7Confessions Is On a Break

I don’t know if anyone noticed but 7Confessions has been like a desert these past couple of weeks. There is a pretty good reason for it!
Thanks to those of you who cared and sent me nice heartwarming emails cause that makes me feel like I'm doing something right… makes me not want to give up blogging.
So I have been super busy and going nuts with my Master’s Degree in Genetics (I have brains… that’s shocking I know!). My dissertation is almost complete (some graphs are still killing me)… keep your fingers crossed for me. On my free time I am a very proud Backseat Girl and I'm trying to have a life :) which leaves me little time for 7Confessions!
I promise I’ll keep doing a couple of updates a week whenever I can. While I'm out, visit some of my favorite celebrity gossip blogs:

TEN Gossip Backseat Cuddler
CelebMonkey Bumpshack
Gravy&Biscuits Pink Meat Company (NSFW site)
Anything Hollywood Knocked Up Celebs

it's called a macguffin!

I forget who I was talking to about this the other day, but we were talking about a plot device in movies (or tv shows or any story) where the whole storyline revolves around this one object -- but the actual object is not significant to the story (like the briefcase in pulp fiction).

a couple days later I was reading wikipedia about peter lorre (whom I adore) and then I read the wikipedia for the maltese falcon (b/c I had forgotten how it ends) and lookey tharr, it says the maltese falcon is a macguffin, or a "plot device that motivates the characters or advances the story, but the details of which are of little or no importance otherwise" !!

and of course, like all things that are sweet, hitchcock popularized both the term and the technique. below are some examples of a macguffin

maltese falcon in the maltese falcon (duh)

briefcase in pulp fiction

allspark in transformers

anything in an indiana jones movie!

any more that you can think of??

hair everywhere

. . . I seemed to have noticed a hair-trend and I like it!!! thank you my cousin vinny

marisa tomei, circa 1992

rihanna, today

rachel mcadams, today (hers is kinda hard to see, but it's there)

more more more!

you smell!

mr. fantasy has told me before that he thinks i have a really sensitive sense of smell. I always notice little smells no one else notices (usually farts) and people's/ houses' individual smells. unicorn jones and i have even said before that we don't think a relationship will work out if the two individuals aren't indo each other's scent/ pheromones. Body Odor aside, I think it's really nice when people have a signature scent that they always wear. I am currently looking for a new smell, but here are some of the fragrances i have worn and how i feel about them:

Clinique Happy: this was the first 'fancy' perfume i ever wore (that means i'm not counting body spray that smells like an ice pop from the body shop). I wore it for 3 years i think, maybe even 4. It's really youthful and fun, citrusy i suppose. i even bought my then boyfriend the men's version.... i was 15, i was lame.

Chanel Chance: this was when i was in college and wanted to be more sophisticated. I was single, too. Smells of jasmine, a bit seductive.

Henri Bendel: I traded my sister something for this. Her rich boyfriend gave it to her, and it smells amazing, mostly of orange blossoms. Then i found out they sell it at bath & body works. I still like it a lot though.

L'eau d'Issey: Mr. Fantasy picked this out for me. I really liked it. It was light and refreshing, and a bit different than what i would normally pick for myself. Then airport security took it from me.

Penhaligons Elizabethan Rose: mr. fantasy's dad bought this for me, it's from a really posh really old english perfume house. it smells exactly like a rose, and i like it but sometimes i feel bored.

i am on the look out for a new scent. i'm going to the store tomorrow to try and get some samples from the sales ladies to take home. I have my eye on Acqua di Parma Iris

americana! (cont.)

rodeos!!!! in cowtown, nj!

americana!

for some reason lately I have been super into americana. the good stuff -- basically, anything that invokes a sort of nostalgia for me, even if I can't place why -- not the incredible myriad of bad stuff. I know america sucks hardcore, but here is some americana stuff I am into at the moment:

jack and diane by john mellencamp (the song and by extension, the people in the video)


new jersey diners

the beach boys (and by extension, the beach boys w/ uncle jesse)

robert johnson

going to baseball games

and here is some "typical" americana stuff I am NOT into at the moment:

hot dogs

"americana" art

misogynist bible thumpers

please feel free to add to this list or rebuff anything on it!

mad hatters

I never ever wear hats besides the occasional beret (my sister, however, wore a hat for at least a third of her life), but i really do love them and feel the hat is today's most unappreciated accessory. Why can't we still live in an era where a gentleman isn't dressed without his hat and a well-dressed lady's outfit is as dependent on her fascinator as it is on her shoes?

Two modern milliners (hatters) that i really really admire are Stephen Jones and Phillip Treacy. Actually, are there any other milliners? Stephen Jones has done all of boy george's hats, some tricorns for dita von teese, and collaborated with Westwood, Galliano for Dior, Comme des Garcons, Gaultier, and Theirry Mulger. here are some favorites:





and then there's Philip Treacy who has done hats for grace jones (my favorite) and done collaborations with chanel, givency, and mcqueen.

