Sunday, July 29, 2007
together we are rock
tonight:
- cesar and my parents and i saw grey gardens a day before it closes. it was awesome.
- cesar and i got crazy drunk and barhopped some seriously gay locales in midtown. i almost beat up a gay boy after a misunderstanding at Posh. I bumped his arm and his beer spilled all over me and my favorite shirt and I apologized genuinely, and he was a dick and his friend said, "he's kidding," and with this super bitch face I said, "he'd better be." Then we saw them later at Therapy and he tried to stare me down but like, puh-leeze, I could totally have taken him and I can't take anyone.
- we met up with Riese at Nation and that was the first time that Cesar met Riese and it was super fun times as I requested "Walk it out" for Cesar and then had no game with girls and we were really sweaty and drank more.
- in our quest for more alcohol and cheesecake (?) we ended up at an adult video store (Riese, what was the name of it? I can't remember) and were subsequently thrown out after taking pictures on a camera phone. Fantastic!
- I'm drunk right now writing this and will probs. erase it come morning. I bought things today. I love shopping. New glasses and new shoes and I am content.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
konichiwa, bitches!
I am sitting in Matt and Roy's living room. I am champion dog/cat/apartment-sitter. It is also really, really hot in here. It is slowly cooling off, and so am I. Also of note: Cesar will be here in a little while. Like, he will have moved here. For reals. And I am beyond excited about this.
So apparently I was "tagged" by nycrouge. I have no idea what that means, quite frankly. But I was! So I read up and now I know what that all means and basically, there are rules, and I shall follow them:
So. There's that. And here's my 8 Random Carly Fun Facts (there is no theme, other than ME and my innate randomness):
Random Fact the First:
I have an obsession with sunglasses. Giant, plastic, inexpensive sunglasses, to be specific. I have way too many. I also have some metal ones, most are aviators. But the giant plastic ones are hard to beat. All of mine average out to about $8 each, which is great for when I lose/break them. Usually I have a friend with me to talk me down from buying ones that are completely idiotic-looking, but today, when I went to get lunch at St. Mark's, I caved and bought this awesome pair that I've been eyeing all week:
Clearly no one was with me to say, "um, those are ridiculous." You will notice that there is no photo of me actually wearing my new glasses, and this is because the only phrase to describe me right now is "hot mess," and hot messes should not be photographed (unless they are random people you see on the subway or passing by, then it's fine).
Random Fact the Second:
I have no tattoos or piercings (not even my ears). I like to think of it like this: had my parents taken me to get my ears pierced when I was too young to know any better (as they did with my sister), I'd have them pierced. But they didn't, so I don't. Lately, however, I have been toying with the notion of getting a tattoo (probs on my right forearm). I'm open to suggestions, as I can't seem to make up my mind.
Random Fact the Third:
I have this weird obsession with turning my mouth blue, I have since I was a kid. If there is an opportunity to turn my mouth blue (like a blue lollipop or whatever), and I don't take that opportunity, I will like, go crazy, I think. I don't really know, cause I've never let myself find out. I think it's related to my OCD.
Random Fact the Fourth:
I can memorize stuff pretty quickly. Like movie quotes, entire films (Empire Records, Clueless, etc.), TV shows (The Office, etc.), and comic strips. For instance, I can recite this Calvin & Hobbes passage entirely from memory:
Attention! All Rise! This meeting of G.R.O.S.S.Random Fact the Fifth:
Is now called to order by the great grandiose
Dictator-For-Life, the ruler supreme
The fearless, the brave, the held-high-in-esteem,
Calvin the Bold! Yes, stand up and hail
His humbleness now! May his wisdom prevail!
Three cheers for First Tiger and El Presidente,
Hobbes, the delight of all cognoscenti!
He's savvy! He has a prodigious IQ,
And lots of panache, as all tigers do!
In his fancy chapeau, he's a leader with taste!
May his orders be heeded and his views be embraced!
