a spaniard in the works

SUP?

2009-09-04T00:24:23Z

How do I do livejournalz?

Mister Burns is almost 25. Mister Burns is getting...Burnsy.

APB

2008-07-24T16:21:25Z

Who sent me the virtual ice cream cone? Or is this some sort of lj advertising gimmick? Speak!

Please?

R.I.P.

2008-01-16T01:30:51Z

uh, everyone say a prayer for daniel johns.

how many more of my childhood celebrity crushes (read: obsessions) are going to die?

~~george harrison~~
~~river phoenix~~
~~jonathan brandis~~

and now...

~~brad renfro~~

damn, I'm bummed.

suffering from a sever case of "wii arm"

2008-01-09T17:13:17Z

I know there are a lot of gamers on my friends list (I'm assuming so, anyway).

Does anyone still play mario (old snes and subsequent "modern" versions alike)?

ahh

2007-12-27T08:29:38Z

nothin' like sharing paper mario, ipa, and a freshly-packed bowl with your man on a crisp thursday morn'.

ok

2007-12-10T00:47:55Z

If this gal does not win this cycle of America's Next Top Model, I quit!

Seriously. I will never watch this show again.

Well, I probably will. But I'll be REALLY mad! >:O

any Dylan fans?

2007-12-05T04:30:06Z

I saw "I'm Not There" again last night and I noticed some things that made it a lot clearer (or at least I was searching for things that fit my interpretation and found them); clearer, anyway, than the retarded unicorn rodeo that it was the first time I saw it.

First of all, though it probably isn't true, it could be: I think Bob Dylan wrote this movie. Or at least had something to do with it. Firstly because its so similar to Masked and Anonymous and Renaldo and Clara and Eat the Document (three out of the three movies Bob Dylan DID make and put his name on). Its like he kept trying to make this movie (starting with Eat the Document, which was made during the time that so much of Im Not There [if not all of I'm Not There] is about). Plus it seems like he figured out how to do it in book form with Chronicles Vol. 1, and this movie seemed so much like that book in terms of structure and style and since there are supposedly two more volumes planned, Dylan is obviously spending alot of time thinking about himself and his life and his image, etc. so it doesnt seem so unbelievable that this movie is either Todd Haynes' parody and/or presupposition of what Chronicles Vol. 2 would be, or this is Bob Dylan's or Todd Hayne's criticism of Vol. 1. Or volume all. The only reason I still have this little conspiracy theory is I don't understand why Todd Haynes, a stranger, would be SO sympathetic to Sara Dylan and SO critical of Bob Dylan. That sounds like something someone would do to themselves. Theres so much self-pity and self-flagellation of the Dylan characters that they have to be "self-". Maybe its a compliment to Todd Haynes that this movie seems so confessional and autobiographical. Not in the literal narrative sense (facts, dates, ethnicities of spouses) but in terms of character and hating yourself. The part where the Mr. Jones guy says that 'Jude Quinn' is so self-aware and self conscious etc. doesnt seem like part of a movie, it sounds like a secret clue (secret clues are mentioned ALOT in the movie too, Gorgeous George gives the black Woody Guthrie the thing that says 'secrets are for keeping' and they say it again at the end with Richard Gere); it sounds like Bob Dylan chastising himself in metaphor.

Also this time I noticed that the sequences had more of a relationship to each other. Like the Cate Blanchett part is almost 100% shots/actions/entire scenes from Fellini's 8 1/2 (the opening in the cars, the floating tethered body, the same fucking weird chair that Mr Jones sits in thats in the beginning of 8 1/2), not so much Don't Look Back. There's all these clues in every sequence that youre not supposed to take them seriously. EXCEPT the Heath Ledger parts, who is an ACTOR playing Christian Bale's character (In fact I think all the "Dylans" are references to movies/actors, except Heath Ledger, although he IS an actor. The other ones are characters in movies). That seems like a very Dylan-esque view of himself. "I'm wearing my Bob Dylan mask" he says on that one CD.(Theres also a line that a little kid says in the Riddle, MO. part on Halloween that is word for word an anecdote from his childhood where he just put on a bunch of random shit for Halloween once and his brother said 'What are you supposed to be' and he says 'If you dont know Im not gonna tell you.' Those end up as lines in the movie). The Cate Blanchett part and the Richard Gere part seem to be linked. The Richard Gere part is supposed to be Dylan post-motorcycle accident hiding out in Woodstock, putting out John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline when everyone wanted Summer of Love hippie horseshit; dressing up and pretending hes 100 years old with the Band. But hes also an actor in that sequence too. theres some line they say in the movie about Billy the Kid dodging a bullet and going into hiding (Dylan crashing his motorcycle instead of burning out on all those drugs) and Dylan was in the Billy the Kid movie after his accident and the actor that plays the Mr. Jones reporter in the Cate Blanchett part plays the Pat Garrett part in the Billy the Kid sequence. Same actor is the antagonist in both sequences. Does the same things too. Jail themes etc. Billy the Kids real name was Henry, the dog in that sequence that runs away is also named Henry. I thought the dog was Sara Dylan though. Cause at the end he says 'Goodbye my lady."

