myths and religion

the following is a blog i started a few nights ago, but i think it's still relevant because "passion of the christ" comes out on video today. coincedentally, the south park version, "passion of the jew", also comes out today...

so, last night i had a panic attack about moving to l.a. i don't know if it was technically a panic attack, but i couldn't breathe and i was crying uncontrollably and i was really really scared. hmm, when but that way, then, yes, i do think it was technically a panic attack. anyway, this blog isn't about that. the point is, i couldn't calm down and so i got up and decided to read. my roomate was in the living room and i didn't want to go out there all crazy and hyperventilating, so i found something in the room to read: derek's bible. let me preface this by saying that i am not anti-the-bible, or anti-religion or christianity or anything, i just have my own religious beliefs that don't involve organized religion. that being said, there are some messed up things in the bible!! seriously, it's a wacked out thing! in all truth, i did only get through genesis, so i can't say that the rest of it is the same, but, woah. it got me thinking about religion in general. the creation story in the bible is not too different from creation myths i've read from native americans and african tribes, nor is the bible much different than old greek mythology. it's all an epic adventure, only in the bible, there is one god as opposed to many in, say, the odyssey. speaking of, i don't think i know how to spell the odyssey. that's pretty embarrassing, huh? anyway, my point is that most religions have similar themes, and therefore, there is no need to kill one another because of different religious beliefs. really, it seemed so much more poignant in my head, but i guess i'm basically saying that we should all just get along. now go hug a stranger and call your mom!

yep.

so, it's official, i love zach braff. he's beyond words. he has a blog that you can just go read and then comment on and he reads the comments, or most of them. he's just, wow. yeah, so, i love him. other than that, i am tired. i've been working 9-5:30 this week and tomorrow was my day off for me to pack and such, but then someone asked me to work for them and i just can't say no to extra cash, so there you go. it won't be so bad though, i guess. i don't know when i'm going to do everything i need to do before thursday, though. i'm also having a nervous breakdown everytime i think about moving in less than a week. i hope i don't die of fright. i think i'm going to go see a psychic next week. oh, and i didn't get the master bedroom. lenka got it. i'm less homocidal than i was last night about it, but still bitter. i really wanted that room. i'm also slightly concerned about living with the lenkster. i hope it doesn't ruin our friendship. que sera sera, eh? yeah, so, only fear and more fear here, except for the part of me filled with love for zach braff... and for my boyfriend...of course.

hero to the hopeless

so, my weekend, absolutly amazing. first, i went to my old friend davida's housewarming party and had tons of fun, drank a little too much champagne and beer.. but, you know... then, brian and erin come into town and we see garden state, then laugh a ton at a hotel in tucson and i sleep on a comfortable, yet oddly shaped chair... then, i go to sierra vista and have dinner with my pops which is great and then hang out with brian and erin some more before driving home. but, today, today is odd. i was at work for 8 and a half hours which was ok until this girl came in. she was on the movie pass and was really nice, but towards the end of our transaction mentioned how some weird guy and his son were following her. i told my manager, and sure enough, some weird old guy and a young boy were standing outside the building, just sort of lingering. well, my manager goes outside and she asks me if he was going to confront them. i said he was probably just watching to make sure she got to her car alright, but then he comes in as she leaves and a feeling of dread comes over me. i go outside to watch her, and she gets to her car, but the guy and the kid follow her and go directly to the car parked right beside her. she drove off , and i didn't really see what happened to his car, but i didn't feel right after that. i've had a feeling of doom ever since then, like i should have done something more like called the police or approached the guy. i tried to call the number she had on her account to make sure she got home ok, but it was disconnected. when i got home, i tried looking her up on the u of a webpage, but she wasn't there. i feel really bad. i hope she's alright. i've also been watching a lot of "angel" lately and feel like it's my duty to make sure she's ok, like i'm a vampire with a soul watching over the helpless. that's really stupid, but i do feel really anxious for this girl. i hope nothing bad happened.

