1. LADY GAGA’S BAD ROMANCE. I know, I know — and yet, she does write her own songs, and she has her own sense of style (the wheelchair/invalid dance in Paparazzi?!), and you can play this song over and over if you’re caught in a bad roma-roma-ramma… etc. Oh, and the monster dance moves? Go ahead, watch the video now. I’m breaking out my monster claws at the next party.
2. PRESIDENTIAL FLASHCARDS. Go to the “One Spot” at Target where everything is a dollar, and get this set of Presidential Flashcards with a prez portrait on the front and fun facts on the back. I spent yesterday memorizing all of the presidents in order. I’m sure that will come in handy… never. (Whose the dude with the cool hairdo in the pic above? ANSWER BELOW.)
3. BIG LOVE. Rumor has it, the fourth season just began, but, as an HBO-less human, behind on the times, I just finished the first season ($26). There is a voyeuristic thrill in watching this rendition of modern-day polygamy, which, according to this one time I flipped on Oprah, still happens outside of crazy, fundamentalist-Mormon compounds. Oh, and it stars Gennifer Goodwin as one of the wives, and Amanda Seyfried as one of the daughters.
4. PENGUIN DELUXE CLASSICS. The covers of the Penguin Deluxe Classics almost make we want to read books I loath, such as Ethan Frome, which has its very best heartbreaking/hysterical scene immortalized on the cover. Many of the covers instead immortalize scenes in comic strips, including Chris Ware’s (you should know him) cover for Candide:
5. TRUE BLOOD (watch the trailer!). So, I was totally not on the vampire bandwagon until I watched the first season ($45 on amazon.com, but I think it’s on sale at Target!) of True Blood (the second season didn’t do it for me, so I didn’t finish it, but I still recommend the first) about a near-future world in which Vampires have come out of hiding to attempt to peacefully co-exist with humans (and have hot, naked HBO-sex with them). Sookie (Oscar winner Anna Paquin! Love her!), a minding-reading southerner, falls in love with Vampire-Bill (hot, but pale). Best of all, it’s produced — with some episodes written and directed by — Alan Ball, Oscar-winning writer of American Beauty. Finally, the title sequence runs like a music video about redemption and sin (read about it on Wikipedia):
ANSWER: William Henry Harrison! If you can’t remember anything about him, don’t worry, he was only president for thirty-two days!
oh dearest maria, you have reminded me once again of one nagging anomaly of my childhood: i *never* learned my presidents. i never had a president unit in elementary school, middle school, or the two high schools i attended. i learned my state capitals, but no presidents.
i didn’t know who lady gaga was until a couple months ago (hey, turns out she’s been around for awhile and i’m just outdated), but i now have both her CDs. she always seemed kind of unsanitary to me, but perhaps i’m an old lady. she IS a good pop star.
MY FRIEND, TAYLOR, OWNS A POSTER OF THAT MOBY DICK PENGUIN CLASSICS BOOK COVER. the end.
i have been tossing around the idea of watching big love for a couple of years…maybe i will make that happen one day.
I learned all of the presidents by memorizing the Animaniacs song in like… 8th grade. I still sing it from time to time, because it is set to the 1812 Overture!
(William Harrison, how’d you phrase, that guy was dead in 30 days!)
I too have just started to like Lady Gaga beyond “Just Dance.” She seems delightfully nutso.
(1) I LOVE BOOK POSTERS. I don’t understand why Barnes & Noble doesn’t sell the ones they put on their walls.
(2) I’d like to take credit for the little girl doodle, but it’s part of the font, which I should’ve linked to! It’s called Kaileen: http://www.dafont.com/kaileen.font and 6 of the capital letters are these little people doodles.
(3) Amber, I sort of wish now that I’d memorized the presidents to a song.
I absolutely love the Penguin Deluxe Classic covers, especially the one for Wuthering Heights. They have these hardcover ones with different patterns and colors, and I want every single one of the books, even though some of them i dont actually like. they’re so awesome.
And I am completely obssessed with True Blood and very much in love with Eric Northman. And I do have to agree that the first season was so much better than the second one. But i love it anyways. Mostly because my love for it first started with the Sookie Stackhouse novels, which are much better and somewhat different, might I add.
But I cannot like Lady Gaga. I just cant. I do think she has a very original sense of style, though.
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oh dearest maria, you have reminded me once again of one nagging anomaly of my childhood: i *never* learned my presidents. i never had a president unit in elementary school, middle school, or the two high schools i attended. i learned my state capitals, but no presidents.
i didn’t know who lady gaga was until a couple months ago (hey, turns out she’s been around for awhile and i’m just outdated), but i now have both her CDs. she always seemed kind of unsanitary to me, but perhaps i’m an old lady. she IS a good pop star.
MY FRIEND, TAYLOR, OWNS A POSTER OF THAT MOBY DICK PENGUIN CLASSICS BOOK COVER. the end.
i have been tossing around the idea of watching big love for a couple of years…maybe i will make that happen one day.
also that little girl you drew to replace the “t” in true blood – mad cute.
I learned all of the presidents by memorizing the Animaniacs song in like… 8th grade. I still sing it from time to time, because it is set to the 1812 Overture!
(William Harrison, how’d you phrase, that guy was dead in 30 days!)
I too have just started to like Lady Gaga beyond “Just Dance.” She seems delightfully nutso.
(1) I LOVE BOOK POSTERS. I don’t understand why Barnes & Noble doesn’t sell the ones they put on their walls.
(2) I’d like to take credit for the little girl doodle, but it’s part of the font, which I should’ve linked to! It’s called Kaileen: http://www.dafont.com/kaileen.font and 6 of the capital letters are these little people doodles.
(3) Amber, I sort of wish now that I’d memorized the presidents to a song.
I absolutely love the Penguin Deluxe Classic covers, especially the one for Wuthering Heights. They have these hardcover ones with different patterns and colors, and I want every single one of the books, even though some of them i dont actually like. they’re so awesome.
And I am completely obssessed with True Blood and very much in love with Eric Northman. And I do have to agree that the first season was so much better than the second one. But i love it anyways. Mostly because my love for it first started with the Sookie Stackhouse novels, which are much better and somewhat different, might I add.
But I cannot like Lady Gaga. I just cant. I do think she has a very original sense of style, though.
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