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Super Hot

You guys… I got nothin’.

I’ll probably update on the bead show in Oakland was great and how the San Mateo Fairgrounds/Maker Faire can stuff themselves later in the week, but for now, bask in the glory that is the following awesome news:

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Repeats are airing NOW at 11/10c on Thursdays on USA. (So, if you are like me, a person who works and has to, like, sleep, record it!) It’s pretty much the best show ever, after Dexter, and before CSI: Horatio Caine (notice how all my favorite shows take place in Miami?? I just realized that) so you should really watch it. Also because Jeffrey Donovan is hot and it also stars Bruce Campbell.

THE END, till next time.

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San Jose Skate

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Went OUT AND ABOUT last night to San Jose Skate with my sister Abby and my friend Malvina. My favorite indie band was playing, and I couldn’t resist the urge to go out and see them. If you have a chance, check out Goodbye Elliott and be prepared to be entertained with awesome Hawaiian pop rock.

Anyhoo, we had fun. I took Bart in to Millbrae where Abby picked me up and we went to her apartment in Burlingame. Malvina works in South SF on Saturdays, so she met us over at Abby’s place, and then we went to dinner at Hola! Mexican Cantina (?) where I had a really great chicken quesadilla, and they had enchiladas and tamales. Malvina got a margarita as big as her head, and I got what I thought would be an innocuous Cabazan, but turned out to be the Most Potent Drink I Have Ever Imbibed. Turns out, the combo of tequila/vodka/peach schnapps is almost deadly! Haven’t been that buzzed since that one time at Chili’s… To be honest, I am still recovering from the dehydration.

So, we headed down to San Jose Skate, where I saw the boys play last year, and we had to wait a bit for them to play because there were other bands playing too. But it was worth the wait – they are great live and also cute.

It was a really fun night, though I couldn’t really skate much because of the alcohol thing (you’d think I couldn’t hold the ole liquor, but dudes, seriously, what was in that drink? I guess that adage not to mix your liquors is still true) but I was able to get some fun pictures of Abby and Malvina, and those are on Flickr in a set along with a couple pictures of the band and Bart signs, what.

Now, to let the Advil have an effect, hooray!

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Trama-rama

Jennifer put up the challenge: “What movie and TV scenes have traumatized you?”

Here are my top five:

  1. That scene in Alien where the alien pops out of the guy’s stomach and gloms onto the other guy’s face. I was six when I first saw it (on a brand spanking new VHS tape!) and it took twenty years for me to get up the nerve to watch it again. (Totally worth it – the first two Alien movies are awesome.) My cousin Alex was responsible for this particular trauma.
  2. E.T. – the whole thing. I can’t remember but I think my parents had to leave the movie theatre with me for that one. I still don’t like E.T. When Elliott cuts his finger on the rotary saw and when E.T. gets pasty sick at the end, ugh. Also now watching it as an adult, it’s so mawkishly Spielbergian that it’s worth puking over.
  3. The first 15 minutes of Scream. It was on TV and I thought, hey, never saw that! And promptly freaked out and had to turn to a two-hour Beastie Boys documentary to recover. I was twenty.
  4. The Ring: I saw this on Halloween with my friend Crystal. I couldn’t even WATCH that part at the end where she crawls out of the television. About a year later my roommate Cindy was watching it at our apartment and I was like, now I can watch the end safely from the couch, in the daylight! I was wrong.
  5. Nightmare on Elm Street: I only watched a few minutes of this as a kid, but it was enough to know that I will never watch any of the movies ever in my entire lifetime. And in this case, never means never. (Alex was responsible for this one too.)
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And with a face like, you can hardly blame me! 😛