back at work from the LONG coachella weekend. too tired to even begin the behemoth post. so stay tuned. my limbs need to recover still.
COACHELLLLLLLLLLLLLLA!!!!!!!!!!!
wee. i can't wait to hang out flag proudly. i hope it can be seen by many people. i hope i hope. i've got all my shit ready to go. i hope everyone gets their shit together and we have a good time. my whole masterplanning thing sort of went awry because people didn't read my emails, chose not to respond, or just figured that it would get figured out for them somehow. i think next year i'll just let someone else plan it. see how they feel when people don't reply. i know i sound like a broken record but i think the only way people actually pay attn is if you sound like one. because broken records are annoying and you finally get up and make it stop. but i have all my shit in gear. i have a sleeping bag, tarp, tent, pillow, cooler, folding chair, and the flag. i mean *i* have everything i need. if others are missing things, don't have a tent to sleep in, or whatever, you can't say i didn't try.
it's currently slated to be 100 all weekend, give or take, and i hope to high hell it doesn't get any hotter. i might have to break down and take a shower. i dunno. i was able to manage 3 days with no shower at reading but it also wasn't 100 degrees outside. i didn't sweat that much. but 3 days with no showering in the hot desert. i dunno....i might break down. we'll see.
there doesn't appear to be massive overlap of bands on friday and sunday. just a couple that i can deal with. but saturday is fucking terrible for overlaps. 2 sets of 3 band overlaps. SIGH......what to do? what to do?
i can't wait to post when i return. all the photos. all the recaps of the bands. oh coachella. i love you so.
ok so i was at the gym last night doing my thang on the elliptical. i had like 6 minutes left and i was skimming my OK! mag. (yes i read OK! simply because it's so easy to read it's good for the gym when you can't really get into shit.) i was just sort of reading bits and pieces when i came across this:
i had an "oh fuck!" moment and hopped off the machine immediately to go show alex. of course he didn't really care that much. but i did.
see the guy in that photo, he was my old neighbor back at orange:house. he's super nice. film kid. from texas. sorta dorky. and now he's dating america?!! it that they met in film school and she was in one of his films. she goes to USC right now double majoring in IR and theater. he currently works for steven soderbergh. so strange. wtf? it says long-term but i don't think they were dating when we were neighbors because i'm pretty sure he was single. he seems to have matured as well as gussied up a bit. perhaps cuz he's dating an golden globe winner!! umm HELLO.
i think the reason i flipped out so much over this is not because he is dating her. i mean i suppose that's entirely possible since there are famous people walking around left and right and it's not like she's megafamous. i think what got me was i was reading this in a goddamn tabloid gossip mag!!! i mean that's just sorta surreal. my old neighbor, right there. i remember when we used to throw joint parties together. i even contemplated inviting him to my birthday just for shits and giggles. man. MAN O MAN.
so nutso isn't it? but then again, this is LA....
well, the birthday was decent. i'm not gonna say awesome, cuz it wasn't. i stayed late at work which is not uncommon these days since shit is going all to hell there it seems. the party was after work so people didn't stay that long. not as many people showed. and the place i chose wasn't as fun as the time i went with my coworkers. so yea, happy 26 was just decent. but this is also probably attributed to the fact that the age 26 ain't so hot. i mean i just went over the 20's hill. 25 is the peak. the middle ground. then 26 is on the downslope. so yea. bleh. 26. terrible number too might i add. but at least my friends were there to help make 26 as good as it can be.
anyway, onto more pressing things. THE COACHELLA FLAG!!!!
the fruits of my labor....i love it. it's so beautiful. i can't wait for this thursday when we get to fly it high and wave it proudly. WOOOOOOOO!!!!!
happy 26 to me!
man, it's raining which is definitely "raining on my parade." it doesn't even feel like my birthday because it's so gloomy outside. and i'm at work. i hope that it picks up later. we've got some partying to do!!
alex has been awesome and has made it feel like my birthday all week. he gave me like a gift a day basically. best boyfriend ever! he got me a bunch of random things including:
basically you plug it into any sort of audio source and it's got 2 speakers on the side. and it lights up according to the beat and whatnot. it's really neat. from japan of course!
