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March 26, 2005

Cold off the presses: The Branson-Taulli affair

I uploaded some photos of Cousin Jennifer's wedding for my mother. You're welcome to browse them, too. They're all out of order, but basically all the hotel photos are after the wedding. With comments or without.

Muchos thanks to Cousin Stacey for sending them over.

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Birthdayfest 2005!

A little overdue, but here are the photos from my birthday weekend almost a month ago. I think we started out by going to ethiopian food. If you've never had ethiopian food, you should definitely try it (especially in Jackson, the Ethiopian food capitol of America). Dinner was a lot of fun and quite an experience. We had traditional tables, which we pretty much little stools woven out of straw. The service was good, ambience was nice, and the food was awesome (except for Keith's).

We decided to have the joint birthday party Friday night, cause it was Choi's actual birthday. It was just the "core group" at the party. We had an awesome Cold Stone ice cream birthday cake, opened presents. Then we met up with everyone else to go to Alligator Lounge, this place in Brooklyn that has a jukebox and gives you a free pizza with every drink you order. For a bunch of cheap college kids, this place is a haven. Alligator was really fun, but I just had to get to Barcade. Barcade. was. AWESOME. I felt like a little kid in there, running from game to game, scrounging up quarters and fighting for my place in line. My favorite game to play was Rolling Thunder, a game that was at the local swimming pool and consumed many of my afternoons and quarters after my daily swim team practices. I was definitely better when I was younger, but it was such a blast from the past to get to play it.

On Saturday, Keith and I went on a tour of the Brookyln Brewery, which was pretty cool. Most of their brewing is done upstate, so the tour only consisted of one room, but it was still very cool.

We of course went to brunch on Sunday, 'cause that's what we do best. I was exhausted at brunch, I think everyone was, so it was pretty lowkey.

Keith left Monday morning, which was sad. Especially because I had to go back to class, work and reality. I don't remember very many details of that weekend 'cause it's been so long. But the pictures are pretty and fun!

Maybe in 3 weeks I'll write about Vegas (which was AWESOME, by the way).

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March 10, 2005

Blue State Syndrome

I absolutely hate hate hate a condition that I have named Blue State Syndrome. BSS is caused by the arrogance of people from California and New York (yes, only these states) that don't feel the need to know any of the "between states" because they're full of Jesus freaks and rednecks, and only serve a purpose when one of their inferior airports serves as a layover to a flight to the other state. BSS not only reeks of arrogance, but also basic stupidity-- I would imagine 60-75% of New York and California middle school students could name every one of the "Red States" and their capitals too. Unfortunately, there are a lot of BSS victims at NYU and around the city in general.

MEMO TO BSS VICTIMS: I DO NOT LIKE YOU. GET OVER YOURSELF. Idatuckiana, et al, provides you and all your egotistical BSS wardmates with most of your crawfish, potatoes, corn, wheat, cotton, flour, meat, silver, oil and thousands of other goods I cannot think of right now in my FIT OF IRE. Montahomippi also provides you with such treasures as Yosemite National Park, jazz, your beloved MARDI GRAS, BEIGNETS--for the LOVE OF GOD THEY GIVE YOU BEIGNETS, the longest bridge in the WORLD, the Green Bay Packers, Notre Dame, the Texas Longhorns, your beloved BILL and HILLARY CLINTON, Al Gore, Harry Reid, Eminem and legal prostitution. Again, just off the top of my head. SUCK IT.

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March 09, 2005

New addition to the family...

I'm in love I'm in love and I don't care who knows...

The lucky winner of my heart (for the time being) is Arjan, of arjanwrites.com. He's really on top of his music game and the boy reads my mind! Not that I'm on top of my music game, he just knows who's up-and-coming and when. For example, just now I was rockin' out to one of my favorite songs from The Bravery , a band Tatiana introduced me to last semester, and I type in a-r-j-a-n-w-r-i-t-e-s-.-c-o-m and lo and behold, what is his most current entry regarding? The Bravery!

