The Church, Clavdia and I saw The Nutcracker tonight. Seeing all those synced bodies made me tear a bit. The audience seemed more pleased to see some guy leap through a loop than the prima ballerina. But that's life, I guess. I mean why else do I know who Carrot Top is? The connection between these two seems very obvious to me but I don't know if it is. The candy colors were so lovely but the ballet itself seemed so crowd-pleasing. I also hated seeing those bratty children up on stage. Luckily they will all outgrow their parts by next year.

I'm kind of Korean-food-wiped-out because of the Church. NO MORE. Too bad I'm going to REAL Korea in a few dayz.

Hwe dop bab 화덥밥
jjangjjangmyun 짜장면
pajeon 파전
tangsooyok 탕수역
nengmyun 냉면
bossam보쌈
yuk hwe bibimbap 육회비빔밥
kamja tang 감자탕

Kamja tang was quite good, with wild sesame seeds and ground 깼닙 leaves.


Clavdia had bought me these chalky delights from Payard. SO CHALKY. I mean I've actually eaten chalk before so the comparison is based on something...
What is this all about?? I don't know...

Before. A horrible mess for my workspace.


After the Container Store.

I hate that place because you get sucked into buying little acrylic boxes for everything you own. Like you start thinking of organizing your socks by fuzziness levels. Next thing you know I'm windexing my door handles again. I think OCD is quite understandable but it's just a matter of control. I went to the Muji store as well...they carry the large size lint rollers which is good but other than that the selection is quite pitiful. Where is the UME FLAVORED CANDY? I read the reviews on Yelp and it said that CB2 is much more enticing. But I am much more a translucent plastic type of girl.

I actually considered my present for my father this year. I hit up Evolution on Spring Street which is uncomfortably close to the MJ building. I have some horror of seeing people I know when I look terrible, which is everyday unfortunately.

Butterflies...I started gagging when I inspected them up close. GAG. GAG.

French found sand dollar fossils. I liked the "layout" of the dollars. But they could totally make up this shit and I would be believe it. Who am I to say it's NOT 10 million years old? That seems like an awfully even number though.

EWWWWWWW.

I obviously Purell-ed my hands several times after gift wrapping them. EWWWWWW.

PUNK IT OUT
GUNDAM and I had our big presentation yesterday. I had gone over to the other side, Iron Curtain/New Jersey, to sew up some more but instead we ate sulongtang, bibimbap and japchae at Gammioak. GUNDAM had also ordered soondae, ie blood sausage, but the waiter forgot. It was midnight and he started sniggering because we ordered so much. Oh fatassery is so looked down upon in Korean culture! We then headed to a GAS STATION to get fatass snacks to eat while we vegged out and watched Clueless. Yes, what a great way to prepare for a final crit. Anyways, haggard and horrible (us) woke up and stumbled to school. Set up the clothing rack, tacked up our poster and covered up our pieces with muslin. Everyone was surprised at how much we had done but I was disappointed at how LAX the crit was. I wanted German attention to detail! Instead we got Roberto who liked everyone's projects.

Espagne again. We ate and ate of the inexhaustible supply of fry-chips, the speciality of the house. Many Coronas later, we watched "The Golden Compass." We both fell asleep, I don't know if it was the alcohol, the fantasy storyline and Nicole Kidman's horrible acting, the suffering of our bodies, or the hotdogs, nachos, icees and gummy bears we were eating....

The beast was stirred quite late today. Then the beast fell asleep until 7 when it called PIEORGI and tripped to Momofuku. She is such a sweetheart...I can sense she puts others before her in such a nice, old fashioned way. She is 2nd generation as well. I can't get over what a sweetheart she is...it makes me feel quite the evil daemon. I spelled it that way on purpose because it sounds more evil but laughable, which is the kind of evil daemon I imagine myself to be. I have to remember to buy some Hitachino beer at Whole Foods. It's both cute and delicious, just like I like my little boys.

GUNDAM and I went to Virgin for a bit to pretend to browse the $10 DVD selections. I saw a book on cosplay and realized, wow I'm a freak as well because I actually know what they are dressing up as.

Gundam Wing
Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Death Note (live action too...)
Bleach
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Full Metal Alchemist
Fruits Basket
Love Hina
Chobits
The Twelve Kingdoms
Fuishigi Yuugi
Prince of Tennis
Yakitate
Tenchi Muyo
Tenchi in Tokyo
Tenchi Universe
Cowboy Bebop
Cowboy Bebop the movie
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Inuyasha
Pokemon
Pokemon the movie 1
Wolf's Rain
One Piece
Great Teacher Onizuka
FLCL
Samurai Champloo
Mai Hime
Mai otome
Vision of Escaflowne
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
Trigun
Serial Experiments Lain
Ranma 1/2
Midori no Hibi
Ohran High School Host Club
Marmalade Boy
Paranoia Agent
Outlaw Star
Millennium Actress
Tokyo Godfathers
Yu Yu Hakusho
Gantz
Perfect Blue
Witch Hunter Robin
The Big O
Sailor Moon
Grave of the Fireflies
Parallel Duo
Tokko
Princess Monoke
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
The Cat Returns
Castle in the Sky
Only Yesterday
Whisper of the Heart
Tales from Earthsea
Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away

and THEY WERE ALL BAD. YAKITATE is the best though because it has the most amazing concept for a cartoon. Baking bread?? There are more than 50 episodes and they are actually funny. I've seen it dubbed in Korea and it was STILL funny.

The Adult Swim shows really good ones sometimes...they had FLCL at one point. I mean, things are famous for a reason, right? The Studio Ghibli films are sometimes disappointing though. Like Tales from Earthsea. Okay actually I shouldn't be disappointed because these are all just cartoons. But then when you see something amazing like Spirited Away it's way more than a cartoon. It's like, a really good cartoon.

CLAVDIA and I decided we like cartoons because they are just pure fantasy and much less stressful than live action. Plus everyone has good skin. She has to deal with diseased people all the time...Scrubs is so not cutting it for her. I don't know why I was a somewhat precocious bookish kid who grew up to be an immature cartoon-watching girl. I KNEW there was something wrong with well water...Wow wow look at this list I could have read ALL the volumes of the encyclopedia instead of ending at "m" in the time.

Why do I get turned on while browsing Bodum glasses...

RAWR. ME HUNGRY. ME TIRED. GOT TO FEED THE BEAST. WITH RAW MEAT. BUT NOT CHICKEN. BECAUSE THAT'S UNSAFE. EXCEPT THAT TIME WHEN I ATE IT BLANCHED FOR 5 SECONDS IN JAPAN. BECAUSE YOU CAN DO THAT KIND OF SHIT IN JAPAN AND NOT GET IN TROUBLE.

I am still ill and skipped four classes this week....dreaming about the Beastie Boys. Because they are hot. Gundam sent me this awesome Alaia pic with Kim Noorda:
Everything is so amazingly ON in it. She's all I'm getting turned on by these well constructed, somewhat unflattering and slightly unattractive clothes. But it still turns me on because it's Alaia. Look at the the transparent layers that are stitched in between layers of grey. It turns me on.

Been also slightly inspired by CLARKS to look into sadomasochism again. I always liked Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freakshow so I looked up so more images by Suehiro Maruo:
Inspirations them all...