This makes me happy.
In some perverse way I really enjoy working on Powerpoint and fiddling with my slides. For me, it resonates with both my technical and creative tendencies. I think Powerpoint really taps into the obsessive compulsive that resides inside everyone. Did you just yawn? Yea me too. This entry can be found under the "Most Boring" folder, after "Monster Trucks."
It would probably look a lot like this: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfICeBtVv8U]
The other afternoon a cute girl in (or not in?) my life instant messaged me asking me if I had a recommendation for a fun but affordable after-work bar in Midtown or the Upper East Side for her and her girlfriends to go to celebrate one of them getting a new job. I felt like Rudy Ruettiger in the movie about his life, "Rudy," when the coach FINALLY sends him into the field to play. [Thanks to all my friends who gave recommendations for bars in the Upper East Side.] Anyway, I wish I had this handy list of bars--Google Mapped no less!--when I was frantically racking my brain and bothering my friends for places.
I will be in Los Angeles this Saturday through next Tuesday. 1/4 pleasure, 3/4 work.
"You know, in a way, the realists are right, they are always right. Even when they are morally wrong."
- Kanan Makiya
Dear Readers, Please do not give "The Da Vinci Code" anything other than one star on GoodReads. I'm disgusted that the average rating is 3.50 (out of 5.0) on that site for this trash.
Thank you.
Best,
MRod
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
What I like about Barack Obama's speech today [full text] is that it challenges us. How refreshing. Instead of feeding people what they want to hear with essentialist arguments and bifurcate statements, he challenged us to seek to understand nuance and complexity. Whether we the American public accept this task remains to be seen.
Me: we're just the blind leading blind K: maybe everyone else is blind, and we can just see too well?
Me: lol
K: It's like having an HD LCD while everyone else still has a trinitron
Me: Okay
Me: you should have stopped while you were ahead
Me: that was bad
K: L:ASDKLJASDFL:j
Who doesn't have at least one cover of the seemingly ubiquitous song "Hallelujah" in their iTunes collection, if not the Jeff Buckley version. Along with pulling the first all nighter to finish that term paper and taking PS 22: City Politics, possessing this song seems to be a near requirement of all college freshmen.
Twenty-five years ago, a character on the TV show The Young Ones named Neal--the hippie--said, "I'm beginning to feel like a Leonard Cohen record, cause nobody ever listens to me." Today, in contrast, one particular Leonard Cohen song is featured prominently in no less than three separate episodes of teen uberdrama The OC, and can be heard in at least twenty-four separate movies and TV episodes, almost always as the soundtrack to a montage of people being sad.What I hope to show today is how, exactly, that happened to a song called "Hallelujah."
After reading this I simultaneously both wanted to delete my copy of this song AND listen to it as well.
I am a fan of this website devoted to calling out bad photoshop efforts--many of which appear in movie posters. Here're a few of my favorites:
"Bro, so...uhm, what does she do with that extra arm piece of hers?..."
She looks more natural without the belly button.
It's nice to see that the hand from the Adams Family finally got itself a nice girl. A model, too!
I received the following party invite this morning from a friend. I'm not going, and neither is my roommate, who would probably go if it was a party for John Mayer. What is wrong with us?
...This Thursday is Ice T's birthday, and he's throwing a party/ performing at The Plumm.His wife Cocco is also in playboy this month, and apparently that's also a reason for celebrating as well.
It's this Thursday with an open bar 10-11pm (invite attached)
Anyhoo, I just got a VIP (ew...) invite from the owners o' Plumm as a thanks for throwing down on Friday.
Dancers- I'm going to head down from rehearsal so if you want, you ARE ON!
Hit me up b/c I'm going to submit my vip list sooooon.
luv
x
And for the complete picture of this undoubtedly classy affair, here's the party flyer:
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more’ … Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.’
- Nietzsche
[A friend of mine went to to see Dave Chappelle do stand up this past weekend.] Me: what'd he talk about? K: uh, everything K: breasts K: dubai K: wolfowitz K: hollywood K: beyonce K: um k: indians K: philippinos K: white people K: spitzer K: marion barry Me: (lol go on) K: his family a lot K: breasts a lot K: his genius K: iphones K: 1940's boxng techniques
Apropos of nothing or everything, the Easy Listening Sunday segment is back from its unexplained hiatus this week. For such a seemingly innocuous singer, people have a really divisive reaction towards him. I'm a fan personally. I used to rally on the other side of the fence, but due to the influence and persuasion of my roommate Chris, who listens to John Mayer a lot in his room, I would most likely, possibly would in fact go see John Mayer in concert, especially if he performs his song "Gravity."
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zzb-Pbtr1U4]
Friday night roll call: Botanica, Obivia, Murray Hill apartment party, and Plumm. Saturday, I spent the afternoon hanging out with my friend Rachel who dropped by the city briefly for the day from Princeton.
[Photos taken at the glamorous location of Penn Station.]
Earlier that day I loved that I was able to walk to the local deli without wearing a jacket for my breakfast sandwich aka hangover cure. Is spring around the corner? It can't arrive any sooner in my humble and cold opinion.
Later that night, I met up with my old friend Nick who I haven't seen in ages and a few of his fun and nice friends. Went to some West Village Mexican restaurant, then dropped into the Riviera for a quick shot of whiskey (shudder), and finally ended up at McSorely's Ale House.
I get bored very quickly when trying to do my cardio on the ellipticals or treadmills at the gym. However, an hour on the elliptical machine went by in the blink of an eye today thanks to Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle on one flatscreen in front of me, and the decently competitive Clemson versus UNC basketball game on the other screen. Awesome.