Current mood:	cold
Current music:	Oasis-Wonderwall

Happy Holidays
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.

I, however, was in Hollister with a cold, and an infected newly pierced ear that swelled up so that it stood distended from my head like a Dumbo ear. It was lovely... sitting in Urgent Care for almost two hours waiting for antibiotics. So lovely. Oh the joys of the holiday season. *sigh*

In response to my slew of gift cards this x-mas, I bought the coat I'd been wanting from Macy's to take to Europe. I was pleasantly surprised to find it more than half off online when I returned to LA to buy it. I also saw fit to extend my poetry collection, which I'd been meaning to do for some time. I bought some Neruda, Rilke, Whitman, e.e. cummings, and a couple of other lesser known poets. I'm lucky that paperback poetry isn't that expensive. (Or maybe not, considering I write it.) Oh, and I also bought The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolfe, seeing as I'm rather impressed with her lately...

I just read The End of America. Amazing book! I don't want to sum it up, but because I feel I must, it basically demonstrates some of the parallels between America now (and what it's becoming) to various fascist regimes of the past. It does much more than this of course, but if you've ever needed a summing up of the wayward turn our country has gone due to the Bush administration... this would be the book. I mean, I knew most of the issues, if not all, but I've never had it collected and put together all concise and organized like this before. The effect? Well... it scared the bajezzus out of me, but I guess that's kind of the point. Republican, Democrat, it really doesn't matter. We should all be equally scared of what America threatens to become, with all of our constant turning of a blind eye, and our laziness and fear. To be blunt, read this fucking book if you care about your freedom. Period. I bought it for my Dad and my Nana. She'll love it; my dad did. And so should you!

I got a couple travel books and socks. I got the perfume I wanted. iTunes gift card. Ross gift card. Starbucks gift card (though I'm never there). I got the book I Am Legend, because I wanted to read it, mostly because the movie (though pretty good) felt incomplete. I saw Sweeny Todd, and it was pretty damn impressive as well. Bloody as all hell, but then I would have been very shocked if it wasn't. Great story, and characters, and use of color. Loved the movie. Tim Burton rocks my socks yet again.

I saw the La Brea Tar Pits today. Basically... I thought it would be bigger. I thought I'd see more pits... more tar! It looks a lot like a little lake, and apparently life got stuck in it because it was mistaken for water. Yeah, yikes. But really, not terribly impressive to see. It's just a bubbling little puddle behind a fence. Probably entertaining "in action" I suppose, but since that's realistically impossible, short of some tard jumping the fence and going for a swim... well, I'm glad I saw it as a LA landmark, and that's about it.

Now that I can cross that off my to-do list with a firm, annoyed stroke and an enthusiastic eye roll, I do have a couple things I still want to do in LA. Make my way to the Hollywood sign, and watch movies at the Hollywood Cemetery. That last one will have to wait until Spring. I would also like to see the Dali exhibit at the LACMA this week, but we'll see. I only have this week left to see it before it's gone. :(

Roommate rented Knocked-up and Children of Men. Both good. One quite funny. One quite powerful. I recommend both.

It is that time of year when I am cold... all the time. I remember wishing for this last summer. Now, all I see are beaches. *sigh*

Happy New Year people! May 2008 be more promising than the last. <3