Bah Humbug

It is so freaking hot. I don't want to leave this house again until November!!!! Unfortunatly, I must leave, to move and stuff. Speaking of, I am scared out of my mind about moving. I've never really gone anywhere on my own before. Even when I moved for college, I only moved 70 miles away from my parents. Eventually, they moved 2000 miles away from me, but that was entirely different. Now I'm moving to a big huge city where everyone else has the same dream as me and we're all going to be fighting for one job. I don't want to fight, I just want to be happy. Argh. On the plus side, "Garden State" is opening in Tucson tomorrow. That means for 2 hours I do not have to think about the dreaded move to Los Angeles and can focus on beautiful cinematography and Zach Braff. Oh, and this weekend is Olsen twins weekend at the BB in honor of "New York Minute" which is going to be so hilarious. I hope I can find my blonde wig....

Mrs. Braff?

Ok, real quick before I meet Derek for lunch... i just discovered that Zach Braff is the cute gym boy in "Broken Hearts Club", which has always been one of my all time favorite movies! It's like finding out that you've known your husband since elementary school, even though you just "met" in college. It's freakin amazing! Man, I've never been more in love with someone that I don't even know, not even Jonathan Brandis (r.i.p.). Alright, I gotta run. Peace.

Fake blood for the masses.

Argh. I am so tired. Last night Derek and I shot a movie for a three minute thriller competition. Our friend Kim wrote and directed it and I was the scared-turned-psychotic star. It was actually a lot of fun and the footage turned out really well! I did, however, discover a few things about myself/movie-making.
1. I need to lose 30 pounds.
2. I really do not like fake blood. In the last scene, I was thrusting a blunt object towards the camera while our friend Cal blew fake blood through plastic tubing onto my face, and I have to say, it was not very enjoyable. It actually didn't taste bad, but it dries so quickly and is soooo sticky, it was just a mess. I only had it on for like 5 minutes too. I can't imagine doing "Carrie" or something and having to walk around with it for hours.
3. I can act on film. I definetly need to take classes and I'm still more comfortable on stage, but it is something that I can do and that I enjoy. Yea! My life has meaning and purpose again!
4. I love Derek. I hope we get married.
5. It is not a fun idea to shoot a movie in an apartment in Tucson in August because inevitably you will need to turn off the air conditioning for sound and hot madness will ensue!
I think that's about it. I can't wait to see the finished product! I wish I were editing it!!! Have a fake-blood-free-day! Oh, and, leave a freaking comment. There's nothing more depressing than a comment free entry!!

Woah!

I just remembered that I have to write about my Joey Lawerence experience before the memory fades and I lose it forever! I really shouldn't call it a "Joey Lawerence experience" because I never actually saw him, but that is what it shall be called nonetheless! Ok, so, it all started one week ago today. Lenka and I were in Los Angeles looking for an apartment. Culver City was our number one choice, but Studio City was way up there. Unfortunately for us, it is very difficult to find an affordable apartment, much less a three bedroom, in either of those locations. So, we're driving around looking at possible complexes in Studio City and we see a sign for a 2bd w/den. We think, why not, and check it out. It is the most gorgeous apartment ever! There was marble countertops in the kitchen, polished hardwood floors, a balcony, and beautiful bedrooms. The den is closed off by french doors and could easily be turned into a bedroom. It is perfect. The catch? Oh, I dunno, how about $2195/month? That's a little out of our price range... So, we leave, brokenhearted, and run into a tennant on the way out. I have to say, he's a little sleazy in that smooth talking salesman kind of way. Anyway, we start talking with him about the place and it turns out Joey Lawerence is his next door neighbor!! Well, that only makes us want the place even more!! Imagine running into Joey Lawerence in the elevator. Come on, you know you'd say it... "Woah!" Hilarious. That alone would be worth two thousand dollars!! I love it. Here's a friendly tidbit for you, I have the same birthday as Joey Lawerence. It's true! And now I've seen an apartment that could have been merely feet from his. That's awesome. Although, I really feel like he should own his own house or something. Why waste money renting if you don't have to? Alright, I've gotten off topic here, let's get back to the point. The point is, that apartment was beautiful and Joey Lawerence lives there. You know, after writing this, it really doesn't seem like something that needs to be preserved in writing, but it certainly was funny at the time.

