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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | One thing about South Florida. |
| Time: | 12:41 pm. |
| Mood: |  okay. | | Music: | Nothing.. |
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The "official footwear" seems to be flip flops.
I have a couple of cute pair of Havaianas, myself. It's cool. I love them.
But. Flip flops are beach wear. Or poolside wear. Not *shoes*. I can't tell you how many people in a day I see wearing them just out and about, and with any outfit! I just... no. *shakes head* Put on some shoes. Or proper sandals.
Does not equal
I don't get it beyond just their ease. And that it's bloomin' hot down here perpetually. Slip 'em on and gone. But there are proper sandals you can do the same with. And they pull you together a lot more nicely.
And while I'm making a footwear rant, don't get me started on Crocs. *shudders* I see them about equally with flip flops. I get it they're comfortable. But not cute.
And that ends my rant. There. I feel better. LOL! Off to work in just a few minutes. Oh happy, happy, joy, joy.
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | Writer's Block: Live from New York |
| Time: | 1:32 pm. |
| Music: | Nothing.. |
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There have been some awesome talents come out of SNL over the years, I have favorites from lots of casts. But the classic first season "Not Ready For Prime Time Players" lineup is the template.
Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman and Garrett Morris. Add Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin and Bill Murray to the mix, and you could NOT miss.
Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd doing "Point / Counterpoint" on Weekend Update... "Jane, you ignorant slut!" Too great.
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | BPAL Halloweenie squee-age. |
| Time: | 10:41 am. |
| Mood: |  SQUEE!!!. | | Music: | Nothing.. |
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Just placed an order @ BPAL for some of the Halloweenie goodness. Hadn't had a chance (or the money till now) to really look at it and enjoy all the descriptions and make my choices. Plus I haven't ordered anything in awhile so I felt it okay to splurge a bit this time. My haul:
John Barleycorn
Barley, beer, blood, and whiskey.
To Autumn
Mist and mellow fruitfulness: mist-swirled, moss-covered bark and dry red leaves, apple pulp and knotty galangal, with poppy juice and nutmeat.
Pumpkin Plunder
Freakin' had to just get the whole patch, looks yummy as usual! I usually only get imps of everything but this time... bottles baby. BOTTLES.
And the bonus imp of "Needle in a Haystack"
Hay absolute, sun-baked pumpkin rind, twisting vines, and the tiniest sparkle of gleaming metal.
And oh holy crap... SLEEPY HOLLOW SCENTS!!! Guh.
Ichabod Crane
Dusty black wool, tea with cream, black pepper, muguet, and beeswax candle drippings.
The Witching Time of the Night
Moonflower, night-blooming cereus, white hellebore, English ivy, monkshood, angel's trumpet, oleander, and eastern hemlock.
Also ordered the "Gooey Pillowcase" room and linen spray. The foodie in me is rejoicing.
Lumps of pumpkin fudge, marshmallow glop, cookie crumbs, caramel smears, and bits of sticky fuzz.
It was so hard. SO hard not to buy so much more. I love you ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kebechet and I love your Halloweenie scents. Have to pace myself though, for Chrismas / Yuletide scents will be upon us before too long!
How extremely cool is the Dia de los Muertos tee? OMG!!!! Next week I just might have to order one.
Eagerly awaiting to getting my hands on these!! Yay!!
I can't log on to the BPAL forum! I requested from the lost password page, even though I used the one I always did to see if that would work. I keep getting locked out even if I use correct usernames and passwords. ARGH!
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | Halloween Month Movie A Night |
| Time: | 9:51 am. |
| Mood: |  awake. | | Music: | Love Song For A Vampire - Annie Lennox. |
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Oct 6:
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
The wonder that is Gary Oldman. Seriously.
Fantastic cast and awesome to look at!
Oct 7: Work, no movie.
Oct 8: Work, no movie.
Oct 9: Work, no movie
Oct 10: Work, no movie.
Tonight: Work, no movie.
See? Told ya I won't be able to every night. Solid five night stretch of closings. Tomorrow, too. Will resume movie night with a film on Monday night.
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | Guns 'N Roses finally set a release date for "Chinese Democracy" |
| Time: | 11:24 am. |
| Mood: |  good. | | Music: | Nothing.. |
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Wow. Ehm, finally? How come this isn't exciting me any more?
By Sean Michaels - The Guardian UK
Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy, their first studio album since 1991's Use Your Illusion, will be released on November 23.
Hard rock fans across the globe will be shrieking in pleasure, banging their heads and high-fiving their mates - as ecstatic with the news as the porcine transport industry would be if pigs suddenly learned how to fly.
Chinese Democracy has been almost 15 years in the making, and for much of that time it seemed like the album would never be completed. Critics sneered, the label stammered, and the band itself dissolved around Axl Rose's feet. But now – at least for the USA - a date has been set.
