Things I send you.

The last verse.

2011-05-25T13:19:00.002-04:00

2011-05-25T11:30:00.001-04:00

Quelle romance...

2011-05-14T18:15:00.000-04:00

Figure A: Pure magic. Okay, I'm packed and ready to go, but also a shambles. Do you get the pit of your stomach feeling when you travel? Like you're about to climb aboard the Millennium Falcon, and you feel obligated to say "I have a bad feeling about this," even though you everybody knows you're going to blow up the Death Star???That's me right now. But it's okay. Manchester awaits!!

How I love you, Werner.

2011-05-12T11:26:00.000-04:00

"There's something profoundly wrong—as wrong as the Spanish Inquisition was. The Spanish Inquisition had one goal, to eradicate all traces of Muslim faith on the soil of Spain, and hence you had to confess and proclaim the innermost deepest nature of your faith to the commission. And almost as a parallel event, explaining and scrutinizing the human soul, into all its niches and crooks and

2011-05-11T11:14:00.001-04:00

Thrown for a loop.

2011-05-11T00:15:00.000-04:00

I've been feeling a bit off lately. I think it's because I've been technically happy, which is so completely at odds with my instinctive cynical demeanor, that I've been questioning every reaction I have to every thing. And when I say technically happy, it's not because I feel like I have to qualify the emotion. It's just that there are so many LEVELS OF HAPPY. Some of them operate only a few

I don't do tuesdays.

2011-05-10T22:15:00.001-04:00

Pop music=the great dorkenator

2011-05-10T13:32:00.000-04:00

When I'm going through customs this Sunday, and the guy asks me the purpose of my visit, I don't think I can answer, "a song by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros," but I sort of want to say it anyway!

Things I have typed today:

2011-05-09T16:33:00.001-04:00

C: I will happily accompany you to wythenshawe hall if you like (tudor and jacobean manor house in south manchester)Emily: oh! I've always wanted to go there!They have a historically important collection of silver.

I exist, and I find it nauseating....

2011-05-09T12:08:00.001-04:00

sizzler!

2011-05-08T10:03:00.002-04:00

President Bush Reacts to Osama Bin Laden's Death with Will Ferrell from Will Ferrell

tablescape.

2011-05-07T21:14:00.001-04:00

The more you know...

2011-05-03T21:16:00.000-04:00

Emily in 2005: "Shit, I have to write my bibliography. How do I use MLA style again? Where the hell is my handbook? Oh wait, I threw it out. (Googles MLA, putters around for hours copying, pasting, reformatting, and cursing.) Emily in 2011: Oh, I have to write my bibliography! (Goes to Worldcat, makes list of books, hits export to MLA, is finished in 5 minutes.) What have we learned

The constellations

2011-05-02T21:13:00.000-04:00

At least we know we're free?

2011-05-01T23:53:00.001-04:00

Um, I need to learn German just so I can see this movie!!

2011-05-01T14:27:00.000-04:00

In the midst of watching and re-watching the royal wedding coverage (seriously, there is nothing on TV!), Laura's fella Olaf (my favorite German theoretical physicist who totally got to meet Stephen Hawking and hangs out at the LHC all the time) told me about this movie, which is apparently the German version of King Ralph! I only have a vague conception of what's happening, but it's still

Post-royal wedding soundtrack

2011-04-30T15:24:00.000-04:00

Meh, let's rise and follow Charlie!

The best chapel speaker ever.

2011-04-28T10:54:00.000-04:00

CHALLENGE!!!

2011-04-28T10:45:00.000-04:00

I have a paper due next Wednesday about Hollywood remakes and theories of simulacra, and I've been slacking off MAJOR for it. I don't know why, exactly--a combination of finding far superior ways to spend time, and being generally distracted by wonderful things. Anyway, to get myself back on track, I am going to challenge myself to find ways to put the following bits of text into my paper:

Out of the frying pan and across the pond.

2011-04-26T00:38:00.001-04:00

A few minutes ago I was on a blog which linked to the Abbey Road webcam, a cctv hooked up in that iconic spot of London street, site of innumerable dopey tourist photos. I clicked through out of curiosity, expecting choppy footage of a dark road, and instead found some warm amber streetlamps, and the oddly sweet sounds of double-decker bus traffic and birdsong.I can't and never could account for

Worst thing ever:

2011-04-24T18:17:00.001-04:00

Having a 7-second song stuck in your head! /becoming wolves.

