bruised legs

my body loves bruising and scarring. really. if i accidentally bump into the corner of the bed or a table or the car door or a strangers, my capillaries freak out and my blood turns into like a scary army guy all "GET TO THAT SPOT NOW! MOVE! MOVE!"

i'm kinda used to it. i loved having one really good scab at a time when i was little. scabs are still kinda satisfying because you actually bled.. let's not start talking about scabs.. i get really excited about the science of blood clotting.

i love my scars (scars, i love you). i have these huge two on my left arm from breaking my arm and having plates and i looove them; they look so hardcore. i'm starting to notice all the little scars from previous injuries though & it's surprisingly nice like "oh yeah i remember that time when my ankle buckled and i fell over in the middle of the street.." or "oh year-7-sports-day-self, how did you not see that bollard you walked into?"

i'm not especially clumsy.. i mean i'm by no means graceful. i just feel like i get hurt for no reason more frequently than the average person.

UNICORNFISH

found this at the tropical aquarium in paris, which was in a building that also contained the historical museum of immigration? so it's not like it wasn't a weird enough place as it was.. but wtf!
the aquarium's main attraction was an enormous crocodile. it was kinda cool... the zoo was closed. :/

i saw the hangover on friday with ed, whom i saw the first transformers movie with - we'd agreed to see the sequel together until we heard it sucks so we saw this instead. the hangover was really dumb & really awesome. we were going crazy trying to place bradley cooper - googling on my iphone straight after, it turned out that we know him from nip/tuck! he's the actor on hearts & scalpels!
classic.

dailybooth

louvrebomb

what a gem

too much to write

june has been lovely and crazy. after my intense sims 3 hibernation, i feel like i haven't had a break. it's nice but this morning i realised (while one friend is in the bath and the other is still sleeping in our hotel room in venice) that my google reader has 237 unread posts. this made me sad. i hate feeling behind! i guess it's because i added brad's blog to my reader and literally half the posts are from him.

we stayed in paris way longer than we needed to. it was lovely and we felt cultured. christie joined us in venice so we've been more advantageous about going out. met australians the night before and a huge group of americans last night, both in the same awesome bar that had a sign on the door yesterday saying 'we have peanuts HELL YEAH' and a bartender who encouraged us to flash and throw the monkeynuts everywhere. the former was ignored. throwing nuts really does make you feel better!

back to reading.

organisation progress.

the top 3 ft of my bedroom is now occupied with ALL of my books, cds dvds & board games. i feel kinda like i'm sleeping/living in a pop culture museum or something. there are robots, tiaras and a snuffleupagus scattered around it all.

i can't wait for the top of my dresser to be cleared so the magazine stack can relocate there from the windowsill. heels may also find a home there. it seems cruel to throw them on the top shelf of the wardrobe amongst the riffraff shoes..

it is satisfying to finally have most of my books together. it's pretty insane how many i've read in the past few years that i entirely forgot about. since my shelf isnt nearly big enough for them all, i've stacked them in a kinda messy way.. what bugs me the most is that i have a pile with all 7 harry potter books at the bottom of it and they're not in order. i just don't have the energy to move the pile :[ oh god.. i keep finding more books wrapped up in my duvet. it's like narnia.

my goal is to finally have my room clean (bar the boxes with all my paper junk in them) by the time sarah and i go on our paris/venice trip next week.

arrested development sims 3?

so after i found you can make your sim a 'never nude', i also discovered a premade 'Funke' family with parents disinterested in their children. and a character called Gobias Koffi.

sims update

duh. the rudd will be on another lot.
even in clueless, he seems too old for this scene - you all read my thoughts on the gosling. come on.

oh i got the sims & played it nonstop for the past 12 hours. totally forgot to eat, so i just had a hunk of bread & brought my laptop upstairs to continue playing. i started small. michael cera and i just had a baby girl! our house is too small though - we gotta move..

