of course

i make plans for new years and the most perfect show is hitting up Mercury Lounge on the same eve.

jerks.
i have been trying to catch the Vandelles for like 2 years. argh
http://www.mercuryloungenyc.com/event/2335

but you should go.
imma be with my people.

courtesy of james-

From IMDB:
On the set of The Fly (1986), Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis agreed to a trade. Davis would get get Goldblum's acting talent and Goldblum would get Davis timeless looks. Unfortunately the satanic ritual being performed by David Cronenberg, who was a novice in the dark arts at the time, was interrupted when co-star John Getz walked in and demanded a sandwich. As a result the only exchange that took place was Goldblum acquiring John Getz's youth. This explains why no one has seen John Getz since 1991 and why Geena Davis, to date, remains talentless.


Liz's take:
"he's preserved in a light jelly made from invertebrates?
just a shot in the dark here.... "

Joy to the World

Joy to the World (Hoyt Axton song)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


"Joy to the World" is a song written by Hoyt Axton, and made famous by the band Three Dog Night. The song is also popularly known by its incipit, "Jeremiah was a bullfrog". The words are nonsensical. Axton wanted to convince his record producers to record a new melody he had written and the producers asked him to sing any words to the tune.

Three Dog Night's version went to number one on the pop music charts in February 1971 and was the top single of the year in Billboard Magazine for 1971[1]. The song was released on the band's album Naturally. It was also released on their albums Around the World With Three Dog Night (1973), Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits (1974), The Best of 3 Dog Night (1982), and Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965-1975 (1993). Three Dog Night never really wanted to record the song but they needed one last track for their Naturally album. The group had been on an overseas tour when that album was released and were greatly surprised to hear that the song they didn't want to record ended up being a big hit.

The edited single version (3:17) released on Dunhill records (D-4272) varies from the version widely available on their Greatest Hits collections. The mono single has a guitar solo in the instrumental bridge at approximately 1:10 that is not heard on the stereo Greatest Hits version. Plus the trailing ad libs in the single were edited from the order in which they appear in the stereo version.

In the 1990s, former Three Dog Night lead singer Chuck Negron recorded the Christmas carol "Joy to the World" and playfully included a few lyrics from the Three Dog Night/Hoyt Axton song — coming to a full stop in mid-song for the line "Jeremiah was a bullfrog." The refrain of Axton's song was also included in Mariah Carey's recording of the Christmas carol for her 1994 Merry Christmas album.

Three Dog Night's version was listed at #100 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time. *[1]

gimme

girls love Horsepower vroom vroom

all i want for new years

is this

crazy and yummy.

conversely

i definitely hate the cold and wish i was digging my toes into warm beach sand right now (florida tournament cant come soon enough!) but i really do like the holidays.

December is awesome if you are hella dorky like i am and love christmas music, especially feliz navidad, and the Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph specials on TV. I also love getting a tree every year and making everyone leave the room while i decorate it so it can be a surprise. see? dork.

but saturday it snowed. and it didnt hit me at first, i just enjoyed the first snow with a big smile.. but later. like- this morning. i thought of going home. where the snow sticks. and where i would build a snowman. because you got to. and Charlie would wait until the exact moment i finished the snowman, and then tackle it. what kind of dog does that??? she was so smart.

then i'd make snow angels and she'd jump on and eventually lay on me.
i haven't really cried about her since she's gone, but today i'm sobbing like a little baby. fucking animals. they're so good.

god this sucks.

grrrrrbrrrrrrrrr

i am anti the cold.

heres to it!

here's to comin up on one of the best two week spans ever.
swag party, Mid-Season kickball party, best friend visits. Other best friend rock show. sushi date. job interview for something that i'll probably turn down, but hey i get to see the sun!

and the best day of all days next week- thanksgiving. I am cooking again this year!
if you didnt know, i'm pretty much obsessed with stuffing, turkey and gravy. now you know.

unemployment only got me down for a week. there is so much shit to do when you're not busy working.

i do need to get married for money soon tho so i can expand my wardrobe.
that is all.

Hi V!

treat them well and let them lead the way

thanks kmart karen.

Women's hands are usually warm so they can't make sushi.

Sitting in a dark room. Slowly being drained of vitamins A and E. Watching Oldboy. a favorite.

