Weekend w/ my friend at her place down in San Diego was really fantastic. Ate lots of good food including dim sum, her family's home cooking, Extraordinary Desserts (a delucioso Passion Fruit Ricotta Torte that I didn't think twice about finishing), met all of her friends, which I'm amazed to say I think I remember all of their names now - quite a feat considering the sheer amount of them and most of them looking very much the same. Enjoyed very fine San Diegan weather which is clean and crisp, warm with a cool breeze and pretty much the antithesis of ole smoggy Riverside air. Had a moment of reflection on Mount Soledad, looking at all the war veteran plaques and the 360 degree view of the area surrounding, and walked along the coast in La Jolla. Pretty fantastic.


Mount Soledad

Extraordinary Desserts Site


Now I got to study my ass off and finish many assignments to make up for the fun weekend.

Oh yeah:

The man was on Letterman on friday looking absolutely drop dead gorgeous - hard to believe but I'd have to say even more than usual. I mean just look at his dimples and white teeth and perfectly mussed hair! Whoever is the touch up person for Letterman's show, much props. Aah! I can hardly stand it he's so hot!

Recommended Tunes For Today:
(A fun one today)

Bad songs that are so gratuitously bad/over-the-top/schmaltzy that they've completely gone around the circle back to good again - either that or the song has just creeped into my brain to the part that says bad!bad!bad! and "grown on me" like some fungus.

+ George Michael - Faith
(From the church organ beginning to the clap-clap-clapping, this song reminds you of those rather forgotten years when you were an embarrassingly "faith"ful Wham! fan. I, happily, was not old enough at the time to be one - I had some other forget-worthy singer to fawn over, who shall remain nameless)

+ ABBA - Dancing Queen
(Cheap disco lights, blindingly shiny lamé and roller-skate disco rinks aside, this is the ultimate cheesy fun/bad song of its era. Keeping on this topic, "238 Miles" It’s a “documentary” of sorts where a guy listens to ABBA’s song “Dancing Queen” over and over and over and OVER again on his four or five hour drive from Iowa City, IA to Chicago, IL. Why? I do not know.)

+ Wilson Phillips - Hold On
( hahahaha. Whoooo! I went to look for this song on iTunes (scarily enough, its under the "rock" genre) and a flood of memories came rushing back to me. My sister has to share the blame for this one, I was just an impressionable young child when she bought her first cd - Wilson Phillips and proceeded to play it continuously for a year)

+ Usher - Yeah!
(Well, for someone who never listens to the radio besides the only classic rock station left in Los Angeles, 95.5 KLOS and Indie 103.1 which would probably rather slit its throat and cut limbs off before playing an Usher song, I have to give somebody credit for so thoroughly saturating every media outlet with this song enough to get it into my head - this is definitely one of those fungus songs)


I put this pic here because you must admit, Usher is really the only eye pleasing one of them all. Suprisingly, the guys from Better Than Ezra were pretty disappoiting.

+ Billy Bob Thornton - Angelina
(Watching their relationship was like watching a train wreak except with lots of screwing in the backs of a limos.. With just as much blood. Can't keep your eyes off)

+ Rod Stewart - Forever Young
( and with such blasphemy/or balls to name another song with the same title of a Bob Dylan song, you're riveted by the man's attempt to be just as insightful and failing horribly - but at least you got a pop song out of it)

+ Phil Collins - Take Me Home
(I think I'll have to consider this the pinnacle of Phil's career.)

+ Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
(wait a minute, I thought this was Bad Songs That Are Good so why is this turning into Song's I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Like? I admit it ok? I got taken in by this sucker like a - well, I can't even think right now. I'm going to go now and hide my head under a pillow)

Better Than Ezra - King Of New Orleans
(When this song came out I though the world had somehow changed. Where there aliens invading? Was the sky about to explode? What was this wondrous, magical melody blaring out of the radio? Yeah, I was a stupid kid)

Kansas - Dust In The Wind tied Carry On Wayward Son
(Its freakin Kansas for G's sake.)

Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
(The Ray Charles wannabe. It pisses me off, but this song's pretty damn feel good)

Melissa Etheridge - I'm the Only One
(.......that driving rhythm that is the formula for a hit)