Band… Or Cult ?!?! DUN DUN DUNNN !!!
30 05 2009Comments : Leave a Comment »
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I Am The Kitteh. The Hand is Life.
21 05 2009
Seriously
STRESSED OUT.
Look at me !
I look like I have jaundice !!!
dfkjsdkfhjkds !!!

But what does not kill us makes us stronger.
Kanye said it & he’s really confident so I believe him.
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Signs.
14 02 2009[Author's note: This was originally posted on Valentine's day and then a number of technical issues- due to my own impatience and oversights- with the video were brought to my attention and so now, in the wee hours of the fifteenth I give you yesterday's post with the revised vid. Enjoy. Love, Marisss]
So, it’s Valentine’s Day. I don’t really care. I kinda got over it when the only person who gave me a Valentine after you were forced to give everyone Valentines in elementary school was a mentally disabled girl in seventh grade. The only person to ever send me flowers has been my father. I think I had a Valentine’s Day once that was kinda fun but I mean, pizza and porn isn’t really anything to clamor for after high school. I’m not butt hurt or anything. It’s just something I’ve come to accept.
This year there were no expectations but some mild hopes that were inevitably dashed. And since these mild hopes were dashed, I’ve been met with the same stupid catch phrase from everyone: “he just wasn’t that into you.” WELL THANKS. OBVIOUSLY. And then every day I would be at the stop light on my way to work and there was this huge billboard for He’s Just Not That Into You. It’s like everywhere I go someone or something is telling me “he’s just not that into you”. Well, you know who is into me? ME. I’M INTO ME. So now I’m doing lots of things that are good for me and just as I started doing that, the billboard changed.
And then Rebekah came over and we made a vid about it.
So, that is that.
& this is the billboard I was speaking of:

It says, “Every day is a turning point.” and on the side is where it says “Start a change reaction.”
Very enlightening.
I’m going to reference it for insightful conversations over dinner this evening… with my dad.
(He better have fucking got me flowers.)
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NYE Aftermath.
31 01 2009As most of you guys noticed, there was a lack of correspondents in the New Year’s Eve videos.
For anyone who attended the event, there is no explanation needed.
For everyone who was not there, well, I could see how one would be confused and curious as to where my trusty counterpart, Rebekah Brandes, was.
Well, in trying to construct cohesive creations, I chose to leave the footage of Rebekah out.
For a number of reasons.
At any rate, Rebekah noticed her lack of screen time as well and confronted me about it this week.
[awwwwwwwwkwaaaaaard]
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NYE Special: “Relationships Are Prevalent”.
13 01 2009You know what’s really annoying?
When everyone in the world is in love except you.
Another NYE sans midnight kiss.
More embarrassing than being without a valentine- I couldn’t even get a random make-out.
Whatever.
When my blog is bigger than your blog, we’ll see who’s begging who to make-out.
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Thief Vision NYE ’09 (Part One).
12 01 2009On New Year’s, Rebekah & myself took it off the macbook for the first time and went into downtown for Thief Clothing & Amerikan Blackheart’s loft party.
It is what it is (inflection: shrugging).
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Tangents & The Times: Gift Exchanges (Merry Xmas).
25 12 2008
Yeah… I guess I am kind of an asshole.
Oh, well.
I hope you bamboozle a Bob Dylan DVD set for yourself this holiday too.
YOU DESERVE IT !
Cordially with little to no shame & lots of love,
marissss<3
(every day i’m hustlin’ hustlin’…)
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T&tT Tid-Bits Promo Vids: Installment Three (Happy Hanukkah!)
21 12 2008Back in September, you might recall I wrote this blog documenting my Jew-crushes. Upon reading, Rebekah decided to give me “Jew Lessons”. The episode was never seen… until now.
I thought to myself, “What a better day than the first day of Hanukkah to release this T&tT Tid-Bit?”
There isn’t a better day !!!
So, happy Hanukkah to all my little Hebrew pals.
Well, obviously that was the Cliff notes version of my “Jew Lesson”.
