lyrics in review - "tik tok" by kesha

ok look i've started listening to 97.1 on the way to work in the mornings (and again on the way home) because there's lots of happy dancey stuff playing that puts me in a good mood.

there's one song i've been hearing a lot of recently, and i gotta say there's lyrics in it that trouble me. and spell disaster for today's youth. i'm talking about "tik tok" by kesha. it strikes horror in my very soul.

this is the scariest part of the song:

"Ain’t got a care in world, but got plenty of beer
Ain’t got no money in my pocket, but I’m already here
Now, the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got swagger
But we kick ‘em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger"

ok what?!?! you don't want the boys unless they look like this?


(photo from the daily mail)

i mean, if you're into old crusty rockers that's totally fine, but wouldn't you rather keep them boys that look more like this?


(photo found on the jase knows music blog)

i guess bowie doesnt' really rhyme with swagger, so i'd like to humbly suggest changing the lyrics to:

"Now, the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got blowie
But we kick ‘em to the curb unless they look like Dave Bowie"

Game, set, match, WIN!

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click here to read the full song's lyrics.

friday morning commute playlist...

ok so admittedly the ipod brought up stinkers i passed over this morning on the way to work, but it DID come up with some really good stuff! if you haven't heard some of these songs you should download em stat!

"triple track" by dance hall crashers

"a kiss is not a contract" by flight of the conchords

"faithfully" by journey

"rang dang" by bloodhound gang

"opposites attract" by paula abdul (this is awesome, family guy completely altered this song for me. now when i sing along and get to the chorus instead of singing "cuz opposites attract" i sing "cuz i'm dressed like a cat".)

"gett off" by prince

"all my rowdy friends have settled down" by hank willams jr. (i started cracking up bad when this song came up directly after "gett off"... cuz that one's a song about one night stands and whatnot... and this one's about how none of the dude's friends go out and party anymore.)

"the new you" by the vandals

"coming clean" by green day (that dookie cd will always hold a special place in my heart... it marked me at 17 just starting to listen to kroq and more rock and punk and blah blah blah. i still love dookie. shut up.)

"uptown girl" by me first and the gimmie gimmies (ok check it out, billy joel came up earlier in the mix but i forwarded past it because it was too sleepy. then the me first and the gimmie gimmies comes on and i'm all YEAHHHHHH BILLY JOEL! KICKASS!!)

"waiting" by cake (cake is awesome awesome rainy day music. if it's pouring when i head home i'm just gonna set the ipod to shuffle through all my cake cds and it's gonna rock my socks off)

the end!

this morning's commute playlist, or you should check out these hot traxxxx!

lots of mornings on the way to work i'll hook up my ipod, pick a particular somethin' to listen to and that is it.

other mornings, i set the ipod to shuffle through my schizophrenic music library and pick some gems for me for the 40 mile drive - this morning's playlist was killer! your homework is to check out any of the songs you've never heard before:

1) "take me with u" by prince and the revolution
2) "happy rap" by junior senior
3) "talk dirty to me" by poison
4) "the other way of stopping" by the police
5) "rockabilly" by the mavericks
6) "like a virgin" by madonna
7) "interlude... the set up" by foxy brown
8) "fat bottomed girls" by queen
9) "she's automatic" by rancid
10) "won't get fooled again" by the who
11) "heaven must be missing an angel" by tavares
12) "only the lonely" by roy orbison
13) "dick lips" by blink 182

concert fun and internetty news!

ok so last week josh and i went to see the killers play at the hollywood bowl, and it uberrocked!!!

i didn't realize until like a day before the show that the psychedelic furs were opening for them, and i was like uhhh that's cool. because it makes me wanna rummage through thrift store racks for pink things to shove in jenn's face while singing (badly) "PRETTYYYYY IN PIIIIIINNNNNNNK". i didn't realize at the time how amazing this one-two punch of musicness was gonna be!!

so we pretty much had the perfect concert experience - we drove up to hollywood early afternoon, got there before rush hour traffic had even begun. checked into the best western that's like 2 blocks from the bowl, and moseyed down to the hollywood/highland complex. it really kinda cracks me up how this place is billed as so hip and trendy and the oscars are held there, but really... it's just a fancy mall.

i'm not exaggerating. it's a mall. there's a hot topic. steps away from where they hold the oscar. it just cracks me up.

