dirt under my nails;

These past two days I've been so exhausted. I've going up and down, out and about, you name it.

Yesterday I brought Fredy over to LB state so that we could go to Forever 21 and turn in our apps after I was done with school. From 7am to 7pm I was away from home, and I was ridiculously exhausted. I knocked out as soon as I got home, woke up to play a bit with my new hacky sack, and went back to sleep.

This morning, I tagged along with my little brother and his 3rd grade class to The Getty. I don't know why I've never taken the time to visit it. The place is amazing, to say the least. The paintings, the architecture of the museum, and the gardens. BEAUTIFUL. For a moment, I was brought into a state of nostalgia, back three years ago when I went to Europe and visited the museums in London and Paris, since most of the art displayed at The Getty is classical art, and that was the only art that I saw in London and Paris. I took my fisheye, and I got some great shots, until I dropped my camera and the film was exposed to the light. Excellent. Maybe if the photos don't come out all white, they'll at least show up with some strange effect to them. If not, then it's back to The Getty.

I came back home to sleep and to garden. Day's over, and I'm here blogging.

Tomorrow:



And afterwards, maybe some shopping in Belmont Shore, and maybe try to sneak into Fingerprints for Record Store Day. Maybe just catch a glimpse of The Bird and the Bee.

p.s;
If this doesn't make you laugh, I don't know WHAT will.

p.p.s;
I got tickets to see Depeche Mode next week on Jimmy Kimmel Live (the day after I see Black Kids on Last Call with Carson Daly). My life is complete.

"You see me trying to smile up on this pole..."

Today, as I was doing some research for my women's studies class, I came across this little article on feministing.com. Who'd have have thought I would see "Akon vs. Cocorosie" as a title on anything, but I guess that from a feminist scope, it would be sort of likely to see that.

I'm sure all of you have heard Akon's "I Wanna Love You" on the radio or wherever this media-induced world has shoved the song down your throat. Here's a jist of what the song's about: rappers fall in love women for "winding and grinding" up on some poles. How romantic, aye?

Cocorosie decided to have their own take on Akon's song.



Like one of the repliers to the post had said, "Fuck yes! That's how you show the real pain of objectification."

If you ask me, I prefer Cocorosie's version by 110%. (=

Here's the lyrics to Cocorosie's version:
"You see me trying to smile up on this pole
But I'm just hiding the pain that's deep in my soul
You wanna fuck me?
I already know
You wanna fuck me and toss me back on the floor

It started with my brother, first man I loved
Or should I say that he loved me?
I was in second grade, he was fourteen
In the shady of the trees
There was a summer breeze
Whole thing's a blurry dream
Behind the house, quiet as a mouse
You told me not to even breathe
A secret hard to keep
I didn't know 'til thirteen
By then I knew what to do
Just an old routine
Oh, the boys had a thing for me

You see me trying to smile up on this pole
But I'm just hiding the pain that's deep in my soul
You wanna fuck me?
I already know
You wanna fuck me and toss me back on the floor

My mama always said, "You're the brightest star
In life, you're sure to go so far"
Been at this club about four years
Hooked on dope, crying in the mirror
When we was just little girls
We learned to dance in mama's pearls
Baby bend over and shake that ass
Hey, you wanna come home with me?
Hoping you fall in love with me
I could make love to you for free
We could just get a place and start a life
And try to make things right

You see me trying to smile up on this pole
But I'm just hiding the pain that's deep in my soul
You wanna fuck me
I already know
You wanna fuck me and toss me back on the floor

It started with my brother, first man I loved
Or should I say that he loved me?
I was in second grade, he was fourteen
In the shady of the trees
There was a summer breeze
Whole thing's a blurry dream
Behind the house, quiet as a mouse
You told me not to even breathe
A secret hard to keep
I didn't know 'til thirteen
By then I knew what to do
Just an old routine
Oh, the boys had a thing for me

You see me trying to smile up on this pole
But I'm just hiding the pain that's deep in my soul
You wanna fuck me?
I already know
You wanna fuck me and toss me back on the floor

You see me trying to smile up on this pole
But I'm just hiding the pain that's deep in my soul "


Source: feministing.com

O hai nineteen;

Last Wednesday was my birthday and for the first time in my life I didn't want to celebrate it or think of the thought of becoming older. So on April 8th, I did not become 19. I became 9 years old, and now I'm old enough to eat out of the cookie jar. =)

However, the night before my birthday I went to Hollywood again, thinking to go dance at Dance just to take my younger sister clubbing, but the place was packed so we decided to just leave. Instead, we went to Amoeba and went to go eat New York style pizza, which I must say was exquisite. (= Plus, I gave myself a little bday present by buying Bat for Lashes' new cd, Two Suns, which I'm glad I bought. It's something quite different from Fur and Gold, but if you like a spookier tune with more drums, you'll be sure to like it.



