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[20 Jul 2008|07:23pm]

ladyoracle
Yesterday Jack and I went to this other mall that is further away, so we used the subway, which was cool except after our first transfer they were really, really crowded which made me think of what they say about how people in Asian countries pack into subways, and apparently it's true. It was like a mosh pit stampede.

Anyway, then that mall was way more crowded because I guess it's generally the cheaper one, and there were even less westerners than the more posh mall closer to the condo. It was cool though and I had some food at the VEGETARIAN stand at the food court, and we oohed and ah'ed the animals in the pet store. Then I had to pee. I went itno the bathroom and saw a line of about 12 women, and then I noticed that they were actually standing in about 6 single lines for each toilet. So, I stood behind someone and waited, waited, waited. When it was my turn I walked into the stall and saw before me a "squatter." Yes, folks, there was no porcelain throne. There was urine all over the floor and no toilet paper dispenser. I literally had the piss scared out of me, so I kicked the lever to flush and walked out, washed my hands, and insisted to Jack that we leave the mall at once. To be fair though, there was TP by the hand blowers so you're supposed to tear it off before you go into the stall, although I can see all kinds of problems with that like what if you have the runs or are on your period, etc. I am really not sure exactly how you are supposed to use those, but I do not want to know because I do not ever intend to use one. As a kid I detested to pop a squat when we were out in nature, and I could never do it without getting pee all over me somehow. Anyway, so then we saw a bathroom in the subway station, and I had to pay 20 cents to go in, but they had two stalls. One had the same squat thing, and the other one had this huge, toilet-like metal brace about a foot or more above the regular toilet making it impossible to go in the normal fashion. So, I said fuck'em and climbed onto this metal thing and peed, essentially while standing on top of the toilet seat, which is surely not what you're supposed to do. There were instructions, but not in English. Anyway, there was also a little sprayer in there so I sprayed where I needed to if you get my drift. My bottom line is that I am an American girl with American standards for my bathroom. At least all of these bathrooms had soap to wash your hands, but I came home and washed my feet, too, and I am going to try to avoid bathrooms like that at all cost in the future. I don't get it.
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[20 Jul 2008|08:27pm]

nyctanessa
There was a cloud shaped like a cantering horse with no legs, with its tail up like an Arabian. It started dissipating. Its back broke, and the rest of it turned into a pinto. Then it turned into a little girl sitting down in a dress, and another person, looked like a wild forest pixie, asking her to get up and dance.

Rose next door is having a triple bypass tomorrow morning. Her and Andy are incredibly devoted to each other. And for nearing 80 years old, they look to be in remarkable health. Except for the bypass part.
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Bjork 2fer Musing [20 Jul 2008|03:38pm]

myribsbroke
There is always going to be someone sleeker, skinnier, lankier, prettier, et al. We should just deal with it. We should just deal with the fact that there will be a MODEL of perfection. We could destroy the opposition but where would that get us? Nowhere, everywhere? "Amsterdam, Disneyland, Tel Aviv..."



Who is it and where is the Line? )
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dance free [20 Jul 2008|04:58pm]

duckygirl
[ mood | happy ]
[ music | "In This Club"- Usher ]

It's all so beautiful. 

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meet michelle. [20 Jul 2008|06:02pm]

meganj28
i love this bitch. definitely one of my fave queen bees. check her out.

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make it a secret, shown to your closest friends. [20 Jul 2008|05:16pm]

meganj28
[ mood | hungry ]
[ music | "carry this picture" dashboard confessional. ]

so i haven't posted an entry about my own life for quite some time now...so let's see.....

