the perks of being awkward

Dear car manufacturers,

2010-04-24T23:21:00.003-05:00

The car horn is obnoxious. Yeah, I find it useful and use it quite often to get my point across, but couldn't you have a little fun with it. I mean, you put so much time and thought into every single detail of the car, down to how the interior lights look, but the horn is always the same. I don't know if it's a standards thing, but does it always have to be the same. It just seems like a last minute detail that's just thrown in because you have to have it. Have a little fun with it!

I don't think I'm asking for too much. I don't want a freaking song whenever I honk my horn. I would however like maybe a different note or a friendlier sound. Something that doesn't make me sound too terrible rude, I'm not honking out of anger (for the most part). Just think it over and get back to me. Thanks!

030310 playlist

2010-03-04T02:50:00.006-06:00

I'm not a DJ, nor should I ever be. I have certain songs on repeat for weeks on end and I like it. These "Not so daily" playlists are just the songs from that day that I either discovered, rediscovered, can't get out of my head or just randomly had to hear. I write them down through out the day and put together a playlist later. A lot of the same bands will reoccur frequently, because I can't help myself.

030310
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 2 - The Flaming Lips (Heard a remix of Do You Realize? earlier and had to listen to this song too)
55 Cross St - Bound Stems (Thanks for this one Pandora)
For the Pier (and the Dead Shimmering) - Sunset Rubdown
The Purple Bottle - Animal Collective
Bushels - Frog Eyes
Smokin’ from Shootin’ - My Morning Jacket (woke up this morning and really wanted to hear this song)
Surrender - Cheap Trick (just got stuck in my head right as I was about to post this so I had to add it)
AND
Totally Fucked - Spring Awakening Cast (in anticipation of seeing it later this month)

No so daily playlists from january and february

2010-03-01T20:46:00.002-06:00

022410
Musical Chairs - The Panda Band
Peacebone - Animal Collective
The Courtesan Has Sung - Sunset Rubdown
Swans (Life After Death) - Islands
You Got to Hold On - The Flaming Lips
Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Radiohead

022210 playlist... at work
There There - Radio Head
Mine’s Not A High Horse - The Shins
Runaway - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
It’s A Cure - Wolf Parade
Ode to LRC - Band of Horses
We Build Another World - Wolf Parade

022110 playlist
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
About Face - Grizzly Bear
Tonight - Lykke Li
Animal - Miike Snow
We Are Golden - Mika
The Moneymaker - Rilo Kiley

021610 playlist
I’ll Believe in Anything - Wolf Parade
The Ark - Dr. Dog
Gimme - She Keeps Bees
Bushels - Frog Eyes
Cool Yourself - Thao
On Call - Kings of Leon
These Are My Twisted Words - Radiohead
Boys Wanna Be Her - Peaches
Pick Up Off the Floor - Mika
Heart In A Cage - The Strokes
5 Years Time - Noah and the Whale

021010
I Think Ur a Contra - Vampire Weekend
Ready, Able - Grizzly Bear
When We Swam - Thao
Up On Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days - Sunset Rubdown
Postcards From Italy - Beirut
Salty Dog - Flogging Molly
I Can Feel A Hot One - Manchester Orchestra

020610
In a very weird music mood...
First Few Desperate Hours - The Mountain Goats
Cry Me A River - The Cliks
Vampire - Antsy Pants
Would Be Killer - Gnarls Barkley
Advice for Young Mothers to Be - The Veils
The Ascent Of Stan - Ben Folds
Body - Thao
If She Knew What She Wants - The Bangles
Happens To Us All Otherwise - Bound Stems
Bleed Like Me - Garbage
The War - Melee
Don’t Call Me Whitney, Bobby - Islands
I Treat You Wrong - The Faint
Dearest - Buddy Holly
For Emma - Bon Iver
Everybody But Me (DiskJokke Remix) - Lykke Li

012610
Giving Up the Gun - Vampire Weekend
Ragged Wood - Fleet Foxes
Pick Up Off the Floor - Mika
I Have Nothing - Noah and the Whale
I Live with You - Grizzly Bear
Ill With Want - The Avett Brothers

011010
Nikki singing Lean On Me from the other room
You’ll Find a Way (Switch and Sinden Remix) - Santigold
Ragged Wood - Fleet Foxes
Set The Fire To The Third Bar - Snow Patrol (has been stuck in my head all day)
Lion in a Coma - Animal Collective

010810
The Only One - Manchester Orchestra
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
Flume - Bon Iver
Armistice - Phoenix
Kick Drum Heart - The Avett Brothers

010610
I’m a Lady (feat. Trouble Andrew) - Santigold
Lasso - Phoenix
Horchata - Vampire Weekend
I Can Feel a Hot One - Manchester Orchestra
Temecula Sunrise - Dirty Projectors

010410
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
Creator - Santigold
Imaginary Friend - Telekinesis!
You Go On Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II) - Sunset Rubdown
The Passenger - Iggy Pop

010310
Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise - The Avett Brothers
Santa Ana Winds - Cold War Kids
Blood Bank - Bon Iver
Girlfriend - Phoenix
Feeling the Pull - The Swell Season

Jennifer's Body... really?

2010-02-27T01:18:00.011-06:00

"Hell is a teenage girl"

Bahahahaha! The first line of the movie had me laughing out loud.

