Playing DJ

Category: Music
Originally posted on September, 2, 2008

I feel like playing a radio DJ in this blog. I'm going to make a dedication to somebody. Somebody from my past. You are probably not even reading this blog anyway. But I just want to get this out in the open. I'm dedicating "It's All Over But the Crying" by Garbage. Seriously were was this song in my life like 10 months ago? Yeah I know I'm writing another blog about Garbage. No, I'm not losing it. If I start wearing ankle boots and dying my hair red then I might be.

"Certain things turn ugly when you think too hard
And nagging little thoughts change into things you can't turn off"

"If I could I would
I'd change everything"

Alison and Savannah

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Originally Posted on October, 1, 2008.

Alison from Palmdale was an interesting episode. Cathrine Weaver has a kid which I think is funny. Is the kid a robot too? They got cute little red haired girl to play her daughter Savannah. Or maybe the T 1001 killed the real Cathrine and the little girl is human.

A Moving Blog

Current mood: confused
Category: Life
Originally posted on November, 18, 2009

I'm moving and I think it's bittersweet. First I thought it was bad. Then I remembered all the things I really don't like about where I live. But there will also be bad things about the new place I'm moving to. I'm trying to be optimistic about it as much as possible. Which is really hard for me. I'm not a very optimistic person. Well I start off really optimistic about something and then my optimism dies very quickly.

Well I will be closer to the bus station. I'm already to take on driving again. I feel inspired to try it again. I want to learn a new skill. I haven't attempted driving since I was 18. At first I was very eager to do it. I was a little upset because most of my peers were driving at like 12 or 14. I mean it was like a rite of passage you pass 8th grade, and you learn how to drive. Even though it's totally illegal for a 14 year old to drive a car in my state. I didn't even start taking Driver's ED classes until I turned 18. After I passed the written part of the test. The funny thing is that the only thing I remember about it was that there was some little kid in the DMV office with a Sailor Pluto doll.

I was scared at the thought of doing it, and I was so nervous when I actually got behind the wheel and drove. I went to a crappy driving school, and I didn't learn much. All I did was steer the car. She would do the petals. The training car had 2 sets of petals. I mostly ended up running errands for the teacher. I was so frustrated I never ended up taking the driving test.

Not being able to drive as been one of my secret shames. I use to just let people assume I ride the bus because I'm poor. That's not really a lie I am poor, or let them assume I didn't have access to a car. Please don't count me out. Plus if I can drive I can go to all the meet and greets and signings I want to if I have access to a car.

Here's a list of some of the things I will miss:
Having a clothes dryer
Having an air conditioner
Having 2 bathrooms
Having a lemon tree
Having a larger bedroom
Living near a good Dollar Tree the one that I'll live near is ghetto

Here's a list of things I won't miss:
The neighbors I don't like (there were some cool neighbors too)
Having a bedroom that faces the street
Not Having a front window, there is no front window because of the attached garage
Having a small closet
Having my bedroom door hit my closet door when ever it was opened (seriously my bedroom was so horribly designed)
"Cottage cheese" ceilings (I don't know what they are really called)

Funny Interview

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Originally posted on September, 24, 2008

Shirley wasn't in Automatic for The People very much. She was in the very last scene and driving a car. I don't know why they make her look so busty as a robot.

She was in 2 scenes in Mousetrap. I like the way they style her hair in the show it's like a pompadour. Well I guess she has to have very CEO-like hair. At least she has dialogue in this episode not like the last one.

Guess what I'm not doing tomorrow? I'm not going to the Ferguson taping. Too bad I really wanted to go Shirley is going to be a guest on the show. It will be fun to see her interact with Ferguson since they are both Scottish.

I remember back when Kilborne use to host the show and she was a guest. This was way back like in 1998. Anyway I really didn't think about this interview until I got that Garbage CD and for some reason. Anyway he asks her about Scottish food and she's talking about haggis and that you cut it open with a sword.

It's on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AQhG1TwRyg

Some Common Misconceptions About Me

Current mood: contemplative
Category: Life
Originally posted on August 10, 2007

I am sexually attracted to Gwen Stefani because I say that I "love" her.

My "love" for Gwen is more admiration I don't love her in a romantic way. I hate when people take it the wrong way. The English language only has one form of the word "love". I mean do you really "love" spaghetti that much? So it is hard to say you "love" something without having to convey the level of love some languages have more than one form of the word "love", like Greek.

Because I like cartoons I am "slow"

This misconception really pisses me off. People have been assuming this about me for over 10 years now. At first it use to really, really piss me off. But then I decided that they were not going to change and so I shouldn't either. There are some whispers *secret cartoon fans*.

I was a No Doubt fan before I was a Blondie fan

This is so common the bad thing is that nobody believes me because most people who know me met me after I became a No Doubt fan. The origins of my Blondie fandom is that when I was in 2nd grade I really didn't know what kind of music I liked I didn't like New Kids on the Block like all the other girls in my class did. I was looking for something different. So one day I was telling my mom about this problem and she put some Blondie for me and thought I would like it. I use to constantly listen to "The Best of Blondie" and I think I drove my mom crazy. I did learn the words to "Rapture" really quickly though.

I like the color yellow because of pikachu

I don't even like the color yellow. I like pikachu because it's pikachu. It could pink, red, green, blue, even polka dotted! It's just a cute pokemon.

