everything looks different in the light

I wish everyone was as lucky as I. The drive to my house in DE is the perfect length for the perfect solo sing-at-the-top-of-your-lungs road trip. The best thing anyone can do when in the need to soul search is put the Ipod in shuffle and sing along with everything. All anyone needs to know is that I sang (on key and everything) the following in full succession without skipping:

Spoon "Someone Something",
Her Space Holiday "Sleepy Tigers",
Less Than Jake "The Science of Selling Yourself Short",
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Tick",
Yo La Tengo "Mr. Tough",
Hello Goodbye "Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn",
Prince "Little Red Corvette",
Jamie Lidell "You Got Me Up".

My name is Reb and now you know all that needs to be known. (thank you last.fm for an accurate playlist)

I plan to write for Buy or Don't Buy about my unacceptable love for Prince.

After the whirlwind of the past few months, it's nice to finally come home for the Thanksgiving holiday and remember what is most important in life: books, music, a sweet turntable buried underneath more books, and pumpkin pie. Whenever I move back to LI for school, I have to leave what's most precious behind: the lovely turntable/stereo/speakers I've acquired (for free) the past few years and my astronomical collection of books.

I also found this beauty in my closet. At the end of my senior year of high school, my friend Liz and I put together "Rock the World" a benefit show with all of our friends' bands to raise money for environmental charities. It was a success - we raised about $1,000. It's now an annual event at our high school and gets larger with every year. It still stands as one of my proudest accomplishments - basically because I brought my passions together with what I was good at.

I got an internship with Rubenstein to work with them on the Tribeca Film Festival. I've been looking forward to it for over a year and it's a step in the right direction. I would rather do public relations work for cultural institutions and events than anything else. One of my biggest fears is as I am evolving into a professional and starting a career, I'll lose the artistic, creative, sub-culture bohemian self. Is it a matter of being corporate 9 to 5 and then in after hours listen to records and long for "the better days" of artistic revolutions and revelations?

I've been watching a lot of Andy Warhol specials and documentaries. He understood marketing, branding, and public relations far more than anyone believes.

you moved to montreal to be closer to france

I opened a letter from my mom that included the insurance card for the car (not so fun).

However, she did send a card with a thoughtful note including leaves from our backyard.

I started crying and hyperventilating slightly.  

Odd reaction, no?

As much as I love being in NY, it's unbelievable how homesick I get for my house and my family.

Thanksgiving couldn't have come at a better time.

Tonight I went to Witches' Brew with Pamela.  They had a sign saying they were hiring - I was asked such important questions such as "how long can you stand on your hands?" (not long, I'm tall and have little upper body strength) and "how long can you hold your breath underwater?" (i don't swim, i like to float).  I wrote my previous experience on a brown paper bag.  

Also picked up a copy of New York Twist Magazine.  Very excited to read it - there's an interview with Portugal the Man!  If anyone has been keeping up with my playlists from WRHU, I play them too often.

i can't keep quiet any longer

(positive note: I was searching for an image of an angry little girl after writing this rant of an entry and I discovered "Angry Little Girls" cartoons by Lela Lee.  Good does come out of ranting!)

Jim Cameron of Cameron Communications, Inc. spoke tonight at Hofstra in the Cultural Center theater to a bored, apathetic crowd of PR students.  I am embarrassed on how barely anyone answered questions nor gave input.  Cameron himself kept commenting about how he "was afraid for the next generation" and how we students "need to know what's going on in America". 

Tonight just capped off another cycle of my love/hate relationship with PR.   Though I did thank Cameron afterwards for giving his time to us, the information he provided only reinforced what I already learned in Chapter 6 of my media relations textbook.  I must say it is not Cameron's fault that I had a headache, it was the end of a long day, and earlier I had an awkward verbal discourse with a fellow PR student.

I don't find PR courses difficult; courses in your major shouldn't be if it is something you are meant to do.  It blows my mind how PR majors try to pass by with C's in PR 100.  It blows my mind how there are 75 members of Hofstra's Chapter of PRSSA and maybe 20 who are actively involved in committees.  

All the basics of PR I learned from my mother: always put on an optimistic air, be aproachable and courteous, watch your grammar, follow up and call back right away, keep that hair out of your eyes.  

 By holding on to your true sense of self - that inner child that won't go away - is what sets you apart from the masses.  Therefore, my true self is a middle child who feels they never get enough attention and constantly worries about what others think; a self-proclaimed creative nerd who would like everyone to be her best friend; who though she looks great in corporate wear rather wear the forbidden ripped band shirt and scraggly hair.  I have been genetically molded to be a PR person - always seeking attention, wanting to be in the know, hiding in order to keep up appearances.  

I will be really pissed if after going through the painful experience of high school, having to enter another sort of popularity contest. 

I might be incredibly delusional to "how the real world works" and I may get backlash for not wanting to join the official club of bubbly clueless pr girls who just want another sorority (there are males in the pr industry after all, let alone in our major).  

 I am tired of apathy overall, and the nasty competitive nature of the PR major at Hofstra.  To give some credit, it may just be a bad year.  However, I have to admit that I need reaffirmations that this is where I belong.  

I also made a snarky comment to Jim Cameron during the lecture.  I am a terrible person.  

but at least I can find interesting cartoons. 

the most interesting part of the weekend lasted 45 minutes

Before my train back to LI on Friday I was able to duck into the MOMA for a bit. I walked across two exhibitions: Looking at Music and Here is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art. Looking At Music looks back at the 1960's and 70's and the connection between music, art, media, and technology. In other words, a reason to show music videos of The Beatles and David Bowie.

