December 2011
Ruining classics
Sometimes I like to change all the words in songs (see this post which was a repost from my old Myspace blog)
But also, sometimes I like to subtly change just a few words in a song. Like on Tom Petty’s “American Girl” my version goes like:
Oh yeah, all right Take it easy, baby Make me laugh all night She was an American girl
All's Well That Roswell
So I’ve looked into getting the Roswell series of books, I think there are about 17 in total including the original Roswell High series, the series produced during the show, and the series produced after the show ended.
As I expected most of the books are on Amazon for literally pennies, but a few of the books are unbelievably rare, particularly Roswell Turnabout, the last Roswell book ever...
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - American Girl...
PBQRS
I had the greatest idea today. I’m going to invent a public bathroom quality ranking system. This way people can rate bathrooms and tell other people.
It’s going to be a range of options which will go something like this (In order of quality):
High-end Luxury Hotel Bathroom
Well-maintained Major Airport Bathroom
Nice Truck Stop Bathroom
Bad Truck Stop Bathroom
...
“I am a useless piece of human garbage.”
– Harris, R. (2008). The happiness trap: How to stop struggling and start living. Boston: Trumpeter.
Taking quotes out of context from psychology and self-help books is one of my favorite pastimes.
“Her old school friend lived in a studio in Chelsea. I could see them through the...”
– Tony Wendice describing the evidence of his wife’s love affair. From, Dial ‘M’ For Murder.
Hitchcock, A. (Producer & Director). (1954). Dial ‘m’ for murder [Motion picture]. United States: Warner Bros.
Watch…
Menudo; Twix again; Painting; Pencils; Fruit cake
Nobody likes menudo until they get older, because the older you get the more your stomach wants to eat other stomachs.
I went to Sam’s today and thought about buying a huge box of king size Twix, just to show myself. I didn’t. But I bought a 4.5-lb bag of hot tamales.
I started a painting that I will likely never finish. In reality I started this painting last week, but all I did was...
“Recently I took my dog for a walk in the park and, he rolled around in the...”
– Harris, R. (2008). The happiness trap: How to stop struggling and start living. Boston: Trumpeter.
Physical intimacy; Twix candy bars; Ping Pong
I still haven’t watched any Roswell, but the netflix episode summaries for the next few shows are promising me “heated make-out sessions”, so I’m kind of excited about that but also kind of sad in the way that you always know that once you progress physically in a relationship you can never go back to previous stages (“Like my mother said, you can’t go back to...
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All day
I’m amazed by how The Cooking Channel is 100000 times better than The Food Network. You have no idea how much I know about clam chowder and salt cod. No idea.
I’ve been eating nothing but hot pockets for the past week. I’m not even hungry when I eat them but I eat them anyway.
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Pains
I want to watch Roswell all day long, but there are only three seasons, and I know that once I finish the series I’ll be wracked with emotional turmoil. So I watch other shows instead in order to pace myself, but by doing so I only make myself mad. There’s no way I can win this.
It took me a year and a half to watch the last 5 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer because I knew I...
Dido - I am what I am
What’s that condition called where you visually insert Hollie Marie Combs’ eyebrow scar onto every girl you talk to?
My Day 12.18.11
Woke up approx. 9:30am
Took shower (unnecessary)
Put clothes on (also unnecessary [look into this])
Watched Star Trek and Charmed until 6pm
Tried watching Cave of Forgotten Dreams but then went to sleep.
Woke up at 11pm.
Watched Rise of The Planet of The Apes
Now watching other stuff.
Special Food list of Foods I ate Today
Sweet bread (note: not sweetbreads)
Biscotti
Potato chips
...
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Amalgam
I played some devastating ping pong today and my body is completely wrecked. But I won.
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Things I ate today (in chronological order):
Soup
Quesadilla
Brownie
Cheescake
Hot wings
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I have to wake up extra early tomorrow for a final, but mostly because I have to shave and it takes me a while now that I do it the old fashioned way.
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Walked by a creepy van (people...
Assembling my own trail mix one sandwich baggie at a time is taking years off of my life. I just know it is.
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Better Than Ezra - Extra Ordinary
And just like...
“Hey have you ever seen that movie Sex Drive?”
– Guy at the sandwich place shouting to another co-worker in the back as he rang up my order.
I was just about to lament the fact that I don’t have any fruit roll-ups upstairs with me, when I realized that my bag is full of fruit roll-ups I put in there in case of emergencies.
“After mating, the female cuts slits into the bark of a twig, and into these she...”
– Cicada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yeah.
WatchVenus of Freeb!irds World Burrito. Aluminum foil and toothpicks. 2011.
I emailed in a bunch of posts from my phone, but that never works. But I tried live-tumbling my trip to the dollar store today.
Weird day
Made a dumb decision.
Fixed it, but had to tell a white lie.
Donated to charity and guy acted like I was Mother Teresa.
Car broke down.
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“Look for two girls, one wearing a colorful scarf and the other in a brown winter...”
– ‘Tis the season for everybody to be talking about their study groups on Blackboard. Sometimes posts get unintentionally poetic.
Now the funny thing is. . .
In my last post I discussed the difference between a satisfactory relationship and a successful relationship, but it’s important to understand that the people in the second scenario (C & D) would probably be no happier (more satisfied) than the people in the first scenario (A & B). In other words, there is no telling whether partners A & B would ever realize that they were...
On Actualizing Potentiality
I talk a lot about the properties of relationships (intimate and non), and I throw around the phrase “Any two idiots can make it work.” What I mean by that, is that any two people can be perfectly satisfied with one another in a relationship as long as they both work at it (As many studies have suggested. See research on “love” marriages vs. arranged marriages). Note that I...
The cold keeps everyone inside, but since I don’t mind it too much it’s like the whole world is my playground.
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I got my first happy birthday wish from an ophthalmologist that I went to once, because he truly cares about me. It was a very nice email.