romina,
holy sheet people are being let go left, right and center at the office. each day i come in expecting to get laid off. scary times here. i have my 3 month check-in meeting with the hr department lady on monday. AHHH please do not fire me!! it's like a game of spin the bottle except when it lands on you, instead of getting a sexy kiss, you get HERPES and a severe case of depression.

potentially unemployed in the very near future,
maria

ps Guess Who?!

Guess Who from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

p.p.s. sooo cool

The Tale of How from Shy the Sun on Vimeo.

ro,

I was watching this movie last night until three quarters of the way through MEGAVIDEO interrupted my viewing with a message informing me that I had reached my internet movie quota for the NIGHT. WTF. STUPID STREAMS.



- mc

FUCKIN'A

WOLVERINE WOLVERINE WOLVERINE.......i love that gambit is in it!

yet, this somewhat ruined it for me,


love love love you!
ROM

roro,

jonny lee miller was a babe in that movie, congratulations to him on his newfound fatherhood.


this week at work we had a christmas dinner party with editorial and production, then a christmas party with the whole publishing company, then a breakfast party with a reggae band playing christmas tunes for the whole building and today we have our christmas editorial staff lunch. soooo much free food and booze.

in honour of gluttony, here is a neat little video on the future of food.



sincerely,
a five pound heavier maria

zero cool

in honor of jonny lee miller's new baby and the lack of my mac,


i always wish i had these skills that would allow me to meet my own zero cool, how sad...i also wanted to make a pool leak too! haha
one week and one day till you next see me,
r

an epic tv performance

this performance influenced most DJ, too bad i wasn't alive for it!


btw, my mac has crashed somewhat so i have to go repair my beloved computer tomorrow!
21 days till christmas, 10 days till i am home,
ROM

hey romina,

add this to the "music performances on tv that are amazing" list




thank ya.

maria

p.s. add this as well:




p.p.s. and this:

shopping shopping shopping

i love clothes, but i have decided i need to start putting together better ensembles a ls club monaco web. i'm currently enjoying all the looks.

plus my brain hurts from writing too much about hip-hop!

r,

DJ Earworm - If I Were a Free Fallin' Boy (Beyonce vs. Tom Petty)

i wondered why this song sounded so familiar.

-em

hey romina,

how is your life?

i haven't had much time for introspection lately. when i'm not working, i'm interneting and when i'm not interneting, i'm writing and when i'm not writing, i'm cleaning and when im not doing any of those things, i try to sleep. i have not slept for a very long time and have been in this strange quasi-awake state for the past three weeks. anyway, there are many things i want to fix in my life right now and i'm having a difficult time figuring out where to start.

what are three things you would like to fix in your life?

i'll tell you mine, if you tell me yours.

maria

m,
sam roberts = amazing
r

romina,

you are SUCH an mit student.


jealously,
mit dropout

ps hahaha daniel johns had arthritis. like MEEEE.

geeks, gangsters, and me

mar-
i love australians, especially majestical ones like daniel johns. i've been listening to silverchair, mostly the diorama album, nonstop.



PLUS, good websites for less biased news
http://www.fair.org
http://mediamatters.org/

also, the show how i met your mother. i'm really enjoying it and seriously CANNOT stop watching!

hope all is well dear child,
r

ro,



cool commercial directed by harmony korine.


me.

champion of the night man

maria..... this isn't serious but i just watched the new episode of its always sunny so....


PLUS
i wish i went to the of montreal concert to witness this cover


be back soon with something more intelligent and poignant till then this is for karate and friendship,
romina


p.s. STEVE MARTIN, who i believe is truly inspiring (especially after reading his novels) is on 30 Rock (or as tracy morgan puts it DIRTY ROCK)

hey romina,

read these articles about gender, religion and government in france and britain.

the comment forums are also interesting to take a look at.


maria.

dear romina,

here is a photographer named asger carlsen.



also, i have found my wedding song.



that is all.

maria.


p.s. remember when i was super into skateboarding? i listened to crappy punk and ska music while attempting to olly in the backyard... on the grass because the concrete was just waaaay too scary. hilarious.

p.p.s. shit, i just remembered going to chapters every weekend and dropping a wad of cash on skateboard magazines. there was this lanky skateboarder i had a crush on in high school who shared both my birth date and my music class instrument, the alto saxophone. you totally know who im talking about. i would accidentally/on purpose drop magazines in front of him hoping he would recognize my coolness and ask me to be his girlfriend. LOL. is it sad that my plan sort of worked?

romina,

my belly is full of the freshest sushi i have ever eaten. vancouver is a delightful city.




