online at 3am, talking to mark about sneakers

I'm legal in 15 days!
College with the Olsens in 27!

Brittany Hall

I'm living in the east 10th st. residence next year, and I'm really happy about it. It's got a bad rap for being the un-air conditioned dorm, but who needs air conditioning when you have really large closets?

No, I haven't finished HP7 yet.

But I'm diligently working on it.

Driving the other day, I turned to Mark and said, "you know, I'm focusing on driving, but really, I'm thinking about Harry Potter."

Upon buying it, I immediately read the last two chapters. Because I lack childish whimsy.

summer stagnates.

Just got back from the International Slam Poetry Festival in San Jose, California. It was great fun, and I'm troublingly tempted to abandon my whole never-leave-the-east-coast philosophy.

Posted in our Holiday Inn (presumably because of the everyday run of the mill chlorinated pool?).

me and my teammate basking in the californian sunshine:



So the adventure is over and I'm bored already. Being a camp counselor makes one very sticky.

RIP Jane Mag

A Woman's Magazine That Tried to be Otherwise

After 10 years, Jane Magazine will close after its August issue.
This was my all time favorite magazine, a kind of Bitch-Cosmopolitan hybrid that I bought every month and read cover-to-cover. I had always thought I might apply for an internship there, since they took on a couple NYU journalism students a year. I am sincerely disappointed.

Fashion is just a weird contest.

Kanye West wore these when I saw him on Tuesday night. They're dumb but I kind of want them before his third album comes out. Canal street!

EDIT: Oh, I should have figured. There are already forums set up discussing where these are available.

Performance art in my future hood.

"She's got a date, and only 72 hours to prepare"

I can't think of performance art without thinking of David Sedaris' "12 Moments in the Life of the Artist" about his experiences with conceptual art and speed. Therefore, I close-mindedly presume this woman is on speed. What's the opposite of speed? Whatever it is, homegirl's snorting that shit. Taking seven hours to drink a glass of wine? There's gotta be some drugs involved.

free trade coffee doesn't taste any different, right?

I learned today that coffee is the most traded commodity in the world, after oil.
I can't afford Starbucks and I don't really know anyone who can.
Today I got my coffee without a middleman from New Guinea.

Haley stamped me to prove it.

Wal Mart and moral relativism.

I'm one of those snots who won't shop at Wal-Mart, and likes to talk about how she won't shop at Wal-Mart. I read "Nickled and Dimed" for English class and watched "The High Cost of Low Price" in econ class and can rattle off the corporation's injustices. But next year, when I am much more broke, alone, and desperate, I will inevitably throw out my ethical code of conduct and shop at Wal-Mart. Why? Because they sell cans of soda for thirty cents. That's why.

DIY: Become a sex robot

1) Assemble a full sized trampoline in your backyard.
2) Make a trampoline-only iPod playlist of heavy bass electronica and repetitive techno music.
3) Even if your trampoline has a hovering-parent net (actually somewhat practical seeing as our trampoline is next to a spikey fence upon which my younger siblings could easily impale themselves with a botched back handspring), you will still feel sexy.

Another quality MTV film.

Super Sweet Sixteen: The Movie

You guys, it's coming out straight to DVD this month!
I confess to watching this show sometimes (right now), but only because if I watch an episode long enough, I can delude myself into believing that this world is the real world, and my life of moderate suburban comfort and parents who love me is really, in the scheme of things, nothing to feel guilty about. Don't act like you don't feel the same way.

I'm putting it in my netflix queue.

reflecting on my recent college orientation

College orientation reminded me a little bit of summer camp, which I guess makes sense seeing as both took place in the summer, and in college dorms, and involved shitty food and uncomfortably stiff sheets. And that particular smell that manifests itself in dormitory bathrooms. I hope you know the smell I'm talking about, because it's really distinctive but difficult to describe.

Well, orientation is vastly superior to summer camp, because when summer camp ends and it's time to go home, everyone gets teary and facebooks each other and never speak again*. But orientation, really, is just a preview of the greatness of the next four years to come! I am so excited!

*Unless you are like me and end up rooming in college with your old summer camp roommate. CTY is just...my life.

Is this the movie industry's way of combatting piracy?

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=21749
Bastardizing perfectly good classic television into inevitably unwatchable movies?

C-H-I-P-M-U-N-K-S

Alright, I fucking hate Hollywood.

Al Gore arrested for DUI!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288047,00.html


Al Gore III, 24-year-old son of the former vice-president, got pulled over for doing 100 on the San Diego freeway, and the cops found a small Duane Reade in his Toyota Prius.

I feel like this is not going to give the hybrid car industry any kind of sales boost.

"Greek"

I just watched the "Greek" pilot (it's a free download on iTunes so you might as well, really). It's so bad, but I know I'm going to keep watching it. And watching it and watching it.

My knowledge of college Greek life is limited to MTV's "Sorority House" and my 23-year-old freshman english teacher, Becky. This show only makes me happier that NYU's Greek system is minimal (and apparently highly mocked. Anything remotely yuppie is highly mocked at NYU, which is a little ironic).

Easily aesthetically pleased? Vain?

My MacBook and I are in hipster technology heaven, together, as are many college freshman-to-be I am sure. I wish I could tell you that it is expanding my creative horizons but in truth I am most fond of the built in digital camera. Who needs iMovie or Garage Band when I can take pictures of my face, in a variety of washes and distortions!

All you MySpace ladies out there, take note: You will no doubt find countless uses for Effects 1 (sepia, black and white, thermal camera, POP ART), but steer clear of Effects 2.

No one wants to hit that, alright?