Youpi (Pronounced Yipee)
last night i did not sleep well, oh no.
then i got grumpy. and woke up grumpy. and was stomping around grumpy. and at work i had to schedule all these meetings. i hate scheduling meetings.
but this song came on the iPod. Youpi by Cornu which consists of a woman saying nice sounding things in French and then going, "Yipee." or Youpi, i guess. madhavi put it on a mix for me.
it's hard to be grumpy when someone says you make them feel yipee. or youpi. as long as you pronounce it yipee.
it is, however, easy to feel tired when you slept like a baby.
you know, waking up every hour to cry. ha ha!
dunno what that was all about. just sometimes i get all twitchy. mind racing. can't sleep.
so i'm a little, uh, exhausted today. having a hard time focusing on anything and when you need to convert calendar appointments from pacific time to paris time (add nine, minus twelve, carry the six, what's eight plus nine?) that's a bummer.
in better news, my brother-in-law knew a kid who had a dog named Twitchell.
Twitchell!
gosh. that's great. i need someone to call twitchell. any volunteers?
i'm also reading my father's novel. to critique it for him. that's a little sensitive. it's hard to critique something, let along critique something for your dad. your dad who's published many books but nary a novel.
luckily, it's good. phew! it does need a ton of work, though. it's a little too much sermon and not enough novel. needs filling out. some padding. and a car chase through a flea market.
i told him he needs to write another two hundred pages. i don't think he liked that. but c'mon. it's only 120 now and harry potter is running 600+. can't make the HP make you look like lightweight. goddamn wizards raising the bar for everyone, robble robble robble.
speaking of the Hamburgler, last night we watched Elf. it was really stupid, by which i mean funny. Will Farrell is hi-larious running around like a ginormous retardo. then it got all christmas-spirit-y and not even zooey deschanel's eyes could save it.
but still. if you like morons (and who doesn't?) you might enjoy you some Elf.
i would now like to say goodbye to my credibility as a film critic. bye bye, now! bye bye!
bye bye!
bye!
youpi's an amazing song, but the things she's saying aren't nice at all. it's possibly the weirdest breakup song of all time. it basically about how incredibly great it is that she's breaking up with someone, and how happy she is to see him cry with jelousy.
-matt