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tv party tonight

americas next top model is getting good. gilmore girls was amazing. so was house, it was good. did i already post this? i have another blog at myspace so i don't know if i'm repeating this stuff. i'm beginning to relate more and more to black flag.

oh godddd

ok a) i reviewed my favorite shows list, and i had like an epiphany (though not as startling as the ones in portrait of the artist) anyway, my name is julia and, i'm addicted to reality tv. i mean, there are a few shows that are, reality based, that i wouldn't watch: big brother, any of the survivors after 2, the apprentice (donald and martha), most home decorating/improvement on 2 dollar budget shows...... but basically i am a whore of the reality genre. yesterday, olena told me that flava flav had a new bachelor -esque type show, and i was all "pfft thats lame i'll never waste my time on that" unfortunately it is on right before surreal life 6, and it cannot be avoided. its just soooooo trashy, it almost makes fun of it self just by being on the air... and I LOVE IT. honestly, i think this is an all time low, all the women who are picked get giant clock necklaces, and i mean you just know, him and bridgeete neilson are going to give it another go, god help them. what am i saying, god help me. there is some ridiculous show on right now, about some family with 16 kids, who are building their own house. it's easter, i'm full, and i'm WAY too lazy to look for another show, so now, i'm enthralled with their amish, homeschooling, shoddy house building ways.

b) people tried to warn me, but i am almost definitely addicted to this infernal site. i start work again in a week, what the jebus am i going to do then, this is even more addictive than the blog i started last year. i can't very well charge the government for my services while just going on myspace all day.

c) also WHY did they stop making arrested development. i can't verywell soothe an addiction, when theres nothing left, i've watched all the special features on all the discs on all the seasons, and NOTHING. its like its crack or something, and i'm like smoking (do you smoke crack?.....crack pipe? i guess) the little bits of ashes from the match that i lit the crack with just to feel satisfied.

El Amigo Show

Alright I'm DJ-ing May 26th at El Amigo, i believe it to be a Friday night. I'm playing with Tradition, and another DJ Named Serge.

na na na na bat mannnnn

so i just watched batman, on tvland. its been my favorite show since i was 6. but i have to say this particular episode had a few inconsistencies that just rubbed me the wrong way.
the villian king tut, is a professor of "egyptology" at gotham university who suffers from a rare disease where he has amnesia and dual personalities when he is hit on the head and suffers a concussion, other wise he is a nice guy.
a) he is standing with 2 students wearing a protective hat, he then takes his hat off to show the students that it is made of steel, fine so far. then both students get hit with falling plant holders and HE DOESN'T THINK TO PUT THE HAT BACK ON. so of course he gets hit too
b) neither of the students suffer from the "rare" disease. yet, even before king tut is hit, after they get hit on the head they both change into king tut slaves.
c) commisioner gordon calls bruce wayne (not batman) and bruce wayne tells him to call batman. the commissioner talks to bruce wayne, then batman within a 5 second period, and is totally dumbfounded that batman already knows about king tut
d) why is king tut not in some sort of facility
e) the way to cure him is just to hit him on the head again. why doesn't anyone do this aka robin who has been kidnapped
f) the two girls that are kidnapped, are tied up, but only with a pink satin ribbon that is tied in a bow, which is not only easy to escape from but also inconsistent with the historical king tut timeline of 1300 BC
g) when tut steals the basically mint condition carcophagus from the gotham city museum, commisioner gordon values it by saying "well a carcophagus from around 1300 BC, that would be worth as much as an antique"........
h) chief o'hara says he doesn't want the police to have to dress up as "heathens" at the egypt ball bruce wayne is throwing. i think by "heathens" he meant "egyptians" but they did believe in some sort of gods.

i think it's the relief of being done for the year that is making me drabble on about batman things. sorry if its boring. but it seemed important at the time.
also i just added myself to myspace (or rather karis set it up) my myspace page is
www.myspace.com/djhoolaine

Well, uh, my name is Roberta, and... I'm addicted to porn and I masturbate constantly...Pillow fight! Pillow fight!

i have to ad sorority boys to my top ten list. i forgot about it because it came out a while ago

ahh drunky

that makes sense, i never see him drink, yet he always appears to be drunk.... i have this really funny/ good picture that dan took last year of him, he's all drunk (or stoned....) and hunched over his harmonica. and i knew he was married, i just choose to ignore that.

no jesus belt for me

no, no jesus belt, however i am thankful to have passed my exam, also laura said i still have until tuesday to hand in my essay. so while there's no jesus belt being taken out, i'm debating the switch from atheism to agnosticism (sp?) the silver hearts were REALLY good, andre ethier was hot and so was the trombonist. both of them married.... hey talou, remember drunky?

additional silverhearts article from the star

`Brothel blues' from the heart
Apr. 6, 2006. 01:00 AM
VIT WAGNER
POP MUSIC CRITIC


There's a trick to turning the clock back musically without leaving the impression that your songs belong in a museum. And it's expertly mastered by the Silver Hearts on their new disc, Dear Stranger.

