forethought

when packing to come down this weekend i tried to be as compact as possible. only bringing the things i would really need and then leaving most of my 'stuff' back at the apartment in boston.

i did bring both of my cameras, but only one memory card in each and no cords to connect them up and download my shots.

now i've been wandering around south texas for three days and i have tons of cool stuff on my cameras, and yet- no way to get it off the tiny camera screen and onto my comp and the internet. dang it.

i really would like to get a better view of how all these shots turned out, the mini camera screen really does not cut it. and cameraphone to flickr shots are kinda poopy.

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i was bored tonight and my mom was asleep and my dad was watching something boring so i wandered off and was watching tele alone. i landed on mtv and it was the last ep of the real world sydney. these people are so stupid. seriously, wtf. out of the eps this season i did watch, my favorite person was the shaved head guy who took lsd and saw imaginary birds. the rest of the people were shite.

interesting part tho was the commercials. since mtv is now targeting like 14-20 year olds or something, i guess they have more leverage to play around with new types of marketing and advertising. and since i'm a huge marketing nerd, i have to watch from time to time and analyze what's going on. i like to check out what the latest ad agencies are throwing at those impressionable young markets.

(of course, if i actually had one of my dream jobs, i would be the one involved in leading these marketing changes - instead of playing monday morning quarterback and trying to figure them out once they've already hit the air. anyways.)

so yeah. earlier in the week while watching rob & big (LOVE that show.) i noticed the massive kate nashyness of commercials. like beyond just little peeks at her music videos, she was actually part of mtv commercials for other mtv shows... and stuff. it was confusing. like, why is kate advertising a real world show? is she like a vj now or something...

then today, during stupid RW, there was another kate commercial where she was singing in central park or something, and then it flashed into a cloverfield trailer, and then the screen sort of tiled off and half the tiles were kate singing in the park and half were people screaming and buildings burning from cloverfield. ok, that might have been a bad description, but basically there were two commercials playing at once - one for the girly brit singer and one for a totally unrelated horror film.

then, during a later commercial break (cos i sat watching stupid RW for multiple commercial breaks without moving) i saw another double commercial. this time they combined a trailer for that jumper movie along with one of those HP commercials feat. serena williams. it started out as a jumper commercial, then the jumper dude was overlaid into the standard HP commercial, then it went back to being a jumper commercial. kinda interesting...

so this whole combined marketing thing. two seemingly dissimilar products/artists being sold simultaneously and yet separately. interesting, mr.mtv, very interesting...

i wonder if this is going on in other places as well... and i just haven't noticed... it may be that i haven't been watching enough tele lately...

hmm... sometimes i'd be really cool to work for the man. or at least do cool stuff like that... i need to change my job to fit my interests... i think.
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so. i'm supposed to go back to boston tomorrow but there is going to be a blizzard or something so that may not be happening. so maybe i wont get back to boston until tuesday. i hope its not a horrid airport adventure, whichever day it is...

the latest

i always stay up wicked late before a long trip. between packing and nerves and my generally masterful skills of procrastination, i can spend well into 3am wandering around my room throwing things into my luggage.

and so it goes this time.

ellen and i are leaving for a little vacay in south beach. yes, it's summer everywhere and who spends july in south florida... whatever. it's a break from boston and work and general responsibilities. i'm looking forward to it. sitting on the beach reading or strolling through the streets shopping - i'm sure it will all be great.

my gram and aunt will be down in the area as well so it will be nice to squeeze in some family time. haven't seen either since april. ahhh. long distance families can come together sometime.

back to tonight. i've spent the majority of my afternoon and evening wasting time. i packed and unpacked my suitcase at least three times, consulting my roomates on what to take and what to leave, giving and watching mini fashion shows throughout. i watched an episode of skins, transferred my latest downloads to my mp3 player, showered, stared at the tele for a while, listened to some music while staring at the ceiling, and overall doing nothing productive.

i'm itching to watch the final episode of series one of skins because i've gotten this far and its gotten so weird... but i really should be sleeping instead. so i will. ep9 will just have to wait until next week... i'm such a loser.

but tomorrow- i'll be a loser on the beach!

greys anatomy

i'm such a greys junkie. it's lame, i know, whatevs. i hate meredith but all the mcDoctors are so cute. and karev.

i missed the last two weeks and have watched them online yesterday and today. this last one was great, particularly because it featured songs from both amy winehouse AND paolo nutini. i love them. really.

ok. enough online tv for one night.


also. has everyone seen the tonyparker/jared subway commercial? it's so whack. and yet i'm so proud. cos the san antonio spurs neverrrr get national commericals. cos they're sooo un-dynamic and not cool. the whole lot of them. tim duncan is a sick baller, but no onscreen presence. really. i think that's why he's not as famous as michael jordan. definitely. the only reason. obviously. :p

last thing. i am SO excited that rob&big is coming back to mtv. that show cracks me up. and now there's going to be a pony?!?! omigosh, yay!