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yesterday in class, i’m sitting there in the corner amidst the Korean High School Girls minding my own business and i glance over at gloria-san and she is not wearing a bra! and her shirt is semi-low cut! i felt like a dirty perv!

later on though i bonded with KHSG in our shared hatred of jesse-the-dumbass-san. this boy….he is so incredibly irritating. i can’t even, oh man. he makes me so angry. but in a laughable, you-can’t-really-be-pissed-because-he’s-just-so-dumb way. see, he really likes dragonball z. he is a serious anime otaku (obsessed fan). one of the ones which overboards into trying to be japanese. so…like me. but way more obsessed and irritating. it’s funny how everytime i come in contact with otaku i am reminded that though all my friends think i am obsessed, i will NEVER be a true geek. and that is good. very, very good. i mean, for those of you from UPS, between me and francesco there is really no comparison. and jesse (minus the boom voice) is way more irritating than francesco.

yesterday, for example, we were learning colors and sensei was saying things like, ‘oh marcus-san’s shirt is white. (my added comment here is that he looked damn hot in it too. oh ho.)’ ‘this book is red.’ blah blah whatever. so she got to black. and jesse was wearing a black shirt. he then held up his sunglasses. then his pen. then stood up to show his pants. then his shoes. forcing the teacher to name each item and say his name and black over and over again.

she did this because she is a weak pathetic excuse for a teacher. he did this because he is an otaku extrovert who wants to be teacher’s pet. the KHSG corner + me attempted not to throw our heavy $100 books at his head. thus proving that though some of us might be showing our nipples, and some of us might be looking at said nipples, we are still the bigger people in terms of decorum and behavior.

September 18, 2003 by michele

happy birthday, adam

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lately my brother and i have turned who can sleep in the longest into a game. the game portion comes about because generally there’s some kind of leftover food in the fridge and whoever gets to it first, then doesn’t starve the rest of the day. it’s a funny game since neither of us has the money to go buy food, so really those leftovers are all we’ve got.

on his birthday, i won for the first time since he moved back in. it was quite an exciting morning. i didn’t even feel slightly guilty or bad about ruining his birthday morning like that. that’s what weeks of starvation will do to a person though, i suppose.

i feel a little bad now. but i am totally winning again today because he was carousing until 6 am. apparently it is a love/hate relationship. as all good siblings should have. happy birthday, sucker.

love,

michele

September 12, 2003 by michele

ib will get you, touch your head

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the 111 minna time of fun which none of you came to was pretty fucking sweet. (note: that “you” excludes kristen, jason, and kristina). 111 minna is the new 26 mix. that place is a nice space i have to say. and my brother was good and mike b was good and the people watching was fun. and i wore light up shoes and my new t-shirt (personally modified. watch out when i suddenly grab the scissors and create interesting lace up designs on my stylus wear. although this time my brother said, and i quote, “this one isn’t as bad as the last one.” the last one was a tad risque.)

driving home tonight i was coming up my street when i almost ran over 10 or so high school boys who were playing on skateboards in the middle of the road. it’s like a convention of hot underage-ness 5 houses away from me. i wish i was brave enough to go down there and hit them up. for sex.

September 9, 2003 by michele

the magdalene sisters

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(ahem. hello cody.)

whoa. 1996. fer fuck’s sake.

so. in ireland the catholic church set up all these ‘asylums’ for naughty girls/women called the magdalene convent/order/asylum/correctional facility/whatever. and basically they were places of slave labor where the women were forced to work, generally as laundresses. the last one closed in 1996. this movie is set in the 60’s/70’s. (i think. it starts in the 60’s but then they’re in there for quite some time soooo i’m not positive when it actually ends.)