mine are a different series but basically the same idea. these little cubes come in groups of 2 and stack together. top, bottom, left, right. and the men inside them play with each other. and you can play games with them. it's like a fun desk toy. i you stack them, then the men jump up and down to each other. and if you put them side by side, they go to each other's cube like passing through rooms. it's quite fun. i haven't figure out the games you can play with it yet.
i haven't played with this yet but it's just a fake mini aquarium that plugs into a usb port at your computer. i'll bring this to my work to fiddle with. i need more desk toys to play with when i'm bored. which is often.
this is a mini timer/clock. you turn it one way and it's a clock. you turn it upside down and it's a timer. and it's supposed to be like a timer with "digital sand." it's very neat.
he also got me some fancy teas, scented candy candles, a little book about tipping, and these nifty TSA approved travel bottles for like lotion, shampoo, etc. they are niftier than the usual bottles. i actually considered buying them myself but didn't. so it's perfect!
man i am SLEEPY. food coma mixed in with me feeling slightly under the weather. yea, no good. i just need to make it through tomorrow night. then i can get sick. i probably will actually since i feel it a bit AND it's going to rain tomorrow AND i plan on drinking a shitload. but i have to get better in time for coachella....OH and i checked the fed ex tracking. the flag has arrived at my house!!!! i'm soooo excited. all that effort, planning, researching, and stress is coming to fruition. i just HOPE HOPE HOPE it looks good.....
just got back a little while ago from the dual birthday lunch for laurel and myself. she turned 24 yesterday and of course i turn 26 tomorrow. woo! at lunch i noticed this guy standing outside. he looked familiar. and then i realized, it was this guy named chris. i've actually never met him in person. just chatted with online. but we haven't spoken in at least a few months. he lives with this guy i went to dinner with once, micah. i sort of think micah was interested in my back whenever it was that we went to dinner. i can't recall is that was before andrew. regardless, micah and chris live together, and i had never met chris. and i saw him so i said hi. it was a bit awkward and strange but whatever.
anyway, i have decided whenever i find really cool things i'm just gonna post them. so here goes. 3 things i found recently that i want. none are too pricey so i can totally buy them in waves.
this laptop sleeve rocks! it's so cute and funny. and it's only $35. i already have a backpack for my laptop, but sometimes i don't want to bring my whole bag around. this would be good i want to pack my laptop in something else other than my backpack (which i love....but i mean if you are travelling and don't need ANOTHER backpack involved).
i am OBSESSED with barcodes. not as much as i used to be. i used to be gungho about getting a barcode tattoo. i still like the idea, but the novelty has worn off. but i still love barcodes and this ring is pretty sweet. it comes in varying widths but this is the perfect size. not too skinny, not too fat. i love it. and i mean, $126 isn't THAT much for a ring....
this ring comes from the girl who made this other ring i was obsessed with and never bought. i like this one even more. and it's the same price, $150. again, not unreasonable for a ring. the only problem i would have is choosing what color to get on the inside since there are 9 options.
i went and saw grindhouse this weekend and i have to say, i was pleasantly surprised. despite really wanting to see it, i actually thought i would hate it. how does that work out you might ask? well i fucking love tarantino and rodriguez has made a handful of movies i've enjoyed. and hell, i even liked from dusk til dawn which was a joint effort on their part. and the whole double feature with fake trailers thing was really appealing too. but then when i saw that it was about zombies and shit, i wasn't that excited about that. i hate zombie movies. but it didn't suck as much as i thought it would. the zombie/rodriguez/"planet terror" flick. rose mcgowan looked really hot and that machine gun leg was really awesome i have to admit. i much preferred the tarantino/pyschotic/"death proof" flick. all the dialogue and round table chick discussions. i loved it. and hell, that car crash was fucking BADASS. jesus christ. so fucking good. so while i didn't LOVE the "movie" overall, i did enjoy the experience. the horribly bad trailers in btwn and all that. i'd give it an 88 or 89 our of 100 if i were to rate it.
