On the north pole, I'll ice you, son.

[wolfpangs]

1. Society and art: "Pansy" is but one letter away from "patsy," and that's the kind of bitch I'm especially not trying to be.: I love Rich at FourFour so much. That link is to his response to getting a writing solicitation from a magazine that was basically like, "Hey, you're a gay!" His recap of the first glorious episode of Rock of Love Season 2 is up, as well.

2. Politics: Via fromaway, "The Baby Primary," in which the author attempts to get his baby photographed with every major Presidential candidate.

3. Music: This new Kid Rock song ("Amen"). It's so...earnest.

One of the things I should have put on my 101 list is my desire to build a large collection of dirty blues music. I am fascinated by it. I have a few albums already but I want them all. A folder full of songs about jelly rolls and baking biscuits!

I was all hyped to start this buying more albums thing, until I looked at the calendar of upcoming releases and had my own release in the form of an extended "Meh." You stay classy, Pitchfork. I'll just be over here buying Ornette Coleman.

...when I'm not indulging my pop sweet tooth. I wanted to know who did the female backing vocal on Britney's "Piece of Me" because it's really doing something for me and after I checked Wiki, I found out it's Robyn! Yes, 1993 "Show Me Love" Robyn. I'd heard that she was pretty big in Sweden and was back in general but I hadn't listened to anything she's done recently. But I heartily approve of "Konichiwa Bitches."

Oh and by the dubs, Brit: That song would work much better as a sassy call out to the media if you hadn't lost your damn mind.

4. Life: I started school this week. I really like my Psych professor. I've had one day of classes so that's about all I have to say.

I keep having these freakouts about omg-what-am-i-doing-with-my-life. Then I step back and relax and try to focus on one thing, since I can't accomplish it all at once and/or right away.

I've been working on my screenplay and broke through the wee writer's block I was having. I go back and forth between "this is stupid--no one will buy this" and "this might actually work." Exactly like my life!

5. Rave/Rant: I love Scar Zone A. It is by far the best skin care product I have ever used. Usually, nothing works on me but this works amazingly.

I do have two quibbles with it, though. First of all, it's a basic drugstore product, meaning that it's not something super fancy and it's pretty economically priced. However, I can't find it anywhere here. Most stores stock regular Scar Zone but no one has SZ A, so I have to buy it on eBay or drugstore.com. So that can be kind of inconvenient, especially like with the last time, when the seller on eBay accidentally mixed up the packages and sent me something another bidder had bought. But that was okay, really, since she ended up sending me two tubes for the inconvenience and because I sent the wrong package to the right bidder. Still, kind of annoying

Oh and also, if they could make it so it doesn't smell like I'm smearing vomit on my face, that would be great.

Comments

[blaireliza.livejournal.com]

I've had a love for all things Robyn since day one. Pretty interesting how her album Be Mine had been an undergrond hit in the indie scene back in '05/'06. Nice to see it looks like she's slowly creeping her way back stateside.

[diannainphilly.livejournal.com]

i am sooo sending the baby primaries to everyone i know. funniest thing ever.