Brightwash

I guess “biphasic” is another word for sleepy bum, which is what I am. Thank you Wikipedia. A lot of things have happened and are happening. I am pleased to announce Kelly got married, there were kebabs. She has also upped her blogging efforts. I met Laura’s baby Oliver. Mike met everyone he didn’t know already. Ginny lived in a beach house last week and invited me and A-C for a visit. I got us lost in Virginia Beach, but we did eventually make it. We ate tacos and swam and listened to my $5 boom box.

I am having a really annoying “quarter-life” crisis that I guess should have happened last year (when I turned 25, I plan to live to 100 and that’s it) – I whine at Mike and anyone who will listen about my future. Someone punch in the face.

Happening: My dad has a birthday this Friday! This is huge if you know about his no good very bad year. He is a champion! This weekend I’m going to Boston for Drupal Design Camp at MIT. I’ve never been to Boston, too bad it will be a quick trip. Then after that my good friend Marie gets partied, tea’ed and married.

Ginny at the beach in her saucy robe

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I’m almost finished with the first season of Breaking Bad (all 7 episodes… why is it short?) and I must recommend it. The level of crap this man has to deal with is almost too hard to watch, but that makes the breaking bad so satisfying. The main character, Walter White is a middle aged high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. Given only a year or two to live, with a baby on the way, he decides to cook crystal meth to make money for his family.

…he’s got Swine Flu!

LOL Grey Gardens – Courtesy of Jezebel. Pictures of the house when Little Edie sold it (bonus captions!)

Muxtape – is back! For now it is only for artists, and they’ve created this awesome 3 x endless grid of squares. Love layout limitations, people do much more interesting things when they have few options!

Susan Year Itch – Susan’s renamed movie blog. I helped make this!

Paul Gilbert – this is a guitarist Mike likes. He insisted his site was bad/crazy in a good way and it is. A tangled awesome web of pages. Real funny – see Sentences.

The Grey Gardens movie is airing on HBO this weekend and I can’t wait! I’m interested in seeing the Edies (and the house) back when things were good for them. Drew Barrymore is annoying, but I will try to look past her.

This is a pretty good essay about Grey Gardens, Hole in the Wonderbread.

My Grey Gardens day plan is to get Mike to eat hot plate corn and dress Seven and Rocky up as raccoons and put them in the air conditioning vents. I may even make a best costume for the day.

Ginny and Anna-Claire set up a Grey Gardens/Easter display this past weekend.

Kelly is getting married next week! Her bachelorette party was real fun. Small amounts of food and large amounts of alcohol… and hallway dancing boyz club. 3 years later things look pretty much the same – minus the degrees, home ownership and marriages. (Theirs not mine, I have regressed!)

This weekend I did notable(?) stuff. Friday night I got to go see Girl Talk at the Norva with Mike, wasn’t sure what to expect but it was great! My shoe broke as soon as we got inside and I had to hobble about, but it’s ok I’m no dancer. Saturday we made sushi for the first time and it worked! Our fillings were salmon, asparagus, avocado and cucumber. We also had sake and it tasted like rubbing alcohol. Next time I am going to try to make it with the rice on the outside. Annie and Flza came down for the evening and we watched Slumdog Millionaire against Flza’s will. I was underwhelmed.

The Mighty Boosh are on Adult Swim tonight – at 1am(why do they do this?) Journey to the Center of Punk, one of my favorites!