the sims 3 roster

i've been reading an awful lot in my attempt to stay distracted from utter boredom. i've nearly finished paul feig's other book and i started franny & zooey. lots to go from my new pile!

also, it's june 5th in the uk which means the sims 3 comes out today. i seriously have had this day marked on my ical for 4 months.. since they changed the date from february when i'd had it marked for nearly a year. i was furious! i cannot waaaait to get my hands on that game. jamie (tokenblackchic) and i have been planning what we'll do.

i'm going to make myself, jamie & natalie (communitychannel) all live together with as many teen idols as i can fit in our house. i'm thinking shawn from boy meets world, joey lawrence (in blossom) & obviously freddie prinze junior. i'll throw in pacey witter for good measure & joseph gordon-levitt to fill the indie quota.

we need someone shy.. is my perception of ryan gosling too old? and by that i mean i have a certain idea of who all these people are that i am taking as absolute in my sims 3 world.. and i think i imagine ryan gosling as older than is desired for this situation..

james franco. how many is that? 6. shit. im pretty sure it's 8 to a sims house. IN WHICH CASE I'M MAKING A NEIGHBOURING HOUSE WITH 8 MORE. starting with franco. jason segel can live with him. comedic value. (6 left)

man, i don't need to be as selective now. i want jason schwartzman. ignore all previous ageist comments i made towards gosling. they don't apply for JS. but i want him just after rushmore okay. and jake gyllenhaal (darko years).

i feel wrong putting heath ledger. i have a mental image of him in 10 things i hate about you, but i think you definitely go to hell for putting dead people in your fictional sim self's love life. not that i believe in hell. (this means no river phoenix either.) who's 'now'? man.. all the popular actors these days are only dreamy due to their personalities.. what's that about. this was supposed to be shallow.

okay. i'm having zac efron. whatever.
JUSTIN. jt! perfect.

michael cera's in too and i'll go crazy and throw in ashton kutcher.. who has pretty great hair too the majority of the time. and if this decision-making-process were based on trump card stats, and "hair" was a category on said cards, ashton would be raking in a solid 9/10 for his full career.
have you seen a lot like love? great movie.

so the roundup (including era):
jamie - now
natalie - now
molly - now
rider strong - 1998
joey lawrence - 1992
freddie prinze junior - 1999
joshua jackson - 2000
joseph gordon-levitt - 2004/5

james franco - 2001
jason segel - 2000
jason schwartzman - 1999
jake gyllenhaal - 2001
zac efron - 2009 baby
justin timberlake - i have no concept of time in relation to this man.
michael cera - 2007/8
ashton kutcher - 2001

thanks, world. /crazy.

i wonder if sim michael cera will walk around all charlie brown like.. i'll keep you posted.

HHHHHHHH

hugs, hollyoaks, help she can't swim, hugh jackman, hello kitty, hash browns, health, high fives, high fidelity, hugh grant, heath ledger, high places, harry potter, huwie (jeshi-boo!), hilary duff, hanging upside down, hush puppies, harajuku, hayao miyazaki, huckabees (fuck huckabees), hearts, halifax, handshakes, hairbands, howl, hiwonderland, helena bonham carter.

what's your damage? HEATHERS.

i went through this phase like 6 years ago where i became obsessed with 80s teen movies. it happened just after the death of the time around 1999 when freddie prinze junior was the king of the world and teen movies had something going for them. she's all that, anyone? down to you? awesome.

so, hungry for high school (hey 'h'!) and influenced by american apparel and the obsession with retro, i proceeded to aquire as many john hughes classics as i could get my hands on. i even have that special boxset with the breakfast club, sixteen candles & weird science that comes with a special cd of authentic 80s tunes. & my sister and i have 2 copies of st elmos fire between us. yeah.

so heathers isn't exactly the typical prom queen movie. i don't want to ruin it for people who haven't seen it. let's just say it wouldn't be made in the politically correct, post-columbine world of 2009. if you know what i'm saying.. i'm saying it's got some lighthearted murder.

but it also has croquet & christian slater! what comes after 'h'?

