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Monday, August 28, 2006

Stuff

Stuff that blows:

1. That 2 excruciating seconds of time when you’re crossing the street (that feels like a pain in the ass eternity), where you have a don’t walk signal in every direction because asshole drivers run red lights sometimes and the traffic people have determined that stealing 2 extra seconds from your life is a good way to ensure that you make it to see next Christmas. Fuck Christmas.
2. Getting charged 3 times for one bill, and having it automatically withdrawn from your checking account (two unauthorized extra times) the month that your rent goes up.
3. Walking through the court house with a wedgie at 9am when everyone is sitting on the benches that line the main hall, knowing you have to leave the underwear in your ass because social law states that its better to display an uncomfortable visible wedgie than to be caught removing it with your fingers.
4. When a court clerk tells you to do something, and you copiously write it down in front of her, then do it exactly the way she said to (thats why you wrote it down), yet 6 months later, she tells you that’s not the way you were supposed to do it, and you have to start all over again.
5. The feeling of my body shutting down after 5 miles of running a 6 mile course when simultaneously my eyes begin to water, I lose the ability to salivate altogether and I nearly shit myself.
6. Finding out that the extended warranty for your laptop (that cost you one billion dollars but made you feel like you could take an actual shit on your keyboard and have no worries at all), doesn't cover "accidental damage" such as water damage. WFT is the warranty for again???




Stuff that rules:

1. House nachos at Reade Street.
2. Me getting to go to the VMAs on Thursday (third time now).
3. Sitting in an empty random dive bar on Sunday night in Manhattan with my Dad, and hearing Faithfull come on the juke box when its in shuffle mode!
4. Realizing that the above noted juke box has all of Yield, Rearview Mirror, and Ten
5. My Halloween costume, which you will have to come see for yourself at my apartment on Saturday, October 28th.
6. Short fat little bull dogs that wiggle their fat little fannies from side to side when they walk.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

2006 MTV Video Music Awards

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This year on August 31, at 8PM eastern time, the VMAs will make their way back home to New York City's Radio City Music Hall, where they belong, and I for one, hope to be in attendance (fingers crossed)!!!

Its not that far fetched given the fact that I managed to make it into the 2003 VMAs (the last one to be in NYC) and also to the 2004 show in Miami.

Check MTV.com for nominees and to vote for the viewer's choice award.

Please note, that my most favorite band in the world, Pearl Jam, has been nominated for best special effects in a music video, for "Life Wasted"!

Monday, August 14, 2006

Celebrity Look Alike Poll

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I have recently been told that I look like each of the celebrities below, and although I don't think I look like ANY of them, I was curious to see what everyone else thought. I know I'm probably asking for trouble, but I have a sense of humor, and this could be fun. Go ahead, be HONEST!

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UPDATE: The blogpoll I had in here sucks and keeps getting corrupted on me, so the results were something like this
Kate: 30%
Katherine: 40%
Pat: 10%
Sandy: 20%


Feel free to leave comments with your votes- Im done with the freaking blog poll html drama- Im not that smart

Talia's Song Pic-o-the-week!

I love love love this band, as of late- the new band of singer/guitarist Tom DeLong from Blink 182! The voice is familiar but the lyrics and music are fresh.

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The Adventure
By: Angels & Airwaves
The Adventure I wanna have the same last dream again,
the one where I wake up and I'm alive.
Just as the four walls close me within,
my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight.
I'm the first to know,
my dearest friends,
even if your hope has burned with time,
anything that's dead shall be re-grown,
and your vicious pain, your warning sign,
you will be fine.

Hey, oh, here I am,
and here we go, life's waiting to begin.

Any type of love - it will be shown,
like every single tree reach for the sky.
If you're gonna fall,I'll let you know,
that I will pick you up
like you for I,
I felt this thing,
I can't replace.
Where everyone was working for this goal.
Where all the children left without a trace,
only to come back, as pure as gold,
To recite this all.

Hey, oh, here I am,
and here we go, life's waiting to begin.
Tonight,
hey, oh, here I am,
and here we go, life's waiting to begin.
Tonight,
hey, oh, here I am,
and here we go, life's waiting to begin.

I cannot live, I can't breathe
unless you do this with me
I cannot live, I can't breathe
unless you do this with me
I cannot live, I can't breathe
unless you do this with me
I cannot live, I can't breathe
unless you do this with me
I cannot live, I can't breathe
unless you do this with me
I cannot live, I can't breathe
unless you do this with me

Hey, oh, here I am (do this with me),
and here we go, life's waiting to begin (do this with me).
Hey, oh, here I am (do this with me).
And here we go, life's waiting to begin,
life's waiting to begin.

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Holla for Lolla 2006!!















Another amazing weekend with awesome music and even more great friends! This past weekend I had the pleasure of traveling to Chicago to attend Lollapalooza 2006. The schedule was jam packed with tons of bands that I really wanted to see, and I tried my hardest to squeeze them all in, but geography and beer made my printed and highlighted schedule impractical, though I gave it a valiant effort.

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The first band that I thoroughly enjoyed was Editors on Friday. They certainly lived up to my expectations!

































On the setlist were Munich, Bullets, All Sparks, and Fingers in the Factories....such a good show! Also on Friday we caught Iron & Wine (Trapeze swinger dedicated to Justin D'Elia), Violent Femmes (still freaking badass after all these years & dedicated to my lovely Miss Alethea), Raconteurs (who covered Gnarls Barkley's Crazy) and Death Cab for Cutie (both only luke warm for me).
















