I had to wonder

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First of all, let it be known that I found this after doing a google image search for the phrase, "I had to wonder".  I was hoping for a picture of Carrie Bradshaw looking wrought with angst but when my eyes fell on this I knew there could be no other picture for me.  I'm a little unclear about what is going on here.  Is it raining tubes of lipstick and slices of watermelon on them?

Regardless, while that picture is worth enjoying, it is not the point of this post.  The point of this post is about my blog and how I'm fast approaching my 1 year anniversary.  I'm sitting here at starbucks, working on my mac, feeling very cliche, not unlike this:




wondering when I became this person.  This blogging person.  I get it Carrie, it's not just that I'm wondering these things, it's that I have to wonder.

Anyways, as the one year anniversary of my blog comes up I find myself looking at the stats and things about my blog and trying to figure out what direction I should be going in.  I feel like I still don't understand what you people want.

For example, apparently there were two things that people searched for and found my blog as a result of this week.  Two questions actually.  What are those questions you ask?

1)  What does tinkerbell need to stay alive?

  -now this is strange.  I mean, I get it, I did that post about tayisha busay with the reference to peter pan, but I just wonder who was searching for that, and why they ended up coming to my blog.  I don't think they got the answer to their question in my post, unless the answer they were looking for was songs about strange things being in people's mouths.

2)  Where is ms. cleo?

  -I think this is just a testament to there not being enough information available about ms. cleo.  There needs to be some kind of resource people can turn to for their ms. cleo news.  I don't think I'm prepared to be that resource, but it sure seems like people find my blog in their search for ms. cleo a lot.  And I only did like two posts about her.  Well now it's three, sorry to disappoint though, I still don't know the answer to your question.  If somebody finds out where ms. cleo is please email me and I will post it here to put everyone's minds at ease.

As you can see I can make neither heads nor tails of this information.  What's worse, for all my obnoxious advertisements all over my blog I haven't really made any significant money in months.  There was a time when I was averaging like a nickel a day, but at some point it just tapered off.  Now i'm lucky if I see a penny increase.

Which brings me back to my point, I feel like my one year anniversary is a good excuse to shake things up.  I had talked about switching over to my own .com address, I just don't really know how to go about doing it.  I need some kind of internet advisor.

In the meantime, I'll try to keep giving the people what they want.

i stand by it

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This morning while I was cleaning I had my itunes set to shuffle through all of my music.  I rarely do this because I have a lot of really random stuff on there that doesn't really work when taken out of context (stephen colbert's "I am america and so can you").  I know that you can uncheck things and they won't play but i'm too lazy.  

Anyways, a song from the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack came on and I was reminded of what a great soundtrack it was, and what a great movie.  

I scoured the interwebs (10 minutes of actual looking, with lots of breaks to give kitty nice pets) looking for my all time favorite clip but couldn't find it.  It's when Parker Posey is wearing the choker with the feathers coming out of it.  It's too good to describe if you haven't seen it.  

When I first think of this movie my mind always goes to the amazing Parker Posey moments, so it isn't long before i remember that Alan Cumming is in it as well and is beyond good as usual.  The picture above pretty much sums up their roles in the movie.  I love when he chokes on the m&m.  

The soundtrack is actually pretty good for the movie too.  I was under the impression that they had hired a real band (I always thought it was the veronica's for some reason.  maybe because of veronica lodge.) but according to wikipedia the lead singer on the tracks was some chick from the band letters to cleo and all the back up singing was actually done by the three girls.  Pretty incredible that Tara Reid was doing things like that at one point.  

I never knew this either but apparently the main producer was babyface.  It makes sense, all of the songs seem plausible that you could have heard them on the radio.  Especially the DuJour songs.  Those are too amazing.  The only thing that gives them away as a joke are the lyrics, but otherwise it sounds exactly like something from any one of those boy bands of our youth.  

This is why it's good to listen to all your music sometimes.  You rediscover something you'd forgotten all about.  If you haven't seen this movie you should check it out.  

"that was close...to being a really nice moment between us..."