i haven't really been up too much...working out a lot (but i'm still fat), but mostly in the mroning because it's so damn hot outside!!!! i've also been hanging out with my family and victoria a lot...i saw kevin briefly but i really haven't had much time to do anything. i've been cleaning a lot, we had company over last night. our cleaning ladies haven't been here. not that i'm complaining. i'm REALLY not. here's what's going on: i've known daphne and terry since i was born. they worked for my dad before my parents were even married. anyway, while i was in vermont, daphne got really sick. of course, i didn't even know she was sick because that's not the kind of thing my family would tell me. i honestly don't know all of the details. i think she had a heart attack and then a stroke. i don't really know. my family doesn't really talk about these things. all i know is that by the time i got back, it was pretty clear daphne would never be okay again. within a few days i found out that she was paralyzed and they weren't quite sure if she was brain dead. well, this whole week i've known that she's brain dead and they've basically been deciding whether or not to take her off of life support, and yesterday, terry, who's her best friend, practically her sister, called to tell us that they'd decided to remove the feeding tube. i know this all sounds terrible and you're probably thinking oh that's so sad, but whatever, but for me, it's really hard and has been all week because i've known daphne my entire life and she's one of the sweetest people in the world, and i've also known terry and i know how hard this will be for her, so it's just been tough. anyway. i'm trying not to think about it.....

i've been seeign lots of movies of course. i saw kit kittredge again today with my dad and my grandmother (his mom). and that was fine. as i talked about before, i saw mamma mia with my grandma (my mom's mom) on friday...she's still not feeling well, and of course that really worries me too because she's been ill for over two months now and she's probably the person closest to me in the entire world. and i also saw the dark knight with victoria on friday, which i intend to see again, it was soooooo amazing!!!!!! there was a crazzzzzy long line at the movie theater today and basically everybody was going to see that.

i'm also reading a great book. it's called the wednesday sisters, by meg waite clayton, a friend of my dad's who stayed at our house last night since she's on her book tour. it's really interesting, it's about housewives in the late 1960s that form a book club that turns into a writing club...it's really cute. but it also has a very feminist touch to it and takes a lot about the social issues of the era. really good, i'm enjoying it, you should definitely check it out!!!! and, you know i love a good website, and meg's is really good, so check that out also, www.megwaiteclayton.com. very cool.

other than that i haven't really been doing anything.

omg, a preview for the dark knight just came on and i really want to go see it!!!!!!! even though i already saw a movie today, i'm like seriously about to go out and see another one just because i want to see that one again...not that it would be really unusual for me to see two movies in one day or anything...i do that ALL THE TIME. i'm kind of weird like that.

anyway.

i'm actually super hungry...i wonder what's for dinner??? better go find out!!! talk to ya laterrrr!

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something i can't teach you [21 Jul 2008|05:11am]

funkozmatic
[ music | King Khan & The Shrines ]

one line from Welfare Bread which struck a chord: in lonesome despair. i just don't know what's going to happen. suddenly i have reservations -i never had any vested interest in tokyo, man. just today, i told a friend that it wasn't my idea to begin with. i'm just along for the ride. oh but i'm sure it's gonna get too close for comfort. for sure. well, it's a good thing they've got parks i can disappear into for time-outs. it's gonna get sticky with too much testosterone, dudes.

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[20 Jul 2008|05:04pm]

divinelybereft
Pictures from our camping trip... )
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Кишки и всё остальное [20 Jul 2008|08:41pm]

zik_84
[ music | Rammstein - Keine Lust ]

[info]manoul придумал интересный конкурс (он здесь) "Кишки наружу". В нём слились такие модные фичи как рецензии на блоги и соревнование за платные аккаунты. Што ж, ещё одна свежая струя! Ура товарищу [info]manoul !

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[20 Jul 2008|03:26pm]

pints
GOT CALOGERO'S LIVE CD IN THE MAIL YESTERDAY AND MOTHER DIDN'T TELL ME! I have been dancing around singing with him all morning. Guh. I love.

Work tonight. The schedule said, rather cryptically, "Megan -- Sunday -- 4 to 11. Project." -_- I am worried as to what EXACTLY the project it. If it is cleaning toilets again, I will be displeased.
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[20 Jul 2008|11:12pm]

lers_13
[ music | Billy Corgan - Pretty, Pretty Star ]

Muse - Cave US Promo EP (PRO-CD-100019)


Одна из американских версий сингла. Cave стала первой песней выпущенной в штатах (хотя и не первой в радиоротации), всего было выпущенно 3 версии сингла: CD-R, диск в радиоверсией и эта EP с эксклюзивными аккустическими треками.

