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Today I went to the Bronx Zoo with my mom and saw a BABY GORILLA. He was SO CUTE. I sent a couple of crappy camera-phone shots of it to my flickr. He was so, sooooo cute.

I also got a ticket for failing to stamp my Light-Rail ticket. Whoops. That was an expensive little $74 ride for a 5-block walk. Well, I always take a gamble when I do that ride, so now I know: they prowl on weekends. It does sort of stink that it costs the same, penalty-wise, if you buy a ticket and forget to stamp it than if you don't buy one at all.

Man, that was one mighty cute baby gorilla.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:17 PM | shower me with attention

Thursday, April 27, 2006

I will play Daniella's magic 8-ball playlist game because, fresh from a musical that glorifies musical-theatre nerds (see post below this), I have no (and have never had any) shame.*

magic 8 ball playlist!

put your music player on shuffle.
press forward for each question.
use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn’t make sense.

1. how am I feeling today? "Aoi Hitomi", Sakamoto Maaya
2. will I get far in life? "The Trial: People of Atlanta", Parade Original Cast Recording (ooh, scary, I'm going to go on trial for murdering a 14-year old girl)
3. how do my friends see me? "When Doves Cry", live Ani DiFranco (I think) cover
4. where will I get married? "In the Drink", Barenaked Ladies (HEE)
5. what is my best friend? "Suddenly Seymour", Little Shop of Horros movie soundtrack
6. what is the story of my life? "A Man Shaves His Balls", Patton Oswalt (HEE HEE)
7. what was high school like? "Old Friends", Merrily We Roll Along OCR
8. how can I get ahead in life? "Greatest Man in America", Moxy Fruvous
9. what is the best thing about me? "It Takes All Kinds", Aimee Mann (Gee...)
10. what is today going to be like? "Famous Grave", Craig Northey
11. what's in store for this week? "Mr Apollo", Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
12. what is in store for this weekend? "Mass Romantic", New Pornographers
13. what song describes my parents? "Curtain Call", Barenaked Ladies (oh god, is that something ominous about impending death?)
14. to describe my grandparents? "Of Angels and Angles", Decemberists
15. how is my life going? "Melody Motel", Squeeze (JESUS CHRIST. See #2. I am definitely going to kill a prostitue or something. Why would I do that?)
16. what song will they play at my funeral? "Finishing the Hat", Sunday in the Park With George OCR (Oh, do.)
17. how does the world see me? "As Long As You're Mine", Wicked OCR. (Hah.)
18. will I have a happy life? "Bunker Hill", Michael Penn
19. what do my friends really think of me? "Pretending", Michael Penn (I KNEW IT)
20. do people secretly lust after me? "Why Must I", Til Tuesday
21. how can I make myself happy? "All Good Gifts", Godspell movie soundtrack
22. what should I do with my life? "Popular", Wicked (I should... get a makeover? Give someone a makeover?)
23. will I ever have children? "Some Grand Vision of Motives and Irony", Loud Family (HA HA)
24. what is some good advice for me? "Hold Me My Daddy", XTC
25. how will I be remembered? "Save Me", Aimee Mann
26. what is my signature dancing song? "That Wave", XTC
27. what is my current theme song? "I'm The Only Gay Eskimo", Corky and the Juice Pigs
28. what does everyone else think my current theme song is? "Give in World", Loud Family
29. what type of women do I like? "Early Morning Rain", Moxy Fruvous
30. what type of men do I like? "Learn to Fly", Foo Fighters

That was fun. I invite you to make your own magic-8-ball playlist.

*Case in point: Today J-Rock promised me a free movie ticket if I would wear the plastic Party City firehat for the rest of the work day. The day only being 45-minutes long from then, I readily agreed. Who wants to go to the movies with me?

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:53 PM | shower me with attention

I saw The Drowsy Chaperone, a new musical currently in previews, tonight. Brilliant. BRILLIANT! It maintained a delicate balance between parody and homage, and the main character was... hmm... how do I put this: me. Actually it was a guy called Man in Chair, played by Bob Martin (who co-wrote), a musical theatre geek who holes himself up in his apartment in his cardigan with his record player and escapes from the world by listening to the original cast recording of his favourite old Broadway show.

