Your Dominant Intelligence is Spatial Intelligence

You’ve got a good sense of space and how the world around you looks. You can close your eyes and “see” images. You have innate artistic talent. An eye for color and shapes, you’re also a natural designer. Since you think in pictures, visual aids and demonstartions demonstrations (couldn’t help it) help you learn best. You would make a good navigator, sculptor, visual artist, inventor, architect, interior designer, or engineer.

Not much of a surprise since my degree is in sculpture.

snagged this from funkalicious

11.
(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? R
(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? R
(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? F
Relationship failed.

10. Now that Half Life 2 is out, I need to refocus my priorities.

9. You have been unsubscribed from my dating list. Please click this link to confirm.

8. I need a lover who understands that 20 hours a day on the Internet is normal.

7. I don’t think we should date any more, but we can still be on each other’s buddy lists.

6. I’d like a true beauty so I don’t have to spend so much time photoshopping your ugly face out of our photos.

5. It’s like in X-Men number 135, where Cyclops and Jean Grey (as The Phoenix)…

4. Let’s face it. You love Intel, and I’m an AMD man. It’s not going to work out.

3. What do you mean your EULA says that once I’ve removed the shrink wrap I can’t return it?

2. After you e-mailed me your full-body shot, I realized I was looking for someone more feminine

1. So long and thanks for all the fish.

I snagged this from Daisy who found it at BBSpot.

Cody sent me this. Think he’s trying to tell me something?

Cleaned up a lot of the previous photos from xmas as well as some sent from my sister. Also edited the post times so they’re in reverse chronological order so it’s best to start here and hit next to see them in order.

I played around with some filters and the dooce effect a bit with these tree photos. Mouse-over to see the originals.

Dan Says is selling a calendar with twelve months of photos featuring the second cutest dog I’ve ever seen. They’re twenty-four dollars - ten of those will be matched with another ten dollar match from Dan to go towards the Red Cross International Disaster Relief Fund. For the math is hard barbies out there that means that for every cute dog calendar you buy twenty dollars will be sent to help Tsunami victims. Nice eh? (snagged from Daisy)

Oh and the other good thing is..well, my amusing nyquil dreams. Sometime this morning I dreamt I was in a really seedy bar in Houston helping Edward Norton shop for black leather pants. This was after being a contestant in some horrible ‘put people who will undoubtedly hate each other in a confined situation and make them do stupid things while taping it for our entertainment’ reality tv competition show which I had escaped (I do NOT share my bathroom with strangers even in my dreams dammit I don’t care how cool that bathtub is) and was wandering aimlessly around Houston (where I’ve never been aside from brief airport layovers) on foot eventually wandering into said seedy leather bar but before imagining an intersection in my hometown as having been a high-traffic market area in the early 1900s (which I assure you it wasn’t) and somehow my parents’ old yard man, Mr McNeil, was there pulling a cart of trinkets around.

That Edward Norton trying on black leather pants and me getting to assure him that it’s much better to buy them a little tight because they’re a natural fabric and will stretch eventually part was mighty fun though.

MovieMadness - The Essential 100

Seems like the usual suspects to me with a slight lean towards more international and older fare.

I’ve Seen it
I Own it

The A List 100 Essential Films by The National Society of Film Critics (alphabetical)

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2. 42nd Street (1933)
3. The 400 Blows (1959)
4. All About Eve (1950)
5. Annie Hall (1977)
6. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
7. L’Atalante (1934)
8. The Bank Dick (1940)
9. The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
10. The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
11. Blow-Up (1966)
12. Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
13. Breathless (1960)
14. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
15. Casablanca (1942)
16. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
17. Children of Paradise (1945)
18. Chinatown (1974)
19. Citizen Kane (1941)
20. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
21. Closely Watched Trains (1967)
22. Close-up (1990)
23. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
24. The Decalogue (1988)
25. Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
26. Diner (1982)
27. Do the Right Thing (1989)
28. La Dolce Vita (1959)
29. Double Indemnity (1944)
30. Duck Soup (1933)
31. Easy Rider (1969)
32. Enter the Dragon (1973)
33. The Entertainer (1960)
34. The Exorcist (1973)
35. Faces (1968)
36. Fargo (1996)
37. Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
38. The General (1927)
39. The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974)
40. Gone With The Wind (1939)
41. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
42. The Graduate (1967)
43. Greed (1924)
44. Happy Together (1997)
45. High Noon (1952)
46. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
47. Jailhouse Rock (1957)
48. Ju Dou (1990), Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Red Sorghum (1987)
49. Killer of Sheep (1977)
50. L.A. Confidential (1997)
51. Landscape in the Mist (1988)
52. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
53. M (1931)
54. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
55. The Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
56. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
57. Metropolis (1927)
58. Modern Times (1936)
59. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
60. Nashville (1975)
61. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
62. The Night of the Living Dead (1968)
63. Nosferatu (1922)
64. Los Olvidados (1950)
65. On The Waterfront (1954)
66. Open City (1945)
67. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
68. Pandora’s Box (1928)
69. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
70. Pather Panchali (1956), Aparajito (1958), The World of Apu (1960)
71. The Piano (1993)
72. Psycho (1960)
73. The Public Enemy (1931)
74. Pulp Fiction (1994)
75. Raging Bull (1980)
76. Rashomon (1950)
77. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
78. The Rules of the Game (1939)
79. Schindler’s List (1993)
80. The Searchers (1956)
81. The Seven Samurai (1954)
82. The Seventh Seal (1957)
83. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
84. Star Wars (1977)
85. La Strada (1955) and Nights of Cabiria (1957)
86. Sunrise (1927)
87. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
88. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
89. Tokyo Story (1953)
90. Top Hat (1935)
91. Touch Of Evil (1958)
92. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
93. Ugetsu Monogatori (1953)
94. Unforgiven (1992)
95. Les Vampires (1915)
96. Vertigo (1958)
97. The Wild Bunch (1969)
98. Winchester ‘73 (1953)
99. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
100. Written on the Wind (1956)

So hooray for TCM, IFC, and Sundance Channels!

