If I were an Op-Ed writer...

So apparently both Twitter and Facebook are down because they've been hacked into. My feelings on the matter are this:
1) can people please stop hacking into things because it just makes you a big TURD for doing so.
2) LOL @ reactions of people unable to use Twitter. Check out this msn article:
"Allison Koski, a public-relations manager in Manhattan, said she felt "completely lost" without Twitter.

"I had to Google search Twitter to find out what was going on, when normally my Twitter feed gives me all the breaking news I need," Koski said."

She feels completely lost without Twitter? Holy crap seriously? GET A FUCKING LIFE YOU TWAT. I'm actually hoping that was a misquote, because admitting to such a feeling about being able to type 140 characters about whatever mundane thing you're doing that doesn't really matter, should institutionalize a person. Don't get me wrong, I use Twitter on occasion. I read a few news bits from CNN's Anderson Cooper, and Runner's World and a couple of friends. But I'm not crying and saying I can't go on in life if I can't use Twitter!
So Twitter is down. *shrug* Go on the NPR website and read news there, or the CNN website or something else. If you feel you're out of the loop, big effing deal. You got along perfectly fine before twitter, so what's the difference now? Laziness I guess.

The point is this: stop using these websites as a crutch! Become too dependent and you're like how I am now about coffee. I didn't drink it for about 4 months and as soon as I had started drinking it again, I couldn't get it off my mind and kept convincing myself that I had to go buy a latte. Which is bullshit, because nobody NEEDS to buy a latte. Nobody NEEDS Twitter. It's not going to help you by becoming completely dependent on it.

But hell, what am I saying this for; this is the same country where 50% of marriages end in divorce, 50% of Mississippi is 50% body fat and Starbucks is the national pasttime.

I give up.

per a request...

Per Ryan's request, here's my list of awesome songs. None are in any sort of order...

1. The Obvious Child - Paul Simon
2. By Heart - Sylvie Lewis
3. Learn You Inside Yout - Lifehouse
4. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
5. Right In Two - Tool
6. Demon Seed - Nine Inch Nails
7. We're In This Together - Nine Inch Nails
8. Blackout - Muse
9. Valparaiso - Sting
10. La Vie en Rose - Louis Armstrong version
11. Down on the Corner - Creedence Clearwater Revival
12. White Room - Cream
13. And All That Could Have Been - Nine Inch Nails
14. Suckerlove - Kate Havnevik
15. Desolation Row - Bob Dylan

only 15 but that's just the way it is.

cheers.
kate

middle of summer

My cat is grooming himself into oblivion right now, as he always seems to be, propped up on my yoga mat & gym bag.

Reading a book called The Brothers K by David James Duncan (author of The River Why, also known as my favorite book). For some reason I like reading this authors' books while listening to Paul Simon. Who knows.

Pilates!!!!! I'm going to have abs of steel from these frigging pilates classes I'm going to.

Anyone have a 4x5 camera they just don't want? And film to go with it? And a darkroom?

Movies: last Sunday I watched the sixth installment of the book-adapted Harry Potter films, which was interesting. Not too keen on the ending (Terra was correctomundo on that) but as always, Rupert Grint and Alan Rickman were beyond fantastic.
Saturday afternoon I saw Unmistaken Child at the Laemmle. Amaaaazing amazing documentary about a Buddhist monk in search for his masters' reincarnation. Seeing the film really made me more convinced about my positive thoughts on Buddhism and the possibility that I may someday convert to being a Buddhist.

It's too hot. Ew.

cheers,
kate

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