Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Mallory's LiveJournal:

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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
9:12 pm	It's been over a year and I want to take this quiz again. Important list. 10 Bands/Artists That I Love David Bowie, the Hollies, Tom Waits, Radiohead, Interpol, Skybox, Bjork, The Rolling Stones, Serge Gainsbourg and Fiona Apple. 9 Things I Like To Eat/Drink Lobster, Orange Juice, burritos from Allende, Keebler sandwich crackers, tuna, those stuffed chicken things that come in 2-packs at Jewel-Osco and are usually on sale, Andre...the kind with the white label...is that Brut?  Not sure...also, 7/11 chocolate chip cookies and cheese fries from the Pick Me Up Cafe, 8 Things I Love To Wear black flats, leggings, eyeliner, my Annie Hall vest, my gaudy vintage ring with missing jewels, my only item of clothing from American Apparel: a navy dress, princess dresses, and big sunglasses. 7 Things I Do For Fun Surveys such as this one, play the piano, watch "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," crossword puzzles, flirt with my guy friends, read the X-Matches section of the Chicago Reader, and practice accents while tearing tickets at the movie theater where I work. 6 Things I Don't Understand The difference between 'cute' babies and 'ugly' babies, most of the lyrics to "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind, what my commercial "type" is (according to my audition professor), pyroclastic clouds, how anybody could write an opera by age 12, NBC's decision to assign the Late Night interviewer slot vacated by Conan O'Brien to Jimmy Fallon. 5 People That Mean Something To Me: Ricardo Anselmi, my dad, Courtney, Patrice and Louise Brooks. 4 Things I Will Not Do Enter a convent with the intent of joining it, watch "Two Girls One Cup", vote McCain, be an entitled senior citizen. 3 Random Things About Me I am memorizing the lyrics to the song "Informer" by Snow with dreams of covering it one day, Alesandr Petrovsky (a.k.a. The Russian) is my favorite of Carrie's boyfriends on "Sex & the City", I have several physical similarities to Michael Phelps including the fact that my wingspan is 3 inches longer than my body length. 2 Of My Favorite Stores Salvation Army, Bonnie & Clyde's 1 Thing Worth Waiting For Obama's inauguration. (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
2:40 pm	Celebrity Bloggers Validate My Existence!  We've been blogged about!  We've FINALLY been blogged about! Check out the Jan 7 entry ("Don't You Know You're Toxic.")  The video link is SeaKap, me, and a small army of our Dresden Dolls performance art brigade at the Vic Theater with the band on January 5.  And we have been blogged about! My life is almost perfect now. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, October 19th, 2007
10:44 am	Autistic hiker back with family in W.Va. ... "Jacob Allen wandered away from his parents Sunday afternoon on the Boar's Nest Trail in Randolph County. Hundreds of volunteers and trained professionals had been combing the woods, calling for him to come to them for candy bars, ice cream and other food. After each shout, they listened closely for rustling brush." ... I don't understand why Yahoo! News felt it necessary to inform me of the italicized portion of the article.   Is vying for attention with the promise of a candy bar unconventional?  Because I do it a lot.   Current Music: Nico/Velvet Underground ~ "All Tomorrow's Parties" (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
6:53 pm	It's official: I am starting a psychic hotline. Tuesday, March 29th, 2005 Time Event 8:23a Blunt End Statement. Read On. Has anyone else ever thought about how groundbreakingly shocking it would be if they euthanized the Pope? Monday, April 4th, 2005 Time Event 8:34a Vegetable Papacy Man, I feel REALLY bad about my comment regarding the euthanizing of Pope JP II. I feel like a cold bitch now that he died...although it is slightly suspicious that he died on the same day as Terri Schiavo. Never seen them together...that's all I'm saying. And, finally, TIME magazine recognizes my clairvoyance! I am so amazed at my own foresight that I think I might puke.  Though, I may have puked anyway. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
1:38 am	This is vital. Vital! You are Sharpay Evans Which High School Musical Star Are You? Brought to you by Tickle (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