Theorizing...

2011-04-21T07:32:00.000-04:00

"The voyeur represents in space the fracture which forever separates him from the object; he represents his very dissatisfaction (which is precisely what he needs as a voyeur), and thus also his "satisfaction" insofar as it is of a specifically voyeuristic type. To fill in this distance would threaten to overwhelm the subject, to lead him to consume the object (the object which is now too close

Actual film theory homework.

2011-04-20T22:49:00.002-04:00

2011-04-20T22:44:00.001-04:00

Baudrillard, I'll never get tired of your one-liners...

2011-04-18T23:37:00.000-04:00

"To seduce is to die as reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion."

2011-04-18T22:43:00.002-04:00

Putting this here so I don't lose it. You shouldn't lose it either!

Spooooky outtakes

2011-04-18T22:41:00.002-04:00

Yes. This is what I get for falling into a youtube k-hole while I should be reading about apparatus theory.

SHALIMAR!!!!!

2011-04-18T21:08:00.000-04:00

There is such wisdom in your sparklyness!!!

Of course, then there's this:

2011-04-17T16:58:00.001-04:00

And I think it answers all of my previous questions.

Strange questions after watching all 3 versions of A Star is Born...

2011-04-17T15:41:00.000-04:00

Why do we remake things we like? Why don't we remake things we don't like instead? Is it because the former is easier, or is it because we're afraid to face the things we don't like? When you seek to "improve upon" a work that's already been done, are you trying to share it with a larger audience, or assert your own authority over a work that enthralls you? Obviously it's not a contest, but

YES

2011-04-16T20:14:00.001-04:00

God bless America indeed!

OMG!

2011-04-10T21:18:00.001-04:00

I am on this like a duck on a junebug!

2011-04-09T17:09:00.002-04:00

2011-04-06T21:53:00.002-04:00

April in Boston...

2011-04-04T13:49:00.000-04:00

It may look a bit bleak outside, but it doesn't matter one whit. Because on the inside, I feel exactly like this. Time to track down a Gucci saddle.

This is why my list is kept in a satchel, not a bucket.

2011-04-03T14:16:00.000-04:00

1. Leave Providence.

2011-03-31T19:48:00.001-04:00

2011-03-30T22:34:00.001-04:00

Sometimes, I just want to live in a John Prine song.

2011-03-29T22:12:00.001-04:00

Ma Bell, you may be lame...

2011-03-29T15:05:00.002-04:00

But your videos are addicting!!

Triple X?

2011-03-27T14:26:00.001-04:00

Over the past few weeks, I've realized that I'm absolutely terrified of the "x(es)" that go at the end of emails. Like every kind of printed word, I read too much unto them. When you're talking to somebody and they close the message with xxxxxxxxx, it would seem to imply that you're headlong in love. But I know through hard experience that it's just a super easy way of saying "I like ya, bye!"

Remember?

2011-03-24T17:18:00.003-04:00

How awesome Whitney Houston was?Pshaw, of course you don't. You're a dude!

Hey fellas

2011-03-22T18:07:00.000-04:00

What's cooler than being cool???ICE COLD! The worst part about spending a ton of time with somebody you're nuts about is that eventually it has to end, even for the shortest period of time. And then you're left with that inevitable conundrum: Do you state what a great time you had and describe the extent to which you're going to miss it, and risk casting a pall over your final moments? Or are

Newport's own hitler cat.

2011-03-19T18:27:00.001-04:00

Tuesday is my Friday,,,

2011-03-15T14:03:00.002-04:00

And this is my jam!

Just so you know...

2011-03-15T10:11:00.001-04:00

The best house ever is in the north end.

He's my easy lover...

2011-03-11T10:19:00.000-05:00

Phil Collins teh hotness.

Making out with the internet...

2011-03-11T10:14:00.000-05:00

2011-03-10T13:16:00.001-05:00

2011-03-10T12:42:00.002-05:00

Old MacDonald had a scarf...

