Below are the 5 most recent journal entries recorded in trishtype's LiveJournal:

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
10:22 pm	metaphorical new leaf it wasn't new years for me until last night, when i rang it in with jamie, candace, margaritas, and 200 Cigarettes. i've been searching all day for this quote from the film in which Paul Rudd so perfectly put the holiday into words, but i can't find it. sure, i can find the ben affleck quote about liking your eggs fertilized in the morning, but not the poignant one about everyone scrambling to be with everyone at once and not be alone on the first and last day of the year. nonetheless, new years (as always) was anti-climatic, but i do look forward to the year ahead. this first week is already filled with promise, as i have three looming deadlines but three checks that will come from them. they're all pretty different stories, though, which keeps it interesting: adoption of disabled pets, profile of the biggest burlesque festival ever, and an investigative piece on a discriminatory gay bar on the north side. i have been finishing up my duties for the new issue of CHILL as well, and think i'm probably less imaginative than ever when it comes to writing CD reviews. i'm not sure that i'm cut out to be a music critic; i run out of insults too easily. i do, however, love Jenny Hoyston and William Elliott Whitmore's duets album Hallways of Always. it's a modernized Johnny/June country-folk album and it's my new favorite. (Comment on this)
Friday, December 29th, 2006
10:20 am	things that will always remind me of 2006, for better or for worse music >>the gossip >>CSS >>snow patrol (the whole album, but especially the song with Martha Wainwright) >>grizzly bear (i'm a little late on this, but it's my new favorite) >>peaches (notably "Tent so Big") >>justin timberlake >>ciara/cassie (to me, they are the same person) >>cherish "do it to it" >>hot chip ("over and over") >>nelly furtado >>the blow >>lily allen (just downloaded "alright, still" and i'm feeling it, so it will probably be more of a 2007 thing, but whatevs) >>be your own pet >>yeah yeah yeahs (i don't care what anyone says. i'm totally in love with 'show your bones') >>the killers (forevs) >>ludacris ("money maker") >>fergie i was just going to make a list of films, but realized that i have seen about three i actually liked and have a list a mile long of those i want to see when they show up on my Comcast on-demand. the best film i've seen this year is Half Nelson, but there should probably be a day very soon i rent all of the following (as they come out on DVD)or hit up the theaters:: >>Sherrybaby >>Little Miss Sunshine >>Borat >>Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing >>Marie Antoinette >>Shortbus >>49 Up >>Brick >>Dreamgirls >>The History Boys >>The Holiday >>The Illusionist >>The Notorious Betty Page >>Quincenara >>Pan's Labyrinth (1 Comment |Comment on this)
8:59 am	holiday romance the holidays aren't technically over, as it's still 2006 and the celebration of a new start linger. i'm back to work for one day this week after time and money spent with family. it was a great, relaxing time, which means i have a lot of catching-up to do with my best friend, stress. i suppose i am still in the same rut as last year, when i made the resolution to become "more organized." the "more" is arguable, i guess, as i do feel somewhat more organized than before, but not to the point where my file cabinet is completely in order and my closet is arranged in any particular fashion. but i did buy a shiny new planner over Christmas that i think will lead me on the path to "total. organization." i still have gifts to buy and wrap, so Christmas is not over, and won't feel over, most likely, until the lights downtown come down and they stop playing remixes of "Santa Baby" in the Gap. it didn't feel like Christmas on Christmas, not that i'm sure what it's supposed to feel like anymore at all. there wasn't snow, but i am happy about that in regards to traveling between Saginaw and Chicago. and i didn't see my extended family, which is most likely due to the fact that hardly anyone speaks to each other anymore. i received presents, but there is more excitement when you're at least surprised about the gifts you find under the tree vs. items on a strict list you give your mom to work from. i watched one half of "Bad Santa" and the last twenty minutes of "The Christmas Story." mostly i drank wine and joked with my family about things most others probably don't talk about at the dinner table, especially on "Jesus' Birthday." so maybe next year, if this happens in the same fashion, i'll think, "Yes, this is what Christmas feels like." (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
