I'm not sure if I'm going to go see the Wolverine movie this weekend.

The "director" who is also the director (no " ") is my crush Erik Beck. He is the most beautiful man alive in flannel.

Warm fuzzies

I got this short film by one of my favorite online shoes Best Short Films in the world. This whole short film is made entirely of still shots. Isn't that amazing and beautiful?


Notte Sento (English subtitles) from napdan on Vimeo.

office space malaise

reading the watchmen and eating ramen noodles at my desk. what sort of person am i becoming?
I dunno, i think about sarah and i and how the things we believe to be best in us are wasted on the people that surround us every day at work. i feel stupid and she feels crazy, but my true self knows i am clever, just not with all these numbers and abbreviations for things it would be just as easy to say out. and she is the most boundlessly imaginative person i've ever known, but she does a dull job in a taupe office.
i think this is all connected to my guilt at abandoning this little blog lately. i'm sorry two bests. i'm coming back to you. i'm reaching out.

Rap chop! Hiiiiii Yeah!

A Dan Meth I'm sure K will love

P-Cok from Dan Meth on Vimeo.

Embroidery has the best uses.

I love Dan Meth as an animator. Today I found his website and fell in love with this beautiful piece of embroidery floss and cross stitch canvas. This meter of trilogies is however not by Dan Meth, but by a very talented needle crafts man B_Zedan. Check out his other Flickr beauties. Though I don't think the last installment of Lord of the Rings was that bad.

Also not to leave you empty handed on the Dan Meth front below Watermelon Nights, which isn't his animation work, but something that will leave you craving for that red, white and green goodness. (Minus the eyes, unless you like food with eyes)

For Kathleen

Katy Perry is my Style Icon.

I don't think I've ever been so obsessed with one person's style for this long. Katy Perry is every decade and classic too. My favorite song still is Hot & Cold (see below for a suprise rendition of this amazing love hate ballad). Tonight I found this interview she did in this outfit that I could eat up. Notice how her glasses are heart shaped. AMAZING! I love her.

Dear Lord, please send me a mate. Or I swear I might accidently become this woman.

I found an article with the best Muppet paraodies.

This is my favorite one!

Want to check out more. Here is the article.

OMG! She's has my dress...ing!

Spreading faster than YouTube videos on the Internet, Spicy Ranch has TAKEN over my office. We have two fridges that you can leave your lunch in or keep condiments for regular use. If you were to look right now you would see at least four bottles in the west fridge and two in the east fridge. Its really getting out of control.

From 11 -2pm you can see all the ladies of my department walking around with bottles of Spicy Ranch tattooed in Sharpie with their name. It reminds me of a dressing my mom bought me in elementary school called "Pizza Ranch." I cried the day we went to Kroger and they no longer carried that wonderful nectar of the Gods.

I like to think that person behind Spicy Ranch cried too the day that Pizza Ranch died. No worries my genius friend. My office lady friends can't get enough. Frankly, neither can I, I broke down and bought some tonight. This Hidden Valley's for You Mr. Pizza Ranch Resurrecter!

Music is my Ikea bed.

Song: Whiskey
Artist: Lowry
Discovered: 99 Dollar Music Videos

Mood: That nostalgic feeling of home movies.

Favorite Lines: "Streets lead to tunnels / tunnels lead to New Jersey / New Jersey leads to the states / states lead to the ocean”
“Put that away don’t you know / you gotta grow up sometime / you gotta grow up sometime”
"There you are / In the Sun / Drinking whiskey / Having Fun”

Lead singer holding a cup of coffee and playing the keyboard with the other in the music video: Amazing.

Pace: One moment it is a slow motion barefoot dancer and then its little kids on a trampoline too.

I've Got Friends In All The Right Places

Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends (Official Music Video) - Click here for more home videos

Not sure what to get Esme Cullen for Mother's Day?

Checking my email today I noticed the dear employer of Kathleen, Barnes and Noble, is having a four day online mother's day sell! I went to stalk out some ideas for my mother.

To further help you in that perfect gift hunt they had some mom-egories (Categories of Moms).

Artistic Moms, Gourmet Moms, Healthy moms, New Moms, Romantic Moms, Spirutal Moms, Moms Who Deserve the Best and Vampire Moms???

I mean what do you buy Esme Cullen, the vampire mom to our favorite Twilight Vamps. I clicked the link to find out. Well you buy her the complete set of Twilight Books, The DVD, Sookie Stackhouse Books, Twilight Soundrack, The Lost Boys DVD (just got it for my own collection) and other vampire stuff that I know she has to have- because I own it all!

