alone in the supermarket

over the weekend i took markus to a kid's show at celebrate brooklyn. it was that band, they might be giants, but i guess they do kid's music now. while i'm not a fan of tmbg, nor that genre of music (i.e. children's) we had a great time visiting with old friends. susan fox from park slope parents snapped this pic of a very serious m. i think he was wishing for depeche mode to make a kid's album.

i've often had this discussion with paul of how annoyed we get with kid's music. there's so many great bands out there like yello and kraftwerk and disco pusher and primus that have insane sounds and lovely melodies and fun lyrics that kid's can sing along with. why subject myself to a grating album when markus is just as happy jumping around to the clash?

campestral

my new upstairs neighbor is a heavy walker. a VERY heavy walker. do. not. like. (although, we have a crying baby so i'm not sure which is worse). i miss my old neighbors tom and rebecca. they decided to trade in the stink and filth of our city for the lush vermont country life. i wish they were still here cooking dinners and watching sci-fi tv with us. instead they are picking flowers and riding ponies and watching out for moose. lucky! check out their exploits on the campestral blog.

rpatz

robert pattinson is filming his new movie just a few blocks from my place in brooklyn. when i got the text this evening from an equally rpatz obsessed friend, i bolted up to amity st. to catch a glimpse of edward cullen in the flesh. what was i expecting? that he was going to spot me in the crowd of a hundred swooning girls?! anyway, so i'm standing there with all the other smitten fools, staring at his trailer, willing him to come out and baby m starts sing-song babbling. yes friends, i was standing there with a stroller, in a sea of young 'twilight' fans. i laughed to myself at the ridiculousness of the scene and promptly went home.

new york i love you but planting my celebrity crush smack in the middle of my neighborhood is just too much of a tease!!

speaking of edward cullen, i got a good snicker out of this twilight/buffy mash-up. remember how awesome the buffy series was?! i do.