Avarice and Envy

Wicked Bathroom

2008-05-03T17:17:58Z

Day One

Friday night was low key enough for Jeff who'd gotten off of a plane from Salt Lake City early enough to make my night functioning brain cry tears of cerebral fluid. My Sister, Jeff and I headed over for the initial walk through of the convention floor, barely able to contain pointing and jumping with glee for every costumed kiddie (they were probably all actually older than myself) and newly showcased toys, baubbles and video games. We played the new Hellboy time sucker for PS3 which reignited my inner couch potato and reminded me that my system is old and haggard. I eyeballed the Lost game but knew way too well that i'd stand there for hours trying to get Jack off of the island. All three of us laughed at the strangest thing we may have seen all weekend, the Sexual Orientation game...We couldn't play due to our confusion...

That night we saw Neil Gaiman read three short stories, answer questions and then read from his upcoming book release. As a Gaiman novice, I never really got too far past Stardust, Neverwhere, and American Gods but after hearing him I had a new found plan to read read read the Sandman chronicles. I started with a few choice Death graphic novels considering that i'd already gotten them from Crazy Mike for Christmas..joy! After Gaiman, we headed over to Teany for the first time that weekend for food and Cake...the best Damn Vegan Cake ever...check it out!
Vegan Macadamia...yummy deliciousness...

Day Two

Saturday is the big big day at the ComicCon, and so much so that they attempt to jam pack everything you want to see all at once so that you barely want to go to the bathroom for fear of missing something. We found out that the Big Hellboy 2 event including Guillermo Deltauro and Ron Perlman as guest speakers was at the same time as the Ghost Hunters talk with Jay and Grant. Now heres the thing, we definately chose the "hardest working plumbers since Mario and Luigi" over everything else. The other even was jam packed an hour before it even started and the Ghost Hunters were in a room that was lightly attended thanks to a talk by a British comic writer for Dan Dare (I had no idea what he was talking about, I just listened to his accent and day dreamed for half an hour meanwhile holding my spot second row for the Boys from Jersey).

The Ghost Hunters were great, and hosted by the ever handsome in person,

divine_debris

And right after that, we met up with new pal Kate and long time awesome lady,

elayna_m who held an awesome spot in line for us for the Venture Brothers chat. Much to the chagrin of the boyos behind us I might add but here's the deal...were the closest thing they were gonna get to cute girls being in their vicinity..i'm not pulling punches. Not to mention the fact that there was an amazing couple in front of Jeff and I who kept necking ( I think that's the correct term for it.) comics are for lovers. We were sure to make constant fun of them, loudly.
    The chat was peppered with no really new information about the show, no show stopping revelations or anything good but still it was hillarious because the members of the group including Jackson Publick, Doc Hammer, and some of the voice talents were all constantly argueing amongst themselves. It's like sitting in an audience to watch them give the commentary from the Dvd's. It was great. Although the one guy on the panel who was the moderator, a) didn't do the best of jobs, b) handed out candy after I asked him reluctantly, and c) looks like the guy from Blues Traveler...nough' said.
   Here's a photo of the cutest Monarch who fiance came dressed as Dr. Girlfriend as well and asked Doc to be the priest at their upcoming wedding.. high-larious.

   After all that, we went back to Teany for the second time for more food and even more cake...here's Jeff's red velvet cake...


Then we rushed back to the hotel, the fabulous New Yorker to put up a very silly poster for a film called Wicked Lake in the bathroom, get changed and hurry back the convention area for a rockin' concert from Japan's TMF Revolution. He's tiny, svelt, and the most beautiful woman i've ever seen. He would interject the few Americanisms he could pronounce and it was the cutest thing i've ever seen. The American kids were looking to the Japanese kids for how to dance and react to his songs. The few they knew were the theme songs to particular Anime series. It was also a good chance to watch the most adorable women who traveled all the way from Hong Kong to see him. They told us that this was as close as they'd ever been able to get to him outside of Hong Kong. He was well worth every minute of his performance. And he loves the yankees ...so he's in.


And then the night rounded down with meeting up with Kate and elanya_m for drinks at the continental. We had a blasty blast, but I still felt way too overwhelmed...spread that mess out guys your killing me.

                                            Day Three

      Sunday was a light day...we checked out the last of the dealers goods, and basically took photos of our favorite kids in costumes. We were a little annoyed that we missed the Nazis and Indiana Jones's dad combo who were headed to eat and on they're way out. But we made up for it with the best damn Wookie costume i've ever seen. And then it was off to Teany for a farewell piece of cake and on the road to home. It was sooo much fun, and well worth the day of recovery that was Monday.
I'll leave you with our favorite photos of kids in costumes.