Come on Barnes and Noble!

Remember when it was called secretary's day?

happy administrative professional's day! this post is dedicated to everyone who has been a secretary, even if that's not what they were called at the time. they know secretary is not a title, it is a state of being.

Lords of the Ladies

Dibs on the we little one.

Everyone won't stop talking about her. Dream the dream!

Everytime I see her sing it makes me a little misty. Nothing on YouTube can be embeded so here is the link. I want to dream the dream.

Gross.

The legend of the Music TV

Teen-tardism is up.While intellectual curiosity and integrity is plunging.

Left over apples from that pie you made?

Just when I was going to give up finding another use for Easter basket grass...

My name is Sarah and I am a How-To addict.

Hi Sarah.

Bat for Lashes

I got so confused in one of my latest women's magazines when they had an interview with Bat for Lashes right after Lilly Allen. They look a lot to me. Though I once could not have told the difference between Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts, even if there was a gun to my head.

This video uses concepts that I've never seen visually. I'm in love! After listening to the song again it is growing on me. I like to think that the dancers in black are some of my favorite Hollins dancers. Enjoy!

Mountain Goats Sing My Heart Song

Agent 99 turned me on to the Mountain Goats on my break up CD mix.

Kathleen introduced me to another song that I ate up.

Now I found the song, Mountain Goats noless, that perfectly describes when L left.
Stars- Your Ex Lover is Dead is still an amazing fit for those feelings too.

On the morning I woke up with out you for the first time. I felt free. And I felt lonely and I felt scared.


Mountain Goats - Woke Up New (Directed by Rian Johnson) from rcjohnso on Vimeo.

Twittering taken way to far....

While glancing around at one of my favorite blogs. Apartment therapy.com I looked at the Ohdeehdoh which is geared more towards pregnancy and kids. Then I saw this. The Kickbee Twittering pregnancy belt. Baby kicks mommy, and it sends a message to twitter "I kicked mommy at 4:15pm on Saturday, April 18th."

I am going to make the Gas Twittering Thong. Everytime your ahole releases gas it will send a message to Twitter. "Sarah tooted at 5:15pm April 20th. This makes 4 toots today. 12 toots this week and 62 for April"

trying to be unnecessarily profound to the tune of an ice cream truck.

i'm having that search your inner self moving crisis, which basically means i wanted a chance to sit in my chair, the only uncovered surface in my apartment and pretend like thinking is a good excuse not to do work. i took my christmas lights down last because i knew going out on the balcony would make me mopey, as it is the place i love most in my apartment. it was easy to forget its charm through the winter and even up until today, the first truly gorgeous day of spring. 

i wanted to get the fuck out of my last apartment. i couldn't wait to move into this place, a little studio that was all my own and had a certain air about it that reminded me of my college dorm. granted, the cockroach invasion, the dead mouse in my wardrobe and  a host of other incidents, combined with my mounting collection of stuff and my absolute inability to move in the kitchen are all stellar reasons for a bigger, cleaner, less hole-y house. The biggest reason, of course, is coming home to my love every day. a part of me has craved that since i met him. 

change makes me moody, even when it's for the better. and superstitious too. today when i was cleaning the windowsill, the edge of the paper towel knocked a robin's egg i'd found off of the ledge. it was the egg i found on my way to this apartment for the first time it was mine. the egg was the first thing i put in here. it had grown extremely brittle since then. i realized the other day it couldn't come with me and i was going to leave it for the next person.  when i broke it i wondered if it was bad luck. now i'm not so sure. maybe its just  a reminder to let go, that i can not mark a territory i no longer own.  maybe it's a reminder to stop marking all my territories, to let down my careful hold on things, including myself. 

i'm glad i smashed that little egg. i'm glad that today was beautiful, and it reminded me how much i like my balcony and how much i like the neighborhood i'm leaving. because despite all these things that sadden me, i know that i'm leaving for a reason. and what i'm moving to will last me longer than an april day. i'm leaving cause i'm going home. 

Music is my third grade best friend.

Song: You
Artist: Atmosphere
Album: When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That S**t Gold
Labeled: Hip Hop/Rap

Discovered: Jerking off around iTunes. After Kathleen visited and then I couldn't get Mikey Avalon out of my head and had to buy "My Dick."

Mood: I listen to it when I'm hating work or feeling very angry at other humans.