12:15 am	Grrrrrr... I think I'm discontent because of some fluke on tv-links.co.uk that allowed me to watch the first two episodes of "Weeds" (season 3) three weeks before the Showtime premiere.   I can't talk about it with anyone, nor can I ask anyone if I hallucinated the whole scene (since the episodes were removed from the website the day after I watched them.) I am very unhappy. (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
2:48 pm	Blame is such an easy thing. Man, I hate working at the library.  Not because I was reprimanded for reading a book while working.  No.  Because no matter how many of a patron's problems are rooted in their sophomoric inability to understand the complex Dewey decimal system, they always have a way of making me feel like their academic inadequacy is MY fault. Blame is such an easy thing. Current Music: "It's a Bumpy Ride on the Back of a Camel" ~ Skybox (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
8:36 am	I am such a terrible person...but, really...come on. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! (Comment on this)
Friday, April 20th, 2007
12:47 pm	The Shadow and the Shadow of Batman. Oh, angry, angry Alec Baldwin. Though I didn't have the opportunity to put that illustrious gold star on his lapel (a la SeaKap), we did share an "I'm smiling despite the fact that I really don't want to be here" glance at the gala as I was standing awkwardly greeting people and he was resentfully taking ANOTHER picture for the press. I'm sure he was thinking of the million ways he is going to abuse his 12-year-old daughter today (see Perez Hilton's blog, find the 4/19 entry about how Alec is the devil and you'll understand what I mean.) Additionally, I'm in love with Pam Grier. And I hate standing in heels for 8 hours. More than anything else, I am really regretful today. I turned my headshot and resume into a casting agency who was seeking a brunette between 5'8" - 5'10" for a major motion picture filming this summer. I got a call with an offer for work, but I'd have to start working THIS coming weekend (meaning I'd have to skip 2 days of class and 3 rehearsals.) I turned it down sadly and forgot it. Then, I found out that the Batman sequel, Dark Knight, is filming in Chicago this weekend, and that if I had taken the job, I may have had the opportunity to be Maggie Gyllenhaal's stand in. But I turned it down. GAH! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
9:49 pm	Important list. 10 Bands/Artists That I Love David Bowie, Interpol, Andrew Bird, Shirley Bassey, Bright Eyes, Rolling Stones, Dresden Dolls, Tom Waits, Depeche Mode, Frank Sinatra 9 Things I Like To Eat/Drink Bagels, Cheese Fries, Peanut Butter, Golden Delicious Apples, Scrambled Eggs, Lobster, Carrot Cake, Strawberry Milkshakes, Water 8 Things I Love To Wear Bright vintage jumpers, men's pants, sports bras, Brigitte Bardot eye makeup, my gold locket, bathrobes, my T-shirt depicting a panicky cartoon man about to be attacked my four jolly cartoon dinosaurs, and my British flag purse (complete with silly buttons) 7 Things I Do For Fun walk to Lake Michigan, rent movies, play the piano, post fake personals ads on craigslist.com, take vain pictures of myself, go "drunk-spotting" on Clark St., watch movies on tv-links.co.uk. 6 Things I Don't Understand Why Christians don't celebrate some major Jewish holidays, why Woody Allen likes Scarlett Johanssen so much, taxes, hunger, why Conor Oberst played at the Metro (which is affiliated with Clear Channel...the bain of Conor's existence), Dubya Bush: twice. 5 People That Mean Something To Me: these people represent 5 completely different kinds of influence, by the way. Roald Dahl, SeaKap, Don Ilko, MovieStore Brian, Jack the Ripper. 4 Things I Will Not Do Eat  red meat, move back to Whitewater, steal...and get caught, appreciate the song "Bridge Over Troubled Water." 3 Random Things About Me I haven't worn jeans (costumes excepted) since 8th grade, I don't know what the color "ochre" looks like, everytime I hear the song "Respect," I get really frustrated because I can't understand what the hell Aretha says before the "sockittome" part.  Pick up the TCP?  2 Of My Favorite Stores Hollywood Mirror, Goodwill 1 Thing Worth Waiting For The third Interpol CD: June 5, 2007. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
