december

12.31.04

i know, i know. i'm such a punk. i don't believe in new year's resolutions either. i try to make 'em a daily thing; if i had to wait once a year, i'd never get off my couch.

i should note that my daily resolution is usually along the lines of "i will try not to act as retarded as i did yesterday."

this resolution is usually broken by lunch time.

12.30.04

it turns out that blipverts are real. the wacky thing is that we're doing it to ourselves. cbs is about to release the results of research that they performed which indicates that watching fast forwarded commercials on your dvr increases your retention for the ads. (link via brendan)

it's funny that i recently mentioned that i don't try to typically link via boingboing, since everybody on earth reads them (for good reason). it turns out that boingboing now has a link to the chillits time lapse (via the chillits dj set) that i made this year. btw, rusty is awesome for hosting the time lapse on somafm.

jon tells me i might like this because it's the opposite of stop motion. it seems like a more developed system of the "bullet time" camera arrays made for high speed photography. very cool.

12.29.04

i forgot to post earlier that fluxblog gave our latest cd a really nice review. thanks, fluxblog!

thank someone, somewhere, that christmas is over. i could feel immediate decompression the moment i drove away from los angeles and i think i'm almost 100% back to normal lorelei altitude. please feel free to put your chair in the reclining position and you are welcome to use all electronic devices. refreshments will be served shortly.

i've said it before, and i'll say it again. i have the biggest crush on jon stewart - the most perfect guy in the universe would be a hybrid between jon stewart and lloyd dobler. (hey, i'm allowed a good daydream. what the hell.) anyway, i hadn't noticed until now that terry gross has a great interview with jon stewart on fresh air. (thanks to jim for restoring cable tv at the house. that daily show hiatus went much too long.)

christmas time means hanging out with my sisters while we try to avoid our mom. over the break, we caught lemony snicket and life aquatic. snicket reinforced the fact that i'm still not the biggest fan of jim carrey (although all the other actors in the movie were terrific, the production design incredible and the special effects fantastic) while life aquatic confirmed that i'm totally in awe of wes anderson... and anyway, filipino pirates can't be beat.

the sisters and i also caught body worlds. it's simultaneously incredibly disturbing and somewhat educational. i think i may have learned a lot more about anatomy in two hours than i have over the past ten years.

vice magazine's do's and don'ts of fashion are usually super hilarious. jesus and satan have joined forces to present us with vice's do's and don'ts to everything. take with grain of salt while laughing. (link via chris)

12.24.04

12.23.04

if you knew robert joseph, you would know that he's a kind, talented soul. he passed away from a heart attack on december 12th at the age of 34 and the world has one less bright spot that shines. i didn't really connect with him after college, which makes it that much sadder. it seems sort of weird to announce this sort of thing on a website, but i'm too stunned to know what else to do. rest in peace, my friend.

12.22.04

i don't typically link from boingboing, since i figure you probably read that site too, but i thought this was goddamn brilliant: planned parenthood has started a new pledge-a-picket program. for every picketer that shows up at their door, you donate money. i love, love, love it.

12.20.04

i just realized that christmas puts me in a wickedly foul mood every freaking year, whether i'm conscious of it or not. apologies to my friends who have to tolerate me around this season.

although it's only a small part of the reason (for the season), here's an interesting article on consumerism that rusty sent out. on the one hand, it makes me feel a little under the magnifying glass, but on the other, i disagree with some of its more accusatory points. one good counter point i've heard is that this article doesn't account for the fact that sometimes a purchase is made on quality, rather than status (admittedly, sometimes a difficult trait to separate.)

12.19.04

ben & i watched big trouble in little china again because cassidy had never seen it. that and buckaroo banzai were two of my favorite movies during my particularly nerdly teenage years. i hadn't noticed until now that they both have w.d. richter in common. who is this genius and why hasn't he made more films?!?

cassidy noticed that james hong, who played the eye-obsessed lo pan was also the same voice as the eye maker in blade runner. cassidy has a good ear for eyes.

12.18.04

true. strange shit happens all the time. but this time, on the road trip, it happened at frank lloyd wright's fallingwater.

i hate cingular. ever since at&t morphed into cingular, the service at my house has been mega-crap. never has a corporation been able to single-handedly get me in a completely irate mood. is it possible to assasinate a company? mercenaries please apply within.

12.17.04

chris sent out this link about a santa cruz artist who creates crazy geometrical models out of metal.

12.16.04

i have a special place in my heart for drunk santa stories. here's one that steve sent me about a santa brawl.

i'm going crazy with the stop motion! everyone watch out - here's the latest from keri's birthday party. (happy 30th, girl!)

12.09.04

i think i use the term 'dude' more than most of the guys that i hang out with (and between being the only girl in a seven person band and the only female editor at work, i find that i hang out with a lot of guys). it must be the lazy, inarticulate surfer in me... dude.

when i get around to writing about the new york leg of my road trip, you'll be able to read about the hawk that attacked me while i was hanging out at the penthouse in manhattan. although i had an antagonistic relationship with the sucker, i'm sad to report that they've torn his nest down. (link via jory)

eat a big bowl of cheetos and stuff yourself full of brie. now you're prepared for film's top ten cheesy moments.

12.07.04

lewis black will be ranting at the warfield in january. it's probably one of the only times when i've bought tickets from ticketmaster at exactly 10am on a sunday. can't wait for possible laughing related asphyxiation.

my co-workers and i watched supersize me during lunch. as a comedy bit, one co-worker went out and got us all mcdonald's food to eat while we watched. it's the first time i've eaten fast food in maybe five years and man... did i feel gross.

12.06.04

just what you've always wanted to see: artist renderings of cartoon character's skeletons. (link via jd)

12.04.04

i went to the curious creatures opening over at punch gallery the other night. i went because damon soule and jeremy fish had some pieces there, but mostly, i went for the toys.