Photobucket

1 - Cave (Radio Edit)
2 - Muscle Museum (Live Acoustic)
3 - Unintended (Live Acoustic)
4 - Coma
5 - Cave Remix

http://www.lers.ifolder.ru/7391572 (р1)
http://www.lers.ifolder.ru/7391795 (р2)
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[20 Jul 2008|02:18pm]

the_violet_h0ur
[ music | Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine ]

ok, here it goes...
i'm really pretty tired of hearing other chicks complain about the irritation of shaving their girly-parts.
so i'm gonna tell you how to do it RIGHT.

ahem...first off, there's a little thing called '8<'s for those of you that are harboring the Rain Forest and an assortment of endangered species in your panties.

1. soak in a hot bath [actually bathe before doing anything else, this gives time for the hot water to open the poors].

2. for the love of god, use a NEW razor.

3. shaving gel/cream does well enough for legs/underarms, but not so great down there. hair-conditioner works much better, i promise you.

4. do your thing [ i swear to everloving god, if you have to ask, you shouldn't be near razors anyway].

5. rinse off. who wants to sit in pubic hair-water?
if you're looking to score with Sasquatch, i'm sorry i offended.

6. ice-cube [i know it sounds pervy, but it closes the poors and helps reduce irritation].

7. apply unscented lotion.
if you want it to burn like motherdouchebags, by all means..grab the scented.

8. breatheable underwear [uh'duh.].

you can look that same shit up on Yahoo.
maybe you can stop telling me about your vaginal problems.
TAKE CARE OF IT, ladies.

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banner by [info]solemnly_icons [20 Jul 2008|02:06pm]

elspeth_town
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We bought our first house! [20 Jul 2008|01:41pm]

captainsavvy
26! Rock on!
Happy birthday to my darling guy!


I hope you have fun today and don't clean anything else! You've done your share probably for the next year. 

We got home from camping yesterday. It was great. it was our first time with our own gear. We love our tent. And Ty is so sweet he said it's our first house. And its true. We've completely paid for it.



omg . I am having The Period from Hell today....I'm in SO much pain. I have my electric heating pad with me at work and i'm just kind of hunched over on it waiting for the hurting to stop...sometimes I think being a girl really sucks.
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Posted using TxtLJ [20 Jul 2008|12:39pm]

ihave_themoon
Test!


***edit*** hey cool that might come in handy ;)
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Почему бы не объединить Калининскую и Филёвскую линии метро? [20 Jul 2008|07:50pm]

beeven
По-моему, это объединение просто само собой напрашивается. Гораздо проще будет делать пересадки с оранжевой и жёлтой на синиюю, красную, серую и голубую ветки, без столпотворений кольцевой. А также две неполноценные короткие ветки станут одной длинной.



Есть ли какие-то объективные причины этого не делать?
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JAPANESEDRINKS [21 Jul 2008|12:26am]

miyabina_hime
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG this stuff is amazing



I personally like purple and green, purple is more sweet and kid friendly, green is a little more vegetably but still really good.

Orange is ok =/

Red has too much red pepper in it :(

and I bought this today

has anyone ever had it? it is bakuga coffee... like buckweat boffee or something? Made with wheat milk instead of soy or cow milk? I think?

Like bakuga milk and bakuga chocolate milk, are REALLY GOODbecause they have this interesting nutty flavor to them, while like soy milk sometimes tastes The Nast-E unless you have a really good maker (like the label of the bakuga coffee picture I just showed you, is also the maker of really delicious soy milk drinks too). Anyway, I thought I'd try it so I bought two little boxes.

