee. My brain must be connected to my wallet.

04:58 PM [link]

Dancing elephants

05.03.05

Song of the Day: Iio - What A Way

I just saw a commercial with a dancing elephant in it, and it made me giggle like a little girl.

On another note, I never intend to watch Law & Order: SVU, but somehow it just sucks me right in every time.

08:33 PM [link]