This morning I finally watched Raw on Netflix. Goddamn is it funny. His Cosby impersonation is the best.
Shame about all the "faggot" jokes though. I love Eddie Murphy and Coming to America is one of my favourite movies of all time, so this was a bit disturbing. But I reminded myself that Raw came out in '87, which was a totally different time.
I have yet to find evidence of Eddie Murphy ever apologizing for making gay jokes, despite what his Wikipedia entry says. So far all I've found is this snippet from Interview Magazine (which also came out in '87):
I don't have anything against faggots.... Ooops. [Laughs] I know gays, and I've made some jokes, but I wasn't trying to be vicious or mean.
So it sucks that Eddie Murphy used to casually toss around homophobic jokes and possibly never apologized. I'm still disappointed that he won't be hosting the Oscars though. I bet it would have been hilarious.
I used to own several books in the Baby-sitters Club series. I think I started collecting them after a bunch had already been published, because I have this memory of my mother buying me a new one every week. I used to be able to read one book in under a day. I wish I could read that fast now.
At some point, I got bored of them and my mother gave them away. I'm not sure where they ended up. I actually asked her recently, and she said she didn't remember.
I wish I had saved my BSC books. Giving them away was a mistake. I was talking about this with my friend Anabela just over a year ago, and one day she surprised me with the first few books in the series.
Since then I've been on a mission to re-collect them all. They're usually pretty easy to find at any Value Village. For me, the tricky part is finding the books with the original covers. I don't like the newer "scrapbook" style ones and I wouldn't touch any of the really new cartoonish designs.
It's gotten to the point in my collecting where I can't remember which books I own already and which ones I don't. In the photo above you will see two copies of Mallory and the Trouble with Twins (which I guess is somewhat apropos).
A friend introduced me to this handy .pdf that lists every single book in Baby-Sitters Club series, with checkboxes, including the Super Specials, the Mysteries and the Little Sister books (and the Super Mysteries and Little Sister Super Specials, et cetera.) I really need to print this out and take it with me on future BSC book hunts.
I thought I was going to visit my mom in Peterborough this long weekend, but this morning I found out she's busy caring for my sick uncle, so my trip has been postponed.
This leaves me figuring out a plan for the next three days. Lately I find if I don't make a list of stuff to do during the weekend, I plunge into a pajamas/Netflix/toaster oven pizza spiral and end up frustrated that I didn't accomplish anything come Sunday night.
Curl up with a book and read for hours (maybe finally, finally finish The Help?)
Treat myself to a pedicure at Chic Nails on College
Write a bunch of blog posts (lucky you!)
And of course no weekend would be complete without watching a couple crappy movies on Netflix (personally, I think Notorious is just begging for a rewatch)
I recently added a new board to my Pinterest called Hurr, because I've decided my hair is boring and I don't try enough stuff with it. Occasionally if I'm feeling "crazy" I'll pull it back into a ponytail, but that's about it. I want to try new things, like this messy side ponytail from A Cup of Jo.
I've also been toying with the idea of changing my hair. I've had the long-straight-hair-and-blunt-bangs thing going for a few years now. About a year ago I started growing out my bangs, then chickened out and got them cut. But for the couple weeks when I had them pinned back, I liked how my eyebrows were exposed. I put all this time into eyebrow maintenance, and no one ever sees them. It seems like a waste.
As usual, I look to famous people for hair inspiration. Currently, the two celebrity hairstyles I'm enamoured with are:
The Adele (low side ponytail with a bit of oomph up top)
The Zooey (similar to my existing style but with way more BLADOW!)
Just for fun, let's look at other hairstyles I've tried to copy in the past.
In the mid-'90s, I was obsessed with the hairstyle worn by Justine Frischmann, the vocalist for Elastica. The one she wore on the cover of their self-titled album.
I found this exact picture in a music magazine and ripped it out. I looked at it so many times that it got all crinkled. Finally I brought it in to the place I was getting haircuts in 1996 -- Topcuts -- and showed it to the "stylist." Who proceeded to basically shave the entire back of my head. And give me something resembling a mushroom cut, only way uglier. I went home and cried. My mom took one look at my head and drove me back to Topcuts, where she made them refund my $9. I wore a baseball cap for weeks, and since it was summer and my ears were sticking out I got a really bad burn on them.
Elastica weren't that cool anyway.
Fast-forward to 2001, when a little comic book called Josie and the Pussycats was turned into a major motion picture. I loved the flippy 'do worn by Rachael Leigh Cook in the movie, and the guy I was dating at the time kept saying I looked like her, so it only make sense to copy it.
This story has no sad or dramatic ending, just that I printed out the above picture, took it to Coupe Bizarre, and paid like 50 bucks for my hair to end up looking...pretty much the same as before. The stylist was very slow, and I don't think she really knew what she was doing.
What about you? What hairstyles have you desperately wanted in the past? What hairstyle do you desperately want now? LET'S TALK ABOUT OUR HAIR GUYS.
