Cubes are people too

Do you ever feel like you're just another block in a world of tetris puzzle pieces, waiting to be obliterated?

Well, maybe this music video will cheer you up. (It was one of my other favorites from the ResFest screening of "Videos that Rock.")

If that link doesn't work, try going here to view it.

Kitties aren't so bad...

...especially if they're in a Fatboy Slim video!


I saw this video at Resfest last week. I think it was my favorite.

Definitely I liked it better than the one with all the faces of people masturbating. That was a bit much. (Thanks to Yahoo! video search to finding the video.)

Let the Netflix mania begin!

I just created a huge queue of movies on my new Netflix account. Add me as a friend! (Use my loonyjoon-shop@yahoo.com email.) After all the crap I heard about Season 2, maybe I should remove the OC from my queue.

Also, let me just say that I am so happy that Best Week Ever is back on. Woot!

BTW, I recommend visiting the Cantor Arts Center near Stanford. It's a free art museum that also features the tastiest cafe in town, Cool Cafe. They have outdoor seating, where you can see real Rodin sculptures (including the amazing Gates of Hell). They use fresh, organic quality ingredients, and everything is yummy. Plus they serve dinner on Thursday nights.

Right now there's a great political revolutionary art exhibit! Parking is free (but lucky for me I can walk/bike there). I'm thinking about taking a silk-screen printing class there on Sundays in October.

Welcome back, life-sucking machine...

When I had my broken old tv, I was worried I was pretending to use it as my convenient excuse that forced me to watch nothing but vapid MTV shows.

Much to my relief, it turns out that I don't watch much MTV anymore with my new tv. Thank goodness I have some taste.

However, I have since discovered a new tv show addiction: The O.C.

Yes, a year too late, I am addicted to this show, because I bought the first season dvd set on a whim at Target (the source of all happy things). When I first heard of The O.C. way back, I scoffed at it, because when I think of Orange County, I think of the sprawling, monotonous, boring suburbia filled with ugly strip malls. However the show focuses on the wealthy, pretty part of O.C., Newport Beach.

It turns out that the show is part soap-opera craziness plus Mean Girls bitchiness plus romantic comedy.

And it is way wittier than any soap I've seen --mostly due to the comic relief character, Seth Cohen. He and his girlfriend Summer are the cutest couple ever --in real life and on the show. Plus I like Summer's spunk.

Plus they use PUNS! Sample puns: "Seth, you might have the Summer flu. Or maybe you need Anna-biotics."

And despite Peter Gallagher's crazy caterpillar eyebrows, he plays a very charming father and husband. He even turned a horrific key party episode into a romantic ending (he made sure he took his wife home). I don't care as much for Marissa and Ryan, but they are necessary to keep the drama going.

Plus the main teenager characters are the outcasts in an annoyingly wealthy high school --to which I can relate. Except I was way more boring than these people (no dates, fights, drugs, overdoses, shooting, alcohol, sex, car crashes, or running away). I was kind of like lonely, sad Seth before Chino-cool Ryan showed up.

I am told, however, that second season got wierd and lame. So maybe I'll just skip that second DVD set and hope that the new Season 3 gets back to the good old O.C. charm.

Eh, who am I kidding. I'll still watch as long as that yummy Adam Brody is on.

Also I'm excited about the new shows Supernatural and Out of Practice -- because people I knew from college are working on them! Plus Ellen, my favorite daytime talk show host, is hosting the Emmys, and Arrested Development, the best sitcom on tv, is starting up next Monday. And I'm looking forward to the new Desperate Housewives.

I hope I can restrain myself from the new Apprentice. But I will probably get sucked into the new Martha Stewart version. And what about America's Next Top Model??

I am so screwed. My life is over.

On top of that, BK is giving me a promotional free month of Netflix. You can thank my friends for trapping me in their sordid little black hole of tv addiction.

Observing L.A.

It's easy to have fun in L.A. without really trying. If I'm out and about, there's usually something funny to look at. For example:

1. My friend ordered this latte over the weekend. Note the lovely foam art, in the shape of a bird!

2. While driving around town, I saw a man dressed in a Barney costume (sans Barney head), casually talking to a woman, in front of a car, by a strip club.

3. As my friends and I were waiting for our food in a Westwood sandwich shop, I showed them my handy fold-up paper binoculars. (We were going to a concert later.) Katherine wanted to try them out, so she took the binoculars and aimed them outside the shop, at which she suddenly realized she was staring at 2 guys (models?) in nothing but speedos, just standing outside! We all flinched and turned away in embarrassment.

4. While waiting for a brunch table at Toast, a yummy bakery cafe, it was so busy and crowded, that people had to valet cars. I think I saw a Bentley. And every 3rd outdoor table had a dog. One table had a 80-pound dog lounging next to another table with a 5-pound Yorkshire terrier.

5. While watching Pink Martini's finale song at the Hollywood Bowl, a rather excited woman (maybe in her 50s?) stood up to dance. An effeminate-sounding man (in his 40s?), sitting behind her, asked the woman if she could sit down so he and his friends could see.

The woman turned around and said, "No! I'm dancing!" and turned back around to keep dancing. The man then threw popcorn at her head. She turned around to mutter, "How RUDE!" and kept dancing. Then he threw more popcorn in her seat. Apparently older people in L.A. still think they're teenagers.

Fortune cookies are REAL

My brother, an emergency physician, believes in what fortune cookies say.

Yesterday, I got a fortune cookie that said, "You will move into a new home by the end of this year." :O

My brother is usually right!