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Name: Autumn
Country: United States
State: Michigan
Metro: Grand Rapids
Birthday: 5/16/1981
Gender: Female
Interests: Politics (liberal & moderate), animal rights, civil rights, women's rights; my friends and family, who I love and appreciate everyday, as well as my cats; a good book; writing; Fav TV shows include Alias, Lost, American Dreams and Veronica Mars and THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART; Love music, especially singer/songwriters.
Snark and wit. My two favorite ingredients.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
America: The Book by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Industry: Other
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  Audygal
MSN: audygal0516@yahoo.com
Yahoo:  smileyautumn0516
Member Since:
10/4/2004
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Well, I've had a busy few weeks. Oh, I'm pretty much all over my little heartache thing. I mean, it still sucks, but I've wallowed and now I'm OK. He's a good guy and hopefully will be a good friend, and that's really all I can ask for. I've got a lot of good people around me and it's stupid to get all upset over crushes and stuff.
So, my dear friend and roommate Lori got married last weekend. I was a bridesmaid and it was a lot of fun. She looked so beautiful! The reception was over pretty early though. Thank goodness a bunch of us had rooms at the same hotel, so we busted out with a hotel party. Will, the groom, kept us very entertained before they headed off to their wedding suite (my gift to the happy couple). All in all it was a great time. Lori & Will both have great family and friends, so it was really happy.
This past weekend we partied for Sue's upcoming birthday. On Friday, Sue & I headed to the airport to pick up David. Then we just chilled at my place. On Saturday, I showed David our wonderful mall and we caught Amityville Horror, which was OK. Then on Saturday night we went to the Monkey Bar for dinner and then out to Taps. We ended the night at Sue's place watching Old School and being drunk. It was fun.
On Sunday was the benefit show for Nick's family. There was a huge turnout and it was great to see my old friends again. I even saw my old crush. It was nice not being all girly and googly over him like I was in high school. Nick's family had a good time and were really happy to see so many of his friends out. That was nice. My brother's band played just after 10 and there was moshing! It was just a happy day and a nice way to celebrate Nick's life and how many people loved him.
Anyways, that's my update for today. I'll try to update more, but I've been really busy and it doesn't look like that'll be changing anytime soon. Just wanted to post a happy post after the last few. | | |
| 2 years, 8 months.
That is how long he's been with his live-in girlfriend.
Why doesn't this surprise me at all? I find a guy who I fall for completely and he is taken. Not to mention, he's never even alluded to a girlfriend, especially a live-in one, up until this point.
Hear that sound? Yeah, that's the sound of extreme, major disappointment and hope shattering. I shouldn't be surprised. I called this. I knew that it'd be something...whether it was a girlfriend or the simple he doesn't like me. So why do I still feel completely crushed and sick to my stomach?
DAMMIT just for once it'd be nice...but apparently, that isn't in the cards for me yet again. Surprise fucking surprise.
Excuse me while I wallow in self-pity for a bit. | | |
| Why? Why? Why do I have to like him SO MUCH!
Ugh.
The perfect guy for me. What're the chances that anything will happen? | | |
| Major props to the person who can give me a solid argument in FAVOR of the death penalty for minors. Yeah, we're doing a debate in class next week and guess what my team got stuck with? Pro-death penalty would be one thing, but pro-death penalty for minors? Yeah, I got nothing! This is a major part of my grade and I'm just annoyed that we ended up with not only this debate, but this side of the debate.
HELP! Even if you are in fact against it, if you can think of a good argument in favor, throw me a bone! | | |
| So, Jon Stewart is my hero and it will remain that way. His stand-up show was great. We had horrible seats, but it didn't matter. Jon's amaziness filled the entire Detroit Opera House. Anyways, after his far too short hour and a half set, he came back out for a Q&A. Everyone was yelling stuff out, and someone asked about him running for president. He said that there were some pictures in a shoebox somewhere that would make a presidential run pretty impossible. Well Sue yells out "Can we see those pictures?" and she made Jon laugh! My friend made Jon Stewart laugh! Ahhh!
Anyways, after the show we met up with some friends at a bowling alley and hung out for awhile before heading home. The whole trip to Detroit was fun, except for some construction and stuff, but we made it. Sue & I had a great road trip altogether. Then...the Stewart. Have I mentioned that he fucking rocks? Our next stop is sooo NYC to see The Daily Show.