Normally, I wouldn't watch any movie that is remotely scary at all (thanks Sixth Sense... I still have a night light at 21), but I was talked into it. It's awesome in a "that was so bad that it's funny" kind of way. The movie would have honestly scared me if it weren't for the hilarious lines and awkward music selection. I'm pretty sure Megan Fox's character at one plot was referred to as "freak tarded." I mean it was from the creators of Juno, so the lines were a little too much at times. I mean really? you're dying... not the time to be talking about boobs.

The soundtrack was probably the best part of the whole movie. I actually enjoyed the music that they picked, so much so that at one point, I completely forgot I was watching a horror film.

This whole comedy horror thing is strange to me.

This song came on after the "epic" break up scene... REALLY?

Grizzly Bear

2009-08-04T21:38:00.002-05:00

i'm still not sure how i feel about this song... mostly because the music video is so strange

i have decided however that i do like this song

“You’ve gotta listen to this one song, it’ll change your life” (Garden State)

2009-07-26T23:34:00.005-05:00

Ten songs that make me feel that way (and I'm limiting myself to ten because this list could go on forever... but I have thought very hard about the ten that are listed)... they are in no particular order

One Crowded Hour (Single Mix) – Augie March (I heard this song for the first time just about a year ago... and according to my iTunes I've listened to this song on my laptop 94 times and it has yet to get old... that's not counting listening to it on my ipod)

Happy Ending – Mika (I originally put Any Other World by Mika here but changed it last minute)

Land of a Thousand Words – Scissor Sisters (another slow sad song... sorry it's a good one)

Heartbeats – The Knife (first heard the cover of this song by Jose Gonzalez on a commercial and then randomly heard this version while waiting for a concert to start)

We Used to Vacation – Cold War Kids (insane!!! By far one of my favorite songs ever)

Woman King – Iron & Wine (a little bit different than the others)

You Are the One – Shiny Toy Guns (this gets stuck in my head so much)

Dying Is Fine – Ra Ra Riot – BUT and this is a really really big but… only the older version – it was way more intense. i haven't heard it since high school (yes they have an original version but I can’t find it and it’s bugging the crap out of me – they changed it for their album)

Golden Slumbers – The Beatles

Postcards from Italy – Beirut (89 plays on my iTunes and so many more listening in my car)

Florence And The Machine cover Hospital Beds by the Cold War Kids

2009-07-26T01:40:00.002-05:00

2009-06-23T10:23:00.001-05:00

this came up on my pandora station yesterday and it made my day

2009-06-20T12:12:00.001-05:00

haha

2009-06-07T01:45:00.002-05:00

after years of being completely indecisive i've finally come to a decision... favorite band: Cold War Kids
favorite song: Ottoman by Vampire Weekend

no longer when people ask me what my favorite band is will i stutter and throw out some random band names

all though... knowing me, this will probably change tomorrow

Brand Identity or Not

2009-06-04T22:22:00.005-05:00

The other day I had to purchase my own toilet paper for the first time in my life for my first apartment... YAY I'm growing up. Well I got to the store and was thoroughly confused. I had not idea what kind of toilet paper my mom used to get and I don't trust those bears. So in order to choose, I picked the character on the package that I trusted the most. The bears were out... I hate those bears. Plus I read Hey Whipple Squeeze This. Then there was the baby. Babies freak me out. Then I found the one with the puppy. SOLD! But there was the puppy and the sleeping puppy. Sleeping puppies are just softer in my opinion.

Sorry I'm Late

2009-06-03T19:17:00.000-05:00

one of my fellow interns posted a link to this on his twitter... i thought it was pretty cool as well

2009-05-31T13:09:00.004-05:00

1. i'm missing my Blondie cd terribly
2. the Nick and Norah's infinite playlist sound track is awesome
3. i've decided i'm devoting my summer to making the most glorious mixes ever... when i'm not working of course

this has nothing to do with any of what i just said

old youtube favorites

2009-05-26T01:30:00.003-05:00

three great songs i haven't listened to in forever that i found while going through my old youtube favorites

twitter

2009-05-23T12:15:00.002-05:00

since I got a twitter account, I haven't been blogging at all. I guess that's because most of my thoughts have been reduced to 140 characters. I think twitter has made me dumber...

instead of streaking

2009-04-15T14:48:00.006-05:00

My friend, Jon, suggested that I streak through the museum during my drawing class, instead I drew the security cameras and then the actual assignment... some random sculpture of a lady

Apples to Apples

2009-04-06T02:09:00.004-05:00

Today, instead of doing well anything ... i got Apples to Apples and convinced a bunch of people to play with me

we learned a few things about Apples to Apples along the way

there are trump cards that win 60% of the time, everytime

Helen Keller
Hitler
Having a baby
Great Chicago Fire
Samuel L. Jackson
any sort of disease
A Tire Iron

the misadventures of cardboard megan

2009-03-23T02:12:00.005-05:00

say hello to Cardboard Megan ...

a few weeks ago Cardboard Megan showed up on the door step of the house in which I currently reside. She stood in the entry ways for a while before mysteriously moving to the laundry room... then the hallway... then to doorways of people's rooms and as been appearing in strange places ever since. This was the latest appearance of Cardboard Megan. I keep getting yelled at every time she goes missing...

Group Drawing

2009-03-18T15:19:00.005-05:00

for drawing class today, we had a group drawing contest with a nude model. My group won!