19 fucking 96. insane.

this movie is pretty intense. first off, it follows these girls–4 in particular–who are trapped in the asylum. one is raped by her cousin and sent off by her father, another is in an orphanage and flirts with some boys on the other side of a fence, and the other 2 have children out of wedlock.

they’re beaten by the nuns, one of them is forced to give the priest blow-jobs before sermons. when bernadette tries to escape they shave her head and in the process cut up her scalp quite a bit so that her face is covered in blood and there’s this shot of her eyeball with sister bridget (sadistic old bitch) framed in her pupil while this gooey, congealing blood is clinging to her eyelashes. it’s fucked up. at the same time, even though things are horrible i kept expecting there to be MORE horrible things. i was expecting some serious beatings and some more kinky sex acts. but other than the humiliating scene where the girls are all naked and two nuns are playing a game to pick out who has the biggest/smallest breasts/ass and hairiest pubic area, there’s not that much mental anguish performed on them. well, other than the whole being held prisoner and forced to wash clothes.

i also kept expecting some lesbian action to pop up, but sadly was not rewarded in this hope.

this movie is based on the true stories of these girls and it was moving and semi-frightening in its portrayal of that truth. at times it was more shocking and better at plunging the depths of human emotion, but even the sort of dry sections were good. the nuns acting jobs were superb. the 4 main girls wavered every so often. the one i liked least was actually the best actress.

even though i want to say that this movie is super 8 great and that everyone should see it as a lesson to be learned and a moral fibre/art house gem, i have to admit that cinematically it’s really not that compelling. it lacks a certain sparking essence which would make it great. it’s a little too….both timid in approach and lackluster in true emotion. basically i think it was not directed as forcefully as it could have been and this let down the end product.

September 9, 2003 by michele

american splendor

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have you seen crumb? i saw crumb. i didn’t like crumb. i should have known better than to go see american splendor. admittedly, it was less disgusting than crumb, but it was still kind of boring.

yes. boring. i was bored by american splendor. there’s nothing really bad about it. nor is it a terrible movie. it’s just very slow. and boring.

there’s a lot of comic strip simulated visuals where the camera pans and there’s cuts and various frames. that’s all cool. there’s been a definite rise in that in films lately what with all the comic-made-movies. but i don’t feel it’s gotten old quite yet.

in particular there was this scene where harvey pekar (the actor one not the real one) is giving this soliloquy about phone books and the other harvey pekars who come and go in it while he questions his own individuality/self which i thought was both well written and visually impressive.

i also like how much of an integral role the real harvey pekar played in this movie. he did some voiceover narrator work but then they also did kind of interview scenes and behind the scenes work. there was this one funny part where real harvey and the real toby (his co-worker/friend) are discussing jelly bellies and toby (who is a little giovanni) eats a chocolate one. and the actors playing harvey and toby in the background sitting in set chairs are kind of giggling. well paul giametti (who plays harvey) is chortling. guy playing toby was busy taking off his sweater vest i think.

i’m curious if people who are really into american splendor the comics enjoyed this movie. since i’ve never read one i have no basis for judgment. i think they would like it, but am not sure and cannot make the broad generalization. ah well, onwards and upwards.

September 9, 2003 by michele

parry the parasite (current baby name)

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today i spent some time at ellie’s place in oakland and was shown pictures of the baby growing inside her belly. there were helpful notes printed on the photos which said things such as ‘nose’, ‘toes’, ‘hands’. you could see it’s spine. ellie said that the doctor person also pointed out the spleen. because apparently you can see the baby’s spleen in an ultrasound. is it just me, or is that gross? i’m ok with the head, hands, etc, but the spleen? the spleen? i mean, who wants to see the inner organs of something that is growing inside of you? that is just whack. i was even a little creeped out by the spine.

the hands though were cute because they were crossed in front of the face as if they were resting on the forehead. tiny little zygote!

September 8, 2003 by michele

111 minna

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dj chuck and dj mike barrett are spinning this thursday (sept 11, i know, i know) at 111 minna (good lord, they have a blog) in san francisco. it will be wicked awesome and you should all come (all of you who live around here). i apologize for those of you who read the webpage all the time since i am also sending out an email notifier. but….i am a supportive little sister and i don’t want anyone to miss out on the dancing and the social interaction. =)