Sunday, October 14, 2007
back from the dead
Well. It's been a while. Told you I'm bad at keeping up on this. Lots has happened, I've been wicked busy, etc. I have ideas for some new posts and hopefully I'll have time to write them.
Tonight was Made For You, where DJ Carlytron (hey, that's me!) made her debut. The event was awesome and successful and I had a blast, and here's what I played!
Oh, before I get to the setlist, I have an UPDATE (6:50 pm): Upon closer inspection of my super-cute swag bag, I have come to a startling revelation. My mom put her business cards in the bags (she does jewelry designs and repair, lemme know if anyone needs some pearls restrung or whatever! She's fab), and since I was so busy working the past few weeks she made them herself, I didn't get to design them for her. Um ... I don't know how to say this, but she used Comic Sans. ::shudder:: Anyone who knows me knows how I feel about Comic Sans. I'm going to have to have a talk with her about this. Ok anyway, setlist!
- Hall and Oates - Out of Touch
- The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
- The Pogues - Sunny Side of the Street
- Morrissey - The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
- Muse - Feeling Good
- The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom
- Whitney Houston - I'm Your Baby Tonight
- Madonna - Express Yourself
- INXS - Devil Inside
- George Michael - Freedom '90
- Erasure - A Little Respect
- Edwin Collins - Never Met A Girl Like You
- The Fratellis - Flathead
- The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
- Cake - Never There
- Fountains of Wayne - Radiation Vibe
- Dramarama - Anything, Anything
- Jill Sobule - Supermodel
- Kelly Clarkson - Never Again
- Beyonce - Deja Vu
- Missy Elliott - Pass That Dutch
- Salt 'n' Pepa - Push It
- DJ Unk - Walk It Out
- Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
- Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
- Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
- M.I.A. - Jimmy
- Moving Units - Anyone
- The Faint - Glass Danse
- Enon - Disposable Parts
- Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth
- Feist - 1234 (VanShe Technologic Remix)
- Keyshia Cole - Let It Go
- Pat Benatar - Love Is a Battlefield
- Prince - Raspberry Beret
- Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything is All Right)
- Pulp - Common People
- Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
- Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Starting Something
- Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music
- Timbaland - Way I Are
- Justin Timberlake - Sexyback
- Justice Vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends
- Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
- Joy Electric - We Are Rock (The Faint mix)
- The Knife - Heartbeats
- Nelly Furtado - Do It
- Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World
- En Vogue - Free Your Mind
- The Sounds - Tony the Beat
- The Turtles - So Happy Together
- Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now?
- Billy Idol - Cradle of Love
- Bon Jovi - Livin' On a Prayer
- Editors - An End Has a Start
- Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver
- Michael Sembello - She's a Maniac
- Propellerheads (feat. Miss Shirley Bassey) - History Repeating (Ankle Length Mix)
- Bloc Party - Banquet
- Basement Jaxx - Do Your Thing
- Aretha Franklin - Don't Play That Song For Me
- David Bowie & Queen - Under Pressure
- Justin Timberlake - My Love
- Bel Biv Devoe - Poison
- Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana
- Rihanna - Shut Up And Drive
- The Presets - Down Down Down
- Shannon - Let The Music Play
- Destiny's Child - Bug A Boo
- Alicia Keys - Karma
- Le Tigre - Deceptacon
- CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
a message from the humidity
So, posts will be sparse for the next two weeks as I am indisposed and am feeling manic at best, but here are a few things that are great because I am Trying To Be Positive (I'm putting it out there to the universe, just like The Secret told me to!):
- Joseph and I are going to be taking a road trip from Florida to New Jersey next week, and there will be YouTube updates from the road (if we are able to stop and find wireless, if not they will all be uploaded at once when we get back).
- NY Pride is in a week and a half.
- Is anyone else kinda excited about Hey Paula? Yet another reason why I Love Bravo (I also love Kathy Griffin, I don't care what Jane says). Although I wish they had called it something amazing like, Paula Abdul: Straight Up, or Rush, Rush to Your TV, It's the Paula Abdul Show, or even She's a Cold Hearted Snake (g-girl!), Check Out Her Show (oh oh oh), or maybe just Vibeology (you can tell I was a big fan Back In The Day, which was a Wednesday).