So, on Sunday I went with Dane & Sue to see Sin City. Sue left half way through. It sort of sucked. Of course, today Dimples (hot boy at work) who also saw is explains it to me (he loves the comics) and he's so cute and enthusiastic about it, that I almost like the movie now. Those dimples are powerful! And I still sooooo want him! Don't know if he has a girlfriend or not yet. Praying that he doesn't because I am crushing hardcore. I'm literally getting weak in the knees here. That's bad!
Nothing really else to report just yet. The next two weeks should be interesting. Can't wait!
Got this from my girl HazieDream's blog. Reverse survey. Answer it in my comments:
[01.] Who are you?
[02.] Are we friends?
[03.] When and how did we meet?
[04.] How have I affected you?
[05.] What do you think of me?
[06.] What's the fondest memory you have of me?
[07.] How long do you think we will be friends?
[08.] Do you love me?
[09.] Would you date me?
[10.] Would you kiss me?
[11.] Would you hug me?
[12.] Physically, what stands out?
[13.] Emotionally, what stands out?
[14.] Do you wish I was cooler?
[15.] On a scale of 1-10, how hot am I?
[16.] Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
[17.] Am I loveable?
[18.] How long have you known me?
[19.] Describe me in one word.
[20.] What was your first impression?
[21.] Do you still think that way about me now?
[22.] What do you think my weakness is?
[23.] Do you think I'll get married?
[24.] What makes me happy?
[25.] What makes me sad?
[26.] What reminds you of me?
[27.] If you could give me anything what would it be?
[28.] How well do you know me?
[29.] When's the last time you saw me?
[30.] Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
[31.] Do you think I could kill someone?
[32.] Are you going to put this on your xanga and see what I say about you?
Stand-up jokester and political opinion shaker Jon Stewart talks about his hit TV show, the press, politics and himself.
BY JULIE HINDS
Knight Ridder News Service
George W. Bush came out of the 2004 presidential election a winner. So did Jon Stewart.
The host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show was hands-down the hottest media figure of the campaign season. He was the face on the cover of all the right magazines. The hippest path to reaching the youth vote. The guy John Edwards sat next to when he declared his candidacy. The one John Kerry bantered with in a bid to seem more human.
It seemed as if Stewart, 42, could do no wrong. His fake news show was voted the best news and information program by a national group of TV critics. He went toe-to-toe in a debate with Ted Koppel and didn't blink. He ventured into the spin zone with Bill O'Reilly and came out smelling like a rose. And he got CNN's Crossfire put on the chopping block. All of which he downplays.
''By the way, it's only going to get better,'' he says when asked about his glowing reviews. ``Apparently, there will never be a downslide.''
What's life like now? ''Nonstop cocktail parties. A lot of glitterati, a lot of people in the know . . . opinion shakers,'' he says. ``As a kingmaker, I have a responsibility to go out and find kings to be made.''
HIS ROOTS
This, of course, doesn't explain why he still performs stand-up. He says he does a couple of dates a month to keep in touch with the format where he got his start.
''Ultimately, that's what I'll go back to doing when people have become sufficiently sick of me that I'm forced once again to barnstorm the country in a beat-up van,'' he says.
His stand-up shows aren't that far removed from what he does behind a desk for Comedy Central. Same sensibility. Some topical material. ''A lot more nudity,'' he says, never content to give a boring answer. ``Considerable foul language. A slurred speech that appears to be narcotic-related.''
His fans know what he's like. With Stewart, you get smart, pointed jokes and equal parts amusement and outrage at the hypocrisy of those who govern and inform us.
As a celebrity figure, he's a disappointment to the tabloids. His wife, Tracey, is a veterinary technician. The two had their first child, Nathan, last year. The comedians who started out in the club circuit with Stewart in the late 1980s speak well of him. He wears baseball caps and jeans when he's off-camera. During his 60 Minutes interview, he shared an ambition that many middle-age guys share: He'd love to be able to dunk.
What he doesn't have -- unless he's hiding some inner Peter Jennings -- is the kind of gi-nor-mous ego that's to be expected from the biggest names in news and entertainment. For Stewart, dealing with coming off his biggest year isn't a problem because he views it as a ride that's both fun and fleeting.
