yes, you! viva la música pop... a c86 compilation

sounds like
--jangly guitars
--nostalgic sweetness
--lo-fi
--boy/girl harmonies
--infectious melodies

*list plagiarized from allmusic

i thought the track listing for the first disk matched up to the original c86 tape but i was wrong. this compilation has most of the songs (and most of the bands) but they're spread out/mixed up. at any rate, there are some gems to be found. "frans hals" is my favorite song ever right now.



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How did I ever get by without wikiHow?

Let's say you're on a date, but you have to vomit, or barf in other terms. It can be gross to watch and unpleasant to do! Here's how to do it politely.

Steps

1. When you have to vomit, say you have to use the restroom, and go vomit in the toilet. Then flush the toilet and wipe your mouth. If there is a water fountain nearby, you would probably want to get a drink.

2. If no restroom is available, ask to be excused. Then, leave to find a bush, tree, rock or anything big that you can hide behind.

3. If you have advance warning, remove your shirt/dress to avoid a vomit spill mark. The embarrassment of being seen without covering is less than having a "vomit vee" down your front.

4. When you are done, wipe your mouth with tissues. If you have none, an UNUSED sanitary pad would work.

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Other things I've learned:

☻ How to Urinate Standing Up as a Female ("Tuck the bottom of your skirt into the top to keep it out of the way.")

☻ How to Make an Emo/Goth Teletubbie (" This will creep some people out. Do not show to kinder-gardeners or young children!")

☻ How to Date a Thug ("Never let him hit you.")

☻ How to Make Jolly Rancher Kool-Aid ("This drink tastes really good with those little mini hot dogs.")

Nobody
by Shel Silverstein

Nobody loves me,
Nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and Pears.

Nobody offers me candy and Cokes,
Nobody listens and laughs at my jokes.

Nobody helps when I get in a fight,
Nobody does all my homework at night.

Nobody misses me,
Nobody cries,
Nobody thinks I'm a wonderful guy.

So if you ask me who's my best friend, in a whiz,
I'll stand up and tell you Nobody is.

But yesterday night I got quite a scare,
I woke up and Nobody just wasn't there.

I called out and reached out for Nobody's hand,
In the darkness where Nobody usually stands.

Then I poked through the house, in each cranny and nook,
But I found somebody each place that I looked.

I searched till I'm tired, and now with the dawn,
There's no doubt about it-
Nobody's gone.



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favorite shel silverstein?

The art school blog got me wondering: have you artsy people ever done what could be categorized as an "installation"? Do they make you do stuff like that? And do you have pictures?


I'm kind of obsessed with the idea of them right now.







Makes me want to redecorate my cube.

You all know I love me a generator. Lift Magic allows you to perform plastic surgery on yourself. Or other poor unsuspecting people.

Apparently cosmetic surgery will make me look slightly Asian...





and Dom less Asian





Which is the before and which is the after?





Tom Cruise doesn't look much different afterward... more evidence proving he is an android.





YOUR TURN UNDER THE KNIFE

f-f-f-f--f-found!

i left my house! i went to the cake party in a bizarro secret neighborhood in baltimore and met some really terrific people (who i already knew were terrific so now they're terrific^20). i took a total of eight pictures all evening, because i'm an idiot.

here's bob nanna talking to a pretty lady whose name i should probably know



i eventually worked up the gumption to speak to some of the threadless top bananas during the end of the evening. like, i found out how shimala got his stigmala.



i met omair and his buddies...



i really think there should be a tv show called "pear and friends". they were all really cute and funny. and they know how to pose on command!

my sister and her boyfriend (i.e. "meg ryan") came with me because i was scared.



candid shot of the charming ms. kelly!



lunge!

steve, being great, modeling various awesome things



omair, humoring me



cake with chewy icing!



i also met nicole (squeege), paul (czar) and his wife, charlie (fat pigeon), hanna (for the second time!), mr. charles festa, and victorya, who brought me cheesecake and stayed at my house and was just generally interesting and cool.

everything went by pretty quickly and it was so hot... it's kind of a blur. i wish i could've hung out with everyone more and hugged more people without feeling like a gonad (i could only bring myself to poke pear twice b/c i was afraid he would scream "white girl rape!" if i groped him any further). maybe next time...

overall, the biggest thing i observed is that everyone was pretty much just like they are in the blogs. i felt comfortable around them, which is a pretty big deal, because people usually scare me.

so... thanks threadless for giving us this opportunity to get together and eat free food and drink free drinks and listen to great music!

TONIGHT
9 PM EST on Bravo

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It starts in July!? And they just started filming it a week ago, I think. I'm a combination of happy and concerned.

Proof


In honor of this, a cheesy "Which Fashion Designer Are You?" quiz:

Which Fashion Designer Are you?Alexander McQueen
controversial. theatrical. dramatic. inventive.


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My sister-in-law sent it to us. It has ruined my day. It was a brown smushy thing that I thought was like this other semisweet soy-based candy that wasn't too bad. But this thing... turned out to be some playdoh version of a sweet pickled olive. I only took one bite of it before spitting it out and now every time I breathe I can taste it in my nose. Grrrlehhgha.

Also, yesterday was my three year Threadless anniversary.

Also, here are some other weird Japanese candies that I'm sure taste much better:

Crunky!




Wine chocolate!




KitKats in flavors that we don't get here, like brandy and orange




and green tea




Hi-Chew! (I've had this one and I love it)




and so on.

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file under: stuff made out of other stuff



This dude makes musical instruments out of vegetables. There's a cucumber trumpet too.