I rode my bike to kudanshita and back again, like I was flying on my ママチャリ bike, which is something I haven't done since last fall. It felt sooo fucking good! Listening to L'arc's KISS album the whole way. Then I stopped at 千代田区神保町3丁目の11&13番地 where KURO lives. Yes, Kuro, the cat, my friend. He had been kinda sick every time I'd seen him but it looks like he's getting better. At least his tongue wasn't sticking out and his gut wasn't really sunken in.

Anyway I had a pretty damn good day! I missed Mimu but I was OK today 8D

well, time for bed!
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Best of Me [21 Jul 2008|12:13am]

corgantron
[ mood | Uninspired ]
[ music | Come With Me - Zwan ]

I think I should consider early retirement from the blog-writing business... I've got nothing left to write about. But we've had a lot of good times over the last six-months to a year. Lets reflect on what I've written about.

The first blog I wrote on Myspace was me whining about being sore from wrestling 3 matches in one day. That was a fun day. I walked around town in my crappy home-made wrestling gear while people gawked at me. If memory serves correctly (which it usually doesn't) I won one match and lost two.



After this, I blogged a lot about nothing. Such as me turning 17, posting videos of Family Guy (I don't like that show any more) and posting several blogs about wanting a job. It strikes me that I never really tried to look for a job... Or at least not very hard, I more or less perused the newspaper in the hopes that I'd see an advertisement that said, "Wanted: Inexperienced Teenager to do nothing, $50k a year. Immediate Start." Unfortunately, they all wanted experienced teenagers.

I feel this next blog is my first truely obscure and pointless blog.

Today, this day of chocolate and family gatherings, I wish you all a Happy Easter. But I also warn you, do not forgot about the important things about Easter. 2000 something years ago, a man died to save us scum from our sins so we could be free. This freedom would grant us access into heaven and a free hot plate upon entry. My meaning is, Easter isn't just about chocolate, getting drunk and having a good time. It is about rememberance. This man who died, I'm thinking his name is Jesus or Judas, possibly Jack, it started with a J for sure, he came back to life after being dead. Easter is about black magic and witchcraft, the same kind of witchcraft that brought Jesus back to life. So every Easter we must eat an egg made by Cadbury, or should I say the Devil's Candy, so that witches such as this Jesus character cannot come back and wreak havoc on this sinful world. If we were to all refuse eating chocolate eggs, zombies would surely rise up from the ground with Jesus leading them. But they zombies would crave something more than chocolate, they would eat our souls. To get to our souls they have to eat our brains. Our brains are needed for thinking people!!! Why without brains, Tom would never have conjured up Myspace (Tom you diablogical genius). And without Myspace, where would we be? Why we would probably be out playing some kind of sport, spending more time with friends, family and loved ones or even possibly getting a decent education. But we all know this requires effort, effort which our brains can't afford to waste on ourselves. This is why we need people like Tom, Billy Corgan and Gary Larson to act as the cream in our oreo and keep us together, because if we're just 2-pieces of a biscuit without any cream, we might as well stop eating chocolate now and let Jesus and his army of super zombies devour us all right now. Brains are important, just because Kurt Cobain used his to paint the wall doesn't mean we have to put ours to waste!

Free Tibet!

-Alex

Here is a nice gem from last year when I ripped into Kinder Surprises.

And what's the deal with Kinder Surprises? The last two I got have been shit, it's just been some puzzle about some dogs and the other was of a mole in a beach chair. Who the hell wants to play with a mole in a beach chair? What am I going to do with a mole in a beach chair? Watch him sun bathe? I'd have more fun playing with a brick. And there's no challenge in Kinder Surprises any more. The puzzle was done in like 30-seconds, and the stupid mole was practically in his stupid beach chair as soon as I pulled it out of that egg thing it comes in.

Here are the results of a quiz I took in December of last year and pasted into a blog. They are very uplifting, and I still feel that they probably haven't changed much.

Stability results were moderately low which suggests you are worrying, insecure, emotional, and anxious.

Orderliness results were moderately low which suggests you are, at times, overly flexible, improvised, and fun seeking at the expense of reliability, work ethic, and long term accomplishment.