Favorite Lines: "I don't see why you so nice to customers / They're all fucks and low lives. "

"Trying to pay them student loans / And the lights and the phone and the food and the home. / And you ain't quite broke but you couldn't afford that place on your own. /Gotta roommate, to split the rent with /Now you never feel independent. "

"Now attitude check, Still show up? / You haven't quit yet? "

Line that must be sung out loud: "But deep down you wanna curse them all. / Fuck off asshole jerk off dirt ball."

I want to film my life on a HV30 with Brevis 35mm lens adapter

Below is just a diary of picture memories that film directory Justin Johnson shot using his new Brevis 35mm lens adapter with his HV30 camera. Its so simply beautiful, in a way it kind of reminds me of the breath taking shots of Ameilie. It makes me really want to take up filming. Watch this vidblog, it will turn your heart up a few degress of fuzzy feelings.


"Get Off The Stage" (VIDBLOG HD) Florida 01/2009 from justin on Vimeo.

In love with a Boy.

Not so secretly I love Erik Beck of Indy Mogul. I am waiting for my restraining order notice after some of my last few comments I've made on his webisodes. He hosts BFX, Backyard FX, helping young film directors make movie fx on the cheap.

He stars in this test film and its filmed my Justin Johnson.

Lock Stock and Four Hungry Hippos.


Lock, Stock, and Four Hungry Hippos from justin on Vimeo.

Not to ruin it, but its a short musical about triming your vag

Is it me or is someone watching my dreams at night?

If you have trouble viewing the embedded file click here.

Asiago Bagel.

Kathleen is packing up her apartment. Moving is so stressful. Also your internet not working and having to schedule a tech to come to your house without knowing if your boss will let you out of work early is stressful. Thats why I am at St. Louis Bread Company using the internet, we call it BreadCo, all you other folks know it as Panera.

There is a cute old guy over by the drinks that is mapping out drafts for buildings, blueprints, with T-Rulers and all sorts of pencils. Sometimes he takes his drawings next door to FedEx to do something with them. I am scared that someone will be filling up there pepsi and fling it back onto his drawings. I'm kinda nervous. As a PSA side note don't FedEx anything to Kathleen, they are confusing and couldn't figure out how to change the drop off schedule.

This is a pretty boring entry but the two best friends are kinda in la la land right now.

Ohh! Here goes our man again to FedEx, he has a cute waddle.

this warms the cockles of my heart

It's hard not to be discouraged. i don't know what i want to do with my life. i know, it's not like this a  truly unique position for a 24 year old, but everything i can dream up that will make me happy seems so impossible. so i work at a bookstore, and at night i doodle cartoon fruit and try to figure out sneaky ways to get people to notice me amongst an already saturated market of artists, craftsters and visionaries. i feel lost, and worse, inferior, among the shuffle. 

that's why finding an advocate like this  made my day. maybe if i keep working towards what i want to do, patiently, and tirelessly, someone will come and discover me. then again, probably not.  it doesn't matter, that's not point. it is simply enough for me to be reassured that somewhere hard work and the labors of love are being rewarded. 

Retraction: Harem Pants

The Two Best Friends would like to apologize for not calling-them-likes-we-sees-them in regards to our Friday, April 3rd Blog Entry about Harem pants. As New York Magazine has an AMAZING name for them: Drop-Crotch Pants. Ladies please don't drop your crotch, its still not hot.

Isabella Rossellini's voice sooths my soul.

I like watching the discovery channel. Just like Bloodhound Gang sings, " You and me baby me ain't nothin' but mammals / So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel / Do it again now." Though, maybe it is just me, but sometimes I get confused and wished someone showed this animal on animal attraction in costumes also using puppetry to explain nature better. Eureka! Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno solves this dilemma of mine. Unfortunately the videos won't embed in the blog properly but to start you out my favorites from the first season includes the Green Porno: Bees and Green Prono: Snails. In the second season the best thus far is the Whale Green Porno, here is the link!

Please Mister Postman

Okay in the hopes that Sarah will chronicle this in great detail later, i'm just going to say right now she needs our help in completing a task.  This is a call to anyone following or reading this blog, requesting that you write  a letter or send a package, drop a line, holla at, etc. to this address: Sarah Rogers 4227 Juniata St St Louis, MO 63116. also tell your friends. and their friends. Oh my, god i'm trying to be vague so as to protect her privacy, but this story is so good i can't help myself. Her 'behavioral liaison' wants her to pick a daily activity from a list he provided and one of them is to get mail. she is supposed to do this for half an hour. let's see if we can make this happen, folks. I say we aim for friday the 17th. 

thank god i was incidentally sitting. (see below)

billy, what the fuck? i know she sometimes likes girls, but that does not always an indie grrl make. tila will NOT appreciate your poetry about wolves and stars. you know what she appreciates? tequila. she made it her last name for christsakes. this is EXACTLY the sort of thing that happens when you let kathy griffin host something called the a-list awards. everyone gets confused about their roles.

