alternative art meme
Loretta Lux
(thank you Miss Erin I just couldn't remember)
from a catalog or something but I liked it.
Ashley tagged me for a meme where I list six things about me that are weird. I can't sleep so let's see if I can come up with a few surprises.
1. Sock monkeys scare me. So do ice cream truck songs. And clowns.
2. There once was a time when I could apply the lyrics to "Moon River" to every song I heard.
3. Sometime in my early twenties I came up with what I like to call the "phlegm" theory of creativity where the urge to create something is almost like a tiny virus inside you that you have to get out before you choke on it. The results aren't always pretty though.
4. I can move my pinkie toes independently of my other toes.
5. The first time I tried to quit smoking I ate so many wint-o-green lifesavers I developed a kind of allergy to them. Now if I try to eat one my tongue will swell up and I'll sound funny when I try to speak.
6. I have a fear of heights but only if I can see under my feet - like on a grate. I didn not know this until I was 19 and was standing on a walkway along the inside of the bottom of the dome at St. Peter's Cathedral. This was very inconvenient.
Yesterday I ordered eight of the eleven gifts I need to have for Xmas. Several of them have already shipped. God I love the internet.
What was that about knitting xmas gifts? I didn't hear you. La la la I don't hear you.
I'm so behind on stuff! I have clothes from iGigi to review, memes to fill out, about ten thousand and one knitting projects, fluffy fiber to spin on my wheel. And my house.. fuggetaboutit, I've lost total control of the house since getting the stomache thing.
But I was tagged for something that's been provoking my thoughts all week so that's magically moved up to the number one spot.
The inimitable Vanessa, aka PluckyPunk, who was tagged by Zuzu at Feministe, tagged me for a seemingly simple meme called Five things feminism has done for me.
Plucky Punk is one of those secret friend crushes for me. You know those blogs you read and feel like that writer would be such a cool friend to have in real life? She's made some big changes this year: quit her evil corporate job, had a baby, went back to school. And she still manages to be active in the online feminist blog world. And she bought my craaaaazy scarf during the Katrina fundraiser last year! And she wears doc martens! So she has great taste in shoes and accessories too!
I was surprised that she tagged me because I've mostly been blogging all about knitting and very little about anything else lately. I used to be quite the politico-blogger, once I was called a pundit, but this became more of a knitblog than much else as the hobby took over my life during the last year and a half. Don't get me wrong, I still rant the political in person! But I made a conscious choice to cut down on the political and really personal posts for my blog a while ago. It keeps the mean commenters away and my mother from worrying that I'm going to get firebombed or something. She reads this ya know. Hi Mom!
This tag has given me something to think about, something interesting to discuss with Cody. I want whatever I write to be well thought-out and not just imitating other's answers! And I want to focus on positive aspects, not complain about things that need to change, just enjoy the good parts for the moment. All this buildup for five things. I guess I should get on with them.
Five things Feminism has done for me
I can choose my family
Obviously I don't mean parents and siblings, although I got lucky there anyway. I mean I can choose who I marry. Or to not marry. Or if I want to just live with someone. I happened to fall in love with someone of the opposite sex and I really wish people who fell in love with someone of the same sex could have as many choices, but I'm trying to focus on the positive here. I can choose to have children, or to not have children, or just have pets and treat them like children. Maybe to have children later on. It's up to me. My father can't sell me to a man for a goat (not that he would, obviously). I won't be forced to marry some creepy old gross man so I can clean his house and birth his little farmhands. My choice. Mine.
I can choose my career
Career is sort of an odd word for me since mine has been sort of not a career, as such. But what I'm doing now is not far off from what I wanted to do when I was young: Stay at home and create art. You know that character Whoopi Goldberg plays in Moonlight and Valentino? Her life (awkward marriage aside) pretty much nailed what I'd always wanted to do. It actually spooked me when I saw it. The art I'm creating is in a different medium than I expected, I thought it would still be pottery. It's a little different because I thought I'd live in a more country setting and have kids. But never say never.
The important part is, I was able to choose my major in college and get a really good education. And if I want to, I can go get a post-graduate degree or go get a "real" job if I want to. Or both. With the full support of my friends, family, and mate.
There are so many smart women in my life that have worked and gotten advanced degrees. Both my and my husband's moms worked. My mother put herself through college working, along with my dad. She has a master's degree in mathematics. She taught and worked and even had her own business for a while. My sister has a master's degree in English and works and travels for work and is always crazy busy. My best friend has a JD from law school and is back in school for her LLM to be a law librarian now while she works in the library for a law firm.
My father-in-law once asked me if I thought that a woman who got a college degree then chose to stay at home with the children was a waste of an education. (he does his best to have what he thinks are progressive conversations with me, so I try to give him the benefit of the doubt with questions like this) Right off the bat I pointed out that the important part was that she had the choice to do so. And that college-educated fathers had the same choice. And studies have shown that educated parents will raise smarter children. I wouldn't say that an education exists simply for career advancement, for most people I've known, it's been for the education itself.
I am not a possession
This was touched on with the first one but it goes deeper than that. When I go to the doctor they won't let Cody go in with me. I actually don't like this as I want him with me because doctors make me nervous and just his presence calms me down. But the reason behind him not being allowed into the exam room is important enough that I don't fight it: they want me to answer the questions, not him. They want to be sure I'm healthy and if I need to say something about issues that I don't want him to hear or to answer any questions about potential abuse, that I can freely without his coersion. Of course, I don't need this, but I want other women to have that so I accept it.
I am secure in the fact that I am an equal in our marriage, that I have the same amount of input in all decisions and will be heard if I have an opinion about any subject. We joke about him being called Cody Pendent and to a certain extent we are codependent. And we like it. We desperately need each other, but equally. I am not just a little living extension of his success as a man, I am his partner. He goes to work to get money so we can live a happy life together. I stay at home so the pets are healthy and the house is mostly intact so when he comes home we can live a happy life together. But the tables have been turned in the past, there was a time when I worked and he stayed at home. We know what it's like to be in the other's spot.
I can choose to look however I like.
Sure there are still people who think that women should act, look, or behave a certain way to be a "proper woman" but in this society in general, I can choose to wear a dress or not without getting stoned by the populace. I don't have to wear a corset, hell I don't have to wear a bra. And the worst punishment for that might be someone takes a picture of my saggy boobs with their camera phone and makes snarky comments on their blog. Big freaking woo.
I can also choose to be the girliest girl that ever lived in girltown. And it's ok because it's my choice. I don't exactly approve of Barbie and her clothes but I defend to death the right for her to wear them. As long as she doesn't give me crap about mine it's ok.
I can have an opinion
I can write this post without worrying that I'll get arrested, threatened, shunned by my friends and family, or tarnish my (already oxidized) reputation forever. I've written on touchy subjects ranging from religion, the president, the war, dumb movies, evil media conglomerates, unbelievably weird sado-masochistic murder mysteries, to the defense of fun fur and freestyle handspun art yarns. I may joke about the threat of getting firebombed for my writing but only in the most minute little corner of my mind does it seem like a reality. I've had some ugly comments on my blog once or twice calling me a dumbass pinko liberal or something but not once did someone threaten to come here and shoot me or my dog. Someone did threaten to shoot out my tires once but she's from Texas so that seemed to be a matter of course.