Extraversion results were low which suggests you are very reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive.

trait snapshot:

messy, depressed, introverted, feels invisible, does not make friends easily, nihilistic, reveals little about self, fragile, dark, bizarre, feels undesirable, dislikes leadership, reclusive, weird, irritable, frequently second guesses self, unassertive, unsympathetic, low self control, observer, worrying, phobic, suspicious, unproductive, avoidant, negative, bad at saving money, emotionally sensitive, does not like to stand out, dislikes large parties, submissive, daydreamer

It's almost as accurate as my horoscopes...

Here is my take on society after driving to town early one Saturday morning when I noticed the streets were filled with drunks all desperate for a ride home. One woman even tried to get in my car and bum a lift off me.

I had two thoughts on how this could be fixed. The Government imposes a law where if you're hit by a car whilst standing on the road, then the driver be forgiven of all wrongs, and even given a complimentary bucket hat. That way, if I wanted to drive through town on a Saturday night I wouldn't have to slow down for "pedestrians."
My second idea is a little more far fetched, I could see some people have trouble with it. We leave a car in the middle of town. And I mean a really good car with all the works. The doors to this car get unlocked at one in the morning and the keys left in the ignition. Anyone who wants to get out of town who are also having trouble finding a taxi, is free to get the car. However, there are hundreds of people in town wanting to get out. I figure that people will kill each other in the process of trying to get to this one car. There's your problem fixed. No more drunks standing in the middle of the road.

Yeah, I amaze even myself with my genius sometimes.

My opinion on why Earth sucks, as written from back in February...

What makes this such a dump planet isn't our failing ozone layer, our constant attempts to destroy the atmosphere with pollution or just our underdeveloped civilisation that's constantly at war with itself. No, our real problem is LACK OF RINGS. If we had rings, we'd be the bees knees. Aliens from as far as Alpha Centauri would be piloting their intergalactic spaceships to Earth to get a piece of the action. And with them they'd bring their super technology, the meaning of life, universal peace and unity as well as a delicious treat called Steakmellows (Steak tasting marshmellows covered with Bosco.)

My finest hour was when I won my first Bloggie, as awarded by Tim.



It is a true honour to be complimented on my writing by Billy Crystal and Charlie Smith. I believe I won these awards for my work uncovering the sasquatch.



Me blogging about my terrible experience as a trolley collector.

On top of working an almost 13-hour day, I am still unaware of how much I make per hour, I have idiots asking me about every detail of the shopping centre as if I was the architect that designed it and I got blisters on my feet. It literally hurts to even stand up. And, such a fitting way to end a horrible night of work, I get pulled over by a cop, who seemed to be a bit of a jerk. He wanted to give me a breathalizer but when he realised I was a P plater that neglected to put his P plates on, he slapped me with a fine, which of course is about the equivalent of all the money I made that particular day. So yesterday was a pointlessly horrible day, also, AAMI stadium is right across the road from the carpark I was working in and Port happened to be playing last night. So I had about 20, 000+ Port fans wandering around being tools.

Here's my two-cents on wrapping paper.

You know what else really grinds my gears? The people who give you a present, then put several layers of wrapping paper over it. You get through one layer then, oh, wait, haha oh more wrapping paper, oh how hilarious, isn't my face red, I have to unwrap some more. Oh what's this? Another layer? Pass the parcel sure is fun with one person. I hate people so freaking much.

Back about three months ago, I had a winning job at IGA. By winning job I mean trapped in a never-ending nightmare. I mentioned it in a blog. :D

Now, I'm working at IGA. So far they've had me work four-days of unpaid training (which is illegal and they can and should be reported), they've got me on a poor wage and poor hours, have yet to pay me, have me doing every little shitty job that they don't want to touch with a ten-foot-pole and they barely speak any English. It's horrible.
They have me working on a chicken roticery. This involves me grabbing cold, dead, skinned chickens and shoving them onto spits. I should go vegan then claim to have moral issues with this so I don't have to do it. I'm sure they'd make me do it anyway. Then I get to clean the chicken cooker thing, it has like 5 litres of chicken fat in it all the time which I have to get rid of.

