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January 26, 2006
open invitation for friends
i need some. will you be mine?
san francisco indie film festival will be in town starting next week. there's some movies i really want to see. here i will list them for you and you may drool, or spit, or cast doubts upon me. and if you'd like to go with me to a movie, you may say, 'please, michele, can not i be your friend?' only you should try to pronounce 'friend' like frankenstein. because that would be funnier. fwwwwrrrreeeeeiiiieeennnd.
feb 2, 9:15pm, castro
angel getting sexually assaulted by 3 teenage girls!!!!
(so far, kristen, nuala, christine, and i are going to this one)
feb 5, 4:30pm, woman's building
pirate boys on the salt lake!!
this looks funny, has boys pretending to be pirates, and, well, what else do you need? pirates, people. pirates. (kristen and i are going to yell "AR!" at the pirate boys so far)
february 7, 7pm, roxie cinema
intial d!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
holy crap. my delight at this is boundless. you would understand my delight more if you had sat through hours and hours of the HORRIBLE anime show this is based on. it was all just computer generated cars doing skids down the mountain roads. oh man. fucking brilliant. i watched episode after episode. and then i sold it all to robin at the bookstore for like $1 a tape.
feb 11, 11:45pm, roxie
house of fury!
stephen fung. he's a hong kong actor turned director. i haven't seen any of his director efforts but he's none too shabby of an actor. if you like cute asian boys. and i do. i really, really do. plus it's got some other really good hong kong actors in it, so my hopes for this movie are probably not unfounded. also, it's on the saturday i was going to make people go to burma superstar for my birthday dinner. so if you're coming to that, you might as well stick around and go to the movies really late with me. i'll buy you coffee. (a maybe jacob and i are going)
feb 12, 7pm, roxie
the great yokai war.
takashi miike with a horror for children. if you know takashi, then i really don't have to say anything else. but this looks sweet (fucking, not candy) and surreal and all together awesome. (so far going are jacob, christine, and i).
if you look around and there's anything else there you want to see, let me know. i could be your friend too.
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January 24, 2006
do you want the da vinci code to remain an impenetrable mystery? than don't read this.
at richard's the other day we had a keen discussion of the da vinci code. which was interesting since none of has read it. i read it today in the spirit of scientific inquiry as i found a copy moldering in the garage (truly, it is amazing what one can find in there).
number one. it is about important women in the church.
number two. and yet it treats the main female character like a complete lackwit almost the entire time.
number three. my biblical view has been completely skewed by christopher moore's lamb.
number four. around page 200 i became absurdly convinced that she was going to insert the cryptex (key to the location of the holy grail) into her vagina like a dildo to prove the feminine goddess crap they were all spouting and that then mary magdelene's dead corpse and all the secret documents would just spew forth or something. from her womb. heck, it's full of mystery and the divine, apparently. and she is a direct descendent of jesus christ, after all. there's got to be a few miracles up her sleeve. or cervical passage. whatever.
number five. if you'd read the book you'd know that five is a very important number and a lot of other useless trivia that you aren't really sure is true or not. like that mary magdelene was jesus' wife and bore him a daughter. that da vinci painted her in the last supper. that the olympics game symbol of five interlocking rings comes from the pentagram which is also a symbol of the vagina. that the church was built from mary and not peter. A LOT of crap about pagan rituals and constantine. that mary magdelene is the holy grail. though ultimately what i have to say is that this book is quite badly written. but i like the idea of it. and why wouldn't i? i am female. rock on, chalice.
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January 22, 2006
Badminton the First
on saturday in honor of jason being back in the states we played badminton at pleasant hill park. this is saying something about how much we love jason. because it's fucking janauary and that park was cold. i'm still a little iffy about whether one of my toes has frost bite. plus, my house is now filled with the sand from the volleyball court. thanks, jason. thanks so much. (i love you. come back soon.)
i took some pictures and put them on eloise.
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January 15, 2006
color on request
my mom and i spent today cleaning out adam's bedroom and painting it. the painting was sort of spur of the moment as we looked at the many, many nails in the wall and accumulated grime after we got everything off the floor. 'what this needs,' i said, 'is some clean paint.' 'with almond extract,' added my mom, 'for the smell.' thus, i pawed thru the copius canisters of color in the garage determining which were solid matter, which were full of rusty bits, and which were still usable. we came up with white. lots of white. also yellow, purple, and some stinky varnish. the room is now a lovely shade of white. mostly. it was really bad paint. now all it needs is a bed and it will be ready for jason to sleep in on the off chance that he comes to stay this week. i almost want to institutionalize 'painting for guests'. we should paint the room everytime someone might come to visit. my blisters are a sign of my love.
