#55 - All I've Got...

...is a photograph

I just got a couple rolls of film developed, one of which is from Calgary almost a year ago.

#54 - The Clear Sign That YouTube Has Hit The Big Time:

being referenced in a Mariah Carey song, of course.

M.C. appears to be slutting it up even more than usual this time, but it is okay because it is for humour. Obviously it is supposed to be funny, Jack McBrayer is there!

#53 - I Fell In Love With Your Sound

Oh, I love to sing along with you

My friend (and faux-finacée) Amanda just posted a list of the top played songs on her iPod and we have the same number one song! Here are the most played songs on my computers:

Most Played on Lavinia the Macbook

• Dance Music - The Mountain Goats (57 plays)
  
• Tennessee Train Tracks - Rocky Votolato (55)
• Soft Rock Star (Jimmy vs. Joe Mix) - Metric (46)
• West Coast - Coconut Records (43)
• Crystalline Green - Goldfrapp (39)
• Rangers - A Fine Frenzy (36)
• Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod - The Mountain Goats (32)
• Starbeat Academy Graduation March - Carbon Dating Service (30)
• Breathe Me - Sia (30)
• Dead Ends - Chad VanGaalen (27)

Most Played on the Nameless PC (my dad contributes to this also, but not much)

• Good Man - Josh Ritter (106)
• Anna Begins - The Counting Crows (84)
• I Feel It All - Feist (79)
• Hello, I'm In Delaware - City and Colour (74)
• July, July! - The Decemberists (68)
• This Woman's Work - Kate Bush (67)
• Hollywood Ending - Hayden (66)
• It's Not Going To Stop - Aimee Mann(64)
• I Wish That I Could See You Soon - Herman Dune (63)
• Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush (62)

note: Wonderwall by Ryan Adams should be on this, because I have two different files of that song and each one has been played 45 times making a total of 90, so it should be in second place and Wuthering Heights should be bumped to #11.

another note: I listened to This Woman's Work while typing this so now it and July, July! are tied for 5th place.

third and final note: Hollywood Ending and It's Not Going to Stop (not to mention Hello, I'm in Delaware) are both pretty much thanks to my dad. Everyone knows that my most played Hayden song (by a looooong shot) is Home by Saturday.

#52 - Raise Your Hopeful Voice...

...you have a choice

So I finally just watched Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová accept their Academy Award and I was going to come on here and talk about how much I want to be like Markéta Irglová when I grow up when I found out that she is the same freaking age as me!


I hate it when people who are my age become wildly successful.

#51 - She's Not A Tramp...

...Her name is Judy

Confession: I kind of like the song Tattoo by Jordin (that's Jordin with an i) Sparks

Observation: Gummi bears purchased from health food stores always taste way better than regular ones.

#50 - LIST FRIDAY, Apologetic Edition

Sorry I skipped a week. Again. My L.F. related New Year's resolution seems to have fallen by the wayside, along with all the other resolutions. I have been nothing but a failure since January.

Some Things That Are Unfortunate

• The lyrics to pretty much every Nada Surf song ever (except when they do covers*)
• The possible cancellation of Friday Night Lights
• The fact that I am completely unprepared for the Women's Studies midterm I have on Monday
• The fact that is is still winter
• Having $35 in library fines
• The fact that I didn't buy any jeans or a new schoolbag this weekend
  

Some Things I Have Enjoyed This Week

• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
  
• the fact that bear beat ape in the Zoo Animal Showdown
  
• Scattered Pearls by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Going outside in a t-shirt and not freezing my ass off
• Watching Jacob deflect imaginary bullets with his bare hands
• Getting leather high top Chuck Taylors on sale for $15
  

Some Things That I Am Looking Forward To

• Going to the Warhol exhibit tomorrow
• Breakfast on Sunday
• Having a clean bedroom
• Getting caught up on all my school stuff
  
• Getting Midterms over with
• Josh Ritter next weekend!
• Springtime! (and summertime! after that)

*see "If You Leave" from the episode of the O.C. where Anna leaves. Oh my gosh, I love it so much. Maybe you should watch it.



If you are not a little choked up right now you have no soul. Just so you know.