No words need describe this glorious bit of television history

2009-03-05T01:13:00.003-06:00

brought to you by ... How I Met Your Mother

the claw

2009-03-02T22:43:00.012-06:00

my unfinished abstract sculpture that nearly killed me ...

or as i like to call it ... the awkward claw
and yes ... those are bandaids from trying to put this thing together

Trees are for hugging?

2009-03-02T22:31:00.005-06:00

(photo taken while goofing off during drawing class)

the other day I climbed a tree for the first time since i was in middle school ... resulting in a bird crapping on me from a closer than normal distance

List Blog

2009-02-24T21:34:00.021-06:00

List of things I've recently gotten in my eye: (from least to most painful)

- conditioner
- eye lash
- toothpaste
- horseradish

To Do List:

- ideas for product 2
- give the fish his meds.
- 15 minutes continuous line drawing
- febreze roommate's side of room again
- fix abstract sculpture because it looks too much like a chicken wing
- find a job for the summer!

Google meme list:

- Anna needs … content
- Anna looks like a chicken with those huge boobs and scrawny everything else [rude]
- Anna Says... ...it's ok to wear shiny tights under your dress for maximum warmth during the winter.
- Anna wants to break free [it's a highly strange youtube video]
- Anna Does Paris. [i think it was along the lines of Debby does Dallas]
- Anna hates bananas
- Anna Asks Luke For Advice [?]
- Anna Likes Cat People! [eww ... i hate kittens inspired by kittens with an undying passion]
- Anna Eats Banana [thats a little contradictory]
- Anna wears her sunglasses at night. inside. very badass.
- Anna was arrested for beating her husband [unfortunate]
- Anna Loves Modest Mouse [TRUE]

List of blogs I think are cool slash found recently:

- http://jonrussellindustrialdesign.blogspot.com/
- http://songsyouusedtolove.tumblr.com/

List of things I wish I could do:

- take a road trip
- draw like Jon can - his blog is listed above
- sleep for more than 5 hours
- be in new orleans right now (Mardi Gras)
- stop listening to Pandora because it's too good

List of super powers I wish I had:

- Permanently Perfect Hair Power
- Fish healing powers - because then my fish would feel better and PETA would love me
- super hearing - but I wouldn't mind my eye sight staying the same (as bad as it is)
- ok this isn't a super power of my own but it's a super power weapon - I want a hypoallergenic laser cat

List of sweet bands I've recently started listening to slash started re-listening to:

- MGMT
- Bound Stems
- Kings of Leon
- Cold War Kids
- The Kinks
- Band of Horses
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Frightened Rabbit
- Tokyo Police Club

The Non List:
I hate posting videos that have no actual visual purpose, but I love this song and I didn't feel like finding another song

Cyclops?

2009-02-22T20:31:00.004-06:00

For drawing homework, I had to do several self portraits without taking the pen off the paper for 1 minute then 3 then 10... and this one was the best one (this was one of the 1 min drawings)

in the middle of the 10 min drawing, my contact fell out... i did not realize this until i ran it over with my pen (quiet unfortunate) so for the rest of my drawing i had to close one eye because it was giving me a headache to have one out of focus so it looks like i only have one eye...

Mmm. Sleeping

2009-02-19T03:54:00.005-06:00

I just had the craziest dream. I was driving in the rain and I had to park far away from where I live which isn't actually where I live (my subconscience makes up the most realistic non existant places where I live typically). I was pissed about parking far way because it was rainning but I got out of my car to run to my house (which I never got to see) and there were chickens everywhere. I was just running past them like it was no big deal that they were there just hanging out in the rain in this urban dream setting. Then my phone rang. that was upsetting.

someone's got a stalker!

2009-02-19T01:20:00.010-06:00

I just don't understand the phase facebook stalking... if someone willingly put that information out there for people to read then why do they consider it stalking when people actually read it? I mean they took there time and thought into writing what they did on their profile, and then when someone looks at it they are shocked and appalled

I don't consider myself one of those people who spend too much time on facebook, I've got other things to do, but i have occasionally been accused of facebook stalking... and to those who i have supposedly stalked i would like to apologize for looking through the photos that you just posted from the party last weekend, I did not realize that simply looking through them was creepy in any way and i wish to apologize in advance if you post any pictures in the future

plus calling it stalking just makes it sound so creepy and slightly horrifying when the information is put on there to be looked at

speaking of creepy ... check out this video

EDIT to post (feb 23): i retract my entire statement ... i've discovered just how creepy people can get when facebook stalking

things i dont understand

2009-02-18T00:07:00.008-06:00

my friend found this glorious blog today where this girl finds something almost every day that she doesn't understand and doesn't explain... (sounds kind of lame the way i explained it but it's funny... occationally)

http://thingsidontunderstandand.tumblr.com/

so in avoidance of writing my paper which needs to get done asap i shall also make a list of things i don't understand (but unlike the girl in the "things i don't understand" blog ... i like discussing these things):

