Random Ramblings

The beginnings of a new year are hard. All that celebration, all that warmth and suddenly its back to your former, sterile, everyday existence. The brisk winter chill is suddenly just plain cold. And to make matters worse, my parents are currently on a Celebrity cruise line in the French Caribbean celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary. While I'm just back to exactly where I was a month ago...


Despite its importance in my own personal mass transit sanity, I can't decide how I feel about all of the ipod zombies roaming the streets of our fair city. While I certainly understand the need to tune the chaos out from time to time. I usually just use the ipod as a means to enhance the vibe of the street or train that I'm on. Most of these people, on the other hand, look like they're just half a step away from lobotomy-land...


It's really very difficult to eat healthily and inexpensively. I've been told over and over again that the only solution is to buy the food yourself and prepare it directly in your own home, and am diligently working on this method. However, I continue to try and find the happy medium when dining out as well. But, try as I might, the conflict always arises. Even when just picking up a quick lunch, the choices always seem to be either sushi and a Jamba Juice for $25 or Wendy's and a chocolate frosty for $5.75...


MF Doom aka Victor Vaughn ft. Apani B's track "Let Me Watch" off of the record "Vaudeville Villian" remains perhaps the most perfect love song of all time. It is all at once shocking, heartfelt, honest, sexual, raw and tragic. There may never be another one like it...


Anyone who is fortunate enough to have the Premium On Demand channels or anyone who has an extra couple of bucks to spare on DVDs MUST, MUST, MUST sprint out of your homes and rent the film "Kinsey." I was fortunate enough to finally see it earlier this evening via Cinemax On Demand and am here to tell you that it is one of the most entertainingly important films that you are likely to see for some time. "Kinsey" does its subject proud. It is nothing short of revolutionary...


The cost of Dry Cleaning five clothing articles in New York City's Nolita neighborhood: $22.50. The cost of six toiletry items including Kleenex brand tissues, Neutrogena facial moisturizer and generic brand lint rollers from a drug store in Midtown: $34.14. The cost of White Rose low-fat cottage cheese, a can of Goya black beans, a head of lettuce and two other food items at a grocery store on Mulberry Street: only $8.65. That feeling you get when you strut home, a days work behind you and four bags of grown-upness under your arms, the dry-cleaning over your shoulder and a smile on your face: priceless...


And finally, What the Fuck is Su Doku?