WANT FOR CHRISTMAS.


also who is that person singing in that video you posted, WHO?

thanks.

maria

go a long way

mar-pee-a

i love his voice so much soulish funk in it for a white boy. plus, there are numerous remixes of his stuff which i thoroughly enjoy.
plus, i bet you have already seen it, but i enjoyed watching this skit last night while i was home tired from work and bowling

Bee skit @ (Nov 15 2008)
Uploaded by thebeyoncenetwork

hey romina


obama.

cool.


maria.

miss me yet, maria?

NEWS UPDATE:
noah and the whale- dec. 9th, el macombo.... i have two exams the 11th but i may still come back for it!
plus i really like the new britney leaked single Britney Thinks She’s Ready for Her Close-Up at THE DOCKING STATION

you MUST listen to it, i wanted to dance A LOT!

plus, new architecture in helsinki single out,that beep, i have caught on to it faster then their last album
Architecture In Helsinki at Einstein Music Journal

anyways back to searching the web for a full piece snowsuit....

christmas tunes already?

MARIA! i don't know what shocks me more, the fact that zac efron will destroy the footloose movie OR that it is snowing a ridiculous amount here in london!! seriously, winter has arrived and it's not even past halloween! i'm kind of tempted to go out and play....

WHOA, romina. you need to read this.

japanese spiderman

rom,




umm i wish i was creative and patient enough to make something like this.

you better be studying.

also, list of halloween costume ideas:

1. sarah palin's pregnant daughter bristol. (i need someone to dress up as my hick hockey player hubbie.)
2. april from teenage mutant ninja turtles (an old idea of mine, does it still have staying power?)
3. catwoman from the retro batman show (stolen from a girl at comicon)


i dont know. not feeling very creative right now.

stefano told me he's going to dress up as xena. and his group of guy friends are dressing up as "sexy halloween costumes", like the "sexy nurse" and "sexy red riding hood." genius! dressing up as a halloween costume, love it.


sincerely,
mar

dear maria, i miss you like those italian kinder suprises!

maria!
i'm so behind on life! but i've come to make up for it by saying... your movie looks phenomenal; i'm not so interested in the twilight hype (because i cannot replace harry potter); i started watching true blood with anna paquin and though she is kinda annoying especially in the first couple episodes i've began to quite enjoy the show; I hate her name in the show, soo-kie, because the way everyone says it over and over again angers me; recently I've been listening to remixes by ratatat, which i love. I need some new music in my life, any suggestions?; Halloween is next week, what is your costume idea?

peace,
romina

hey romina,

remember last night while at the club, bottle full of bub, i was telling you about the opening film at the toronto after dark film fest?

Let The Right One In is a delicate love story about a bullied blond-haired little boy..... and swedish vampires.



there has been a lot of hype over this film in the past year and after seeing it finally, i can say the attention is well-deserved. we both know how much i love vampire movies but this... this was something else. clever, finespun, visually poignant and wry, with a dash of gore and an elegiac ending that will make your heart ache. its only downfall was the length. at the two hour mark, my legs began to cramp and you could tell the audience was getting shifty. the fact that bloor cinema was PACKED and we were sitting on the balcony at the very back surrounded by hot and sticky people didn't help either.

you must see this film. there was a reason the show was sold out. i heard that some relatively big shot director is going to remake it a la quarantine for north american audiences. absolutely RIDICULOUS. just read the subtitles, people.

see the movie, before it is ruined with a remake.

(vampire)bat crazy,

maria


ps have yet to see twilight... i don't think it will compare to let the right one in at all but i am SO excited to see this thing here. i feel its going to be like what lost boys: the tribe should have been.

p.p.s. martiniboys should hire me.