Here is Every was an exhibition created out of the MOMA''s personal collection (i.e. economy is terrible = art and museums have to suffer for it). A majority of the works were obviously selected due to how groundbreaking it was when it first appeared. In other words...random. There was a video of a deer and a wolf together...chasing one another?...

I was interested in one work that consisted of hundreds of framed photographs of body parts - all body parts. It took forever to take this picture since many people could not help but stare.

I also get a kick out of how certain art is created in the intention to provide great meaning - yet is interpreted for practical uses. I speak of the girl using the mirror....for a mirror and the little girl that stood by a wooden sculpture and saw a playground.

I also love/hate my habit of taking Myspace inspired photos. Maybe it's due to a need to expose my narcissism.

A girl's needs just don't agree

i literally woke up from a dream this morning about a buttered chocolate chip muffin. of course i satisfied my dream after French this morning. does this happen to other people?

my sad little LG of two years officially failed me yesterday. it only works when it's charger is plugged in, therefore defeating the purpose of a cellular phone. though I have been planning on buying a blackberry, now is not the time - i need to save for Venice and money has been especially tight this semester. Also, I know nothing about cell phones and need any one's recommendations. I have Verizon Wireless and have been happy with it, therefore the Iphone, Google phone, or Sidekick is not going to work out.

I usually get random friend requests on Facebook. As long as they go to my school and we have similar friends, I honestly see no harm. This morning I was "friended" by this grad student who has a little project called New York Twist Magazine - "dedicated to the lovers of multimedia art" (that's me that's me!) The Myspace itself didn't say too much about the content of the magazine, but evidently issues are available around the area. When I pick up a new phone tomorrow at the Verizon Wireless store in Roosevelt, I'll stop by FYE to pick up a copy.

There is a great article on the front page of the New York Times about how Obama is adapting to his new life as President-elect, from not being able to visit his bartender Zariff to having a date with Michelle at Chicago's Spiaggia accompanied by 30 secret service agents. I can't help but think of the comparisons to Kennedy when I read articles about Obama's life. Idk if it will extend to the extreme voyeurism that most celebrities experience today.

I'm going in for another interview in the city with Joe Carozza of Rogers & Cowan, an alum of Hofstra. It's odd - I looked at a picture of him and I recall seeing him around campus my freshmen year. Professor Frisina said to give him a hug for her - but he may be put off by that first impression, who knows. Hopefully today will go well (i.e. make the train on time and not have to pay for a taxi).

I'm going to try to run into the MOMA for their free Target night in order to see some van Gogh afterwards. can't stay long - I need to get back to LI tonight to work at an event at LICM.

I found The Cribs' Men's Needs (Remixes) at WRHU, which has three different versions of "Men's Needs", which is awful since I will listen to those three versions in succession, constantly over and over again.

(just filled out survey about improvements on the Computer Labs at Hofstra. pat on the back for taking time out to do a good deed)

Fear and Convenience

TONIGHT'S AIRWAVE PLAYLIST

artist	song	album	C/A/R
Hot Lava	Blue Dragon	Lavology	A
Miniature Tigers	The Wolf	Tell It to the Volcano	C
Peachcake	Did I Just Do That, Or Was It Jim Carey?	What Year Will You Have the World?	C
Yelle	JeVeux Te Voir	Pop Up	A
Thao	Beat (Health, Life, and Fire)	We Brave Bee Stings and All	A
TV On the Radio	DLZ	Dear Science	c
The Size Queens	Can A Woman	Magic Dollar Shoppe	C
VHS or BETA	She Says	Bring on the Comets	A
Starf*cker	Myke Ptyson	Starf*cker	C
Moving Units	Pink Thoughts	Hexes for Exes	A
Foals	Cassius	Antidotes	A
The Dirty Hearts	Record Store	Pigs	A
Her Space Holiday	The New Kid Revival	XOXO Panda and the New Kid Revival	C
Pale Young Gentleman	This Is A Place?	Black Forest (Tra La La)	C
Mad Gregs	White Out	Big Nun	C
Bat For Lashes	What's A Girl To Do?	Fur and Gold	A
Land of Talk	Young Bridge	Some Are Lakes	C
A Block of Yellow	You Shook My Head	Do I Do	C
Boy Kill Boy	Back Again	Civilian	A
Chop Chop	I Met You At A Space Station Bar	Screens	C
Caw! Caw!	Escape the Read Giant	Wait Outside EP	C
Amanda Palmer	Runs In the Family	Who Killed Amanda Palmer?	C
Women	Shaking Hand	Women	C
Ladyhawke	Danny and Jenny	Paris Is Burning EP	C
Boy Eats Drum Machine	Planets + Stars	Booomboxxx	C
Japanese Motors	Coors Light	Japanese Motors	C
State Shirt	This Island	This Old Shirt	C
French Miami	Science Fiction	French Miami	C
Larytta	Ya-Ya-Ya	Difficult Fun	C
Black Kids	I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You	American Teen Soundtrack	A

typical angst filled entry - please ignore if you take me seriously

If you ever see me wearing this outfit, it could mean one or all of these things:

1. I had three hours of sleep the night before
2. I had/have a french test that morning
3. I am NOT in a good mood

Frankly, I have been procrastinating everything important this entire semester. The following is the typical cliche rant of all college students. Wah wah I have too much work blah I need to sleep wah I can never catch up meh I would be perfectly happy instead to live in a box and be a starving artist (maybe not so typical).

This is what my desk looks like after TWO days of classes:

1. 

It's getting ridiculous. On the bright side, I was asked out on a date (kind of) online. Is this where social media/dating is going? As you can obviously tell from the evidence above, I don't get out much - at least during the week.

Man, I always have great plans to write a ranting and raving entry, but then when I finally get home and get online, the effort is too much. I'll make it up to you, I promise.