''It's absolutely taken away any insecurities or self-esteem issues that had built up over my, let's say, 41 years prior of not being praised,'' he jokes. ``It is preferable to being slammed, which I've also had. In general, I just feel that if you're on TV, people like you more than they should or dislike you more than they should. And you just have to try and continue to develop as strong an internal barometer as you can for whether or not your work is stinky.''
He scoffs at the notion that he's evolved into an influential figure. He patiently denies he has practically become a member of the mainstream media and insists he's just a comedian who's part of a funny team that puts out a show.
`DANCING MONKEY'
When Ted Koppel pressed him about his role as a cathartic outlet of truth in humor for news viewers, Stewart insisted he was just ''the dancing monkey.'' Rolling Stone raved that ``the comedic tone of The Daily Show is all deadpan irony, but the mood behind the scenes is one of intense youthful passion and even fury.''
The description makes Stewart laugh, but he admits it's sometimes correct.
``The whole point of our show is to do a comedic show, but about things that we care about. . . . What we do is sort of implicit. We take that direct expression and basically try to bury it under the labyrinth of fart jokes and noises. If the show is 30 minutes of stridency, then that's tedious. If you do five minutes of fart jokes, you might buy yourself one didactic moment.''
When Stewart replaced Craig Kilborn on The Daily Show in January 1999, he was a comedian who had also acted in some movies and TV shows and briefly hosted a talk show in the mid-'90s. Since then, The Daily Show audience has tripled and its pop-culture presence has multiplied like crazy. The median age of the audience is 33.
Studies by esteemed research groups have indicated that a) yes, The Daily Show is a news source for young viewers and b) its viewers are more likely to be informed about things like campaign issues than people who don't watch it.
HIS CHALLENGE
But now that the presidential race is history, the challenge for The Daily Show is to keep its edge and find targets as rich as the absurdities of the race for the White House. It's not as easy now to figure out what should be the focus each night, Stewart admits.
''We have to search harder to find relevant veins to mine, as opposed to being a little more illuminated by the schedule of the election,'' he says. ``Our production content was driven by the election.''
Stewart says the show's elevated profile hasn't changed the way he and the staff work. He doesn't feel an obligation to make jokes about certain topics like Social Security reform because he must lecture his young fans about them. But he also doesn't dodge the tragic. When the Terri Schiavo case took over the headlines, The Daily Show led with it, doing a segment that mocked round-the-clock cable coverage.
''Comedy is insult to injury,'' Stewart says. 'It's always interesting that people ask what's off-limits to comedy, but not to injury. . . . For some reason, making jokes about war is considered worse than war. I always wonder, `Where do I draw the line?' I draw the line where the world draws the line.''
On the list of the show's most frequent targets, the news media may be ahead of the Bush administration. The show's correspondents -- performers like Stephen Colbert, Rob Corddry and Ed Helms -- revel in standing in front of fake backdrops and blowing hard about whatever topic they're supposedly covering. But it's Stewart who, as the face of the show, mixes most often with the real media, whether he's questioning them as guests or appearing on their shows.
He's got a simple explanation for why media types love to interview him, and it's not pretty.
''Everything we talk about is about them,'' he says. 'They're very fond of hearing about themselves. There's nothing that the media likes to hear about more. Look at all the shows that revolve around the media. My favorite is when a thousand of them head out to the Michael Jackson trial and then they all have a half-hour show on `Are we doing too much on the Michael Jackson trial?' As though they have no control.''
Stewart insists he had nothing to do with the fact that CNN announced plans to drop Crossfire, the long-running show where conservatives yelled at liberals. In October, Stewart went on the show and told the co-hosts that scream fest political shows were hurting America.
''Look, as much as these guys talk, if Pol Pot's talk show was doing really well in the ratings, he'd still have a talk show,'' Stewart says. ''That was a vulnerable show.'' He says Crossfire was losing its creative and commercial footing and ``I just happened to be the idiot . . . who said it.''
Stewart doesn't have to wonder about what he'll be doing for the next presidential election because he's signed with The Daily Show through 2008. He's not interested in speculating about the race yet.
Stewart sounds more concerned with crafting next week's jokes than sizing up either party. ''I don't think we buy into the whole political paradigm,'' he muses. 'So much of that world right now is a battle for supremacy between partisans. I think I fall on the side of most people, which is: `I'm busy. I wish you guys did all this better.' Most people I know don't define themselves by their party affiliation.'' | | |
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