But it worked out pretty well for me.
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T&tT Tid-Bits Promo Vids: Installment Two (“Lip Gloss or Bulimia?”)
20 12 2008Comments : Leave a Comment »
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T&tT Tid-Bits Promo Videos: Installment One (“Caffeine”)
19 12 2008“T&tT Tid-Bits Vids” is basically a collection of scenes that got left on the chopping block while recording Tangents & The Times with correspondent Rebekah Brandes. And being the narcissist I am as well as reviewing the ever-climbing blog stats (anything tagged with ‘Rebekah Brandes’ gets about as much traffic as anything tagged with ‘jizz’ [which is saying a lot because I mean, a shit ton of people love searching for jizz]), I have decided to release these little gems.
I shall be releasing them up until Thursday, which is the day I get free shit- I don’t know what you do that day. But yeah, here is some of the free shit I’m giving out this season.
Check out the rest of our low quality, high comedy (heh heh heh) vids.
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Tangents & The Times: Episode Number Five.
18 12 2008It isn’t easy being a young, inspired person pursuing dreams & goals in the minefield that is the entertainment industry. Sure, we look like we’re just floating along but really we have the same hopes & fears as you do- getting old, successfully integrating components of your personal brand, not getting a role as fulfilling or as relevant to independent culture as Juno, creating the next Seinfeld. I mean, we’re talking our careers here.
I don’t take myself seriously.
I TAKE WHAT I DO SERIOUSLY.
(that’s how my acting teacher said it in class and it had a serious impact on me. I hope the caps & bolds were able to effectively express the weight of these words.)
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Chinese Children & Assless Chaps
12 11 2008Comments : 2 Comments »
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Polanski & The Shapeshifters
28 09 2008So, while walking by the New Beverly Cinema on Thursday, I saw that they were screening a Romanski double bill. The first was Repulsion and the second was The Tragedy of Macbeth and I really, really wanted to go see Repulsion. Learning that the film was only playing that night, I scrambled to find someone to attend with me only to be met with cynicism, lies, ignorance and general resistance for a number of reasons- the main one being that everyone is under the impression that Polanski is a child pornographer and rapist.
Well, in my personal opinion, neither are true. First of all, the supposed pornographic pictures were for French Vogue. Europe has always been much more lenient and appreciative of nudity as a part of art. Granted, I don’t think it was cool the girl was thirteen but that’s accepted there. Who shouldn’t have accepted this was the mother- who had been a part of Polanski’s circle and knew he had a thing for younger women and if in her right mind should not have let her teenage daughter go hang out and take pictures alone at Jack Nicholson’s pad with this dude. As for the rape, well, I don’t think he “raped” her but also do not agree with men boning down with seventh graders.
I suggest everyone check out this amazing documentary, Polanski: Wanted & Desired. It is an incredibly informational, entertaining and all around well executed documentary.
The point being, no one would go see Polanski films with me.
I love Roman Polanski so this was disconcerting to me and subsequently found it imperative to know what my bff, T&tT correspondent Rebekah Brandes, thought on the subject.
If you missed her initial shapeshifter tangent, check it out here: A Look At David Icke.
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T&tT Correspondent Rebekah Brandes on Greek.
24 09 2008Due to extenuating circumstances, I had to visit the land of my origin, the 909 (dun dun DUUUUNNNN), instead of being able to go over to Rebekah’s house to watch her debut performance on ABC Family’s Greek.
I was going to send her flowers or maybe one of those edible arrangements, but I have thirty-two cents to my name right now. So, I decided to make her something everlastingly cheap to show my undying advocation of her acting career.
Happy Tv Time Beks!
I<3u like soOoOoo much BaBayGuUrRlLlL <3
ROFLMYAO !!!!!!!!! 823143143 !!!!!!!! iLu !!!
(pager codes are essential when acting like a fourteen year old.)
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A Look At David Icke with T&tT Correspondent, Rebekah Brandes
19 09 2008Comments : 5 Comments »
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