- why they are called bangs? who's idea was that?
- why art always has to mean something? Can it just exist for the sake of the process behind it?
- pot stickers...
- kittens inspired by kittens (youtube it)
- my irrational fear of mischa barton being under my bed (the Sixth Sense) causing me to purchase a night light... but in my imagination it's never little mischa who is trying to kill me or something... it's adult sized mischa (even scarier)
- the allure of themed parties ... because you can't wear dresses with big sleeves and bows and sequins to just any party
- my roommate's theory on kids being like drunk people
- bra art - http://www.quiltersofsc.org/artfullbras/artfullbras.htm (that has to be uncomfortable, but once it's art would you not wear it? what kinds of bras do the makers of these artful bras actually wear? It seems more like a craft than art)

similar to a gang fight... if i knew what a gang fight looked like

2009-02-17T12:53:00.005-06:00

how to sculpt without using your hands...

in sculpture class i wasn't allowed to used my hands to make the form of the sculpture... so i had to make paddles in the wood shop (which is very scary because of all the sharp objects one could impale themselves on) and basically i just beat the crap out of the clay until it looked like this. Beating something up wasn't as fun as you would think...

there was golden retriever present at the birth of baby jesus?

2009-02-17T00:32:00.006-06:00

that was my dog, Hogan... and the dog from my mom's nativity scene of the entire village of Bethlehem ... my sister and i always put the little golden retriever right next to jesus ...

the village scene also includes an elephant ... which my mom doesn't bring out anymore because of all the places that the elephant has disappeared to

small revenge

2009-02-12T02:25:00.002-06:00

at the joshua radin concert earlier this guy (who was deemed home boy) was blocking my friend's view of the stage ... home boy is abnormally tall (actually he's around the average height ... everyone at this concert seemed to be abnormally short) ... so i do what i normally do in situations such as these ... small ways of revenge ... i throw a piece of gum at the back of home boy's head ... it didn't stick ... then i ended up with it stuck to the bottom of my shoe ... karma i guess

winter

the real reason you toss and turn

2009-02-10T01:38:00.002-06:00

my friend just showed me this awesome video ... it's beyond cool ...

i have to share it ... slash save it on here so i could watch it over and over

Work made funny ... well to me at least

2009-02-04T00:31:00.009-06:00

it's my favorite time of year again at work (because you have to made work fun somehow right?) ... cheesy senior pages for the yearbook. exciting i know. So I was typing up all the lovely sentiments that parents have written and what not and came across the most glorious one ever.
at the end it states as followed:
"You are the flower of our family; (yes they even included a semicolon) carry our love in your heart and sow the seeds of peace, hope and joy"
you can't get any better than that ... I just want to know if these people talk like this on a daily basis

the next greatest was:
"you achieved what you set out to do four years ago, and you kept your scholarship.
We wish you the best of luck on your future endeavors. Love, mom and dad"
what? ...

Cold War Kids

The strange things that happen in drawing 2

2009-01-28T16:23:00.007-06:00

i know it looks super creepy ... but i think it's pretty cool at the same time

the King's Penguin

2008-09-08T14:07:00.002-05:00

this is the most glorious thing ever ...

wax paper

2008-06-15T21:39:00.003-05:00

is it wax or is it paper ... ?

if i set fire to it ... would it melt or would it burn?

it's got to be one of the most useless things ever ... i've only seen it used for one thing ... and i've never really felt the need to use it ... i've never purchased wax paper ... and who the hell invented it ... i just want to know the thought process behind what led them to invent wax paper

the only one to blame for this is me

2008-03-20T11:09:00.002-05:00

i had the opportunity today to steal a leaf blower ... and i passed ... i just walked past an abandoned leaf blower ... i mean i would have had to grab it and run because the owner was 10 feet away ... but her back was turned ... it would have taken her a second or two to realize ... but the point is that i had to opportunity ... and of course i have those "do not steal" flags going off in my head

first rule in economics: people think rationally?

2008-03-04T21:51:00.009-06:00

ok there is something i just dont understand about the hostility towards advertising ... in my advertising ethics class the other day we were talking about this economist who went on and on about how advertising creates the desire for a product and so the product is produced as a result of the advertising ... and how if advertising didnt exist then the desire would not exist so there would be no need for advertising
and when it comes to things like teeth whitening strips i might understand ... but before there was the advertising some vain person had the need for perfectly shiny teeth without the huge expense of going to the dentist ... so the product was created and then in order to get the product out there they cant just stick it on a shelf somewhere ... they have to tell people somehow ... so then comes the advertising ... this economist has the story backwards ...
plus in his mind ... you can pretty much blame everything on advertising ... well if there wasn't an advertisement for oh i dont know mcdonalds ... maybe that person (who sued the pants off of mcdonalds for the hot coffee) wouldnt have gotten coffee that day ... maybe they didnt need coffee but they saw an ad and they suddenly woke up with the strong desire for a nice cup of mcdonalds coffee ... and they went out into the world and burned the shit out of themselves ... maybe they should have just sued the pants off of some rando ad agency for making them want coffee in the first place ... and maybe people will start suing ad agencies for making them fat too (i wonder if this has already happened) ... maybe i shouldnt been putting ideas like these into people's heads ... because it'll probably happen now ... SORRY (i swear im on your side here you ad people you)

ps ... i was reading about Generation O ... for fat ... in my adv ethics book and obesity in children is also advertising's fault ... as well as teen pregnancy and unemployment

The Roommate Effect

2008-02-22T23:44:00.006-06:00

last night i learned all about what i like to call the Roommate Effect ... it's kind of like Murphy's Law ... but crappier ... anything that can go wrong will ... and anything that you're roommate does ... only messes up your stuff not theirs ...

ive been working myself to death for weeks on hundreds of ideas for my advertising classes ... just constantly working late into the night ... and i had all my drawings on the floor next to my desk ... when my roommate spilled some strawberry drink all over them ... they are all pink and they smell strongly of alcohol ... they hit my notebooks ... my drawings ... my books ... it's everywhere ... and the floor is permanently stained ... none of it hit her stuff ... the perfect ending to the absolute worst week

ive already talked to her about it ... which made me feel a whole lot better ... but im still going to have to redo all my adv drawings ...