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January 13, 2006
my one and only
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January 12, 2006
fate: unpromising
i am so excited to go home today. after three days of work i am ready to throw in the towel. pathetic though it may be that i can't even get thru a week of working, i find it difficult to rail against my own apathy. this is probably because i'm too apathetic. it's obvious that i have to marry wealth. if only i wasn't also too apathetic to attempt dating.
2 unpleasant conversations which highlight my last point:
december:
doctor: when was the last time you had sex?
me: uh, before the turn of the century?
yesterday:
bookstore manager: how's your hotel?
me: it's nice. really big. the bed is enormous, i don't know what to do with it.
BM: you're not married! take someone back to the room!
me: eep.
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January 11, 2006
a daydream believer and a homecoming queen
theoretically making $15.60/hour to sit on my ass, read my book*, and play on the internet should make me happy, but really what it makes me is bored.
i took some pictures of the lake this morning for kim who emailed me asking how i would make her jealous. of course, kim also called me (the wrong michele) accidentally at 6:30 this morning and made angry demands about some training program or test or something. so, basically, she is the devil.
*i've moved on to the masque of the balck tulip. nuala, it's by the author of the secret history of the pink carnation! sequel! we read the pink carnation in new zealand, fyi. i thought it would be lame and i would get to leave it behind and have to carry one less book home with me. but no, it turned out to be brill and i had to carry it home and get reprimanded by the check-in lady for having over-the-weight-limit baggage.
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January 10, 2006
who will be king?
i'm in south lake tahoe. it is weird because it's actually winter here. there's snow everywhere and it's supposed to snow another foot tonight up in the mountains. it's possible i'll be trapped here. i can't really say i mind as it's so beautiful and i have a lovely hotel room with a king size bed. which is just insanely too much bed for me.
i spent yesterday sprawled across the king bed chortling with horrified glee as i read eldest by christopher paolini. the only person i know who's read this besides me is nuala. and i'm willing to bet she liked it more than me. this boy started writing book 1 of the series when he graduated homeschooled high school at the age of 15. he's now 21 and just published the second book in 2005. it's modeled (aggresively) after lord of the rings. and in some ways--the horribly drawn-out descriptions of travel/places and the made up, really bad, poetry by elves--are quite similar. though a lot else is just way more juvenile and the plotline is so easily deduced it's laughable. which is not to say that i haven't bought and read both books already in the course of less than a week. it's just that i'm ashamed of it. very, very ashamed.
now i'm back to reading lamb by christopher moore. a book i had to stop reading a couple weeks ago because i'd overdosed on moore reading bloodsucking fiends, fluke, and island of the sequined love nun one after the other. if you haven't read c. moore, i recommend him wholeheartedly.
my current job buying back textbooks at this community college is very slow. so far i've had one customer in an hour who chatted me up about being from san francisco. how did he know where i was from? freaky. the one other boy who was almost a customer abandoned me and turns out to work here. in a tibetan shirt and very silly hat no less. this looks to be a very boring 3 days.
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January 04, 2006
but that won't stop me from sharing it with you
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January 03, 2006
christmas 2005
i put up some pictures from my christmas in oregon. not as many as i put up last year so you can all breathe a sigh of relief.
christmas was good this year. i was allowed to make my sweet potatoes. john and katherine stole my stocking stuffers. (i know you're reading this katherine and you are a thief. ha, why don't you comment now?!) i have a video of myself can-canning in the kitchen while wearing an apron and singing a song with lyrics such as "baby butt lICKer, i've never been sICKer!" which none of you will ever see. emphasis goes up on the 'ick', keep this in mind if you're trying to sing it to yourself. and i won at monopoly. not just won, but won impressively with the other player owing me about $11,000. last, but not least, not only did i try pot cornbread for the first time (i don't recommend it) but we also played a brilliant card game called "weed" that i bought in new zealand wherein you try to grow your own pot garden. though watch out for potzilla ("potZEERA!") who will trample your whole crop (unlike the damn dirty hippies who will just smoke up one plant). seriously, best game ever.
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January 02, 2006
is super dull
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January 01, 2006
my life
today i took gene to the bart station. he "SPENT THE NIGHT!!!"
not like that. don't be crude.
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