8:59 pm	Hrumph. 1. Have your music library ready. 2. Choose one song from your music library whose title starts with the first letter (or number) of your screen name. 3. Repeat this process with each successive letter (or number) in your screen name until you run out of letters (or numbers). 4. Post up your results. Matinee Idol ~ Rufus Wainwright Alice ~ Tom Waits Luna de Margarita ~ Devendra Banhart Lovely Night ~ Richard Swift & the Sons of National Freedom You Were the Last High ~ Dandy Warhols _ ...okay, so it's not an underslash, but the first song on Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs is "~"  So there. Ghostwriter ~ RJD2 I'm Still a Simple Man ~ Fantastic Plastic Machine Rubber Band ~ David Bowie Lover I Don't Have to Love ~ Bright Eyes Current Music: None of the Above (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 20th, 2007
12:22 pm	Oh my God. Travolta is frightening. Travolta and Marisa Winnoker in 'Hairspray.' (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
1:40 am	My HERO! Current Music: Bill Conti ~ Rocky Theme (Comment on this)
Monday, December 18th, 2006
10:26 am	The Police in Ipswich Arrested a Man Suspected of Slaughtering 5 Prostitutes... ...and I found the man's MySpace.com page: Tom Stephens. Sooooooooooooooooooooooo eerie! Current Music: Pachabel's "Canon in D" (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 14th, 2006
11:30 am	High Five! Early Christmas!  Sacha Baron Cohen AND the movie Borat!  are nominated for Golden Globe awards! Sad thing: CBS Monday nights HARDLY represented in the nominations (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss for ...Old Christine.  What aout NPH?  Where's the love, Golden Globes?) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
11:40 am	The morning after. The only thing I was looking forward to today was my piece of Christmas chocolate from the advent calendar, but someone ate it. Ain't that just the fucking way? Current Mood: morose Current Music: "Gloomy Sunday" ~ Bjork (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 18th, 2006
11:31 am	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! CRISPIN! Crispin Hellion Glover:  So how on earth did you hear about my movie? Mallory Nees (in a British accent, because that's what happens when I get nervous):  A friend of mine, who knows I'm a fan, told me you were coming to Chicago to present it.  CHG:  That was sweet of them.  You know, most of my information is also up on my website, so you can keep up with... MN:  So I can stalk you. CHG:  (takes a minute to absorb joke while picture is taken)  Exactly. (laughs) Current Mood: accomplished (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 17th, 2006
7:20 pm	It's a long post. I highlighted the important parts. My work study job is uber-boring.  Layers and layers of caky boring. I thought that I might find a life completely surrounded by literature to be inspiring, or, at the very least encouraging to my inner work ethic, but that simply is not the case.  Obviously, since I'm sitting here, ready to McGyver it up and fashion a pistol out of paper clips with which to shoot myself in the face.  Although, I suppose, that is, in a way, constructive.  But, ultimately destructive. I miss Barnes & Noble.  The people there were much nicer than the other work study meanies that I have to tolerate for twelve hours each weekend.  This job definitely reminds me why I only have a handful of non-theatre majors at DePaul: because everyone else is a giant douche. In other news, I went to another great, free concert yesterday.  I won tickets to see Skybox (I'm sure I vaunted their excellence in a previous post, but...whatever) opening for a band that I'd never heard/heard of called Tally Hall.  I was reticent.  I thought "chances are, Tally Hall will be disappointing in comparison to the awesome that Skybox will inevitably bring."  Not so.  Skybox was, indeed, at their habitual level of greatness, but Tally Hall melted my face off.  I literally do not have a face. They built such amazing harmonies, did a couple of songs completely acoustic/acapella.  They were incredible.  We met with and spoke to the guys after the show, and they were really sweet.  I suppose it's possible that they were only being so enthusiastically pleasant because Chance (apparently) looks exactly like one of their friends from back home, Michigan.  