Bolstered by an instrumental arsenal that includes fiddles, accordion and the seldom-heard sousaphone, Peterborough's "brothel blues orchestra" splits the difference between past and present in a way that does justice to both.

"Some of the instrumentation we use was more prevalent in a much earlier era — maybe in our grandparents' or our great grandparents' time or at the turn of the previous century," says Charlie Glasspool, whose contributions to the ensemble include piano, trumpet and occasional vocals. "At the same time, we're obviously living, breathing artists writing songs in the 21st century.

"There's a certain joie de vivre or hedonism in our songs that you might not get in a lot of contemporary music. We celebrate the vices and virtues of an older time when people weren't quite as uptight. Sometimes it feels like the puritans are taking over. And the Silver Hearts are definitely a statement against that sort of behaviour."

The Silver Hearts, formed back at the turn of the current century, are renowned for boisterous live sets featuring as many as a dozen or more players. On Dear Stranger, which has its official Toronto launch tomorrow at the Mod Club Theatre, the band has added Deadly Snakes vocalist Andre Ethier to the mix.

Ethier, who sympathetically lends his gravelly pipes to the dissolute "Whiskey Blind," "Sweet Sweetheart" and several other tracks, previously joined in for one song on the Silver Heart's live recreation of Tom Waits's Rain Dogs.

"The Silver Hearts always come across as a very exuberant and lively bunch, so it's nice to have a singer in front of us," Glasspool says. "We've all taken a turn singing various songs, but the energy level and enthusiasm is even greater when we have someone like Andre leading the charge.

"He's fearless and really bold but also, by turns, tender and mild. That fits really well with the Silver Hearts."

The album, recorded in four days last summer at the Peterborough home of accordion player Kelly Pineault, approximates the warm intimacy of a live session — even if, Glasspool concedes, the band has largely resigned itself to the impossibility of replicating its shows on disc. "A frequent criticism of the band has been that the songs and the recordings are great but that there is just no comparison to the performance," he says. "That's something we really can't do much about.

"We've tried to capture a live vitality by recording as many people at once as possible, without a lot of overdubbing, to varying degrees of success, I guess. Maybe we've given up a bit on trying to sound `live' on a recording. I just hope we're true to the material. And that people enjoy it."
Additional articles by Vit Wagner

also

i decided (when i saw payatthepump) to also do top ten shows
1. gilmore girls
2. americas next top model
3. surreal life
4. antiques roadshow
5. mythbusters
6. the colbert report
7. arrested development
8. dead like me
9. what not to wear
10. house

top ten

Books (not in order)
1. the confessions of max tivoli
2. franny and zoeey
3. raise high the roofbeams & seymour an introduction
4. the glass menagerie
5. a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
6. the rum diaries
7. harry potter series
8. the diary of a mad man
9. the da vinci code
10. hitch hikers guide to the galaxy

Songs
1. bang bang (my baby shot me down)- nancy sinatra
2. carousel- mr. bungle
3. anything you can do- from annie get your gun
4. the waiting line- zero 7
5. the hurricane song- the silverhearts
6. last caress- the misfits
7. you're so vain- carly simon
8. du hast- rammstein
9. this is shangrila= mother love bone
10. hotel california- the gipsy kings

Movies
1. The Proffessional
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Resovoir Dogs
4. The Big Lebowsky
5. Best in Show
6. The Royal Tennanbaums
7. Crash
8. Harry Potter 3
9. Ghost World
10. The Truman show

who loves the sun?

i'm sorry, i had to put this article in. its so annoying. UGH. natalia you will understand

i think its by george will

Let cooler heads prevail: The media heat up over global warming

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | So, "the debate is over." Time magazine says so. Last week's cover story exhorted readers to "Be Worried. Be Very Worried," and ABC News concurred in several stories. So did Montana's governor, speaking on ABC. And there was polling about global warming, gathered by Time and ABC in collaboration.