How I started my day.

So, I get a call last night from my friend Nicole* who leaves a message that is rather long and ends with "By the way, I'm going to need you to pee in a cup for me tomorrow. Thanks, bye!". Now, this really doesn't come as a surprise to me because my friend is crazy. No, really, she is. One time last year, she was going through surgery in Phoenix and I went with her so I could drive her home. Well, they gave her valium to take the night before so that she wouldn't be in too much pain afterwards. She decides that the best plan of action is to eat a ton of food, smoke cigars, get drunk off cheap wine, then take the valium with a combination of some somas that we had leftover from Mexico (another amusing story). Needless to say, she was absolutely loopy after taking that valium and it was one of the funniest nights of my life. So, yeah, she's crazy, and she's recently started smoking a lot of pot. I don't smoke the pot, having gotten over my drug phase sometime junior year, and I believe I am the only female friend she has that is drugfree. So, this call was unexpected, but not really. It turns out she just discovered that she would be needing to take a piss test early this morning. I get up super early this morning, because her appointment is at 8:30. She picks me up and we go to Fry's. She has a tupperware container in her purse, and a plastic baggy to tape to her leg. We go into the bathroom. She slips the container under the stalls to me. I sit, tupperware between legs, waiting. And then, I just can't go. I freeze up, it's just too much for me! After awhile, we decide to go to the nerby Starbuck's and I down a grande ice coffeee in 10.5 seconds. Then, she decides that instead of a huge production, I can just go into the bathroom before her and hide the container behind the toilet, as the clinic's office is very relaxed and won't be expecting this. So, we get to this nice office and I am freezing and don't have to pee at all. But, I say that I do and I go into the bathroom, again with the cup just waiting to collect my specimen and I'm concentrating so hard on trying to pee and I just can't and the whole time I can hear the nurse with Nicole in the next room and I'm thinking about how much I will fail my friend if I don't produce a cup of pee, and I hear the doctor come in and say "Do you want to empty your bladder now?" and the nurse says "Her friend is still in there" and the doctor says "Still?' and Nicole says "It's that time of the month" and I know the gig is up so I just quit trying, put the cup back in my purse, and leave the bathroom defeated. Well, and here's the exciting conclusion, it turns out that they didn't end up giving her a drug test. I don't know if they forgot, or if they never needed one, but they just never asked her for a cup of pee. So, in the long run, I guess it's pretty great that I couldn't pee this morning because if I had come through, Nicole would have had a baggy full of pee and nothing to do with it! So, that was my crazy morning. I now know that I cannot pee under pressure, and I think that's a pretty important lesson to have learned, in the scheme of things.
*names have been changed to protect the innoncent.

Garden State

Holy crap was this a great movie!! So, we saw it last night in freakin Beverly Hills!! Lenka and I had been out since 9 that morning looking for apartments and really hadn't planned on going to Beverly Hills, so we looked like bums that had just jumped out of a dumpster compared to the people at the theatre. The "theatre" was actually more like a royal palace in Europe. It was in the center of this huge mall that looked like a nicer version of the Venetian in Vegas. Man was it nice. And the movie... arrrrr, I'm drooling just thinking about it. I loved it. It was everything I had hoped for and more. Love. And I want to marry Zach Braff. He's my new (slightly less attractive) Jake Gyllenhaal.
So, we found a place! It's a little further north than we wanted, but it's nice. It's in West Hills, which to me, just sounds nice. I like it. And, this whole time, we've only gotten horribly lost once and that was last night after leaving the movie. It was pretty hilarious, but I will save the hilarity for a later time as we are off to find jobs now. Hooray, jobs!! Oh, and the new word of the day is cinematographically, as in, "Garden State is the most cinematographically beautiful movie I have ever seen!" Make up your own sentence!!

I'm off to L.A.!

For the week at least. Lenka and I are going to find an apartment and some jobs. I'm pretty excited, yet totally freaked out at the same time, ya know? I am very excited about seeing "Garden State", however, and I think that that excitment far outweighs any sensataions of pending doom. Well, I must go pack! Ta ta!