Greg the Bunny

2008-01-20T21:11:00.001-06:00

why it was ever taken off the air is beyond me

The Disadvantages of Free Hot Chocolate

2008-01-18T13:05:00.000-06:00

Yesterday I was at the cafeteria getting some lunch with a friend and it was about 20 degrees outside ... or at least thats how it felt ... and there was this little stand of hot chocolate by the door ... (but the thing with the cafeteria is when you walk in you swipe your card so it's not really free ... it's prepaid) ... so i grab some hot chocolate on the way out ... bad idea
1. hot chocolate is hot ... it burns when spilt
2. hot chocolate is liquid ... when it's done burning it turns cold and lingers
3. hot chocolate is sticky ... so not only was i more cold than i was before i got to hot chocolate ... i was sticky as well

that is all

painting

2007-12-09T13:25:00.000-06:00

this is my favorite painting from the semester in intro to painting ... i had to sit outside in the freezing weather ... while the water from a fountain near by strayed me ... the painting teacher was ignoring me so the original painting had a port-o-potty painted into the top right corner ... but i took it out later ...

a right handed world

2007-12-03T15:54:00.001-06:00

just the other day in my latin class i learned that we get the word dexterity from a latin word meaning right hand ... and we get the word sinister from a latin word meaning left hand ... and that just completely made my day seeing as im left handed ...
also at dinner i got in a pretty serious argument about left vs right handed people ... the right handed people claimed that they needed a scholarship too ... i told them to shove it (not really that a little too mean) ... i have to deal with writing on those stupid right handed desks all day every day ... also auditoriums with those desks on the chairs are uncomfortable too ... and scissors are no fun ...

someone once told me that left handed people die sooner than right handed people ... because they are forced to do everything like a right handed person

this video is sort of awesome i'm not gonna lie

another lie the world has told us

2007-12-03T14:46:00.001-06:00

"it's physically impossible to lick your elbow"
I CAN DO IT ... as well as plenty of people on youtube ... which i find a little weird that they are posting videos about licking their elbows ... i just use it as a party trick ... apparently a friend of mine was talking about me licking my elbow in one of her classes and some girl turned around and said that i couldnt ... she doesnt know me ... plus she has been lied to ...

ok so this is the greatest muse video ever ... so great i was so close to naming this blog Shaolin Bear Strike instead of Perks of being Awkward

The Disappearing Act of Food Allergies

2007-12-02T22:41:00.001-06:00

Strawberries
Pro:
excellent taste
Con:
HIVES

or at least thats how it used to be for me ... same with one of my roommates ... she used to throw up after eating any kind of fruit ... but now any more ... so i decided to research this a little for all those who have lost their allergies ... ive discovered from a medical website that children typically become allergic to food they eat the most (aka strawberries for me) ... and they grow out of them ... but adults don't grow out of theirs ... aka im never gonna get rid of this allergy to cats ... not that im eating cats ... im just saying im allergic to being in the general vicinity of cats

despite the fact that ive grown out of this allergy ... i still avoid strawberries like the plague

Violence and video games

2007-12-02T22:40:00.000-06:00

i dont know about anyone else but as a child i was never allowed to play video games that had violence in them ... none of those one on one fighting to the death type things ... so obviously i grew up to be a believer in the fact that violent video games makes someone act violently ...

just the other day i was hanging out at a friend's place and 2 guys were playing one of those shooting games ... and asked me if i wanted to join ... ive come to the conclusion that i never want to get on those guys bad side ... the entire game they kept sneaking up behind me a shooting me in the back ...

oh and i also think that stupid cartoons kill brain cells

this video kind of makes my day ... with the nuns and chicken dance

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

2007-11-29T15:20:00.000-06:00

at a very young age i was told that only 2 things would survive a nuclear explosion ... cockroaches and twinkies (besides the characters from Family Guy apparently) ... well i brought it up to a friend and she said that Mythbusters proved that wrong ... not about the cockroaches unfortunately but the twinkies ... apparently they go bad after about 2 weeks and they don't stand a chance in nuclear warfare ... why anyone would want to eat one fried is a mystery to me ... or just eat one at all ...

i did a little research on cockroaches and twinkies because they both confuse me ... and i discovered that cockroaches worsen childhood asthma symptoms ... and twinkies are not a chemical reaction ... they are actually baked and injected with cream filling

the 'just for you' section of itunes helped me find this song along with several others but ive had this one stuck in my head all day so it gets to be on the blog ... im really not a fan of the music video but i love the song ... they are quite a lot like interpol (aka the video in the post before this)

Paranoia

2007-11-26T22:24:00.000-06:00

so about my earlier post about how i didnt like drawing on airplanes ... well i realized that no one really cares ... im just being paranoid ... and i know this drawing looks similar but it's a totally different drawing of a totally different person ...