- My next On The Lot recap will be up ... next week I guess? Jane has assured me that it was awful, though, so I'm excited.
Labels: jane, joseph, life, lists, on the lot, tv
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
domain redesign
Today I redesigned the Imaginaryselves.com main page. It will have its own batch of content completely different from the content on my sites or on Jane's site (which she is redoing as well). Check it out here.
posted by carlytron @ 9:54 PM,
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Saturday, May 26, 2007
On why I am awesome (part the first)
This was inspired by a conversation I had with Jane, and is a product of my incredibly obnoxious insomnia. this is a list of why I am awesome. For the purposes of this list, "awesome" will be used in reference to any thing/event/action I have been involved in that makes for a totally great, interesting story. This also allows me to now tell these fantastic stories, and if there is one thing I love it's Talking About Me. Oh, and these are in random order. And each one is kinda long so I'm going to have to break them up into separate posts.
10. I cut off all of my hair the day of my senior prom.
I had really long hair for the longest time and finally in high school I cut it to shoulder-length, where it remained until the afternoon of my senior prom. Prior to the cut I always wore it in buns or ponytails because I Was a Jock. So around lunchtime I went to get my hair done in a fancy up-do, but once I got to the salon I decided to chop it all off instead. I had been toying with the idea for a while and it was obvs. a part of my Subtly Convince My Friends To Tell Me That I Am Gay Because I Refuse To Come Out plan (list coming soon, natch.), I was also ready for a change. So, off the hair went, and I showed up to prom looking smoking hot.
I know it's hard to tell the differences but you're just going to have to trust me here. The photo on the left is from the ever-popular "Carly With Beverages" series.
It is important to note that the year was 2000. It is also important to note that I went to this prom alone, without a date. I went to junior prom with a guy friend of mine, but senior prom was a solo venture, which made my fashionably late entrance all the more awesome ... all of my guy friends who didn't want to go to the prom with me were totally shocked and awed by my hotness (which I promised them would happen, but no one believed me, of course). I rarely speak highly of myself, as far as appearance goes, but that was a totally awesome moment and I'm really proud of myself for that. And I totally knew I was gay and didn't really care what the boys thought anyhow.
9. I publically embarassed myself a lot in high school by creating choreographed dance routines to pop songs.
In high school Jane and I tried to convince everyone how cool we were by openly hating pop music. We were all, "oh, Our Lady Peace and Incubus are sooooo cool, what the hell is this *NSync crap?" except we secretly loved it a lot. So much so that we performed choreographed dance routines at our school's talent show-type events as a "joke." But really, how much of a joke is it when you're practicing several times a week? Yeah, didn't think so. Videos of these performances are absolutely coming soon, I think the world is finally ready to see this.
Our first performance was a 3-person dance routine to a medley of pop songs, including (but not limited to) such hits as "Summergirls" by LFO, "Crazy" by crazy Britney herself, and "Tearin' Up My Heart" by *NSync. Our second performance was even more impressive, as we finally had a 5-person "boy band" (consisting of 5 girls, obvs.) and performed two songs in their entirety, "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys and "Bye Bye Bye" by *NSync. We named our boy band "Back 'NSync" (get it?). IWITW really didn't have too much choreography, it more about the emoting via lip synching and amazing hand gestures (and all of us trying not to laugh too much). B^3 however was much more involved and we tried to learn all of the choreography to the song. It was amazing, and I almost ruined it twice during the performance (which was ironic, because I spent all week promising everyone that I would not be the "rhythmless nation" they so thought I would be). I used to have photos of this but I deleted them all so the videos will be up soon.
8. My friends and I participated in a taping of the show Most Extreme Elimination Challenge.
So this is one of those "you guys, this is gonna ROCK!" kinda moments, and then it turns out to be terrible. For those who don't know Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (MXC) was a Japanese show that aired a few years ago on Spike! with crazy English dubs. It's like a live action video game. Is it still on? Does anyone know? It's such a crazy show, and we used to DVR it we loved it so much.
