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Weenie Roasts of yore

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

The line-up for KROQ’s summer concert, Weenie Roast, was announced earlier this month. I’ve wanted to go to Weenie Roast before, and even managed to watch it once. But this year… This year I actually have a source of income (small as it may be), and yet I don’t want to go. First of all [...]

accepting Born This Way

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

My first exposure to Lady Gaga’s song, Born This Way, was on the Grammy’s this year. Back then it bored me and I completely tuned it out. I’m not a “little monster” or a big Gaga fan. I plan on buying a couple of her songs, but for the most part I don’t follow her. [...]

old music versus modern music

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

All my life—or at least since I was a teen—my mom has oft repeated, “Music these days has no tune.” I agreed with her up until recently, when I had to change my views on music, or toss out most of my music collection! My mom grew up during the 60s and 70s, seemingly the [...]

all that jazz?

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I decided to start a new entry [from the "exactly relative sizes" one], since the last one went longer than I expected. (Why do I always do that?!) Next up … I can’t remember the order. ._. I’ll just go with Burt’s Bees Beeswax lip balm. I saw this ad in a Vanity Fair issue [...]

Gypsy, Aly & AJ

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Yesterday Mum and I watched Gypsy ’cause Mum was looking for a movie for me to watch. I feel like, even though I couldn’t really watch the movie (VCR is getting old, and the VHS cassette is old), I really saw the movie this time. Rose’s manipulation, June’s frustration, Louise wanting to please Rose, and [...]

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