hang with all the lovers

I am listening to:
10. Where I'm Going - Cut Copy
9. Boy - Ra Ra Riot
8. All Summer - Kid Cudi, Best Coast & Rostam of Vampire Weekend
7. Congratulations - MGMT
6. Everytime I'm With You - Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse featuring Jason Lytle
5. The Letter - Original Cast of Billy Elliot
4. The End Of The World Is Bigger Than Love - Jens Lekman
3. Little Girl - Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse featuring Julian Casablanca
2. Hang With Me - Robyn
1. All The Lovers - Kylie Minogue

seoul food

Yum. I had the day off today, so Chi Young and I tried the tacos from Seoul On Wheels. I actually had a hell of a time finding where it was parked. I had the address but I wasn't familiar with the buildings out at Oyster Point Blvd in SSF. But it was worth it. I had the spicy pork and chicken. They also have tofu and ribeye tacos, and rice plates with kimchee fried rice and some other delicious sounding selections. Luv my street foods!

spinning top

Hours and hours of fun I am having with my latest toy:


Unfortunately now I know this is not a dream. What now?

crazy for you

The top five celebrity crazies:

5. Courtney Love - Blame it on the drugs. No wonder Kurt Cobain wrote all those depressing songs - you would too if you have to deal with this hot mess.
4. Tom Cruise - Blame it on Scientology. Bonus for Oprah couch-jumping.
3. Lindsay Lohan - Ah, drugs again. Child star archetype, trial lesbian, party girl role model, expert at getting out of automobiles, resident of Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, CA.
2. Michael Jackson - Oxygen chamber, Debbie Rhodes, Bubbles the chimp, Neverland, Emmanuel Lewis and Macaulay Culkin - good times. We miss the eighties.
1. Mel Gibson - #1 with a bullet. Anti-semite with anger issues. His racist, misogynist rants against his ex, recorded for infamy, will teach American women to never swoon over those Australian hunks again. That accent ain't so charming after all, is it? That's right - Hugh Jackman - we have our eyes on you.

badabadeebaba

Ok how freaking catchy is this song. Normally I try to run. I might even want to hide.

Olly Murs (2009 X-Factor runner-up) - Please Don't Let Me Go:

burning dan's brother

JGL on Letterman:


And playing in a giant hamster ball:

inception

I want to plant an idea into your subconscious. Sure I am telling you I am doing it, so it's not really your subconscious I am dealing with here. Unless of course, this is a dream in which you are reading this and you won't remember reading this in a dream when you wake up. Then you will think what I am telling you is your very own idea. Go ahead - take credit for it. I don't care. As long as it's there, floating around in your brain.

The idea is this: go see Inception. There are too many reasons to see it. Christopher Nolan. DiCaprio. Joseph Gordon Levitt. Tom Hardy. Marion Cotillard. The trailer. The ending. The hotel hallway scene. The elevator scene. The Russian nesting doll of a plot. And if you unfold it all, it's a heist movie. The most twisty heist ever. Unless you unfold it further, and then it's something else. Something else about metaphysics.

But I better not overflood your dream with too much information. An idea should be simple at first. It should germinate on its own, and you and your beautiful head can fill in the rest. You form your own thoughts. Just remember to bring your totem.

wood for wood

I am so excited, I just can't hide it. Finally, a teaser for Norwegian Wood:

road to nowhere

I am not one of those who need my movies all neat and tidy and happy and uplifting. But dang, after watching The Road, I really want to just watch a Sandra Bullock rom-com marathon to wash the gloom and doom out of my system. The movie is basically about Aragorn in a post-apocalyptic world trying to protect his young son from cannibals. And as the movie marched on, you knew there can be no good ending to come of this. I mean, as much as I hoped, there was going to be no Gandalf who's gonna sweep in on his white horse and make everything all right. Aragorn won't help get his little Hobbit to his destination this time to save the world. From the first frame of the movie, Evil already won. So I have no idea what the point is.

Next movie on my reactivated Netflix queue: Hot Tub Time Machine!!! Woohoo.

ninja star

Oh Charlize Theron, you can save me from ninjas and give me that look anytime:

orange dutch

It's time to learn about the Netherlands, since they just advanced to the World Cup finals.

Burning question for the geographically and etymologically dumb, like me: Why are people from the Netherlands and the language they speak called the Dutch?

The Dutch people call their own country Nederland, themselves Nederlanders, and their language Nederlands. But in English, we refer to them as Dutch. The simpliest explanation I can find is this: The term Dutch is derived from terms that date back to the 15th centuries. Dietsch (or Diets) is the colloquial word for the Middle Dutch language. Middle Dutch, a collective of a number of West Germanic dialects, was spoken in the Low Countries from 1150 to 1500. Standard Dutch is derived from the Middle Dutch language.

And is Holland the same as the Netherlands?

No, Holland is the former name for a part of what is now the Netherlands. That part makes up for two of twelve provinces (North Holland and South Holland) of the current Netherlands. Amsterdam is capital of North Holland.

So now you know more about one of the countries in the finals. The other slot belongs to either Spain (phew - the people and language we call Spaniards and Spanish, respectively) or Germany. But wait, German in German is Deutsch, which sounds just like Dutch - yikes! My head hurts thinking about stuff like this.

what's passed is past

Top ten songs I am listening to to begin July:
10. Summer - Magic Kids
9. Ghost Pressure - Wolf Parade
8. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine - Dirty Projectors
7. I Won't Be Found - The Tallest Man On Earth
6. California Gurls - Katy Perry
5. Tightrope - Janelle Monae
4. All I Want - LCD Soundsystem
3. Sleep All Summer - The National & St. Vincent
2. On The Subject Of Our Past Selves - The Seedy Seeds
1. Dancing On My Own - Robyn (let the kids have their Gaga, I've got way better in Robyn!)

independence daze

Weather: Warm and pleasant
State: Busy at work, bored at home
Music: Robyn's Body Talk, Part 1
Last Movie: Fallen Angels - how come I never previously ranked this amongst Wong Kar Wai's best? It is dreamy.
Reading: Kafka On The Shore (still - I know)
Last Pleasure: Watching SYTYCD
Last Worry: My dishwasher/garbage disposal acting up
Looking Forward To: Getting my iPhone 4 case so I can finally relax and peel off the protective adhesive which looks extremely dorky
Not Really Looking Forward To: Trying to find a contractor to get my house leak fixed
Gas Price: $3.22/gallon
Clothes: Blue v-neck tee, Gap jeans
Today's Headline: Petraeus takes over Afghan fight, vows to win it (hahahaha...I mean, I know it's 4th of July and all, but let's not get too carried away.)
Current Desktop Wallpaper: Inception
Last Website Visited: Netflix (I reactivated just for the summer)
Last Meal: Szechuan beef lo mein at Won Ton House
Last Purchase: Ikea bed sheet set, duvet cover, and pillows
Item Off My Wishlist: Folding car trunk organizer
Latest Evidence It's A Beautiful World: Inception trailer and the short film Pixels:

so wong it's right

I love this number from yesterday nite's SYTYCD. Alex Wong - who knew??? For once, Chinese contestant not played for laugh on reality show. He is freaking brilliant in this, and he is a ballet dancer.