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New post. Hello!

Anyone have any advice about travelling to Spain/France?

I'm so out of the loop. What's this dream weaver thing? Are we all going somewhere?


Also, in about a week's time, Wes Anderson will turn 40. I really want to know how he's going to celebrate it. Go, Mordecai!

Roxie my love! O merrymelody, have a fabulous birthday!

There were so many insightful and wonderful videos to choose from on youtube, each more meaningful than the last, but this one kind of sums up (almost) everything that's great in this movie ...

80s music, robots, freakishly high level of geekishness, and the world's second greatest t-shirt.




(Note also the first page of comments in which someone asks for the joke to be explained to them, LOL to the highest degree)

Don't be jealous, but I'm reading the best book ever written. What wonderful thing was it that made me see it at the library and borrow it - the title, Last Summer - a Summer Boys novel or maybe the surprising revelation that it is part of The New York Times Bestselling Series.

Or maybe it was the descriptions: eg:

'Her short hair was glossy and nut-brown, and she'd outdone herself with lip gloss, thanks to a panic attack and a trip to Sephora earlier in the day. Kelsi was not normally the lip gloss type, but she thought a reunion with her boyfriend deserved something a little more special than her usual Burt's Bees lip balm. Paired with her new favorite flowy halter top from Anthropologie and the Chip & Pepper jeans her fashionista sister, Ella, has given her for her birthday, Keli thought she looked exactly like the Bohemian princess she aspired to be.'

It's a shopping list. About ten pages later, and after a reunion with the boyfriend who deserved great lip balm, she decides that tonight is the night. They fool around:

'I love you Kelsi Tuttle,' Bennett whispered.
'I love you, too,' she whispered back.
They smiled at each other and then, just like that, they were no longer virgins.

I think I need that in neon on a t-shirt.

JUST LIKE THAT, THEY WERE NO LONGER VIRGINS.

And it's only the end of Chapter 2.


Speaking of wonderful cheese, sloanesomething says that there's a sequel to 'Centre Stage.' I say that nothing will top the motorbike onstage (because Cooper is, like, such a rebel - just like that) and she's betting that something will. A dramatic onstage rendering of his ballet company's failure, complete with nightmare sequences lit in red light, Cooper on a motorbike fleeing his demons, and being redeemed by his muse in red shoes? I don't know ...

So yesterday I lost about two hours of my life to this list, the 25 cheesiest songs of the 70s. It wasn't so much the songs themselves - I didn't know all of them, even the one about canibalism - and the idea of definitively writing a list of cheesy songs from any era is pretty ridiculous, but still. It was the idea of the accompanying horrific videos or, in the case of Englebert Humperdinck, the most scarily Vegas lounge act I've ever seen (with people professing their love in the youtube comments, even after seeing his sweaty tanned chest and hearing his smarmily insincere delivery).

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Anyway, isn't 'Macarthur Park' inevitably the top of the list? (unless it wasn't released on the 70s ...)

Also, my current guilty pleasure is 'Let It Rock' with Lil Wayne and ... someone else ...? I've only heard it about twice, but it's hilariously corny. "I'll bring the fire ..." Indeed.

I just saw this and instantly thought of allzugern. YES, YOU. Not even one of the usual suspects like reet. Maybe because it reminds me of you and Kalan's onstage antics, back in the day. I haven't thought about that in forevah.



NO I DID NOT TITLE IT.

It's from UAL, right? I totally know that part on the DVD.

But anyway, I know this secret is more your speed, my love:

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So.

It's Olympics time, which means cute boys from foreign countries, watching sports you only see care about once every four years, and the man that Clodia (and where are you, babycakes?) once memorably descirbed as having a two paper bag face. Two. I think that was a little harsh but there's no denying Michael Phelps' talent and that's all that matters, right?

Right?

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Actually, I totally adore Alain Bernard at the moment.

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Though maybe she doesn't read livejournal any more, I hope that the one and only mecklen had a brilliant birthday, full of Eggo's and more Eggo's.


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This made me lol and lol: from Hanson Secrets:



It made me think of that bit in Broadcast News where handsome-but-dumb newsreader William Hurt says 'I would really a lot appreciate it,' and his producer, Holly Hunter, says scornfully 'Really. A lot. Apppreciate it???'

(which is not as funny and true as the great bit where her boss sarcastically says to her that it must be nice always knowing that you're the smartest person in the room and she, looking stricken, says no. It's awful.)

Anyway, I haven't seen the Kate interview but still. It's really a lot like being married to three guys, apparently.

Happy, and I mean happy birthday to ariadnie! I'm a little early but that's okay, it means we can have a two-day fiesta. Have a great 48 hours, babycakes!