  You know its summer when you’re so bored that you seriously contemplate burning your 7th grade yearbook in the bathtub. Robin is my favorite person in the world, but she is also the laziest biotch on the planet. She CLAIMS to have a cold, but do I care? No. I need to get high and play in public fountains goddamit! Moreover, I need to show her this website.
It will blow your mind! Seriously, try it. You will not be disappointed. Wonderful musical orgasm was had last night, thank you very much VH1. Paul Simon and John Mayer performed. There was entirely too much interviewing going on for my likes me.
However, they showed some really great pictures from each of their youths, and I had fun with that. Paul was talking about how he tried to look like Elvis as a teenage “just as much as a Jewish teen can look like Presley”. John then spoke of a Michael J. Fox phase, mulletish hair and all. The whole episode of In Tune was like porn* for me. (*I use the words ‘porn’ and ‘whore’ as metaphors too much.
This makes for a very awkward situation when your mother’s friends hear you talk about how you are a “total music whore”. Ditto when you buy a replacement copy of The Royal Tenebaums soundtrack and the cashier hears you rave about how “the arrangement of songs in like porn for me”. ) It all kind of reminded me of my Christian Ricci phase. When you grow up a pale, black-haired girl here is a hint; do not let your mother braid you hair. Yes, I had the unfortunate forced braiding for about five straight years of my childhood. And without fail, children who utter the following to me on a near daily basis, “You look like that girl from The Adams Family.” And I did.
So I became obsessed with Miss. Ricci. Now and Then was probably my favorite. Somehow my mother retrieved her mailing address, and I wrote a very involved letter about how we should be in a movie together. I had almost forgotten about the letter until I got her response six months later. It was just a signed photo, but it was a lovely gesture.
Affectionately… Anna P.S: This Side of Paradise is amazing! 
