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This is ALL ABOUT ME

Not exactly.  Not like a biography post.  I just stumbled on this site: www.ibeatyou.com.  I found it because of this online staring contest, that Jessica Alba and Boom Dizzle, Baron Davis himself, participated in.

Regardless of celebrity participation, get me in a contest and I will go to extremes to win.  Of course I have to motivate to actually participate, but once I’m in, I’m all in.  So I want to join the site and start, but on the other hand I don’t because maybe I’m just a little too competitive with stupid things.

Lifting wholesale from Kottke on this

Kottke’s whole post:

W magazine has some advice for billionaires on Getting Things Done.

Delegate. Name any task — somewhere, a billionaire is outsourcing it. One well-known mogul favors shabby chic cashmere sweaters but doesn’t have the patience to let them get slightly worn at the elbows, so he employs a man to wear them around for him first.

I can’t tell if this list is a joke or not…

Back to me:

Goodness gracious.  Rich people are friggin’ crazy!  But I wonder if the guy went through the trouble of finding someone with same length humerus/ulna/radius as him so the shabby, worn elbows were in the right place.  Otherwise it’s like idiotic pre-distressed jeans with hige (whiskers) and honeycombs that are in the wrong place.

Film school

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PS I Love You, originally uploaded by seoulfully.

Monty seems to be really focused on P.S. I Love You. I didn’t really enjoy it. I guess it’s time to teach him some of the finer points of cinema.

Lost virigin, umm “Lost” virgin

So my significant other has never seen a full episode of Lost.  She’s caught a few minutes here and there while doing something else while I was watching it, but that’s it.  I decided I wanted to watch the entire series this summer again to be “fresh” on all of the little things I forgot.  So, perfect time to get her into it as well.  Like many conversations about Lost that fans have with non-fans (or people just unfamiliar with the show), it sounded stupid to people who aren’t fans of lost.

“What’s it about?”

“Well a plane crash on an island and the survivors.”

“So like ‘Gilligan’s Island’ but a drama?”

“Well the island has powers and there are other people on the island.”

“Powers?”

“And a monster.  And the people are all somehow, even if only a little connected.”

“So it’s a magic island with monsters filled with people who know each other?”

“Not exactly, just start watching with me.  But don’t ask me any questions because there are things you aren’t supposed to know.  I mean, I’ve watched them all and there’s lots I don’t know.”

“So you can’t explain it?”

“No, but that’s kind of part of the appeal.”

“I don’t like drawn out questions with no answers.”

“Well it answers some then gives more questions, but some questions are still mysteries.”

“But you won’t explain it, or tell me who is who?”

“Well some I can, but mostly no.  Just watch it, you’ll get it.”

Woman scorned

I’ve listened to this performance of “Silver Spring” by Fleetwood Mac millions of times, but never really watched it. And I’m not a huge Fleetwood Mac guy. I enjoy a lot of their music, but never got into them enough to really know anything beyond the band name and Stevie Nicks. So via Bill Simmons via Diablo Cody here is “Silver Spring” by Fleetwood Mac.

So Stevie and Lindsay dated and broke up. And the raw emotion with which she sings about haunting a former lover is just palpable.