Sarah's Bloglet - Wednesday 9 April 2003

True love: Damian called me a "grammer hammer" and showed me this.
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12:00:24 PM, Wednesday 9 April 2003

More on Phoolan Devi: Here's Arundhati Roy talkin' some trash about the movie. I don't know, maybe she's right.

The one thing I have to say about that movie, however much it misrepresented Phoolan's life/made her look like a lil' pansy-ass, is that it made it very clear that in a patriarchal society you either get raped by your husband or raped by any other man who feels like it. Possibly both.

Which is not to say that our society is not in many ways patriarchal. We're just doing better than we used to, though not better enough. See "I Wanna Know What Love Is" by julie ruin. _
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05:45:36 PM, Tuesday 8 April 2003

Here is an interesting article about Phoolan Devi. The writer includes Phoolan's criticisms of the movie, which I share. _
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04:05:16 PM, Tuesday 8 April 2003

Last night Joanna and I watched Bandit Queen, a movie about Phoolan Devi. It was really striking, or maybe just heavy-handed, but I'd still argue that being hit over the head with feminism is better than being hit over the head with antifeminism. I might have more things to say about the film, but I'd have to think about it some more. For now I agree with most of this person's criticisms. _
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03:27:27 PM, Tuesday 8 April 2003

Dear sweet jesus on a stick: The study of phat kicks for your balling pleasure.

Reminds me of a conversation I had with Damian (paraphrased below).

me: Damn! You get around! You a pimp.
Damian (annoyed): No I don't. That whole concept is just silly.
me: OK, do you want me to call you a playa or a balla?
Damian(decisively): Balla. _
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02:07:58 PM, Tuesday 8 April 2003

Dudes, check out these amazing shoes! And the font at the top of the page! Awesome! It makes me sad (in a mono no aware kinda way) to think that those shoes are slowly failing to decompose in landfills somewhere, their beauty lost to the ravages of time. So transient, sneakers. Like the blossoms of the cherry tree.

Found it through this lviejournal community about sneakers. No, I don't have anything better to do with my time. _
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12:54:08 PM, Tuesday 8 April 2003

Lizzie called me yesterday with the following:

Band name: Vietnamese Duck Herder

Album name: Chicken on the handlebars

Looks like PBS programming can be pretty fruitful. _
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12:39:22 PM, Tuesday 8 April 2003

A charming article about Sesame Street. "Well, we're very big on the alphabet, aren't we, Snuffy?"

An interesting interview with Bill Moyers, too.

Since they're both from Salon, you'll have to endure their day pass advertisement. So sad. _
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04:38:31 PM, Monday 7 April 2003

Argh! Ok, find the embarrassing fashion designer quotes here. _
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02:22:53 PM, Monday 7 April 2003

The conceptual basis of modern fashion:
"It’s a feminine silhouette, but not feminine in the sense of Sartre."

One of the best quotes, from Roberto Cavalli: "With my show I love to make the people dream. With this dress I would like to tell you 'Come with me. We go together to the Oscars, we go together to the Grammys, we go together to the Music Awards. Come with me, come with me. I will be close to you. I will be on you!'"

Even what the models have to say isn't so funny. And let's hope those links work, hmm? _
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02:21:26 PM, Monday 7 April 2003

LIFE AIN'T NOTHIN BUT BITCHES AND MONEY. _
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12:51:30 PM, Monday 7 April 2003

Fucking inner asshole. Why do I have to let it be outer? _
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12:35:32 PM, Monday 7 April 2003

Anybody interested in constructions of femininity? Here's an gallery of related art and the tragically empty online archive of Bitch Magazine's Pink Issue. Alas. You can go buy a copy, but I'll be posting the "pink/not pink" list later. _
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01:15:26 AM, Monday 7 April 2003

New name for a thrashcore/cowpunk band: "the Original Pigs." (The definite article is optional in this case. Preferences? I got it from tonight's Nature episode.)

Lately I've been accomplishing all my fashion-related missions, but I slack on everything else. Hmm. _
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11:48:28 PM, Sunday 6 April 2003

Jokes from Pauli (his band website is here -- he's the one with the shag, which is not a mullet):

-Q: Did you hear about the gay midget? A: He just came out of the cupboard.

-Q: What does the stripper do with her asshole before work? A: Drops him off at band practice.

Hee hee! _
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07:03:19 PM, Sunday 6 April 2003

An article comparing Spirited Away, which I saw this weekend, to the new Cowboy Bebop movie, which I'll probably see next weekend. The author disses Spirited Away, probably because she's a sucka MC, but she does confess to a fondness for the Radish Spirit. (You'll have to undergo Salon's day pass advertisement in order to read the article, alas!) _
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06:30:02 PM, Sunday 6 April 2003

My recent life:

Sushi and a Miyazaki movie last night. (There wasn't a japanese theme, it just turned out that way.) Let me recommend Okina Sushi at 776 Arguello to any SF-based raw fish fans. The waiter was awesome and generously accomodated my request for extra ginger. Also it was cheap.

