TENSION...IN THE NECK

Okay, so I'm a little stressed right now. I carry all of my tension in my shoulders and neck, and when I am stressing on something, it all bunches up in that area and gives me sight-blinding headaches. But I have found the perfect cure...works every time. First, I get in my car and drive to my sisters house. Then, I get out of my car, enter the house, and pick-up my niece to give her a huge hug and a kiss. Then I do something to make her laugh hysterically, and poof, magic, no more headache. She's a wonder cure. If could bottle her up and market her, I wouldn't. She's mine, all mine!! Mooowahahaha.
Anywho. Other than that, just trying to survive in the real world as a big girl. I thought I would be cute and ask a guy out that I met about a month ago. It didn't occur to me that he might have a girlfriend...mostly because of the way he flirts, but I guess I walked right in to that one. See, when I'm in a relationship, it doesn't even occur to me to flirt with other guys, but I realized long ago that men operate under a whole different set of guidelines. But that's not the point. The point is, I found out that he is an interpreter for the deaf, because he's the only one in his family that's not deaf, and I was intruiged by that. My cousin is deaf, so the family sort of learned a bit of ASL so we could talk to him. We didn't learn much, and it was mostly our grandparents that studied it, but I digress. I had the wild idea to look some things up in my ASL book, and ask him out that way. He thought it was cute, but as I said before, girlfriend. Oh well. I think my main problem is that when it comes to romance, I live in a movie, soundtrack and everything, and in the back of my mind, I believe everyone else will react to my romantic gestures with a movie mentality, and that everything will work out fine, with a swell of the music and a dolly back with a fade to black. Am I wrong to want the fairytale? Will I look back on all of this frustration with hilarity at some distant, content section of my existance? Bleh. Who knows. All I can deal with is what I have today, what I know today. And today, I'm going to eat some chicken for dinner. Nummy.

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY

Nick Arnstein: You've surprised me. Most people don't surprise me.
Fanny Brice: Yeah, well, you're lucky...most of 'em shock the hell out of me.

A LOT TO TALK ABOUT

Okay, here we go. I have a lot to talk about, so I am going to break things down in to sub categories. Let's rock.

CAMP- Ladies and gentlemen...this is the best movie about a musical theatre summer camp every made. Granted, this is not a popular category to make movies in, but whew, this is a good flick. It was my childhood, in a nut-shell...with all the people stereotypically there...whew...I can't say enough for how much I LOVED this movie. Anyone who has ever been young and freakishly talented, this is our movie. Flock to Blockbuster. Daniel Letterle...nice.

WHALE RIDER- I get it now...why they nominated a 13-year-old girl...I get it. She was amazing.

TIME AND SPACE- Okay, here's a mind-jumblie for you...Parva, the national Russian newspaper, reported recently that a scientific party doing research in the south pole recently made quite a discovery. Directly over the south pole, they found a huge, grey, swirling mass, something like a sand storm. They sent a weather balloon in to the mass, and it immediately disappeared. It was attatched to the ground, so they hauled it back down...and when they got it back, it was perfectly fine...with one noteable difference...the chronometer read the correct day and time, but the year read 1965. A portal in to the past? We'll see.

COKE TOWN- Got a few million? Got a corporation? Then you too can have your own city name to make you famous. That's right, kids...the city of Los Angeles is auctioning off the rights to RE-NAME LOS ANGELES to the highest corporate bidder. I really wish I was kidding on this, but I'm not. It's being told that this will help alleviate some of the financial pressure our fair city is under. So how about Lexusville...Mastercardtopia...Pepsi Corners? Great, right? Makes me proud to be a native Angelino.

Whew. That was...actually not all that much to talk about. I guess I compressed my thought better than I anticipated being capable of. Faboo.


QUOTE OF THE DAY

ORLANDO: And will you love me?
ROSALIND: Yea, will I. Friday's and Saturday's and all.

Willyum Shake-a-tailfeather

D'UH...TALK ABOUT THE OSCARS, MEGHAN

Okay, here's my thing. The academy seems to award on the basis of more than the individual performance...as in, many "Best" Oscars have gone to people that not necessarily deserved the award for the individual performance, but rather for their overlooked body of work leading up to it. Examples? I hate to say it, but Julia Roberts...believe me, I LOVE Julia Roberts, but Erin Brockowich was not the strongest performance of the year. But she's a strong actress and ridiculously talented, and I think the academy saw the juicy part as an excuse to give her the award he should have gotten for Steel Magnolias. Okay, so let's bring it all home to my point. Bill Murray. A more naturally funny man you will not find walking this earth, a man so ridiculously overlooked throughout his career, the academy should be ashamed. He makes people laugh, like no other. It's super hard to make people laugh, consistently. Can you do it? Without TELLING a joke, or using some slapstick device? NO. Comedy is worlds harder than drama. People are closer to tears these days than they are to laughter. Anywho, I'm off the point. The point is...Sean Penn is wonderfully talented and has himself been overlooked in the past...but in comparison with Bill? No contest. Ghostbusters, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Caddyshack...good lord, the list is ridiculous. And this was their chance! This was a role for the ages...all encompasing Murrayness and subtle humour surrounded by a wonderful story of true love. I don't know. The world's amuck. Amuck! Je ne sais pas. Oh, but ballyhoo on LOTR. Good times, man. Right there, another example. I mean, the third was the best, but eleven awards was a hasty catch-up to repair the mistake of not awarding the past two. And hey, Viggo deserved a shot in there. Just for getting away with having a name like "Viggo" and still being DEAD SEXY.

GOAL TO BE REACHED BY MY 25 BIRTHDAY

I will learn to speak French...fluently. Oh yes, it will be mine.

I LOVE CALIFORNIA

Dude, it's freakin' gorgeous in sunny California today. It's about 72 degrees, blue sky, not a cloud, slight breeze...paradise. I gripe about the traffic, and sometimes the people are a bit...looney, if you will...but, man, I love living here. When I was growing up, I took for granted how lucky I was to never have to walk to school in the snow (and rarely the rain, for that matter...wait, come to think of it, I didn't actually walk to school, but that's not the point). It's idyllic, lovely, amazing. I can understand why people have flocked here. Ultimately, I would like to live in my favorite city in the world, London, but until I can get there, I am happy to be here.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Love is merely a madness..."

Billy-Bob Shaker-Doo