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Wisdom

24Oct09

“Men aren’t idiots. They are skillfully dumb.” – Liz Zaita, October 23, 2009.


THE TOPIC IS RUNNING MUSIC:It’s totally embarrassing, but the best pump -it- up workout song ever is “Dreamgirl” by Dave Matthews Band. And not because it’s particularly a good song. It really isn’t, though the guitar riff is kinda cute. I put it on the forefront of a new playlist today, followed by some free stuff [...]


Top 5 scariest things in my neighborhood.
5. What is this tarp hiding? Garbage? Drugs? Bodies? I don’t know. Scary.

4. This is a BAKERY. See the tarts? See the scones? Freaky.

3. Recession toys! Here kid, play with this! (it is a large iron rod).  Who is your MOTHER? Terrifying.

2. The bridal shower…of DEATH?

1. The scariest place [...]


It’s Friday Night and I’m home sick.
It makes me think of a passage in a Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald short story (yeah, awwww, isn’t that cute, they wrote stuff together) where they refer to the “phlegmatic villages of Minnesota”.  I thought of this essay earlier in the evening -I was stagehanding a dress rehearsal at [...]


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“And, better yet, how many hipsters in Brooklyn do you think will be have to be rushed to the hospital after seeing that Bon Iver and St. Vincent recorded a duet for it?”
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That’s all.

21Sep09

This is all I want from life, this is it, I cannot possibly think of anything else:
I wanna laugh each day with friends that I’m allowed to care for obsessively. To be able to create music for said friends to appreciate. I want to be debt free. After that happens, I want to zip around [...]


Yesterday I was waiting for a train with two man friends and one of them, being a grown man with a brain, scoffed when I said I understood men in this city and I had narrowed it down to three simple rules.
The other wanted to hear my conclusions.
I told him that I was being facetious [...]


A snapshot of Iowa, of mine:
My grandfather, explaining that when he dies, he wants Grandma to write his last remaining check for “One Million Dollars” and hang a sign around his neck saying “Like hell you can’t take it with you”. 
My mother is now a certified Laughter Yoga Instructor. Believe it. 
My father can kill mosquitos [...]


Outside my window, as I was nursing a frozen White Chocolate Raspberry yoghurt and a glass of pinot noir, reading a book, still in my clothes from a day at the studio, a perfect fall breeze blowing across the left side of my face…
Girl voice: “You’d better put me down, or I’ll get used to [...]