Awesome Work Emails

From: TXXX
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:32 PM
To: JXXXX
Subject: Patrons With Odor Problems
Hey JXXXX -- are we handling patrons with chronic odor problems like we have in the past? That is, security approaches them for a quiet talk about the situation, maybe we still have a list of places where they can get cleaned up some and can pass this along to them?

TXXXX



From: JXXXXX
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:19 AM
To: TXXXX
Cc:
Subject: RE: Patrons With Odor Problems

TXX,
Thanks for your email, I appreciate the question. In the past, security & I have always dealt with these situations as quietly & diplomatically as possible. Given the fact such excessively foul body odors could indicate additional public health issues, I feel this is an area that has to be handled fairly & consistently....

Is there any reason why can't staff handle these situations as they arise...?


Thanks!
JXXXX

fuck u bitch!!!!

I guess on some day last week I went to Alley Cat with Michelle and some peeps. This guy asked for my number and I always end up giving it out when asked. Of course, I never end up answering the calls. So michelle incredulously asks "Did you give him your number?!" Later we were laying in my bed gabbing it up and the phone rings. Unrecognized number and Michelle goes "its him! don't answer."

Well, yesterday I'm leaving the Y, frustrated because I forgot some of the stuff I needed to work out and ended up not getting my workout in. My phone starts ringing and of course, the one time I don't check my caller id (because it was cold and I was fumbling) it was this douchebag. Haha...so I say "What? Who? My phone isn't working.. what? " click. I hang up. I can't remember who/where I met this guy. All I remember is someone being saying, in my bed, "its him, don't pick up."

I have the tendency to just hang up when I accidentally answer a call from a boy at a bar. So he calls back and I ignore it. I then recieve a text that says "Fuck u bitch!!!!"

now, he didn't have the energy to type "you" but you know how long those exclamation points took.

Bravado Culture

A bizarre behavior has settled over our current society. This may be specific with people of my generation. We see it in our elders but they're normally considered fanatical or akin with the "comic book guy" on the Simpsons.

There is necessity to express bravado in all means of culture. I don't know when this began. If it began as a subset of the nineties, where to be "cool" was above all. Or if the "cool" preoccupation began in the eighties. We all know cultural circles love to be aware of whats happening in order to seem knowledgeable and with it.

But in our current society, we have this fixation with knowing what is the "best" kind of something and not allowing something else to have its place. Among all twenty somethings aware of the "indie" music genre there is this sense of liking "good music." As opposed to what would be assumed to be "bad" music. Typically, when someone says to me "oh, I'm a music snob" I automatically know they listen to bad music. Which is a conundrum in itself.

Any boy that has attempted to hit on me with his knowledge of music and other cultural happenings fails.

This includes bashing so-called popular music. What gets me in a fuss is when someone will bash a popular musician, for example, Kanye West. If you dislike an artist for his ethics or personality, I can understand. But when you state the artist is no good even if their music is enjoyable, whats the point. You've proved you dislike something because everyone else likes it.

What gets me is when everyone else "likes" something popular, and you like something so-called indie, what makes that so rare? The indie community is a huge one. The internet has proven to be one of the largest groups of indie, blogging, knowitalls out there. So you're most definitely a crowd larger than what you consider the "popular" music. In fact, the marketing you're consuming is so pervasive you don't even notice you're eating it up.

What makes everyone in our generation feel as though they're experts? When did someone say to each one of us, "You. You will be the one who knows what is best."

Anyone who claims to be out there for "real" music or "real film" doesn't even produce real music or film themselves. They wouldn't know what it is they're considering "real" anyway.

Let's be honest....

the phrase "Let's be honest" is fucking annoying. Or "No lie."

Were you not being honest before? Why "let's?" Let us all join you in your effort to be 'honest' about something unimportant.

almost as infuriating as the overuse of the term "literally." We've all seen the youtube videos and blogs shouting about the bastardization of the word literally.

It's always girls who drink too much, sleep around, or are the life of the party. Or so they think.

What are some other phrases that are overused and obnoxious?

Beyonce's Get Bodied

Why didn't anyone tell me about this music video!? its fabulous!





I keep watching the video so I'm going to list why i love it.

--its a freaking destiny's child reunion
--the part when she is doing oldy time dance
--the oddity of the beginning and the timeout
--after she snaps and the timeout ends, that girl swirls over with her hands in a circle abover her head. sooo cool.
--her eye makeup
--the way her shoulders move in that circle
--the way she does the little happy feet dance
--her thighs
--when she mixes the oldy time dance with a grind. HOT!
--she's made of magic.
--when they do an old school dance. I was loling at Kelly
--when she gets so close to the ground
--the boys behind her when she's snapping.
--the chunkier girls
--in fact, all the girls.
--in super fact, all the thighs
--the colores!
--the girl with the braid

I've never been a huge beyonce fan. I like her music. She's fucking talented and she was made to be a star. She's fucking amazing. The video of her falling on the ground is the bible in "how to recover." She's up in two secounds without missing a beat.


im going to watch the video again.

Sacks Sex

I read my first Oliver Sacks's book two years ago. It was An Anthropologist on Mars and he's prone to do it focused on the various mental disorders that baffle doctors to this day.

He's written a new book called Musicphilia and I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Wired did an interview with Sacks and have part of the interview here.

A great quote:

Sacks: Hume wondered whether one can imagine a color that one has never encountered. One day in 1964, I constructed a sort of pharmacological mountain, and at its peak, I said, "I want to see indigo, now!" As if thrown by a paintbrush, a huge, trembling drop of purest indigo appeared on the wall — the color of heaven. For months after that, I kept looking for that color. It was like the lost chord.

Then I went to a concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the first half, they played the Monteverdi Vespers, and I was transported. I felt a river of music 400 years long running from Monteverdi's mind into mine. Wandering around during the interval, I saw some lapis lazuli snuffboxes that were that same wonderful indigo, and I thought, "Good, the color exists in the external world." But in the second half I got restless, and when I saw the snuffboxes again, they were no longer indigo — they were blue, mauve, pink. I've never seen that color since.

It took a mountain of amphetamine, mescaline, and cannabis to launch me into that space. But Monteverdi did it too.

So very accurate. I have said ad naseum that performing a beautiful piece, Dvorak's New World Symphony for example, is better than sex.

Library Pattern Lust

Recently J. Crew has won my heart. Their new pattern is a library pattern which is found on dresses, capris, pants, bags, and scarves. On top of the pattern there are cardigans that are also associated with this library theme. Which has caused me great happiness and sorrow. Happiness because they're beautiful. Sorrow because it costs a pretty penny.

My two top choices for the library patterns from J.Crew:

This beautiful cardigan:



I'm so enamored by this beauty. I am almost tempted to purchase this gorgeous design. Its so perfect. Not only does it satisfy my library fixation but is also associated with other pseudo-intellectual images I apply to myself. For example, the cello/stringed instrument. Perfect for me (and for my orchestral tapestry on my armchair--you must match your clothes to your furniture)

The scarf:


This is the pattern that J. Crew has applied to their clothes. I like it most in a scarf because its most transferrable between different mediums.

I want these so much and I listed in on the new site: Kaboodle. Its a site that allows you to automatically add objects to your wishlist. You can access mine here:

http://www.kaboodle.com/tericarl/style-fashion.html

Also found on my kaboodle is this adorable shirt from the website www.lochers.com

I advise you check out all the cute shirts she has created. The one I lust for states "Will Fuck for Shoes."