wrinkled cuffs on cuffed shorts [09/05/08] hip_domestics [stenodork] [ mood | confused ] I have a few pairs of cuffed shorts + I'm laundry illiterate (like, I've never washed AND dried a full load of laundry on my own.) Whenever my husband washes/dries a new pair, the cuffs are TOTALLY wrinkled, the deep kind of wrinkles that I personally can't iron out (using the cheapest iron you can buy pretty much with no steam or starch spray or anything). What can I do to prevent and fix this? One of the pairs of shorts has sewn in cuffs (but only sewn at intervals so that they can still get folded and wrinkled) and one has the little tabs that button to hold the cuffs in place. TIA none are lost0 is foundare found | Are you lost?

Fall Out Boy's 'I Dont Care' is Gen Z's 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' [09/05/08] icecreamhdaches Fall Out Boy's 'I Dont Care' is Gen Z's 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' I've spent a lot of extra-curricular time with Pete Wentz lately, so it's always a good day when my favorite arena-emo fameballs get it together to actually make new music. "I Don't Care," the debut single off Fall Out Boy's "Folie a Deux" (due out on election day, Nov. 4, but please don't be distracted, kids), falls somewhere in between their best moments like "Sugar, We're Going Down" and flatter notes such as their "Beat It" cover with, erm, John Mayer. "I Don't Care" strays from the hyper-glossy R&B kick of "Infinity on High" and into something approximating scuzzy classic rock, or as scuzzy as you can get with Island/Def Jam's quarterly outlook dependent on your radio spins. One thing that you easily forget about Fall Out Boy is that, outside of Wentz, everybody in the band is a total ripper. Heck, even the perpetual Other Guy, guitarist Joe Trohman, had an album's worth of metal demos that impressed Liars, of all people. That instrumental swagger is immediately evident from the introductory T.Rex-meets-"Personal Jesus" guitar riff that's the catchiest thing about the song, and it's a welcome move when the song doesn't need Babyface's money pit to sound immediately distinctive on the radio. There's all the typical self-reflexive lyrical silliness about guitars screaming like fascists and Wentz being a "heat wave in your pants" (wow, they really do aspire to being the Twitter generation's Def Leppard) and a chorus demanding, "I don't care what you think as long as it's about me." I'll allow FOB one album about the perils of tabloid-land, but I can't give them two. The obligatory stomper chorus is a bit of a non-starter too, even if it's cool to hear Patrick Stump exploring the Simone-ish bottom end of his white-dude soul warble. Ah, but then there's that bridge when they let Stump off his leash and he ad libs some goshdarn actual melisma. That's the missing ingredient this band has taken three albums to find, and why they get to host MTV shows as side projects instead of the pack of aspirant jokers jacking their hype-fatigued M.O. There's a super cheeky wanker guitar solo to close the song out, which I'm always OK with from this band because they know how to mix it right, and it underscores why they earn the privilege of having text-message song titles and Jay-Z skits on their records. They can play circles around any other platinum-selling rock band these days, and they generally use those powers for good. -- August Brown source none are lost0 is foundare found | Are you lost?

