how i feel after three drinks
The Kindness of Strangers
This is David Aguilera. Yesterday, I couldn’t tell you a thing about him as I’d never met him before. Today he has humbled me with his selfless generosity.
You may or may not know that I’m heading to Thailand on Friday to shoot a documentary about an abolitionist named Kru Nam, and the orphanage she founded to care for the dozens of children she’s rescued from brothels and traffickers. The non-profit group that’s sending my partners and I have zero dollars to make this film, and earlier this week I posted a plea for a professional-grade HD camera to help give this project the quality of image it deserves.
To be perfectly honest, I never expected we’d get one. I imagined we would try our hardest, and then settle for a shitty handycam. It wouldn’t be great, but least it would be something.
And then I got an email from someone I’d never spoken to before named David Aguilera. He’d seen my post (thanks Molly!) and wanted to offer us the use of his Canon XH-A1.
For free.
To take 8000 miles away.
To the Thai-Burmese border.
Even though he had never spoken to us. He simply believed in the cause and had a kind heart.
My partner Emma and I met David today. We barely spoke on the ride home because we were so in awe of his generosity and trust. Not only did he give us the camera (which, if you don’t know anything about cameras, is an extremely nice, very expensive camera that if you were lucky enough to own, you really, really wouldn’t want anything to happen to), but he offered us the use of a SECOND camera he had, and then insisted on giving us a bag full of fresh avocados from the tree in his yard.
He didn’t ask for anything in return.
David, you give me faith in mankind. That’s not hyperbole.
Thanks.
P.S. David’s looking to be involved in any film production happening around town. If you’re looking for partners or crew members for your project, big or small, and you like surrounding yourself with very special human beings, please get in touch with him.
I love you David.
probably my favorite film scene of all time
Health care problem? Big. Food problem? BIGGER.
“To put it bluntly, the government is putting itself in the uncomfortable position of subsidizing both the costs of treating Type 2 diabetes and the consumption of high-fructose corn syrup.”
Michael Pollan, why do you always make SO MUCH SENSE?!
SUNDAY MORNING, FEELING PUMPED
A Valentine to Myself
Michael Sembello’s Maniac is my favorite song of all time. It articulates the inextricable feeling of molten hot florescent pink lava I feel coursing through my veins at all times, hungrily begging to be released.
Just a still town girl on a saturday night
looking for the fight of her life
In the real-time world no one sees her at all
they all say she’s crazy
Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart
changing woman into life
she has danced into the danger zone
when a dancer becomes the dance
It can cut you like a knife
if the gift becomes the fire
on a wire between will
and what will be
She’s a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
She’s a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
On the ice-build iron sanity is a place most never see
It’s a hard, warm place of mystery
touch it, but you can’t hold it
You work all your life for that moment in time
it could come or pass you by
It’s a push of the world
but there’s always a chance
If the hunger stays the night
There’s a cold connective heat, struggling, stretching for defeat
Never stopping with her head against the wind
She’s a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
She’s a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
GPOYWAOCT (Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself Wednesday After One Crazy Tuesday)
im a hella good photographer
Lunch
Organic Kettle chips, organic salad w/ homemade lemon-garlic vinegerette, and an organic Diestel turkey sandie on whole wheat. It’s lunch time bitches.
DOWN SYNDROME = HOT?
My life partner Carly has suggested on more than one occasion that I’m attracted primarily to women with a notably similar physical feature: weird baby-looking alien type bobble faces. (Her words, or a reasonable facsimile thereof). I decided to put this theory to the test and make a list of my top
1012 hottest female celebrities and see if they do indeed fit into this canon. Please do bear in mind that this list is based solely on visceral physical attractiveness, and I make no representation that the names on this list deserve to be at the top of anything, ever.Without further ado, here in no particular order (except for number one, which is number one for a reason) are my
1012 Hottest Female Celebrities Who May Or May Not Have Weird Baby-Looking Alien Type Bobble Faces1. Miranda Kerr is the reason this post was created. She’s my favorite, like, ever, and I think we can all easily concur that her face fits the description of my type.
2. Eva Mendes would seem to fit into the other paradigm for what I go for, which is Hot Latinas. I don’t think she has an Alien Baby Face, but I’m willing to entertain arguments.
3. Lindsay Lohan is a complete dipstick from top to bottom, but if I’m being honest, she’s possibly the most beautiful woman on this list. No Alien Baby here, though she does fit firmly into my “help the wounded bird” complex, which is the third thing I go for behind Alien Babies and Hot Latinas. (Jacked Up Grills are the fourth thing, but unfortuantely you don’t see that on many celebs other than Kiki and Bijou Phillips.) It’s also a style thing with LiLo; I think she’s pretty fuckin’ flawless.
4. Elisha Cuthbert hasn’t done much since 24 and it’s probably for the best. Lad mags have kept her alive, and I’m fine with that. As far as the Alien Baby factor goes, I’d say she’s unquestionably up there.
5. Anne Hathaway doesn’t look like a baby, but she does look like and Alien Bobble Head. She sort of reminds me of a piece of Bubble Yum, if Bubble Yum had 70s boobs.
6. Vanessa Hudgens is so Alien Baby that it’s Rare. It’s rare, it’s special, it’s nude on the internet.
7. Lauren Conrad is a fellow Aquarian, and I find myself able to relate to the emotional aloofness in her blank stare. She pretty obviously has an Alien Baby Face.
8. Anna Faris is one of two on this list I’ve had actual personal contact with, and I can tell you with confidence that her Alien Baby face is even more apparent in real life than it is in photographs.
9. Kristen Stewart speaks to the rebellious high school student in me that I never was. She’s no Alien Baby but she is most certainly a Wounded Bird, and a Stoner Wouded Bird at that.
10. Mila Kunis is the other one I’ve seen, like, IRL, and her Alien Baby Face is very Smooshy and Bobbly indeed. Perfect.
11. Natalie Portman is simply stunning, and I’m not sure where she fits in to all this. She’s not an Alien Baby, she’s not a Hot Latina, she’s not a Wounded Bird… do you think her Grill is a little Jacked Up? Just a touch.
12. Evan Rachel Wood is last, but most certainly not least. She’s a porcelin beauty that blows my mind just a touch. I don’t see Alien Baby here, but I do certainly see Wounded Bird. Wounded Bird that Marilyn Manson preyed upon.
So in my final tally, only HALF of the celebrities on this list qualify as Alien Babies. Granted, that’s a much larger margin than any other category.
Results inconclusive. More field research necessary.
If memory serves me correctly, I recall saying you are attracted to women who look like they have “a touch of down syndrome.” As in: “Anna Faris looks like she may have a touch of down syndrome.”