             Rebel scum!

Self Medication

2008-04-12T19:05:07Z

It's interesting how a little sun can bring out the best in people. For at least the past four months, I've seen a constant barrage of angry looking, sneezing, sniffling Architecture students who keep harping on how the Professors must hate each and every individual one of them. But today, unseasonably warm with that faint smell of Spring in the air seems to be a sort of magical aphrodisiac that actually had them smiling. To the students credit, a strong amount of the faculty is German, Australian and British and they seem austere to me when they're buying something as ridiculous as batteries. Not to mention that a fair amount of the students here are from warmer climates and much like tropical fish they couldn't last here if they tried.

Syracuse is ,while I love it here dearly, a cold and ill tempered climate. It's the kind of place where we get snow in May, and everyone has a sense of apathy while wearing shorts in 30 degree weather. We're made of sterner stuff than the poor kids here that are from Puerto-Rico and Argentina, not to mention the students that are from Africa who have no idea what they've gotten themselves into. But today, it was different. There were smiling couples of kids on the front steps and packs of students in the cafeteria helping other students out...its was frigging dreamy. For once I didn't end up in line behind a complaining 18 year old who didn't get her latte with chocolate sprinkles like she asked, I got my black coffee with no incidences. Dare I say it, today has been a good day downtown.

All the cheery mood is a heaping helping of just what I needed, I always find myself slightly depressed after seeing the Slackers (who played in Ithaca on Thursday night). Now I realize, I have no reason to be sad, they're my favorite band besides Elbow (an odd coupling but sure), and I'm going to be in NYC to see Elbow in the next few weeks so really i'm getting everything that I should want. But it's the post show sadness from knowing that you probably won't get the chance to see them for a few more months to possibly a year again that always gets me. But at least they were selling new merchandise to keep me company for the remaining time and I have a new bottle of wine at home that is begging for me to drink it and play the albums ad infinitum tonight. It's also a rare occurence considering that I get the house to myself and can watch Dylan Moran, drink myself into a slight stupor and paint. Of which you'd think would be a dangerous combination.

I also have a need to finish the drawings for my tattoos this weekend, my good friend from Halo tattoos is asking why I haven't been around lately so i'm going to have to get my act together. I will say this though, I was going through my friends list on Myspace and do you ever find yourself wondering where the people that you had added that just aren't there now are at? I also have been denied by a few people that I was surprised by. If Morrissey will have me, I must be good people? right?

But despite people like Victor Rice, that guy from Interpol who looks like a Nazi
and Thom Yorke (i'm naming names that's right) i'm still determined to pull myself out of the friending gutter. So while I might be singing "Baby, where did our love go" i'll also be reminding all you denyers out there that , I still love Victor Rice's Version City album and will still remember fondly seeing him play at the Cooler and DJing at the Batcave, I still like Interpol (but I don't support Nazi's) and Thom..well your just mean, I'd like to think i'm good people.

Plus, The Slackers put on a good show despite the usual grumblings from members about things that could've been better. And unlike most bands they strive to be people oriented and to remember your name. I'm always awe struck, dumb founded and amazed that a band that is on tour a good portion of there lives are nothing short of a delight to chat with. It was good fun finding out that Glen Pine loves Ghost Hunters as muchas my sister and I do,

and chatting up the ever charming Marcus Geard before the show.
It never hurts to see Mr. Rugeirro and to get a good hug too. It isn't often in our cold little town that we get to see good looking men in suits, thanks guys!

Next week, we're off to the NYC comic convention which should be a blasty blast, considering that we might get to see some fairly big names and hopefully buy shiny new geeeky baubles. And then the next weekend the dreamy Elbow will most definately be the cincher to an already pretty fab year. I'll do my best to post a few new pics in a few days and to put up the new pictures of some of my new paintings that i've been working on. Once I get all my work down (tattoo wise) i'll post pictures of that as well...I just need to get out of this tiny but happy little store and drink up some creativity.

