My brain’s halfway on vacation already, and I’m assuming that it’s the same for many of you, even though for most of us, “vacation” just means having off on Friday. So why not a little randomness? A. I just started reading a book called “Wrack and Ruin,” because a friend of mine at Norton told [...]
Archive for the ‘Hooray for Hollywood’ Category
17 Jun
All quiet on the Tannenbaum Front
Ever since the heat wave of last week, things have been super quiet in my life. I’m in a bit of a rut, or a routine if you will. Wake up, go swimming, go to work, go home, watch a DVD. Sometimes I’ll throw a little gardening, yard sale, or a trip to New Jersey [...]
22 May
The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
I consider myself to be a person of great taste when it comes to television watching. I don’t get a cable feed into my own home, so I befriend fellow Lost fans so I can watch at their homes, and reconciled with Birmingham partially for the friendship, and partially for the chance to watch Battlestar [...]
20 May
Hudson Valley Saving Time
I was conversing with Minneapolis’s own The Grey Boy last night, who called while I was in the middle of watching The January Man, the other classic late 80′s/early 90′s film starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Alan Rickman. (I only rented it because I put every Alan Rickman movie in my Netflix queue last July [...]
8 May
4. The South Hills Mall
Lest there be any doubt that I’m a Jersey girl, yesterday’s activity was a trip to the mall. Sadly, the indoor shopping options in this region are not great. Poughkeepsie has the Galleria, which is shiny and full of the basics, but not big enough to compare to my Paramus darlings. Kingston has the Hudson [...]
10 Apr
I saw The Ruins so you don’t have to
Last summer, I read Scott Smith’s The Ruins. It’s not the kind of book I normally go for, but I needed a palate cleanser after finishing all of Proust. Just kidding! How intellectual do you think I am? It was actually Joyce’s Ulysses. Because that took me one solid week of reading, so I wanted [...]
10 Mar
Make Air, Not War
If you want to watch a movie that will make you smile and bob your head uncontrollably, I highly recommend Air Guitar Nation. I just finished watching it, and it was the perfect remedy to my bad mood about DST. (I’ll give you that it was nice to go to the gym after work and [...]
5 Mar
Contact
Recently, Birmingham and I got back in touch. We’re not together again as a couple, we’re trying to lift the gag-order of friendship to see if we can stay in touch without falling into an emotional black hole. Even though we still have the same relationship problems, (he won’t even think about just fucking proposing [...]
25 Feb
Why not make her stay up late?
I couldn’t say up for the entire Oscar broadcast last night because I wanted to swim this morning. Thank goodness the best part is available on the internet: (for some reason I can’t make this video embed on my site, and I’m not going to spend more than two minutes trying to figure it out. [...]
31 Jan
My mouth tastes like purple
I still don’t have cable, so my viewing habits are like this: I wait for a show to get popular and run at least a full season. Then I rent it from Netflix. I consume every last bit of episode. If it is a still-running show, I befriend someone with TV to watch it at [...]
