ASDA;DKAS;KDA LAWNYYYYY WHAT HAS THE POSTAL SYSTEM DONE I- I can't even look at it. I am so so angry at their handling. What the fuck. Who does that. This has been a sad day

At least I got some very nice things for holiday gifts:




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Post pictures of what you got that you liked, too. Cheer me up ok please

WELCOME outcasts, inquisitory, and unobsolete!

Thanks to solipsized (as always!!) -- who as of last night ALSO has me listening to Hunx and His Punx, GAY GARAGE-PUNK FINALLY OH MY GOSH lolol Mahsa please never stop sending me music -- I have spent the weekend and most certainly will spend the coming month with You Need Pony Pony Run Run. They are a little Cars, a little Phoenix, a little Daft Punk. I am satisfied. The amount of remixes I have for their single is ridic: please see favorites below.



☆ PPRR - Hey You
☆ PPRR - Hey You (Crystal Fighters Mix)
☆ PPRR - Hey You (Instant Replay Mix)
☆ PPRR - Hey You (Primal Fever Mix)

+ BONUS

☆ MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice Mix)

 
friends cut

I've friends-cut about 400 dead journals and people I am no longer very close to, having not cleaned out my flist in years! Not a biggie since my LJ is rarely locked, but if I screwed up and you'd like me to re-add you, please let me know in this post! Thank you and it's ok to hate me;;;;

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❀ tsukudocho tsukudocho tsukudocho
❀ 81 DSRK &etc icons : HOUNDSTOOTH
❀ December mix : 8TRACKS

Someone took my copy of Kavalier & Clay. What kind of monster does that. Pretty sure I didn't lend it out as I am not ready to part with it. Had to check out another from the library, uuu at least I faced up to my late fees I guess;;;

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short reviews of movies i have seen

❥ The Princess and the Frog
My favorite part is where Prince Naveen gets tied down with snakes. I was like, KEEP GOING, MOVIE! I LIKE WHERE YOU ARE GOING! Initially I read the title as "The Frog Princess," which is the Russian version of the folk tale. Come to think, not an entirely inaccurate titular variation. Having grown up under a regime that still had some censorship, I missed the chance to come to Disney as a wonder-filled preteen. The Lion King was the first film I saw in American theaters, and by then I was eleven and far too old to buy unironically into the magic. I read Disney critically, which is usually fine but in certain cases upsetting. It makes me feel I have grown cold to certain kinds of starry-eyed wonder. To me this movie was entertaining, bright and visually rich -- I love everything 20s to mid-century, and the costumes and settings did not disappoint. Tiana's dream sequence was particularly buoyant and charming! Cropped hair! Smart suits!! Zydeco music!!! I am happy to spend 10 bucks in support of 2D animation. What a pure form. But throughout I could not shake the sense of a multimillion dollar machine revving up to churn out another Princess. Disney has always been safe in their flagship features, and this movie especially was walking on eggshells. It didn't tell me anything new. But I am glad, at least, that little girls the world over will be able to be Tiana when they roleplay Princesses with their friends. Maybe I am just upset that the whole thing was frogs frogs frogs and hardly had any flappers at all.

❥ Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The opening credit design blew me away, and then I laughed so hard. By myself. Alone in a big house that echoed. Exceptionally stylish for a movie without any style at all. Did anyone do any Los Angeles research for this, or is it just self-aware and funny for struggling actresses to be shown living in spacious ocean-view condos? Or for "it" people to legitimately inhabit Downtown? The whole thing is kind of a mess, actually. I was so disappointed when the middle sagged; it was like dropping a baby. I understand what drives this story, its antecedents and why it wants to be a B-film, but it gets caught up in its own cleverness far too often. Nevertheless Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer pull it out of the muck and make everything work all over again. Their scenes have such hilarious chemistry!





❥ Happy Together
I am so sick of Wong Kar Wai's shit!!! "This is a story about longing." No way, seriously? How novel. The downside of beautiful visuals is that they get dated, and the superficial beauty of this film -- which is as always exquisitely shot and colored -- pales when slotted after, say, the superficial beauty of The Lovely Bones. I will only stare at 2 minutes of straight rapturous footage of an enormous South American waterfall if I am already in the tank with the story and characters. The central couple does a visceral enough job of illustrating what it means to love someone but be unable to coexist with them in a relationship, but like 30 minutes in I was just all, Leave that freeloading asshole and get with Chang!! Chang is nice! But no, the Tony Leung character just weeps unintelligibly into a tape recorder and then steals a photo from Chang's bedroom. COPOUT! Granted, sexual preferences here were handled terrifically. I believed them. Oh also I guess I was moved and stuff by the unchanging bleakness of life in exile. In Argentina and Taipei, in Hong Kong, all lonely people are the same.

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I am spending Christmas in Palm Springs! A beautiful place. I have a brunch party to go to in Torrance tomorrow, too. What a busy day!!