2011-03-08T12:40:00.002-05:00

Like, so, at my farm, all the chickens and geese and lambs and stuff, like, have the cutest bespoke outerwear. In other news, the NYT has not seen Portlandia, apparently.

2011-03-08T11:39:00.002-05:00

Dude

2011-03-06T22:16:00.001-05:00

You totally have a cameo in the fighter. Well, sort of, anyway.

Statement of the morning:

2011-03-06T10:34:00.000-05:00

Fuck Brecht! I'm not dealing with Brecht and how Brechtian Brecht is. He can go Brecht his Brechtian self. (sorry Brecht. I still love ya.)

Like, this...but on a boat!

2011-03-05T14:54:00.001-05:00

OH MY GOD. WANT.

2011-03-05T14:41:00.000-05:00

Seriously. It's freaking perfect.

Paging amy grant...

2011-03-04T14:35:00.001-05:00

This is what the real "baby baby" looked like.

2011-03-03T19:55:00.002-05:00

Well, Duh.

Personal Days with Bazin.

2011-03-03T14:18:00.000-05:00

I'm writing my film theory midterm right now, and I'm in a 2 pots of coffee-style groove that's allowing me to make bizarre intellectual leaps featuring mathematical and physics concepts that I have only the vaguest handle on. Basically, I feel like this right now: You know, my mom has all of these scrapbooks from various generations of family, including a massive, leather-bound tome assembled

To what extent...

2011-03-03T13:16:00.002-05:00

Do you think I'll get shot if I decide to make "Chronologue" a word?

PS!

2011-03-02T10:42:00.000-05:00

Do you own this?????? I bet you bought it somewhere around 2001, probably in a bargain bin at a video store.

Blowing bubbles.

2011-03-02T10:37:00.000-05:00

Boingboing was nice enough to put up one of my favorite clips of my favorite hero. Have you ever put your leg on somebody while you're in the middle of a conversation? I highly recommend giving it a try.

Masterpiece?

2011-03-01T19:14:00.000-05:00

My parents are going through my old school stuff, and they sent me a scan of this drawing I made in Elementary school. I'm pretty sure that this is left over from my made up religion phase. Yep, that's a snake goddess distributing communion. Shrug.

The small victories...

2011-03-01T14:58:00.000-05:00

After spending something like 3 hours trying to figure out what the hell usernames and passwords I used over five years, I have managed to consolidate from three linkedin accounts* to one. One that doesn't have a too-sexy photo of me in a sundress. Oh yeah. Livin the dream. *This is my lazy attempt at being a professional type person. I get in this mood about once every three months.

Holy Moly!!

2011-02-28T17:13:00.001-05:00

I am going to be an aunt! Which means I've already bought my niecephew a pen and some paper, so they can write down all the words they don't understand...

Soundtrax...

2011-02-27T14:29:00.001-05:00

(The better version is here, but unembeddable. Rats.) You know, I might have to turn in my badge, gun, and vagina for saying this, but I have truly come to the conclusion that I hate "girls nights" with the fire of a thousand suns. This is not to say that I hate hanging out with girls in the evening time. I just hate the creepily legislated world of fake gaiety, the inevitable conversations

I love

2011-02-26T18:05:00.001-05:00

"Perspective was the original sin of western painting." Andre Bazin. That is all.

Beautiful expressions...of love?

2011-02-26T16:32:00.002-05:00

Love theme from Karate Kid...thank you.

Thank you, smartphone

2011-02-24T23:34:00.000-05:00

For allowing me to take video of rattling leaves on impulse.

A little light reading...

2011-02-22T23:24:00.001-05:00

Holidays in the sun...

2011-02-21T22:27:00.001-05:00

Intervention

2011-02-20T13:46:00.001-05:00

"We've been talking, and we think you're reading too much. How about feeding us early dinner instead?"

Theories of montage

2011-02-20T11:51:00.072-05:00

This morning, I'm lounging around in my kimono, sipping on coffee, letting my hair-air dry, watching Battleship Potemkin out of the corner of my eye, and reading Eisenstein, underlining his little kernels of wisdom with a teal fountain pen.* Sergei is talking about film as Haiku right now; an observation which happily brings me back to my Alfred days. Lounging around in Norwood bedroom

Nights of endless pleasure...