Regardless, their kindness and gratitude was refreshing and appreciated. And once we gather our thoughts, Chance and I will officially start jamming under the name "The Good Bad Band."  We think it's pretty clever, since Bone (his surname) means "good" in Latin, and Mal means "bad" in Latin.  It's nice to have some new projects to think about! Speaking of projects (this post is becoming one), Mackenzie and I went to Romanian Festival this afternoon.  It was...sort of...there.  In a Big K-Mart parking lot.  We didn't pay the $10 admission fee, since, once the admission was paid, it seemed like the only thing to do inside the gates was buy expensive Romanian food and then eat it, and then feel awkward for a while.  So, in an act of blatant (but free) awkwardness, Mackenzie and I sat outside the gates and smoked cigarettes in silence and attempted to pick up on the Romanian accents around us (for the Acting lab we're performing in...we're not weird culture vultures.)  Uncomfortable silences, smoking, and a Bucharestian accent.  I think I've got this Romanian business down.  OH: AND EVERYONE WHO IS IN THE CHICAGO-LAND AREA ON OCTOBER 20 SHOULD BUY TICKETS TO SEE THE DRESDEN DOLLS AT THE VIC THEATRE: I'M OPENING FOR THEM AGAIN. Fin. Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: SILENCE. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
3:39 pm	I thought five days of beans, produce and unsalted peanuts was hell, but this??? Right now I'm trying to distract my brainwaves from venturing to the cerebral area that's telling me how HUNGRY I am. I've almost completed the detoxification regimen I've undertaken to counteract the beatings I continually give my body (in the form of alcohol, cigarettes, sleep deprivation and over-working) in order to partially, at the very least, revive myself for a year of hard work.  It's an eight-day detox, and I'm on the seventh day...the second day of the juice fast...and I'm already dreaming of the delicious foods I'll be eating on Thursday morning. FOODS! Current Mood: relaxed Current Music: Chostakovich (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 30th, 2006
9:04 pm	I am festival-ed out...and there is still Lollapalooza to be done. So yesterday marked Pitchfork: Part Deux.  Side note: I got back just in time, actually, to catch The Blue Oyster Cult, who is currently finished up their set in my apartment's "backyard" (Lincoln Avenue), playing "Don't Fear the Reaper," which was accompanied by a plethora of asshole college kids referencing Will Ferrell's cowbell skit of yore. That was a long sidenote. Sorry. I was called upon by my friends at Innerview Magazine to help out for a 2 hour shift at the festival, which I did on Saturday.  They ran out of magazines by the end of the day.  So,Jay told me that I didn't have to come the following day, but as I've already told you that I just returned from the second day of the festival, I suppose you already understand that I was allowed back into the festival.  Because Jay gave me a press pass. I'm not sure if all of you are aware of the benefits of the "press pass," but they are numerous.  To begin, you get your own tent (though the press tent isn't as nice as the V.I.P. tent...I'll aim for that next summer), free water, free beer, and...this is the best part...front row standing space for every band's set.  I saw Spoon, Os Mutantes, Yo La Tengo, Devendra Banhart, Jens Lekman, Tapes 'N' Tapes, The National...all at risk of being spit on by overarticulate singers.   The best shows of the festival (in my opinion) were: Liars.  Let me explain: one of the two drummers wore a sequined tube top covered and a coat made of what appeared to be bubble wrap.the lead singer (who was like the love child of Anthony Kiedis and Mick Jagger) stripped out of his tight pants and button up shirt revealing a blue 50s waitress ensemble halfway through their set.  Then, as I was in prime position to view it, he crept behind the Pitchfork banner that abutted one side of the stage, and did a pole dance with some of the stage supports.  Private dancer.  Tarantula A.D.  Hard core AND a cellist?  I love this too much for mere words. Art Brut.  It's like a mix between The Killers and The Streets...and Oscar Wilde. ...and it was awesome. ...but I got a wicked sunburn Current Mood: Heat index in Chicago: 107. Current Music: "I Envy the Photons" ~ Lesser Birds of Paradise (3 Comments |Comment on this)