For you, a thousand times over.

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”





The Kite Runner, Chapter 11
By Khaled Hosseini
Published 2003

It's go go, not cry cry.

While Cherry Darling would be a really awesome costume for Halloween, the only way for it to be truly believable is to be one ridiculously hot above-the-knee amputee. As tough as she appears to be, I would probably feel kinda protective towards her if I were a dude. Well, not that protective. After all, she does have a machine gun for a leg.

Genius. Just genius.

The trailer is a bit ADHD at times but the minute the music played, I was instantly and inexplicably drawn. Didn’t know who was doing the soundtrack, looked it up --TRENT REZNOR. Mmhhmm, he’s definitely a true music soul mate. For life.

coffee and cigarettes

Anyone into indie films should check out Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes. While it's not the most exciting film out there (plot lovers, beware), it does offer some interesting moments in how it captures the different ways people try (or fail) to communicate and connect with each other while having a cup of joe or a smoke. One does not need to love coffee or cigarettes to enjoy this movie, but having the ability to digest black-and-white pictures might be important. I'm only mentioning this because there are people out there that can't sit through a black and white movie, a disorder that I will never fully understand.

Since I haven't had any coffee today and I actually want to sleep early for once, I'll finish the rest of this entry with a few sleepy thoughts.

Somewhere in California:



Word math:
BLACK ≠ WHITE
Cigarettes = WHITE
Coffee = BLACK

Last cup of coffee: yesterday, at home
Last cigarette: 2008, San Francisco

Split at birth:
Tom Waits & Hell Boy
Iggy Pop & Anthony Kiedis

Great songs mentioning coffee:
Carly Simon - You're So Vain
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
Frank Sinatra - The Coffee Song

Great songs mentioning cigarettes:
The Wreckers - Cigarettes
Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
Emerson Hart - Cigarettes and Gasoline


Now, if only I could find where I stashed my old DVD copy...

Trying to understand it...

...with disappointing results! Feeling more like a small cat than a big cat lately. That and I want to go to Africa. So what if it's gonna cost me ten grand? : )

Where the Wild Things Are

Spent the very early part of the day playing assistant make-up artist for a fancy schmancy wedding. The mission: Making a bunch of giggly, super excited girls sit long enough so they can all be pretti/glami/sexi-fied. All I can say is that a huge bridal party is not exactly the easiest group to handle. Luckily, we managed to get them all dolled up and to the chapel on time.

After that, headed to Venice Beach for some well-deserved rest and relaxation.

Some snapshots of the day:

Cold soda for Yoda.

So I brought Master Yoda along with me to the zoo earlier today just ‘cause he has been chillin’ in my closet for far too long. One would think his grammar would improve by now but that wasn’t the case.

Anyway, back to the zoo...
Guess who we ran into???

Little human Yoda
Sitting next to his human Papa!

(His human parents were nice enough to give me the okay to take his picture).

The poor kid was sweating so much underneath the costume but I was amazed at how well-behaved he was - guess he already perfected the Jedi master’s ability to be an oasis of calm amidst the crazy. He didn't even flinch when he noticed the "other Yoda" on my back. Awww. If there’s one incentive to have kids, yeah, it’s definitely having the power to dress them however you damn well please. Personally, I'm kinda leaning towards a more kiddie version of these guys' style: