Author: Pearl L

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more ranting before i forget

the prozzak cd i ordered on eBay arrived in my mailbox today. yay!! it is so bad ass. the cd cover features simon and milo in a holographic super bad-asssed mofo form. ‘www.i’llnevergetoveryou’ indeed!!

pirates of the carribean was disappointing. too little johnny depp, too much orlando bloom and keira knightley. orlando bloom is hot as legolas, but i don’t dig him in his natural brunette form. keira knightley is also hot, but i couldn’t get past the perpetual ‘fuck me’ pout she displays in every scene of the movie. plus the last scene of the movie was pretty stupid. i will add, however, that any movie that manages to cast johnny depp, geoffrey rush, and the guy from the inifiniti ads in one film gets a few extra bonus points. they weren’t bad in their roles, either.

jer and i took his mom to disneyland on thursday. really fun — stayed at the park from about 9 to midnight. the fritters in the french quarter don’t really compare to the ones you get in new orleans, although they’re not bad. the fireworks show was spectacular. pirates of the carribean (the ride) still carries as much wonder and fun as it did years ago. big thunder mountain is still loads of fun. went on the matterhorn and splash mountain for the first time ever and had a blast. and i’ve never spun so fast in the teacup ride before. =) pictures are forthcoming.

oh yeah!! and finding nemo is my new favorite movie. i thought it would be good, but i had no idea… every character was spot on interesting, the animation was lush and gorgeous, the script was funny and inspired… i was totally blown away.

(look forward to an onslaught of aspiring marine biologists at universities in about 10 or so years… hehe)

i am soooooo getting that on dvd when it comes out. hot damn!!

that is all.

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belated update from last weekend

there’s a lot of things i have to update here, especially from last weekend, but for now here’s a brief rundown:

michael and sharon, two of jer’s best friends from forever, came down from rocklin to visit us last weekend. they are freaking awesome, and we had a terrific time. sharon, michael, come down and see us again soon!! :D :D

there are dolphins in our beach!!

boogie boarding is harder than it looks.

more to come later. =)

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pop culture TRASH!

okay, a blog update for aaron.

[02:06:58AM] Ma: Why haven’t you updated yours yet?
[02:07:03AM] Ma: It’s been, like, a week.
[02:07:12AM] ¤ pearl ¤: i’ll try to think of something interesting
[02:07:17AM] Ma: Here’s one —
[02:07:19AM] ¤ pearl ¤: some of the stuff that’s gone on, i can’t blog
[02:07:26AM] Ma: I saw on VH1’s Pop Culture
[02:07:36AM] Ma: Henry Winkler, of Fonzi fame, was a Yale Drama graduate
[02:07:43AM] Ma: Discuss :)

great, it’s like i’m back in school again!! woohoo!! i think being on my summer bum schedule is really messing with my head. i NEED that structure, that requirement that i go to school and/or be productive, or i can sit in front of my computer and more or less waste the day away. i’ve done that quite a bit in the past couple of days.

So as per Ma’s suggestion, i will pontificate on the topic of Henry Winkler, of Fonzi fame, was a Yale Drama graduate. I won’t guarantee that it will be on topic at all, but Ma, you will have something to read.

You know, actually, i’m more interested in the show he saw that little tidbit on. VH1 Pop Culture?? sweet!! i’m a sucker for all those celebrity/pop culture profile shows. VH1 has running those “I Love the 80s” shows quite frequently in the past couple weeks or so, and everytime the TV is on and one of those shows is on, that’s where the channel clicker stops. It’s a veritable parade of B-list celebrities and pseudo-celebrities. Minor characters on hit and not-really-hit shows appear and wax eloquent (or not-so-eloquent) about Tiffany vs. Debbie, Michael Jackson, Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, etc. Geez! Anyone can do that!! I can do that, for crying out loud! Then again, I don’t think i could stomach how poorly those things are edited, and how anything I’d say would be reduced to its most ridiculous and stupid sounding part. (and boy, would it be easy to get stuff like that from me!)

Radar Magazine was right. We really are a B-list nation!!

So along the lines of celeb gossip and pop culture cheese, i’ve been reading a lot of semi-trashy sites, on top of watching trashy pop culture profiles and shows. Here’s my list of trashy/fun bookmarks, for your persuing pleasure.

Radar Magazine Radar, my new favorite magazine.
Gawker.com NYC based gossip log featuring the exploits of celebs (all different kinds) in the Big Apple.
Eonline.com home of Ted Casablanca, haha. On eof the originals, and still one of the best.
Adrants not really celeb gossip, mostly ad agency news and some celeb gossip
Fark.com Yea yea, everyone knows this site already, but it demands a mention here.

If you think of any other ones, lemme know! hehehe.

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addendum to midnight ramblings

to add a little to my midnight ramblings post…

i should probably clarify that i’m probably overreacting a lot, it was late at night, and i was probably on crack or something. and reading back, i guess i spent a good amount of time whining about friendster. so let me elaborate on what i was thinking…

my thoughts about friendster aren’t so much about whether people post or not or how they toot my horn or whatever, but rather… it just raised to me a lot of interesting questions when i was thinking about this stuff. back in senior year of high school, i wrote an essay for the san jose mercury news about how i felt like i was at a crossroads, starting college, and so forth. these people whom i’ve shared so much will basically pass out of my daily consciousness…

with enough time, are people forgotten?

i guess i’m just in such a questioning phase of who my real friends really are, and i feel terrible thinking that a lot of my friends from high school, whom i’ve always considered myself closest to, are just drifting away. we’re growing up, with different interests, different career plans, and different sensibilities of what each of us wants in our lives.

growing isn’t a bad thing.. it’s a necessary part of human existence. people *should* grow and think and learn from their experiences, as opposed to just ‘aging’ and getting old physically.

so… i guess my central emotion is fear. it’s the fear that i’ve taken for granted people in my life. it’s the fear that these people, having had enough of me, have finally decided to leave. it’s the fear that i’m a bad friend, have been a bad friend, and will forever be doomed to being a bad friend. and it’s also the fear that as it was, i might just have been a funny little blip on the radar for people who have been deeply impacting for me. it’s perhaps a fear of insignificance, in both my personal and career life.

so my apologies for my ranting the other night. i think i just let my demons haunt me a little too much that day. 0_o

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have a lot of funny

have a lot of funny ideas about making mixtapes and such…

i want to make a cheesy dance mix.

i want to make a summer pop music mix.

i want to make an indie mix.

i want to make a girly indie pop-rock mix.

i want to make a moody mix.

and a rockin’ hard mix.

so many mixes, so little time.