Thinking about who put me in this place. Who's fault is it really? And who's ass I'm going to have to kick when I get out.

The President

Prologue





The president’s heart was no longer vested in the propagation of a war begun several terms earlier by a predecessor. A war whose beginning the fighting soldiers could not remember.

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Most definitely the creeping Christian right had not been bolstered by the near million dying faithful.
This was the third world war no one had predicted.

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Happy Birthday Kappy!

everytime i drink the BEAST i think i'm drinking hawaiian punch out of the corner of my eye-



only slightly disappointed.

you want it!

in times of strife i often turn to fashion.
i have a bear hat.
just sayin.


Bear-Cardigan

Got Laid Off Today

but get to work til Friday!
So the worst certainly is not over.
But i knew it was coming.
Wish i hadn't procrastinated looking for another job.
but now i have time to look for one.

In other news-
Last night WAS amazing:

i would like..

i would like some leather, over the knee boots in a neutral color or maybe just matte black.

please give me 600 dollars.
or, pay my rent.

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in other news, This was a very crazy weekend.

highlights include:

Halloween at 151 Kent



Sake Bombing with The Naturals kickball team


And the Brooklyn Kickball Awards Ceremony




yay.

i rully liked this interview..

i like it when people think about stuff and plan stuff at their own pace.
M.I.A. i dig it. and you sorta new it was coming.
http://www.thefader.com/articles/2008/10/24/stylee-fridays-mia-talks-fashion

vidyo:
http://www.miauk.com/

this is why my friends are amazing

EMAIL from: John Mordecai
to Liz, me, Joe, candace, Rob, mary, Brigham, Crystal, Eric, Heather, James...]

show details 1:30 PM (2 minutes ago)


sorry liz.
as an "artist," i am sometimes "sensitive" if i suspect "people" get the "wrong idea."

guys totally have tail. it's in the front.

rape is always wrong unless both parties are ok with it.

speaking of rape and teen icons -- has anyone seen Hillary Duff RAPING "Personal Jesus"?

that's right.
she took the beat, bassline and main chorus and melody, and made it her new single "Reach Out."

get this: instead of "Reach out and touch faith," she says: "Reach out and touch me."

if you couldn't guess already, it's about sex.
cuz you know, now is the time in her career when someone decided she had to grow up, so they gave her a song about sex and tarted her up. cuz sex = all grown up.

needless to say, i darn near puked.

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editor's comments:
you can see this god awful piece of shite here: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=45390796

Hilary Duff is really, disappointingly, not sexy.
I miss Britney.

incredibly great show

[Choe]

Is up now on the corner of Houston and Bowery. Called OUTSIDERS NY. Supahdoopah cool. go check it out now as it's over this Sunday- everyday noon to 8pm.

For me it was awesome because there was a BUNCH of Dave Choe stuff- including my favorite- this little lady-

couldnt even buy a print tho, as they are $800. :(

There was also a great one he did that has the city on the back of a whale and below it says "Can we fuck at your place tonight mine is a mess." i like the whale.

There's also a lot of Obama stuff- really really good show- two floors- be sure to go into the basement. I'm going to swing by for a second look this Sunday.

xo

a little late but sadly, he won't know.

Alton Ellis - Godfather of Rocksteady - 1938-2008
RIP- Monday October 13, 2008

Listen to: "I'm Still In Love With You"

GASP

lincoln center

art (?) (-) (!)

Banksyyyyyyyyyyyyynot?



"The first official show by notoriously reclusive art prankster Banksy is open for business. At the stand-alone Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, such exotic species as robot monkeys, swimming fish sticks and chicken nuggets that dip themselves are on display. Bring your own lunch.
411: Open 10am to midnight daily until Oct 31, 89 7th Ave South (between Bleecker and W. 4th St) "

Here:
http://thevillagepetstoreandcharcoalgrill.com/

Hey, can someone go to this with me?

an insane thought occured to me today

Those towering towers that are the bane of my not so urbane existence in williamsburg suddenly struck me as beautiful when I thought about living inside one of them.. perhaps facing the river.. and the city.. perhaps they allow doggies..

