February 2010
85 posts
Twin Peaks, Season 2: Episode 15
Albert Rosenfield: Oh, Coop? Um, about the uniform...
Dale Cooper: Yes, Albert?
Albert Rosenfield: Replacing the quiet elegance of the dark suit and tie with the casual indifference of these muted earth tones is a form of fashion suicide, but, uh, call me crazy, on you it works.
Dale Cooper: Thank you, Albert.
“Every time I eat a vegetable i think of you.”
– My sibling, simultaneously baffling and flattering me.
Let me elaborate
I really love Taco Bell. A lot. It kind of breaks all the rules of what I expect food to be, and somehow that’s okay, because it is not food; it is Taco Bell.
An argument that will not work: “Taco Bell isn’t real Mexican food.”
No, it isn’t. I live in Southern California. If I want real Mexican food, I can get it. When I say “I want Taco Bell”, I am not...
Accomplishment of the Weekend
Finding a Taco Bell ~10 minutes from my house.
From an old issue of Interview Magazine
Paul Rudd: I'm really upset because of the looks that we keep getting from that couple over there at the Cheesecake Factory.
Jon Hamm: Should have called it the Beefcake Factory with us around, right? Pound it! [raises fist]
Paul Rudd: Oh, pounding!
Jon Hamm: Boom.
“‘Quit kicking yourself,’ says Helo. I love Helo. He’s like eight feet tall and...”
– Jacob, Television Without Pity recap of Battlestar Galactica, “Scar” (via novazembla)
Helo is one of my least favorite characters on BSG. He is the very definition of a chump.
“Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the...”
– Voltaire
artpixie
(via silentsigh)
dude! what an awesome quote! voltaire just got so many coolness points in my book!
(via isabelthespy)
I don’t know…something tells me that trying to do both simultaneously could result in misfortune.
January 2010
136 posts
Today, In Manageable To-Do Lists
I’ve decided to watch all of David Lynch’s movies, because in spite of the fact that he is currently my personal hero, I have realized that I actually haven’t seen a lot of his work (just the top 4 movies and most of Twin Peaks, which I’m nearing the end of).
Blue Velvet
Mullholland Drive
Inland Empire
The Straight Story
Eraserhead
Wild at Heart
Lost Highway...
“Maybe we should all be grateful that Mother Nature is a bit slovenly when it...”
– Robert Holt, evolutionist
I picked up The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner again (got busy last quarter and didn’t finish it), and I had forgotten how amazing it is. Weiner looks at scientists Peter and Rosmary Grant and their work on Darwin’s finches on the Galapagos, and the...
Fantastic Extinct Creatures →
“It’s the hustler in us that will bring us success despite our specific and...”
– My sister’s wishful thinking
A real friend text exchange
Me: I just got the LA Weekly you sent me! Thank you--you are my favorite!
Geoff: I thought you'd probably want it. BECAUSE WE'RE REAL FRIENDS.
Me: REAL FRIENDS FO EVA
Geoff: RFFEAEAE
Me: I have no idea what that means.
Geoff: It doesn't matter as long as we're the friends which are real. WHICH WE ARE.
(for the record, I figured out that it stood for "real friends fo eva and eva and eva")
I have little to offer the world of science
Leon: If you could bring back anything extinct, what would it be?
Me: Paul Newman.
Things almost purchased at the drugstore tonight
X-Men valentines
Star Wars valentines
Toy Story valentines
Things purchased at the drugstore tonight
Claritin Non-Drowsy formula (because I hope it’s allergies)
Kleenex (because either way, my nose is runny)
Crayola Fine Line markers (because my old ones are pretty sorry these days)
Elmer’s Glue Sticks (because sometimes I like things to stick to other things without the aid of tape)
From Batman the Animated Series: The Man Who...
Lt. Harvey Bullock: Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
Harleen Quinzell (disguised as a lawyer): I think I delivered you a subpoena once. [long pause] It was a little subpoena.
Vindication
Julia Child: I don't like cilantro.
Larry King: What is that?
Julia Child: It's an herb that has a kind of a taste that I don't like.