meanwhile i feel like have some zombies around here. a big horrible monsterous creature that we must fend off as best we can. only we don't have enough amo. so every other one of the monster's rays hits us and we are wounded. but since we've got one clip left, some of our shots fired hit him and push him back. will we succeed in defeating the beast or just succumb to our fate? who knows. but that's how it fucking feels around these parts recently. it ain't healthy. that's for fucking sure.
meanwhile, i am OBSESSED with the new maccabees album. i got a hold of an advance copy of it and it's goddamn awesome and fun. i can't wait to buy it when it comes out next month. i am seriously obsessed with it. it's not healthy.
come one, come all...
kyla was the culprit! she got me the mirror and said that they were supposed to put a note in there but didn't. oh well.... so this begs the question. what if the group got it for me too? because i asked alex if he got it for me and he said no but that he knew who did. but then kyla didn't consult alex....soo......oh well. if i get two, i get two. then i can keep one all nice and pretty and put one in my purse which will most assuredly get fucked up.
thank you to whoever bought me the polaroid mirror. methinks alex told the group about it and they got it for me as part of their gift. it just arrived today in a tiny bubble mailer from france with no note or anything. so i'm not sure who bought it for me. but thank you. it's cute and impractical and i love it. perhaps the IV plant thing or the funky wine glasses are on their way as well. one can hope. but i won't hold my breath.
i am SOOOOOO bored at work right now. no one seems to have anything to do. it's not just me. i think it's because we are in the lull btwn promotions. i've decided to download a bazillion albums that are coming out soon to preview them as well as beat the shit out of the blogs i like to read. i came across two techy things that i felt were blogworthy. one is awesome and the other is totally Ridiculous. with a capital fucking R.
apparently oil of olay is doing this ctrl-z ad campaign in dubai. i think it's absolutely brilliant. but i'm sure like half the world won't get it at all. it's a bit too techy for some. but i love it. and in case anyone doesn't know, ctrl-z is the shortcut to "undo" for most computer programs. "undoing" wrinkles....brilliant!
secondly, i saw a link to the LG national texting championship where you can win up to $25k. umm excuse me. what. the. fuck. money for texting??!!?!? what sort of tech-savvy world is this that we pay someone $25k to text the fastest and most accurately?? good fucking grief.
oh yes. and then there was the rest of my weekend. it felt long yet short. alex's parents were in town so that meant a lot of good dinners for free and just relaxation all around. i didn't do a drop of work even if i should have. now i have to catch up of course. but it was nice to take a weekend off. it's not everyday that i get to do that really. i thoroughly enjoy alex's parents and his sister. they are very nice and generous people. the best dinner of the weekend was at chinois on main. asian fusion restaurant owned by wolfgang puck. so pricey but SOOOO good. the black cod just melts in your mouth i shit you not. his parents got me a birthday gift which was a hilarious situation. they got me this tempurpedic pillow which i have been wanting for awhile but didn't have the spare cash to fork over for a $100+ pillow. but now it's mine and i LOVE it.
i live in LA.
i live in LA.
i've seen a lot of famous people in my life. yea, i know, that sounds ridiculous. but it's true. i worked the oscars one year for christsake! but even just walking around the city, you run into your fair share of famous people. i once saw jared leto not once, but twice, in two days. and in two different locations. two days, back to back, i saw jared leto. that had to be the weirdest star sighting. i've seen leelee sobieski at target and coffee bean. i've seen topher grace, shannyn sossoman, and jason lee at parties i've been too. i've seen one of the wayans brothers while shopping for groceries at whole foods. i've seen robin williams stand BEHIND me in line at the movie theater. i've seen beck, rene russo, toby maguire, giovanni ribisi, and lukas haas all at a radiohead show where i had better seats than all of them! and don't even get me started on how many times i've seen adam brody and the other cast members of the now defunct OC. basically i've seen a LOT of famous people in my life. either just randomly walking down the street, or via going to the emmy's preshow or whatever. there actually aren't that many famous people i'd see that would honestly make me starstuck these days. most of the time when i see a famous people i mention it to someone and then move on. for all the times i've seen famous people, never have i seen a spectacle such as the one i saw this weekend.
