1:33 p.m. - 2006-09-28
ew, mayonaise
I'm sure everyone but me already knows about this, but I am totally hooked on The Tube. I mean, actual videos, all the time. Right now, I'm watching this clip of a concert with Rufus Wainright, Moby and Sean Lennon. How awesome is that?
The best is when they show those really old early MTV videos where the only effect they had was smoke wafting around and the men all wear tight pants and show their skinny chests off. And the women all look like they were picked up at a mall in New Jersey.
Then there are the Peter Gabriel videos. That with him in the shadows, Red Rain or something. The whole video is him in a turtle neck, singing dramatically. My mom hates when guys wear turtle necks. In have to agree with her on this one.
Onto another topic. My husband snores. A lot. There is nothing to be done about it. I poke him, nudge him, hold his nose, wake him up, no matter what, five seconds later he is snoring. As long as I have about 20 snore free minutes to fall asleep, it doesn't matter because then I'm asleep and I sleep soundly once I get to sleep. But if he falls asleep before me, and he usually does, it's all over. The other thing he's been doing lately is talking in his sleep. He will suddenly shout, not mumble, but shout, something, usually once sentence. Recently I've heard: "What is going on with the batteries?" and "OK, Fellas, let's go!" No matter what it is, it always makes me laugh really hard. Which is funny, but bad because once you're laughing, you're fully awake and sleep anytime soon after is only a small hint of a possibility.
Here are some recent pet peeves that have been popping up as of late:
Driving in the fast lane and driving slow. I think old people do this on purpose to annoy me. I read in this book by Augusten Burroughs (all of his books, memoir style are AWESOME) about how he had this friend who was infuriated by bad driving. She made all of these signs and put them in her car. They all said things like "Next time use your turn signal!" and when someone would do something annoying, she would flash them the sign. But the most interesting part is that she went on the Internet and printed out these hard core porn pictures, and below the picture she would print her message. So, when a soccer mom cut her off, she would speed up and flash them the sign of some horible beastiality or something with "Cutting people off is rude!" written under it. This is a little over the top for me but I thought it was genius.
Name Dropping. Ok, we've all done it. But then there are the people who do this constantly. The worst are people who name drop like the building inspector of a "village" of 1,000 people. "Well, my husband and I were having dinner with Tom, you know, he's the building inspector...." Sweet. Maybe he'll inspect your, um, building, extra...precisely?
Mayonnaise. Nuff said