I think I like margaret cho.

I always felt indifferent to margaret cho. sometimes I thought she was funny but mostly I thought she tried too hard. I even watched her show a couple times and didn't hate it, but wasn't super into it. well guess the fuck what, I just got directed to a blog she wrote and I think I really like her now. see for yourselfffff:

I’m a Christian, you Fuckers

All kinds of Christians are getting mad about my Sarah Palin comments, and it is pissing me off.

First of all – you fucking fake Christians - don’t fucking question my Christianity. I grew up in the church. My grandfather was a minister, who is with God now and talks to me in my dreams from God’s corner office. I am a former Sunday school teacher. I taught the Bible to children and showed them how to love God and invite him into their hearts. I believe in God – but I don’t fear him. God is my best friend. God is my ally. God is my boyfriend. God is my best fag. I am God’s fag hag cuz didn’t you know, God is a big fag. Serious bottom too. Butch in the streets, femme in the sheets. That is my God. God is my biggest fan. God gets me, dude.

God wants us all to just get along. He doesn’t give a shit about the profanity. The bitch fucking invented profanity. He thinks it is hilarious. He just wants you to talk to him, and he doesn’t care what you have to say. He just wants to keep the conversation going. Like Jay-Z, he just wants to love you. He just wants you to be able to make your own decisions. God is all about you and what you need. God is happy that you are gay. God made you fucking gay cuz he thinks it is awesome. God understands if you need to have an abortion. That is why he created abortion, on the 8th day. God accepts. God forgives. God loves all of us, even though some of us might have a problem with each other.

Don’t fucking question my Christianity you fucking idiot assholes. If you continue to have a problem, then talk to God about it, not me, you fucking racist homophobic misogynist fake Christian shitheads. God thinks it is funny that I swear so much. He said I could use his name in vain or whatever. He just wants me to use it. He loves me. So fuck you. And I guess he loves you too. Even though you are fake Christian assholes. If you were truly Christians, you would let gays get married, and send them fucking presents from Bed Bath and Beyond!

If you truly believed in Jesus, you would try to be like him and love us, fags and dykes and feminists all. God bless you, even you. You fucking fuckers.

I <3 travel blogs!

I heart travel blogs. especially when they are people that I know. a couple of my friends have travel blogs that I am super into, even if I don’t read them religiously. I am way into them b/c they provide me with an opportunity to faux-experience for my broke self what it is like to spend a month in Italy, 3 months in Hong Kong, or a year in Argentina. wayyyy better than a douche-y travel book telling you where to go as a tourist. and when it includes pictures of food, even better!!!

Here are some awesome travel blogs (some friends of mine, some peeps I don’t know, some I've already mentioned here):

Soom and Cosmo way south of the border (

Buenos Aires, Argentina):

who they are: 2 american fellas, working and living in buenos aires, learning spanish and the culture
what they post about: integrating themselves w/ the locals, the food, going to futbol games, drinking




The Slums of Shaolin (China):

who he is: an american guy by way of oakland, ca, living and working in china
what he posts about: the food!, traveling, observations, daily life in china, what he expected vs. what is different




La cantina ratti (Alba, Italy):
who she is: an american missy and her friend(s), living in italy and working at a winery
what she posts about: mistranslations, getting into the italian work ethic, learning italian, cultural differences




Elyse Sewell's Journal (Hong Kong and Korea):

who she is: an american working as a model in asia (the chick from america's next top model)
what she posts about: the food, hilarious translations, cultural differences, living with a bunch of models

I'm gonna pitch an idea to a magazine about writing an article about the evolution of travel blogs!

ps please feel free to leave other travel blogs in the comments section!

personality design

i was looking for new frames on ebay and i found these...



of course, they're german.

well this is useful.

i found about this website called 'sea food watch' that tells you what kinds of fish you should buy in terms it being environmentally friendly or harmful. it gives you a lot info and also a good option, an okay option, and a bad option. since the list is long i think there is also a pocket sized version you can print to take to the grocery store/ fish monger's.

a ballet to kid A

you lucky UK motherfuckers. you assholes get a ballet set to radiohead's music.

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'Ride The Beast' will make its London debut later this year. Tracks used include 'Hunting Bears', 'Idioteque', 'The National Anthem', 'Fitter Happier' and an acoustic version of 'Creep'.

Choreographer Stephen Petronio explained his choice of music for the piece, saying: "Radiohead's music is a brilliant investigation of achingly modern taste. They sail through genre and form effortlessly and passionately and their music demands a physical response from me that bypasses reason. I have to live with music so intimately while creating with it, I simply have to work with music I love."

'Ride The Beast' will be performed at:
Glasgow Theatre Royal (September 18-20)
Edinburgh Festival Theatre (25-27)
London Queen Elizabeth Hall (October 4-5)
Inverness Eden Court (7-8)
Aberdeen His Majesty's Theatre (10-11)