Eighty-five percent of Americans say warming is probably happening, and 62 percent say it threatens them personally. The National Academy of Sciences says the rise in the Earth's surface temperature has been about one degree Fahrenheit in the past century. Did 85 percent of Americans notice? Of course not. They got their anxiety from journalism calculated to produce it. Never mind that one degree might be the margin of error when measuring the planet's temperature. To take a person's temperature, you put a thermometer in an orifice or under an arm. Taking the temperature of our churning planet, with its tectonic plates sliding around over a molten core, involves limited precision.


Why have Americans been dilatory about becoming as worried — as very worried — as Time and ABC think proper? An article on ABC's Web site wonders ominously, "Was Confusion Over Global Warming a Con Job?"


It suggests there has been a misinformation campaign implying that scientists might not be unanimous, a campaign by — how did you guess? — big oil. And the coal industry. But speaking of coal . . .


Recently, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer flew with ABC's George Stephanopoulos over Glacier National Park's receding glaciers. But Schweitzer offered hope: Everyone, buy Montana coal. New technologies can, he said, burn it while removing carbon causes of global warming.


Stephanopoulos noted that such technologies are at least four years away and "all the scientists" say something must be done "right now." Schweitzer, quickly recovering from hopefulness and returning to the "be worried, be very worried" message, said "it's even more critical than that" because China and India are going to "put more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with conventional coal-fired generators than all of the rest of the planet has during the last 150 years."
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That is one reason why the Clinton administration never submitted the Kyoto accord on global warming for Senate ratification. In 1997 the Senate voted 95 to 0 that the accord would disproportionately burden America while being too permissive toward major polluters that are America's trade competitors.


While worrying about Montana's receding glaciers, Schweitzer, who is 50, should also worry about the fact that when he was 20 he was told to be worried, very worried, about global cooling. Science magazine (Dec. 10, 1976) warned of "extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation." Science Digest (February 1973) reported that "the world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age." The Christian Science Monitor ("Warning: Earth's Climate is Changing Faster Than Even Experts Expect," Aug. 27, 1974) reported that glaciers "have begun to advance," "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter" and "the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool." Newsweek agreed ("The Cooling World," April 28, 1975) that meteorologists "are almost unanimous" that catastrophic famines might result from the global cooling that the New York Times (Sept. 14, 1975) said "may mark the return to another ice age." The Times (May 21, 1975) also said "a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable" now that it is "well established" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate "has been getting cooler since about 1950."


In fact, the Earth is always experiencing either warming or cooling. But suppose the scientists and their journalistic conduits, who today say they were so spectacularly wrong so recently, are now correct. Suppose the Earth is warming and suppose the warming is caused by human activity. Are we sure there will be proportionate benefits from whatever climate change can be purchased at the cost of slowing economic growth and spending trillions? Are we sure the consequences of climate change — remember, a thick sheet of ice once covered the Midwest — must be bad? Or has the science-journalism complex decided that debate about these questions, too, is "over"?


About the mystery that vexes ABC — Why have Americans been slow to get in lock step concerning global warming? — perhaps the "problem" is not big oil or big coal, both of which have discovered there is big money to be made from tax breaks and other subsidies justified in the name of combating carbon.


Perhaps the problem is big crusading journalism.

i am slowly going crazy 1-2-3-4-5-6 switch crazy going slowly am i

i have moved past stress and anger, to pure denial. exams? what exams? essay that was due a month ago? what are you talking about you crazy bugger.karis' boyfriend james, was playing at the bagel yesterday, at first when i heard tradition (the name of the band) i didn't really enjoy it. but last night was good, i'm coming around to the sound. also i convinced alexis that andrew was gay on april fools day, ha, that was probably the best joke anyone has ever believed, she was all like "does he role play" "who takes it where" "does he dress up like a woman or does mike?" finally though i had to tell her, andrew didn't know about the joke, and it was getting a little bit trying making up sufficient answers to her questions. also apparently the name dj tanner has always been taken. so i need to find a new debuting dj name..... and can't think of anything cool. my birthday is in 24 days.....and i know this is nerdy, but i'm so excited, the history channel is starting an antiques roadshow follow up program, where they follow the things that were appraised, to auction to find out how much people got for them. daily at 2. i think it will replace passions as my 2 o colock stretch show.