11 “Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?,” Moby
12 “Miracle,” Erasure
13 “High Hopes,” Pink Floyd
14 “Addiction (Second Dose),” Skinny Puppy
15 “Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World,” Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
16 “Train Train,” Billy Bragg
17 “Head On,” The Jesus and Mary Chain
18 “Subterfuge,” Rosetta Stone
19 “Fade to Black,” Metallica
10 “Cuts You Up,” Peter Murphy
Archive for January, 2008
1 Capers the Otter
2 Otters holding hands
3 An otter playing with a ball
Dear Merdud, please forgive me for not showing up at Pub Quiz tonight. I was busy looking at videos of otters.
- 1 Lawson Lane
Burlington, Vermont
Today we tried breakfast at Magnolia. We rolled out of bed at 12:16 PM so it was kind of late by the time we left the apartment but we were seated immediately (yay!) and Magnolia serves breakfast all day (yay!). They’re also a green business (“Green Is Good: Eggs meet ecology at Magnolia Bistro”). (Yay!)
I had a lime waffle and the Huevos con Diablo, which is two eggs over easy served with black beans and salsa over polenta. The huevos were a little too spicy for my taste but still very good. The portion size is on the large side so the waffle was definitely an overindulgence but it still tasted fresh and limey when I finally finished eating it this evening. Stork had a slice of banana bread with cranberry cream cheese and their Cape Cod Benedict special. (The cream cheese was incredibly light and heavenly.)
It was as good as Penny Cluse or Sneakers but with a shorter wait so I’d definitely go to Magnolia if I wanted something more than a greasy spoon / diner. I already know what I want to try next time. They have lemon ricotta pancakes served with sweet marscapone that sound wonderful.
Last night was my first time having the sausage-peppers-onions combination. It wasn’t a dinner I ever had growing up and then I was veg*an for ten years. But I made it for dinner last night and goddamn, that’s good. (If you could hear the excitement in my voice and see the wild hand gesturing, you’d understand exactly how excited this makes me.) I used hot Italian sausage, two red bell peppers and served it over polenta—an idea I got from the February 2008 issue of Real Simple. Next time I’m going to make it with the moose sausage (another first!) Momhen gave us last year.
Past Firsts Ice cream (age: 1), Beets (age: 14), Tofurkey (age: 18)
The life and crimes of the music biz – More on why the music industry isn’t working out.
All Major Labels to Stream Free Music on Last.fm – More on the Record Labels versus the Digital Music.
Said the girl with the ill-smelling tattoo.
Published January 22, 2008 Fragrance , Links Leave a CommentIt started in China while we were waiting out one of our flight delays when I bought a bottle of Anna Sui “Dolly Girl” Eau de Toilette. My interest in fragrance had gone from mere curiosity to full blown experimentation. I wore that (I still do) but I wanted more. So I ordered some samples from Lucky Scent.
Pilar & Lucy “the exact friction of stars” Perfume Initially this is kind of vanilla-orange but becomes very vanilla. Sometimes I find it a little overpowering in the morning—the heaviness of the vanilla reminds me of being carsick, sort of—but as it dries it becomes more subtle without completely losing its scent. This lasts most of the day.
Juliette Has a Gun “Miss Charming” Eau de Parfum Meh, not my kind of smell. Very floral, kind of fruity. I think it reminds me of girls from high school or French teachers or—something not so great. I don’t entirely dislike it and I wouldn’t be bothered if someone else was wearing it, it just doesn’t smell like “me.” (I’ve gotten compliments while wearing it, though.)
L’Artisan Parfumeur “Mandarine Tout Simplement” Eau de Toilette I love this scent. The notes are green mandarin, ginger, yellow mandarin, frangipani, red mandarin and white cedar. It’s ungodly good. Unfortunately, it doesn’t last all day but it’s so good. Before this, I always thought of fragrance as this very trivial thing but I actually feel better about myself when I wear this. (Maybe that’s more of a reflection on me than on fragrance?)
This weekend’s sweet treats are both from Bake or Break, a dessert blog I’ve been reading lately.
Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake I made this last night. It came together very quickly and it tastes great so it’s a pretty rewarding recipe. It also has six eggs, a cup of butter and an eight-ounce package of cream cheese so you can feel really good about yourself while stuffing your face.
Almond Pear Cream Cheese Tart This is so ridiculously easy and tastes so unbelievably good (especially for something easy!) that you’re a fool not to try this recipe out. I ended up adding a half-teaspoon of almond extract to the cream cheese mixture and I have no regrets.
Hazelnut Lattes Lattes make little cartoon hearts explode around my head. I just love them. They’re that extra special treat I indulge in uh, almost every morning. I generally get vanilla—occasionally a seasonal flavor—but earlier this week I mixed things up by getting a hazelnut latte. It’s amazing and I don’t know why I waited so long to get it.
Yellow³ I was standing in my yellow bathroom this afternoon and I looked up at the mirror. I was wearing a acidy yellow sweatshirt (and a jade green tank) and a canary yellow knitted earflap hat. It just made me smile.
New Jewelry I haven’t gotten new jewelry for my ears in at least two years. Every day I wear the same 1-3/8″ Pyrex eyelets. I have a pair of fluorescent pink silicone eyelets for emergencies. But then I was randomly looking at the Bodyartforms website and fell in love with the horn plugs with lime hearts and horn plugs with white stars.
Colette Calascione New to me via Coilhouse. Particularly fond of Denial, Bird Girl, Two Faced Portrait and Persephone.
Mark Ryden Who doesn’t know this guy? And for good reason. Some of my favorites are 68 Stump Baby, Rosie’s Tea Party, Balloon Baby and The Butcher Bunny.
Tiffany Bozic Her website is under construction right now but she’s searchable on flickr. And if you happen to have Art Prostitute Issue 05 you can open up a folded offset print of a one of her paintings.
I became an aunt yesterday. I wish I could say I’m excited but it’s hard to feel good about my brother being a father. He’s just so fucked up. I make light of the situation by thinking of it like an experiment: which is stronger, nature or nurture? Will two douche bags raise a douche bag?
I hope one day I look back on this and can’t imagine that my brother actually didn’t talk to me for going-on twelve years. I hope that one day we’re sitting around feeling good about ourselves and reminiscing about the past and I tell him he can be such a prick sometimes and we laugh. (Because it’s true.) I hope he doesn’t start talking to me again over one of our parents’ deathbed and I’ve gotten so bitter and have stopped being The Bigger Person so many years ago that I turn to him and tell him he’s such a piss fucking poor excuse for a son and why didn’t Dad pull out? He would’ve spared every other member of our family so much hurt.
Ahem.
That came out… different than I expected. I’m going to post it though, because it’s honest and apparently it had to be said.