Many of my skills I acquired via teaching myself. For instance: playing guitar, video editing, Photoshop, html, and raising my right eyebrow (I trained myself to do the one, then got bored and never did the other one). I'm a very logical person, like if there's something I want to know more about, I'll research it. This almost proved to backfire in high school. Once I thought I "might be gay" (suuuure), I started researching all sorts of gay culture and whatnot online. Bear in mind, this was back in like, '97 or '98, so there wasn't nearly as much online as there is today. There also was no WIKIPEDIA, although I don't really want to know what Wikipedia has to say about being gay. After my research, I was like, "yup, totes gay." Then I thought "what if my research MADE ME GAY!?" and then I realized that that was completely retarded. Then Brandi Chastain ripped her shirt off after scoring the winning goal in the World Cup and I was like, "nope, had nothing to do with the internet, I am a total lez."
Random Fact the Sixth:
One of my exes tried to strangle me in a bar once. This occurred: 1) after we broke up and were trying to "be friends," and 2) while all of my friends were either getting more drinks or in the bathroom. In retrospect it is hilarious, but at the time I was like "damn! she ruined my new shirt!" Needless to say, we are currently not friends.
Random Fact the Seventh:
I was going to save this for when-thefuck-ever I decide to finish the list of reasons why I am awesome, but I will tell this story now, because it is Really Incredible. So my high school was kinda weird, and in my English classes our teachers would always have us do "artistic interpretations" of books/plays we'd read in class, instead of like, reports or papers. So that was awesome, less writing for me. And I completely exploited this assignment, always. I actually won the "most creative English projects" (or something else along those lines, they made it up anyway) at my senior awards lunch. I usually made videos (the story of the Puritans, as told through Legos, or The Yellow Wallpaper, which included a behind-the-scenes making of featurette wherein I played all of the parts, natch) or did ridiculous in-class presentations (Kafka's In The Penal Colony and Our Town, as told through sock puppets). The most ridiculous/awesome of which was my speech from Hamlet.
To fully appreciate this story you have to understand that this was near the end of senior year, and I was pretty much Over School at this point. On the day in question, I had two presentations due. One was in Latin (4 years of honors Latin, what what!?), wherein I had to wear a toga and give a speech like I was running for public office (I think I was running for Quaestor, but I can't be certain). The night before, I couldn't find any white sheets at our hours (and most Romans didn't wear white anyway) so I brought a pale yellow sheet in. I gave my Latin presentation that morning, then shoved the sheet in my locker and tried desperately to memorize my second presentation of the day, a speech by Hamlet's father. You might recall that his father is a ghost throughout the play. I chose the ghost because of Eddie Izzard, whom I was obsessed with at the time. During his show Dress To Kill he does this bit about the Holy Ghost, wandering around and moaning, "holy ghost, holy ghooooost" over and over again (it's much funnier when he does it. Maybe it's on youtube?). So I chose the Ghost Dad simply because if I couldn't memorize it in time (which I wouldn't), then at least I could entertain the class by skulking around and moaning like Eddie Izzard. It was foolproof.
So having to do the Latin presentation the night before required me to have no time to memorize Hamlet. I had 30 lines, and wrote them all on index cards. English was our last class of the day and my teacher asked if anyone didn't do the assignment. Myself and one other girl raised our hands, defeated. But I totes didn't care, I had already gotten into college. What difference did any of this make? So all of my friends presented, they did really well, whatevs. Finally everyone had presented, and my teacher asked if anyone else had to go. Suddenly, I had a Brill Idea. I said I wanted to present, that I had been joking about being unprepared, and that I had to go to my locker to get my prop. You see where this is going, right?
I grabbed the sheet, threw it over my head, and presented the damn thing. I stood in front of the class, "in character" (read: sheet over my head, which looked somewhat like this), and read the notecards from under said sheet. It was amazing. And all my friends totally figured it out, immediately. The only person who didn't, somehow, was my teacher. So I read the whole damn thing, even pausing to sound like I was trying to remember my lines every now and then, even pausing to SCRATCH MY HEAD as if I was reeeeally trying hard to remember at one point. As I finished, I tucked the cards into my cargo pocket (cause I was a big ol' closeted dyke and all, so cargo pants were the norm) and started to lift the sheet. And that's when I saw one of my friends crouched down in front of me, moments from pulling the sheet off and giving the whole thing away.
And to this day? I have no idea if my English teacher had any idea. I'd really like to go and ask her. One of these days ...