This afternoon I went thrifting in the Mission with Melissa. (She lives in Oakland but was really rockin' the mission hipster look today. I commented on it and she replied, "Yeah, I just pulled some stuff off my floor. Guess that's their secret.") Found my croquet dress at Clothes Contact (473 Valencia, between 15th and 16th -- awesome awesome awesome!). It needs minor repairs but is otherwise excellent, and strangely enough looks better if I don't wear a bra under it. Hm.

"Tiny Dancer" is a wonderful song. _
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11:15:40 PM, Saturday 5 April 2003

How the date end? Terrible!
How'd the date end? Unbearable!
It was the worst thing that you ever saw!
How'd the date end? Horrible!
How'd the date end? Deplorable!
And now I have a headache the size of Arkansas!

There is nothing so awesome as a Mr. T Experience song. _
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06:36:39 PM, Friday 4 April 2003

Now my wheels are off the ground, they keep spinnin' round
Just to think you were just passin' by _
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05:46:15 PM, Friday 4 April 2003

Another song on repeat: "Pacer" by the Amps. _
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05:30:22 PM, Friday 4 April 2003

do we already have a smiley that means "lecherous walrus"? cause if we didn't, we do now: ;3= . _
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04:26:37 PM, Thursday 3 April 2003

I could fucking live on tater tots and gari. _
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02:46:32 PM, Thursday 3 April 2003

Lizzie had a wonderful idea:
trickseyJump: wonder if vader ever got his groove on?
glossomania: oh yeah, he got down
trickseyJump: i bet he did beat box w/his respirator helmet... _
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01:19:21 PM, Thursday 3 April 2003

Charming endearment of the moment: "If you were Johnny Knoxville and I were a baby alligator I'd bite your nipple." _
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12:59:15 PM, Thursday 3 April 2003

(shit, was that emo enough for y'all?) _
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12:28:23 PM, Thursday 3 April 2003

Songs you have to listen to over and over.
Small birds singing.
Alphabets I can't read.
Monumental cumuli.
Distance.

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12:27:57 PM, Thursday 3 April 2003

BEST SONG EVER: "Going to Georgia" by the Mountain Goats.

I was in love with this song about five or six years ago. Kristin Masser and I danced around her room screaming along with it. I just downloaded it and had to listen to it about five times in a row. _
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07:12:13 PM, Wednesday 2 April 2003

yip yip yip yip yip! _
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05:20:26 PM, Wednesday 2 April 2003

I find it incredibly offensive whenever any government or military spokesperson refers to the enemy as "the bad guys." Either the speaker or the listener is an idiot in that equation, and I don't like that one bit. _
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01:25:39 PM, Wednesday 2 April 2003

Bad Sarah, blogging late and fucking up the html. I meant to say:

I also really liked the Rube Goldberg segment in the extras.

One more Knoxville beefcake shot.

Ok, there. Going to bed before I kill again. _
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02:40:32 AM, Wednesday 2 April 2003

Just watched Jackass:The Movie which is not merely a fine cinematic achievement but also a great opportunity to gape at Johnny Knoxville. Although I must say he didn't take off his shirt nearly enough, but then he never does.

Best lines from the movie:

-Where are we going, Johnny?
-The hospital.
-Why the fuck are we going there?

I also really liked the here. And those were the only ones I could find. Fucker needs to put out a calendar! _
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02:36:43 AM, Wednesday 2 April 2003

These strange creatures have an affinity for baked goods of all sorts.

Thanks to Dave. _
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06:24:54 PM, Tuesday 1 April 2003

Now reorganizing the filing system for the fourth time.

If only there were someone to blame.
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04:09:30 PM, Tuesday 1 April 2003

...the Germans, who have by this time succeeded in expelling as aliens a great many words that were good enough for Goethe.

Good enough for Goethe! Good enough for Goethe! (I can't stop saying it. And you can find the entire text of The King's English here.) _
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03:09:12 PM, Tuesday 1 April 2003

"Church on White" is so lovely. I think I must heart Stephen Malkmus' entire oeuvre. Darn indie-rock geniuses.
(Darn a rudimentary knowledge of Latin, too. It fucks up my pluralization. Why octopuses when you can have octopi? (Or octopodes, if you want to get old school.) Why geniuses when you can have genii? Argh.)
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02:26:06 PM, Tuesday 1 April 2003

"Orwellian, yet optimistic!" _
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12:19:29 PM, Tuesday 1 April 2003

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