That's the big one to me. You may not agree with me but I can have this blog. And I can choose who I'm voting for in a month. And on that ballot I'll have to choose between two women for the US House of Representatives for my district: incumbent Heather Wilson or the current state Attorney General, Patricia Madrid. No men in that election. How about that?
So now I'm supposed to tag people. I hate the pressure of tagging people. So don't freak out if you're tagged and you don't feel like it ok? I'm going to choose several smart women whose answers I'm genuinely interested in.
Beverly
Ramona
In fact, everyone in the stitch and bitch group? Consider yourself tagged!
Jocelyn
Susan Colagirl
My sister
Or if I didn't tag you and you want to write about it, please link in the comments I want to know!
I'm not going to do the one word meme that's been going around. Because to be honest I'm afraid of the one word people would use to describe me.
But I found this other meme and it looks fun, if a little similar to one I've done before. But I can't think of anything else to write about today.
Closest Blue Book Meme
1. Grab the nearest book with a blue cover.
2. Open the book to page 86.
3. Find the first full paragraph.
4. Post the text in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find, just the closest blue book.
This book was sitting flat on my desk within about four inches of my right hand so it was easy to find.
"She really knows how to write from instinct & innocence. Few women can do this. Joan Kerouac... a new writer on this old horizon. I see me & her cutting around the world in tweeds, yass...Mierschom {sic} pipes with youknowwhat in them, he he." ---Jack Kerouac
from page 87 (page 86 just has a photo) of Women of the Beat Generation
Also, this is a huge list of book titles mixed with band names.
My favorites:
Charlie Daniels and the Chocolate Factory
Horton Hears a Hoobastank
Of Mice and Men at Work
Bare Naked Lunch Ladies
The Agony and the XTC
The Scarlet Pimpernelly Furtado
Life, The Universe and Everything But the Girl
A Tale of Two Bay City Rollers
Green Day and Ham
One Fish, Two Fish, Hootie and the Blowfish
Tesla of the d'Ubervilles
Motley Crüsoe
Doctor ZhivaGoGo's
A Kraftwerk Orange
Midnight Oil in the Garden of Good and Evil
Oliver Twisted Sister
I ran across this post on this livejournal site. Not really sure where she found it.
So this is almost completely unlike the famous "film buff" quiz proving not your movie coolness but your complete uncoolness for having seen so many movies. An attitude to which I say a hearty and simcere FU. Whatever the hell I feel like doing is cool and if you disagree you can just go suck it. I'm finding this increasing attitude to be a great gift from the gods since I turned 30. It seems to only get better.
Anyway you're supposed to enter a number as you come across each movie you've seen that's listed in some arbitrary order which makes no sense to me. Apparently if you get over the number 70 you have no life. Mmmmkay. It's entirely possible that I *own* more than 70 of these so what does that make me? Oh right. An agoraphobe with no job and a satellite dish with all the movie channels. Asterisks are by the ones we own. If I haven't seen it but we own it that means it belongs to Cody.
Quiz and results in the extended entry...
Section 1:
(1) The Princess Bride*
(2) Young Frankenstien*
(3) AnchorMan: The Legend of Ron Burgandy
(4) Napoleon Dynamite
( ) Saw
( ) White Noise
(5) White Oleander
( ) Anger Management
(6) 50 First Dates
( ) Jason X
Section 2:
(7)Scream
(8) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
(9) Scary Movie*
(10) Scary Movie 2*
(11) Scary Movie 3*
( ) American Pie
( ) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie: Band Camp
(12) Harry Potter*
Section 3:
(13) Harry Potter 2*
(14) Harry Potter 3*
(15) Harry Potter 4*
( ) Resident Evil
( ) Resident Evil 2
(16) The Wedding Singer*
( ) Little Black Book
(18) The Village
( ) Donnie Darko
( ) Lilo & Stitch
Section 4:
(19) Finding Nemo
(20) Finding Neverland
(21) 13 Ghosts* (we own both versions too)
( ) Signs
( ) The Grinch
(22) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (both original, original pt 2* and that godawful remake)
(23) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
(24) Thirteen Going on 30
( ) I, Robot
Section 5:
(25) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
( ) A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(26) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
(27) KingPin
(28) Never Been Kissed
(29) Meet The Parents
(30) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
Section 6:
(31) A Cinderella Story
(32) the Terminal
( ) the Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(33) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumb & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
(34) Halloween*
(35) The Ring
section 7:
( ) The Ring 2
(36) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle*
(37) Practical Magic*
(38) Chicago*
(39) Ghost Ship
(40) From Hell*
(41) Hellboy*
( ) Secret Window
( ) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
Section 8:
(42) The Day After Tomorrow
(43) Child's Play*
(44) Bride of Chucky
(45) Ten Things I Hate About You
(46) Just Married
( ) Gothika
(47) Nightmare on Elm Street
(48) Sixteen Candles
( ) Coach Carter
( ) Bad Boys
Section 9:
( ) Bad Boys 2
(49) Joy Ride
(50) Se7en*
( ) Oceans eleven
( ) Ocean's Twelve
( ) Identity
(51) Lone Star
(52) Bedazzled (both versions tyvm)
( ) Predator I*
( ) Predator II
Section 10:
( ) Independence Day
(53) Cujo
(54) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls (I tried once but it annoyed the hell out of me)
(55) Christine
(56) E.T.
(57) Children of the Corn
( ) My Boss' daughter
( ) Maid in Manhattan
( ) Frailty
Section 11:
( ) Best Bet
(58) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She's All That
(59) Calendar girls
(60) Sideways
(61) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
( ) Ever After
(62) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
Section 12:
(63) X-Men*
(64) Jeepers Creepers (so bad sobad s o b a d)
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(65) Catch Me If You Can
(66) The Others*
(67) Freaky Friday (yep. seen both versions)
( ) Reign of Fire
(68) Cruel Intentions*
(69) The Hot Chick
Section 13:
( ) Swimfan
( ) miracle
( ) Old School
( ) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
( ) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
( ) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
( ) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
( ) Walk to Remember
( ) Boogeyman
Section 14:
( ) Hitch
( ) The Saint
(70) Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace
( ) Star Wars Episode II Attack of The Clones
( ) Star Wars Episode III Revenge of The Sith
(71) Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope*
(72) Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back*
(73) Star Wars Episode VI Return of The Jedi*
(74) Troop Beverly Hills
(75) American History X
Section 15:
( ) Air Force One
(76) For Richer or Poorer
(77) Trainspotting
(78) People Under the Stairs
(79) Blue Velvet
(80) The Sound of Music*
( ) Parent Trap 1 (neither version)
( ) Parent Trap 2
(81) The Burbs
( ) The Terminator 2*
Section 16:
(82) Empire Records
(83) SLC Punk
( ) Meet Joe Black
(84) Nightmare Before Christmas*
(85) The Silence of the Lambs
(86) Sleepy Hollow* (this is one of my "sleeping pill" movies I put it on and it puts me to sleep)
(87) I Heart Huckabees
( ) 24 Hour Party People
( ) Blood In Blood Out
(88) The Virgin Suicides
( ) The Sandlot
section 17:
(89) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(90) Grease
(91) Pirates of the Caribbean*
( ) Boondock Saints
( ) The Mexican
(92) Fight Club
(93) Starsky and Hutch
(94) Neverending Story
(95) Blazing Saddles*
(96) Airplane*
(97) Super Troopers
(98) The Goonies
Ding ding ding!
seen- 98
own- 36
Even though I don't have a yarn buddy, I thought I should answer these since I'm asking everyone else to.
