The joys of Twitter...

I wanted to tweet about baking chicken without burning the house down or poisoning anyone and I guess it was around 9@ night on Monday? I couldn't even get on, because so many other people got it in their heads to "tweet" at the same time. Is that like the peak time or something? I don't remember that ever happening to me on facebook...Maybe it's because I'm not on it enough...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Even though this was not unexpected...I'm still sorry to hear this. My sister used to work for her. My thoughts and prayers go out to the family.

Danny Trejo in The Machete

I saw something about this at the bottom of the screen when Attack of the Show was on...Wasn't this one of those trailers that was shown during Grindhouse? I think it came on before DeathProof, but I'm not sure...I'd love to see it regardless...I've seen that dude in so many things...From Dusk 'Til Dawn...I like how eclectic the cast to this movie is...yeah, I definitely want to check this out when it's released.

John Hughes is gone...

Just heard this last night...Didn't feel like rushing to the computer, especially when almost everyone is saying the same thing. :(



Another big part of my life in the 80's gone... :( I know death is a part of life, but that doesn't make it easy...



My favorite John Hughes film, I'd have to say, is The Breakfast Club. I knew or knew of people that were like each of the kids in detention...I was probably most like the Ally Sheedy character minus all the lying. Coming in at a close second is Weird Science (who hasn't fantasized about doing what these guys do? I'd like to turn it around of course, but you get the picture. ;) ). I liked Pretty in Pink (Although, I did not like that final look for Annie Potts's character, even when it wasn't seriously dated. There's a way to have a woman dress her age without making her look dull or matronly. I wish more directors/writers/costumers, etc. realized this. I guess the older I get, the more this is going to be a pet peeve of mine.). I also liked Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Had I skipped class before? Hell yes! Our day wasn't nearly as much fun as theirs was though. We hung out at the mall. Ferris cut up at a parade. Absolutely no contest. I think John Hughes also did Some Kind of Wonderful. I never saw Sixteen Candles or Planes, Trains and Automobiles (a co-worker recommended the latter...I think I'll give them both a shot.). I remember paying to see Home Alone...I don't remember why, as it's not my usual type of thing...I'm thinking it was probably one of those rare occasions when we went to the movies as a family.

Msn.com has a really nice tribute to John Hughes up to the tune of the The Who's Baba O' Reily. I don't know who put it together, but I laughed in all the right places. I'm sure if I looked around at YouTube, a lot of other cool tributes would pop up too. That's one of the things I love about the internet. So many cool people from all over sharing their ideas in the blink of an eye...

What's happening to Metro?

Didn't Metro stations used to be air conditioned? I was at McPherson Square Metro station yesterday and it felt like I was inside a sauna, and then to have to deal with a packed train? WTF!

What's the deal with the cats, Mr. Jackson?

I was messing around on Google and eBay trying to track down various Michael Jackson items (some that I'd lost...my copy of Mark Bego's Michael Jackson biography for example) and some completely new to me (The This is It merchandise. There is a T-shirt in particular, that I love, that has the cat/lynx beastie Michael changed into at the beginning of the Thriller video). While I was doing this, I noticed something kind of odd...In the Michael's Pets stuffed toy line...there is no cat, no tiger, no lion, nothing of that type...Why? I think it's because he associated cats with adult themed things...



Think about it, whenever you see anything like a cat or catlike with/about him, it's either associated with sex or violence or both. I think the first time you get an inkling of this is not so much inside the Thriller album foldout, but in the Billie Jean video. In the Thriller video, it's right in your face (I don't know who started calling this thing a werewolf, but it looks kind of like lynx to me, but the eyes are wrong for it to be a werelynx. Whatever it was howled too. I guess cats howl, but I don't think it sounds like a wolf's howl... (Been reading too much Anita Blake I guess.). Since it's coming from someone's (or maybe a lot of brainstorming someones in plural) creative imagination(s))...I can let my nitpicking slide. The changing from a panther and back again at the end of Black or White...The way Michael Jackson is depicted on the cover of the Ghosts programme and DVD. Then, while I was looking around eBay this weekend, I saw a sepia toned picture of Michael Jackson with his hair in a ponytail, and he's looking off to the side at something the viewer can't see, with a slight smile on his face. In the picture, he's wearing a leopard print button-down shirt.


I don't know that he would have given me a straight answer, but this is definitely something that I would've loved to have asked him about, if I'd ever gotten a chance.




Justin Moyer who reviewed J. Randy Taraborrelli's updated book on Michael Jackson complained that the book had tense errors (I think that was either laziness or carelessness, or both on Taraborrelli's part ), didn't tell us anything new about Michael, or offer much insight on him as a person. He also said that the book lacked imagination...If a reliable source, that was close to Michael could shed any light on my abovementioned musings...I'd by that book in a New York second (Yeah, I know what the original saying is, and I still mean second).

A lot going on...

I've let just about a week go by without blogging...sorry about that.
I've finally selected a moving company. I'm going to look at another place hopefully this weekend and then I'll make my decision. The living situation I'm in now, I'm really desperate to get out of and I've got the money, so I figure why not...The only thing I don't want to do at this point (despite how crappily I've been treated) is I don't want to leave my roommates in a bind as far as losing my share of payment on bills...Other than that, all I want is to move forward.

Work has been busy too.


I've also been spending a lot of time on eBay. I may have some stuff that I want to sell soon, but I'm going to need a scanner first...

I also noticed I got my first comment. :) The computer I'm using right now is acting up, so I'll see if I can't respond at home (I already tried refreshing the page, no dice.).

You win some, you lose some.