Fall Out Boy Exclusive: Band Previews Folie A Deux Tracks For MTV News [09/05/08] icecreamhdaches Fall Out Boy Exclusive: Band Previews Folie A Deux Tracks For MTV News Patrick Stump explains LP's political edge and how Pete Wentz's marriage affects the lyrics. By James Montgomery LOS ANGELES — "Hell yes, this record is political. But it's not ever going to be overt. You have to look beyond that," Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump said from the studio where he and his bandmates are putting the finishing touches on their Folie à Deux album. "I think this is a very political record, but that gets misunderstood really easily. I think people don't really care what 'politics' even means anymore. If there's a simple theme that I would want to express through the music, it's that you really need to think about things." Stump is speaking, of course, about the recent reports of the (supposed) political slant on the FOB album that's due November 4 — Election Day. While his sentiments are probably only going to further confuse fans — and provide ammo to critics — we've got to admit that he's pretty dead-on in his assessment. At least, judging from the tracks we heard. On Thursday night, MTV News visited Fall Out Boy — who, coincidentally, are nominated for Best Rock Video at the 2008 Video Music Awards — at an L.A. studio to get a sneak peek at a handful of songs from Folie, all of which bore tentative titles ("America's Sweethearts," "Never Believe," "Does Your Husband Know?") and a healthy dose of political edge. But not of the red state/ blue state variety, mind you. Rather, the new songs delve deep into the politics of the heart and mind, exploring decaying relationships, moral dilemmas and societal shortcomings. The lyrics — written once again by bassist Pete Wentz, who works through a series of thoroughly detestable characters on the new album — deal heavily with concepts like truth and trust, arrogance and infidelity, responsibility and commitment. It's a world where there's not all that much difference between a marriage vow and a campaign speech, in that both are rooted in a promise, one that is easily — and often — corrupted. "One of the things I wanted to do on this record is — and it was very conscious ... I don't think enough people give Pete Wentz any credit. I think he's awesome, I think he's a very talented guy," Stump said. "People only take pictures of him on his way to somewhere. So you just see him with his cup of coffee walking into the studio, but you don't see him in the studio. He's in here working a lot. He totally outdid himself on this record. He doesn't even know how good his lyrics are here. ... So I really had to do something to suit that. So I've been using musical style as a palette to support his lyrics." The best example of this synergy is probably "Husband," which struts in on a massive drum line and crunching, processed guitars, gets amplified by a four-piece horn section, then falls away to a simple, somber piano line. It's sexual one minute, heartbreaking the next — the perfect accompaniment for Wentz's tale of infidelity and deception. "Swagger is a great way to describe it, because on the song, he's lyrically adopting a character that has swagger, so I wanted the music to have that swagger. The verse is so confident and funky and forward because the lyric is so full of itself," Stump explained. "And then everything stops, and there's a piano breakdown, and it's very melancholy and sad and theatrical, and the lyric shifts to the doubt that's behind all that arrogance. And ultimately, I wanted the music — in conjunction with the lyric — to express that arrogance is usually a mask for terrible insecurity. "What I took out of [the lyrics] was that there was something so compelling about the character in the song. ... Like in 'Silence of the Lambs,' when Hannibal Lecter is talking about how he doesn't kill, he covets. ... The song is about that — the prowl of chasing a woman," he continued. "I think it meant, like, this guy is cheating on his girlfriend, but he knows she's not cheating on him. There's this total 'looking into the mirror and trying to convince yourself of absolute lies' kind of thing. People ask all the time, 'Oh, Pete got married, how does that affect the record?' and I think, if anything, he just wanted to point out how lightly people are taking their marriages. No one seems to be worried about what's going on, they just want to have things." And that focus on the failings of society continues on "Never Believe," which is powered by drummer Andy Hurley's work — this time a taut marching cadence — and lush, open guitarwork from Joe Trohman. Stump's voice is loud and clear as he urges the listener to "throw your cameras in the air/ Wave 'em like you just don't care." " 'Never Believe' contains my favorite Fall Out Boy lyric, maybe ever. Because everything we're trying to say about pop culture, it's in this song," Stump said. "The chorus — 'Change will come, but I will never believe in anything again' — that's about the '90s, when we really cared, [but] then we got into all this awful mess. And I think people stopped believing in the goodwill of man and that you can change the world or do any good. So everything became internalized. The past decade has been totally about 'me.' It's totally about 'Oh, I'm sad. I want this. I know somebody who knows this person. Me me me me me,' so that's what that song is about." And while he was at it, Stump decided to dissect the first single from Folie, the strutting "I Don't Care," which the band debuted earlier this week on their official site. Seems that it, too, is another attack on the vapidness of the era we currently inhabit, one obsessed with celebrity and the self. It's an attack you can shout along to, of course. It is a Fall Out Boy song, after all. "Like the chorus says, 'I don't care what you think as long as it's about me.' It's that pop culture thing again, where people don't care about anything but the superficial, and I think there's something so tragic about that," he laughed. "I also thought there was something so ironically anthemic about the chorus, where it's not something you want to sing along to, because it's vacuous and empty. So I wanted something really anthemic underneath it, like something you'd hear at sports games or whatever, because I wanted people to hear it and be confronted with how empty that is. I didn't want anything to be superficial on this record unless the point was to point out superficiality." source none are lost3 is foundare found | Are you lost?