You can listen to her whole album on myspace.


Speaking of albums, I think I should start buying more albums so I can add more to my cd collection. Maybe like Peter Bjorn and John's Living Thing which sounds hella good. Ah, but a job would be nice to help fund that wish. Still, the job hunt continues. For now, Peter Bjorn and John's awesome videos will suffice.

dreamtime dreamshow

Since Wednesday came, a lot has been done.

Wednesday was Karla's birthday, and Luly, Fredy and I decided to spend some time together and go to Karla's house to drop off our presents to her and catch up. It was a great day, and I was glad to see Karla so happy.

Thursday I spent the whole day painting my new giant closet and placing in shelves and whatnot. I'm glad that now my new room isn't going to be as cluttered as my past room. My lack of storage was one of the reasons of why my room was constantly messy, despite the fact that I was always cleaning it. By the end of that day, I was pooped.

Yesterday however was wonderful. After I went to apply to work at Starbucks (continuing with the job hunt), I headed over to Echo Park to pick up Jaime to go see Lily Allen. After waiting in line and downing Jungle Joose, we finally saw Lily Allen peform.

Here's the videos straight from the airing last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.




Afterwards, we had tons of time to kill since I had to be home by midnight, so we went back to Jaime's place in Echo Park to pick up the flyers for House, bought some more Jungle Joose since it had already wore off, and went back to Hollywood Blvd. to go to House.


By that time, I wasn't so sober anymore...but I remember having fun (=.


As for today, I went to AT&T in Hawthorne and stood in line for about an hour just to meet Sasha Vujacic. I got his autograph, and my brother went crazy meeting one of his idols. Now, he never misses a Laker game, and I'm 100% behind him. =D

midnight radio

Last Saturday when I was coming back home from The Adicts show at The Key Club, I turned on the radio and tuned into KCRW, and poof, I hear the intro to J Dilla's "Lightworks". Wait, what? MF DOOM's on the track? I looked a little bit more into it. Turns out that MF DOOM came out with a new record last Tuesday titled "Born Like This".



You can listen to the album on DOOM's myspace.


Yesterday I went shopping for my new room, which now needs painting again since it got scratched off when measuring the shelves for my closet. I found my new bed, which looks very old school-ish, but is really nice. After running some more errands, I went to Target with Fredy, and when we came back to drop him off, we saw his old van drive away into the sun, literally. I guess memories are only worth $600, and a little brown bear puppy.

Fig. 1 : Fredy's van driving away into the sun....

lazy sunday

Today I was supposed to leave to San Francisco for my spring break get away, but now, my mum says that we have to wait for next weekend, which will really not suit to my liking due to the fact that I go back to school on Monday. My mum told me to drive up north by myself and that I shouldn't wait for her, so I'm thinking I might have to resort to that and take along someone with me.

Friday night I went to Forever 21 expecting to buy something for my mum's goddaugher, but instead went along and spoiled myself a tad bit.

And I expected to spend at least $20 on these:

But instead I found that they were only $5. That sure made my wallet happy. (=

I'm excited for this week. Tuesday I'm taking Ivan and Nam from Westminister to LAX for their flight to San Fran, Wednesday is Karla's birthday, Friday is the Lily Allen outdoor concert with Jimmy Kimmel Live, possibly Saturday morning, if I'm able to, I'll be going up to San Fran, and Sunday is my seester Skarlett's birthday. That reminds me, I have to register both my sister's birthday and mine for the free admission at Disneyland. Wooo, bring it on spring break.

I'm not good at this;

Obviously, I can't keep up with keeping my life documented at all. From December to now nearly April, a lot has come about. Aside from my few adventures that were allowed by my days off from work, things became much more mellow at home (my house became much more of a home thus letting me forget about wanting to desperately move out), I've procrastinated much less, I've created stronger bonds with my friends at LB State, and now I have much more leisure time since Circuit City is closed already. I'm glad I'm done with that place already, because it was really making me a misanthrope.

So to sum up this week:
Saturday - Visited Priscilla, visited Karla, met a few cool kids at Yuri's Records, and went to West Hollywood to see The Adicts at the Key Club.
Sunday - Went grocery shopping at Fresh and Easy with Geni and went back home to watch Twilight.
Tuesday - Hung out with Ivan after class, ate pizza off campus, and went to Conroy's so he could get flowers for Nam. After wards, I met up with Sarah and Kim to just hang out and enjoy the sun outside the dorms.

As for today, I hung out with Geni, Priscilla, and Luis to catch up since Geni's here for spring break and Priscilla comes on weekends from Costa Mesa. We went to visit K/D, and after wards we to Plaza Mexico to eat pupusas and just do shenanigans around the place. T'was fun hanging out again with everyone again like that, since I haven't spent time with Priscilla and Geni together since graduation last year.