The Blog is Back

People, what's up? I have revamped the denver vs. nyc blog. I have taken it off the shelf, polished it up and given it a new name. I need a time killer while I work from home and I guess this is going to be it, which will probably bring a great deal of relief to my friend Mike, who I email constantly as my current time killer. If you look to your right you will notice a new songs section, mp3s for you to enjoy. I am going to try and put up new songs every week or so. Also, the archive section doesn't seem to be linked quite right so those old April/May posts aren't available right now, though you aren't missing much. So I guess, on to the blogging:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

So I caught this movie last night and even though I fell asleep for a few minutes, that shouldn't be taken as some sort of reflection on the movie. It was pretty amazing. So amazing that I forgot that I was watching Jim Carrey, who I am so not a fan of. Anyway, I spent the entire night staring at my ceiling (apparently the 15 minutes of sleep I got during the movie was all I needed) thinking about relationships, both good and bad, and how things rarely work out the way you think they will. I also think that Kate Winslet looks really good with bright red hair.

This led me to another thought (very indirectly of course because my mind works in weird ways at 3am). Now this maybe a little personal but since very few people ever read these things, I can pretty much just say what I want. I spent about an hour last night contemplating my feelings on giving head. Firstly, I wondered this - why are there a million euphemisms for masturbation (choking the chicken, polishing the rocket, I could go on but you know them - here is a good one though - manipulating the mango) but not really any for giving head. There are, of course alternate phrasings but not really any cute little euphemisms. Secondly, I thought about how it is, for me, the most conflicted of sex acts. It is one of those things that I either really want to do, or not at all and when I say not at all, I mean not at all. So it can be both my favorite and least favorite. I think it is the only thing about sex that I have a love/hate relationship with - well except some of the people that I have had sex with, of course.

Prior to the movie, I was at this bar where the bartender and some other girl were talking about a book that they had both read called "Chosen Prey". I think the title says quite enough about the potential quality (or lack of) of the book but if that isn't enough to not recommend it, allow me to recap the conversation between the two girls:

Girl 1: "It was so bad"
Girl 2: "But it was hilarious"
Girl 1: "But it was so bad"
Girl 2: "But it was hilarious"
Girl 1: "Totally"

Hmmm, actually maybe that does recommend it.

Lindsay Lohan vs. Hilary Duff

I think this may be the greatest hollywood feud of all time. To bring you up to speed I am going to post all the details below (as lifted from Salon) I will keep you posted on further updates as they happen:

Before 2003: The two vie for parts at Disney. Lohan gets "The Parent Trap" in 1998. Duff lands the lead in "Lizzie McGuire," the hit TV show in 2001 -- and the movie by the same name in 2003. Then Lohan gets 2003's "Freaky Friday." Duff leaves Disney that same year.

April 2003: Lohan dates Aaron Carter -- brother of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter -- who starts two-timing her with Duff. Lohan finds out and, reportedly, is less than pleased.

"Lindsay wouldn't let me break up with her," Carter tells the Miami Herald. "The girls always take it so seriously, like we are getting married. I'm just playing."

"I didn't mean any harm if I dated him at the same time," Duff later says.

Aug. 4, 2003: At the premiere of Lohan's breakout film, "Freaky Friday," Duff, then 15, shows up with Chad Michael Murray, then 21, who played Lohan's boyfriend in the movie. Murray and Duff hold hands throughout the evening. "Maybe they're dating," Lohan says to People Magazine. "She's 15; he's 21. Best of luck to 'em: Demi and Ashton!"

The New York Daily News reports that following the premiere, the two are "frosty" toward each other at a Teen People party. Lohan also "barges into the spotlight" during an "Entertainment Tonight" interview with Duff.

Soon after, Duff claims she has given up dating to "focus on my career."

Dec. 14, 2003: At the premiere party for Duff's film "Cheaper by the Dozen," Duff spots Lohan and her entourage. Duff complains to her mother and her bodyguard, who try to physically remove Lohan from the premises.

"It was pretty amazing," a source tells the New York Post. "Here is this huge man trying to manhandle a 100-pound girl."

Lohan refuses to go, saying, "I am not leaving. I was invited. Why should I leave?"

Duff and Mom gripe to Fox executives, who reply that Lohan was invited, adding that if Duff doesn't like it, she's welcome to leave. She promptly does.

Lohan later has this to say about Duff: "I think I've met her, maybe, twice. It's like every single time I see her, she starts talking bad about me."

Susan Duff, Hilary's mother, later says she thought Lohan had egged her Range Rover a few weeks earlier. Lohan's people deny the egging.

Feb. 16, 2004: On MTV's "Total Request Live," while promoting "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen," Lohan is asked to "confess one thing about yourself right now."

Her reply: "I love you, Hilary Duff."

Feb. 17, 2004: In an interview with Lohan on "Good Morning America," Diane Sawyer broaches the topic of "the feud." Despite having blatantly used the publicity from the tiff to promote her movie, Lohan says she just wants to "let it go."

"I have no problems with anyone. And it's not necessary to go out of your way to try and take somebody down. I mean, she's doing great. And I'm, I'm a fan of hers. I mean, my sister loves her ... It's just unnecessary ... We were friends. It's silly ... It's kind of the reason why I wanted to finish high school early, because it's what you have to deal with in high school ... and it's just, come on. Let it go. You know what I mean? So I just wanted to clear it up."

Sawyer adds, "OK. So, we're gonna work on peace in the Middle East next because we feel we've really accomplished something here."

Feb. 19, 2004: For her New York Post column, gossip Cindy Adams asks Lohan about the feud. Lohan: "Ohhh, everyone makes more of this than there really is. It's that she doesn't like me or she must be jealous or something."

...Wow - those kids seem fun. I know it seems like a totally ridiculous thing to follow, and it is. I am by no means defending it but I have a lot of time on my hands and I really enjoyed the parent trap remake, eventhough there was no singing (Let's get together, yeah, yeah, yeah). However, that Lizzie McGuire Movie was like the biggest piece of crap I have ever seen. So I say "Kick her ass, Lindsay!" I want to add that I have also "Given up dating to focus on my career", that said, I am free Tuesday - Thursday nights this week, so if you want to go out and do something...

As I write this my dog superStar is snoring and it is so cute. He sounds like a little old man. Okay that is about it for today - go see Eternal Sunshine.