There are laundry day outfits, and then there are...
red sweatshirt with a screen print of Johnny Rotten on it, purchased at a flea market when I was sixteen
leopard print $10 jeans, purchased at Forever 21 for an animal themed dance party last October
off-brand Uggs, purchased sometime in high school, which do not leave the house unless I am going to the McDonald’s drive through, because at that point, why the hell not?
As a person who...
Actor bio
“Tessa Strain is a fourth-year student of Latin and Theatre. After graduating from UCSD she plans on pursuing a career on the Ancient Roman stage.”
“The Great Pretender”, The Platters
“I’m at work thinking about how bad I want to change my pants and I...”
– Text message from my sister this morning.
We don’t like to wear the same pants for too long.
“Ian McEwan rather surprised me when I asked him about “like,” telling me that...”
– Christopher Hitchens on “Like” | vanityfair.com (via strutting)
VINDICATION AT LAST.
(via meaghano)
I’m a Valley Girl, and there is no cure.
My Rotating Roster Of Non-Specific Nicknames,...
guy
buddy
buster
lady
bucko
darlin’
slugger
hon
pal
son
friend
sunshine
mister
dear
dude
Things I Want In The Study I Someday Plan To Have
inaccurate globe on brass floor stand
all those art books I wish I could afford at museum gift shops
insect collection in shadow boxes
armchair with carved animal feet
fossilized dinosaur bones and other assorted curiosities
fireplace with a good mantle for leaning on pensively
books filled with inaccurate scientific illustrations, such as those found here (some may also be framed on the...
I'm reading The Federalist Papers right now, and...
mykicks:
Who’s your favorite Federalist Papers author? Oh, Jay. Definitely Jay.
Hamilton, Madison, and Jay - the Dreamgirls of the 18th century.
I was told that listening to my friend Randy and me studying for our Roman history final last quarter sounded like we were gossiping about celebrities who inexplicably all had Latin names. I consider it an accomplishment when I can manage to be...
“I HAVE, alas! Philosophy,
Medicine, Jurisprudence too,
And to my cost...”
– goethe, opening lines of faust, pt 1
guess who was reciting Faust aloud when he got a complete vision of the electric motor and drew it in the sand? NOT THOMAS EDISON, I’LL TELL YA THAT MUCH.
(via meaghano)
I know it’s a cliche to say that a book changed your life, but all kidding aside,...
“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole...”
– Ray Bradbury (via booklover)
“You can call me Scrooge, cuz I’m swimmin in the bucks, bitch.”
– Lil Wayne
“You don’t want to be Tesla. He was one of the greatest inventors,
but it’s a...”
– Google’s Larry Page
from the list of quotes gathered by Paul Graham
(via fascinated)
fuck that, you guys!! i agree with the point, i GUESS, but if it was up to edison we’d still be using direct current!!!! Tesla was miserable and (literally) crazy but also he knew his was a higher calling. he was...
“Why don’t people speak properly? There are a lot of young kids, good actors, but...”
– Anthony Hopkins, UCLA acting coach / mumble h8er (via natashavc)
Norma Desmond’s thoughts on the lack of faces among actors=my thoughts on the lack of voices. There are so few actor voices anymore. Everyone sounds the same, women speak like infants, men speak like neolithic homonids, and...
“If i started a “collective” it would have NO serious elements. It’d be called...”
– Ben Lambert (via mollylambert)
That is a thing that I want.
“Oh man, Lauren was just talking to Geoff about Ke$sha’s album, but for a...”
– My dear friend Ally, giving what I think is a more than flattering review of any hypothetical album I might record. Later on she gave me trouble about how I don’t have comments on my blog, and I had to sheepishly explain to her that I don’t understand how to make things happen on...
“Selecting a recently constructed highway, Nancy rode along, glancing...”
– The Secret of the Old Clock
Nancy Drew is weird.
(via novazembla)
Oh girl, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Editing this tome into a 65-page script was a heartbreaking ordeal because for every gem like this we got to keep, there were at least ten we had to cut.