For Palm Springs I am taking a book and two movies I have been eager to see:

❥ A Single Man
...okay tom ford


❥ The Great Mouse Detective
magaliiiii said this was the mouse version of Beekeeper's Apprentice

I started off last week in a big mood about having to cancel all plans and emergency-house-sit for my parents. They are usually non-thankful to me for things that "only involve disappointing my friends", because my mom feels that family should come first. I did not want to bring up objections, though, because I am not sure how much time I will get to spend with family in the coming year -- which looks like it could throw a lot of locational and vocational curve balls -- and I want to make that time nice! Instead of making a ruckus I threw some clothes into the car, drove to Malibu County, and made the best of it. It was not hard; I got some work done, I AM NO LONGER WORD PRESS ILLITERATE!!! Take it, 2006! Even though the house is big and full of mysterious floor-creaks and the wind makes funny sounds when it blows in from the sea.

Once I stopped crying I got to see dotiscute's winning graduation speech! And meet her friends and treat her to dinner and talk about jobs and drink gimlets and eat pear tarts and stumble amiably around Hollywood! The Russians are still running that sketchy Deli on Sunset where everything is stale and their matchbooks advertise bail bonds.

catiechu came up on Friday to catch Tommy and B's show at 2nd Street Jazz, a location where we would end up every noon for the next 2 days for no fathomable reason except that the Starbucks next door has a free bathroom. Saturday we attempted to visit Santee Alley and the Fashion District, but were thoroughly routed by our inability to do anything responsible before 3 in the afternoon. (That morning I had spent 90 minutes over coffee at Solar, creating and posting White Collar macros to Tumblr while chuckling softly at their genius.)

We retreated to Emma's and got ready for her British Invasion themed costume party! Catie was a school girl, sairobi showed up as the cutest of Harry Potters, and kyburg brought those paper popper things that evidently people in England use to celebrate Boxing Day or whatever. They were loud and I did not like them, but inside there were papers with jokes printed on, using words like Pram and Plum Pudding. Whatever those are? Emma convinced me to dress as a mod, though I ended up looking more ye-ye, not by accident. My eyeliner pencil broke and I jabbed myself in the eye a million times trying to apply a Kaneko-like coat of black, but I think I looked ok. We talked a lot about Devil Summoners and French comic books and uh I don't remember. Donna brought Beaujolais and I missed Paris a little ♥

Uuuuu we did make it to the Fashion District the following day, but we kind of lost my car for a while. Since the whole area is like MEXICO CITY AT CHRISTMAS we had to go by roads and alleys because there was no room on the sidewalks for all the vendors and parents with strollers and fat ladies oooof. We found my car an hour later, having bought a lot of gifts for everybody and seen some wicked hip cotton prints I should have photographed;;;;;

Then Catie and I drove home and watched LA Confidential (my favorite movie.... ever????? :9) and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which I have only heard of recently. They were both gay, though I am not sure which is gayer. Catie supposes it is LA Confidential.



Last night I saw the Frog Princess Disney film, which was ok, and tomorrow my maaan and I are going to see Kurosawa's Rashomon at the Ken. SO EXCITED NNN we got cheap seats but I am still happy to have tickets

❤ motorbike.tumblr.com
ADD ME I WILL FLOOD U

❤ a bunny charm from colette!
I made a pilgrimage here when I was in Paris! But I couldn't really afford anything so

❤ what's in my purse meme via terrorcandy and milkfed
catiechu and I traveled up to Los Angeles this weekend, to visit the Fashion District and attend dotiscute's Holiday Party! More on all that later, the point is I am coming home with a bag stuffed with overnight supplies and recent purchases. I live like a hobo, snarling at passers-by

( I LOVE THESE PEEKPEEK MEMES AHHHH EVERYONE DO THIS )

I'll give you one guess.

I hate going to bed drunk; I always wake up ~2 hours later and can not go back to sleep! So uh I spent seven hours dozing miserably on the balcony and coming up things I would like to write! I think everyone writes New York Stories but nobody writes Los Angeles Stories -- not unless they are detective noir anyway. (LA Confidential is so good of course as,djksa sogood)

But like. Can anyone think of a really defining LA Book or Movie.

If you say Crash I will defriend you

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dotiscute has been working on costumes for next con season AND LOOK WHAT'S FOR ME



LOOK AT IT USING YOUR EYES ARE YOU LOOKING

I need to find a lavender cloche how do I do that oh right uo
♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ EMSSSSS I L U

★ Thank you Katie for your gift! I was so surprised! I will put to to good use uuuuu
You guys spacetart is the nicest person

★ Jen Wang is selling original watercolors again! Look at this painting and this one!!
I want to do the guy in the dance lesson piece

★ Last call for holiday mail greetings!

Going to attend dotiscute's graduation from fashion school today! My parents are stuck in Africa for an extra week this year, so I am house-sitting for them to Malibu. I am woken up by big white shaggy dogs to make coffee and eat Bosch pears and dry my hair in the sun whilst mentally writing the next epic section of my Kavalier & Clay fan fiction.

Also catiechu is coming up here on Friday so I won't have to be as lonely;;;;;;