Anyone who can pull off putting Project Runway, (country singer) Billy Currington, the hotness that is The Killers' Brendon Flowers AND a photo of the Scissor Sisters, all on one page, gets a big place in my heart. You little gay hipster you.

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March 06, 2005

Praise Elsewhere

Boston Globe writer Christopher Muther predict the future of the Scissor Sisters. Pretty entertaining.

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Ohhhhhhhh-o Listen to the Music

Today, in lieu of doing homework, I of course wove my way through the internet. I ran across these sites and cared to share them with you, though most of you do not even touch the music I listen. Nevertheless:

This website has songs from almost every artist that will play at the uber-hip South by Southwest Festival. I recommend you grab the Kings of Convenience and Bloc Party tracks.

Also, thanks to DJ Blurb (dooce's husband), I found 3hive, which has a lot of small, but not unknown, bands' singles. I recommend Elliott Smith, Her Space Holiday, Postal Service and once again, Bloc Party.

Mere suggestions.

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All the Good Ones go to Jesus

In my formative high school years, I was an angry child-- much as my sister is now. I had a lot of stress, new situations to deal with and a LOT of hormones that I did not know how to deal with. I was mad at my mom, my siblings, my teachers-- whoever I could be mad at, I was. I listened to music constantly-- my stereo was never off. I listened to a lot of angry music and/or music about breaking things-- Limp Bizkit, Godsmack, Eminem, Rammstein, etc etc. But the one album that got me through any "traumatic" event was Korn's "Follow the Leader." Jonathan Davis, the lead singer, is a very angry man and quite the performer. If you know anything about his life, you know he knows pain, which makes his music and singing very real. Korn got me, and several thousand angry high school kids, through high school without doing anything too crazy to deal with our anger. So it hurts me a little to hear Brian "Head" Welch, Korn's former guitarist, announce after his Baptism yesterday,

I felt like hurting someone before, now I feel like hugging people," he said.

I'm glad he found something to believe in-- drugs and alcohol obviously aren't good leaning posts-- but it's a little sad to see him go, especially to something as un-angry as Jesus. The band is still together, of course, but the day Jonathan Davis gives up his music for Christ will be, sorry to say, a very sad day for me. Kids identify with these guys and their music, empathize with their anger and pain, and something like this can be like a slap in the face to these angry teens who aren't ready to accept Christ, or didn't find the support they needed when they did. I'm not saying that because kids relate to Korn in this way the band members should not be allowed to practice religious freedom, I'm just saying the angry high schooler in me feels a little alienated and betrayed.

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March 05, 2005

Hot Off the Presses

Just thought I'd let you know that I have the much desired song from Kara Saun's runway... email if ya want in. It was pretty hard to find the song, mixed by Jason "JFK" Fleming.

fwapah*at*gmail.com

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Why I Won't Graduate From NYU

As previously mentioned, we decided to dress up as divas at work on Halloween (last year was Wig Day). Odette put our Halloween party photo up on AFAR's Contact page so people could see that we were not only efficient, but cute and fun. Well, Stacey wasn't comfortable with her photo and asked, to the chagrin of the whole office, that we take the photo down. None of us wanted that, so we decided to put Pretzel, the executive director's dog and AFAR's secondary mascot, in in place of Stacey. Odette sent me the photos, and with a little bit of Photoshop elbow grease and Classic Homework Avoidance obsessive-complusiveness, it was done.

Ta-da!

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March 01, 2005

Un response a mi cosine

Cousin Jennifer:

First and foremost, it was a pleasant surprise to see name in the signature of the comment section.. I didn't know you knew about fwapah.

Secondly, A-FREAKIN-MEN to your Project Runway comment. Unfortunately, I deleted it in the middle of zapping all of my comment spam. "Twas not intentional. I'm sorry.

I think Wendy was indeed an evil being, kept on to boost ratings and draw in washed up old lady designers or wanna-bes. My second favorite was Austin-- what a cutie. He should have made it to the final 3, but I guess Bravo has to make money somehow.

I would love to discuss the dynamics of Project Runway further, but I must run off to class and the INTERPOL concert at Radio City! Booyah!

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