Monday , November 16, 2009
Snapshot: Listening, Watching, Reading, Wearing, Wanting
+ Kat
Listening: Jonna Lee's cover of the Nitzer Ebb (yowza!) song "Violent Playground" is one of my new favorite things. Also, it's a good time of year to listen to lots of Joanna Newsom's Ys. Also: the new Converge.
Watching: I actually went to see This Is It on IMAX. Dude, MJ, man...the guy was a genius performer. Other than that, I'm taking a bit of a sabbatical from movies. I'm a little movie-d out these days.
Reading: The new Black Book with Winona Ryder on the cover. I'm personally hoping for a Noni comeback. And Francesca Lia Block's Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur: A Mythological Dating Guide, which is totes fun to read.
Wearing: I had a sartorially-awesome week all around, but I'm dying to wear the Anna Sui for Target dress I got on super-sale to the Met Opera when I finally get to go see Turandot in two weeks.
Wanting: Someone to do my laundry for me.
+ Liz
Listening: What Will We Be by Devendra Banhart; Rubber Soul by The Beatles
Watching: saw Where the Wild Things Are again; The Darjeeling Limited; "Gossip Girl" and I'm kinda charmed by Rufus Humphrey's KISS pumpkins and Dee Dee Ramone costume. That stupid loser's starting to grow on me!
Reading: Still reading Anagrams by Lorrie Moore! Stop pressuring me!
Wearing: my Yale t-shirt, cuz I secretly went to Yale, blue jeans and my sparkly Converses and my braided-satin headband and my necklace that looks like a snake. Also, I've figured out the magic formula for good hair, and it's changed my life.
Wanting: a thicker wetsuit, because the ocean is very very cold!
On Monday BeatlesTweets tweeted "This day in 1967, The Beatles recorded 'Hello, Goodbye' in just four hours: between a late lunch and early dinner!" And then I re-tweeted it and said "they ate a late lunch *and* an early dinner? what hogs!" It was so funny of me! Here's another video with Paul McCartney being cute:
+ Laura Jane
Listening: "Sit Down, I Think I Love You" by the Mojo Men. I really hate that band name. This week I discovered that the most played songs on my iTunes are "Apeman" by the Kinks and "Brimful of Asha" by Cornershop. So apparently those songs.
Watching: I re-watched The Baxter starring Michael Showalter the other night. It's THE CUTEST.
Reading: I left my book at my Dad's house
Wearing: Yesterday my friend & I were drinking gin & tonics with cucumber in them, and he told me that the colour of my leg-skin as exposed by the holes in the knees of my jeans was really "beautiful" and "healthy-looking", so I think I should wear more ripped jeans. I never knew! That my knees are such a lovely colour!
Wanting: I WANNA DO EV-ER-EE-THING, just like Tommy James & the Shondells.
Tags: Cornershop, good hair, Gossip Girl, Joanna Newsom, Laura loves the Kinks, Michael Jackson, Michael Showalter, Paul McCartney, Tommy James & the Shondells, Winona Ryder
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isn't it funny that i accidentally found this vid right after you told me about john's 'eleanor rigby' comment, lj?
By Liz
on October 30, 2009 1:14 PM
p.s. if you just look at the youtube embeds, this snapshot seems quite racy!!
By Liz
on October 30, 2009 1:21 PM
Nice attempt at John Lennoning it, McCartney
By Laura
on October 30, 2009 6:27 PM
thanks, lennon!
By Liz
on October 30, 2009 6:56 PM
I meant ACTUAL McCartney
By Laura
on October 30, 2009 8:07 PM
I loved Anagrams when I first read it (I vaguely remember it being a gloomy winter and feeling pretty much consumed by everything around me -- it's sad when something as wholly dismal as a Lorrie Moore book can feel like an escape). I have Moore's new novel on hold at the library, but the people ahead of me on the list have certainly been taking their sweet time with it!
By K. on November 1, 2009 7:39 PM
Kat: OMG! I really want that book-- mostly because I love personality quizzes and mythology. And god, what am I? A shetaur? A banshee?
So This Is It is worth the 12 dollars? I might take myself out on a date tomorrow and that's one of the options.
Liz: I kinda feel a little like the Ramones when I'm hanging out with friends and I realize we're all wearing Chucks.
And Rufu's pumpkins were surprisingly awesome.
By JP on November 1, 2009 11:02 PM
JP: Oh, get the book! It's just a lot of fun...now I like to meet people and figure out what kind of mythological creature they are! I have had a hard time figuring out what I am, though. And yeah, This Is It is totally worth it! To be kind of a nerd, it's really a film that works best in the IMAX format, with a larger than life image and sound. xo k.
By Kat
on November 2, 2009 12:42 AM
Duly noted.
As for the book, I'll have to pick it up at the BPL or read it gratis at Barnes and Noble tomorrow. It kind of goes hand in hand with my own supernatural themed dating guide-- I've been talking it over with a friend and I've hypothesized that everyone fits into certain movie monster like categories.
I'm attracted to tall, thin, pale types (vampire), while she likes round, bearded and often prone to wearing plaids (werewolf)... Might need some work though.
I think I'm ghost as I tend to disappear as fast as I can.
By JP on November 2, 2009 1:39 AM
JP: ooooh! i want to hear more about this supernaturally-themed approach to dating! you and i are attracted to the same type :-) hmmm, i wonder what kind of dating monster i am...xo k.
By Kat
on November 2, 2009 2:47 PM
Kat: It's just an idea I've been working on-- so a lot of it hasn't really been fleshed out.
I checked out Block's book btw, and it looks like I'm a werewolf. What are you?
By JP on November 4, 2009 3:07 AM
JP, I think I'm an Urban Elf/Wood Nymph blend, although one of my best friends thinks I have a bit of Fairy in there, which might be true, 'cause I'm pretty girlie. I thought I could be part vamp, but then I met a real Vamp and realized I am way too low-maintenance for that! xo k.
By Kat
on November 4, 2009 12:39 PM