Mid Month Special

Last Thursday was supposed to be my first class, but the day before the class, I got a phone call saying that the teacher had canceled the first class. Class is from noon to 5:30 and I had gotten permission to leave at 11:30ish on Thursdays.

So I left to go to "class." Went to Katz's for a sandwich, went to the movie "Babies", walked around, blah blah blah.

I felt a little guilty, so I bought some clay and fashioned the above. I don't know. It's not as cute as a real pouch baby. Maybe I"ll do something else. Hmmm...

Once class starts, I'm hoping to post something after every class....stay tuned....

June 2010

Comments

I've noticed that a lot of people (men and women) look about 3 months pregnant.

Did you know you can make a podcast via the Garage Band program? Maybe I'll try that. Like an audio book or director's commentary to the zine.

My class start this week! Alright!

Movies

Precious - I had read the book and the movie was just as rough.

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee -It was okay. A little on the arty side. Sorta boring but in a good way.

Quinceanera - Good enough

Doubt - Really good. That Phillip Seymour Hoffman can really act.

Duplicity - Good enough. Somewhat entertaining.

Crazy Heart - Really good. Heartbreaking.

Music:

Glee - Volume 3 - I think something's wrong with the computer, cause when I try to upload it the computer and put in on the ipod, it doesn't come out so good. Guess I'll have to take the computer in to be fixed or something.

Books:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows - Finished this. Really enjoyed it even if I sometimes got some of the characters confused.

City of Thieves - David Benioff -I quite enjoyed this and usually I don't like historical stuff.

Julie & Julia - Julie Powell - I got maybe a third of the way through and realized that I had had enough and was no longer interested. I did enjoy the movie though.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson - Really good. The cover is quite bright and I'm not sure what I thought it was going to be about ,but it's quite good

Broadway

Mamma Mia -My cousin has an exchange student staying with her and I had promised to take her to a broadway show. So my cousin, her 11 year old son, and the exchange student went and saw Mamma Mia. I think a good time was had by all.

Art

Dead or Alive -Museum of Arts & Design - Some really fun (and creepy stuff). A (giant) pile of mice skeletons, a big animal type shape thing covered in horse tail hair, a "diamond" made from a parakeets remains, wowsers. The Bespoke exhibit of bikes is also pretty great.

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Our encore......

May 2010

Concert Countdown!!!

Get ready to rock and roll!!! Put it in your calendar!! May 14. And don't forget your $6. Start your Friday night off right with a recorder and two guitar concert and then head out and party on.

Recent Fortune Cookie Fortunes

You will spend old age in comfort and material wealth.

You will be advanced socially, without any special effort.

Awwwww....

Went to a pre-concert dinner with a friend and her family.....got an email the next day......

"My mom thinks you would be a really good mom."

Books

The Believers - Zoe Heller - It was pretty good. She also wrote What Was She Thinking - Notes on a Scandal

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows -reading this now....it's a little confusing, too many names...but it's pretty good, I just have no idea what's going on.

Movies

Mad Men - Season 3 - It's a pretty great show.

Music

Give Up by The Postal Service - Really good

Quelqu'un M'a Dit by Carla Bruni - That Mrs. Sarkozy can sing.

Narnia Prince Caspian Soundtrack - I basically got this for the song The Call by Regina Spektor. But wouldn't you know it, Disney has locked CD so I can't put it on the computer to put on the ipod. Mad mad mad.

Broadway/Off Broadway

Fences - This is an August Wilson play starrring.....DENZEL! It was quite good. I was tired so sometimes I closed my eyes and pretended it was a radio program.

Asylum - This was written and performed by James Braly and performed at Dixon Place. I had heard a story of his on the Moth that I quite enjoyed.

Art

I've recently joined the Whitney Museum and MoMA. And through mom, I'm a member of a bunch of other museums. I think I'm done with broadway for a bit and will now shift to museums.

Marina Abramovic - The Artist is Present - MoMA - This is the one where you can sit at a table across from her. There is a retrospective upstairs that's really loud and naked. There are real live naked people. In one exhibit, there is a (naked) man and (naked) woman standing opposite each other in a doorway. If you want to get into the next room you have to pass through this doorway (or the other doorway on the other side of the exhibit) I made myself go though the naked doorway, boy did I have to get myself psyched up. Oh art.

2010 Whitney Biennial - Whitney Museum - It's a lot of stuff. I've been twice and sort of run through it. That's the beauty of being a member, you don't have to see it all in one shot. You can go back whenever you want.

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April 2010

Man oh Man

I don't know. I just can't put together a zine lately. They seem to get shorter and lamer. I'll try harder. I'll blame it on lack of exercise, practicing for my concert and low grade depression.

Concert

Yeah, seriously. I'm doing a concert in NYC on May 14, 2010. $6. It's going to be awesome!

Conversation with Mom

Mom: Do you have those leggings that look like jeans?

Me: Umm, no.

Mom: I saw them on TV yesterday

Movies:

The Hangover - Pretty good. There were a couple moments when they go a little too far.

Project Runway Season 5 and 6 -Meh. Season 6 was pretty awful. Nothing really compelling.

Eclipse is coming out June 30, 2010!!!!

Marley and Me - good...sad. sad. sad.

Fame! - the original version. Good stuff.

Mad Men - Now I'm in Season 2. Good stuff.

Band Slam - Good enough. I had high hopes for this.

The Broadway

Lend Me A Tenor - Pretty good. It's something that my mom will enjoy. Like Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, but not. Tony Shaloub, Anthony LaPaglia and the young man from The Hangover.

Next To Normal - Really good. Who doesn't love a musical about someone with bipolar.

God of Carnage - Good stuff. It's pretty entertaining.

Red - Really good. Alfred Molina as the artist Mark Rothko. Truth be told, I fell asleep for a little bit (as I do at most shows), but the parts I saw were excellent. It's rather intense.

Music

Ingrid Michaelson - Found her on the Pandora from my Regina Spektor channel. She sounds like well, Regina Spektor, it's sort of pleasant and non-impactful.

Books

American Wife - Really good.

In Defense of Food -I stopped reading it, I got bored.

Blink - Read about half of it, I got bored.

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Little Miss Matched.....Project Sock Design Contest -Season 2

Entry deadline April 15, 2010.

Check it out.

http://www.littlemissmatched.com/ProjectSock

Little Miss Matched is primarily known for selling packs of 3 non-matching but somehow related socks. No limit on the number of entries! Here is the first of what will be one of my many submissions.