Mad Men Season 4, so far
The Social Network script & trailer
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
This song
Florence + the Machines
Mumford & Sons
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Bands with “and” in their names, apparently
The Hollywood Bowl
Nicole Scherzinger as Maureen in Rent at the Hollywood Bowl
Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian
Reunions with old school friends

I’m Loving

True Blood!!! — I finally started watching it a couple weeks ago. Obsessed.
Javier Bardem in Eat Pray Love, and just Javier Bardem in general
The Kids Are All Right
The Freebie trailer
Hamster on a Piano (Eating Popcorn on a Piano) — I promise you’ll laugh
Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy
Spotify
my new guitar

I’m Loathing

Fleas
& this look:

I mean… why? Just, why?

1. Bid Kauai adieu.
2. Land at LAX on Saturday night.
3. Wait twenty-some-odd minutes for our bags in the sweaty and overcrowded baggage claim/driver pick-up/family waiting area/all-around clusterfuck, while doing my best to ignore that pressing feeling on my bladder, thinking I’ll be home soon enough.
4. Trek several minutes to the next terminal down where the ParknFly shuttle serendipitously pulls in right as we approach.
5. Start rummaging in my purse for my keys as we pull into the parking lot where my car awaits us.
6. Realize I put them in the “key bowl” on the first day of vacation as I was transferring purses AND NEVER PUT THEM BACK.
7. Have a mild panic attack while other shuttle passengers watch, their faces displaying a mixture of pity and schadenfreude.
8. Try to avoid eye contact with the shuttle driver as I explain that actually, no, sorry, we won’t be getting off here, we have to go back to the airport.
9. Call my friend who is dogsitting for me to ask urgently for another favor, a lift home. Hang up before he has a chance to ask why.
10. Let my sister make the phone call to my parents, who are thankfully still on the island, to tell them of my faux pas.
11. Apologize profusely when my friend who dogsat and agreed to give me a ride home tells me he was on a date when I called. Try to believe him when he says it’s fine – they went to see a movie and it had just ended. What movie? Inception. How many times has he seen it now? Three.
12. Spend most of the car ride home discussing Inception and being made fun of because I’ve only seen it once.
13. Talk to my mom the next day to find out she won’t be able to send the keys that day because it’s Sunday. So expect them Tuesday at the earliest.
14. Talk to my mom on Monday. She sent the keys but I won’t get them until Wednesday. Tell myself it’s not so bad. I’m home a lot anyway. But I’m hungry.
15. Go to yummy.com to order groceries to last the next couple days. Be grateful for yummy.com.
16. Spend lots of time looking up jobs online. Try to convince myself of my competence as a potential employee, despite my constant occasional spaceyness.
17. Start thinking of my missing keys as a metaphor for my current state in life. It’s like, I’m here, wanting to go somewhere, I just don’t have my keys with me.
18. Do a happy dance when the UPS guy throws the keys onto my front porch.
19. Pick up my car, put on a CD I haven’t listened to in forever, and sing along, remembering all the lyrics I thought I’d forgotten.
20. Enjoy the ride.

Allow me to explain.

Like many other bloggers, I use Google Analytics to track visitor activity on this here blog. Don’t worry, shy stalker folks, it doesn’t tell me who you are — just how you got to my site (directly or from a referring site), which pages you looked at, how long you looked at those pages, etc. It helps me find out what the people who come to my site actually do with it.*

Since the release of Inception there’s been a surge of interest in JGL, prompting searches for his tumblr, which I mentioned in a post dedicated to the man himself last September, a post that (much to my surprise and glee) now shows up any time someone googles “joseph gordon levitt tumblr.” Why anyone ventures below the actual link to his tumblr to click on my article is beyond me, but hey, I’ll take it. Go, Internets.

If you happen to be someone who reached my site on your hunt for JGL,  hello and welcome. Feel free to take a look around. Maybe you’ll find we have things in common besides our love for Joe and Inception, and our incredibly good looks.

Speaking of Inception, have you seen it yet? I hope so. I recommend it to everyone because I love it, love it, want some more of it. I realize it’s now in that dangerous time of being potentially overhyped after its explosive release, but still… see it.

And then maybe see it again.

…

*Semi-interesting fact: the most-clicked categories on this blog are personal, marriage, and sex. Ha, people are nosy little buggers, aren’t they? These categories also happen to be kind of sparse. I can fix that.

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Happy Independence Day!

I’ve touched back down in the US of A and it feels faaantastic.

As much as I enjoy being abroad, nothing quite compares to the feeling of coming home.

I know I said “updates soon” last time and didn’t follow through, but this time I mean it. Promise.