we were lucky! we were there the same day hot topic was having a q&a about that new jennifer's body movie, and i guess panic at the disco was gonna play. i didn't so much care about that, we were just there to gawk at celebs. so we hung out directly behind the sound booth, listening to them talk shit about everybody was awesome. and on the second level you could see celebs getting their pics snapped and doing interviews. saw adam brody from the oc, megan fox and diablo cody.

i don't know about you but i wanna party with diablo cody. she reminds me of my girl liz. i bet she rocks the karaoke stage!

anyhow, i found out after the fact that my old pal ed killmond from scad was there and thought he recognized me, and that is super awesome even though we didn't get a chance to say hi. hi, ed!

after we hung out there a bit, walked back to the hotel and packed up our snacks for the concert. i LOVE that you can bring your own snacks to the h-wood bowl. we brought enough for 20 people, but it was just me and josh... we may have overpacked. for certain shows you can't bring your own booze, and i declare shenanigans!

the show was AWESOME. every song psychedelic furs played i was all "i know this song! i know this song!" it was like sitting and listening to a john hughes movie soundtrack. and then they didn't play pretty in pink. and their set was over. and i was like "WHAT THE HELL!!!"

josh and i started figuring maybe they were one of those bands that was so sick of that song, maybe they refuse to play it these days. but then the killers started, and their sound is SO psychedelic furs, i started thinking. omg that's gonna be the encore. they're gonna do pretty in pink with the furs.

and they did.

and it was AMAZING.

seriously, the killers rock my socks off and almost every song has this nostalgic quality about it, every song is so awesome. i heart them hooray!

once the show was over, instead of having to deal with crappy parking lot traffic we just had a short 2 block walk to the hotel and that was it. bliss.

the hotel thing, it made all the difference. a while back i saw the police at dodger stadium with my sis danielle and some friends, and we were in the parking lot for like an hour and a half after the show.

so that's my recap - in other news, hearts and laserbeams was offline for a couple of days due to hacky shenanigans. it's back online and all fixed now, so thank goodness for that! i have to seriously thank raina from the queen's men for getting rid of all the hacker shenanigans, and bluehost for helping me get my hosting account unsuspended. y'all are the best!

stop that car!

i saw this car on the drive home last week; why is it that anytime i see amazing airbrushed artwork on the road there's no way i can get a decent picture?

this one was elvis - the other two airbrushed treasures i've seen were a scene of the last supper and a montage of pics of selena with her name in a fabulously scripty font!

let's get buck wild up in this piece!

ok here's a cycle that happens constantly in my life:

i'll pass a store that looks awesome like five million times thinking i should go in, and never get around to it. then the store closes. then i get sad for never having gone in.

i cannot begin to tell you how many awesome places i've missed in long beach because of it - that totally sweet antique place that was a block away from the 4th street ralphs that always had one of those 60s egg-shaped chairs out front? never went in. that cool retro-antiquey-kitschy shop in a house (i think it was called blast from the past?) on the corner of 4th and redondo? never went in.

so guess what, it was all set to happen again, but this time the cycle's been broken!!! another place that i have eyeballed litterally a billion times while driving by it on long beach boulevard (it's just south of where the 405 crosses long beach blvd) is closing, but this time we've stopped to check it out!

it's the buck wild dollar store!!! it's literally THE BEST DOLLAR STORE NAME OF ALL TIME!

and if you didn't see the sign on the street, looking at this parking sign it looks like you might be at a strip joint!

josh recreates a classic photo i took of my bff jenn at walmart years ago - you can see the original here!

the sad thing about this dollar store adventure is that they're closing. but the good thing is that meant everything in the store was 50% off!!! and while it's totally typical dollar store fare, there is some good shit! all kinds of fun kids crafty and school supplies, and just lots of little odds and ends.

but lookit all the stuff we scored for 18 bucks!!!

i highly recommend if you live in the area getting your ass there asap! they're located at 3090 long beach blvd, long beach ca 90807. tell em large marge sent ya!

tips for public transport by justin rueff

next week i'll be trying out the train/bus system for the first time, going from long beach to the santa monica area. i had posted a myspace bulletin asking people for tips and tricks if they knew anything helpful that i maybe didn't see posted on the websites i had visited, and lo and behold my good friend justin rueff of the ruckus had a list of gems. for the betterment of all public transport users, i post them here. read them, learn them, live them. especially the part where justin gets presents, he loves that shit:

tips for using public transport
1.Don't distract the driver. He has an important job to do.