After Iron and Wine, I was a little drunk and fell asleep for a while, MISSING Mates of State :( which was a total bummer.

On Saturday, I woke up early and left for the park all by my lonesome so I would catch Nada Surf. Though they played a good show, I was disappointed that they didn't play Do it Again, but DID play Popular. Rumor has it that there will be a top secret Nada Surf show in NYC next month. If I can, I'll go so I can finally hear Do it Again live...they wouldn't dare leave me hanging twice!

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Also on the ticket for Saturday was Oh No! Oh My!, Coheed and Cambria, Wolfmother (awesome), Gnarls Barkley (Crazy was played at the end of course, making me completely miss Sonic Youth on the other end of the park), The Smoking Popes, Flaming Lips (Yoshimi was in full effect), and we closed the night out with a very pumped up performance by Kanye West who had to compete for the audience's cheers with a rake that someone had smuggled inside "Show the rake! Show the rake!"

Saturday night I met up with some Chicago Pearl Jam friends at Smoke Daddy's then headed to Big City Tap (aka Big Shitty Tap) to meet up with Trenton alumni. Good times and many drinks were had by all!

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By Sunday my body was hating me a little from all of the rockstar/ heat stricken behavior so Ben Kweller was a nice way to start the day but by the time Jared Leto got on stage with his band 30 Seconds to Mars, I was feeling just fine! I thoroughly enjoyed their performance which included Mr. Hottie Leto climbing to the very top of the stage amid cheers from the audience, and then tossing 2 boxes of popcicles into the outstretched hands of fans....if I had only been a few inches taller I would have gotten one, but the guy next to me caught them and gave them to his friends without sharing with me :(

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We continued the day by seeing The Shins and Wilco (aka elevator music) with an unfortunate case of bad sound, then Blues Travelor (who always deliver) and finally Red Hot Chili Peppers, who although they played a great rock-out show, did NOT play under the bridge. All in all, it was a fabulous display of music all weekend, and I couldn't have had a better time (unless Pearl Jam had been playing of course).

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Sarah and I enjoying Blues Travelor

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Me ending up Lollapalooza 2006 with a little guitar solo of my own! Thank you everyone who shared it with me....I expect more photos later, so if there are any good ones, you know you'll be seeing them!

HOLLA FOR LOLLA- 2006

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Jenna immortalized.....again!

Last summer, the first book I read out of law school and post bar exam was:
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, the autobiography of porn star, Jenna Jamesen


















Given my brief experience in the porn industry, having done trademark work for the legal department at Penthouse Magazine, I became fascinated with the adult entertainment business.
Like most biographies, I found this book to be quite an interesting read, while I even developed respect and admiration for the beautiful woman who was the subject. If you want to know more about this book, then go ahead and read it for yourself. The biggest perk was the reaction I got from public bystanders when I read the book (eye-catching title) on the subway or at a park.

Anyway, my point is that I actually really like Jenna Jamesen now, and I was amused to find out this afternoon that Jenna Jamesen has been the first porn star to be immortalized in wax by Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. As usual, I think they did a great job capturing her likness, don't you?

















I don't care how much of a prude you are, you have to admit that the girl is gorgeous! Jenna loves Rocco, isn't exactly Oscar material, but the leading lady is easy on the eyes, and that's all Im gonna say.

I'm off to Chicago for the weekend....be back on Tuesday with a full Lollapalooza report for all you suckers who will be working while I am playing as usual........ALSO, just because you are amongst the 5 jillion college students and wannabes attending DMB and Randall's Island this weekend, doesn't mean you are having fun! DMB never had much of a lasting appeal for me.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006



Why laptops are like men…

Early this morning around 2:45, my cell phone rang and I, being sound asleep 1 second earlier, reached over groggily to make the horrible noise stop, and accidentally knocked a glass of water from my nightstand onto my open laptop on the floor next to my bed!

I cursed the rogue who dared to call me at 2:45 AM on a Tuesday morning, and immediately shot out of bed to perform damage control. I dried off the keyboard and the rest of the laptop as best as I could, then hopped on Sarah’s computer to search for some advice from the marvelous interweb (Sarah happened to be awake because she was fighting her own middle of the night battle against a giant cockroach, throwing books, and eventually retreating from her own room into Steph’s for the night).

As per the suggestions I found on the internet, I removed the battery to my wet machine, gently tilted it to the side, unplugged all cords, and said a little prayer. As I laid back in bed, a funny thought crept into my head: Laptops are alot like men in the disastrous effect that one drunken phone call in the middle of the night can have! Against my conscious wishes, this got me thinking that there were a lot more similarities between laptops and men:

1. You’d be a fool to not always have a backup for either one in case they fail you.

2. If the one that belongs to YOU catches a nasty virus, you are screwed!

3. Although its common knowledge that either one can, and undoubtedly will crap out on you at any time, you tend to become hopelessly dependant upon them so that when they do crash and burn, you’re rendered non-functional for days, maybe months.

4. There are a lot of fancy features you can add to them which are guaranteed make your life more efficient or temporarily more exciting, but the things you really NEED are never covered by the warranty.

5. Even when you get a new one, you tend to keep your old one around, even if you never look at it or use it, because you’re not willing to part with all the memory that’s burned inside.