Ok here’s the thing. I was not born in New Mexico. I moved here almost twelve years ago by choice as an adult. (If a twenty-one year old art student can be considered an adult these days) I loved the open spaces and completely new landscape colors, the different attitudes and behaviors of the people, the fact that old buildings were frequently still being fixed up and used, and that a good number of the women here were short and wide just like me.

I love this place. I married someone who was born here. His family doesn’t go back several generations but his parents were born and raised here. In the seven and a half years I’ve been with Cody I’ve learned a lot about the attitudes of New Mexicans towards outsiders, particularly people who move here from New York, California, and especially Texas. The fact that I come from a state that’s equally if not more misunderstood seems to assuage any ookiness he’d have about actually being married to an outsider. But whenever I bring this up he points out one very important thing: that I moved here and appreciate New Mexico for it’s New Mexico-ness (although he’d never use the term New Mexico-ness unless under threat of severe pain to him, me, or the dog). Basically I don’t try to change it into the place I left.

Far be it for me to move to a new place then start telling people who have lived here their whole lives what to do. I would be entirely too afraid to be scolded for the sheer arrogance and effrontery of that kind of behavior. And believe me, there are times when I have no shame for potentially arrogant or effrontive behavior but even I know how tacky it would be to come to someone’s house for a party then proceed to tell the host and hostess how they could’ve done things better. Even if it were a pot-luck or byob.

Lemme tell you, there’s no friggin way I’d want New Mexico to become Alabama. I moved away from Alabama because I didn’t like it there; I moved to New Mexico because I did like it here. And although there’s been some discussion lately about our moving to Alabama I assure you we won’t be attempting to turn Birmingham into Albuquerque. Because we recognize and appreciate the fact that these are two completely different places. That what works in one culture and region probably wouldn’t work in a completely different one. And frankly it’s insulting to both places to try.

As time has gone on I’ve noticed the marked decrease in my ability to tolerate people moving here then attempting to dictate local change that would make things here almost just like the place they just fucking left. If where you were was so great why did you come here? Where are you going to go when you’ve made this place into what you abandoned last time? What was it about New Mexico that made you want to come here in the first place? Do you think that whatever those things were that you found attractive spawned in a vaccuum? That changing one part of the place wouldn’t affect those elements as well?

And the greatest irony of them all: the people who move here from other places then complain about urban sprawl, increases in taxes and traffic, and the lack of jobs. So you’re allowed to move here but no one else can?

Or, and I swear this is true, complaining about all the Hispanics and Native Americans. What kind of ignorant asshole moves to a state called New Mexico and makes racial slurs?

While I’m all for voicing opinions, getting involved in local projects, and contributing to your adopted home ya might want to consider your suggestions for a while lest you come off as an elitist asshole with an agenda of turning New Mexico into the same hypocritical gluttonous oxygen bar hell you moved to escape. Show some dignity and at least put up the pretense of respecting the culture you’re attempting to dilute.

If you think this is about you it probably isn’t I’m just cranky about people moving here then trying to turn it into New Texyorkifornia. Things are far from perfect here and I complain about stuff too sometimes (like the completely id-driven insane drivers in Albuquerque). But for the most part I try to keep in mind that I moved here voluntarily and am quite happy to be here warts and all. (I just refuse to drive)

Since Showtime isn’t going to sign up for any more episodes of Dead Like Me its production company, MGM, has been peddling the show to other networks.

Apparently SciFi Channel is considering picking it up - and there’s a poll up on their news site this week asking if you’d be willing to watch it on their channel.

There’s also a website that’s got letter-writing campaigns going on.

It’s funny. I was not sad to hear about the next season of Six Feet Under being its last. But ya know? There isn’t one character on that show I’d be willing to hang out with. They’re all crazy selfish whiny assholes. Trust me, I’ve watched every. single. episode.

And there isn’t one character on Dead Like Me who I wouldn’t want to hang with. Even Ellen Muth who sometimes just comes off as a pouty-faced bobblehead doll to me. But hey at least she’s cranky in a funny way.

This isn’t always my criteria for liking a movie or show but watching the people in Six Feet Under constantly make the wrong decision when faced with a choice in their lives then whine when shit gets on them for the last four years is really starting to get on my nerves.

Thanks to more nyquil and being easily amused that guinea pig song is now on permanent repeat in my brain. So I guess that’s the annoying cutesy song of 2005.

Only in Kenya was 2004’s. And did you catch the lapland holiday version? Before that there was Peanut Butter Jelly Time, the viking kittens singing led zeppelin at rather good (not exactly a cutesy song but I think it qualifies), the south park underpants gnomes jingle, and, of course, hamster dance.

Oh and the bright and shiny song from Bubble Boy.

What really annoying song is stuck in your head today?

Skittles? lucia indefatigable eternity? Freaks.