The Fashion Show

Another day another reality show job.My most recent tv gig was working on another Bravo tv show. The Fashion show is a replacement for Project Runway which Bravo lost the tug of war to Lifetime channel. Its seemed like it was really not going to be much different a show then Project Runway .Basically it's not with exception of different hosts and the inclusion of a live audience show that participates in the elimination process.
The audience opinion doesn't seem to count for much . I love Issac Mitzrahi and was so excited to get me meet him and bug him into signing my copy of his Comix book. otherwise it was a jobby job and i am just as interested in watching it as i have been of any other show i have worked on which is not much at all.
You judge for yourself but don't ask me who wins cuz honestly i got no idea. i couldnt even remember the names of the designers when looking at the ads in the subway.

Italian women and Monique

Two things i just fucking love love love. That's my girl Monique and Italian woman.
I love to have the look and beauty of an Italian actress in the late 50's-early 60's. Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Anne Magnani, or even todays Asia Argento. Powerful sexuality, raw beauty with a hint of vulnerability. The curves, the loose hair, walk that just doesn't seem to care but always gets your attention. I never really looked to Marilyn Monroe or Betty Page as mentors for vintage beauty. Italian woman had teh real swagger. Sophia Loren could make Monroe burst into tears with just a sideways glance.
Monique is my girl . i love her. I love her at the Apollo, i watched the Parkers, I read her books and give them to my mom.I actually believed she could turn them hoes around on Charm school.
She is in this new movie Precious and i am interested to see her take on this very serious role as an abusive mother to a very vulnerable young girl.
I tried reading the book the film is based , Push by Sapphire. But it is written from the perspective of the near illiterate Precious.

Precious

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A treasure trove of Delicacies

I really want to be more of a foodie. i mean my general enthusiasm for food and years of mind numbing restaurant experience have given me some education in finer dining and the art of gastronomy. I have had random roommate over the years who love to cook. I mean they love to cook.not just grill up some meat or whip up a batch of satisfying mac and cheese. I mean $50 worth or meat and cheeses to create the perfect lasagna. i have woken up some nights at 1 am to find roommates tempura battering soft shell crabs. I have lazily sat in front of the tv and had turn up the volume because someone is in the kitchen making a variety of savory cheese cakes.
Fortunately i live in NYC where every food in the world cant be found, prepared in every way possibel. I have a grasshopper taco, blood sausage lasagna, and finished them off with a cabernet savignian serbet.
i have little instinct for cooking myself. I can follow a recipe and really enjoy the feeling of preparing a meal for people. but i am single girl and ain't nothing sadder then wrapping left over for a beautifully prepared family meal for one.
But this doesnt stop me from checking out foodie sites .
My new favorite site is

artisanalfoods.com.

Its a site that champion the local food movement and brings affordable fine ingredience to the home cook. I find myself wanting to buy all the samplers even though i am pretty sure avocado oil and fresh saffron would go to waste in my cupboard next to some month old open chips a-hoy cookies.

Red Beer

Did you Know that if you put grenadine and a slice of lime into a Corona...You have yourself one fine red Cream Soda.
MY friend Nicole likes this, a dash of grenadine in her corona. I thought it would be icky too, but ladies its kind of nice. Sweet but nice.
If your feeling kinda of more rough neck then do like my Jamaican boyfriends do...order a shot of rum with your beer. but a good rum and its only there for sipping while you have your beer. Make it last as long as your beer, don't just take it down.

Make Me a Supermodel

My mom called today to talk about a show i PA for . She doesnt seem to understand i take little pride in those jobs and have raely even seen any of the shows i have worked on.
Not even teh good one. I seem to have the same aversion to watching shows i worked on that i have for watching friends movies or projects.
My need for disconnect has grown beyond me. I have really become so ungrateful.if you said 5 yrs ago i would be living in NYC and working TV shows and Fils, not matter how minial i found the work, i would have been grateful and excited by the opprtunity. the adverture and possiblity that i would find in it all.
I think i am becoming a jerk. My humor i growing darker and almost too sharp for those who love me to be near. i gotta get some perspective.
I mean how can i find humor in a day that involved watch skinny bitches dressed in dead fish on a cold day on Coney Island. Thats a fucking rediculous work day. You gota love it