Dude. The ending was so beautiful it almost made me cry.

And Georgia Engel is so cute!

Anyway, this show started in the back room of the Rivoli and was co-written by Bob Martin's best friend, Don McKellar.

It also had a song about a monkey on a pedestal.

It's a great show and I highly recommend it, thank you.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:28 PM | shower me with attention

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Look at this picture, taken a few days ago, and then look at this picture, taken today. Now tell me: why would someone do that?

Why would someone behead the tulips?

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:18 PM | shower me with attention

I dreamed about Lily last night. It was one of those dreams where the residue of it just clings to you all day. So all day I've been sort of melancholy, missing my little girl. In the dream we were cuddling, her head was nuzzled in my armpit just like she used to do when we'd watch Star Trek: The Next Generation together in the middle of the night. And it was one of those sad, aching dreams where you think that the fact that someone has died was the dream, and the dream is the reality, and there's such relief. So you wake up so, so sad.

Miss my little flower. I think this month is 20 years since we got Lily and Rosie as kittens when my mom went on a trip to Puerto Rico. She's been gone for almost 4 years now. I guess those dreams don't ever go away. I'll probably be dreaming about her still 20 years from now.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:05 PM | shower me with attention

Monday, April 24, 2006

When are dark circles going to be considered sexxy, dammit? Raccoons are where it's izzat.

Secretly* I think they look kinda cool. I mean, not on other people, but I'm rather fascinated with my own. How do they get so dark? I do sleep sometimes. Kirsten's are very dark, too. Someone at work saw the picture of us on my desk and asked if we were sisters. Yes! Yes we are! Family resemblance! We are united across continents and time zones by our pasty complexions and our bruised-looking eye sockets. I hope you can come visit in the summer because it's sad watching Disney cartoons without you. And making boring insomniac confessions like "I think dark circles look cool". But it's an okay kind of sad. I live for pathos.

*Well, not anymore... Oh well, now I have to think of something else to send to PostSecret.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:42 PM | shower me with attention

There's really no point to anything I do.

I cleaned Progo's tank and got rid of the rusty tin Ritz box he had been using as a hidey-holey, and I replaced it with a plastic canister that he is currently beating the hell out of between bouts of slapping around his wooden log-thing.

He's so violent. I want to take the log away but I'm trying to maintain some semblance of self-control. He's probably having the time of his life with that thing but I feel like he's going to do himself injury.

I must never have children.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 8:59 PM | shower me with attention

There's not enough light beer in the world to make me drunk enough to sing karaoke. There's not enough concealer in the world to cover my dark circles. There's not enough hours left in the night for me to be well-rested tomorrow. There's not enough random categories for me to alphabetize in an attempt to fall asleep.

But let's not focus on the things we don't have. Today I watched four or five episodes of The Muppet Show in a row I have got to try that with... with popcorn. Those folks were smoking something very strong and very often. It's funny that I wasn't more scared of the Muppets as a kid, now that I see how goshdarn psychedelic those sketches were. I couldn't handle Yellow Submarine but I ate that stuff up. But then, some of them were just sweet, like Ben Vereen singing "Pure Imagination" or Sandy Duncan telling Sweetums that he's beautiful or that whole sketch of Rowlf just playing the piano. That was the whole concept: Rowlf will play a beautiful classical piece on the piano.

It's conceptual, man.

Things that didn't scare me as a child that do scare and/or depress me now include: the anime series of The Little Prince; that Raggedy Ann movie; Faaaaaaaaaat Albert!

This is not a good note to end on, so: baby gorills dreams, everybody. Enzo, my sweet baby gorilla. How do you say gorilla in Swedish?

Why are you in Tavie's head? 12:41 AM | shower me with attention

Sunday, April 23, 2006

I want to a bar mitzvah yesterday. It was my first time in a shule, my first time seeing a Rabbi, and my first time tasting a kosher brownie.

It was interesting but I almost fell asleep during the service because of all the rocking and rhythmic, musical chanting.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 1:37 PM | shower me with attention