I have good credit and perhaps there's no money down for first time buyers.
Perhaps I can move in this May and with a pay increase, manage to make my monthly payments. Maybe i'd like to be a yuppie afterall.

anyways, i'm on the agent's interest list now. no turning back from at least taking a tour.


what am i thinking?

fall and elections and nostalgia

When I was dating James we had a movie list. I kept it on a folded up piece of paper in my wallet and took it out when we went to the movie store so we'd know what to get. Neither of us could Ever remember what was on that list if it wasn't in front of us. It was a fun thing to do and we hammered out a lot of movie watching. Unfortunately, we always got stoned as we were watching and I either fell asleep or couldn't remember anything but a loose plot to the film. Fall reminds me of highschool which reminds me of James which reminds me that I miss that time of my life. But it also makes me smile as the crisp air kisses my cheeks and last night I saw my breath for the first time in six months.

I almost don't regret summer's end. I'm smiling about it at any rate.

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The other night I had dinner with a friend and then tried to meet some others at a bar to watch the the vice presidential debate. The bar was overflowing and so was every single bar in williamsburg Brooklyn. So I went home. But it was still kind of a cool sight- peering in through steaming bar windows, the streets empty and then crawling into soft bed, under warm bedside light and just crashing like the economy.

Courtesy of Chris Vinyard

Cheer Up!

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Hey Digital Dishers. A special installment here. Gotta Keep Moving!

OK, so the theme only makes sense for the first and last songs. But this is really just meant to put a bounce in your step in what is otherwise a weird ass time.

01 - Middle Class Blues - XL Middleton
02 - Good Life - Kanye West (Nite Club Cover)
03 - Family Reunion - Kid Sister Feat. David Banner
04 - Eastside LB - Twins Feat. Warren G
05 - Sapphire - p e a c e FIRE
06 - One U Love - Hail Social
07 - Berlin - Alaska In Winter
08 - You've Changed - Lauren Flax Feat. Sia
09 - Face To Face On High Places - School of Seven Bells
10 - Old Times - The Whispertown 2000

https://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlCSmI2bEpubHgzZUE9PQ

kid sister

KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER KID SISTER

open up to it!

brought to you by various sources like ministry of sound and other shyat (warning this is some clubby type shyat) ((danceshyat!)):

1.) Let Me Think About It (Radio Edit) - Ida Corr Vs. Fedde Le Grand
2.) Shine(Passengerz remix)- booty luv
3.) Another Love (big club mix) - the Mac Project
4.) Take me With You- My Digital Enemy
5.) Show Me Love (Safari Remix) - Mobin Master
6.) 40 Miles - Cloudburt
8.) Happy House - The Juan MacLean
9.) Aint Nothin Goin On But the Rent(Fonzerelli Club Mix) - 7th Heaven
10.) The Music (Carl Ryden Remix) - Ultra Djs
11.) You Control Me (Groove Invaderz Mix) - Lil Devious
12.) Heater (Club Mix) - Samim Heater
13.) Find a Way - The Juan macLean*


get it all on itunes ya cheap bitches!
*available at RCRDLBL.COM

neat stuff i stole from other blogs..

cool art exhibit
EYEBEAM

party all night this Saturday
BAM

new restaurant
Rice pudding Samosas

unshelved

keep your ass covered. like prison.


So apparently the city has decided to roll out the new anti-groping campaign in our subways.

i was in a total daze this morning when i looked up and saw a sweet sign telling me to resist the urge to grab some dick. seriously though- the collective bad breath in the morning subway doesnt exactly put me over the sensual edge.


here is a preliminary blog about the ads from back in July when i guess the city was waffling about the campaign. They thought it would increase incidents. Someone must have just recently pushed it through.
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2008/07/nyc-wont-touch.html

I'll keep an eye out for any aftermath. it would indeed be funny if this campaign causes a spike in exposing and touching.

would be neat to see if i can get reported.
imma start scoping people on the train tonight!

The SS Sentimental

here's to a really really special first season with the Continentals:

Apse at cake shop

for my next birthday, i'd like someone to bake a cake with a file in it and dare me to escape their heart.

