Patti Smith was at the same club as me last night. Fucking, Patti Smith! Just sitting around, chillin' like the rest of us. I'm pretty sure things like that can only happen in NYC. Her daughter's band was playing a set after Wild Light, the band I was there to see. As awesome as it was to share space with a living legend, it was astonishing how few ( Read more... )

Bond was awesome. I've always been more of a "wants to be Bond" than a "wants Bond" kind of gal, and Daniel Craig continues that trend. Throughout the movie, I was struck by how real he was. He was human. It wasn't until I was walking home with my thoughts and a stupid grin after the movie that I realized what I was watching in this prequel was the ( Read more... )

Everyone should give me some facebook love.

Smile!

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(with appologies to annacattiva for the sub-par translation -- I've got 600 more to go this week!)Text Submitted from Colombia ( Read more... )

Capoeira with ehnteh tonight. Should be interesting, in more ways than one. At least I don't have to look at the elliptical machine until Wednesday...

I watched three hours of capoeira this afternoon, and now I want to try it. It just looks like so much fun, with the music and singing and dancing and acrobatics.....and simulated head-kicking. I'm at the point in the season where I feel boxed in by the rigidity of training. Everything is supposed to be a certain way, and I can't really bust out ( Read more... )

I went out with two amazing women tonight. We had a wonderful, half-sick, low-key Halloween celebration that involved Greek salad, tiramisu, and tea. If this is what happens when a night's plans go to hell, then I hope our plans don't work out more often. There are fun pictures to come, with exploded salads, fallen trees, and homeless people. ( Read more... )

And so are my friends. And my job. And my apartment.

...my fencing could use some work...or rather, the state my brain assumes when fencing could use some work...

Matthew Modine is stopping by. I might just have a Full Metal Jacket flashback, and pass out.

Just another reason to love my job!