AND the whole reason I think this movie was written by Bob Dylan ABOUT his relationship with Sara Dylan and his motorcycle crash etc. is because hes done it before. When he got in that motorcycle accident, the first thing he did as he got better was re-edit Don't Look Back as Eat The Document, a weird movie about himself (sound familiar?) and Sara Dylan is the only one that hes ever come right out gotten sentimental and mournful about in public ("Sara", Blood On The Tracks). AND!!!!! Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands plays while you see the crashed up motorcycle, which as you know he "stayed up for days in the Chelsea hotel writing...for [her].". Every sequence in the movie is a sarcastic joke about how he and other people see him, except the Heath Ledger part which is only true Dylan. Its too sentimental and mournful and confessional not to be. Especially when its surrounded by all the other lies. And when all the other sequences seems to turn in towards the Heath Ledger part. LIke when Richard Gere looks out into the distance and can hear the bombs and shit and then it cuts to Heath Ledgers part. Is it too easy to see this as post-motorcycle crash, fantasyland Bob seeing his divorce on the horizon? especially when theres so much of that movie devoted to the character 'seeing what really matters'. like when he meets 'sara' for the first time and he says that hes the center of his own world and she says dont you think theres something more, and then cate blanchett says that shit about not having those feelings of love, remorse, etc. and then she says that shit about being hung up on love and sex. maybe this movie is bob dylan still being all hung up on sara and their divorce and marraige and blah blah blah.

I don't know. When I saw Bob Dylan a few summers ago he played The Times They Are A Changing but he played it in a way that was impossible not to read the song as "the times are changing: and its for the worse you assholes. this sucks." not some stupid protest jackoff dream. maybe it was always supposed to be read that way, maybe it was always a negative song misinterpreted, or maybe he has this ability to use the tools and materials already in existence to create new meaning. I mean they spend alot of time in Im Not There talking about traditional music and borrowing and that whole monologue with Cate Blanchett where she says 'i was never a folksinger' and then looks into the camera and smiles. hes a folksinger but the stories and legends are his own. hes creating his own folklore about himself and he always has. god i fucking love this movie.

p.s. I loved this one moment when they had Heath Ledger playing Christian Bale in a 60s "Jack Rollins" biopic and you sit there and think "God damn a Bob Dylan movie would have been so fucking stupid." And then you realize youre watching one.

also i dont really know where this fits in but i got the michelle williams/edie sedgewick part alot more this time, especially when i realized that pretty much all of their dialogue together and with her new bf (bob neuwirth) was from the song 'shes your lover now.' a song that also name checks billy the kid.

also, for good measure. i dont get sick of this bizarre incarnation of bob dylan that lasted for all of 5 minutes and 26 seconds. rock to insult? no more noble cause.

oh, yeah

2007-11-26T04:57:46Z

You know how everyone gets shitty and makes really confusing career moves when they're older? Like Bob Dylan in a commercial for Cadillac SUVs, etc. etc. and it seems like the only way you stay cool is if you die young?

I like to think about those people and what they'd be doing that sucks had they lived. Like Jean-Michel Basquiat. I think he'd have an early morning call-in public radio show called Talk Yacht with Basquiat. Where they just talk about yachts. And there's nothing ironic about it. Or is there? No. There isn't. But isn't that ironic?

aminor_thing @ 2007-11-25T22:46:00

2007-11-26T04:50:13Z

I haven't updated since April, damn. I guess I don't have much to say anymore. all of my writing efforts are expended having to explain to homeowners why, exactly, I can't allow the replacement of their granite counter tops or exchange their brass drain stop for one in oil-rubbed bronze at no cost to them.

I leave for pittsburgh in three weeks. dgfkhdfghs!!! yay! too bad none of you hail from the area. we could totally meet up at primanti's or some shit.

aminor_thing @ 2007-04-24T10:54:00

2007-04-24T15:54:12Z

R.I.P., girl.

shangri-la-dee-da

2007-01-19T13:44:52Z

so, I haven't updated since christmas....not that anyone noticed. I really don't have anything of merit to say here, but I will, on occasion, offer up the fruits of my wisdom to all of you dear purveyors of this nasty little habit we call livejournal.

today's lesson? don't expect other people to care when you don't feel well, be it physically or mentally. in the end, no one really gives a shit. okay, maybe your mother or your significant other will care - they will, at the very least, feign interest/concern - but please do not expect your schoolyard chums or your coworkers/boss(es) to give a plague-infected rat's ass about your mental or physical health.

ohh, and don't trust whitey.

aminor_thing @ 2006-12-24T22:59:00

2006-12-25T04:01:22Z

MERRY CHRISTMAS-HAPPY HOLIDAYS-WHATEVER. EAT, DRINK, BE MERRY!

aminor_thing @ 2006-12-20T23:49:00

2006-12-21T04:50:01Z

I'm in Pittsburgh right now. where all my pa lj peeps @?

no cut

2006-12-08T17:55:03Z

In loving memory.

