it's officially summer, huzzah!

So there's a Mercedes-Benz that is bullet proof, gas proof and explosives proof. Holy cow. In the commercial they seem to attach a bunch of c4 or something to the bottom of the car and there's giant explosions around it and the car is TOTALLY fine. wow. It's around $500,000... Then again, for half a million dollars it should do that, shine my shoes and bake pizzas too. Easy bake ovens!!

That car might come in handy in say, South Africa, where they have the highest rate of stolen cars in the world (i think). Very scary.

So along with your Mercedes S600 Guard, you could purchase that house I found on the Coldwell Banker website-- it's in Beverly Hills, is sixty MILLION DOLLARS, has seventeen bedrooms, and THIRTY BATHROOMS. THIRTY. hahahahahahahaaaa. When I found that house last month I almost fell off the chair laughing at the amount of bathrooms. It's insane, nobody in their right mind (being the key words) needs thirty freaking bathrooms! That's not a house, it's a boutique hotel.

Good stuff.

I know that jobs now look at peoples' myspaces/facebooks/blogs when they are interviewing perspective employees.... so I looked around the various social networks that I've ever used and couldn't find anything incriminating. THe stuff I talk about is just weird crap I see on TV or stories of the mexican/spanish/latino/hispanic/south american/ whatever is politically correct these days workers that work around near my house and creep me out because they look at me like a piece of meat. It's just disgusting. It's like when I was in high school and the gardeners would honk and whistle at me while I was walking home. What is that about? I was sweaty and probably smelled absolutely foul from power walking my butt all the way across town in like 25 minutes, fifty pound backpack on my back... It's not like I dress provocatively. I wear jeans and tshirts.

Anyway, signing off. Cheers and happy summer!

kate

oh so funny

From last week's Real Time with Bill Maher- New Rules:

"I never thought I'd say this, but actually, what he needs in his personality is a little George Bush. He needs to stop worrying about being loved and bring out that smug, insufferable swagger that says, "Suck on it, America."

George Bush had horrible ideas—torture, deregulation, preemptive war, tax cuts for the rich—but he pushed them through in their full measure, never mind the Congress or the Constitution, the Geneva Convention — Magna Carta—Hammurabi's Code. The point is, he didn't care if it made him unpopular with every human on the planet not named Cletus or Fred Barnes. Which it did.

And what we need to do is to marry the good ideas that Barack Obama has, with a little bit of the Bush attitude and certitude. I'd love it if Obama came out one day and said, "Jesus told me to fix health care."

LMAO.

this is a crap update

Fuck yeah the Lakers won the championship! woo!



and it's still overcast. :( and the creepy mexicans that stare at me like i'm a piece of meat every time i walk by are also still downstairs ew. i wish i were a vampire so i could put some fear into them and they would no longer stare. disgusting fools.


BARAK OBAMA GIVE US HEALTHCARE. or aforadable "possible" healthcare.


kate.

How much drugs did Cream do to write those songs?

doing paintings of trees, with the idea of nature/natural elements themselves as modern day iconography (icons like byzantine icons of saints/jesus/etc)... trying to figure out the best way to actually have people figure something of that bit out. but for now, i'm just happy with the trees. the one of the Gingko tree (doesn't have leaves yet) looks quite fantastic in the dim light of my bedroom right now. whoever said acrylic was impossible is retarded. you just really have to work it quickly and you can get some fantastic effects that you can't get (at least that quickly) with oil. the fact that its flat and has lots of texture at the same time is pretty cool, thanks to the miracle of various acrylic painting mediums (gel medium, gloss medium, modeling paste, gesso)... v. excited to finish, and want to do a HUGE painting now.

actually, would like to collaborate with David Bromstad (from HGTV, and yes, I totally watch HGTV all the time) to incorporate my art into home decor if i had a house. however, still live with parents in their apartment, soooo that won't be happening. ever. since i'm going to be here until i'm 45.

ew heart burn.


kate

ps: man vs wild w/ will ferrell the other night was effing awesome. AND Tales of Brave Ulysses has the weirdest fucking lyrics of all time. weee

new frigging rules

kates new rules.

1) dick cheney must shut the hell up and go on a nice retirement similar to george w bush's. isn't it fantastic how quiet that guy has been lately? (bush not cheney). Cheney's new job must be: Dubya's pooper scooper!

2) swine flu must have a vaccine, and then go aawwayyyyy (gollum voice)

3) evangaline lilly must become my personal trainer so that i can have her body type.

4) my matress pad thingy must stop moving around because the elastic is apparently dead.

5) CHAMPAGNE, CHAMPAGNE FOR EVERYONE! (bubbles from Little Britain)

6) i need unlimited funds to buy as much yarn as I want. Including 100% italian cashmere.

7) bradley cooper must show up at my house and serenade me with tony bennett, frank sinatra, dean martin etc songs.


oh and oscar de la renta must design a gown for me.

:)

D-Fish can punch the shamwow guy.

GAH! Just when I thought iTunes had decided to shuffle in the GOOD songs, it starts playing the ones I don't know why I even have on my computer. Like Nsync.

NOOO NO TONY BENNETT/BARBRA STREISAND UUUGH. Eric Clapton time!

So there's this guy at my gym who disturbs me pretty badly. He's this older guy and he has longish blond hair with an acid-green hankerchief tied Rambo-style around his forehead. And he grunts. Its effing annoying and I seem to be the only one to notice it. It's like every 20-30 seconds, he makes this awkward grunting noise. My dad was like, oh, he's just clearing his throat. So I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and let it pass, even perhaps suggest some allergy pills if he's got THAT much congestion. Well, the benefit of the doubt is gone now because he clears his throat IN ADDITION to the grunting. Which makes it just all the more disturbing. Ew ew ewwwww. I don't care if you're having a hard time on the tredmill or the eliptical trainer, there is no excuse for the grunting. You're in a public space and it needs to stop.

In the spirit of my favorite comedian, Bill Maher... NEW RULE: grunting in the gym is not okay. >:(

Angels & Airwaves = awesome. So is this new scone from Coffee Bean. I feel bad for non-california people because i heart coffee bean.

alas, more bob dylan. Oh and Pete Yorn apparently has a new album coming out? Yay? Yay! David Gray needs to release something new.

I still have my crapppppyyyy dying cellphone because i would rather have an already-paid for piece of shit than have to pay for a new phone that's bulky and ugly. Can't afford the service fee for a Blackberry so a new phone will have to wait.


<3 kate

EU BAN ON SEAL PRODUCTS! YAY!

eating yogurt covered raisins, feeling bloated and being ECSTATIC THAT THE EU BAN ON SEAL PRODUCTS PASSED!! YAY! take THAT you bastard seal-killing Canadians!!! I don't hate Canada, I hate people who kill seals who happen to be Canadian. Same thing goes with factory farming, American, Canadian, I don't care. If I met them walking down the street and knew who they were, it would be really hard to repress my violent urges to spit in their faces and throw rotten food at them or something. YAYYYYYYYY.

mm. yogurt covered raisins = all kinds of tastiness.

am FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY starting to lose the buddha belly!! thanks to the 5-6 days a week doing the ab machine at the gym for 10 minutes per time. woo. will finally fit into a size four!

ew, construction going on next door with SUPER ANNOYING vacuuming/squeaky noises...

also, um, i really am annoyed by the parrots that have migrated back after a few years away, because they are REALLY goddamn loud at 6 in the morning outside my window. stupid parrots.


and i think it's LUNCHTIME. time to watch the dog whisperer....

<3 kate