Related to the Swap
Your favorite colors?
midtone blues/greens, autumnal pallettes, rich jewel tones, pinks/yellows/oranges if they're not too bright. I'm not a fan of dayglow colors.
Preferred yarn weight (Fingering, Sport, DK, maybe even Worsted)?
Sport and up. Fingering weight is just too small for my chubby fingers.
Do you prefer solid or multicolored yarn?
Multicolored or multitoned solid colors
If your buddy is able to do so, would you like a variegated, self-striping, or self-patterning yarn?
I like em all.
Would you be interested in a wool blend sock yarn (nylon, tencel, silk, acrylic, alpaca, etc.)?
I'd love a wool/tencel or a wool/silk blend. I've never used a wool/nylon blend so that would be interesting too. I really shouldn't have even listed acrylic no one's going to want that.
Imagine the perfect colorway. What would you name it?
Vincent Van Gogh had a tattoo WHERE?
What was the biggest appeal to you for joining this dye-along?
Spreading the joy of handdyeying yarn, encouraging the creative process and joy in the unexpected while dyeing. Creating new addicts to the craft.
General yarn/fiber questions:
Have you dyed yarn/fiber before?
yep
If so, what’s your favorite dye and method?
I like the random hot pour oven method but I'm going to try the handpainting dishwasher method sometime soon.
Do you spin?
yep
Have you knit socks before?
yes! Yaaay!
Do you use sock yarn for just socks or in other patterns too?
I'm using sock yarn in two non-sock projects atm: some self-patterning fair isle sock yarn for a scarf and some koigu in the shadow shawl
What are some of your favorite yarns?
Noro, Colinette, thick and thin handspun by some amazing handspinners, I'm a recent koigu kult inductee, Mmmanos and Mmmmalabrigo. I love yarn with rich interesting colors and interesting textures.
What yarn do you totally covet?
Colinette Point Five. I know exactly how to spin that kind of thing myself but their colors are just unbelievable. I'd love to get enough of the really nice Rowan cashmerino to be able to make a big sweater for myself
Favorite patterns?
Anything that's simple to do but looks really impressive. Teva Durham's Ballet T, Kate Gilbert's Clapotis, This Shadow Shawl I'm working on.
Any pattern you would love to make if money and time were no object?
I dream of making my own Absolutely Fabulous throw but with all the crazy yarn I have.
Favorite kind of needles (brand, materials, straights or circs, etc)?
I love my denises, I love my needlemaster, I love my smaller addis (I don't like addi turbos bigger than a 6), I have some great crystal palace bamboos. Wood, plastic, metal all have a use to me depending on the project. My absolute favorite to use though is a pair of handmade Ash 16s with the size burned into the ball at the end with a soldering knife that I got for free with some yarn I got on ebay. They feel soo good in my hands..
If you were a specific kind of yarn, which brand and kind of yarn would you be?
I think I'd probably be some crazy handspun by Reenie & Angela, Natasha, or Pluckyfluff - thick and thin with little fancy lacey bits and some glitter sometimes but other times all twisted up tight.
Nothing to do with knitting/yarn/fiber in any way but seemed kinda fun:
Do you have a favorite candy or mail-able snack?
I don't really like sweets much. Unless it's a coffee beverage. I loove salty snacks though.
What’s your favorite animal?
huff huff huff
Do you have pets? What are their species/names/ages?
I have four pets right now.
cat- Kurry / ~18 years old
cat- Phunq / ~14 years old
cat- Melon / ~12 years old
dog- rhodesian ridgeback - Winter / almost 5 years old
If you were a color what color would you be?
a very dark iridescent blue/green with lots of colors and shades deep inside
Describe your favorite shirt (yours or someone else’s)..
Cody and I used to have a shirt that we shared. It was already well-worn when we met and he used to wear it when we talked on the phone a lot. It was a very old Earth Day shirt from his entymology days and had been worn so much that the fibers were really loose and the fabric was really thin but it was perfect to wear, especially when one of us was sick, because it wasn't too hot but we didn't freeze to death in it. We used to call it "THE" shirt, and the act of leaving a freshly washed THE shirt for the other one to wear was one of those small daily acts of love that couples do. It started to tear though and neither of us have worn it in years. It's still in a drawer in the bedroom though. That shirt will not be thrown away.
What is your most inspiring image, flower, or object in nature?
I love the contrast in the colors of New Mexico - reddish earth, scrubby green growth, and bright blue skies. I like unexpected beauty in things that might not look good at first. I love looking into animals' eyes. Chubby young puppy tummies and kittens with their streetcar antennaed tails.
Tell me the best quote you’ve ever heard or read.
My usual answer is "Life is Serious but Art is Fun"
but one of the more recent lines I really enjoyed was this from the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency:
It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.
To me it means that you can keep yourself focused and happy in life by concentrating on the little simple pleasures.
Do you have a wishlist?
amazon
crafty
torrid
Anything else you’d like to share with the group today?
Never buy brown paint. You can always make that yourself by mixing two primary colors together.
Loretta Lux
(thank you Miss Erin I just couldn't remember)
from a catalog or something but I liked it.
Beverly was visiting Chicago last weekend and got to spend some time at the Art Institute Museum (I am SO JEALOUS that's one of my favorite museums in the entire world). She discovered a wonderful lesser-known Van Gogh painting and has created a new really cool meme about our favorite paintings.
This is the bad part about being an art major: I know a lot about art but I don't know what I like. Because, to me, I can't always just view things as "good" or "bad" I have to analyze the shit out of something then end up having ambiguous feelings about it. This seems to be the dilemma for most Democrats these days - complete overanalysis of a situation instead of towing the knee jerk reactionary party line. May the gods help those who think too much it seems.
So to get this narrowed down a bit I decided to limit myself to my favorite black and white line drawings or etchings. And, not-surprisingly considering my whole obsession with women in art, they're primarily line drawings and etchings of the female form. Not exactly idealized forms, but reflections on how women are seen, by the artist, by society, by themselves. Because that's an issue I've been studying for a very long time.
And I'll try not to write a dissertation on the images, just say what I like about them. So here goes.
So those are a few of my favorite images anyway.
I think this is the fourth "four-themed" meme I've done. But it was fun and quick to do. I've seen this one all over the place.
