February 20, 2006
...lovely pbs...
Watching PBS.
I happened upon the most amazing show.
A real life Gosford Park.
A truthful Manor House.
A series - Windsor Castle - A Royal Year.
Jobs I never even imagined.
(A Castle Flagman - his job is to raise the flag when the queen arrives at Windsor and takes it down when she leaves.)
People who take their job so seriously. And do it serving the queen.
It is so foreign and amazing to me.
Like: A man whose job it is to light all the fires in the castle.
The men who take care of the furniture - dusting and repairing.
I wish I had started writing down their titles as I watched, long titles for amazing and specific jobs.
Inspiring.
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September 19, 2005
...slightly embarrased...
Watched the emmy's last night and award shows are getting borning as I get older. I am not as impressed and the networks are intent about not letting the show run over. They bring in the music and cut people off so there are no cool moments that just bubble up.
What were the emmy idols? It was so out of place and bizarre. Wacky, I mean where are you going to see Donald Trump and Megan Mullally singing green acres, Kristen Bell sporting leg warmers for fame, Gary Dourdan and Macy Gray singing Movin' On Up, and lastly William Shatner and opera singer Frederica von Stade hamming it up for the Star Trek theme.
My real favorite was anytime Jon Stewart was on the screen. His FCC bit was marvelous!!
I have a couple of questions though:
Is Boston Public really that good?
I mean better than Deadwood? (Or House which I don't watch)
And can anyone explain that Raymond show because I hate it and pretty much the whole cast bothers me?
The pen and ink drawing was done durning the show. Oh and, who knew that Trixie was better than anything I have created. I guess I have to step up my game if Trixie sniffing my shoes is more interesting than anything I have done so far.
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July 30, 2005
...I was in love with Alex P. Keaton...
I was watching tv and noticed a show called Nueva Estrella. And so, because I am easily seduced, I watched it and it was suprisingly good. In the same vain of American Idol, but the performers have talent. And there are no mean spirited judges. Maxx (who has gone on to the final round) sang "At this moment" when he did I was transported back to the days when I was in love with Alex P. Keaton (I know I was young and silly, he was so stuffy and never really took a risk. Though he did with Ellen and she turned out to be his real life wife!) and my heart was breaking as he tried to catch the train for Ellen, who was engaged to another guy. I loved to imagine that I would be the girl that would break someone's heart. That someone would put himself out there and love me above all else. Plus have the soundtrack to play in the background. I think that is why I love listening to the ipod, I can imagine it is the soundtrack to my movie. The movie that I am staring in. I am a little mad at itunes though. They don't have the song. I mean how could they. It is a classic. A classic I tell you! I am going to have to go out and get one of those 80's albums that the Boy hates. He thinks that pretty much all music in the 80's blows. It is all pretty cheesy, but it makes a girl feel good sometimes or makes her able to wallow in her bad feelings. Silly I know, but very true. I have sort of felt like wallowing lately. I feel like I am slipping into honey. Like it's hard to walk, to do anything really. It comes and goes the slipping into honey. But I will always have Alex and now I can go out and get "our" song. So so silly!!!!!
Remember him in Teen Wolf? What a sill girl I was!
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July 18, 2005
...famous people & the nod...
I have a pretty good eye for spotting famous people, it is pretty easy on the streets of New York, but every once in awhile I do the "hey I know you nod". The funny thing is a split second after I do the nod, I realize they are famous! Not my friend, not even someone I see around the neighborhood, but famous and don't know me at all!!
The most recent occurrence was when Nigel Barker came into work to rent a backdrop. I came out of the office and said "Hey", like I knew him. He gave me the yes I am famous nod but I didn't pick it up. I continued to pull out a couple of backdrops still trying to rack my brain for how I knew him. He was with a couple of people, the clients and as they left. I said, "Who is the photographer again?" Dan, the client said, "Nigel Barker". OOHHHhhh. Then the embarrassment set in. Because not only did I give him the "hey I know you nod", but I as I was pulling out backdrops they fell on me and knocked out the one of the lights and it crashed down onto the floor. Call me grace!
Now for those of you who don't know, Nigel Barker is one of the judges on American's Next Top Model.
I am going to spill some of the Boy's secrets right now. He is addicted to that show and I Wanna Be a Soapstar. Both totally smutty, and he never misses them. When he does, he is sad. (Good thing both shows usually have repeats.) Isn't that vierrdd? I mean really, isn't it weird. I love it though. I love that he stops what he is doing and sits on the couch to watch with me. Or rather I watch with him.
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June 21, 2005
...dreaming of eating...
Aiko came into town and I can't believe how much we ate. I even had a dream about it!! (We were trying to escape from these soldiers and we stopped in a village and ate. Then the soldiers caught up and we had to escape again.) It totally had to do with the day before when we began eating at 2pm and then pretty much kept eating until 10pm that night. We met up with another friend J. Aiko and J were planning the next place we would eat while we were still eating!! Aiko and I started with hamburgers and fries. Then we went to Cafe Habana on Elizabeth and J got some really yummy corn on the cob. Then we got pizza, and went to Economy Candy right before it closed. We got some take away from Whole Foods. I couldn't even keep up with them. They ended the day with three hot dogs each at Gray's Papaya. I could only do one. Hence the dream including stopping to eat...
It has been pretty quite at work. So I have been working on some paintings that have been on my mind. The Boy is letting me borrow his ipod and I love it. It totally creates great images. I am sketching like crazy. The one below doesn't really come from any songs, but rather with my infatuation with garden labyrinths. I love them, the secrets they can hold. I feel like she is of both the earth and the sky and they are competing for her. I don't really know, but I love her crown of vines.
My favorite bands is Over the Rhine. They have amazing songs, and a new album Drunkard’s Prayer. Linford's lyrics are marvelous! Karin's voice has so much emotion, it hurts. I first their song "Latter Days" (from Good Dog Bad Dog) on Felicity. The first lines of the song are:
"what a beautiful piece of heartache, this has all turned out to be..."
It's hits me like an arrow.
J.J. Abrams has some really amazing taste in music. You can hear it in all of his shows - Felicity, Alias, and now Lost.
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