This Waffle Is Leaving The Station ... OLD MAN!!

Heath Clouth

Ok, I've been a fan of the Kate Bush song "Wuthering Heights" for years now, but I didn't look up the lyrics for the song until last month. I was totally wrong in my interpretation of the lyrics.

What I thought:
I don't know why the windy moor sweet rolling falling green
You had a temple, like my jealousy, too hard to breathe
How could you leave me, when I needed to posess you
I hated you, I loved you too.

Bad dreams in the night, you told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind the wuthering, wuthering, wuthering heights...

Heathcliff! It's me, its me! I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me into your window. [x2]

Ooh, it gets dark, it gets lonely, on the other side for you.
I've pined a lot, I've cried a lot, goes through without you.
Coming back now, cool Heathcliff, buy your own dream, my only muster.

To hone my role in the night, I'm coming back to a sanct to pull it right
'Coming home to Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights...

Heathcliff! It's me, its me! I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me into your window.[x2]

Ooh! Let me have it! Let me grab your soul away![x2]
No, its me, come see!

Heathcliff! It's me, its me! I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me into your window.[x3]

Ok, this is what she's really singing, keep in mind that I was in the "C" English class, and I never read Wuthering Heights:

The Real Lyrics

Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green.
You had a temper like my jealousy:
Too hot, too greedy.
How could you leave me,
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you. I loved you, too.

Bad dreams in the night.
You told me I was going to lose the fight,
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights.

Heathcliff, it's me-- I'm Cathy.
I've come home. I´m so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Heathcliff, it's me-- I'm Cathy.
I've come home. I´m so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Ooh, it gets dark! It gets lonely,
On the other side from you.
I pine a lot. I find a lot
Falls through without you.
I'm coming back, love.
Cruel Heathcliff, my one dream,
My only master.

Too long I roam in the night.
I'm coming back to his side, to put it right.
I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering,
Wuthering Heights,

Heathcliff, it's me-- I'm Cathy.
I've come home. I´m so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Heathcliff, it's me-- I'm Cathy.
I've come home. I´m so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Ooh! Let me have it.
Let me grab your soul away.
Ooh! Let me have it.
Let me grab your soul away.
You know it's me--Cathy!

Heathcliff, it's me-- I'm Cathy.
I've come home. I'm so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Heathcliff, it's me-- I'm Cathy.
I've come home. I´m so cold!
Let me in-a-your window.

Heathcliff, it's me-- I'm Cathy.
I've come home. I´m so cold!

Heathcliff, it's me--I'm Cathy
I've come home. I'm so cold!

AHHHHHHH YAAAAA YAAAA OHHHH YAAAAAAA

posted by Anita @ 8:52 PM

"My Anus Is Bleeding!!!"

I remember eight years ago, I was in my remedial math class that I was probably failing (as usual!), and we had just got back the results of a quiz. I got an 10 on it (and no, I don't mean 10 out of 10 either, I mean I got a straight up 10 on it, a straight up F) and the guy sitting next to me in class; Mike Grant (a guy I've known since around first grade) had gotten a 20 on the quiz. And we both looked each other laughed and said that were we on the road to being bums. Who knew Mike would be right?

Now I don't know what Mike is doing now. The last I saw him was in September of 2001 when I went to Kecoughtan to pick up my yearbook, and I went to the McDonalds in town to get dinner or something, and I saw him and half my English class working there. Geez, Mike is probably working at the shipyard now or something and I'm a bum at home.

I'm trapped here, I have no car anymore (dad's Lumina finally bit the dust) my resume is a peice of shit, and Wal Mart didn't even call me back. I think one of my most humiliating moments was when I failed the assessment test at this call center place (where the Miller and Rhoads at the old Newmarket Fair Mall was). The lady working there couldn't even tell me to my face that I had failed, she just gave me a piece of paper, that said:

In order to be considered for an interview you must score 80% or higher. We encourage you to reapply 6 months after your application date.