Coffee PROPOSED!

and i said.. YES!

this is different from the time I married that box of pasta.
I wasn't thinking clearly, now pasta owns half my stuff.


this time is for real.

day one of being sober

and i drank.

i have absolutely no self control.
oh well. i'll strive to drink less for now.


went to see johnny's show last night and it was the loudest thing on earth. but really good. i'd like to see them in a larger venue. Cake Shop can't contain that kind of sound. but the act following them was the perfect sound- Lizzy Trullie- good stuff. myspace.com/lizzytrullie


i have a couple photos of John/Apse and will post soon!

yo CT kids..

this is what my desk at work looks like-


comes equipped with a glass of red wine and what's that website i'm looking at... must be something stoopid cool...


anyways.
hi.

heaven

alexander wang can hang with me.

going sober for a while

It's 540 in the morning and i'm doomed. perpetually. drinking has made me into an idiot. Flaring up torches i've carried inside that insane persons would have smothered out by now. And my mother worries. And she should. She ends our telephone conversations with "And don't drink, Kitty." She's the only one who tells me.

I've got a lot of lovable parts but my family are the only ones who know and love the rest of me. Darker Ro. Really quite awful Ro. The one who used to collapse on the floor crying for hours until she was gasping for air. They've seen it and they know its source. Parts regular people supress- I let those thoughts roll around inside and come home with me. and sit on them. Working out or staring at the ceiling, or reading with my attention completely divided, restarting paragraph after paragraph. Trying to work out how i'm feeling and the reason. And when i'm very drunk I can get very angry, sitting atop this black ball, just trying to balance.

But you have to go on because what else is there to do? I am feeling very frustrated like when i am reaching for something on the highest shelf and not really sure i need what i'm reaching for anyhow. I am also most pityingly afraid to say my feelings aloud and I wonder how other people get by. I guess if we all stopped to share we'd stop making money. Things would have to slow down. The world could be so much more interesting if we talked.

These are the parts of things that roll around inside, that plague my ability to hear what someone said the first time.

quote of the day from missbehave magazine

on what you'll find in Russia..

"Rampant alcoholism has reduced Russia's life expectancy to 58 and 42,000 of them die every year after being poisoned from bootleg booze. The post-Communist meltdown has turned 1 percent of Russians into billionaires and the other 99 percent into wide-eyed desperate lunatics."

thems my people!

in other news- sometimes when i type really fast i make an error and type "nad" instead of "and". when this happens i giggle furiously.

yum.

haha

"dude, i'm so awesomer than you now. i just bought a Snoopy snowcone machine on eBay. I totally forgot how radicool they are."

1-2-3-

123burgershotbeer
this could be the best thing or it could be the worst thing.
we're going!

and while on the task

i found something i like very much:
Debauchette

whenever i blog excessively about clothing

it's because i'm trying to avoid thinking or talking about something.

so i started another blog where i am completely candid about what i'm doing in my private life and how i feel about it.

naturally, it's anonymous.



i'll keep posting good stuff here tho.
such as:
i am pissed that my team has been knocked out of kickball playoffs.
it was fun to bust my ass so hard to make some insane catches this sunday.
we are going to have a "kickBALL" dance this friday. i'm helping put that together. it's going to be a blast.

broke until then, so lots of reading, TV and cooking this week.
I just started a new book called Interworld- co written by Neil Gaiman. Who i love. I guess it's a kids book (like highschool kids) and the writing is a little bigger than i'd like- but it's fast-moving and fuels my imagination. A good distraction, for sure.

I have been feeling very uncomfortable and antsy lately at work and even got called out by our doorman today- who said i looked like i was "lost" in my mind lately.

It's pretty much due to the fact that i've been in one place for more than 2 years and i feel that urge to move and reinvent myself again.

another reason to like new york

last night i got into a cab and said "take me to williamsburg!".
lately cabbies are more and more cool with this. and my guy from Haiti totally was.

then journey's Dont Stop Believin' came on and we sang it together.

Fuck. Yeah.

covet a sin?

when will good clothes be available (affordable) to the masses?

i stole this from Quinn cuz i liked it so much

"If we were randomly inserted into the Cosmos, the chance that we would find ourselves on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion (a one followed by 33 zeroes). In everyday life such odds are called compelling. Worlds are precious."