currently my roommate is trying to write a children's story for one of her classes (something to do with child psychology ... i don't know she wants to be a 2nd grade teacher for some odd reason) ... and we have been bouncing ideas around about little Patrick and his cowboy boots (because she asked for my help in illustrating the book as well as just rando creative input) ... at first little Patrick was going to get his grandpa's boots but it was confusing as to how Patrick came to possess these boots ... so trying to make it logical we figured they could just be hanging around and he could find them ... and/or be given of the boots ... but why would he be given rotten old boots ... so the ideas turned to grandpa dying and leaving the boots to Patrick in his will ... but that was morbid also children might hope for the death of their relatives in order to receive gifts (i don't know ... kids are selfish) ... so that idea was thrown out ... so we decided that Patrick's mommy was going to work 3 jobs in order to afford boots for Patrick ... but that just didn't sound right ... so we went back to Patrick finding them ... but then the question was where did he find them ... i figured they were shoes ... they belong in a closet ... so he went looking in his parents closet ... BAD IDEA ... in my rando cartoon world where Patrick lives ... his mommy and daddy keep dirty things in the closet ... anyway ... she gave up because the project isn't due for a while ... so im left with a cliffhanger ...

i was going to post the song but this group called Paranoiattack ... but there wasnt a good video ... and i like this song better ... plus crazy video ... personally i have to watch the video twice ... once to read it (because i have to block everything else out to read it) ... and the second time to just listen because i like the song ... the whole cd is pretty awesome im not gonna lie

personal space vs. airplanes

2007-11-22T02:06:00.000-06:00

i don't know about anyone else but most of the time i'm a little bit of an introvert ... i know quite a few people that would argue that statement but it's the truth ... have been for years ... i think it has something to do with all those years of riding the bus to a public school ... i dont know ... but the only thing that bugs me about airplanes is having to sit next to someone for an extended period of time ... i swear whoever came up with the seats of an airplane must have really liked invading others personal space ...

also i don't like drawing while sitting on that plane next to a stranger ... even though this drawing was done on my plane ride home for thanksgiving ... last time i drew on a plane was on a flight to new orleans ... and some lady named Trish told me that i should draw portraits of people for the rest of my life ... that i could probably make a decent living from just that ... of course i didnt take much advice from my buddy Trish because she smelled strongly of beer and had ordered two more drinks the second she got her seat belt figured out ... this drawing on the other hand i covered with my hand as i drew so the guy next to me couldn't see it ... but he couldn't care less ... he just wanted to go snowboarding

believe it or not ... this is that little girl from Troop Beverly Hills ...

Vandalism

2007-11-11T14:37:00.000-06:00

as i was doing my laundry today ... i rode the elevator from the basement to the first floor because i tend to wait so long to do my laundry that it's too heavy for me to carry it ... so i was staring at the wall in the elevator when i realize there are words scratched into the walls ... being that i live on the first floor i never have a need to ride the elevator so i would have never thought about this before ... of course all the words on the wall were dirty ... and first of all we aren't in middle school anymore ... there is no need to carve anything into a wall and or anything for that matter ... im going to take this time to admit that in the 8th grade i did carve the word "vandalism" into a desk thinking i was incredably clever ...
anyway ... as i was reading these words ... feeling gravely disappointed in the people who typically ride that particularelevator ... i came across a word ... that was written several times ... there were even drawings of it on the wall ... but this particular time it was misspelled ... i go to school with these idiots ...

long story short ... if you do choose to vandalize ... please spell the word correctly

this is a band i have been looking for everywhere ... they have yet to release an album but their dang myspace page (and i say dang myspace page because im not myspace's biggest fan ... nor was i ever) says that they will be coming out with a single soon of the song of theirs that i like more than this one

do something every day that scares you

2007-11-07T17:46:00.000-06:00

it's my new philosophy ... i read it somewhere and ive been trying to go by it ... i tried the carpe diem thing (after i got hit by a car while biking across campus last year) and it didnt work out for me ... so im going with this one ... which is very similar now that i think about it

so this weekend ... i learned how to drive a motorcycle ... ive been told so many times about the dangers of motorcycles and yet i did it ... it was pretty exciting ... i was also a passenger on a motorcycle on the highway ... which is rather scary im not gonna lie ...

just last night i was front row center at the Polyphonic Spree concert ... also equally as scary ... for two reasons ... their concerts are occationally compared to acid trips ... ive never experence an acid trip ... but if thats what it's like then it's pretty freaky ... and i think they tried to get me to join a cult ...

and today i donated blood ... im not a fan of needles ... i never got my ears pierced because i just dont like needles (plus now that everyone and their mother has their ears pierced ... it makes me different ... and i just dont like earrings) anyway ... i dont like needles and if anyone has ever given blood before they will know the hugeness of this needle that they stick in your arm ... i didnt know that ... thanks guys ... plus on top of all that ... it's not even in a normal environment ... they stick you on a bus ... the blood bus probably scares me more than just giving blood in general ...

the lead singer sweat on me ...