Funky old house issues [09/05/08] hip_domestics [tanwen] [ mood | disappointed ] Unfortunately in the old house I bought some brainiac put the furnace in the exposed, large, damp, earth, crawl space. You can imagine what sort of lovely smell wafts through my house every time the heat or the A/C goes on. After I moved in I had the HVAC converted into a dual-zone system, one for the upstairs & one for the downstairs, (with new insulated ductwork) but the funk remains. I had the ductworks cleaned shortly after I moved in. I also change my filters regularly. Short of having my entire crawl space sealed, is there anything that can be done? Can it be vented so it draws air from outside instead of from the crawl space? I don't really know how they draw air in the first place so I'm kind of lost. none are lost8 is foundare found | Are you lost?

[09/05/08] desireemiote [ mood | lethargic ] I actually went to bed a little after 11pm last night! And Keeley started standing with her head on the floor and looking between her feet. She even picked up her hands so she was actually kinda standing on her head. That started probably about wednesday. And yesterday she started standing and putting one foot forward before plopping down on her butt. Today she started standing up in the middle of the floor all by herself and taking a couple steps toward a toy on the floor or just nothing too. Before she would only take a couple of steps between me and tom and we had to encourage her a lot to get her to do it. Now she just does it because she wants to. My new computer is up and running. I have to transfer all my pictures from my old hard drive to my new one to free up space. I have 2 hard drives in this computer. One for extra storage and one(the old one from my other desktop) for immediate programs like combat arms and such that I use all the time. I need to backup my journal so if lj ever crashes like ujournal(the first online journal I had) I won't lose anything like I did with ujournal. This is just too important to lose. Before it was important to me but it was just stuff about boyfriends and high school. Now it's my kids accomplishments and milestones and making it through depression and just all kinds of stuff I can't stand to lose. I can't wait for the kids to go down for their nap... I'm so tired even though I slept pretty well. The kids woke up at 5am screamin and I had to go comfort them. I couldn't seem to comfort keeley so she had to cry herself to sleep. She did quiet down less than one hour later and I got to sleep pretty wel until 7:30am. It was a lot easier to get up then too because I had gotten so much more sleep than I have been getting recently. I better go occupy myself and the kids til naptime without the computer. ttyl none are lost0 is foundare found | Are you lost?

Rock'n'Roll!! [09/05/08] mw_scene [holyhelmet] none are lost1 is foundare found | Are you lost?

PeteWentz[dot]com Update [09/05/08] icecreamhdaches ( Video under the cut ) yo im late on this. and i cant even find the original show its from. but this thing is just bonkers. (source jensons mouth/brain). unrelated: ideas are coming together. far more strange then the ones have happened so far. were going to the vmas on sunday. dont really expect to win one. its been an off year for us and the other bands definitely all have pretty sweet videos. so were just excited to go and laugh at russells jokes and wear sunglasses in the front row like jack. (oh and didnt mean that to sound jerky or self depricating. i just think its important to acknowledge others work as well. in this case i think wed be completely fine- i think maybe we have another year still brewing in us. were just gonna go have fun at this one….) none are lost13 is foundare found | Are you lost?