-Carl Sagan

something good about something bad

http://www.brooklynhistory.org/exhibitions/counter.html
but someone said that change is inevitable. eff change!

it's an eff kinda day :)
eff you eff me- eff it, i'm off to have a whiskey.

i wash the streets from your skin when you come home

http://icantaffordtoloveny.com/

and

dont pour water on him

swoon

cuz details make the girls sweat!



thowing star stud earrings at: 80spurple


nice and simple.. i like Han Cholo


why is injun stuff so appealing? whocaresilikeit



oh and p.s. Ed Hardy can suck it- does anyone like that stuff? eff youuu!

arrrrarrrahhhhharrrahhh

RiceNY

why am i so hungry lately?
must be all the yoga.

don't click the order button. you will only be disappointed.

nerd out on monday and then again later

BEING A NERD WAS COOL THEN WE WERE OVER IT BUT I SECRETLY, QUIETLY KEPT AT IT- NOT SO MUCH TO BE PART OF ANY SCENE PERSAY, BUT MAINLY TO FEED MY ESCAPISM..

johnny's gotta show.. johnny's gotta a showowowowww

for those in NYC:

Apse will play at Cake Shop in NYC on Monday, Sept. 22, which follows their Sept. 20 performance at the ATP New York Festival.

doors at 8 pm., they're 2nd of three bands.


they sound nothing like sly and the family stone. but are still very good in a multitude of other ways.

mike G has a new blog

it's about movies and it's well written, for a drunk.
i love you mike G.

http://fermentedfilm.blogspot.com/

sa dingding is coming

this chinese buddhist electro act will tour the US starting in April. with Kung Fu artists as fly dancers.
i hope this brings on a slew of performers from outside the US.

i'm just waitin and waitin for life to turn into the Fifth Element.

musica to keep you on the level

this week i am listening to:

Acid House Kings : Sing Along With the Acid House Kings
Broadcast 2000 : Broadcast 2000
The Legends : Facts and Figures
The Loveninjas: The secret of the Loveninjas
Powersolo : Egg
South Ambulance : South Ambulance

thanks to jessie at boosey & hawkes.

this post brought to you by my right hand only, as i am eating popcorn with the left.
capitalization is always the Hardest Part.

so refinery29 reminded me..

that i really like guys shoes. i have no idea why i've always had an obsession with shoes for both the sexes.

own these!
$$$$$

http://www.revolveclothing.com/DisplayProduct.jsp?product=JEAN-MZ9&c=Jean-Michel+Cazabat&d=h

$$$$
this are gorgeous.

http://www.barneys.com/Washed%20Leather%20Chukka/10221.7405,default,sp.html?cgid=MAIN03&prefn1=designer&prefv1=John%20Varvatos&start=23&sz=1

$$$

http://www.thefryecompany.com/Product-Men-Boots-Short%20Shaft-87181FTG.aspx

$$$$
I just want to eat these and the men who wear them.

http://www.barneys.com/Cap%20Toe%20Balmoral/07621.5037,default,sp.html?cgid=MAIN03&start=10&sz=1

Barney's got a great selection. these shoes cost some dough, but I know I'm not the only lady who drops her gaze when she meets a man.

groove it out

http://www.lovefingers.org/mp3/fingertrack752.mp3
http://www.lovefingers.org/mp3/fingertrack751.mp3
http://www.lovefingers.org/mp3/fingertrack750.mp3

charlie died this morning

she was the sweetest thing i have ever known.
i am not good.

marky mark

http://theworldsbestever.com/2008/08/15/swoons-swimming-cities-of-switchback-sea

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Swoon%20Switchback%20Sea&w=all


art is property of nicholas simmons.

i am a normal beautiful girl who deserves to love and to be loved.

swiped from fecalface.com/nyc

name that movie

this is a fun game!
name it- there will be a prize.

(ps.click on the photo if you need to enlarge)

YES.

Delta Spirit

http://mog.com/music/Delta_Spirit/Ode_To_Sunshine/Trashcan



they're playing at Mercury tonight, btw.

running tab of dislikes

1.) cigarette smoke in the morning
2.) being ignored.

Seize the time. cause it's now or never baby

i am going to get promoted in the next two months.
this hasn't been promised to me; it's a promise i make to myself.


then i'm going somewhere beautiful in europe and drowning in the Mediterranean.
i'll upload the photos to flickr first.


additionally- here is me, on a boat, with doggies:

thanks again dave choe.

7.4

my boy johnny just keeps getting famouser:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/142802-apse-spirit


john is all the way to the rightest.

you have to love with your whole heart

the light hits it just right.
i get to pass this everyday until it's gone.
shout out to vj who was the first to hold her heart out in her hands for me.