ROMINA, DID YOU VOTE???

oh, also, rominoff....



thought you'd like a song about a bicycle.


helmetless,
maria

fyi, romina.

two of my favourite people-in-the-world-whom-i-have-never-met, spike jonze and dave eggers, have combined powers and created a movie adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are.

where the wild things are is a dark and disturbingly awesome short story that would translate so well to the silver screen, especially in the hands of the director who created these and the author who wrote this.

the movie was suppose to have come out this month but the brothers of warner delayed its release because it was too weird. here is some old footage that actually looks and feels nothing like the movie soooo probably a waste of time to watch.

supposedly at the secret test screening, children cried and asked their parents to leave.

umm.. AWESOME? seeing as the monsters in the story once gave my six year old self nightmares, their responses seem more then appropriate and perhaps stand testament to the truthfulness of the adaptation.

the millions of dollars budgeted movie is now being re-shot by mr. jonze and expected to come out in 2009.

booooo reshoots.


thanking goldblum it's friday,

maria


p.s. i hate people who baby children and talk to them like they're idiots. kids are smart. they can handle a lot more then their stupid parents think they can.
p.p.s. home alone mom catherine o'hara voices a character in the film. hilarious!

rominoff,

i always wondered why mom would get mad at me whenever i sang this song.



I love your body
Not so much I like your mind
In fact you're boring
Pretend not being of my kind
You keep on talking of some girl that I don't know
When will you shut up and when will we go


and then there's THIS....




minimizing youtube at work,

maria

roro,

i give you tina turner.







awed,

meemee

RINUBA!! (i haphazardly typed your name as RINUBA, romina, and was about to press backspace but something stopped me. rinuba, african queen.... i rather like it. perhaps an alter ego for you? "cause you are myafrican queen, the girl of my dreams"... )
anyway you have to start signing your name on these things here or else people won't be able to differentiate between the two of us!! i've already received some complaints from our readership.... ahem.. um... well, i've received complaints from myself.

2 minutes in heaven is better then one

commercials. sometimes great annoyances, while other times incredibly original imaginative 60 second pieces of artwork. my recent favourite is the new discovery channel one


but i have always been a fan of most gap commercials- they really have great ad campaigns, not to mention a ridiculous amount of money to burn

i wanna make you smile...

remember singing this in italia.... at zia's house....


and i use to love old school janet, and this is my favourite video she ever made:


i guess what i'm doing is reminiscing... to a time when the most important question seemed to be who is your favourite ninja turtle, or what trouble are we gonna cause today?
a mix of everything i miss:
all saints, saturday morning cartoons (doug, recess, etc.), TGIF (abc family programing), italy, aqualand, dr.bombay, much dance mix, blink 182, no doubt, mr. vain, 90s' music videos, three ninjas, J.T.T, my poster of leo dicaprio, less crazy lauryn hill, TLC, macaulay culkin, my girl 1 & 2, thinking ghost was the saddest movie ever, mcdonalds' movies, not having to make plans or pay for said plans, going to movies with cousins, the zone (that amazing play place we went to), fresh prince, full house, saved by the bell, playgrounds, being flipped upside down by relatives, waterworld, willy wonka and the chocolate factory, fern gully, putt-putt (i would like to play this computer game again), sunday school on saturday followed by baskin robbins or swiss chalet, tying sweaters around my waist, backwards caps, bright coloured overalls, and fort-making.

anyways, your third painting is currently my computer background and i already have gotten compliments on it. don't worry, i gave you credit for it. anyways i have to continue reading, sadly, for school!

dear romina,

here are some paintings.





sleepy,

maria

hey romina,

guess who's already been listening to the new leaked tv on the radio album nonstop for over a week now? (courtesy of my awesome friend, luke.)