Corgantila????

Billy Corgan and Tila Tequila???? This is at Bravo’s A-List Awards. Someone make sure Kathleen is sitting when she sees this.

a little cartoonery.

ShamWow guy gets arrested.

Typical story of infomercial guy meets hooker, takes back to room. Said prostitute bites infomercial celebs tongue and it takes punches to the face to release her teeth. Can you believe the ShamWow guy is 44? My favorite line is that their "persons" smelled of alcohol as mentioned in the arrest papers. Right now I haven't showered so my persons smells of stinky.

Douche Baggery 101

Sarah Haskins just gets better with time.

here is why i want to be famous

if you are famous you get to slum around in sweats if you like, but then your job is to do something like this  and you get to dress up like a sailor girl from the 30's but no one thinks you are a caricature of yourself, you are just working hard, and you get to take it all off before you have to get on the subway, which you don't have to do anyway because you are really rich.

People watchers get ready to fall in love!

I saw this blip on Nylon Magazine's Blog about http://www.stylesightings.com/. I think it might be my new home page. I think I might start taking pictures of people on the street as well. Here are some of my recent favorites. I would love some street cred from this site.

Zombie Candles

You know, its hard to find a good candle that really respresents my zombie love. I think I have found an online tutorial that may satisfy this itch.

trainwreck good

okay so i find people who are into dressing up as pirates or renaissance fair wenches a litle intimidating, but you have to give them credit for really GOING for it. Just like the lady who made this who was like, fuck it, i know toilet seat covers are kitchsy, but i am going to rock this thing. she has the matching trash can cover (though i don't understand why any of the post-menopausal women who trick out their bathrooms like this really need the tiny tampon trash can) the matching tissue box cover, matching hand towels, and those slightly larger towels that i'm not sure what you call or why exactly you need them. somewhere there must also be a matching toilet brush caddy cover and toilet plunger cozy. if agent 99 wasn't a factor i would SO buy these. not to put out, mind you. just to look at. like those fancy porcelain dolls with ringlets that are in an oak and glass case somewhere in the house that adjoins this bathroom. 

loving marc jacobs...

is like loving the star quarterback in high school. i'm never going to get him. 

My mantra: Tiny Things Are Cute and now it has a website!

There is no better adervtising than that in the back of a Bust Magazine. I love to buy from these shops and have adored meeting some of these vendors at craft fairs. What happened when I picked up the latest issue, April/May 2009, and saw "tiny things are cute," I went apeshit trying to find my debit card. I'd gladly eat frozen meals to tinker around with cute "little lovelies and wily whatnots." I just checked my email and my first order is in route to my apt. Fresh Finds is my favorite thing (besides the fact everything is tiny), each week they showcase new items, making it easier for someone like me to get more of my tiny fix!

My latest love song obsession

Next New Networks produces some of my favorite online networks: ThreadBangers, IndyMogul, Viropop and $99 Music Videos. $99 Music Videos is a new show, and I crave it. The second band to be featured Plushgun, is now a favorite. Let Me Kiss You Now (And I'll Fade Away) is a song I can't stop repeating in my head or my iPod. Enjoy!

In my mind this is the real Agent 99

Can we touch this?

Roswell Roller Rink had a logo of three 'R's with little wheels on them. Skating rinks always have that distinctive smell and in 5th grade there was sure to be on any given day some Hammer Time. I tried to be cool and stop with my toe in time with "Stop, Hammer time" but I found it easier when we all hand motioned to "2 Leggit, 2 Leggit to quit, Hey hey."

I think he was one of the first celebrities to come out about going flat broke. I think he was the start of Behind the Music. One thing is for sure- I hope he is getting some royalties off Spring 2009's trend of the "Harem Pant."

We first saw this look on the runway, shown below is Phi by Andreas Melbostad, Stella McCartney and even my beloved Betsy Johnson. The most recent cover of Nylon has Lindsay Lohan in lucious purple pair. They are a sampling of the baggy pants tapered at the hem.

I pray these pants don't come in a size larger than four, as a girl with all her weight around her middle I'm pretty convinced the only one that could pull them off are models and Dudley Do-Right. Are Harem pants a yes or no? In my book they are a huge PROCEED WITH CAUTION, LIFE GUARD NOT ON DUTY.

