Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Blah

I was going to write y'all a real nice entry about my feelings on feminism, but I'm not feeling it today.

Last night, I had one too many and I'm paying for it today. And I slept bad. And a paper I had turned in got a grade of C. I realized as I ordered my cap and gown that graduation is slowly becoming a reality and I became scared of the real world. I still have to finish reading Lolita because I have a desire to torture myself. I feel that this is the last year I'm gonna give a s*** about video games. I burned myself out of sushi and Talking Heads (which is alarmingly odd. The latter I blame from listening to one too many live shows, as I had warned myself about before). I'm hungry and nothing I have here sounds good.

Okay, that last one is just silly.

Overall, I'm feeling sad and anxious. I need to laugh and have some mac 'n cheese.

I originally didn't want to post this, but felt that it was necessary. After all, we all have days like this where everything seems to be going wrong.

So if you're feeling a bit like how I do right now, join me for a round of mac 'n cheese and some funny videos.

Whatdaya say?

Sunday, March 21, 2010

And because fails are bound to happen...

My sister chastised me on Facebook (where my blog posts RSS their way over to) that I forgot several Monty Python skits.

So whoops, here we go:

And actually, she said this was her favorite: "Upperclass Twit of the Year" - a damn hilarious one.

"Poofy Judges" - this is my sister's other favorite one.

"Giant Hedgehog"
- it was this running gag throughout this one episode, so it may not be as funny out of context...

I apologize for this mistake. Those responsible have been sacked.

Friday, March 19, 2010

200th Entry Bonanza Blowout Plans

Well, I promised a big celebration to commemorate the 200th entry for Musings of A Crazy Lady Writer. Well, here's how it will go: it will go on as long as there are enough entries to fulfill the celebration time (I estimate about five days).

The following will happen:

-I will formally review two albums that I previously posted sorry excuses for reviews of: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno and David Byrne and The Red and the Black by Jerry Harrison.

-Y'all will be able to put a face to the name...

-I will announce a new novel project chronicle.

-Albeit abridged with some names removed, a little bio of my life so far...

If y'all think I'll do something like this every time I reach 100 more posts, I'm afraid you're mistaken. I plan to do this two more times: for the 500th entry and the 1,000th entry. Holy s*** if I make it to 1,000...

**9 left to go!**

Thursday, March 18, 2010

And now for something completely different...

I've planned this for a while and now the chance has finally come. For the last few months, I've been going through the Monty Python's Flying Circus box set I bought myself for Christmas last year (I have three more discs left). I've seen the familiar and famous sketches, but also found some fantastic hidden gems.

So, here it is everyone: my favorite Monty Python skits! (the last one being the top favorite)

"Silly Job Interview" - pretty much what did it for me was the end. Watch the whole thing instead of skipping to the punch line.

"Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights" - literature meets flag signals...

"Confuse-A-Cat"
- as a cat owner, this was lulzy.

"Ministry of Silly Walks" - kinda typical of a Python fan, but whatever. It's actually a good sketch.

"Self-Defense Against Fresh Fruit"
- well, you never know...

"Secretary of State Striptease" - alas no clip. But let's say the title is what it is...

"Camp Square-Bashing" - after the ballerinas, it's not as funny. The part before the ballerinas caught my sister and I off-guard.

"The Lumberjack Song" -one day, I'll memorize the song and torture people with it.

"Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook" - my hovering blog is full of eels...

"Dead Parrot" - c'mon, a classic for a reason!

"Bicycle Repairman" - a brilliant superhero parody...


And my favorite Monty Python sketch of all time is... "The Bishop"


And as a bonus, here is my sister's favorite sketch.

Until next time, enjoy the laughs.

*Countdown to 200 entries: 11 left*

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Minor updates and stuff

Whoo, it's cold now. Rain has been falling since last night. I have the front door open, screen door locked tight, letting in all this fresh air. The house has been shut for the last few days, plus my sister complained of the smell of Shout (I had to clean up a mess the dogs made).

It's been a sleepy morning, so I'm taking the time to work on some short stories. Yes, I'm back writing. Also listening to some Talking Heads live shows I found. Needless to say, they were a phenomenal live act. But man, break time after the current one I'm spinning. If I have to hear "Psycho Killer" live one more time (even with Jerry Harrison's bit), I'll burn myself out.

After that, I may be doing other things, but the aforementioned were the substantial ones.

Twelve more entries until 200...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Damn you, hipsters...