List Friday is Postponed...

... so I can pack for my trip to Calgary tomorrow and recuperate from yesterday's trip to essay writing hell.

When a young man dies in war,
lying there murdered by sharp bronze, that's all right.
Though dead, he shows us his nobility.
But when the dogs disfigure shamefully
an old man, chewing his gray head, his beard,
his sexual organs, that's the saddest thing
we wretched mortals see.

-Homer's Iliad, XXII.90-96


Thank God that's over.

La La La La La

The writer's strike is o-ver.

#49, LIST FRIDAY, SUPER (and only slightly late!) EDITION

You know it really is gonna be super because I put it in all caps.

I feel bad for skipping out on L.F.* last week, I was house-sitting and had no wireless. Apparently I am now such a spoiled brat that I cannot be bothered to sit in an actual chair in front of a desk and write something. Also, I am reasonably sure that I went out last Friday night, but I cannot for the life of me remember where. Wait! I remember. I went to see Polymaths and Rah Rah at the Exchange. Haha! See? I didn't do a list because I was having an actual life! Kind of. I suppose one could say that technically I went to that show with my dad, but whatever.

ANYWAY, I feel bad, so I am going to do EXTRA lists this week.

The Places I Have Lived

• The Lemberg House (April, 1988-August, 2001). My favorite house that I have lived in. Most of the time I lived there my bedroom did not have a door (in fact, it only had three walls), there was a unicorn sticker on the window, there was writing on the walls in the backroom.
• The Athol St. house (August 2001-January 2002). My least favorite house that I have lived in. There was an unblanaced roommate, a dog named Kokanee and a claw-foot tub. It was only a block away from my school.
  
• The Garnet St. house (January 2002-December 2004). Very cute children everywhere, lots of babysitting to be done in houses that had satellite TV when I had nothing. The first house in Regina that I really unpacked in (in fact, I distinctly remember unpacking while listening to the No Doubt album Rock Steady). My best friend in the city lived across the alley. Also, this house was in walking distance of a movie theatre with the best Coke ever, which is now closed. I saw Blue Crush, X2 and at least one of the Lord of the Rings movies there.
• The Montague St. house (December 2004-November 2006). Across the street from my aunt and uncle (very sitcom-ish). Sometimes we put a futon on the stairs and used them as a slide. I had a lot of stuff on my bedroom walls.
• The Princess St. house (November 2006-January 2007). I was only here briefly the first time around. There was Winnie the Pooh wallpaper in my bedroom.
  
• Kate's house in Calgary (January 2007-April 2007). Very cute nephews. I read a lot. I had very excellent naps living here, my mattress was wonderful. The only avenue I have ever lived on.
• The Princess St. house again (April 2007-present). Winnie the Pooh is gone now, my walls are green. My room is very tiny and always a disaster. A very conveniently located house a far as libraries, bus stops and cabbage rolls are concerned.

My Favorite Things of the Past Two Weeks

• Favorite book: The Sweet Far Thing (which made me cry a lot.)
  
• Favorite headline: Super Tuesday? Super Stalemate.
  
• Favorite food: Chicken fingers.
  
• Favorite beverage: Orange juice and soda water... with a little bit of pineapple juice. Oh my gosh it is so delicious.
  
• Favorite TV show: Tie! The Wire and Robin Hood (the BBC version)**
  
• Favorite website: Goodreads

Word I Have Heard Strange Pronunciations of Recently

• Wizened (said like "wise" instead of like "wiz", which is ridiculous because everyone knows that this word is meant to describe one who has become like a wizard)
• Clandestine (said as if it were the name of a country in the Middle East, like "Bush wants to invade Clandestine.")
• Penchant (said with the French pronunciation, in my English class, by the prof)
  

In conclusion: Here is a picture of me last week when I didn't have a headband to hold my hair back while I washed my face, so I had to use dental floss which was both very effective and pleasantly curly.






*Abbreviations are fun!

**They are not entirely dissimilar actually. McNulty (that's McNulty, Kenzie, not McNutly) and Robin are both sort of roguish, charming, rule-breakers-for-the-greater-good-types.

Oh My Gosh...

...do you think it will happen?