5.05

i can't sleep and i'm giving up trying. so earlier this week, i went crazy and spent way too much money on amazon. i bought almost 20 books and dvds that were in my 'save for later' section and felt really guilty afterwards, but i'm pretty satisfied by what i managed to get.

i don't know. sometimes i just stare at the bookshelf above my bed which contains all of the books i've bought within the past.. three years? (minus a few that are still missing from when i moved back from ottawa.. like 4 boxes left to unpack. i'll get to it.) and i can't help but feel confused. there's this thing in the epilogue of 'haunted' by chuck palahniuk that has stuck with me for the last year in respect to books. he writes about the intimacy of reading, how a book requires commitment and investment - money, time, thought, imagination. i think i wrote about this in a post about harry potter. books are magical. i like that.

but if books are so intimate then really. what am i doing with 6 books from the 'gossip girl' series next to the great gatsby, barlett's book of quotations, 2 books written by karl pilkington, the olsen twins' book, plenty of dr seuss & various books about illustration, photography & design including my favourite, 'emotional design, why we love (or hate) everyday things'.

sometimes i feel smothered by pop culture. i'm so interested in so many things. i guess that's normal. what i've always felt was strange is the fact that i'm very self aware of interest itself. i seem to always respond to literature by questioning the process and development of writing itself rather than the topics dealt with.. i don't know if that's normal or not.

molly: was tolkien gay?
christophr: what what? he was a soldier of course not! *posh voice
molly: that just popped into my head
molly: i thought he was gay!
molly: was gandalf?
molly: i KNOW sam was gay.
christophr: haha
christophr: sam isnt gayy
christophr: he loves wendy!
molly: sam is definitely gay.
christophr: i think wizards are on a different sexual plane to the other people

as good a time as any

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(any other mememollys aren't me)

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soap

full of grapes, listening to the cure & painting. mm..

doxa

holla. here's a link to the DOXA Camera Auction i took photos for. here are the full details! a word to all the foot fetish subscribers, you'll get at least one awesome photo of my feet if you buy it. good luck & thank you!

summer best ever

so i took the plunge + started (trying) to watch the gilmore girls online. sadly i've only found one site that has episodes - youku - and they load extremely slowly and strangely and it makes me sad. so mostly i give up around the 15 minute mark and have to fill in the gaps for the majority of the episodes. it kinda sucks.
it reminds me of when i was still in secondary school in england and had to leave for school at 8.30am, so i'd watch channel 4 as i got ready from like 7.30am til 8.15am.. so i usually saw like a whole episode of friends & then the first 15 minutes of an episode of everybody loves raymond.. i've maybe seen three entire episodes of everybody loves raymond ever. and i could easily be exaggerating. from those three, i managed to piece together the show format.. & i get it. it's a gift.

but the show (the gilmore girls) is okay. i really like all the literary and pop culture references. i definitely have a certain kind of obnoxious pride when i understand them.. it's awful. otherwise its pretty on par with other shitty wb shows. still waiting for the first pacey witter esque character to pop up - isn't seth cohen in this show somewhere? i'm over squinty chad michael murray and his squint acting. MORE PACEY.

speaking of literature. i borrowed a book of dylan thomas poetry from a friend and i'm excited to read it. and i want to go to one of the midnight performances at the globe. i feel like as you like it is on.. and i like that play. the dylan thomas friend has tickets for hamlet with jude law. jealous.

ps

gilmore girls?

i never understood the gilmore girls. i watched two episodes of it recently for the first time because it's on in the daytime. it always seemed like one of those teen shows for bookish girls.. or those kinda dorky girls who aren't smart but aren't really that social either.. just awkward. so.. since i have nothing to do.. like. maybe.. i should..? no. i don't know.

woo

been really sick. have a massive headache that's lasted since friday. cried in bed this morning watching the season finales of gossip girl & one tree hill. might have a nap.
best summer ever.

no.

no.no.

no.