Here is a Meme about Moi-Moi

Daily Soy tagged me.

Four jobs I've had:
1.Yogurt wench
2. Babysitter
3.TV studio receptionist (meanest celebrity: Pete Rose, nicest: Clint Black)
4. Researcher for book about Mia Farrow

Four films I can watch repeatedly:
1. Godfather Saga
2. Little Darlings
3. The Four Seasons
4. My Dinner with Andre

Four places I've lived:
1. Los Angeles

Four TV programs I like to watch:

1. All reality shows except Fear Factor

Four places I've been on vacation:

1.New Zealand
2. Australia
3. Germany
4. Netherlands

Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Chow Mein
2. Belgian waffles
3. Crepes
4. Muligatawny soup

Four websites I visit daily:
1. See my blog links.

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Anywhere with TK

Four bloggers I am annoying:
1.Oge
2.RedFive
3. Iriel
4.Jon Carlo

Four places I've never been but would like to visit:

1. Italy
2. Argentina
3.China
4. Canada

Four differences in my alternate universe:

1. Stuffed animals come alive if you love them enough.
2. Bono not famous.
3. Soy burgers as tasty as beef burgers.
4. Humans all evolved and shit.

I put a spell on you

After hearing the song,(I've Got A Gal In)Kalamazoo, on the radio the other day, I was reminded of a list TK and I had been putting together of spelling songs. These are songs in which a word is spelled at least once. I've decided to leave out songs spelling out acronyms (YMCA, TKO)and songs about the alphabet (AEIOU and Sometimes Y,
ABC-DEF-GHI sung by Big Bird of Sesame Street.)

Aside from spelling songs, I also like spelling chants that help you remember how to spell a word using rhythm. Other than M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I, I heard one in what I think was the 1930 film version of Tom Sawyer in which someone spells P-E-double N-S-Y-L-V-A-N-I-A tauntingly at Huck Finn when he misspells it in school.


Spelling Songs!

C-h-i-c-k-e-n Spells Chicken (McGee Bros.)
Respect (by Otis Redding, popularized by Aretha Franklin)
Divorce (Tammy Wynette)
(I’ve Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo (Mack Gordon/Harry Warren)
Mannish Boy/I’m a Man (Muddy Waters? Bo Diddley?)
I'm A Woman(Peggy Lee)
Gloria (Van Morrison)
Washington D.C. (Magnetic Fields)
Velouria (Pixies)
I Stand Accused (Elvis Costello)
R-O-C-K in the USA (John Cougar Mellencamp)
Cheese and Onions (Rutles)
Mother (Howard Johnson)
“G” for Generosity (Girl Scout Pep Song)
Bingo (Traditional)
The Love You Save (Jackson Five)
C.R.E.E.P. (the Fall)
Martina (?)
I Wish I Were an Oscar Mayer Wiener
Safety Dance (Men Without Hats)
Supersonic (JJ Fad)
Fire in Cairo (The Cure)
Method of Modern Love (Hall and Oates)
Lola (Kinks)
Yoda(Weird Al Yankovic)
Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers)
Mickey Mouse Club March
Oklahoma(Rodgers & Hammerstein)
Uncle Fucka(South Park)
I am a C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N(Unknown)
Faith (Violent Femmes)
Miss Lucy Had A Tugboat(Unknown)

Tell me if you can think of any more! [Added three more to the list 3/2/2006]

Accents

The Speech Accent Archive is pretty neato. You can hear samples of people from all over the world reading the same paragraph in English. This will help you when you fake your own death and assume your new identity as a banker from New Zealand.

MungBeing

Mun Mun has a drawing in the online magazine MungBeing.com this month (page 30). Check it out, man!

New Orleans Pre-Katrina

I have nothing to say today, so I'm putting up some pictures I took in New Orleans in 1993. The first is a store window in the French Quarter. I love the "Yes, we do remove hexes" sign. Next is the house Maggie Sullivan and I stayed in in the Garden District. The creator of the Tarot Deck, New Orleans Voodoo Tarot, lived there. The third photo is a cemetery with crypts near Louis Armstrong Park.

When I returned from New Orleans I told my friend Tim M., "It looks just like New Orleans Square in Disneyland!"
"No," he told me, "New Orleans Square in Disneyland looks just like New Orleans."

I Will Love You Forever, Z Channel

After seeing the movie "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession," a few months ago, I was thrilled this week to spot the film critic F.X. Feeney dining at House of Pies on Vermont. My family subscribed to the Z Channel starting in 1981 and it was one of the few bright spots of my angst-ridden teenage years. Each month the Z Channel Magazine would arrive and I'd end up reading it cover to cover. The reviews were primarily written by F.X. Feeney and someone who signed their reviews J.L. The reviews were super informative and interesting.

The Z Channel turned me on to the movies of John Cassavetes, Buster Keaton, Monty Python, and Henry Jaglom. I saw mind-blowing movies I never would have heard of, such as The Wicker Man, Witchcraft Through the Ages, Head, A Safe Place, The Boyfriend (director's cut), The Tin Drum, and Wild Strawberries. We didn't know how good we had it. There was never such a great television station before or since.

The documentary about the Z Channel and its main programmer Jerry Harvey brought back such bittersweet memories of the 80's for me. Of course the story is extremely sad in that Harvey's psychiatric problems led him to murder his girlfriend (or was she his wife?) and commit suicide. F.X. Feeney is endearing and melancholy in the film. There is a quote he says by Goethe that was very moving.

I accosted him at House of Pies to tell him I was a fan of his Z Channel reviews. I'm happy to report he was very gracious and nice. He washed his hands before shaking my hand so he wouldn't give me his cold.

Pretty much all my time as an adolescent was spent doing schoolwork and sponging up movies on the Z Channel. It was not a very healthy existence, but at least the movies were alive.

Even Ann Taylor is a hootchie mama

Will this horrible fashion trend of low rise jeans never end? I just want to buy a normal pair of pants!

How would Jesus boogie?

Watch Jesus at the disco courtesy of Puppet Resources.

Ni Hao, punks

Mun Mun is taking a Mandarin class and going on zillions of job interviews. She must also spend hours a day cuddling her feline babies. Sorry blog is so lame lately.

Memory Lane - Ships Restaurant

I took this photo of the Ships Restaurant on Overland Blvd. in Los Angeles the week it closed. Don't be fooled by the vintage car, I took this picture sometime in the mid-1990's.

Ships was an example of Googie architecture, an ultra-futuristic style common in California in the 1950's and 1960's.