6 Pairs of Kicks is my Deffinition of 12 Steps

I feel like I am in detox right now as I write from my Aunt's computer in her sewing nook, part of this wonderous log cabin they have built from scratch in Trinidad, Colorado. The rest of the world does not matter up here far from civilization. I have lounged around in knit gauchos, fake uggs, sans make up or blow drying my hair. I've vegged and slept most of my two days here. Been stimulated by conversation from one of my heroines, my cousin Tara. While being loved on by Aunt Paula, Cousin Tiff and even Crazy Uncle Larry. I've felt a real peace inside. I think that we should not forget about true vacations. Most of us spend our precious days off with loved ones that we don't live close to, but we all need some serious me time. My mind is so clear. I'm ready to make some changes.

what's your latest obsession?

currently i'm cultivating an obsession with st. trinian's, the fictitious girls school of anarchy created by Ronald Searle. right now i'm just reading 'the whole appalling business' on lunch at work, but i'm making some amazon investigations and some day i'll work up to the movie. i suppose i could save it and write about it after i've done these things, but i bet i won't have anything new to contribute. clearly many before me have touted the drawings and the resulting films for being witty, feminist, and entertaining. this guy is crazy for them. there's just something about wild, violent, pubescent girls with english accents and garter belts. 

what have you inherited?

what have you inherited?

   This is a collection of things that have wound up in my possession. some came passively, others violently, some are temporary, others are preparing to move with me again. Here are their stories:

exhibit a. is permanent but not to me. a giant, hideous silver IKEA wardrobe with lucite handles, it is nonetheless a necessity in this cupboard i call home. when i moved in the landlord told me it had been left two tenants ago because they found they couldn't get it down the stairs since it had been assembled. some other time ask me the story about the mouse that once wrangled his way inside.

exhibit b. more of a representation than a literal acquired artifact, this shirt simply stands in for  a multitude in the growing pile agent 99 heaps on my telephone chair. 

exhibit c. stockings, of the fancy wolford kind, (see mary kate and ashley olsen) that were donna faye's. our sizeable height difference attests to the fact that these tights are magical. i  wore them to work today. 

exhibit d. this chair and  a matching mate were dragged from the street where they were being abandoned to the trash man. this one is for my desk and reggie, my hamster, has his cage on the other. 

exhibit e. this is not in the permanent collection and must be returned to a  co-worker promptly. i suggest for all of you troll 2 fans out there that you check out troll 1, it is just as good.

exhibit f. the cup that started this musing as i washed it this evening. i'm fairly certain it belongs to kathryn or angie. i think it was used a sheath for a knife brought over for christmas cookie day.

exhibit g. beige underpants that i can't recall purchasing. i have no others like them. a true mystery.

exhibit h. an army man in sniper position. he sits under my microwave and scares mice off of the refrigerator ( i hope)

exhibit i. a rug that i believe belonged to ellen philpott and through repeated abandonment and rescue in various apartments, has ended up in my kitchen. 

exhibit j. an empty wine bottle from my balcony that i also blame on kathryn and angie.

exhibit k. the oldest and most loved of the collection, a boombox stolen with amanda shideler from the 'stuff from 1999' section of the storage area at our college. we also tried to steal a floor lamp that day, which in retrospect may have been from a section reserved for furniture that belonged to the recently (at the time) deceased president of the college. 

somewhere out there in your collections you probably have an exhibit x. my vhs copy of The Great Mouse Detective that i left in someone's VCR or an exhibit y. the channel changer to the TV  I still have. whatever is in your collections, send me your stories about them. 

Michael Cera, marry me!

Best line, "Sit tight mama, Daddy's gotta fight."

So excited about this movie!

If you are having trouble viewing here is a link:

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/where-the-wild-things-are/trailer

Fibs from Carbs.

Inappropriate Conversations with the 70 year + Walgreens Checkout Lady

Waiting to checkout of Walgreens today a customer was trying to purchase one of those cheap cigars. The little sweet old lady and this customer did what I call the Tobacco Tango. The clerk points to a brand and then the customer motions with their hand "No a little further." Apparently Walgreens was out of this gentleman's first choice in cigars. Thats when he told the sweet lady, "Its a'ight I'm about to roll something up in it." I almost went to aisle 5 to get some Dial soap to wash out his mouth! Talking about your half-baked ambitions with sweet lil 'ol Walgreen's check out clerks: not cool!