It's been known that hipsters practically worship Pitchfork Media, a music website that prides itself in reviewing obscure stuff. No big deal, gotta give the unknowns their time in the sun. Well, as obvious parodies show, they have become something more worthy of scorn.

I checked it out to see what it was all about. I decided to type in Talking Heads and see what they had to say. Of course, they worship the live album The Name of This Band is Talking Heads. I mean, damn, 9.2? That's serious liking. I mean, the album's good, but I wasn't expecting that.

But the review that had everyone going WTF (at least what I heard) was this one: Kid A by Radiohead. Oh my God. A ten. And read the review and don't tell me that is just overblown. Dude, did you find Jesus in that experience or what?

I raged when I saw this tidbit review of True Stories. Okay, you obviously dug the film 'cause it was kitchy and-- hold the phone. Did y'all just call Stop Making Sense an "overrated synth-flap"? You didn't. You didn't just do that. You did. Wow. Allow me to have Dr. Cox verbalize my rage:



Look, I'm all for respecting opinions but since these are likely hipsters, that respect died. I bet $20 and win that they're hating on it only because it has been called a great film by folks like Rolling Stone and Leonard Maltin. In other words, their opinion is "wrong wrong wrong" ONLY because this is likely how they reached the conclusion.

Just when I calmed down, I had to look up Steely Dan. Bad move. I mean, read the first paragraph and tell me that I'm not the only one who thinks it's just mean-spirited. Now I didn't like the album, but way to go to insult the band's larger fan base at the first go, Pitchfork. Hope y'all are proud of yourself, feeling like you made a genuine funny. Oh? Sorry, I was wrong. That "funny feeling" was actually me throwing the Klencke Atlas at y'all's heads.

I don't feel that my hatred against them is unique, but the means to get there were. Either way, no. Tact, Pitchfork. You lack it.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Here's a post type you hadn't seen in a while... a video game!

Well, it was announced today that Rock Band 3 will be out by the end of the year. Needless to say, this is enough to get me interested in gaming again.

Of course, I can only hope for the following:
  • Dire Straits finally has some songs in there (at least "Money For Nothing")
  • You can export songs from Rock Band 2
  • Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House" is included (some on the Rock Band forums speculated that it was left out of the song pack because of RB3's inevitable release)
Either way, something to look forward to. \o/

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That reminds me. I may have to buy the new guitar. My other one's tremolo bar broke.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

"How high is her post count?" "It's almost over 200!!!"

It's now fourteen (well after this, thirteen) entries until I reach the amazing landmark of 200 entries on Musings of A Crazy Lady Writer.

Now comes the question on what the hell I'm gonna do to commemorate this event. I had considered finally posting a picture of myself so y'all can finally put a face to the name. Maybe making a huge announcement, like another novel project chronicle... or also a little bio of my life, so far. Or even an in-depth review of one of my favorite albums.

Maybe all of them? In a week-long celebration brouhaha?

Well, as it gets closer... I'll let y'all know.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Holy crap, a new layout/template! And some feminist topics...

After playing around with some new templates I downloaded (and even getting schooled in basic HTML coding), I finally have a brand-new template for my blog. And because this template is awesome-sauce with pull-down menus, I won't have to get a new blog just for reviews, nor will you dear readers have to search endlessly! It's all in 'Media Reviews', which interestingly enough was part of the name of my older blog.

So, much thanks go out to 85ideas and TemplatesBlock for this template and for basically giving me a good reason to say at Blogger.

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You may have also noticed a certain blog and book have been removed from my list. For those unaware, it is a link to Feministing and the book was Full Frontal Feminism (respectfully). Before I explain why, I do wish to still credit these two sources for getting me passionate about feminism and equality in general.

Now for my reason. Being a longtime lurker of ONTD_P, I noticed people voicing a dislike for the site and its writers. Naturally, I wanted to know why. There are many postings, you can try this, but the one that struck me was this one. It saddened me deeply, since their general prejudices go aganist everything I stand for: equality and fairness for all. And there are issues with privilege and race on Feministing, but trust me when I say that's another kettle of fish...

On the ableist language front, yes I am fully aware that I've referred to myself as a "crazy" lady writer. I did call myself that without much thought to it, but as I consider it, the name's gonna stay. In a sense, I'm now reclaiming the word. I do have anxiety/OCD and had bouts of major depression.

And as for the "artists are beautiful sufferers"... that's just silly. And silly's being polite.

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So, enjoy the new format and have yourself a think over ableist language...

ETA: I just noticed there has been a few instances of ableist language here on this blog. I admit to those mistakes and I blame ignorance. For now on, I'll watch myself.