Here is my comparisons of a good musician and a bad one.

Is alive.                                           Is dead.

Has written nearly                              Was a one-trick pony.
every style of music
imaginable.

Is recognized as being                           Was shithouse
one of the best guitarists                           at guitar.
in rock.

Talented song-writer.                            Mediocre song-writer.

Had sex with Courtney                           Knocked up Courtney
Love first.                                            and shot himself.

Here is probably my one true victory in life. It was really more of a draw actually as it cost a lot of money and I still didn't get my full license back.

So today was the day that I got to finally find out about my license. I walked into that courtroom, reached across the bench and grabbed the magistrate by his big fat head and said, "Listen man! I'm not going to jail for you or anyone!" Then I smacked him upside the head with his gavel and drove home. I crashed into the magistrate's car on the way out of the car park.

I've also made many a hilarious picture as well. By that I mean I've wasted a lot of hours of my life in front of Paint.













This entire blog is a signal that my imagination is officially dead. However, this has not hurt my ego in the slightest. Only someone as self-absorbed as mua would put together a "Best of Alex Taylor" blog.
I've got nothing decent to write about any more... Although I'm sure I'll still probably bitch about things on here. Because that's the kind of guy I am, I don't tackle things head on, I come home and write blogs about them
Next blog I might write about a crazy wedding, or Marge becoming a robot. <<< Simpsons reference lol

/sigh... I'm going to bed. I'll probably end up watching another season of Peep Show first though. That's a great show.

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victoria's favorite thing ever. [20 Jul 2008|09:50am]

meganj28
actually, victoria has a lot of favorite things. but this is one of them. hahahaha, best part of the movie....krum! krum! krum! (there's some funny inside jokes that go with that, but it's still funny)...you can't hear this clip very well though.
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a long night... [20 Jul 2008|08:26am]

thelastbromide
so Chris came in to the video store while I was working last night at 9, broke up with me, and just left. I still had to work for another hour it was the longest hour of my life.I took the subway into manhattan and stayed at St. Mark's Place for a while, something I haven't done in a long time. I don't really like st mark's all that much because of all the poser punk kids who live with their mom in Queens that hang out there, but I felt safe there. It was the only place I knew Chris would NEVER be. He hates St. Mark's Place.

I sat in Yaffa Café for a very very very long time. after about three raspberry cocktails it dawned on me that I was still wearing the ring. or more specifically his ring. not an engagement ring. his grandmother's, actually. (I know, it's so disgustingly fairy tale I could puke). he gave it to me for our one year aniversary of being boyfriend and girlfriend. he said he thought that using an engagement ring that someone else bought to propose to someone is a really cheapskate thing to do, but he wanted me to have it, and that when he was ready to propose, he would go out and buy me a ring of my own. it seemed sweet at the time. But sitting there at yaffa looking at it I just wanted to scream.

I took it off and put it in my purse. I could always mail it to Chris's mom being as I had no intention on contacting Chris at all.

one more cocktail and I was ready to go home. At around 1AM I found myself lying face down on the floor of my living room bawling  and slurring to my roommate about how miserable I am and that I'm too pathetic to ever find love.She of course did the usual "you need to put your faith in God and he'll guide you" crap until I screamed at her and told her to give me something real. she said that I should forget about Chris because he was a loser anyway and that I need to stop acting like a loser or I'll end up with more loser boyfriends. That was a little easier to grasp.

I cried for a good 2 hours. Between the crying and the alcohol I was so dehydrated that I thought I would pass out so I drank some water then went to bed until about 5AM where I woke up crying again. Amanda was asleep so I had nobody at all to talk to. I cried for 20 minues and then went back to sleep. I woke up around 8 and had 3 missed calls and a text message. The calls were from Chris, the text was from Chris.

"Ramona, i miss u. call me"
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