Monthly Archive for April, 2007

Glamorama

Published on April 30, 2007 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

I do not know why this happens I have analyzed it to no end. It doesn’t really make any sense.

When I am reading good books I just go like a little rabbit grabbing carrots on strings and because I read so much non fiction I do a lot of pre planning of what I am going to read so that I do not end up reading too many non fiction books in a row. I don’t even know why it matters. But, everything about my books matters. I have a three shelf bookcase that has trade paper backs; those are not in any real order, the books on the selves up on the wall are all in alphabetical order as well as release order. I am so anal about the condition of my books that Adam and I each have our own copies of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I rarely lend books, you have to be extremely special and NO hard cover novel leaves the apartment with its cover on it.

For a few months I was reading so many books my brain was ready to explode with knowledge I was reading good one after good one. And then I started another book Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis to be exact and I got stuck. I was enjoying it and was then suddenly feeling like I had no clue what was going on, and felt lost in the pages. But I had enjoyed it up to that point. I was already over 200 pages in. And books are so expensive that if I start one 99.9% of the time I finish it. Not finishing a book leaves me wondering every time I see it on the shelf and with that comes a feeling of emptiness. Would the book have gotten better? WHAT DID I MISS? What if I didn’t give it enough time and it was the best book ever? For example, had I not been reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay for the book club I got kicked out of I probably wouldn’t have been able to get into it as it is slow but has been my favorite book for years now.

After Glamorama got confusing and my friend who had already read it and had read enough books since then that she had forgotten exactly what it was about was no help I put it down. I have never gotten ‘lost’ in an Ellis book before. I love him. I stared at the book day after day after day and didn’t read it. But I didn’t start a new book either. I CAN NOT read more than one book at a time, I have never ever been able to. I don’t get it and it is a silly problem for me. I have a regular size brain I am sure I could retain the information and I have TRIED to read more than one book at once but I CAN’T, it just feels wrong and I get an icky feeling all over, so then I end up going a period of time without reading- anywhere from a day to months. This doesn’t work well for me.

I could not leave Glamorama forever because I wanted to read. Not reading books is boring. I finally after months have picked it up again and plowed through a hundred plus pages and forced myself back in and figure it will all come together but still don’t fully know what is going on though I enjoy Ellis enough and it is interesting enough to keep going and I already discovered I couldn’t quit this book so I may as well finish it. I’ve got about 200 pages to go. I also just love that I get stuck on a 500 + page book, couldn’t have been a shorter one or anything.

First Quarter

Published on April 26, 2007 by Corinna Carlson | 1 Comment

I think if people are going to do the top 100 about themselves they normally do it in the first year and I never did it, I never announced when GG turned one either. I didn’t go with the flow. But now GG is basically two. I can’t believe it has been that long already and I still have most of the readers I started with plus a few new ones and I appreciate you all very very much, and thank you for sticking around. Your comments make me laugh and think and your emails make me feel special and I’ve made some really great friends, something I never expected.

So for my Two Year Anniversary I will do what I will call The First Quarter of Corinna Carlson’s 100 things about ME.

  1. I am left handed.

  2. I really do love John Denver, I saw him live at Canada’s Wonderland when I was a wee kid.
  3. Gus is a female cat with a male name because the balls on a male cat do not drop until they are 8 + weeks old and the woman who I got Gus from told me ‘the cat’ was a male and I never bothered to check again for balls.
  4. People accused me of having fake eyelashes in grade school and some people still ask if they are fake. I didn’t and never have and hate fake eyelashes in general because I have small breasts [and got picked on to the max for that too], let me have my bloody beautiful eyelashes please and don’t accuse me of having fake ones. JUST like real and fake boobs, eyelashes come in all different colors and lengths and super long ones does not automatically mean FAKE like skinny bitches with huge boobs doesn’t ALWAYS mean implants.
  5. I could solo paddle a 16 foot canoe when I was seven years old.
  6. I spent my youth in Scouting, I did Brownies, Girl Guides, Pathfinders [Ranger Guide] and Ventures.
  7. As a kid I used to teach knots to my Dad’s Cub’s when he was a Leader because it would intimidate them and they would learn them faster.
  8. The first time I ever went down hill skiing I wore jeans and fell really bad and hurt ligaments in one of my knees and I had to be taken off in a stretcher and my jeans were cut off and I had to go to the hospital and then the next year I went up and could ski almost like I had skied my whole life. ODD. And I still rule at down hill skiing I just never get to go.
  9. One of my Grandmothers was a lesbian.
  10. I experimented with women but decided on men.
  11. I watch Hot Topics on The View everyday. [please don't stop reading my blog] BUT only Hot Topics I turn it off after that.
  12. In Grade 6 [which would have been in Smithers] some friends and I found some beer bottles on the school ground and we drank out of them. Holy shit it could have been PISS. And we almost got expelled and all of our parents said we were bad influences on each other and we weren’t supposed to hang around each other any more.
  13. I have had a headache almost every day to some degree since November of 1994.
  14. My favorite body part on myself is my butt.
  15. My least favorite body part on myself is my extra face skin.
  16. I have ran a half marathon and have ran a 44:30 minute 10km, on my ‘goal list’ I had ‘run a 45 minute 10km’ and I meant it in my life time so I have had to change the goal time to a 40 minute 10km ‘in my life time’ now.
  17. I have an I/T band injury to my right knee that has kept me from running seriously for almost 4 years.
  18. My first real career was as a Travel Agent.
  19. I have only been to: Florida, The Cook Islands, Oregon, The Dominican Republic, Las Vegas, Ontario, Alberta and Mexico.
  20. I am an only child.
  21. I am my Dad and Mom’s favorite daughter.
  22. I have been officially fired from one job and I deserved it.
  23. I can’t stand coriander.
  24. I am the most afraid of snakes.
  25. I am a natural blonde. My hair is getting darker with age but I no longer color it at all and haven’t for going into the second year now and won’t again until the grey starts to come in.

