Not Nearly As 'S Wonderful

It's here! I'm half excited, half angry.

I ordered the soundtrack to the musical Funny Face back in August. In August I received an email from Chapters Indigo telling me my order had been successfully placed and the cd would be shipped to me in two weeks. I thought they meant I would get the cd within the two weeks of ordering it. What they really meant was, it will take two weeks to ship once it leaves our warehouse. Now I've finally got the cd and it is definitely not August anymore and I'm a little pissed. Not only is it late, but the cd cover isn't what I was promised in the picture. I was promised the outline of Audrey's funny face in pink and what I got was an orange cover. Upon opening the cd I expected to find pictures from the movie and maybe the lyrics in the insert, at the very least the song listings. Instead I found advertisements for other movie soundtracks. Now I have Johny Rotten's voice in my head asking me "Ever feel like you've been cheated?" I mean the whole point of buying a CD as opposed to a mp3 is so you can have a more personal connection with the music. There is nothing extra for me to connnect with. Plus the sound quality is really crappy. Here have a listen:

I don't think I would have felt nearly as cheated if I had gotten the soundtrack five months ago when I had ordered it. I was completely obsessed with the movie back then and would have overlooked its shortcomings. I would have been too busy leaping around the house like Audrey Hepburn singing 'S Wonderful to care. Now however I'm out of the obsession and a little disenchanted with the whole thing.

Tell Me Why You Talk To Me!

I created this blog ages ago, but it was a blog in name only. I couldn't make up my mind about what I should blog about, so I put off adding content until now. I've finally come to a decision though and I'm quite pleased with my decisiveness. Even though it took me close to eight months to reach this decision. I've decided to use this blog as a substitute for my journal, which I promised myself I would write in everyday, but somehow never got around to doing. I'm just no good at keeping promises to myself. Perhaps, it's because I'm too understanding when I break these promises. I need to be more unforgiving, but I like myself too much to give me a good scolding. That's where you, the unknown, but hopefully you exist, reader comes in to keep me from breaking my promise. Just the thought of someone out there being angry with me for not updating my blog will, hopefully give me the incentive I need to sit my ass down at the computer each week and write something. I'd hate to disappoint blog readers being one myself. After all writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat- at least according to Dorothy Parker. It worked for her so I'm hoping it will work for me. I'm determined to kick this spell of writer's block. Writing in any form on a regular basis will be good for me just to get in the habit.