ME. (not you.)

you wannnnn it?

whatcha gonnna give me for it?

how about you paint me some more art to decorate my apartment's bare-as-bum walls?

you know you wannnnn to.

or perhaps, some money? i will take money. in fact, give me your money.


envy-abled,

maria

calm down little napoleon

someone's suffering from a napoleon complex and i think it's a little person named maria.
hahaha, i'm fantastic..... but no seriously, let's get down to the nitty gritty!

current mood music: andrew bird i know you already know him maria, but i'm just reiterating his incredibleness. also, there is a new tv on the radio album about to release the same day as the kings of leon album!
an american version of jens lekman by the name of jeremy jay is on the prowl

quite similar if you ask me.
plus, im loving the wes anderson-influenced noah and the whale.

dear romina,

there is a new intern at work.
she is doing what i was doing only a month ago.
this is weeeiiiird. i think she is older then me.
omgg i am her boss. well, maybe boss is pushing it.
but definitely her superior.
i am her SUPERIOR.
i am suppose to give her work to do.
MUWAHHWHAHHAHA. TYPE FOR ME, INTERN SLAVE, TYPE FOR ME.
umm...
ahem...
....
i can see this is going to get to my head in the worst way.

omnipotently,

maria

if only i was still taking my fourth year women studies class, i could write a freaking essay on this skit here... romina, did you watch snl or were you too busy partying? i caught a bit of it, the only bit with "host" michael phelps. oh, phelpsy. get back in your pool and do some laps. leave comedy to the real people with,you know, flaws.

things to do in toronto (or aptly, things i am doing in toronto): september/october, part one.

- queen west art crawl (great way to furnish my new apartment. yayy.)
- international festival of authors (omg omg omg a reading by joe dunthorne? perfect opportunity to profess my love. other notables in attendance: don mckellar, chip kidd, mia kirshner (a-hem), plus lots moreee...)
- sharon jones & the dap kings (yes, i will be attending THIS.)
- zombie walk & toronto after dark film fest madness (i am TOTALLY going to see this ridiculous thing here. bonus points for anyone who can tell me who the lead actor is. romina, if you don't know this, you are not my sister.)
- watch toronto fc probably get their asses handed to them by the houston dynamos at bmo field.
- grab a bite to eat at the shitload of new restaurants & cafes that have opened up recently, like oddfellows, nota bene and moroco chocolat.

i dream of falling glitter

dear maria,
check out this video (robyn cameo) plus the song is cute.



talking about swedes, why are they sooo fantastic? seriously-- why are all the cool cultures across the ocean? i love this very very sweet video!



in between classes soo thats all for now-- i baked delicious oatmeal chocolate chunk cookies-- wish you were here but youre not sooo more for me!
PLUS DONT GET FIRED!




EXTRA: my friend just sent me this link of a really cute foreign comic check it out called Mister Bookseller

dear romina,

i am procrastinating at work with the following:

- simon rich articles (it is very possible to love a thing while being extremely jealous of the person who created the thing.)
- hilarious internet series created by the aforementioned simon rich along with seth meyers and bill hader
- the latest episode of dexter (mehhh, i was not too impressed. i don't want to spoil anything, but the crazy ending was not as crazy as it was sooo predictable.)


gonna get fired,
maria

dear romina, 

new and pretty enjoyable cool kids song. 

i wish i had a secret talent. when i was younger, my friend rented a skating rink for his twelfth birthday. definite high point of my junior school career. my biggest regret as an eleven year old was having quit skating lessons before i could, well, skate. i still think it would have been so cool if i had nonchalantly put on my skates, did a couple laps of the rink and then flawlessly executed a triple axel like it was no thang, simultaneously wowing my peers and giving them the impression that i would be soo destined for greatness (if i was the type to care about that sort of thing.) sighhhh. i am secretly talentless.

 

kristi yamaguchi was my hero in the early nineties. tara lapinski can suck it.


in soviet russia, figure skate you!

 

your sister,

maria

post wedding dancing fever

dear romina,

it ain't a party until you put a little bit of chubby on....




drunkenly,

maria

my new hero

no, sadly maria its not you
but rather ben sollee

his song dear kanye is ballah--- seriously click on the link and you can see the lyrics but i could not find a youtube of it sadly!! ben sollee is incredibly talented and i just cant get enough, if maria would kindly like to burn me his cd it would actually be wonderous!