(small) daily dose of BSG [09/05/08] frak_spoilers [woolly_socks] "I got a plan." "Oh, thank god! What is it?" "We die horribly, you go to hell, and I spend eternity in the arms of Baby Jesus." - Gunn and Welsey, Angel none are lost3 is foundare found | Are you lost?

storing my food processor and all of its doodads [09/04/08] hip_domestics [piperki] I got a KitchenAid food processor as a gift and it came with all these...things. Slicing disk, shredding disk, other related hoobajoobs. I can store the small work bowl inside the big work bowl attached to the base, but then I have these disks and extra blades and stuff--anyone have a good way to keep these all together? It has to go into a close or cupboard, it's too massive to leave out anywhere. I have it in its original box for now but I'm afraid it (and its sharp attachments) will get all banged up and dull if I don't figure out a better way. So, those of you who own and store them--suggestions? none are lost18 is foundare found | Are you lost?

King sheets solution and thanx! [09/04/08] hip_domestics [rhyme_writer] Thanx to everyone who answered my sos re: ironing king-sized sheets, I am now lying on flat, uncreased, clean and comfy sheets. I took the best of your answers and came up with the perfect protocol: Sheets only dried part way Ironing board next to my bed Fold flat sheet in half lengthwise so it fits on the board As it got close to the floor, flipped it around so ironed part was spread on the bed Finished ironing Made the bed Perfect! Thank you all for your help! I think I was definitely drying the sheets too long, and the rest was just practical application. Ta Da! none are lost0 is foundare found | Are you lost?

Saturday night, Louisville vs Nashville [09/04/08] mw_scene [lmharmon] Participate in the costume contest at half-time, and you could win free tickets to bouts! none are lost0 is foundare found | Are you lost?

Please Help Find A Missing Person in New York City [09/05/08] officialgaiman http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/09/please-help-find-missing-person-in-new.html posted by Olga Nunes Hello there! This is Holly. With dad's permission I'm posting a call for information. One of my classmates from Bryn Mawr has gone missing in New York City. These are excerpts from the statement currently released: _________ Hannah Emily Upp, a Bryn Mawr College graduate in 2007 and a current teacher of Spanish at Thurgood Marshall Academy in Harlem has gone missing in New York City. If anyone knows anything about where she is, please let Detective Perez at the 30th Precinct in New York City know. His number is (212) 690-8842. The last time anyone saw her was around 2pm on the afternoon of Friday, August 29th. According to her roommates she had been planning to go away for the weekend but intended to return on Saturday, perhaps Sunday at the latest. When they had neither seen nor heard from Hannah on Sunday afternoon, they began calling her but each time it went straight to voicemail. By Monday evening they were getting frantic and so they went into her room, where they discovered her keys, her phone, and her handbag containing her wallet. Her ATM card, her subway card, and her ID (right now just her passport) were all in there. When she didn't show up for work on Tuesday (her first day of teaching), and it became apparent that she had not gone on Friday either, the police decided it was time to file a Missing Persons Report. Everyone is desperately hoping that Hannah just got overwhelmed and took a few days off to escape, but the fact that all her stuff was found in the apartment is a mystery. If you have any information, again, please call the Detective. Thank you. _________ Fingers crossed Hannah's ok- but please do keep your eyes out. Thanks again! Holly Labels:  Hannah Emily Upp none are lost22 is foundare found | Are you lost?

[09/04/08] hip_domestics [lapsarianesque] Handy people, I need your help because I'm about to flip and throw this thing out the window. ( Ikea construction headache ) none are lost13 is foundare found | Are you lost?

Pete Ruins James Montgomery's Insides Forever [09/04/08] icecreamhdaches Pete Wentz Forever Ruins My Digestive Tract Published by James Montgomery on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 2:59 pm. If someone offered you $500 to possibly kill (or at least blind) yourself and permanently damage your internal organs, would you do it? What about if you were really bored, and that someone was Pete Wentz? Well, I know my answer: yes. This is because, yesterday, while we were taking a break from shooting the special VMA-edition of FNMTV (airing this Friday! 8 p.m.! Special appearances by Tokio Hotel and T.I.! WOOOO!), Wentz bet me $500 to eat a gigantic, gumball-sized ball of wasabi — then wash it down with 32 fluid ounces of really nasty Kombucha , a fermented drink that tasted a whole lot like malted vinegar. And I took him up on his wager. So I downed the wasabi (shooter style, like an oyster), and chugged the Kombucha. It felt like I had just swallowed a smoldering charcoal briquette, then doused it in gasoline. For about two hours, I was drenched in sweat, my head throbbed and I felt like I was going to puke my guts out. Then I felt like I was going to die. My stomach made unspeakable noises and produced even more unspeakable odors. Pete laughed at me a whole lot. But it was worth it. (Check out more photo evidence after the jump.) Because at the end of the day, his wife Ashlee Simpson came on set and gave me a knot of twenties that added up to $500 … I felt vindicated, and rich. Then I went back to my hotel and destroyed the bathroom. All-in-all, a pretty excellent way to kick off VMA week. And say what you will about Wentz, he is a complete sadist … But he definitely does not welch on a bet. source none are lost25 is foundare found | Are you lost?