Published on April 24, 2007 by Corinna Carlson | 1 Comment

So with the Canucks moving on in the Stanley Cup Playoffs more teams’ players are off to work on their golf games and tomorrow we start playing Anaheim which means Adam and I get to wear our ‘helmets’ a little longer maybe even a lot longer. I really enjoy Marty Turco as a goalie but unfortunately he plays for the wrong team. I was first attracted to him as a player because his Dallas Stars Goalie Mask RULES. But now I actually like him as a goalie period. See you next season Turco.

I don’t know if it is just because we have watched so many shit movies lately but we watched Blood Diamond on the weekend and I LOVED it. I was very worried because I knew it was long and I was worried about Leo, I am not a Jennifer Connelly fan unless I am watching Labyrinth but I love Djimon Hounsou. Leo believe it or not in my opinion pulled the South African accent off extremely well and I even forgot it was him a couple times. It didn’t seem as long as it was. I find Leo really touch and go in films sometimes I love him and sometimes I can�t stand him.

For the other movie we watched I made up a Jeopardy question.

This 1987 movie loosely based on a novel written under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman stars both the 38th Governor of Minnesota Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura and the 38th Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.

What is�..

It was a RAD movie; I can’t believe I had never seen it. The dancing scenes were choreographed by Paula Abdul. Bloody Awesome. It is one of Adam’s favorite movies. A preview for some new movie I can’t remember the name of with ten prisoners on the run from whatever reminded Adam of his love for it and he went out and scored it at the local video shop.

I am happy to report that our Guitar Hero One set has arrived so we now have two guitars and both games. Life does not get much sweeter. I am jealous that the X-Box 360 version has more songs. THAT IS NOT FAIR! I was a little disappointed when I got 100% on a few of the Guitar Hero One songs and there was NOT FIVE GOLD STARS! Only five stars. I have not failed a song yet but there is no practice mode, I am very glad the new one has a practice mode because I LICK at hammer-ons and pull-offs and on the first one you pretty much have to be able to do them to five star them. Playing together, battling, playing in co-operative mode and each having our own guitars makes us so very happy. I can’t wait to have couples over for Guitar Hero parties.

Eww that sounds terrible like I’m old and married and only hang out with married or couplely people or something.

The joke that no one got

Published on April 21, 2007 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

I take a lot of heat for being a Toronto Maple Leafs fan living in Vancouver when I’m also a Canucks fan. I’ll admit I’ve had a waning interest in the NHL [not HOCKEY just the NHL] since the strike and since Bertuzzi left. But I love him playing for Detroit I think it is perfect for him and this means I am now a band wagon Red Wings fan and will still collect all Bertuzzi memorabilia. Aside from that I like to fuck with people so in the past I’ve done things like wear my Leafs jersey to work when the Canucks and the Leafs have still been in the playoffs so I guess I deserve some of the heat. But I just walk around, hands up, exclaiming, LOOK I AM from Ontario, I grew up watching the Leafs my cousins would disown me if I ever lost my Leafs love.

I can’t remember exactly how it came up but Rebecca and I were IMing and the Leafs not being in the playoffs and golf came up and she said I should go golfing in my Leafs jersey. Cheeky cheeky.


So I thought sure why not I’m sure the Leafs aren’t out there wearing their jerseys on the course but you can guarantee they are out there let me go show them some support and or make fun of them either/or, dishing it can be as good as taking it.

I caused quite a stir let me tell you. We went at 8:10am and people were staring at me and straining their necks back to look at me and I got over four YOU ARE WEARING THE WRONG JERSEYs and this was on the course so like DUH you are thick and totally not getting my statement. I also played like complete and utter shit and I blame the jersey. TOTALLY. It was cursed. We both played like shit. I had Vancouver Canuck socks on but they were obviously not enough. The rivalry between the teams is simply too great and Vancouver’s love for their Canucks ruined my round AND Adam’s.

And then vindication, we walked by a window and on the inside of the window they had a sign that said ‘LETS GO RAPTORS!’ and inside the living room was a group of guys, one pointed at me while the others turned to look and all gave me thumbs up and faux high fives and gang symbols and shit and we were laughing so hard we went back and I walked up to their window and had my picture taken with them.