Robot in the Bathroom (contains spoilers)

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Originally posted on Friday, September 12, 2008

Ok so I watched that Terminator show first the time ever. I had never seen any Terminator show or movie before ever. I think I watched part of an episode from the first season while NBC was boring me with like 48 continuous minutes of Olympic diving.

I thought I would just watch the show to see Shirley Manson's debut in acting. I have to say I was impressed by her work.

The show is ok I guess. I'm a little lost since I have no knowledge of it. I was just trying to get a feel for it. This is not the kind of show you just jump into watching like a comedy show.

I like the Catharine Weaver character. She is a total bitch. She had a cool hair style too. But the best part was when she was a toilet. If you did not see the episode this makes no sense to you, and is pretty much a spoiler. I'm not on a cruise, but I'm freaked out. You won't see anything like this on Gossip Girl. If you put in the phrase "Shirley Manson Urinal" in a search engine it comes up with some interesting results.

I feel sorry for that John kid. He had a horrible birthday, and I thought being harassed by a group of girls in your sixth grade class was a horrible birthday.

Not My Box of Pocky

Category: School, College, Greek
Originally posted on April 9, 2008

I was excited about going to my anime club meeting. I was a little nervous, but it was a good nervous. For an anime club meeting I only took one thing with me, Japanese snack food. A box of Koala’s March cookies the chocolate filled ones. I wanted to eat them during the viewing like I would’ve done at my old anime club if I would have been able to find some. Plus they are a quiet food.

When I went to where the club was suppose to meet up I just wanted to be really low key about it. So I just walked slowly to the back corner of the room and sat down. Then the leaders of the club had to yell in the room that everybody who was there for the club meeting to round them up. They said that we were not meeting in the place that we were at.

As we were walking as a club to the room we were going to meet up at they were talking about things from the last meeting since I was not at the last one I had no idea what was going on. We were walking down this hallway and some of the members started yelling and screaming. The leader had to tell them to stop because people were having class near by. Some of the members wanted to do what they wanted with out consent from the club. I don’t know how many clubs they have been in before, but you just can’t do that in any club.

I sat in the back of the room I wanted to be low key again. I like to sit towards the back at club meetings. The guy who is the staff leader was telling us about what we can and can’t do. Like you can’t show a movie to more than 10 people or it’s an exhibition. Does that mean if you have a party and you run a movie in the background you can charge people? The good thing was that he dissed the "purists" and said that if you really wanted a pure anime you would watch it unedited in Japanese and understand it. He said that even subs are mistranslated and well everybody knows about the dubs. He was saying that you should watch an anime that makes you think. But I’m not really into overanalyzing stuff sometimes I just want to watch mindless entertainment. He said he really doesn’t like American cartoons because they are not drawn very well. I don’t care about how well something is drawn just as long as the story has me. He was saying about all those "cookie cutter" anime like Dragon Ball and Naruto. But I really like those. Well not those series specifically, but I do like my cookie cutter magical girl anime. That is my favorite sub-genre. But he said some kid’s anime are good. But he likes stuff like Ghost in the Shell.

After the club leaders introduced themselves people were trying to get the anime they brought shown. This one guy brought a whole bunch of stuff. He had shopping bags filled with DVDs and video games. He had one of these small novelty lockers filled with PS1 games. Every time somebody would mention a series or genre he would pull out a DVD. It was like he was trying to prove something. You know I use to be that way back then when I was in my first anime club. But now I feel you don’t need to prove anything to anyone. Not even to other fans even though some fans can get really judgmental.

Some other people were watching DVDs on somebody’s computer. It was really loud, but I didn’t recognize it. They were talking about going to Anime Expo and Comic Con. They were going to get rooms for the local convention. They said to save money they would scam the hotel and put 6 people in a 4 person room. I know how hard it is to do that with people you know. I think it would be harder with strangers. I was really bored and tired during the meeting. I wasn’t interested in going to the conventions.

I couldn’t believe I had to pay club dues. It was $10. I thought it was free. Why should I have to pay $10? I already pay so much in student activities fees. That was it. I was officially out of the club.

They passed around a paper where the members could suggest anime to be shown. When I got the paper I saw there were a lot of joke anime listed by other members. I was going to write a cliché metaseries like Sailor Moon or Pokemon, but I didn’t I wrote a different one. An old one that I use to watch in my old club. They went back into talking about the convention and saying about how you need to go to one and how great it is. I mean it would be nice to go to one. But going to one is not one of my main priorities right now. They said that if you have never been to a convention you don’t know what you are missing. I don’t know another thing I like to do is go to a Wrestlemania, but that is not anime related. They were saying about getting club discounts at different anime stores in the area. I can get discounts for stores I don’t really shop at. I haven’t been to an anime store in years. I’ll say in 7-8 years. When the meeting was finally over I couldn’t wait to go home.

When I got home I decided to go to the yard sale my neighbors were holding down the street. I was looking for some good retro deals. I didn’t find any. I did get this dog candle they were selling for $1. When I first saw it I thought it was a figure or statue. She lady selling it to me said it was new, but it looked old and yellowed. There is a little black on the nose missing. But I plan to fix that. I like it. I think it’s kitschy.