britney....
i saw britney. aka, britney spears.
jason (yes jason was in town this weekend!) and i were walking down a very empty roberston blvd yesterday. it was easter sunday as we all know, and most of the stores were closed. surprisingly all the lisa kline's (ie, women, men, kids) were open but the kitson's were closed. anyway, we parked and walked past lisa kline women and the store looked closed but people were outside. not a ton of people but enough to make you wonder what is going. or rather, WHO is inside? so we asked someone. the girl replied "britney." we knew. and we moved on. went into american apparel to get some stuff. then went to starbucks to pee. and when we walked back toward our car we saw that the mob of people had both grown in size and moved across the street to lisa kline kids. britney must have been shopping for her boys.
so jason and i decided we'd give it a few minutes. see if britney was going to come out. after all, NEVER had i seen such a sight. yes i have see the chaos at the awards shows, but it's different. that's a bunch of famous people glammed up for the camera. this is a girl wanting to buy clothes for her son and being mobbed by 50 or so people, half of which have cameras. so we stood there and watched it all. there were paparazzi ALL over the place. some were in the trees, some were by the door, and some were even in the windowsil of the store. a girl from the store came out yelling at them telling them to move. the one guy got out but the other was the most persistent asshole ever. he stayed there with his camera on autofire. just snapping away. the woman kept yelling threatening to call the cops. but he wouldn't move. so then she started to close the gate on him and people began to clap. luckily (for him) he was able to put his hand between the bar to stop her from closing him in. MAN it would have been priceless to see him trapped. sooo sooo priceless. ah well. so he got out and resumed his bullshit. meanwhile brit's one bodyguard outside the store yelled at everyone saying that they would have to clear a path from the door to her car or they would get pushed out of the way by any means necessary. so then the moment came. brit emerged from the door. cameras flashing. people yelling "britney! britney!" bodyguards pushing their way through the paps and the fans. and like that, brit was in the car. the black escalade type car. and the paps RAN to their black escalade type cars which were PARKED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET and they followed her car to her next stop. here is what it looked like outside the store:
[photo courtesy of X17 online]
now having seen this first hand i can honestly say that if i were her or anyone in a position like that every time i went ANYWHERE, i would go insane. certifiably insane. lock me up and throw away the key. that shit is nuts....
again i say, i live in LA.
no wait, i live in hollywood....
not trying to make fun here, but last night i attended my very first seder and seriously, i felt like i was in gradeschool. remember reading dick and jane in 1st grade? well i do. i HATED it. i absolutely hated to read out loud. like more so than anything else in 1st grade. i got major major performance anxiety. i just hated to read out loud. and then if i made a mistake, then i'd stumble and then the rest would come out all wrong. well this is how i felt last night reading passages for the seder. especially with those hard to pronouce names! i felt like a kid in school learning and reading out loud. needless to say, i was not that thrilled. i mean i won't pretend like i really enjoyed it all that much. it was manageable but nothing i'd jump at the chance to do again. after all, judaism is not my religion. i have no religion and having to do this ceremonial sort of thing for something i don't believe in really is sort of strange. it's like going through the motions without any feeling whatsoever. so umm yea. that was my first seder experience.....
in other news, this ring is really fucking rad. i wouldn't wear it because it's even taller than a normal engagement ring which is partially why i don't like traditional ones. but this is a nice little twist neverless.
i'm about to plunge into a deep dark abyss also known as, portfolio redesign. i've been wanting to do this for ages now. and i finally came up with an idea that i think it really rad. making it look like a magazine. i LOVE magazine design and i think that would be a good way to display my work. it would definitely be more fun than a typical portfolio. that's for sure. and yes it will take more time, but i'm ok with that. if you take more time on something, it should turn out better. so here i go!
but before that, yet one more gem i found online that i LOVE and it's cheap. a little over $9. except for the fact that it ships from europe and shipping is like $15.70!!! UGH. wtf. it turns a cheap little amazing mirror (seriously, polaroid mirror?!?! was this not MADE for jen?!!?) into an expensively unnecessary thing. sigh....
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