Various sources have confirmed the Sunday, November 23 date, which would give the album a full seven days on shelves before entering the charts on December 2. In the US, albums are usually released on Tuesdays.
For Americans, the album will be available exclusively via Best Buy stores.
"To say the making of this album has been an unbearably long and incomprehensible journey would be an understatement," Axl Rose wrote online in 2006. At the time he promised the album would be out before the end of that year. "Overcoming the endless and seemingly insanity of the obstacles faced by all involved, not withstanding the emotional challenges endured by everyone – the fans, the band, our road crew and business team – has, at many times, seemed for all like a bad dream where one wakes up only to find they are still in the nightmare."
Signs that Guns N' Roses' decade-and-a-half of strife was coming to an end appeared earlier this summer. First, the online leak of numerous near-finished songs – resulting in a blogger being arrested. Later, Guns N' Roses announced that they would premiere a song called Shackler's Revenge in the Rock Band 2 video game. More recently, a new song was used over the end credits for the film Body of Lies.
Still, fans had reason to remain sceptical. In 2006, Axl Rose celebrated his 44th birthday by playing 10 Chinese Democracy tracks at a New York nightclub. Two years later, they still hadn't been released.
"The true ongoing behind-the-scenes triumphs and casualties are much more complicated than any negative speculation that media or otherwise has managed to hit upon," Rose promised in 2006. We can only imagine what the last two years were like.
De Sauce!
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | Food, glorious fooooood.... |
| Time: | 1:09 pm. |
| Mood: | full. | | Music: | nothing. |
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Bold the establishments you've been to. Italicize your favorites. Strike through the ones you don't like.
( the hostess will seat you now )
Via joiseyguy
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | Take a chill pill! |
| Time: | 7:58 am. |
| Mood: | awake. | | Music: | Nothing yet.. |
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Tuesday Tunes @ The Music Memoirs
What is the best music to chill out to?
"Chill out" brings ambient and trip-hop, maybe some trance music to mind, which is true "chillout". Massive Attack, some Moby, or Air, maybe some Portishead for me if I go that way. I'm not really familiar with any other artists in those lines since I don't go to many dance clubs or listen to much of the genre.
For me though, to "chill out" I will reach for anything low tempo. I love the Enigma album with "Sadeness" on it, or I'll listen to some sitar courtesy of the couple of Ravi Shankar CDs I have here. I also like chanting, be it Vedic or Gregorian. For some Vedic Chant, I have "Chants of India" by Ravi Shankar, gleaned from iTunes. For Gregorian chant, I have "Chant" by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos. I will break either of those two out when I need a little "unplugged" time, time to meditate and just "be", depending on my mood.
What artist do you think of when you see the word "calm"?
Low-key. Low tempo. See above. Or any artist that is softer and easier, like Jack Johnson.
How does music help you to become calm or more relaxed?
Just sets a mood. If it helps me turn off my brain and decompress, it's working correctly.
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | Books! Yay! |
| Time: | 2:41 pm. |
| Mood: | meh.. | | Music: | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - read by Eric Idle. |
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Eric Idle reading "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is the bestest thing. Evar.
Anyone who knows me knows I adore books. I like having them in my hands, I like the smell of the print on the pages of a new book, and the library-smell of an old, loved volume. However, my books are so loved, that I can't possibly bear to part with them.
So I've decided. Go digital!
Audio is good, for lighter fare. I wouldn't do something like "War and Peace" on audio, but there is something wonderful about a great reading.
I was also looking into Amazon's Kindle. It's a $350 contraption that looks nice and light and thin, on which you can download and read books, blogs, and newspapers. Sounds wonderful! And it keeps me from stockpiling more volumes on my shelves! Has anyone had any experience with the Kindle reader? Do you like it? What are its drawbacks? Are there other methods you recommend to actual printed tomes?
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | Halloween Month Movie A Night |
| Time: | 11:51 am. |
| Mood: | meh.. | | Music: | Nothing right now.. |
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Oct. 5
Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
Classic zombie movie... it established the genre! Heck there are still sequels coming up to this day, forty years later!
My mom related to me the first time she ever saw it. She and my father left me with a sitter (I was three at the time) and went to the drive in. There was a slight foggy sheen to the night, and the atmosphere just lent itself. Mom said that she was so freaked out upon returning home, she made my dad go in and put the lights on and check out the house before she'd get out of the car and come in.
Now the first time I saw it? I was thirteen. It came on TV very late at night and I didn't sleep for a week. I just remembered the creepy vibe, like you were watching home movies and newsreel footage. And this is LONG before The Blair Witch Project would come along and do that home movie thing to good effect. It sat with me, and still does. That rural Pennsylvania town could have just as easily been my own little Indiana abode.
OMG watch it now! This is the entire film. It's in the public domain, by the way.
