Sunday , June 13, 2010
Snapshot: Listening, Watching, Reading, Wearing, Wanting
+ Kat
Listening: All I need right now is Danzig and the Replacements with a dash of Spoon.
Watching: Watching a lot of DP reels. Also wending my way through "Mad Men" and some old-school "Buffy." But this weekend I'm hopefully going to see The Secret of Kells and Un Prophete.
Reading: A weird mixture of Harry Potter, fashion magazines and stuff about Steadicam.
Wearing: Back to uniform: boy oxford shirt, skinny jeans, boots.
Wanting: I wish my thesis film would just somehow make itself.
I'm really tired and don't have much energy to come up with a fun YouTube clip. Sorry. You'll have to make do with the Keepon robot dancing to Spoon from a few years back:
+ Liz
Listening: right this instant, "The Lights" by Juliana Hatfield
Watching: Weeds, Weeds, nothing but Weeds
Reading: that Chuck Klosterman article on Pavement; a book I've already read before
Wearing: my current uniform: black skinny jeans + grey Edun t-shirt tank top + black studded boots + black fake-leather jacket + that asymmetrical feather cloche. Single braid, placed over my right shoulder. Faux-silver cuff. Socks.
Wanting: Ummm, what's a girl gotta do to get a single-serving bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs around here? I've searched far and wide (i.e., the Rite Aid and the Walgreen's) and yet my search is fruitless. Do they not make them anymore? Also I want a Cadbury Mini Egg McFlurry.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ Laura Jane
Listening: Margo Guryan, 25 Demos and Take A PIcture; "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"; Once a year, I try to make myself fall in love with Laura Nyro because I feel like I should- she has my same name! But I don't love Laura Nyro, and I think it's time for me to give it up
Watching: My new project is to look at the sky for a certain amount of minutes a day, and then write down what the sky looked like in a cool way
Reading: I am really into the Twitter account named Tweets of Old, which " attempt[s] to reveal the lives of our predecessors through the tweets of yesteryear --extracted tidbits from old newspapers." My favourites from this week were "A New York young lady has appeared on the streets with a kitten's head on her hat." (from 1883) and, from 1923, "Improvement in appearance improves the man. We need not become dudes. Neither should we decry good dressing." We need not become dudes!!!
Wearing: I'm trying to improve my appearance. I need not become a dude.
Wanting: A Diet Coke vending machine made out of rubies; to get my cell phone ring from five years ago, which was "You Sang To Me" by Marc Anthony, out of my head, but I really don't see that happening. I'd also like to be a stigmatic. That would really spice shit up. Everybody would be all, "Whoa! Did you hear Laura Jane woke up yesterday morning bleeding from her palms and feet like Jesus Christ?" and I'd be all, "Yeah, I don't know, it's just, like, this thing that happened to me, you know?"
Me, I hope:
Tags: Cadbury Mini Eggs, Chewbacca, Chuck Klosterman, Diet Coke, dudes, Harry Potter, Juliana Hatfield, Marc Anthony, Pavement, rubies, Spoon, stigmata, The Replacements, the sky, uniforms, Weeds
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I feel like a dork doing this every week when other readers don't. But still:
Listening: "Blackberry Belle" by Twilight Singers, "Black Love" by Afghan Whigs and "Snakes for the Divine" by High on Fire
Watching: "Samurai Rebellion" and "In the Loop"
Reading: Top Ten Vol. II by Alan Moore, also looking at wrestler mugshots: http://prowrestling.about.com/od/photogalleries/ig/Pro-Wrestler-Mug-Shots
Eating: Wasabi-soy almonds, beans & rice, bananas
Wanting: Never to see another $5 pitcher of PBR, at least until next week.
By Masonic Youth on March 5, 2010 12:48 PM
It's cool and we appreciate it, Masonic Youth
By Laura
on March 5, 2010 1:01 PM
I'll do it! This is for Laura Jane and the Diet Coke machine made of rubies.
Listening: music that reminds me of ninth grade, as is true all too often: Cass McCombs singing "you've got me wrong...again"; The Sundays' "Here's Where the Story Ends"; "Driveway to Driveway" by my favorite band
Watching: Everything go to shit with someone I didn't like anyway
Reading: Jeff in Venice / Death in Varanasi (OK so far); Mason & Dixon; Absalom, Absalom
Wearing: Levi's leggings, platforms Dolce Vitas that are getting old/making me sad, ribbon in hair, tortoiseshell bracelet from Mom
Wanting: something sparkly or silky from Nadinoo; French toast; to make out; never to become a dude
By Genevieve on March 5, 2010 1:32 PM
Genevieve: Yes! Thanks for joining in.
That's a kickass LWRWW too.
By Masonic Youth on March 5, 2010 2:44 PM
what's a LWRWW?
you're not a dork, you're a pioneer.
By Liz
on March 5, 2010 2:53 PM
LWRWW = Listening, Watching, Reading, Wearing, Wanting.
Maybe I should have called it "Snapshot" instead.
By Masonic Youth on March 5, 2010 4:20 PM
oh HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
By Liz
on March 5, 2010 4:25 PM
Thanks, Genevieve! Your "wearing" sounds amazing.
By Laura
on March 5, 2010 4:50 PM
Solidarity in dorkiness, Masonic Youth.
Listening: Vanessa Paradis; Joe le taxi
Watching: Looking for something new to watch, really..
Reading: "The Last Apostle", because I love Da Vinci Code-marketed quest-based airport novels
Wearing: Mud, an enameled anemone scarf pin
Wanting: a bathroom, mostly. And maybe a job.
By Claire on March 6, 2010 10:30 AM
Listening: The Beatles, Snowing, pop punk, my friends singing
Watching: Marshmallows burn, the sky over the cove at night, people grow up
Reading: My friend's 9th grade diary
Wearing: clothes that people left in my car, more than one pair of socks at a time
Wanting: to man up and do it!
By Steph on March 7, 2010 1:50 PM
gosh i wish *i* were watching marshmallows burn!
By Liz
on March 7, 2010 2:07 PM
i LOVE all the reader Snapshots!
masonic: Peter Capaldi is sooooo hilarious in "In the Loop"! i love that movie.
xo kat
By Kat
on March 7, 2010 5:52 PM
Laura Jane, I used to do the sky writing thing all the time when I was a wee one!
By Clara the annoying fifteen-year-old on March 7, 2010 8:26 PM