New Year's Eve and it's hard to believe
another zodiac has gone around.

While you drank yourself high on hoping
and watched the ceiling spin from the ground.

Counting down from ten it's time
to make your annual prayer.

Secret santa in the sky
when will I get my share?

Then you tell yourself
what you want to hear.

Cause you have to believe.

This will be my year.

This will be my year...Semisonic


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Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Okay, all sorts of obsessive watch discussion below. If you don't have the time or interest you might think that I am a wee bit cuckoo.

Beck married the twin sister of Giovanni Ribisi, Marissa Ribisi They're all Scientologists and our poor poor poor Jason Lee was probably at the wedding because, I believe the Giovanni actually introduced him to the cult. I boggles the mind how such a talent could have such a fractured mind. I am talking about Jason not Beck. Well, Beck, he just bores me. Plus I find blondes a bit too week in the knees for my liking.

Today I bought my Dad his Father's Day gift. A black Swatch with an abstractish skull on it. The cutest thing to me is the fact that the black band has little skulls and DAISIES pressed into the band. DAISIES like those sixties rounded ones. Such a detail makes me swoon and actually that's the kind of thing that reels me in. I love hidden touches!

But since I am on a Swatch rant...the Swatch store provides me with sensory overload. Watches are in many ways perfect accessories. They serve a very useful function, which lends itself to interaction with others as in, "Excuse me do you know what time it is?" They tell you a lot about a person. I automatically check which hand a person has their watch on to figure out if they are a lefty or a righty. I grew up knowing only about three other left handed people. A lot of my friends were forced to use their right hand, such was the stigma of left handedness.

But back to watches...The level of functionality says a lot of about the wearer as well. One too many buttons and you're thrown into geek hood. A watch too spartan as in a sleek, metal, flat number like a Movado well in my book that's too slick and in NYC it reeks of mafioso wanna be. A Rolex with all those nobs and such, well in my book that's too high maintenance.

Diamonds...with a large face, rapper or rapper wanna be. I once met a b list rapper whose watch face was covered in a grid of diamonds. You couldn't even read the watch, but he LOVED it. The diamonds didn’t even sparkle!

Watches can also indicate hobbies, diving, raving, math (calculator)...cultural Icons you love...Mickey Mouse, Goofy…songs that you love like the watches popular in the late '80's-early '90's which played songs...I had the one with the navy blue band that played "Obladi Oblada" which was not a song I loved but it was a different watch and different things were important to me when I was 14 or 15.

Classic...Timex...one of those old black digital watches...lost in time...etc...

The Swatch store is swell. It provides a great fix for a girl with a short attention span for accessories that don't involve precious metal and covenants. A Swatch is just crazy plastic pop culture candy for your wrist.

I am currently wearing a stainless steel Fossil. Rectangular navy blue face, Roman numerals and a date thingy that's always a day behind. I got it when my Fossil stainless steel bracelet banded watch featuring a hidden clasp and a mother of pearl face kept falling off my wrist. They couldn't fix it so they gave me the most expense watch in the store that I liked. A watch I liked, but I loved the original.

When I was eleven I had a Timex with a pink rubber band and a white face that I never took off. In fact I actually had a slight, ever so slight tan line where it used to be. I wore it until the band rotted away.

The pink watch was followed by a lilac no name with a paisley face.

I went through a "moon phase" watch period followed by a men's stainless steel face large enough to cause a concussion faze...

I once spent a mint and a lot of time to find an ex boyfriend an out of production Spiderman Fossil watch for Valentine's Day. He gave me a red, white and blue rugby shirt. I started to despise him right about then.

Watches currently in rotation include my dark blue suede cuff (fall wear) and a rainbow grosgrain ribbon band with a medium face and swirly I actually just bought a pair of Levi capris that came with a belt and when I got home I realized it matched the band of my watch.

Gilly refuses to wear a watch without numbers.

A man used one of those light up Timex watches to lead people out of the World Trade Center after the first bombing. Timex used the story for an ad campaign.

My favorite watch ever? Super Grover Fossil watch, stainless steel, stretch band bought 50% off when the Sesame St. store in Livingston Mall went out of business in 1996.

Oh how I love Grover.

posted by JustKeepMum on 9:57 PM