In the Studio: Fall Out Boy Face Fame on New CD [09/04/08] icecreamhdaches In the Studio: Fall Out Boy Face Fame on New CD “This is the first time the paparazzi made it to the gate!” Pete Wentz exclaims, rushing into the L.A. studio where Fall Out Boy are working on the follow-up to 2007’s platinum Infinity on High. “We recorded in secret. The tabloids think I just go to Starbucks and hang out at clubs — they don’t know what I do for a job.” Working with Neal Avron — the primary producer of FOB’s last two records — the quartet made a decision to dial back the heavily multitracked sound of their last album. “With the Babyface collaborations, the R&B influence and vocal acrobatics, Infinity really opened up the lane,” Wentz says. “This time, we focused on making an ambitious record without giving the impression of making an ambitious record.” That proved challenging. “Making this record has been painful,” says singer Patrick Stump. “Pete and I fought more than we have in a long time. I threw something across the room over a major-to-minor progression.” The first single, “I Don’t Care,” rides a Gary Glitter-style stomp with a wry chorus: “I don’t care what you think, as long as it’s about me.” Another standout is a still-untitled power-pop cut fueled by a pingponging guitar riff. “Am I the only one that hears ELO?” Guitarist Joe Trohman asks as the song fades out. “Enuff Z’nuff’s been mentioned twice,” Stump adds, “and I have a neon peace sign.” The title of the album, Folie a Deux, is a psychiatric term that refers to psychosis shared between two people. “It’s like when your fans want you to be crazier, so you become crazier,” explains Wentz, who says the concept fits into the record’s theme, which loosely deals with the bassist-lyricist’s growing celebrity. With the release only two months away, FOB are still finalizing cameos — they are hoping to get Kanye West, Pharrell and Panic at the Disco — and nailing down their famously long song titles. Still, you can be sure that the disc will be ready for Election Day. “It’s going to be one of the biggest days of the year, if not the decade,” says Wentz. “Why not be a part of it?” [From Issue 1061 — September 18, 2008] source none are lost15 is foundare found | Are you lost?

DUH [09/04/08] stacerific Your Issue Profile: 80% Obama, 20% McCain When it comes to the issues, you agree with Obama on almost everything. Surprised? Probably not. You've had your eye on Obama for a while. In fact, you're likely already a strong Obama supporter. You know where your vote is going this November. Should You Vote for Obama or McCain? none are lost1 is foundare found | Are you lost?

Go Green PSA and Outtakes [09/04/08] icecreamhdaches ( Video under the cut ) Download: mp4 Thank you brokenclndstn for pointing this out! none are lost26 is foundare found | Are you lost?