2.Don't fall asleep, you'll get mugged. That will make you miss your stop.

3.Don't make out with dudes under a blanket. The other riders will think poorly of you.

4.Wash your face. You should not travel with a dirty face.

5.Familiarize yourself with all escape routes in case of zombie outbreak on the train.

6. If you are on a bridge and the train jumps the tracks, don't panic. Usually Spiderman will come to your rescue in an exciting climactic scene where his mask rips off his face, and it's your duty as a citizen to say, "don't worry Spiderman, I'll protect your identity."

7. If the train should jump the track, do you want your money back? Yes? No? or Maybe-so?

8.Y-E-S spells yes and you are not it, you dirty old dish rag you.

9.Update your will to include giving all of your art supplies to Justin before leaving the house always.

10. If you decide to read a book, make sure it's one with a hilarious title like, "I fucking Hate the other people on this bus - by Steph Calvert"

11. On the back of the book it should have a giant black and white photo of your face so that they know it's coming from you.

12.Wear pants. The seats on the train don't get washed as often as you might think. Unless you think never, then they get washed exactly that often.

13.See if you can touch people's butts when they walk by you.

14.Back of the hand doesn't count.

15. If anybody starts staring at you and they look scary, start cleaning your nails with a knife.

16.Are they still looking at you? Clean your nails with a taser.

17.Please keep your hands and arms inside the train at all times.

18. If you're going to third street you should visit Puzzle Zoo. They have toys.

19.I like toys.

20.I also like presents.

21.I'm also leaving in like two weeks forever.

22.*ahem.

23.This helpful advice was provided to you completely free of charge.

24.Wasn't that nice of me?

today's debate...

a couple of weeks ago, josh and i were on our way home from popeye's on 7th street, and there was a billboard up that caught our attention.

it was all white, and said "i'm so over you sarah marshall" in a handwritten sharpie-like font. like this:


(photo by peter bretter)

we dismissed it as a teaser billboard for an upcoming teen movie of the john tucker must die variety, and the theory seemed to stick as we saw more of these billboards that said things like "my mother never liked you sarah marshall" and "you suck sarah marshall".

but then last night, josh and his buddy jay went to the website that's listed at the bottom of each of these billboards, and now we're not sure but it might be an actual for real thing.

or is it a stunt for a movie?! you make the call!!!

procrastination nation...

i was doing so good for a while, updating almost regularly again... here's what's been up:

number one, get your butt to the movies and see yourself some reno 911 miami the movie. AMAZING. seriously, all of a sudden there's all kinds of movies i'm really interested in seeing after not caring about going to the movies at all for the past few months. this weekend black snake moan comes out, there's blades of glory with will ferrell on the horizon... what else. something else was coming out that i was into. it sure as hell wasn't the hills have eyes 2, which i saw a billboard for on the freeway while on the way home today...

number b, i got rear-ended on the freeway on the way home from work yesterday and it just makes me so mad the way it all happened. traffic was stop and go, the car in front of me stopped, i stopped, the guy behind me didn't stop fast enough. and then in the hullabaloo of where we were at on the freeway and trying to get over to the shoulder and traffic and bullshit the guy gets ahead of me, motions like he's going to pull onto the shoulder - i figure he's gonna wait until after the mess of mergey lanes we were at, so i go to the other side of that and he's just gone. so hit and run, hooray for that. upside is i'm totally okay, the car's just got lots of bad scrapes on the back bumper. fixes for another time, you know what i'm sayin?

thirdly, america's next top model starts again tomorrow night and i would be lying if i said i wasn't excited. i just dig seeing the artsy fartsy photos they come up with. i think my favorite from last season was the bullfighting pics annnnd i think there was one where they were dressed up like animals? or is that another season i'm thinking about... whatever, i'm ready with my big fatty bowl of poopcorn!

the vet told us yesterday that jimmy's gettin a little tubby, so that boy's on a bit of a diet to get him back in line.

the website's comin along awesome, sometime this week i'll be puttin more up in the shop and hopefully this weekend i can finish that up so i can concentrate on makin new things, aka getting going on that painting jenn won in january...

i'm currently supposed to be working on a logo/business card thing but man i keep getting sidetracked and HOW IS IT ALMOST 11 ALREADY! back to work with me. later!