Thank you for applying with The Faneuil Group. Have a wonderful day

Oh, and don't even get me started on Quill & Scroll. Ok, I'm already started. Quill & Scroll was this honor society for journalism and yearbook students. I took journalism my junior year of high school (every single one of my articles made the paper expect for one that year--but I've never gone back and read my articles. They're much too embarassing.) and Yearbook my senior year. I did a pretty good job keeping my grades up the second semester of my senior year (ok, I got kicked out of the math class I was failing. My first semester average in that class? A 22.) and I thought I was a shoo-in for Quill & Scroll. I mean other than my math class I was bringing home A's and B's (and C's in Spanish) for the last couple of years. I think the selection time for Quill & Scroll was March or April, and around this time I asked my yearbook teacher Mrs. Duckworth about it. God bless her, none of it was her fault, but she had to let me down easily that I didn't get accepted into Quill and Scroll due to my GPA. I was the only student in my (small) yearbook class that didn't get in. I remember crying to my mom about it a few nights later. I'm not bitter about it anymore though (me writing about it shows that), its just one of my rejection stories.



Like the title though to today's entry? I finally got to see that little "rejection" film (hence me using that as the title of today's entry about rejection) with the little stick characters and the litte "My Anus Is Bleeding!!" guy. I finally know where he comes from.

posted by Anita @ 2:30 PM

"He's So Hopped Up He Thinks He's At The Apollo!"*

You know this might surprise some people, but I actually like Adam Corolla's new show. I know I dissed him for years, but turns out he was just in shitty shows that I hated. (The Man Show, Crank Yankers) He's actually pretty funny by himself. Brian got me into Adam really when he would to put Lovelines on his radio stream. There's finally a nice show after TDS after Comedy Central failed over and over again every year. (SNL Repeats, Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn [near the end], Premium Blend repeats, etc ,etc) .

Comedy Central needs to see the light that Dave Chappelle is never coming back to his show, I wonder when they're going to move his show to the "dead hour" of Comedy Central shows that have gone by the wayside. I call "deadhour" the 2 a.m.- 4 a.m. marathon Comedy Central does during the weekdays--they showed Shorties Watching Shorties last week so I guess that show is dead, I liked that show.

I'm geting ready to catch Martha Stewart on Cony!

*=Quote from Joel in the mst3k episode Catalina Caper.

posted by Anita @ 12:32 AM

Phantom Fantas

Ok, here's that big soda post I promised earlier today:



Thanks to sodafinder.com I was able to finally try Fanta Apple! It had expried back in January but it was still good. Apparently you can only find Fanta Apple in Texas and Atlanta. This was produced in Houston.

I guess I could get the same effect from drinking sparkling apple cider, but it wouldn't come in the cool can. I don't understand why Coca-Cola doesn't roll this out nationally. I think people would buy it! It's not like Fanta Grape is flying off the shelves or something.



When Citra died in 2002-ish (maybe even 2001?) it became Fanta Citrus in some areas. I had this Friday night while making a tape for a friend (a tape of old commercials and stuff) and this stuff tastes better than Citra ever did (and keep in mind, this can had expired back in January). Coke calls it a "grapefruit flavored soda", and I'll agree to that, its like Fresca but with sugar.

The only downside to this soda is when I drink clear sodas, [TMI] my mouth gets all mucus-y and for a few minutes I have a hard time swallowing[/TMI].

This was canned in College Park, GA. Fanta Citrus gets extra props for having the prettiest fanta can.

Be sure to check out my soda blog for more reviews.

posted by Anita @ 8:25 PM

Before Alex Trebek Shaved Off The Cookie Duster

Times like these I wish I had my Win TV. I was looking through a jarbled tape and there was an episode of Daily Show from eariler this month on there and Samuel L Jackson was on, and he gave Jon a Kangol hat:





I had a big ol soda post to make too, but flickr is down at the moment so that will have to wait. I don't want to put my soda pics on photobucket.

Haha, I googled "Alex Trebek" to make sure I spelled it right for today's subject, and I found this site.

posted by Anita @ 4:48 PM

Things Were Getting Worse! Hey! Things Were Getting Worse! Hey!

This has to be one of my favorite songs of all time right here:

Fishbone - It's A Wonderful Life
(expect that song again around Christmas time)

I made screen caps of the video 3 years ago when an old online friend (whose whereabouts are unknown) sent me a tape of TMBG on MTV's 120 Minutes in 1988. I don't think I was in love with the song or the video when I made screen caps of that tape, so I only made three measily caps of the video, oh if only I could turn back the clock! That video is so awesome, I wish I had a video file of it but I don't, and anyways I have dialup, you know?