Moths in pantry [09/04/08] hip_domestics [kittyblue] [ mood | aggravated ] I browsed the memories and tags to try and find an answer, but I'm not sure if the 'boll weevils' mentioned in the one entry that seemed to match my question was, in fact, the correct critter we have a problem with right now. (Google Image Search tells me it isn't.) I'm in Southern California, if that's any help - it's been a bit humid the last two weeks, and hot. Maybe the weather has something to do with it, but I'd rather not try and wait out a Mediterranean summer climate in hopes of relief from our pest problem. For the last week or two, we've had an infestation of small brown-grey moths in our pantry. At first we thought they'd just come in from outside at night, since we leave the back slider open to let cooler air in through the screen door.  They're no more than a centimeter long at their biggest, and even after pitching out a ton of dry food and vacuuming, they just keep coming back!  Mom mentioned she found small crawlies in our rice and flour today (stored in airtight plastic containers), and we've both noticed something rather like webbing in other packages. What are the best methods to get rid of them? Should I do the freezer-storage trick for dry goods mentioned in the boll weevil entry, or is there another method that would eliminate these pests? We've been vacuuming our cabinet and throwing away things for days now, and they just come back again. Sprays, natural remedies - anything goes; we have 3 small dogs but they can't get into the pantry cabinets so I'm not worried much about them if it's a harsher chemical approach. Any and all suggestions welcome! none are lost19 is foundare found | Are you lost?

I'M SORRY I'M STILL HOPELESSLY NOSTALGIC AND I KNOW IT. [09/04/08] ceylon_tae [ mood | nostalgic ] [ music | Sailor Moon - Kaze mo Sora mo Kitto ] We found out who our studio teachers (and where our sites for our semester project) were going to be today. I got the teacher with the most trees on their site, my first choice! Woo! Okay, that wasn't my only criteria for picking my teacher, but it was a big one. XD AND I DIDN'T WIND UP WITH MY LAST CHOICE, ANCA. She HATES me. I don't much like her attitude, either. So whew! No Anca. Thank God. So now that I know what's going down for the coming semester (except for IVCF small group Bible study), this is likely going to be my schedule, for whoever finds it useful/interesting: M: 8:30am-9:30 Environmental Technology II 9:30-10:30 Structures I -3 hour lunch break- 1:30pm-5:30 Studio with Mick Kennedy T: NOTHING! W: (Exactly like Monday) 8:30am-9:30 Environmental Technology II 9:30-10:30 Structures I -3 hour lunch break- 1:30pm-5:30 Studio Th: NOTHING! Until... 6:30pm-9:00 IVCF Large Group (Including bus-riding times. Now you know why I didn't go much last year - NO TIME!) F: (Also exactly like Monday) 8:30am-9:30 Environmental Technology II 9:30-10:30 Structures I -3 hour lunch break- 1:30pm-5:30 Studio And now I'm listening to this song that I've never heard the actual version of. I found this little MIDI (Remember MIDIs? Remember back when our computers couldn't hold thousands upon thousands of MP3s, and how we used MIDIs?) long ago on a MIDI site about a series that I liked very much at the time. But I slowly grew out of downloading MIDIs and started downloading MP3s from the series I liked (lol slippery slope piracy lol), and eventually it got to the point where I hadn't listened to any of my old MIDIs for years and years. Last March, though, I 'found' them again, if only for a day. And felt like I was going crazy. But I think I feel much better now. Now, I haven't been so wrapped up in classes that I forget I used to be in middle school and go on Neopets and download MIDIs. I've been sleeping. I've been eating at my own leisure. I haven't spent my every waking moment in studio. Funny, though, now that I went back into studio for the first time this year, I suddenly get this song stuck in my head. It was one of the first songs I transcribed and learned to play on my own. I wonder if I can still remember how to play it. This song I've never heard. ... Okay, that was terribly melodramatic. I might laugh my ass off if I ever actually heard the real version of this song. Like with what happened the German opening song. It sounded REALLY SWEET as a MIDI, especially one done so well as the one I found, but the actual sung version they used was... kind of bad. It crushed a few dreams when I heard it, yeah. D: ANYWAY, it's still DISGUSTINGLY humid, and all the paper around here is MUSH. I can't draw on MUSH. Arrrrgh. none are lost15 is foundare found | Are you lost?

(small) daily dose of BSG [09/04/08] frak_spoilers [prettypinkdork] -Do you think bugs feel pain? -If they don't I've wasted a lot of my life Milhouse and Bart, The Simpsons none are lost4 is foundare found | Are you lost?

navigation [ viewing | most recent entries ] [ go | earlier ]