fatandhappy

Fat and Happy is a journal of writing about daily happenings as well as whatever I feel like writing about. Thanks in advance for any comments from you!

Sunday, January 30, 2005

Everything, Sesame, Raisin, Blueberry...

Please take this short Bagel Quiz (my answers below):

Where are the best bagels?

I like H & H.

What is your favorite kind of bagel, and what do you like on it?

I like a variety of combinations, but one classic is an onion bagel with chive cream cheese, though not on a date.

What is your least favorite kind of bagel?

Plain bagels sadden me, though they are better than nothing.


Sunday, January 23, 2005

Guilty Pleasure Movies

Readers: What are your favorite Guilty Pleasure Movies? Here are mine! Put yours in the comments section or just put a comment about any of mine!

1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

2. Sixteen Candles

3. The Breakfast Club

4. Pretty in Pink

5. Beetle Juice

6. Dumb and Dumber

7. The Texas Chain Saw Masacre

8. Heathers

9. Stuart Little

10a. The Tigger Movie

10b. Tootsie

Favorite Movies

A Question to Readers for the Comments section: What are five movies you like a lot? Here are ten of my favorite with commentary. You can comment on my commentary and/or answer my questions if you like :-)

1. Hannah and her Sisters
I like a lot of old Woody Allen movies, and this is one of my favorite. Do you like Woody Allen movies? I know it's controversial to like his movies.

2. In a Year of Thirteen Moons
This is a Fassbinder movie that is very long and dark. It is about a woman who used to be a man, but got a sex change in order to earn the affection of a man whom she has a crush on. However, the man still doesn't like her too much and is somewhat neglectful and abusive. She has ruined her life because she is poor and left her wife and daughter to pursue this man. In the end she kills herself. This is John Waters' favorite movie (another controversial director who I like). Do you like John Waters? How about Fassbinder?

3. Life is Sweet
This is a Mike Leigh movie, long, dark, and comedic...slow-paced. Do you like Mike Leigh movies?

4. The Bad Seed
This is an old movie and the first to show a child commit murder. It is about a little girl who has a seductive relationship with her father. Her father goes away for a stint in the army. The mother has a kind heart and becomes increasingly concerned that the girl is a bad seed, an evil child. This movie isn't a horror movie, by the way. This movie is quite popular in the gay male community as a camp movie the way Mommy Dearest is. This movie touches on how I feel. I ID w/the little girl.

5. Rosemary's Baby
I ID w/Mia Farrow in this.

6. Ma Vie En Rose (My Life in Pink)
This is a French movie about a little trans boy. It's quite beautiful.

7. The Lonely Guy
This is a comedy about Steve Martin looking for love. I ID w/feeling lonely and think it is a sweet movie.

8. Crumb
I enjoyed this doc about R. Crumb, cartoonist, and found it to be feminist.

9. Female Trouble
This is an old John Waters movie. I like his old stuff the best. I like how subversive this movie is. I also consider it feminist as well.

10. The Grinch
This was fun to see on the big screen. I like Jim Carey when he is funny, and ID w/the lonely Grinch. It's also a very pretty movie.

Thursday, January 13, 2005

Addictions

Jennynyc's Addictions Quiz:

1) Do you have a tendency towards addictions?
2) What are your addictions?
3) Do you have any things you avoid because you see them as potential addictions?
4) What do you wish you were addicted to?
5) What's your favorite book or movie or song or poem about addiction?


Please copy and paste this test into the comments section and insert your own answers. Here are mine:

1) Do you have a tendency towards addictions?

Yes, by all means.

2) What are your addictions?

Cleaning, playing with my cats, eating, the internet, movies, having sex, writing, making collages, talking on the phone, staying up late, watching t.v., psychiatric drugs, swimming.

3) Do you have any things you avoid because you see them as potential addictions?

Internet porn, ultra-edgy sex, non-psychiatric drugs, alcohol, cigarettes.

4) What do you wish you were addicted to?

Weight-lifting, making lanyards, doing managed care forms.

5) What's your favorite book or movie or song or poem about addiction?

Well, my aunt and I recently enjoyed the t.v. movie with Meredith Baxter Bernie (?) in which her name is Kate and she is bulimic (the woman who was the mother in Family Ties). There is a great scene where she eats chocolate cake off the kitchen floor.


Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Conversations with Pets

What kind of conversations do you have with your pets?

I talk to my cats a lot.

When I come in I say, "Hi, Guys!" They meow, and I say, "Yes, yes, your master is home! I love kittens!" They meow some more and I repeat, "I love kittens!"

Then they follow me into my bedroom and a crescendo of excitement is reached because I am about to give them a few tartar control bass flavored Pounce pellets. I say:
"Oh, you want your treats, Little Cats? Well, get to your posts!" Then they quickly both attempt to jump to the third floor of the cat condo, but one of them gets pushed to the second. I give them the treats and say their names, "Vrook! Vrook! Cloudercakes! Cloudercakes!" and I pet them as they munch.

This post is already way too embarrassing, so I'm checking out! See yaaaaa!~


Sunday, January 09, 2005

Cat Visit

Today Dorian and Rob, the previous cat companions to my brood, Cloud and Frou Frou, came to pay a visit. We had bagels and visited with the cats. Here are my nicknames for the cats (very embarrassing):

Cloud:
Cloudy
Cloudercakes
Street Mama
Little Cat
Mom

Frou Frou:
Vroo
Vrookers
Frookers
Frou
Frookenschtein
Vrookenschtein
Little Cat

What are your cats nicknamed?