The Cigarette Duet - Princess Chelsea

This song makes me want a cigarette. Princess Chelsea is another band I'm pretty sure Pandora recommended to me. I love this song and feel it does a pretty good job of conveying the problems of relations between a smoker and a non-smoker. What is more important: love or nicotine? The age old question. Many of my friends have given up smoking for loved ones. I guess I just date smokers, kinda fixes that problem. In the event that I fall madly in love with a non-smoker...well, fuck. I suppose I would stop. Maybe.

Jennifer Westfeldt

Jennifer Westfeldt has got to be one of my favorite famous people. I first saw her  in Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, which aside from being a mouthful, is also the first time I saw Ryan Reynolds in anything. She then went on to co-write/produce/star in Kissing Jessica Stein, one of my all-time favorite movies about two straight girl being in a lesbian relationship. Then just recently I watched Ira & Abby, a super cute movie in which she also starred/wrote/produced. A couple months ago, to yet again be thrilled by her awesomeness I rented Friends With Kids and found it to be beyond my expectations. And guess what? She wrote/produced/directed/starred in that one as well. Lady may not be as famous as Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston...but she is far above them in my book.

Also, she's been in a relationship with Jon Hamm (aka. Fucking DON DRAPER) since 1997. This woman is my idol.

John Dies at the End - David Wong

John Dies at the End is a personal favorite of mine and has been since I  first read it online one incredibly boring winter (possibly in 2007?). I hate reading books via any digital device, but I persevered for this story. I could not stop. No matter how much eyestrain resulted, IT WAS WORTH IT. Not everybody will love this book, I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is that if you are a worthwhile human being, you will. It is one huge mindfuck dick joke that still manages to be brilliant. And a little creepy.

The best part is that it became available in print. Buy it. It's no longer available to read on a shitty white on black website. I own it, there's no shame in buying a book. David Wong aka. Jason Pargin, Senior Editor of Cracked.com wrote it, so obviously it's funny. Funny is good for you.

Anyway, double awesome is the fact that it's now a movie! I am pants-shittingly excited to see it.

Here's the trailer:

And the fun doesn't stop there, no siree bub! The sequel This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It is out October 2!!! So I guess what I'm saying here is that I'm basically just buying new underwear a lot b/c of all the shitting. Join me in the fun.

Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead

Okay, easily one of the most popular songs I've ever posted, but still an incredibly awesome song. This song came on Pandora yesterday and instantly struck a chord with me. I know I've heard it before, as with most Radiohead songs (b/c they are wildly popular AND awesome) but I've never really listened to the lyrics. Mostly I would have to say because Thom Yorke sings the thing almost unintelligibly, but that's besides the point. My point being that the lyrics said almost exactly what I was feeling at the time, and that's always a pretty miraculous event to me. One of my favorite things, you could say.

I think a comment on Songmeanings.net really summed my own interpretation of the song best: "Trying to make that person happy by being fake. It wears you out. Somehow though you keep hanging on for a long time because he or she tastes and looks like the real thing....you think if this relationship ends you might blow through the ceiling; you can't help the feelings you still have for the person...but the relationship wears you out and you are living on borrowed time as you know in the long run it could never work...it's fake and plastic."
Read more at http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/573/#wEBIijgv5rIwLzAL.99

Which is mostly why I turn so many guys down that ask me out. What they see isn't necessarily what is the real thing. They see a side of me that is appealing, but it's not the whole thing. It's not the real thing. And it wears me out. It even inspired me to write a poem...that must be forgiven for not being as great as Fake Plastic Trees. I am no Thom Yorke:(

*If I could be who you wanted all the time*

Love Is A Place

This song by Metric is just so lovely and sad. The music video is pretty beautiful as well, if not groundbreakingly original. I'm just really obsessed with it right now. I listened to it maybe 6.5 times yesterday at work. The title "Love Is A Place" reminded me of something, but it wasn't 'til someone posted the poem Love Is A Place by e.e. cummings on Songmeanings.net that I figured it out. Zing! right on the money. So I'ma post the poem here as well...just because I love it. Has nothing to do with the song, really. Well, not that I'm aware, anyway.

love is a place - e.e. cummings

love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds

Rinko Kikuchi

Reason #2 I dyed my hair blonde. Because I saw this dark haired Asian girl do it and look super fly. Obviously I am not asian, but whatever, close enough.

Rinko Kikuchi has one of the coolest names I have ever heard, birthname Yuriko. Damn Japs, gettin' all the cool names. Possibly that was racist? But it was a total compliment. I love Japanese girls. And boys...yum!

Anywho, the first movie I saw Rinko in was Babel, which aside from winning a shitload of oscar crap, was also a pretty decent movie. Her character in particular was my favorite bit. Despite the black hair.

The only other movie I've seen her in is The Brothers Bloom, a cult classic which I totally own. I watch the crap out of that movie. I tape people to chairs and use that eye-opening apparatus in A Clockwork Orange on them.

In The Brothers Bloom she plays Bang Bang, an explosives expert who always wears the most fetching hats. Rinko gave a brilliant performance and made a lovable character despite only speaking three words the entire movie.

From the moment I saw her in The Brothers Bloom, I wanted to look just like her. Also I wanted the hats.

Devon Aoki

*God damn those half-JapanESE girls! They do it to me everytime.* - Weezer

Okay, so, aside from being the daughter of Japanese founder of the Benihana restaurant chain and former wrestler Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki, Devon is awesome in her own right as a model/actress. Because, ya know, she's hot. She's also reason #1 for me deciding to go blonde.

I first noticed her in a magazine. I kid you not, I have a literal "loved her before she was famous" moment there. That basically never happens to me. The movie I would say launched her career was 2 Fast 2 Furious. Then, of course she played Miho in Sin City. That was really the peak of her career for me. How could you not love that lovely, badass gal? And According to Wikipedia (which never lies) Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is coming out in 2013, which is pretty damn exciting. To me, at least. Hopefully it's not a flop like most sequels in that genre tend to be.

In any case, MORE MIHO!!!! WoooHooo!

El Scorcho - Weezer

Possibly one of the the only Weezer songs I don't actually own. But it really fits my mood/state of mind right now. Also, it's a Weezer song, and thus awesome. This particular song has a very Modest Mouse feel to it, in my opinion, but a rather classic Rivers Cuomo lyrical bent. Although, Brian Bell actually sings this one, I think.

"I'm a lot like you so please
Hello, I'm here, I'm waiting
I think I'd be good for you
And you'd be good for me."

Alles Neu - Peter Fox

The music video for this song is batshit crazy. I'm not exactly sure what's going on, but those monkeys sure can play those instruments pretty well. Also Peter Fox's voice is oddly entrancing. I haven't really listened to anything German since Sammi and I were big into Perfekte Welle. That was like 3 years ago. So this was nice.

Thank you Cracked for making me aware of this video through your article 4 Music Videos on YouTube That Will Make You A Better Person. I swear actual crack-cocaine could not be more addictive than the Cracked website. I've basically replaced books with their articles. Which is probably not a good thing...

WHATEVER!

Mad Girl's Love Song

by Sylvia Plath

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness wallows in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moonstruck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fire's fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should've loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)


For whatever reason, I am in love with this poem right now. Maybe because it's May and I'm always a little depressing in May. Sylvia Plath, notoriously depressed and suicidal, fits the month.