Viral Vendredi: David Cook

Words can't express.

e = mc squared

i bought E=MC2 today
because mariah is my life

american idol tonight
david cook rocked it
did an emo version of 'always be my baby'
he got my vote
so did brooke white
because i accidentally voted for her the first time

i visit stout a week from today
i am not drinking until then
because i have had my aha moment
when i say what kind of fucked up motley crue bullshit is this
it's so pointless

i'm just gonna take a break
from the boozing and the chat rooms and yeah
because i'm not crazy about who i turned into
that isn't me
i don't think

i am trying to write a book
i have started it over and over again
like everything else in my life
i duck out when things get hard

i tried benefiber last week
only made things worse
i think i will just surgically remove my stomach

laundry tomorrow
cuz i'm on my last pair of underwear

seven days
to be sober and productie
and clean the penthouse
i got this

observations

*I HATE MY LIFE. But I am the only one who can change it, not anybody else. I have to be the grown-up.

*I hate my life because I drink too much. I drink too much because I hate my life. This is what we call a vicious circle.

*I had visitors this weekend! Fun! But I am really sick of looking at fake purses.

*Stout in 8 days.

*Mariah's album drops today!

*I'm going on a blind date with a 32-year-old cop?

Life Lessons

Yeah, I think I liked it better when I was the one ignoring you ...

uh oh spaghettios

i cut my thumb open trying to open a can of spaghettios
i don't even want to eat them now
because i know that as good as spaghettios are
they will not be worth the pain

i spend more than i'm worth at duane reade and target
and STILL forgot to buy soap and fiber
the two things i was there for

blergh

in much more serious news
there was a tragedy at UW-Stout over the weekend
They are being laid to rest tomorrow
And the folks from Westboro Baptist Church are coming to protest

I want to believe
There is good in everyone
And humanity will always triumph
But things like that
Challenge such ideals

All we can do
Is educate our children
Be better people ourselves
Eventually good will win out
And I will learn how to use a can-opener

news & notes

I feel like I'm having male menopause. I'm all sweaty and stuff. In April. WTF Batman. I'm going to take a shower, even though I was supposed to clean the bathtub. Oh, well. I put the Scrubbing Bubbles in like two hours ago without sweeping it up. I don't fall down and break a hip.

I've sent so many resumes this week and ... nothing. Tomorrow I will apply to be a bank teller. The ad said the job is in Brooklyn. I hope it meant somewhere in Brooklyn that is easy to get to, and not somewhere like the Flatlands.

I saw Stop/Loss on Monday, in the fanciest movie theater I have ever been to. I wasn't even complaining about the ticket price, because the seat was like my butt was on vacation. That said, I sat on the aisle in case I would have to pee, and there weren't a lot of people in the theater, but every time someone would walk by my aisle as if to sit in there I would give them this death look, like bitch, there are 300 seats in here, you don't need to be sittin' in my aisle ... it worked.

As for the movie itself, I think it was good, and important, but I also realize there is no way I can be objective about it when Channing Tatum is in a full military uniform and brooding. But from a more critical perspective, I will say that Timothy Olyphant is such a chameleon that we can now christen him the male Cate Blanchett. I never go out of my way to see him in things, but when I do he always brings it: geeky film student (Scream 2), high-strung film director (First Wives Club), sardonic drug dealer (Go), bad-ass porn director (The Girl Next Door), good-hearted gay photographer (The Broken Hearts Club), unflinching high-ranking military official (Stop/Loss) ... the man is good, people.

I make my return to Stout in three weeks. I'm already getting nervous about it, with my worries ranging from superficial (what am I going to WEAR???) to deeper (will I have another identity crisis? Should I lie and tell people I am loving New York, or tell them the truth, that I am unemployed, lonely as hell and, barring getting a kick-ass job once I am free of Brooklyn College, that I will have to move back in with Mike and Loretta sooner than later?).

My brother moved out today. That is ... weird, and I'm going to have to write a whole nother entry out of it someday. For two years I got to be the successful one and he got to be the one seen as a bit of a slacker, and now, it's flip-flopped and my brother is self-made and financially supporting himself and I am SO proud of him, but I'm also, like, wow, this sucks, because all of a sudden in the past six months he decided to become a grown-up and good GOD, there is no way in hell I can move back to Minnesota.