Four jobs I’ve had:
1. Asst Editor, Electronic Media Editor, Woman Santa Fe Magazine
2. Coffee Cart Barrista, Canyon Road, Santa Fe
3. CS for whole, term, variable, and single premium life insurance policies, John Hancock
4. Disc Jockey, On Air Personality, News Asst Producer for 91.1 FM - a jazz station and saturday morning (pre-grunge) alternative programming in Birmingham
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Topsy Turvy
2. Gosford Park
3. Cold Comfort Farm
4. The Philadelphia Story
Four places I’ve lived:
1. Birmingham, Alabama
2. Manly Beach & downtown Sydney, NSW, Australia
3. Yon Sei University International Student Dorms, Seoul, Korea
4. Santa Fe, New Mexico
Four TV shows I love:
1. Monk
2. Huff
3. Will and Grace
4. My Name is Earl (with irony dammit)
Four places I’ve vacationed:
1. Uluru (Ayer's Rock), Northern Territory, Australia
2. Kyong-ju, Korea
3. Kyoto, Japan
4. Florence, Italy
Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Cody's Green Chile Cheeseburger Egg Rolls
2. Fessenjoon - Pomegranate Walnut Chicken Stew
3. Spider Rolls - tempura soft shell crab in a sushi roll
4. Muffaletta sandwiches - various spicy deli meats on slices of Italian bread spread with an olive tapenade. Beautiful.
Four sites I visit daily:
1. Bloglines
2. Flickr
3. Craftster
4. Salon.com
Four places I would rather be right now:
Honestly I can't think of any. I mean, I'd like to visit a quiet beach sometime and stick my feet in the sand. Or visit Italy again. But I'm pretty happy where I am. I would like where I am to be cleaner, more organized, and have a nicer yard but that's a different deal.
Lots of photos. Lots.
First we have my third installment of Yarn Stash Appreciation Sunday. This week? Amazing handspun yarn (usually) bought from the artists themselves.
There are closeup photos in the Flickr Set so I'll just briefly tell you about each yarn. Clockwise starting from the top left: Two hanks Raspberry Tea by Maisy Day from Hello Yarn, Three different yarns (Pink thick and thin, blue thin, Santa Fe Rainbow thick and thin) from Sandstone Ranch.
Bottom Row from the right: Three big skeins of yarn (two green, one pink) from the Jitterbug shawl kit from Hello Yarn, in the bottom left corner are three skeins of lovely wool and silk from Greenwood Fiberworks, and above that is the unbelievable light sensitive yarn from Material Whirled.
Aren't they beautiful? I highly recommend each and every one of those spinners. And yes, there seems to be an awful lot of pink there. This wasn't exactly done on poipose but I certainly don't think it hoits.
Next, I finished the little collar project for Winter. I ended up just sewing the fabric inside and not making it a collar cover - just a collar itself. We never use her collar for the leash anyway, we always use a halter for that.
It's soft and it fits her nicely.
Oh, and here's something else I finished last night..
Yep! Finished my Jaywalkers! I even sewed the ends in. Go me!
Even though I made them a good bit taller than the original pattern, I still only used one skein of that Cherry Tree Hill Birches. Less than a yard to spare but just one skein. Which means I can make another pair of socks in this fun color.
Now, there's this backyard meme going around but to be honest. You really don't want to see my backyard. It used to have trees (that had to be cut down due to a fungus or something), and it had a big yard of grass with built-in sprinklers. But we both believe that having a yard is both a pain in the ass and completely an irresponsible thing to do in the desert so now it's mostly dirt with weeds and a lot of dog poop. So I'm going to show the parts of my backyard that I like.
This gargoyle that guards our back door.
Our only remaining full-sized tree
And this.
No, not the arroyo drainage construction that's been going on behind our house since last May. Nor the gross red wooden fence. But my little desert savannah camoflage dog.
Of course she makes the den pretty fun too
If you're curious about what the rest of the house looks like (with a few changes since this was made in early 2002) check out my eerily accurate Sims recreation of our house.
I originally saw this on And She Knits Too and found my way back to the source.
Yes, another movie meme in which I mark a huge boring list to show off how cool I am. Hey, it's fun to do and it gives me an idea for good movies to add to the netflix queue. And while it's similar to this and this it has more recent and obscure films listed and I found the groupings to be interesting.
According to these guys if you score over 100 (out of 205) you are a true film buff. So here goes.
+ have it on DVD
* have it on VHS
[X] Citizen Kane
[X] Casablanca
[X] The Godfather*+
[X] The Godfather Part 2*+
[X] Gone with the Wind+
[ ] Lawrence of Arabia
[X] The Wizard of Oz
[X] The Graduate
[X] On the Waterfront
[ ] Schindler's List
[X] Singing in the Rain
[X] Ben-Hur
Total:10
[X] Seven Samurai
[ ] Magnificent Seven
[ ] Three Amigos
[ ] Yojimbo
[ ] Fist Full of Dollars
[ ] Last Man Standing
[ ] Hidden Fortress
[X] Star Wars*+
[X] Empire Strikes Back*+
[X] Return of the Jedi*+
[ ] Ran
[ ] Dreams
[X] Rashomon
Total:5
[X] Psycho
[X] Vertigo
[X] North by Northwest
[X] The Birds
[X] Rear Window
[ ] Dial M for Murder
a few missing (my favorite Hitchcock is Rebecca)..
Total:5
the rest has been moved to the extended entry.
[ ] Blood Simple
[X] Raising Arizona
[ ] Millers Crossing
[X] Barton Fink
[X] Hudsucker Proxy*
[X] Fargo*
[X] Big Lebowski
[X] O Brother Where Art Thou?+
Hee the Cohen Brothers really are a category unto themselves
Total:6
[X] Alien*
[X] Blade Runner*
[ ] Legend
[ ] Black Rain
[X] Thelma & Louise
[ ] Black Hawk Down
[ ] Gladiator
Thelma & Louise? Is it me or does that one stick out from that list?
Total:3
[X] Time Bandits
[X] Brazil*
[X] The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
[X] The Fisher King
[X] Twelve Monkeys*+ (as well as the original La Jetee)
[X] Seven+
[X] Fight Club
[ ] Primal Fear
[X] American History X
Nice cluster here.
Total:8
[X] Spartacus
[X] Lolita
[X] Dr. Strangelove+
[X] Point for knowing the full title of Dr. Strangelove
(I know it. I can't tell YOU, though. That would be cheating.)
[X] 2001: A Space Odyssey
[X] Clockwork Orange
[X] The Shining*+
[X] Full Metal Jacket
I think Paths of Glory is missing in this list
Total:7+1=8
[ ] The Pianist
[X] Rosemary's Baby*
[X] China Town*
[X] Easy Rider
[X] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Total:4
[ ] Unforgiven
[X] The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
[ ] The Searchers
[X] Rio Bravo
[ ] Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
[ ] Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
meh, westerns.
Total:2
[X] Halloween+
[X] Nightmare on Elm Street
[X] Friday the 13th
[X] Chainsaw Massacre (own #2)
[X] The Exorcist*+
[X] Silence of the Lambs
The Haunting (original Robert Wise one), Last House on the Left, The Audition
Total:6
[X] Pee-wee's Big Adventure
[X] Beetle Juice*
[X] Batman
[X] Edward Scissor Hands
[X] Ed Wood
[X] Mars Attacks!