I Wish My Name Was Kepi

Then everyone would walk around and say "Hi Kepi" and I'd be the coolest girl in town. Anyway, I got up early today and took my car into the windshield repair place. It is going to cost me $211.89 which I am still very pissed off about. I think that all freak accidents should be covered by my insurance or should just be repaired for free for me because it's not fair. Bah. This leads me to a list of things I disapprove of:
1. People who bring up the cover boxes to movies and don't replace them. This also includes people who move coverboxes for any reason and then put them in random places.
2. People who unplug my electric toothbrush. The whole point of an electric toothbrush is that it is electric. If I want to manually brush my teeth, I would buy a non-electric toothbrush.
3. Lindsey Lohan. I really dislike her.
4. When my roomate Doh puts the temperature of the refrigerator on 2 when it clearly states that 3 is the normal temprature. Why would anyone put it below normal? I hate it because the milk and water are lukewarm instead of cold. Things in refrigerators should be cold!!
5. When people say their baby is 15 months old, or something like that. After a year, it should be mandatory that people start saying "Oh, my baby's a little over a year" or "A year and a half". It's not like I say, "I'm 265 months old", which I will be on Friday.
6. Bugs. All of them. I had a dream last night that there was a cockroach that had a scorpion stinger in the middle of its back. That was pretty disgusting.
7. Christina Romano. She's the singer of this horrible song "Teacher's Pet" that plays every 7.5 minutes at work and it eats away at my soul little by little every single time I hear it.
8. 7am. In fact, I disapprove of any time before 10am.
9. Really heavily air-conditioned places in Arizona. Sure, it's great for the first 3 minutes because it's so freaking hot outside, but then it's just sooooo cold and you end up having to bring a jacket with you if you plan on being in a building for more than 3 minutes and it's just ridiculous to carry around a jacket in the middle of the summer in Arizona.
10. Michigan. I hate that it's really 2 states, yet it's just called one. They don't even touch at all. In all honesty, northern Michigan should be a part of Canada.
11. Republicans. What the hell is wrong with them?
12. Mystic River. The movie, not the river itself.

I think that's all for right now. I'm sure there's more, but those are the most important. And now, just because I have a lot of time before my windshield is fixed, here's a list of things that I definetly approve of:

1. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Sure, their movies are really bad and they're spoiled rich brats, but they're so cute! I have to love them!
2. Fish tanks.
3. Montana in the summer. That has to be the prettiest state in the nation.
4. Shrek 2 watches free in cereal boxes.
5. Reading material for the bathroom.
6. The new pepto bismal commercials. Something about people dancing and touching their butts really makes me happy.
7. Cell phones with cameras. Genius!
8. This Guy. I randomly found him and love him! I would comment on his page, but he's just too cool.

Ok, now I'm off to pick up my car! Hoorah!!

"Day Off"

My day off sucked! So, this week I worked a normal 40 hours and today was my first day off since Monday or something. Well, it started with me being woken up numerous times by the phone and loud people in the house. Then, I get up and help Derek clean the house for 2 hours because the new roomate moved in today. That sucked hardcore. This place was out of control dirty, and now it's fairly clean which is a major accomplishment! Well, then Derek left and I had a little me time, which was nice, but then the roomates came home (old and new) and I felt uncomfortable and couldn't decide on something to do when I get a phone call from work begging me to come in. So I went, and I just got home right now. This day off sucked big fat donkey balls.

P.S.

I would've been hot in the 80's! Check out that blue eye shadow!!!!

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80's day at the BB!

Last night at work we dressed up 80's in honor of "13 Going On 30" coming out on Tuesday! It was so much fun!! I really love this job and I am going to be so sad to leave it. It is really the perfect job for anyone in the entertainment industry. Oh well, I gotta do what I gotta do. This morning Derek, Doh, and I cleaned the house to prepare for the new roomate moving in today. He (Damien) was here earlier this morning, and the first impression he got of me was a crazy haired, blurry eyed, just woken up mess. Oh well, I'm only here for another month. Alright, I'm going to rest and watch some dumb tv.

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