On The Horse, Explained
horses are amazing, and amazingly expensive. i tell any friends who are thinking of getting their kids riding lessons or starting riding themselves to practice lighting their money on fire. haha. but whatever, my horses are awesome and they make me so happy, so it's money well spent.
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On How Murder Ballads Helped
i also love a good murder ballad. one of my all-time favorites would have to be "henry lee" performed by pj harvey and nick cave. do watch the video--it is so awesome. <3 pj! (and nick cave, too)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHdNCHomHlU
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On The Mystery of the Barkley Marathon
i would love to run an ultramarathon some day. and running on trails is way more fun than running on the street! it's such a huge time commitment to train for something like that, though. this year i am settling for traveling to iceland to run in the reykjavik half marathon. can't wait!
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On The Songs of Pure Moods
"sadeness part 1" makes me have flashbacks of julian sands banging some girl while a limbless sherilyn fenn watches. good times.
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On The Best Time I Ate So Many Cookies I Went to the Hospital
i had my tonsils out recently (definitely a way awesome surgery at age 30), and spent two weeks in a completely fucked-up haze. i couldn't really eat anything and was in a tremendous amount of pain, and pretty much all i ingested during that time was pedialyte freezer pops and liquid percocet (went through two bottles, plus some pills towards the end when i could actually swallow). to add insult to injury, i had to shove the anti-nausea drugs they gave me up my ass since i couldn't swallow any pills at first. on the bright side, the anti-nausea stuff intensified the effect of the narcotics, so i slept a lot.
when they were wheeling me into the o.r. before my surgery, they gave me something that made me totally loopy. i remember staring out the window while they were getting me set up. the last thing i remember saying is, "look at that tree. it's so...weird." fun times!
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On How to Run Perfectly
@Marzipan do you find you have a lower incidence of injury wearing vibrams? i am considering trying them out (even though i will admit i find them aesthetically unappealing) as i have had nagging itbs issues with every other pair of running shoes i have tried. i did the baltimore 10 miler this year and i was sooooo lame at the end thanks to all the hills - they aggravate my itbs like nothing else. i am just getting back running again after a 4 month break due to surgery/recovering from surgery, so i'm hoping the long break coupled with upping my mileage VERY slowly will allow me to avoid injury this time. after reading _born to run_ i'm wondering if running in vibrams might help.
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On Karaoke Failures
@Xaxa but the german version is the best!
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On Remember Rachael Leigh Cook?
@annepersand seriously! lara flynn boyle has had a great career. i think sherilyn fenn eventually ended up choosing to do more tv roles and independent films. i just have to say, sherilyn has some of the most awesome eyebrows ever.
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On Remember Rachael Leigh Cook?
@Ophelia a friend and i watched can't hardly wait recently and had fun picking out all the people who had appeared on buffy the vampire slayer at some point. good times!
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On Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Marlene Dietrich, Femme Fatale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rswn5Zw6fFM