10:18 am	the year in jobs 2006 will always remind me of reality. the end of college and the beginning of facing the reality of the job market, of paying your own bills, of dealing with loans and cars breaking down, no longer being on your parents' health insurance, and deciding which is more important: a night of drinking with friends or eating lunch the next day. i faced some of these issues while in school, but it was a lot easier to figure them out when you weren't always worrying about the monthly rent check (a place to live always beats out drinking with friends and eating lunch.) i've had a few different jobs in 2006. in the first part of the year, i was working as a freelance music publicist and then started booking for Thursday nights at Betty's. i so badly wanted to book some great bands in the untapped resource i thought i'd stumbled upon, but i didn't have the guarantees that were always needed. eventually, i grew tired of working so hard on something that would never be more than bringing in a few extra beer guzzlers on a slow bar night off Grand and Ashland. this is not to say i didn't have some excellent shows, because there were definitely some great turnouts and i was able to make some new contacts, learn some new names, and have talent buyer added to my resume. by the time of graduation, i started working at the record label, which i thought would be my first step on the path to an easy career in the music business. however, working out of a Humboldt Park apartment for $8.50 an hour doing mindless crap as a "label assistant" that should be renamed "insanely cheap personal assistant" sent me home upset everyday when i felt like i was working under the male form of Ana Wintour. i've never had a job make me cry, and that made me even more pissed off. i quit in the middle of the night after i couldn't take moving more boxes up flights of stairs, being lectured on how i needed a car after i was extremely clear in the interview i shared one and would have sporadic access to it, and taking constant trips to the post office with boxes of street team mailings because my boss refused to rent a post-sticker printer (the logan square post office hated me). then i worked at a friend's salon, before her loopy boss had me let go for "asking a lot of questions," though i suspect she really preferred ass kissers at her front desk, and i was happy she'd given me the freedom to find a job that would actually matter to me in life. thus, my short-lived career in the hair industry. it was an ideal turn of events, though, because i was then offered a temporary full-time position doing PR for the gay and lesbian film festival, which was so exciting to me. i had a great time working in Andersonville and connecting with the media about films and filmmakers that were making a difference simply by being. it was a great experience, despite the disorganization of the festival in general. right after the festival was over, i was back to square one. i had a little more ammunition on my resume, but i still wasn't sure where i wanted to go next: writing jobs, PR, music industry? i have a lot of interests, and there are a lot of job search sites. it's completely overwhelming. right around this time, i secured my current temporary position at a media research company, working with magazines' and their editorial calendars. it's a glamorous life of pseudo-data entry, but it's valuable to me as an online magazine publisher to see how everyone else runs their business and on what schedule. i spend half my days browsing through Craigslist jobs and hoping the right one will open as my position will either end in February or i am asked to consider working their full-time. now i know that what i do isn't what i am, but i have a hard time settling. i am constantly asking myself "am i living the life i want to live?" and it is always true in other aspects of my life. i know i'm a young 23, green in any industry having just graduated from college, but i feel like i have so much more i can offer than information gathering and entering. unfortunately, this dilemma carries over into 2007. quite possibly, into 2060 when i am retiring in my 80s, most likely due to lung cancer from my social smoking. (Comment on this)
9:47 am	i'm bringing writing back i've really missed writing. i haven't completely stopped, but i haven't been writing for myself, and i've really wished that i'd kept a journal for everyday of my life so that i can selfishly relive every moment and person i've seemed to have forgotten. i am so envious of those who have photographic memories, or readable handwriting so that their neatly composed diaries are entirely decipherable. unfortunately, i've never been one to get my thoughts out fast enough for my right hand to catch up, so my cursive strongly resembles a freehand pen drawing (i was never any good at art, either.) thankfully, my typing skills are above par (most likely due to the fact my handwriting is severely unreadable) and so i decided i'm bringing the livejournal back. i've tried blogging, but it's a little too public (which might be considered funny seeing as how livejournal.com is obviously a public domain as well). but blogging is intended for the public, whereas this will most likely hold more personal accounts that i don't link to, and most likely will go out of my way to give a link to only a handful of people. but maybe any others who stumble upon it will find it a completely fascinating read, but the plans i have for this are more "boring blabber" than fascinating, so perhaps this is a blog. Current Mood: complacent (Comment on this)