The Taos Way

2007-10-01T19:43:00.000-05:00

It took me forever to figure out how to get this image up because it kept saying that it was a "bad request" ... it was because the image was saved as a certain kind of file that it really just didn't like ... i dont know why ... because it's an awesome picture

i took this picture in Taos, New Mexico over the summer ... i was taking photography out there for summer school ... and for this image i was actually wandering the grocery store taking pictures for an assignment and one of the employees came up to me and asked if i needed a landscape picture and i did ... so i followed him ... creepy i know ... but i went upstairs ... through the employee only section ... out to this little balcony ... i guess it was their smoking section or something ... and they had this view ... i took some really quick pictures because i was a little creeped out ... but this one is one of my favorites of all of my photographs ... because it's an awesome photo and it got a great little story behind it ... the guy said that he could have gotten into a lot of trouble if anyone saw me in the employee only section

i did change it in photoshop a little ... to boost the color and what not

so ive been talking a lot about recent music videos that are weird ... well now im starting to think that they are more normal compared to the older music videos ... this is one of my favorite older songs ... this is the stuff that my dad used to make me listen to when we were in the car while i was growing up ... and i absolutely hated it ... but now it's the music i listen to when no one is around

and to explain the title of todays blog ... the photography teacher said that everything was a little off or different in Taos ... nothing would really go the way you expected or wanted ... it was the Taos way ...

for example ... the one and only photo developing store in Taos closed down ... so it was either drive an hour to Santa Fe to get your photos developed or work digitally ... also ... don't mess with the locals ...

Pity the Children

2007-09-30T19:51:00.000-05:00

For my painting class i needed a bunch of little glass jars ... for something ... im really not too sure what i need them for ... but the professor said that baby food jars were the best ... well i dont know anyone around here with a baby ... so i bought some baby food for the cans ... but it seems sort of wasteful ... so my roommate and i decided to try some ... probably the worst idea of my life ... never ... ever ... eat baby food ... i feel as though i can empathize with babys now

we rated the baby foods from worst to best above ... starting at the top left going to the bottom right ... i actually tricked my roommate into eating quite a big bite of the peaches, oatmeal and banana by saying it was not half bad and waiting until after she took a bite of it to say that it was not half bad compared to the turkey

if you look closely at the applesauce ... half of it was eaten ... it tasted just like applesauce just a little mushy-er

poor kids

this song used to be my absolute favorite of all time ... it's an excellent song ... i still love it ... and the video starts out looking like a car ad ... but turns into what appears to be a camera ad ...

Sarcasm: Friend or Foe?

2007-09-26T22:54:00.000-05:00

Sarcasm [sar kazem]
noun
the use of irony to mock or convey contempt
See note at Wit

I typically use sarcasm on a daily basis without second thought to whether or not it is harming others ... i like to think of myself as a funny person ... but i wouldnt want my humor to mainly be at the expense of others ... sarcasm can be taken many different ways and one being really badly ... a friend of mine in middle school and i would constantly be getting into fights because of some random sarcastic comment that i made while we were instant messaging ... because sarcasm difficult for some to read and understand apparently ... i also got yelled at for a few sarcastic comments ive made ... all bad things ... but sarcasm can also be good ... if used properly (with good timing) it can be the most hilarious thing ever ... and laughter is the best medicine right? (unless you have just had jaw or lower abdominal surgery ... then it could hurt quite a bit) ... and everyone should enjoy a good laugh daily ... which i thoroughly enjoy providing for others ...

this video is beyond amazing ... awesome song that i love ... and ever since my sister showed me this video ive wanted to ride my bike (which is pretty much the exact same as the one in the video) around at night with a mask ... it's incredibly creatively weird ... and i love it ... i hope you love it too ... even in the slightest bit ...

the world wide web

2007-09-25T17:09:00.001-05:00

Whoever decided that it would be a good idea to put tv shows online is my hero ... i can just imagine people in their little business suits sitting around a table just coming up with all these crazy ideas ... like "lets have our phones have the internet ... what was that ... anna lee just updated her awesome blog ... thanks phone" ... or "let's put a glue type substance on the back of an image and call it a sticker" and then ... suddenly out of no where some person who was just sitting in his or her cubicle comes running in and says "business guys ... we should put tv shows that ran the night before online for all the people who missed it ... wouldnt that be rad?"
Im about to watch Heroes online because i had a sorority chapter meeting during the premiere ... and last year i didnt even own a tv ... so I got to enjoy all of the two tv shows i ever watch, online

this video is one of my new favorite songs ... even though ive only listened to it one time according to my itunes count ... ive listened to it more than that i promise ... my friend just introduced me to this band ... because she is awesome when it comes to music stuffs ... except i totally introduced her to her now absolute favorite band ... the Veils ... so ha ... ive got her beat ... it's just another really random music video ... but the song is really good so i hope yall enjoy it ... the lyrics are pretty cool

when nouns want to hang out with the cool crowd

2007-09-20T12:32:00.000-05:00

Just the other day (aka yesterday) someone jokingly threatened to shank me ... for one i know this person would never actually harm me or anyone else in any way ... and two ... they were using a noun as a verb ... and people seem to be doing that a lot lately ... when i brought up the whole shanking conversation later i was asked to tell the difference between a shank and a shiv ... so i googled it ... yes thats right ... i just said googled ... it's in the dictionary now as a verb ... ive been trying for a while now to get people to say that they imdbed a movie (imdb.com ... check it out ... and use it was a verb) ... but it doesnt seem to be catching on ... well google didnt give me much information on shanks or shivs ... so i looked it up in the dictionary ... an online dictionary ... because who actually looks through a real dictionary anymore

