January 2009
61 posts
You Betta Recognize!
Alyssa: yo sucka, you just got SERVED
Mike: what was that?
Alyssa: um, that was the lit dept. representing!
Mike: touche
aja:
Old 97’s - Question
“I play songs in endless loops. When a song is new to me, and there’s...”
– Dave Eggers, And Now a Less Informed Opinion-SPIN April 2004 (this is possibly the most accurate description of my life to be written by a complete stranger…Ever.)
They Call Me...
An anagram generator + my name = Fun Times! and of course yields many awesome covert nomenclatures:
A Calypso Mass
Lama Sassy Cop
Alas Scamps Yo
Cola Spasms Ay
Mac Slays Soapto name a few.
Just to name a few. Bonus points, and possible mix cd, to the person who can unscramble my last name.
“God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I...”
– Bill Waterson, this man changed my childhood.
blaise:
joshawesome:
kellyjay:
Say Anything -...
Contrariwise →
Some day when I get my own literary tattoo, I’m going to post it up on this site. Until then I urge you to peruse the wonders of beautifully bookish ink.
Most Disturbing Logline of the Day
“Young, hot tail, fresh out of jail.”
Albeit the synopsis is slightly less vulgar than I had assumed. However, still unsavory.
Seriously, Evan Rachel Wood, You Need To Knock It...
Because it’s gotten to the point where it’s no longer novel or eccentric, now it’s just gross. I accepted (and envied) your dalliance with Edward Norton; I tolerated your tryst with Marilyn Manson, but Mickey Rourke?! Clearly, you’ve crossed the lines of decency.That man looks about as attractive as a weathered tree stump and is about as crazy as a schizophrenic hobo. Yet...
sade:
Jace Everett - Bad Things
Because True...
Things To Come
I’m excited for Ikea.
Well right now I’m excited for Ikea. I know that on Saturday when I get there and actually start looking for the items I need I will no longer be excited for Ikea. Slowly, but surely, I will remember why don’t come here unless I have to (or unless I have a gift certificate). I will be reminded that finding things is a god forsaken task that involves...
Unnecessary Covers
On my way in to work today I heard the alt-rock cover of Ginuwine’s “Pony”. Now, I’m gonna go ahead and say that this is probably one of those songs that doesn’t really need a cover, especially one laden with weird electronic sounds. Also, Ginuwine? Really? It would have been better had they done a Haddaway cover, but that’s just me.
blaise:
havent-got-a-prayer:
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Office Conversations, Part 2
Alyssa: stephen totally just asked me if I got wayleid by mike
Lindsey: huh?
Lindsey: leid?
Alyssa: like laid?
Lindsey: but what does way leid mean?
Alyssa: To accost or intercept unexpectedly.
Lindsey: HAHAHA
Lindsey: thanks
Lindsey: now what did mike do to give stephen that impression?
Alyssa: well I was coming out of the script room and he was going in but we were doing it at the same time and I was looking down and then I looked up and he scared the bejesus out of me and I totally made like an OMG noise and stepehn was like did he just scare you or were you waylaid by him
Lindsey: haha i bet you didn't think you would have to go into this much detail when you made that comment
Alyssa: I can honestly say I didn't but then again you are full of surprises
Office Conversations, Part 1
James: Best foreign language film of the year:
“The Baader Meinhof Complex” A Constantin Film Production, Germany
“The Class” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haut et Court Production, France
“Departures” (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan
“Revanche” (Janus Films), A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production, Austria
“Waltz with Bashir” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production, Israel
Alyssa: Holy Crap
Alyssa: Baader Meinhof, you win again
James: Baader Meinhof will always win
James: Because for it to lose, we would have to forget about it
James: And then we wouldn't even know it had lost
James: So it would win again
Alyssa: Damn you Baader Meinhof!
“He’s an anthropomorphic jet! If he’s an anthropomorphic jet, no one...”
– My Boss, I have no idea what this was in response to(as I could only hear his half of the phone conversation). This is possibly the oddest thing I’ve ever heard him say, well aside from the time he started singing John Legend’s “Nutmeg”. Which, btw, was all kinds of awesome.
emmyaward:
Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire
The amount...
Alyssa: once again james you are lumping in literary with those talent bitches and I WILL NOT HAVE IT!!
James: hahahaha...I mostly just meant OQ and her henchie
Alyssa: oh, well duh
James: But I'm sorry, next time I will make sure to pointedly exclude you.
Alyssa: damn straight, otherwise I'll break your kneecaps, capeesh?
