Monthly Archives: September 2005

Top 5: Classic On-Screen Beauties

What has become of the Hol­ly­wood beauty? Before, these beau­ties lit up the screen as if they were born to be on it. Nowa­days, film is lit­tered with a dif­fer­ent kind of beauty — the one cast just because of how she looks. No offense to Jes­sica Alba or Jes­sica Biel, but they don’t emit the same screen pres­ence that clas­sic Hol­ly­wood reg­u­larly gave birth to. Yes, Angelina Jolie looks very good with Brad Pitt, but Jolie’s volup­tuous­ness doesn’t come close to match­ing Monroe’s radiance.

Finest Dearest — Pacemaker EP (2005)

Formed in 2004, this San Fran­cisco indie band has a bright future ahead. Finest Dear­est is led by Carly on vocals, Chris­tine and Josh on gui­tar, Cheryl on keys, Mica on cello and Steve on drums. If you read “cello” then you might have had the same reac­tion as I did. Instru­ments beyond the manda­tory gui­tars and drums aren’t uncom­mon — Yel­low­card has a vio­lin and Linkin Park has its own turntable — for a rock band, but cer­tainly are strange to have.

The Juliana Theory — Deadbeat Sweetheartbeat (2005)

You could make a case for The Juliana The­ory being the fore­run­ner for today’s alter­na­tive sound. Formed in 1997, the Brett Detar led band has always tweaked its sound to stay con­tem­po­rary, but always has main­tained its core music.

In A Lot Of Pain

Well, today I had my den­tist appoint­ment, and I’m in a lot of pain. So much pain that I’m not going to school for the next two days. I can’t talk for 48 hours so there’s no point to go to my classes. I’m going to email my pro­fes­sors and tell them the good news.

What’s up Joc?

So for the last cou­ple of weeks I’ve noticed that I’ve been MIA and for that, I apol­o­gize. Here, have a fill-in. Finals– scary, big, over (grades of A– and C achieved yay!) Indi­ana– wed­ding, god­mother, extended fam­ily, new house (not mine), total loss of diet, gam­bling, etc. Glen­dale– home, fam­ily, The Corpse Bride, Flight

Only A Few More Days Of Vacation

Thurs­day is a new start of another school year, and boy am I not look­ing for­ward to it — well, 50/50. Another gen­er­a­tion of cute girls awaits to be dis­cov­ered, although BEG will tell you that I won’t be active in any girl­friend find­ing… Ghandi always believed in passivity.

Sad… No Milkshakes For Me

I didn’t get invited into the milk­shake study that I wanted to do. You get paid $200 in Safe­way gift­cards and all you do is drink a few milk­shakes and draw a lit­tle blood. Sadly, I missed the cut-off of the study score of 12 by one! Dammit. I love milkshakes.