awkward beth rant of the night

so no one will really understand this. but i have a major trad music problem:

jay ungar (who is AMAZING and one of the coolest most talented people ever) wrote a great waltz called “ashokan farewell.” problem is: there are only two appropriate times to play that tune: 1) in ken burns’ civil war series, or 2) the VERRY last waltz on the last day of ashokan fiddle and dance camp (yes regardless of week).

BUT when I type “jay ungar” in to youtube, i get a BAJILLION assholes thinking they can play the waltz as well as jay, who feel like posting it, who feel like posting there children playing it, or feel like using it as music for a memorial for the pet hamster or whatever.

long story short unless you name is in fact jay ungar or you are part of the ashokan culture… leave the tune alone!!!!! this also goes for muzak versions of it which make me wanna barf.

ashokan culture is a very sacredly awkward being… don’t try to understand it by playing that waltz. seriously!! there are lots of other pretty waltzes out there that aren’t soooo engrained in a specific culture or so deeply meaningful to such a small number of people.

just go play shebag shemore, you fuckers!!!

doodleology:

John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner (via CSPAN)

i nearly peed myself… in a good way

bad bear…

“oh he likes to drag my barbeque around”- crazy guy on animal planet to a seriously cute black bear.


animal planet and a wtf moment

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/stranger-among-bears/

i strangely enjoy this show. i realize the guy is completely nuts. because he feeds and lives with bears. there are a few things i don’t understand though. it’s okay in alaska to feed bears with the intention of shooting them. this guy is commiting a federal offence by feeding bears at his cabin in the middle of east-bumfuck alaska. but it would be okay if he were going to shoot the bears a mile from his cabin!?! what the hell!!???!!

okay so that’s my rant about the stupidity of alaska beyond sarah palin.

also. this week is already bad and it’s only monday. for the three people who follow me (all of whom are amazing), please post things to cheer me up

Stolen from Mell

bold the ones you read

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

moleskinemike: I notice things about my art. Could have been the tequila. i like to blend with ice. and a little fresh squeezed lime.

moleskinemike:

I notice things about my art. Could have been the tequila.

i like to blend with ice. and a little fresh squeezed lime.


moleskinemike: This is how I spend my Friday nights. You’re all jealous! change the superman shirt to a wheaton shirt. the scotch to a margarita and the chicken to ice cream and you’ve got a typical friday night for me. teehee.

moleskinemike:

This is how I spend my Friday nights. You’re all jealous!

change the superman shirt to a wheaton shirt. the scotch to a margarita and the chicken to ice cream and you’ve got a typical friday night for me. teehee.


wedding log: t-minus 126

my dearest cassie,

you do not currently have my address and i don’t know where i’ll be living. but i wanna come to your wedding as you have a lovely ass. and i want to see it get married off.

love

beth

cassiesspot:

Today I entered allllll the names and addresses I had into my new wedding software. I think eventually I’ll be printing my own invitations, so at some point, this will have been a good thing.
Time spent today: 5 hours.

holy shit

i SOMEHOW squeaked by with a high enough gpa that my thesis is ACTUALLY an honors thesis!

take that overly hard major that nearly killed me these past few weeks!!!!