Total:6
[X] Reservoir Dogs*
[X] Pulp Fiction*
[X] Kill Bill: Vol 1
[X] Kill Bill: Vol 2
[ ] Sin City
[X] Four Rooms
[X] From Dusk Till Dawn
[X] Desperado
[ ] El Mariachi
Total:7
[X] Gates of Heaven
[X] Vernon, Florida
[X] The Thin Blue Line
[ ] Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
[X] Mr. Death
[X] The Fog of War
Errol Morris makes interesting documentaries
Total:5
[ ] LOTR: The Fellowship of the Rings
[ ] LOTR: The Two Towers
[ ] LOTR: Return of the King
[ ] Forgotten Silver
[X] Heavenly Creatures
[X] Braindead aka Dead Alive+
[X] Meet the Feebles
[X] Bad Taste
Total:4
[ ] King Kong (1933)
[X] King Kong (1976)
[ ] King Kong (2005)
Total:1
[X] The Sixth Sense*
[ ] Unbreakable
[ ] Signs
[X] The Village
Total:2
[ ] Pi
[X] Requiem for a Dream
[ ] Memento
[X] Insomnia
[X] Batman Begins
[ ] Following
[X] The Virgin Suicides
[X] Lost in Translation+
[X] Being John Malkovich*
[X] Adaptation
[X] Eternal Sunshine or the Spotless Mind
Total:8
[X] Better Off Dead
[X] Sixteen Candles
[X] The Breakfast Club
[X] Weird Science
[X] Ferris Beuller's Day Off
[X] Planes, Trains & Automobiles
[X] The Goonies
[X] Stand by Me
Total:8
[X] The Shawshank Redemption
[ ] The Green Mile
Total:1
[X] Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory+
[X] Princess Bride*+
[X] This is Spinal Tap+
[X] The Jerk
[X] Ghost Busters+
[X] Animal House
[X] Blues Brothers
[X] Little Shop of Horrors
Total:8
[ ] Princess Mononoke
[ ] My Neighbor Totoro
[ ] Spirited Away
[ ] Howl's Moving Castle
[X] Akira*+
[ ] Steamboy
[X] Ghost in the Shell+
Total:2
[X] Waiting for Guffman+
[X] Best in Show+
[X] A Mighty Wind+
Total:3
[X] Night of the Living Dead+
[X] Dawn of the Dead (1978)
[X] Day of the Dead
[ ] Land of the Dead
[X] Shawn of the Dead
[ ] 28 days later
Total:4
[ ] Bottle Rocket
[X] Rushmore+
[X] Royal Tenenbaums+
[X] The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou+
[ ] Snatch
[ ] Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
[X] Trainspotting
[X] Shallow Grave
those missing three just happen to be in my netflix queue
Total:5
[X] Delicatessen
[X] Amilie+
[X] City of Lost Children
[X] Run Lola Run
[X] La Femme Nikita
[X] The Professional*+
[X] The Fifth Element*+
Total:7
[X] Mean Streets
[X] Taxi Driver+
[X] Raging Bull
[ ] Last Temptation of Christ
[X] Goodfellas*+
[X] Casino+
no "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore?"
Total:5
[ ] M
[X] Metropolis
[X] Nosferatu
[X] Diabolique
[X] Usual Suspects*+
[X] Double Indemnity
[X] The Third Man
[X] Manchurian Candidate (1962) (love this movie love love it)
[X] Cool Hand Luke
Total:8
[X] Raiders of the Lost Ark+
[X] Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom+
[X] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade+
[X] Jurassic Park
[X] Color Purple
[ ] Saving Private Ryan
[X] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
[X] Jaws+
Total:7
[X] Die Hard
[ ] Lethal Weapon
[ ] Mad Max
[ ] The Road Warrior
[ ] Braveheart
[ ] Man Without a Face
[ ] Passion of the Christ
can you tell I'm not a big Mel Gibson fan?
Total:1
GRAND TOTAL: 149
Of course, things like this can't be all-inclusive so these are the ones I think are missing
Classic Comedies like Bringing up Baby, His Girl Friday, The Awful Truth
a few more Film noir- Gilda, Sunset Blvd, The Big Sleep
Jim Jarmusch- Trust, Mystery Train, Down by Law, Stranger than Paradise
good "chick" flicks - Bagdhad Cafe, Ruby in Paradise, Mi Vida Loca, Gas, Food, Lodging
Period pieces such as Topsy-Turvy, Valmont, Restoration, Jane Austen adaptations,
Uncategorized - All About Eve, Charade, Paper Moon, The Last Picture Show
Robert Altman is completely missing as well as Mel Brooks and Cameron Crowe. No Fellini, no Bergman, only one Elia Kazan
But I really enjoyed seeing this list. It was fun and there were some surprises. Definitely different from the other two top 100 film lists.
| Your 2005 Song Is |
 "My automobile is a piece of crap My fashion sense is a little whack And my friends are just as screwy as me" You breezed through 2005 in your own funky style! |
That song's ok but "Say it Ain't So" will always been my favorite of theirs.
totally stolen from Cheeky Prof and seen somewhere else but I can't remember where right now.
Still in Birmingham and having a good visit with the 'rents. Very mellow. Lots of knitting time. Oh! I managed to finish all the presents in time. I was casting off the Irish Hiking Scarf for dad as we were taxiing into the gate in Atlanta and I had time to sew in the ends before the connection to B'ham. It wasn't blocked (I did that on Tuesday) but I had a finished knit item for everyone! Go me!
They all seem to enjoy their presents. I felted the fuzzyfeet to fit my father-in-law's feet that Festivus night and he clearly loved them - kept looking down and playing with them. That Crystal Palace Labrador felted beautifully - BEAUTIFULLY!! It has these really cool spots which would explain why the color is called "Jaguar" I was kinda wondering that. So hopefully I'll get a photo of them sometime.
Mom loved her mini clapotis, my sister was very happy with her poncho, and my brother-in-law seemed to enjoy his scarf. They all looked much better after being blocked - particularly the clapotis and poncho. And my mother-in-law an Dad enjoyed their presents too! I don't think I'll be knitting presents for Xmas again. Ok I probably will.
I think I have a few photos on my camera of my family enjoying their new knits but I know I didn't get them of my in-laws. Way too many distractions going on. But I'll see if I can get everyone to send me a photo of the giftee wearing their present.
I had a very generous giftmas. I received so many cool, useful, and thoughtful prezzies that I'm almost embarassed to list them all. I will probably get over it when I'm not sneaking in some computer time before I go to sleep. The good news is my parents have a sweet wireless DSL setup for their different PCs so I'm not having to read all my friends' blogs on dialup. Thank you bloglines! My parents were computer geeks when geeky wasn't cool.
I thought I'd be able to fill out this neat meme I found on Carole's site. I'll undoubtedly forget some and have to add them later. But to help myself I'm going to go from head to toe. And I'm using Flickr.
