06.23.07
Feed Your Head…
I have been enjoying some retro tunes lately and the following are the most 5 played albums on Milo (my iPod) for the week:
Some old; some new – the pixies are really into The Who right now. Trixie prefers Baba O’Riley while Squidge favors Slip Kid. Either way, these two are bein’ raised right!!
06.20.07
I’ll Take That Tag…
and give you my top 10 favorite movies to quote… Then I’ll give you a bonus quote (which probably only my beautiful sisters will be able to correctly identify!). Mind you, these are not necessarily my favorite films, just my favorite films to quote (although some of them really rock!):
1. Raising Arizona – “Hi, you get back in there and get me one of them babies…”
2. Fight Club – “I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.”
3. All About Eve – “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.”
4. Monty Python & the Holy Grail – “It’s a false nose.”
5. Best in Show – “We have so much in common, we both love soup and snow peas, we love the outdoors, and talking and not talking. We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about. “
6. This Is Spinal Tap – “He was the patron saint of quality footwear.”
7. Waiting For Guffman – Here’s the Remains of the Day lunchbox. Kids don’t like eating at school, but if they have a Remains of the Day lunchbox they’re a lot happier.
8. Annie Hall – “I’m Marshall McLuhan – you know nothing of my work.”
9. Shrek – “We could stay up late, swap manly stories, and in the morning, I’m making waffles!”
10.Reality Bites – “There’s no secret handshake. There’s an IQ prerequisite, but there’s no secret handshake.”
And of course, the bonus quote: “I thought you said, ‘Earn more sessions by sleeving.’” What’s the movie? Big points to the first person to correctly identify the movie.
06.15.07
5ives & Pixies…
5 words to describe the Pixies:
- Exuberant
- Endless
- Unbridled
- Fantastical
- Unexpected
5 Things You’d Most Likely Find the Pixies Doing:
- Bickering, quarreling and otherwise bugging the crap out of each other
- Pining for Honey and Poppy’s house
- Charming their way into a forbidden snack
- Reading on the couches (one to a couch of course – heaven forbid we SHARE a couch!)
- Finding the last remaining nerve in my body and defraying it down to a single raw thread
5 Ways That I Detox From Being Over-Pixied:
- Read whatever library book I’m in the middle of in a bathtub so hot that I sweat out three years worth of me
- Make brownies at 10 pm and eat them with copious amounts of orange juice (zing!)
- Rewatch my video of “All About Eve” – if you haven’t seen it yet, watch it this week or be gone from this blog!!
- Walk at 5:30 am on a Saturday morning with Susan – one of my favorite people on the planet.
- Go back into the lion’s den and lie on my bed with the two pixies just gooning around and making them laugh.
Boom baby!
06.10.07
The ABCs Of Me Baby…
Because Kara is such a trendsetter, I decided to do my own abcedary of all my favorite things. Here ya go readers…
AUDREY – Trixie, Alpha Pixie. Quite simply, she rocks!
BEATLES – Anyone who says they don’t like the Beatles needs to realize that half the music they do like was influenced by the Beatles!
CHELSEA – as in The Great Dog Chelsea. There are none, nay not one, as good as she!
DUSK or DAWN – I’ll take either. I love being outside at the time between times.
EMILY – The Divine Miss Em. Squidge. She rocks! (see AUDREY above)
FRESH AIR – Terry Gross reminds us all that interviewing is a specific skill set.
GOODE COMPANY BBQ – Houston salutes you Jim Goode.
HONEY – the world’s greatest Mom and Grandmother – try pulling that one off!!
IRA GLASS – This American Life is radio at its finest.
JAMES – my younger nephew. He grins at life.
KETTLE CHIPS – hey, I like ‘em crunchy, crunchy, crunchy.
LAPTOP - Get a Mac baby!! My Macbook is always on and always hoppin’ Michael says it’s like my fifth limb.
MICHAEL – nothing else needs to be said!!!
NPR – for those days when I forget to charge the ipod.
OLIVIA – one of my favorite children’s books characters. Way to go Ian Falconer.
POPPY – one of the greatest human beings of all time – and I’m not the only person with this opinion!!
QUEEN ELIZABETH I – hands down the first person I’d invite to my Dinner for Five Party.
RASPBERRY MARGARITA – at Little Pappasito’s on Richmond. Life-changing!
SISTERS – I have the two best ones – too bad for the rest of you!!
THOMAS – my oldest nephew. He’s a total runktus and he’s amazing!!
UNBORN CHILD – as in, that of my pregnant sister. We’re calling the little embryo “Pebble” and the Pixies are bucking for a girl.
VEX – I just love that word. I try to use it in daily conversation and it never fails to get noticed.
WORLD WIDE WEB – the greatest invention ever. Hats off to Al Gore!
XTC – the first music group I really loved without being influenced by anyone else. Andy Partridge is a genius.
YOGURT – but only if it’s Yoplait.
ZOO – I could go to the zoo every day of the week. It never gets old and it’s the pixies favorite outing.
