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September 29, 2005
An interesting interview with Courtney Love. She's certainly given all the appearances of being a mess in recent years but Live Through This is one of my favorite albums and I think she says some pretty interesting things.
I had no idea Kathleen Hanna has been dating Adam from the Beastie Boys for a while--I'm surprised and not surprised at the same time.
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September 19, 2005
Sunday = Fun day
Finally checked out the Greater New York exhibit at P.S. 1 and I'm glad I went. This year's exhibit seemed particularly expansive and they had a number of pieces I liked. I'm a big fan of video art and loved this video piece that involved a video camera set upon a miniature train as it moves along an extensive system of train tracks set up in various houses (the video makes it look like one house though). There was also a video installation involving people dressed up as ostriches that was interesting. Afterwards we went to Harry's Water Taxi Bar. At first, we were disappointed--the place reminded Adam and I of this bar/restaurant in Freeport, L.I. we went to the previous weekend but we ended up staying for several hours and the place grew on us. The views are great and the beach concept is pretty cool and a definite bonus are the $1 hot dogs (of which they have several kinds), other cheap grub, and reasonably priced drinks. Definitely worth a visit, especially if you're in the area.
Not the best picture--unfortunately, even though a million people have probably done so they have a policy of not allowing people to take photographs (related to some security issue).
Unfortunately, we had a million hours to kill before the Le Tigre show but, luckily, it isn't too difficult to do this in Union Square and the show was worth it. Le Tigre's definitely one of my favorite bands--I think they've superceded just about every female-headed band I've ever liked. What was not fun--waiting an hour for the subway coming home and waking up an hour plus late this morning.
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September 16, 2005
The Constant Gardener
Just saw The Constant Gardener--definitely the best non-documentary film I've seen a while. It has an excellent story line (it was more of a thriller than I had anticipated) and the shots of Africa are inspiring and eye-opening. The casting was terrific as well--I now love Rachel Weisz and after watching the movie, I reminisced about those The English Patient days when a former friend wistfully proclaimed, "Ralph Fiennes, sigh.." His choice of films is interesting--the roles he plays tend to be pretty similar but I'm secretly hoping it's a reflection of the actor in real life.
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September 14, 2005
Flight of the Conchords
Adam and I happened to be flipping around over the weekend when we saw an HBO special featuring Flight of the Conchords, a duo from New Zealand who sing a range of quirky story-oriented songs in a variety of musical styles on acoustic guitars. I still giggle when I think of one of their songs in which they play dueling rappers, Hip-hop-potumus and Rhyme-orocerous. Anyhow, tonight I thought I'd see if they'll be playing in NYC anytime soon and I was dismayed to find out they were actually in town last week. Bummer
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September 11, 2005
Bummed
Ever since I saw my first Shiba Inu, I knew that it was the dog for me. I find the breed's resemblance to a fox very appealing (I really like foxes). When we went to Japan, this desire was only reinforced as I saw Shiba Inus being walked everywhere and the dog seemed to fit perfectly with its native country. I'd always wanted to pet one but was always to shy to ask an owner of this type of dog if I could pet it but I finally got my wish when we went to this pet store that specializes in dogs. I've never seen so many puppies in my life and just about everyone seemed cute but once I saw they had Shiba Inus, I gazed at them longingly. Leaving the pet store, images of the dog floated in my head and Adam agreed that it was a very beautiful dog. Then I read the warning below and my long held dreams of getting one once we move to California and walking it in the temperate climes of San Francisco were dashed.
Shibas shed a LOT. You'll find hair and fur all over your clothing, upholstery, carpeting, under your furniture, on your countertops -- even in your food. Frequent vacuuming will become a way of life. Make sure you're REALLY up for this.
One of the reasons why I decided against getting a cat was this very reason. I've never owned a dog or a cat (or been a very good housekeeper) and the prospect of having to clean up lots of fur is one I find very unappealing. Boo.
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Oh yeah..
Between the recent nuptials of two of my favorite webloggers, Debbie and Holly and listening to Puffy Ami Yumi, I remembered I had entertained three opening dance number ideas for our wedding I thought I'd share. One was to swing dance to Puffy Ami Yumi's Boogie Woogie No. Five (if you saw the music video for this song, you'd understand why). Another was to get our wedding party to do a Bollywood dance production (I'm a Pisces--not all of my ideas are realistic). The other idea I had was to do a dance performance to Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet" reminiscent of Spike Jonze's music video for the song. I'm crazy like that sometimes. Needless to say, Adam nixed all three ideas.
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