Random Fact the Eighth:
Maybe you haven't heard, but Riese and I wrote a fucking brill TV pilot, and we need people to help us get it produced! So if you yourself are (or you know anyone who is) employed by HBO or any other major networks, or you have a bunch of money to invest, or you're an amazing actor/crewperson, please let us know ASAP. Global domination is like, weeks away, I can feel it.
BONUS!! You can read a list of 100 things you'd never care to know/ask about me on my myspace, as I have recently made it un-private. Once again, we'll see how long this lasts.
Oh! I almost forgot! I tag:
- This Girl Called Automatic Win
- What Does That Even Mean?
- Roy Speaking
- Peep*Blog
- Disappear Here
- Diminishing Returns
- Suuuuuuuzy
- Life Is Moments / Endings Don't Exist
Labels: high school, lists, living it out, randomness
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
These fat-free meringues are perfection!
So. It has occurred to me that a pretty significant thing has been going on the past few weeks and I have yet to talk about it. Probably because -- between this and my friends/family and trying to go to as many lesbian bars in new york as possible and work -- I have no time to do much anymore. Watch TV, write on here, read other blogs ... it's all fallen by the wayside. Hopefully I can catch up this week (hopefully). But right now I feel that this is important, so I'm going to write in my hottt blogggg (P.S. I really don't like the word "blog," just want to get that out of the way. P.P.S. I wish some of you mystery readers would comment, my 3 commenters are lonely).
Anyway. So Riese and I have been writing a gay sitcom. And, not to toot my/our own horn or anything, but it's really good. Definitely unlike anything else on TV. It's Arrested Development meets the OC meets < insert name of anything gay here >. It's called Living It Out and we're really, really proud of it.
So we wrote the pilot. And then there was the cruise (which I did not go on), where they held the reading (which I was not present for). Then we got massive amounts of feedback, revised the pilot for one last time (dear god I hope so), registered it with the Writer's Guild, and started sending it off to Very Important People.
I am one of those people who Dreams Big. The only problem is, I rarely follow through. This is one of those rare times where everything fell into place (timing, motivation, location, awesomeness), and things are totally working out and happening really fast. And when (not "if") this gets greenlit, I'm hiring all of my friends to work on it. Because one of my life-long dreams has been to own my own company where all of us had a job and we all worked together and collaborated and were awesome under one roof together, every day.
Labels: autowin, living it out
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I need those glasses
Kanye West's new video "Stronger" is awesome and in the video (also awesome) he is wearing glasses seen here. They are amazing and part of his own clothing line, apparently. I was just discussing this with my sister:
Bailey: they are spectacular...spectacles?
Me: NICE
Me: ocular eccentricities
Bailey: whoa..just whoa that was such a great phrase
Me: i am so proud of that.
Bailey: coin that. now. please
Me: i will.
Me: i'll PUT IT ON MY BLOGGG
Bailey: YES
Bailey: ill put that you coined it on my blog. just so its in two places, that you coined it
Me: good. then it's official.
Bailey: completely
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Friday, July 13, 2007
Where I will be on November 19th, 2007
Aww yeah.
Photo courtesy of Matthew's Blackberry
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
today was a good day
That is just so I remember, today was a really good day. Downloaded some Dragonette tracks, I really like them. Additionally, I need this. That is all. I said I'd post, I didn't say it would be good.
Oh! And I updated my links page. I don't have a blogroll on the blog, I have that links page instead. Do check it out if you haven't yet.
Labels: how i met your mother, music
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Monday, July 09, 2007
an update, an apology
In the past two weeks I have:
- Gayed it up pretty well.
- Co-authored a TV pilot teleplay. No, seriously. Read more about that here.
- Unpacked my life after my move home.
- Gotten myself more work.
- Kept busy (clearly).
- Tried not thinking as an alternative.
- Apparently garnered many new readers. Hi, new readers! Look, I have a Statcounter, I know these things. So why don't you all start commenting and then I'll be motivated to post more, k? And I promise I'll always comment back.
- Seriously, though, I have definitely fallen behind on posting and I'm sorry but life just got all crazy. Road trip diary day 2 is almost done and I have heard that there are audio issues with the first day. Apparently the sound works if you go to the actual Youtube sites for each video, so try that if it doesn't work. I think I broke Youtube, is what happened.
Labels: autowin, life, the move, tv
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