My Funniest IM ever....

NB: I'm worried about you all alone walking in the nasty rain and with bad people all around spitting on the ground and making it slick with saliva. Are you home yet???

[11:03:57 AM] Chad Gooch says: Yeah, I made it. finally this morning at about 10am. I'd been out all night trying to find a way back home. First, I slipped on someone's saliva and fell into a puddle. Then while I was down, an old man who was slurping his teeth hawked up a big loogie right on my head. I tried to find a jimjilbang to dry off and lay my head for the night, but didn't have the money to pay for it, nor did I have enough to pay for a taxi home. Since I didnt' know where I was, and all the skinny legged chicks had all started to go in doors with there boyfriends to escape the pouring rain, I did't have much luck with finding anyone to help me with directions. So I found a broken discarded umbrella on the sidewalk and huddled under it, until someone was nice enough to throw me some change. It was enough to get me into a bath house, so I spent an hour searching for anyone that still might be on the streets asking, "Jimjilbang, jimjilbang." Finally, I happened upon one, only to find out that the word had gotten out around town that a some foreigner had stolen the keys to a jimjilbang shoe locker, so I was rejected. I found a bush to lay my head in until sunlight, when I was able to recognize some buildings and find my way home.

Do Something For China

The other day I met this fabulous artist named Brenda Chat. She asked me sing at a benefit she was putting together to help the victims of the recent floods and earthquake in China. Of course I said yes...maybe some of you remember that I was feeling a little hopeless in the immediate aftermath of the disasters and I've been praying for a way to help more significantly. Voila! A way is born. I've been helping brenda with some of the planning and organization for the event and it's been a whirlwind but we're up and running.

Here's a link to the blog that I put together to help explain our mission. http://www.dosomethingforchina.blogspot.com/ . You can see a few of the images and event details here. I hope you can make it...even if you aren't planning to bid on art work, your 10,000 won cover charge will go directly toward the cause.

We're still looking for artists who want to donate artwork too...so if you are one or you know one, send them my way!

Just Another Music Blog...

Sometimes I don't care about listening to music. I know that might seem hard to believe, but it's true. I go months where I crave quiet in my ears, head and house. I like the hour of complete silence in the morning when I wake up. But then, I'll have times of absolute obsession, like right now. I have so much GOOD music ringing through me right now that I'm humming it down the halls of school, plugging in the minute I walk out the door and turning it up at home. I know I'm behind the curve, but Vampire Weekend, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, a mini Elvis Costello revival, Josh Ritter, the old 97's new one and a weird song by April March called "Coral Bracelets" have been catching my fancy as of late. What's your new musical obsession? I think this might last for a while and I'd like some new suggestions....

RHETT IS BACK! crush rekindled.

As if I needed another reason to love the Old 97's...the new album, Blame It On Gravity, is like a little love letter to themselves circa the Hitchhike to Rhome era. I'm listening on repeat. I'm swooning (I hate that word, but it's sooo true). You know I love Rhett. http://normalgirls.blogspot.com/search?q=rhett+miller and now you should buy the album on itunes and discover how I fell in love.

Swiss Chocolate vs. phone bill

There's an international lovestory unfolding in front of me at school. It's reminding me a lot of my own hollywood-esque adventure almost two years ago. (whoa. can you believe that??? TWO YEARS!) Today, I came into the office to discover a package on my coworkers desk from switzerland, the land of her true love...I ran down the hall (imagine it in slow motion) waving the package over my head, screaming "K, it's here! It's here!" She opened the package in the middle of a class with interested school children gathered around breathlessly waiting to see if the rumor of chocolate was true. It was. Chocolate. Flight of the Conchords DVD. A handwritten letter. All the things necessary to win a girl's heart across oceans. Lovely. Lovely. Vicariously Lovely. Love.

I wandered back down the hall sighing. So good to see a good girl get what she deserves. As I meandered back to my desk ready to pound out a few more lesson plans, I thought, wouldn't it be great to discover that in my haste, I missed the equally exciting letter that was sitting on my desk? Well there was a letter, but it was from LG telecommunications telling me that I owe them 50,000 won for a phone that only rings when I don't want it to and rarely illicites excitement.

This is hot on the heels of a bizarre sort of "psuedo breakup" phone call that I got from one of my male friends recently in which he told me that he was getting married (excellent! it's about time) but that necessarily meant that our relationship was curtailed and thanks for the time that we've spent together, blah blah blah "I'm a different man because I knew you" and via con dios. I felt lame. Am I the kind of girl that you have to actually say that out loud to? We were HARDLY BFF and I've had lots of male friends get married and never once have I had to be friend dumped.

So that's the story this week, kids. The phone bill wins. It's my life at the moment. So if you want to call me, I have skype and I'll probably pay the bill at some point.