and the geeks will inherit the Earth

This is the coolest article I've read all week. In other words, researchers are confirming common knowledge; people tend to judge each other on their musical tastes as one's musical preferences reveal a lot about one's personality. No wonder people spend so much time making mix CDs as gifts for friends. And if we're to believe the conclusions presented in this article, I'm a terribly introverted person due to my overwhelming preference for instrumental music. Maybe my college essay isn't so irrelevant to real life after all.

That's exactly the sort of thing I'd like to explore in the future after pestering some nice administrators for research money. And perhaps I will double major in psychology and musicology after all if I bother to learn how to sight sing and pass a keyboard proficiency test. Mmmm, college...

kitsch-tastic goodness

It's been a wonderfully kitschy sort of weekend.

Friday: the Great Last Annual Candy Swap at eyepiece_simile's house. Let me tell you, Office Supply Charades is ridiculously entertaining; Partner Office Supply Charades is actually quite challenging and tests one's flexibility very much. We saw part of the Human Trafficking Lifetime movie, but zedhaus and eyepiece_simile came up with a brilliant idea for another Lifetime Channel movie, Making the Cut. I get to be the best friend who gets left behind by Our Protagonist when she joins the "cool" clique involved with "trendy cutting." And then I get to forgive Our Protagonist and the popular clique once they're all in rehab. Mmmm, adolescent angsty goodness. I think my character's called Mary Christine or some other uber Christian Asian name like that? Hopefully Making the Cut won't coincide with the filming of lacesilkvinyl's awesome future horror movie series starting with Shishkabob: the Revenge. Oh, and I get dibs on scoring both films!

Of course, there was the actual exchange of candy (they ran out of Werthers at the store! I can't believe it! The sky will fall down in this violation of tradition.) and awesome conversations with everyone and Sophia's mum. We definitely have to have some more crazy stream-of-consciousness sorts of parties. I volunteer Sophia's house again.

Dim sum with Alex and smilebluemonday was totally awesome today. For some reason I had the urge to listen to "the Producers" afterwards and have almost forgotten how much I love its kitschiness.

I love my ringee again; I'm pretty sure she's either Kersten, Katie, or Alecia. At any rate, I have a white chocolate rose for her on top of my thank you/apology note to make up for last Friday's editor's note.

I finally had the chance to finish re-watching Vertigo (yay for taping the TCM Hitchcock marathon) on Friday. All I can say is that it's possibly the only movie thatbreaks my heart at the end.