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | The latest twitters |
| Time: | 12:05 am. |
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Sporadic, short bursts of thought.
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | Halloween Month Movie A Night |
| Time: | 7:40 pm. |
| Mood: | okay. | | Music: | TV. |
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Just finished:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
There have been other versions of this movie made, but this one has become one of my favorites. Stars Fredric March as the good doctor Jekyll / evil Mr. Hyde. Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" which was first published in 1886. I read it in school, and it's always stuck with me. An examination of the duality of man. Check this one out sometime. The makeup effects were creepy and good and March's acting excellent.
IMDb page
I will have a movie tomorrow night, as I'll be able to be home, but I'm closing a bit this week, so we'll see what happens.
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | Halloween Month Movie A Night |
| Time: | 3:56 pm. |
| Mood: |  tired. | | Music: | TV. |
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Oct 2: Nothing, as I had to close, didn't get home till close to 11.
Oct 3: Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)
This one is just one of those classics that you feel like pulling out every once in awhile.
Wikipedia page
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| Time: | 6:13 am. |
| Mood: | tired. | | Music: | Nothing. |
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Top Five on Friday @ The Music Memoirs
Top 5 songs with really long titles
1. "The Sad But True Story of Ray Mingus, the Lumberjack of Bulk Rock City, and His Never Slacking Strive to Exploit the So Far Undiscovered Areas of the Intention to Bodily From the Opposite Species of His Kind, During Intake of All the Mental Conditions that Could be Derived From Fermentation" - Rednex
2. The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage - Panic! At The Disco
And they get props for quoting Palahniuk!
3. Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict - Pink Floyd
4. They Are Night Zombies! They are Neighbors! They Have Come Back From The Dead! Ahhh! - Sufjan Stevens
5. Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods
Sufjan Stevens also wins for this one: "The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are off Our Lands!'"
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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hippie_chick
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| Subject: | Hooray October! |
| Time: | 8:30 am. |
| Mood: | amused. | | Music: | Nothing.. |
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I love October! But EEP! Can it possibly already be upon us? Where did this year go?!
And with the tenth month of the year comes my mom's and my tradition of "Halloween Month Movie A Night". Well not so much every night as I work more closings lately, but we'll do our best. For newcomers to my journal, mom and I screen one horror / suspense movie a night for the entire month of October, culminating in a showing of "Halloween" on Halloween.
Tonight kicks it off:
Oct 1:
An American Werewolf In London
I thought a good old werewolf (werewolf? THERE wolf!) movie would be a good start.
Directed by John Landis. Starring David Naughton and Griffin Dunne. Two college buddies on vacation wander the English moors and come across more than they both bargained for. The stunning makeup effects by Oscar winner Rick Baker make this one even better, and take what at times can be a thin storyline and make it worth your while. Some funny tongue-in-cheek moments too, that amuse.
IMDb page
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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| Subject: | Word associations. |
| Time: | 7:58 am. |
| Mood: | awake. | | Music: | Nothing. |
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Tuesday Tunes @ The Music Memoirs
Space: Space Oddity - David Bowie
Party: Mama Told Me (Not To Come) - The Three Dog Night
This one was written by Randy Newman, originally recorded by Eric Burdon.
This is the craziest party there could ever be!
Don't turn on the lights, 'cause I don't want to see!
Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
That ain't the way to have fun, no...
Darkness: The Sound Of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
Hello, darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again.
Because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping.
And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence.
Reading: The Book I Read - The Talking Heads
I'm writing 'bout the book I read.
I have to sing about the book I read.
I'm embarrassed to admit it hit the soft spot in my heart
When I found out you wrote the book I read...
Touch: Invisible Touch - Genesis
She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
She reaches in, and grabs right hold of your heart.
She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
It takes control and slowly tears you apart.
New: Brand New Key - Melanie
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you've got a brand new key.
I think that we should get together and try them out, you see.
Gone: Gone - Ferlin Husky
An old country ballad from 1957. I think a few have covered it, I know it well
because of a very nice cover Donny and Marie Osmond did of it on one of their albums when I was a kid. Ha!
Since you've gone
The moon, the sun, the stars in the sky
Know the reason why I cry
Love divine once was mine
Now you've gone.
Jazz: Le Jazz Hot (from "Victor Victoria")
Oh, baby, won't you play me
"Le Jazz Hot" maybe?
And don't ever let it end.
Song: Your Song - Elton John
And you can tell everybody this is your song.
It may be quite simple, but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
that I put down in words how wonderful life is
while you're in the world.
Bag: The Ballad of John and Yoko - John Lennon
Made a lightning trip to Vienna
Eating chocolate cake in a bag
The newspapers said
'She's gone to his head,
they look just like two gurus in drag!'
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| Subject: | The latest twitters |
| Time: | 12:04 am. |
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Sporadic, short bursts of thought.
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