Dictionary definitions:
Shank - a dagger made by a prison inmate from available materials
Shiv - a knife or razor used as a weapon

So a shank doesn't necessarily have to be a shiv ... sure they can make a dagger but they dont have to use it as a weapon ... although i dont know why they would be making a shank with no intentions of using it ... and you probably won't find a shiv in prison to use as a shank ... although my only perspective of prison comes from Arrested Development (the clip below ... not the one i wanted but it's funny none the less) ... so i could be completely off

I also figured i should make a brief list of nouns that i've heard used as verbs ... but they all involved violent actions so i decided against it

i think there's something in the water

2007-09-19T20:20:00.001-05:00

"In the name of people, and freedom, and democracy, and stuff like that, I hereby kidnap myself and I'm taking this ship with me"

whenever im brushing my teeth and im staring at the faucet ... because i think it's just a little awkward to stare at yourself while brushing your teeth ... i get this very vivid image of a video i was shown in the 5th grade or something about conserving water ... it was a cartoon of this kid brushing his teeth and leaving the water running ... there was a pond near by with a little fish swimming in it all cute and what not ... and the water level to the pond keeps going down as the little boy leaves the faucet going ... and you're just sitting there thinking "that little bastard" ... and then feel all guilty for one. calling that cartoon child a bastard ... and two. for leaving the faucet running while brushing your teeth ... because it's animal abuse ... and that could lead to even more serious stuff ... such as child abuse ... and no one wants to see a cartoon child get kicked around for brushing his teeth ... so to conclude today's lesson ... save the cartoon children and tiny fish ... turn off the faucet while brushing your teeth

also i think im brushing too vigorously

Soulwax always has some pretty interesting videos (aka this one) ... even if you don't listen to the music (if you have sudden urges to punch cartoon children or any sort of children when you hear any techno ... then please don't listen) the video is pretty informative ... im not trying to make any statement putting this video on here ... i just found it interesting ... i usually run to their music ... because of the really intense beat and what not ...

i can't spell ananimous

2007-09-18T18:11:00.000-05:00

I'm pretty much convinced that my painting is just getting worse ... but the painting teacher seems to like it now ... although my painting seems to be turning to crap ... i had my first good day in painting class ... i dont know why ... i wasnt completely lost and constantly told that i have horrible visualization skills ... so it was a good day ...

Lately ive been listening to NPR ... well twice ... but ive decided to share some of the info i picked up from listening:
1. Motorcycles are loud
2. China is dirty
3. The economy is a bitch

As I was sitting in the cafeteria today at dinner eating my topless broccoli (yes thats right ... the broccoli was topless ... it was only the broccoli stems ... it's also a dirty pirate hooker) and mystery meats ... i was thinking about how since i came to college ... meals are no longer enjoyed ... they are slightly dreaded ... and something to be wolfed down before you can even taste it ... and i decided to slow down a little ... i tried my best to enjoy this odd meal ... i made a huge mistake

this song ive had stuck in my head all day ... so i looked for the video ... and it's super creepy ... and it kind of freaks me out ... just a bit ... it's a great song ... or at least i think so ... and i thought the video would be awesome because it's a drawing ... but it's weird ... it's just really really weird ... so i figured i would just add another video ... of a different song ... with the same name ... but it turns out that this next one is just as weird ... less weird ... but still pretty weird

2007-09-11T23:02:00.000-05:00

i've decided for today's post that i'm going to share some of my wisdom with all of you people out there ... but i lost the notecard that had all this wisdom written down ... which made me a little sad at first but then i realized that whoever found my notecard got some really excellent tips for life in general ... lucky for yall ... i vaguely remembered what was written on this card ... something along the lines of "Sniff the milk before you drink it" ... and "Ask someone if you can hold their hand while crossing the street" ... it's a super special awkward pick up line and a helpful safety tip

Also i've decided to include my most random thought of the day ... but i thought about this yesterday (by the way i spelled yesterday wrong on the last post ... saturday and yesterday always throw me off) ... so here it is ... the most random thought i had: "clearly the duck was offended" ...

So I originally picked Land of a Thousand Words by the Scissor Sisters to be my video for today's post ... but (yeah i know ... another saga) apparently for that video you have to request to embed it ... so i did what most would call a "cop out" and choose another video ... this one is the first Scissor Sisters song i heard and how i fell in love with them ... and how ive gotten others (4 people so far) to fall in love with them ... this is one of those songs that i turn up really loud and sing along to in my car ... and if people look at me funny i roll down my window and sing to them ...
this video is wonderful and hilarious ... and the song is more than amazing ...

2007-08-27T15:48:00.000-05:00

Just so you know I don't look like that anymore ... but I still have a thing for making faces at cameras

"This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I - I hardly know, sir, just at present - at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then." - Lewis Carroll (Alice In Wonderland)

So I'm Anna Lee ... I've never done a blog before so there's a first time for everything. A lot of my art is probably going to be posted because for one I love drawing. Also I have this crazy book that I glue things from magazines in. It's pretty cool.

Just so you know the picture quaility will improve ... I forgot my digital camera, that I worked so hard at Sonic for to buy, in some state north of texas ... but it will be retrieved

So I was almost named after this song (I think it had something to do with the parents coming up with my name last minute and the song being on the radio) ... and I thought the video was pretty awkward/amazingly weird