Items I've knit in 2005 (in order of corresponding body part)
Head
SNB's Kitchy Kerchief
Baby Hat (from Last Minute Knitted Gifts)
Baby Bucket Hat
Funky Page Boy Hat
So-called headband
Reversible Autumnal Hat
Jayne Cobb Hat
Neck
very first garter stitch scarf (in February)
Ribbed for her pleasure scarf
2 Tequila Sunrise Summer Scarves
Beaded Lacy Zig Zag Scarf
Fun Fur Boa
Raspberry Mocha Chevron Scarf
Craaaaaaaaaazy Scarf
Knit Grape Kool Aid Neck Tube
Beaded X Scarf
Ziggy Zaggy Scarf
Biased Eyelash Scarf
Sloppy Slubby Scarf
So-called Scarf
Fuzzy Navel Mohair Scarf
Bird's Nest Scarf (TV Eye Scarf)
Color Fiesta Stole
Autumnal Crossover Scarf
2 glamrock Scarves
Irish Hiking Scarf
2 Manly Racing Stripe Scarves
Mini Clapotis
Finished a Noro Iro "Opposing Biases Scarf" last night
Shoulders
Fiesta biased stole
Knit Black Purse
Baby One Skein Wonder
Boucle Nouveau Poncho
La Boheme Nouveau Poncho
Silk Garden Nouveau Poncho
Chest
Baby Kimono
plus sized ballet tee
Hands
Felted Lopi Tote
2 felted bamboo handled mini purses
Kitten Mittens
Felted Fiesta Tote
Feet
Baby Booties
3 pairs of fuzzyfeet
Misc
Ipod Cozy
felted cat bed
knit flower pin
6 pairs of mini mittens and 6 mini stockings
Teddy Bear Scarf
Knit Fun Fur Stuffed Hedgehog
Knit Chenille Stuffed Pumpkin
I'll post about my planned 2006 knits later :) I'm pretty distracted here so if I don't get to post before I get back on Monday have a safe and happy new year's eve!
Been a while since I've done a meme quiz thing. It's been sitting in a text file on the desktop for ages so I don't remember where I got it.
I'm drinking caffeinated tea this morning trying to wake up. I'll be working on a certain hat today. Still need to spin the red yarn but the orange and yellow is ready, waiting, and (not to toot my own horn or anything) fabulous.
Name four books on your bookshelf:
The Artist Outsider
Look Homeward, Angel
O'Reilly's XML in a nutshell
Being and Nothingness
Name four DVDs Movies in your collection:
Muppets from Space
The Royal Tennenbaums
The Criterion Collection version of Slacker
The Women
Name four things on your walls:
poster of Van Gogh's Mulberry Tree painting from the Norton Simon Museum
Art Juxtaposed 2005 calendar
the dog's feeding clock dry erase board
a (certified!) Henry Moore lithograph
Name four things in your wardrobe:
stripey socks
twelve hole doc martens
black t shirts
many many yoga pants
Name four artists in your music collection:
The Pixies
Lou Reed
The Ramones
Willie Nelson
Name four real life stores you shop at regularly:
Smith's Grocery Store
Petsmart
Best Buy
Barnes and Noble
Name four things in your bag:
Burt's Bees lip balm
Philosophy pure grace solid perfume
driver's license and credit cards
a wip garter stitch scarf in striping sock yarn
Name four things in your cupboard that are in cans:
roasted and chopped green chiles
green chile stew
tomato soup
mandarin oranges
10 years ago
I was probably in LA or in the car somewhere between LA and Santa Fe. Silly young boyfriend there whom I thought I loved. Not one-tenth the man Cody is but to be fair he was just a nineteen year old kid. I wouldn't want to be judged solely on who I was at nineteen either. I think I was about to have a serious bout with kidney stones and be put on medication for major clinical depression for the first time. But maybe that was 1996.
5 years ago
I was in the process of changing jobs from being a third party tech support person for a major online store to managing transactions for variable, whole, and single premium life insurance policies and answering questions about unearned income tax receipts from demutualization. In the end both jobs sucked pretty hard.
1 year ago
I was probably watching Upstairs Downstairs and eating a popsicle after a morning of water aerobics.
Yesterday
I watched entirely too much news and kept hitting redial on the phone trying to reach Will's parents. Then we drove to a family thing in Los Lunas and ate incredible barbeque. Avoided eating any "God Bless America" cake that ironically had a layer of chocolate pudding between two sheets of yellow cake covered by gobs of white buttercream icing. I did my best to not say anything catty but I think I failed.
Today
Drank coffee, talked with my parents on the phone, had a great time at the Saturday knitting group, bought five skeins of noro cash iroha and the two tiered Lantern Moon basket at Village Wools, got a hot dog at Weinerschnitzel. Managed to get through to the phone ringing in Natchez only to get answering machine. Submitted some photos and lists to the craft revolution etsy store.
Tomorrow
Taking more photos for the etsy shop, knitting a scarf with the Noro, taking Winter to the dog park.
5 snacks I enjoy
cheese dip, pretzels, cheetoes, satay peanut won ton snacks, edamame
5 bands/singers I like
The Clash, Billie Holiday, The Ramones, Loretta Lynn, John Lee Hooker
Things I would do with $100,000,000
right now I would send 97,000,000 of it to charity groups for the Gulf of Mexico, give my parents two million, pay off and fix up the house and put the rest in savings.
5 locations I'd like to run away to
Northern Italy, Ireland, ten thousand waves, anywhere slightly cool
5 bad habits I have
money management, thinking negative thoughts, eating unhealthy foods, blurting awkward things, not cleaning up very well
5 things I like doing
knitting, watching movies, shopping, eating, sleeping
5 thing's I'd never wear
tiny spiky-heeled overpriced shoes, giorgio perfume, big fake fingernails, Republican party paraphinalia, a scarlet A
5 TV shows I like
Upstairs Downstairs, Changing Rooms, Monk, Dead Like Me, Designing Women
5 movies I like
Gosford Park, Amelie, The Royal Tennenbaums, French Kiss, Cold Comfort Farm
5 famous people I'd like to meet
(alive) Alexander McCall Smith, Elizabeth Peters, Bill Clinton, Frances McDormand,
(dead) Katherine Hepburn, Henri Matisse, Hildegarde von Bingen, Eudora Welty, William Blake
5 biggest joys of the moment
iced tea, melon being and eating well, cool sheets, citrus sunrise lip balm, wet dog noses
5 favorite toys
my computer, the goko yarn swift, the hedgehog catnip toy I found at petsmart, water cooler/heater, satellite dish receiver
this meme sort of goes with yesterday's x scarf doesn't it?
[ ] I've run away from home.
[X] I listen to political music.
[X] I collect (Sandman) comic books.
[X] I shut others out when I'm sad.
[ ] I open up to others easily.
[ ] I am keeping a secret from the world.
[ ] I watch the news.
[ ] I own over 5 rap CDs.
[X] I own an (adorable pink mini) I-Pod.
[X] I own something from Hot Topic (and Torrid).
[X] I love (three) Disney movies.
[X] I am a sucker for hair/eyes.
[ ] I don't kill bugs.
[X] I curse regularly.
[X] I paid for that cell phone ringtone.
[ ] I have "x"s in my screen name.
[ ] I've slipped out a "lol" in a real conversation.
[ ] I love Spam.
[ ] I bake well.
[X] I would wear pajamas to school.