What else? Oh, this:



This flickr photo stream of Eastland Mall in Tulsa, OK was e-mailed to me a few days ago, and I saw that pic so I made a comment:

You know what's Socially Unacceptable? Using the Lucinda Handwriting font on your store's sign!

Lucinda Handwriting is as bad as Comic Sans.

posted by Anita @ 12:36 AM

That Yam Shortage Will Be Long Forgotten

Found off of AOL when I signed on:



So Demi married a woman?

I'm trying to organize my Daily Show episodes that I recorded on random tapes this summer, and I found slim pickin's...I only recorded about eight episodes this entire summer. Ooops. Starting tomorrrow I'm going to start recording Daily Show every night again!

posted by Anita @ 8:21 PM

Those Things Never Tore Off The Plastic Right

This is probably old as crap news, but I can't wait:

Get ready for the third installment of "I Love the '80s." Here's the press release from VH1:

In a Completely New Ten-Hour Event, VH1 Takes You to the Third Dimension for 'I Love The '80s: 3D'

More Than 200 Music Artists, TV And Film Stars, Athletes And Celebs Give A Fresh Look Back At The Decade In VH1's Outrageous Year-By-Year

Flashback Premiering Monday-Friday, October 24 - 28 AT 9PM* Each Night


We're back, we're funnier than ever, and because we haven't run out of ideas, we're taking it to the third dimension, with gnarly special effects that'll-like-blow your mind! That's right. Put on your 3D glasses and check out "I Love The 80s: 3D!"

VH1 is reprising its highly successful and hilarious I Love the '80s approach for "I Love the 80's: 3D." All of your favorite comics, rock stars and celebs will come together once more to wax poetic about the essential '80s experience, and this time it will be a vision altering event. From Jheri-curls to Rat-tails, Oak Ridge Boys to Fine Young Cannibals, Star Search to Spenser for Hire, Cannonball Run to Naked Gun, the offbeat nostalgia show will bring viewers a skewed view of the music, movies, TV shows, fashions, fads, and trends that defined pop culture during every year of the decade. Fear not, viewers will still have a bodacious time watching the series even without those retro red and blue paper glasses. "I Love the 80's: 3D" premieres Monday-Friday, October 24 - 28, beginning at 9:00 pm each night.

Each one-hour episode of "I Love The 80s: 3D" is a totally excellent adventure through a single year, celebrating the good, the bad, and the greedy through retro clips from sitcoms, movies, music videos, TV commercials, network news and other sources plus more than 200 new interviews with the people who survived the decade that created "the fruit roll-up."

Mo Rocca ("The Daily Show"), Michael Ian Black ("Stella"), Hal Sparks ("Queer As Folk") and Rachael Harris ("Fat Actress") return to "I Love the 80's: 3D" to lend their hilarious point of view once again. Also lending their perspectives are Modern Humorists, Rich Eisen of the "NFL Network," Patrice O'Neal, Stuart Scott, Luis Guzman, Loni Love, Greg Fitzsimmons, Godfrey and others.

*all times ET/PT

As long as they don't do another "I Love The 90's", then Vh1 can churn these things out for another 20 years.

posted by Anita @ 11:23 PM

Where's The Scatman? You're Singing About Yourself.

I made some good spaghetti squash today for a late lunch. I cooked the spaghetti squash in the microwave (you cut the squash in half, scoop out the seeds, put it face down in a container of water and microwave it for maybe around 15 minutes?) and while it was cooking I put some of that premade grilled chicken in a plastic container and I put some olive oil, cayenne pepper, coriander, and some powdered ginger in the container and shook all that up, and then when the squash was ready I scraped the squash out of the skin into the container, and then I stirred it all up and it was so good, it was the best spaghetti squash ever. So I guess that's the highlight of my weekend:

Me:What did you do this weekend?
Random person: My boyfriend/girlfriend and I went on a road trip. What did you do?
Me: I MADE THE BEST SPAGHETTI SQUASH EVER!!!