Then we found out that they were going to be shooting a college version in Orlando at Universal Studios, and were casting at school. So myself and a few other friends showed up, waited out in the heat for hours, and finally auditioned by running this retarded obstacle course. Somehow, we were all asked to go to the taping.
The night before the taping, we went out and my dumb ass got so drunk that I was horrendously hung over the next morning. We had to leave horribly early and I remember lying on my bed, moaning, "you guys go, leave me here to die" to my friends who were like, "seriously, Carly? we have to go." Finally they got me out of the apartment. And yes, I did feel like I was going to die. I should also mention that we spent several days putting together several ridiculous costumes each. Thrift stores are amazing for this sort of thing. One of my costumes was entirely silver, including my silver tennis shoes. One of Joseph's costumes was a Japanese school girl (remember that, it will come into play again later). I really don't remember any of our other costumes and I'm kinda bummed that none of us have any pictures. I think there were jumpsuits involved, though.
Anyway so we were there and shooting outside of the building that I ended up working in several years later (how odd). Our first competition was to run across this like, swimming pool-sized lake by stepping on these floating stone things, but some of them wouldn't hold our weight and we would fall. So if you could make it across you won, but if not, you lost. Most people didn't make it across. I don't think that any of my friends did either. It was maybe 30 minutes until my turn for this when my hangover subsided and my fear of whatever ungodly thing I had somehow signed myself up for kicked in. I totally wanted to leave, like immediately. But then it was my turn.
Remember I'm wearing a silver outfit. A stretchy silver shirt (like a frat-boy-dude-bro would have worn out in the late 90s), a silver cape (I think that was from Joseph's Drag Drawer), and these silver pants. They were like, plastic, and I called them "sauna pants" because they made my legs sweat like nothing I had ever experienced before. These were the pants you'd wear when you wanted to lose 5 pounds in 5 minutes by running on a treadmill. Anyway so it's my turn and I go running across this thing like a banshee and I actually thought I was going to make it across. I remember thinking to myself, "oh my God I'm going to make it" and then right as I hit like, the 3/4 mark, I faceplanted into the water. The water was freezing and I think I went into shock. I could barely get out of the water because it was basically a large hole in the ground and there was mud along side from all of the kids who had gone before me.
So I sorta had to like, roll myself out, in shock and weighing a ton because my crazy outfit was retaining water. Then, a new sensation. I realized that the impact of my fall had split my sauna pants right up the middle. I shit you not. So I had to somehow get out of the water and not let my destroyed pants fall off. After we changed and I tried not to be mortified, we realized that Joseph was the only one was enthusiastic at all, the rest of us wanted to go home. We cuddled together on these weird couches near craft services while Joseph kept on with it, participating in the other events. He got to do this thing where you had to run across a rotating cylinder and not fall off. I was like, "no thank you."
Shockingly, none of my footage made the show. But's Joseph did! He was the only one of my friends who did, dressed as a Japanese school girl. I actually have that episode saved on my DVR in Orlando and I have to remember to copy it to a tape or something when I am down there in June.
Ok that's all for now, check back for the next installment.
Labels: college, high school, jane, joseph, life, lists, stupid things i do
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
wherefore art thou, sleepytime tea?
i drank my sleepytime tea and i am NOT SLEEPING. what gives?
i have to get up in about 5 hours but here is a really exciting announcement ... COMING SOON! the long-awaited (by me) redesign of our domain, imaginaryselves.com. i own this with my best friend Jane (buy her shit NOW) and the picture on the main page is several years old. we finally have new ones so I can redesign and update the site, plus actually post fun stuff on there, including (but not limited to):
- our delightful reviews of movies that no one would ever want to sit through
- our embarassing videos (most are from high school, so ... yeah)
- our brilliance (e.g. treatments for movies we'd like made, like both of our baby-sitters club films)
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