[ ] I own something from Abercrombie
[ ] I have a job.
[X] I love like Martha Stewart.
[X] I am in love with someone.
[ ] I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS.
[X] I am self conscious.
[X] I like to laugh.
[ ] I (don't) smoke a pack a day (anymore).
[X] I loved Go Ask Alice.
[ ] I have cough drops when I'm not sick.
[ ] I can't swallow pills.
[X] I have many scars.
[X] I've been out of this country.
[X] I believe in ghosts.
[X] I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room.
[X] I am really ticklish.
[X] I see/have seen a therapist.
[X] I love chocolate french fries.
[ ] I bite my nails.
[X] I am (usually) comfortable with being me.
[X] I play computer games/video games when i'm bored.
[X] Gotten lost in your city.
[X] Saw a shooting star.
[X] Gone Went out in public in your pajamas bottoms last week.
[ ] I have kissed a stranger.
[X] Hugged a stranger.
[X] Been in a fight with the same sex.
[ ] Been arrested.
[X] Laughed and had milk/soda come out of your nose.
[X] Pushed all the buttons on an elevator.
[ ] Made out in an elevator.
[X] Swore at your parents.
[X] Kicked a guy where it hurts.
[ ] Been skydiving.
[ ] Been bungee jumping.
[X] Broken a bone.
[ ] Played spin the bottle.
[X] Gotten stitches.
[ ] Drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour.
[ ] Bitten someone.
[X] Been to Niagara Falls.
[X] Gotten the chicken pox.
[ ] Crashed into a friend's car.
[X] Been to Japan.
[X] Ridden in a taxi.
[X] Shoplifted.
[X] Been fired (technically yes but after five minutes of telling the guy how he had no idea how his company worked he was begging me to stay).
[X] Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.
[X] Stole something from your job. (just my nameplate when I left)
[X] Gone on a blind date (in Japan).
[X] Lied to a friend.
[ ] Had a crush on a teacher/coach.
[ ] Celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans. (that's the one time I will refuse to go there)
[X] Been to Europe.
[ ] Slept with a co-worker.
[X] Been married.
[ ] Gotten divorced.
[ ]Saw someone dying.
[X]Driven over 400 miles in one day.
[X] Been to Canada.
[X] Been on a plane.
[X] Seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
[ ] Thrown up in a bar.
[X] Eaten Sushi.
[ ] Been snowboarding.
[ ] Been skiing.
[X] Been ice skating.
[X] Met someone in person from the internet (and married them).
[ ] Been to a motorcross show.
[X] Gone/Going to college.
[X] Done hard drugs
[X] Taken painkillers.
[X] Cheated on someone else
[X] Were so bored you took this survey.
[X] Have a tattoo
snagged from cheekyprof
Hank Williams... you're fucked up on drinks, pills
and a broken heart. You'll die young and wild,
but influence more people than you could ever
imagine. If it wasn't for you, rock n roll
would be nothing more than benign and insipid.
Which fucked-up genius composer are you?
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reason number 865 why we shouldn't have children: I'll publically call them Bocephus.
via mr. tonic
More Emotional
You have:
62% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and
77% EMOTIONAL INTUITION
The graph on the represents your place in Intuition 2-Space.
As you can see, you scored well above average on emotional intuition and above average on scientific intuition.Your emotional intuition is stronger than your scientific intuition.
Your Emotional Intuition
score is a measure of how well you understand people, especially their
unspoken needs and sympathies. A high score score usually indicates
social grace and persuasiveness. A low score usually means you're good
at Quake.
Your Scientific Intuition
score tells you how in tune you are with the world around you; how well
you understand your physical and intellectual environment. People with
high scores here are apt to succeed in business and, of course, the
sciences.
Link: The 2-Variable Intuition Test written by jason_bateman on OkCupid Free Online Dating
really interesting quiz found at ColaSusan's site.
You'd think I'd run out of these but I keep running across more. This one was snagged from Lushy, who scored an unbelievable 80 on my test without even knowing me in person or reading this site for all that long. Go Lushy!
1. When you look at yourself in the mirror, what's the first thing you look at?
My eyes then my hair then my nose
2. How much cash do you have on you right now?
A couple of dollars and some change. I am check card woman.
3. What's a word that rhymes with "TEST"?
Vest
4. Favourite plant?
Irises
5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone?
I'm too lazy to go look.
6. What is your main ring tone on your phone?
Erasure's "A Little Respect"
7. What shirt are you wearing?
A third markdown clearance blue sleeveless stretch yoga shirt from Avenue
8. Do you "label" yourself?
not on purpose
9. Name brand of your shoes currently wearing?
NONE! Hahahahahaha
10. Do you prefer a bright or dark room?
I prefer a room with a medium amount of indirect lighting, although I've been changing over to brighter, more direct lighting since beginning knitting.
11. What did you have for breakfast?
fresh pineapple
12. (does not exist so I'll make one up) If you could be doing anything anywhere right now what and where would it be?
Lying on a beach right after a storm on a big recliner knitting something in cotton watching Cody play with the dog.
13. What were you doing at midnight last night?
probably knitting and watching tv
14. What did your last text message you received on your cell phone say?
I think it's from Justin, something about meeting the guy from Napoleon Dynamite.
15. Do you ever click on "Pop Ups" or Banners?
Popups? never ever ever ever I don't like rewarding bad behavior. Banners? rarely but I have been known to.
16. What's an expression that you say a lot?
I'm drawing a blank here
17. Who told you they loved you last?
Mr. Man
18. Last furry thing you touched?
Yarn. I was reorganizing the abundance of noro kureyon I've accumulated lately.
19. How many hours a week do you work?
define work.
20. How many rolls of film do you need to get developed?
none that I know of. There might be a disposable camera or two somewhere though
21. Favourite age you have been so far?
twenty-five was pretty good. Still young but old enough to feel like my brain finally started working like an adult.
22. Your worst enemy?
small-minded people who don't want to learn anything new or change
23. What is your current desk top picture?
Winter in the meadow
24. What was the last thing you said to someone?
Told Mr. Man to have a good night on the phone.
25. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to go back in time and fix all your mistakes which would you choose?
I'd take the money. When all's said and done I'm a materialistic little bitch. My preferred materials are usually quite different than what you would expect (electronics, punky clothes, pet and knitting stuff rather than jewelry or status-laden bullshit items) but I still love the presents.
You are Mohair.
You are a warm and fuzzy type who works well with
others, doing your share without being too
weighty. You can be stubborn and absolutely
refuse to change your position once it is set,
but that's okay since you are good at covering
up your mistakes.
What kind of yarn are you?
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oh, I picked this quiz up at Knitting, Dogs, and More
I scored an abysmal 40 on Jim's test but that didn't stop me from making my own.
Think you know me well?
Take the Noelle Quiz!
 | You Are Ed Wood From "Ed Wood." You definitely have your name in history, although probably not for the reason you believe. (oh I have no doubt about that) Yet you are very accepting, non-judgemental, and optimistic almost to a fault. (that's SO not true.) You also have a thing for angora sweaters. (not really) How could anyone not like you?(I dunno but lots of people find ways. Probably because I'm not one-sixteenth as adorable as Johnny Depp.) |
found via moonshine highways
bahahahaha!
Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.
I wouldn't exactly consider myself ambitious.
This is probably a good time to mention that there have been moments when reading the series that I've imagined him to be a tall deeply-smoothly voiced well-dressed sexy kind of villian. Like in a Lestat (the book and Stuart Townsend version not the travesty that was the Tom Cruise sans any kind of French accent version) kind of way. Or really more like the bad guy in The Crow: disturbing, but sexy. I have to also admit that try as they did getting Alan Rickman to be slimy his inherant sexiness still comes through Snape.
Yes I always preferred Gargamel and especially Ariel to the Smurfs too. And I think it's amusing that in some ways Mr. Man has a very similar profile to a serial killer - with the major exception that he possesses an almost superhuman amount of empathy. And I like that my dog kind of scares the shit out of people at first but is actually floppier and goofier than a three month old puppy. But is still quite protective of her mommy.
It's all about layers, ladies and gentlemen.
from two of my favorite quiz sources: SnarkyStacy and PsychoAmy
a quizmeme on a weekday! I (arbitrarily) rebel against my own (arbitrary) rules!
In other words, just enough to (mostly) know what my husband is talking about. And Mom and Dad too. And my sister. I'm in a family of geeks I fought it as long as I could.
Found at Stacy's
(via)
P.S. Things are fine. I'm just not in the mood to write anything. Housewifey knitting summer stuff.
Meg tagged me for this last week but I didn't get to post it last Saturday. Now I realize how totally appropriate it is to post today. I'm thirty-three today. I haven't accomplished a lot of what I thought I would. But I have accomplished many things I never thought about either.
Spending my childhood in a snooty suburb in Alabama I never thought I'd end up in a kitchy 70s suburban house in New Mexico. Never dreamed I'd be so happily married to an adorable computer geek with uncontrollable dark curly hair and baby blue eyes. Didn't consider that I'd end up with a houseful of pets. Or a degree in sculpture. Who'd have thought I'd obsessively take up knitting in my early thirties? And no one would've ever guessed I'd have such a head for history, be so good at understanding tax codes, or have an instinctual knack for the stock market.
But all in all if you'd asked, say, the eighteen year-old me what she thought I'd be doing at this age the only thing she'd be surprised about is that I wasn't growing a better garden and hadn't made the back porch into a pottery studio.
My present to you..
Since I gave this song away for my birthday last year I thought I'd upload another birthday-themed song. If one can't violate copyright laws on one's birthday then life just isn't worth livin'.
And here's the Childhood Meme..
Things I miss from my childhood (in no particular order).
Summers at Nana's Farm.
My grandmother had a farm in a tiny town outside Holly Springs, Mississippi called Red Banks. There were chickens and cows and she tended a respectable vegetable garden. I would spend at least one month of my summers there. Nana was a busy lady but always had something fun and interesting for us to do. One summer I rode a horse every single day. I miss Nana's hands (although sometimes I see them in mine), her kindness, and the special non-judgemental love she had for most people, her grandchildren in particular.
Friday nights at Gringo's and Saturday mornings at the ballpark
Before he retired in '99 my dad was a confirmed workaholic. And there was no more stressful time, it seems, than working for the phone company in the late seventies and early eighties. He and all the other programmers and computer security guys seemed to work hard and, to quote a bad deoderant commercial, play hard. Friday nights were usually spent at a Mexican restaurant called El Gringos. It wasn't quite as authentic as what I eat here in NM but for Alabama it was remarkably close. Our waitress was a hilarious diminutive Mexican immigrant lady named Rosa and she served some kick-ass cheese dip.
Saturday mornings were spent at the softball park in Homewood watching Dad play with his team of other Bellsouth (or South Central Bell depending on the year) guys. They were all pudgy and middle-aged and looked ratty with no common uniform but every year they kicked all those younger guys' asses to the championship. We used to call them to the Grateful Dead of softball teams. After the game in the morning well into the afternoon the guys would stand around drinking beer out of red solo cups under the sign that read "No alcoholic beverages in the park" telling their softball version of front porch fishing stories.
Saturday morning cartoons
In the late seventies you were almost guaranteed to be entertained by cartoons from seven to eleven-thirty am when "Land of the Lost" came on and cartoons were effectively over. Sure, there's the cartoon network and Nick toons and Boomerang channels with cartoons 24-7 but it's not quite the same. Rarity makes things valuable.
I can't think of any more for now and I need to go get dressed and I wanted to try the first part of Clapotis again so I'll add more as I think of them.
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snagged from Kelly
According to the eye calculator Cody and I have a 33.3% chance of having a child with blue eyes and a 66.6% chance of having a child with green eyes.
Not surprisignly it includes a lot of the same movies as the National Society of Film Critics Essential 100 but I feel like doing it anyway.
* means I've seen it
- means I own it on video, dvd, or both
Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)
The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)
*The Awful Truth (1937)
Baby Face (1933)
Bande à part (1964)
*Barry Lyndon (1975)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
-*Blade Runner (1982)
*Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
-*Brazil (1985)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
*Camille (1936)
*Casablanca (1942)
-*Charade (1963)
Children of Paradise (1945)
-*Chinatown (1974)
Chungking Express (1994)
*Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
City of God (2002)
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
The Crowd (1928)
Day for Night (1973)
The Decalogue (1989)
Detour (1945)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Dodsworth (1936)
*Double Indemnity (1944)
-*Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Drunken Master II (1994)
*E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
*8 1/2 (1963)
*The 400 Blows (1959)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
*Finding Nemo (2003)
*The Fly (1986)
-*The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)
*The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
-*Goodfellas (1990)
*A Hard Day's Night (1964)
*His Girl Friday (1940)
Ikiru (1952)
In A Lonely Place (1950)
*Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It's A Gift (1934)
*It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
Kandahar (2001)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
King Kong (1933)
*The Lady Eve (1941)
The Last Command (1928)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Léolo (1992)
The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)
The Man With a Camera (1929)
*The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
*Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
*Metropolis (1927)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
Mouchette (1967)
Nayakan (1987)
Ninotchka (1939)
*Notorious (1946)
Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)
*On the Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Out of the Past (1947)
*Persona (1966)
*Pinocchio (1940)
-*Psycho (1960)
-*Pulp Fiction (1994)
-*The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Pyaasa (1957)
*Raging Bull (1980)
Schindler's List (1993)
*The Searchers (1956)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
*The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
*Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Singing Detective (1986)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
*Some Like It Hot (1959)
-*Star Wars (1977)
*A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sunrise (1927)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Swing Time (1936)
Talk to Her (2002)
-*Taxi Driver (1976)
Tokyo Story (1953)
A Touch of Zen (1971)
Ugetsu (1953)
Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
Umberto D (1952)
Unforgiven (1992)
White Heat (1949)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Yojimbo (1961)
43%
I think it helps that I went to a college with a working film department and had a semester or two of weekly cross-departmental forums and lectures (My favorites were the lectures where I got to meet George Romero and Robert Wise). Cable with TCM and AMC (when it was good) don't hurt either :)
snagged from Jim in Tonic and Psychobabble.