I made a cd today as well:

1. Better Than Eztra - Desperately Wanting
2.Linear - Sending All My Love
3. Ann Gunn - Snow On The Sahara
4. Ani DiFranco - You Each Time
5. Danko Jones - New Woman
6. Rolling Stones - Miss You
7. Joe Esposito - You're The Best
8. Huey Lewis And The News - It Hit Me Like A Hammer
9. Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade
10. King Of France - Just A Body
11. Scatman John - Scatman
12. House of Pain - Jump Around
13. Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
14. Rage Against The Machine - Vietnow
15. Kanye West - Golddigger
16. Nada Surf - Do It Again
17. James Kochalka Superstar - Nickelskelton
18. Beatles - Misery
19. Moby - Everlong (remixed by Brian)

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Temporary Mp3 that I've had on itunes for way too long : Sifl & Olly and Chester - A Moment With Chester : Women. Sifl & Olly was the best show ever.

posted by Anita @ 8:20 PM

What Was That Family Guy Joke About Huey Lewis And The News?

Dad and I got my vcr's set up again yesterday so I can dub tapes again. Hence me not making a blog entry yesterday as I was looking through tapes from 4 p.m.- 1:30 in the morning. I missed dubbing tapes so much, I have so many disorganized tapes sitting on top of my TV that need to be organized (I have like an episode of Daily Show, then an ep of Family Guy, and then like something from I dunno, Vh1 on most of my tapes) I need to have all my Daily Show stuff on tapes by theirselves, you know when the time comes that I can work on my site again. Maybe one day dad and I can pick up a junker PC at the thrift store and just put my win tv and front page on it so I can work on my site again. Or if dad decides to get a new PC I'm sure he'd let me put the win tv in it and I'd just buy a vcr from the thrift store and hook it up to that and just work on my TDS site in his office. I've priced tv receivers for Macs and they're too expensive, and dad needs a new computer anyway. I went to WalMart today and got a 10 pack of blank tapes. I need to dub Season 2 Cheap Seats for Melissa.

Speaking of Melissa, I found this tape she gave me for my 21st birthday (last year) that I had lost of music videos (cool music videos, like 120 Minute stuff). I never got to see the tape before I lost it, I'm going to check it out tonight. I wish I could make screen caps of the tape *sniffs*. That's the only thing I miss about my PC, other than not being able to make screen caps I love my emac more and more by the day.

Hecht's called yesterday morning and basically told me to apply the store thrid week of October when they start hiring seasonal workers.

posted by Anita @ 3:31 PM

"Tag your Hurricane Rita pictures with hrcnrita"

Today's subject=I actually saw that on photobucket.com while uploading the photo for this entry.

Anyways, I bought the worst product of 2005 at Wal Mart 2 weekends ago:



You're probably looking at that and thinking, "hey, that looks kinda good!". Yes, it was very good...after you finished making it. I bought this because I thought it was just a huge cookie in a bowl that you heated up in the microwave and put some icing on top of it. Oh no, you have to bring some water and a tablespoon with you if you want to eat this at work. You open this package up, and its a little bag of cookie mix and the icing. You have to mix in a tablespon of water and put it in the microwave for 45 seconds. I mean its a good cookie, but I just can't imagine it being a portable snack, or even something you'd bring to the office with you.

I remember in the early 1990's my mom bought this cake mix that you cooked in the microwave, I remember that was pretty good. But of course I was like 7 or 8 when she made it, so my tastes have changed since then.

I brought out my Pulse "as seen on TV" album tonight. It's a compilation of dance hits from the mid 1990s. I remember my main radio station in middle school (Z104, now some crummy R&B station I think) would play this kind of music every Friday and Saturday night from 8 p.m. until 2 in the morning. One of the songs on the album; Corona's Rhythm Of The Night reminds me of getting my first crush on this kid that rode my bus home every day; Matthew. I remember realizing that I had a crush on him the day we left for Christmas break. Later on that night my sister and my niece picked me up so I could spend the night over at their house, and I remember that song was on the radio heading to her house (out in the boonies an hour away--she moved to the boonies before we did), and I automatically declared it as "our song".

And no, I did not buy that album off of the TV, I bought it at the thrift store where most of those As Seen on TV albums live at now.

posted by Anita @ 9:03 PM

Mrs. Garrison

I'm was watching the episode of South Park where Mr. Garrison had the sex change and when Cartman said, "Mr. Garrison has titties!", it reminded me of a moment in high school. I was in my chorale group, and the group and I were getting on the risers about to do our set during the Spring concert (I think this was my junior year?) , and this one kid I really despised whispered something really funny:

"You can see Ms. Forrest's cleavage!"

It was hard for some of us to keep a straight face. The only time that jerkface made me laugh.

posted by Anita @ 10:35 PM