instead of making me feel better, you make me feel ill

Billboard March 11 2006

• Oh, hey, there's a new Buzzcocks DVD out. Looks to be cool.
  
• Also, I know I haven't blogged about Belle & Sebastian. Me, Melissa 'n' Tiff have talked it out. Plus, I know if I hadn't been there, and someone else was blogging about how super duper it was, I'd be pretty damn pissed. Suffice to say, it was wonderful; up there as one of the best shows I've seen.
  
• And I got a Justin Timberlake marionette at the end of it.
  
• He lives in my car now.
  
• Everything is more fun when JT's riding shotgun.
  
• And I took a needlefelting class, which was really fun.
  
• There's something really satisfying about jabbing sharp, barbed needles into wool to make cute little things.
  
• Now that we've had the "my life" update, let's talk about Pink.
  
• That Pill song was on the radio the other day, and it made me surprisingly happy.
  
• Also, much like Avril Levigne's "Complicated", I somehow know all the damn words.
  
• "acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated"
  
• Yeah, it's been running through my head all morning, too.
  
• Though I did displace it for a bit by downloading some Girlysounds.
  
• Yeah, "Fuck or Die"? Probably not something I should be listening to at work...
  
• Back to Pink: I can't look at her without thinking about Eddie Izzard.
  
• I love Eddie to bits, but when he's all glammed out, he totally looks like an uglier version of Pink.
  
• And that's weird.
  
• Death Cab and Franz Ferdinand are touring together?
  
• I like them both, but I don't know that that's necessarily a double-bill I'd be down with.
  
• Blender's people have bought Spin.
  
• Well, I at least hope Death Cab plays first at the shows.
  
• 'Cause I'd go to dance to Franz Ferdinand, and Death Cab are less dancey.
  
• I'm sitting at the reference desk, trying to figure out where a girl's belly button should normally be, because this picture makes Pink look like she doesn't have one.
  
• Or that it's abnormally high.
  
• It's really kind of scary, like when underwear catalogs have sheer bras but airbrush the nipples out so it looks like Tyra Banks doesn't have any nipples.
  
• In addition to her ginormous forehead.
  
• Craftster's down and it's killing me.
  
• So, after I use my tax return to update my car tags, I think I might buy this. Or this, since it's not really that much more and has more features. I'd really like to try my hand at sewing.
  
• I'm sick of not finding cute, cheap clothes.
  
• And since I no longer sleep in a twin-sized bed, I've got a substantial collection of 80s cartoon character sheets to experiment with.
  
• Plus, there's this book, which is on the "in process" shelf at work right now.
  
• lotsa LL Cool J...
  
• Courtney Love's working on "solo" stuff...
  
• (my quotation marks)
  
• someone let Mariah Carey make another movie...
  
• "She will play a waitress in search of her estranged father"
  
• I never thought I'd say this again, but Courtney Love is wearing a really cute shirt.
  
• And Springsteen's doing an album of Pete Seeger covers.
  
• Just in time for Mother's Day.
  
• Britney Spears won the best dance Grammy last year?
  
• See, this columnist is acting like that's a bad thing, but--
  
• Oh, no, wait: I'm getting years mixed up again. "Toxic" is older than that.
  
• That's such a kickass song, is all I'm saying.
  
• Shut up!
  
• Uh, Belle & Sebastian! Ridiculous excitement over "Electronic Renaissance"!
  
• Am I cool again?
  
• Other thing about B&S show: I REALLY need a new turntable.
  
• The live version of "Me and the Major" sounded all chipmunky and too fast to me, and I think my record player is to blame.
  
• Plus, I really want one of the ones with a USB port, for the inevitable day when I get a real computer.
  
• People are remixing Whipped Cream and Other Delights.
  
• Hunh?
  
• Why?
  
• Including a reshoot of the cover, with a new sexy model all covered in whipped cream.
  
• The new version of the cover.