1940 - 1980

aminor_thing @ 2006-11-21T20:01:00

2006-11-21T20:01:24Z

turkey
giblet gravy
homemade cornbread stuffing
green bean casserole
squash and cheese casserole
sweet potato casserole
ambrosia salad
pistachio pudding
cherry cream cheese pie
chocolate pecan pie
apple pecan struesel

I'm ready to grub.

aminor_thing @ 2006-09-29T17:15:00

2006-09-29T22:13:52Z

I'm 22 today.

aminor_thing @ 2006-09-19T11:15:00

2006-09-19T16:18:38Z

doctors appointment in t-minus 14 minutes and counting. wish me luck!

turning 22 in t-minus 10 days and counting. wish me luck!

aminor_thing @ 2006-08-29T00:42:00

2006-08-29T05:43:25Z

I love the Beatles so much, sometimes it makes me want to cry. I don't care if that's weird, or sick, or even funny.

Now I know what Brandy was singing about.

♥

aminor_thing @ 2006-08-23T18:17:00

2006-08-23T23:16:43Z

This is pretty sweet. See what song was number one on the charts the day you were born.

Me? "Little Brown Jug" - anonymous

Actually, it was Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" on the US charts and Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called To Say I Love You" on the UK charts (which was, ironically, the song that was playing when I was born - according to my dad). My birth day rules hard.

Post your songs!

aminor_thing @ 2006-08-22T08:39:00

2006-08-22T13:40:53Z

The funniest thing since John Fogerty was taken to court for plagiarizing himself. They should do that again.

Nickelback sux0rs

Someone should try this with Jet's "Look What You've Done" and the Beatles' "Sexy Sadie." It's blatant copyright infringement if you ask me. Even the lyrics are similar.

aminor_thing @ 2006-08-19T00:33:00

2006-08-19T05:35:11Z

FUCKfuckfuckfuckfuck.

I'm bored and alone tonight, and still sick. And I want some ice cream, but I'm not hungry. Dammit. This was a shitty day.

aminor_thing @ 2006-08-18T03:13:00

2006-08-18T03:20:47Z

I'm sick for the first time in almost a year. I have a gnarly cold, or so it would seem.

I saw A Hard Day's Night on the big screen last night; I giggled like a school girl the entire time, reciting every line of dialogues (mostly John's). No one seemed to mind.

I want an eye patch.

aminor_thing @ 2006-08-05T19:13:00

2006-08-06T00:11:36Z

Boyfriend is gone. Wahhhh. I'm about to go see The Descent with my brothers.

I think every member of my family has cried today. Except for my brother, Alan; he's such a hardass.

aminor_thing @ 2006-07-26T15:46:00

2006-07-26T20:52:30Z

Man, isn't it weird when you wake up in the middle of a dream? I dont mean like you're having a dream and then you kind of start to notice it's a dream, and then you gradually wake up. I'm talking one second you are in this world and you've got all these problems and then, fucking immediately, you are in another world.

I was dreaming about being in this convenience store following this asshole guy who was making documentaries about people who write "FUCK" on bathroom walls and how it's detrimental to your health and so I followed him into this one store and he goes into the bathroom and I take a leak in one of the those mop buckets that they have for sale there and the guy overflows the toilet and I have this moral dilemma over whether or not I should go through with it and trick this guy into cleaning up the bathroom with my piss water.

So I decide to just pay for the bucket and then throw it out somewhere, and as I'm leaving the store, I notice some guy stealing my car and I rip open the door and I'm like, "hey, motherfucker! this is my car!" and he goes "well, this is my gun" and he's got it sitting on his lap and I'm like, "OK."

So I watch my car drive away without me in it and I call 911 and the guy is all pissed off at me for calling, telling me I have to call the police and not tie up the emergency line and I tell him I didnt know the police station's number and I thought this was the best thing to do and he gets mad and hangs up and so I dial zero and as im doing it i=I wonder aloud, "do cell phones have operators?" and someone picks up and they start saying weird shit like "we tried barker, we did forest trails and you're next" which are the streets leading up to my house so I'm like, "what the fuck? is someone trying to kill me?" and then my cell phone rings again but it's actually my cell phone in real life underneath my pillow cause I am actually waiting for a call about a house I am trying to move into for real and so when I go to grab my cell phone that's vibrating in my dream, I wake up and I have my hand on my cell phone that's vibrating in real life.

And I can't help feeling like I still have to figure out who was trying to kill me just minutes ago.

Also, I pissed the bed.

aminor_thing @ 2006-07-23T22:02:00

2006-07-24T03:00:17Z

My boyfriend is such a turd. I call him turdle.