James: You should just threaten to defenestrate me. Kneecaps heal, but I'm scared of heights.
Alyssa: not if I remove your kneecaps they don't
James: So rather than breaking them, now you're talking about slow and methodical torture?
Alyssa: yes
James: You are coming off crazier and crazier, lady
Things I'm Not Going To Be Doing Again Anytime...
Not checking my Tumblr for 3 days
Man, did I have a lot to catch up on. And I’m only following 16 people. You guys are prolific.
They all ask
incline:
Every Friday, the girls in my office all ask what I’m doing with my weekend. Their plans are all so precise:
I’m going to go home, order some Thai, watch Gossip Girl from my TiVo, write out thank-you cards from Christmas, and just relax, you know?
My plans are only as detailed as can be expressed in a shrug of my shoulders and a puzzled grunt.
You better mean those girls in TALENT....
What has two thumbs and just bought tickets to see...
Alyssa Campos.
Slow on the Uptake
It’s been an usually busy day at work (times flies when you have a script to read, and coverage to make up) which means that I didn’t find out about the new Tumblr til right…about…now. So I apologize for being completely tardy, and if I’m being honest, slightly retarded. Even as I was reading my dashboard with posts saying “Whoa! Tumblr v5” or “The...
It's Business Time.
So as it turns out, I’m completely obsessed with Flight of the Conchords. Like super-duper-know-all-the-words-to-the-songs-cos-the-albums-are-on-a-continuous-loop-on-my-ipod obsessed. I’m thisclose to throwing a party for the premiere on Sunday. Why? Because I’m a total nerd like that. Also because I’ve watched the preview everyday since it started airing. It’s safe...
ricejunkee: ...And you called me a robot
Alyssa: well I couldn't call you a cyborg; it would have been antithetical to my argument
ricejunkee: yeah, you got me there...
Muxtape Remembers: MySaturdayNight →
I don’t remember why I made this playlist, but I’m guessing it was boredom. Which is kind of my reasoning behind a lot of things, like my tumblr.
Curse you, Rudyard Kipling!
This poem has been stuck in my head for three weeks. One day soon I hope to wake up and find myself NOT quietly reciting it while I’m brushing my teeth.
“FACT: Bears eat beets. Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.”
– Jim, from The Office (via devincastro)
I’m obsessed with Jim Halpert and The Office, so hot damn does this get a reblog.
“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.”
– Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
Visiual images I wish I didn't have in my head:...
You Know What Disney Movie Gets Next to No Love:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame. That movie was epic, and dark, and lovely. It is one of the few Disney movies that had real meaning. Plus THIS SONG is absolutely amazing. Sure it may have been a little disconcerting when I was 12, but whatever I still turned out okay.
Most Awkward Logline of the Day
“Would You Ever Blow An Aardvark?”
I have absolutely no idea as to what context this could possibly refer to. Frankly I’m scared to imagine.
ricejunkee: wow
Alyssa: what
ricejunkee: thanks to your blog I just learned that I am eligible for a refund for my purchase of a million little pieces
Alyssa: hahaha...I try to be helpful like that
Alyssa: this is why I post things these things
ricejunkee: to get me refunds on books written by james frey?
Alyssa: to bring knowledge to the rest of the world
ricejunkee: oh
ricejunkee: yeah your reasoning makes more sense than mine
Alyssa: well in general I make more sense than you do
ricejunkee: whatever
Anyone? Anyone?
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m totally psyched that Nip/Tuck is coming back tonight. I’m mean I kind of slacked off last season but that’s because my heart wasn’t in it. But now I’m back with a vegenance and hopefully so is this show, because honestly I love watching Christian and Sean live their completely ridculous lives on my TV screen. It makes me happy.
I Know I'm Probably Going to Regret This...
but Lindsey Lohan and Samantha Ronson broke up. At least according to Defamer, who I would trust with my dog. I have to say I was moderately shocked and felt the need to share. I wish I could say I was better than this stuff but apparently I’m not. Apparently I’m a fourteen year old girl inside, who will probably be issuing a retraction tomorrow. Don’t judge me.
Famous Literary Hoaxes →
And the literary fun keeps on coming.
Animal Magnetism
I don’t know why. I don’t know how. I do know that within the span of 10 mins. I’ve somehow managed to have two seperate discussions on two different topics concerning animals and sex. However, both occured at work. I’m not sure what this means exactly, other than the fact that my cowrkers and friends are extremely dirty people, but there’s got to be a correlation in...