2011-02-19T12:18:00.000-05:00

Next time I karaoke this, I should probably enhance the performance by wearing a nightgown and bringing my haunted motorcycle.

I'm kind of a big deal

2011-02-18T11:16:00.000-05:00

Somehow I'm Ron Burgundy now. Who knew?(it must be all the leather-bound books)

Can you handle...

2011-02-17T15:51:00.001-05:00

The sheer computing power??

Baby's first webinar...

2011-02-17T12:04:00.001-05:00

Is ridiculous.

Old Sport?!?

2011-02-16T14:28:00.000-05:00

Play this!!

Just found this...

2011-02-15T13:18:00.000-05:00

Decided to put it here.

Oh hai

2011-02-15T00:03:00.001-05:00

Iz mah burfday.

Kenneth Mars died!

2011-02-14T22:18:00.002-05:00

frig.

Two Nomi, two Outkast,

2011-02-14T19:19:00.004-05:00

One Down-to-Mars girl.

Dude!

2011-02-13T21:21:00.001-05:00

Next time you have a cold, get yourself some milfoil tea. I bought some at the polish deli in southie, and after just 2 cups, the sore throat I woke up with is nearly gone! (The kinder egg probably helped too)

Important to remember:

2011-02-13T19:53:00.001-05:00

"The process of intellection elicited in the experience of the montage unit is thus hypostasized into the triadic rehearsal of the dialectic."

Best sunday ever.

2011-02-13T19:32:00.001-05:00

Cafe Polonia. Borscht. Potato pancakes. Herring. Mulled wine.

Also,

2011-02-11T16:56:00.002-05:00

Dance dance dance to the radio!

2011-02-11T16:56:00.000-05:00

Best fundraiser ever.

2011-02-11T10:58:00.002-05:00

Robots and librarians. Need I say more?

It's on like Donkey Kong.

2011-02-10T16:06:00.000-05:00

Science On Screen: DEATH IN VENICE with psychologist and author Dr. Nancy Etcoff | The Coolidge Corner Theatre

The all new Chevy Bad Ideamobile.

2011-02-10T16:05:00.000-05:00

I literally just fell on the floor laughing. 1. How did they find the fugliest guy ever? 2. WORST CAR FEATURE EVER! 3. Kissing that guy's chin fur would cause that poor girl suuuuch a rash.

Underground dwelling

2011-02-08T22:24:00.001-05:00

I get the feeling that the person who works in the Kenmore command center and I may have been separated at birth.

There's never been a better time to become catholic.

2011-02-08T21:29:00.002-05:00

Take a long drag of this good stuff....

2011-02-08T17:25:00.001-05:00

Would ya be mine?

2011-02-07T23:44:00.001-05:00

Mr.Robinson's Neighborhood - watch more funny videos

Yup, I'm an addict.

2011-02-07T22:08:00.001-05:00

Last month my friend Dana gave me her swank couch, which was a total upgrade from the overstuffed monstrosity we had before. The only flaw is that Dana lost one of the slipcover cushions, and we haven't had time to get a new one, a problem Leo doesn't mind in the least. He has decided that the red cushion is his, and jealously guards against invaders.

DID YOU KNOW?

2011-02-07T08:08:00.000-05:00

That Walter Benjamin's doctoral study, The Origins of German Tragedy was rejected as "incomprehensible"? I bet he wrote it over Gchat.

The main use of smartphones as far as I can see:

2011-02-06T00:07:00.001-05:00

Is cat photos.Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.7

Work of art in the age of Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

2011-02-05T14:35:00.000-05:00

Damn it, I'm reading Illuminations for the millionth time, and I keep hearing Paul Rudd being hilarious in the next room. I wonder what would have happened if Walt had surfed. In fact, I wonder what would have happened if any of our great thinkers had surfed. There doesn't seem to be a correlation between great thinking and daredevilry, and that seems sort of sad.* You'd think I'd know this

The new swine flu...

2011-02-04T18:05:00.001-05:00

Is this!!

Kung Hei Fat Choi!!

2011-02-03T17:19:00.000-05:00

I have three words for you this Chinese New Year:Gourmet Dumpling House.Fuck. Yes.