I just wanted to enter the Mad Men Casting Call...

Well, don't wait until the last day to enter an extremely popular contest. This is heartbreaking. The AMC server is down. I took a bazillion photos (vanity project, yes, I know) and now I can't enter. Because the server is down. The server has been down for 10 hours. Will they accept late entries? Will I get to play Joan Holloway's sister? I guess not...here's one I was going to submit.

Sob. Seriously. This might have ruined my whole week.

A Visit to the Oak Lawn Library

Blog, I'm sorry that I've neglected you. I've moved to a new gay-borhood, and haven't had the means to set up/steal WiFi. Shocking, I know. Nonetheless, felt the need to discuss books I am currently reading:

Towelhead by Alicia Erian
I had no idea what to expect. I saw the film preview and thought, Ummm don't really care. Love Aaron Eckhart, but don't really care. But I started reading it and couldn't put it down. The author did an amazing job capturing the voice of a thirteen-year-old girl--naive but quite intelligent. An uncomfortable coming-of-age novel.

Oh The Glory of it All by Sean Wilsey
I could NOT put this book down. Self-indulgent, highly detailed, full of delicious tidbits about San Francisco society and how effed up wealthy people can be...I loved it! I kind of wish I had been sent to the same "behavioral correcting" school in Italy, too. Not fair.

Watched a montage of Busby Berkeley's dance routines from his 1930s films. Every time I watch this man's work I am blown away. Even by today's standards they are breathtaking, let alone the fact that he did them as film was still a new medium. Talkie films had only come out ten years ago! Buzz is one of my idols. I would kill to be one of the girls he zooms in on, flashing my pearly whites as I come out of the water in a gold lamé bathing suit. Ah, truly the epitome of Hollywood's Golden Age.