****YO ROMINA I FOUND THE SONG, unfortunately not the real music video but at least he's a'singing... ****






plus---- i'm really liking mystery jets


and for entertainment value

dear romina,

you can thank me later.

sincerely,

maria

who loves you?

the toronto premiere was even better. i tried to find a video of it but couldn't because it's so brand spanking new. seriously i can't get franki valli songs out of my head--- and i don't mind that one bit! yes, classics are great.

tv on the radio is awesome-- as maria has kindly pointed out. i personally recommend the Bryan Hyde remix of 'staring at the sun.' it adds a tad bit more danceability to the song, which is always a good thing. 

other then heading back to uni-- i'm looking forward to the kings of leon album coming out the sept. 23,

here is a little taste of the glory

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an ode

dear romina,

i liked tv on the radio when i first heard staring at the sun in second year.

then i liked them even more when i stumbled upon their wolf like me video on muchmusic.

seeing them in concert probably turned my like into a little love.

hearing that their latest album was going to be called dear science made me smile.

after having listened to their latest single online , i realized my love is going to last forever.

lovingly,
maria

dear romina,



classic!

rominaaa, i bet you didn't know that i stole a bottle of wine from the basement and am drinking in my room.

deviously,

maria

two.

okay! so, i'm finally posting a reply to maria's last post which she did considerably fast after our first one together!
kudos to maria for mentioning m.ward (his voice is the epitome of sensitive man, i recommend his cover of 'let's dance'), as well as mentioning manga, which i really want to get into!

but back to all things me-- last night i saw avenue q at Elgin Theatre on Yonge in Toronto-- very entertaining i laughed and totally enjoyed the show moreso because my lovely friends got us $100 tickets for $30. i highly recommend the play, offensive and cute in all the right ways.

apparently, i have become addicted to the british. whether it be their tv shows (skins, extras), their witty books or their new wavey music.

music-wise, this summer i've been listening to the relaxed tunes of shwayze. i also found dr. dog to work well as cruising around music.
i'm gonna go soak up some sun-- while its still here, it's already becoming sooo cold, yuck!


some great comic genius in summer heights high

one and a half

so this might be a little soon for a second post, but i wanted to share the things roro and i picked up at the book store today with the world


1. nana - i want to get into girly romantic manga and this seems like a good place to start.


ummm romina has the other books in her room and i dont remember what they are called, maybe she can fill you in?

anyway, here are other things i like right now:

1. the kinks
2. m. ward - roro and i saw she & him at the phoenix a couple weeks ago. although, zooey deschanel was absolutely delightful, the impenetrable m. ward with his whispery, velvety voice stole the show and my heart.

ummmm when i was originally thinking about what to blog, i had a huge list of things in my head and now i don't remember anything.

ummm so maybe this post isn't worthy of posting just yet.

OH i thought of more things to add to the quasi-list.


-joss whedon's buffy: season eight comic - i'm addicted, like "going to the comic book store every week to check if a new issue has been released" addicted
- brian K. vaughan, especially ex machina


as you can see, i am really into comics right now.

does it have anything to do with the mini crush i have on one of the boys who works at the comic book store that i frequent? ahem, perhaps...

OH and im watching beck like cah-ray-zee

also the wire. romina, START WATCHING THE WIRE ASAP! i want to talk about it with you.

list of favourite characters:

1. omar
2. snoop, bodie
3. mcnulty


there, that is all for now.

one.

romina said we should make our first post together and my response was "lame" but then she said "we have to" and i acquiesced.

so it was written so it shall be done- we shall share with the world all that is good like nacho libre

romina, that doesn't make any sense.

our mom wants to know who we're talking to online.

this all started like the babysitters club as a bright idea- we wanted to share with each other our thoughts and likes through this magical tool called the internet, hence the blog.

romina just wants to use the word hence because she just watched a preview of the house bunny starring anna faris (a movie that i am actually SO excited to see. anna faris is, um, awesome. i have found the majority of movies she is in to range from funny to hilarious.)

this is kind of awkward because i am typing in front of romina and she is breathing very heavily.

we shall end our very first post, the first and last one together, with a little tribute to a great eighties group



we highly recommend tracing the thirty year plus history of the band via youtube clips. the visual maturity of the boys is extremely entertaining.

well, that's all for now.

um, how do we end this, roro?

aveda-ZING!
that is german for goodbye, thanks heidi klum for that lesson.

sure, whyyyy not.