The Daily Sabs

for some reason i became totally addicted to bowie's life on mars this morning. however i don't own any bowie, let alone this particular track. this is not because of my poor taste, but because of the "if your roommate owns this then you can save your money" phenomenon. why i haven't remedied it in all these years probably stems from the "i can just google it when i need to hear it" phenomenon. because of these two things, and the new-found addiction, the music video for life on mars (which i found on youtube, but stupidly can't embed here - thanks record labels) has been playing all morning. i'd say i was driving randall crazy, but he's escaped into his DS so that he can fully ignore me.

while watching the video, i thought it would be fun to recreate bowie's eyemakeup. i'm not sure why, (1) what do i know about makeup and (2) do i even own any makeup? --- the answer to 2 is apparently yes and the answer to 1 is not much. but, since the makeup was still out from last night's wolf getup, i figured why not. and while i don't have the huge dilated pupil like bowie, i do have a freckle in mine, and that's gotta be worth something.

ps. can't waits to see the jujubee later!

pps. since i can't embed the video, i have included the inspirational still.

ppps. i was hoping this could be my new karaoke jam, but i can't quite make it to mars.

my morm has this thing she says. the phrase is, "that's a peautiful."

we're not sure if it was meant to be beautiful or pitiful. we think it was supposed to be pitiful, but we prefer the idea of her fully understanding sarcasm and saying beautiful instead. for example, if you tell her that someone sent the wrong paperwork, she would say, "that's just peautiful." -- see, it could be pitiful (as in they did a pitiful job) or beautiful (as a sarcastic way of saying they screwed up).

to be honest, we still haven't figured it out, but it doesn't really matter now. you see, the two words have become fully interchangable. that's right, in our household we use the same word for beautiful and pitiful. for example, you can say, "the weather is gorgeous, it's so peautiful outside today." or you could say, "he did a peautiful job and totally screwed up the order." sure it's a bit confusing, but i prefer to think of it as open to interpretation.

so you tell me, was it a peautiful day, or a peautiful day?