"Sweet Jesus, i'm on fire... she has the meanest darkest sighs..." (Elbow, an audience with the Pope)

Stalking Germans

2008-03-26T16:13:09Z

     Boredom has driven me online, and i'm finally stepping out of my cold weather hiatus. After finally accomplishing our annual Christmas with our lazy but Local pals i'm feeling somewhat less weight on my shoulders-y...except a big "so sorry" to Aelfscene...I still am sitting on her very patient presents from her Birthday..makes me a very bad friend. I'd fire myself but I need the cash. This week my lazy ass will be mailing out, I finally got my schedule back to the basics which gives me more monkey time to do just that...monkey aboot like I like. Have to take my puke ridden kitty to the vet on Monday which is ever the treat. I just knew that yesterday wasn't going to go so well after he greeted me with the morning breakfast, and of course after I'd already gotten dressed. They say the a pidgeon pooping on your head is full of luck, what do they say about puke on your new jumper? Mild distress?
    So i'm downtown, in Armory Square (they call it historic but we know the truth) and i'm sitting in the worlds smallest store ever.  While I could really use a cup of coffee, A) i've had a coffee ridden tricky tummy for the past weekend resulting in the wish to throw up on others, and B) it means I have to close up shop to get it which is just sad and pathetic in and of itself....so no coffee..just the saddest looking water bottle for now. But the threat of running into the bumbling Prof. and local favorite all around foreign kid, is ever so tempting. Think David Tennant meets, Architecture Proffessor..and you have an angry little man who smells good. He's a treat.
   But beyond that , i'm happy to be out of the bowels of flu hell, and to have my room near to completion...I lack a rug.  Otherwise, nothing very exciting in life right now, except that in May i'll be lining up for a tattoo appointment. Joy!
L

enuffistoomuch @ 2008-02-09T15:01:00

2008-02-09T20:17:08Z

Thanks to all for the fantastic birthday faire, Ellie, Leah, and Mom and Dad did the usual over the top present a go go i've come to feel spoiled by every year. Beyond the fantastic new clothes, going shopping with the divine miss Leah, and getting cake and booze (with a side of twizzlers ...my favorite) I got a beautiful bouquet of not only aesthetically pleasing flowers, but also practical for later.

Lets talk food, um...i've eaten myself silly for the past two weeks on going. We had the most amazing Brownies from Ellie (http://www.expotv.com/videos/reviews/10/113/Twizzlers-Rainbow-Twists-19-Oz-18-Ea/221696), cupcakes that I had made for Leah's birthday from the "vegan Cupcakes take over the world" recipie, twizzlers (http://www.expotv.com/videos/reviews/10/113/Twizzlers-Rainbow-Twists-19-Oz-18-Ea/221696), two cakes, chocolate chip bread, cookies , thai food, olive garden, chineese...i'm on a side splitting, corset needing train (of which I did get one from Leah) where it derails and all the passengers die in a tragic, fiery accident just like in tideland. So all in all, successfully fantastic and wonderful birthday, avoiding all blues and saddness over being over thirty. Once I get my room settled i'll be sure to send along photos and updates...otherwise, i've updated my scrapbook with plenty of foolish pictures of myself to keep y'all satiated for awhile, so a big...THANKS FOR ALL MY STUFF!!!!

I've Been incomudicado and mispelling all the way...

2007-08-25T18:18:38Z

    So while I was away, I did spend the time learning a few very insightful life lessons that i'd care to share with everyone...
1) don't spend cash on ebay unless you really really can because otherwise, it's just really depressing
2) don't pick up a feral kitten
3) rabbies shots really do hurt like a bitch
4) don't drink tea that smells like candy necklaces, itr will only taste like them too
5) stay humble and remember that no matter how tedious your work is, your not carving tiny people out of plastic for your grad level architecture model
6) You can work an 11 hour shift, go home and bead for two hours straight afterwards.
7) Chineese food will always sound better than cooking at any time
8) Pf fliers in flat black, are the greatest sneakers ever to buy
9) My secret tv crush's are as follows and in no particular order (I love you all just the same I swear it)
    ..... Doctor Cox on scrubs
   ......Earl on my name is Earl
      .....Hero from Heroes...I can't wait for that to come back
.....Dave! from Ghost Hunters...
   ..... Gob from Arrested Development...even though it's cancelled

and
10) if you do drink the tea that tastes like candy necklaces, be prepared for the innevitable headache.

Okay, so apart from learning, i've been basically playing and investing way too much time on my cat, avoiding all the emails in my inbox...working like a crazy person, accepting raises at work, babysitting a tiny store in downtown for a good amount of money (see aformentioned raise), Missing my pal Silvie who moved to Seattle, ..looking forward to the Queens of the Stone age concert (thanks so much Leah), Looking forward to Ben and Jess's Star Trek wedding renewal in vegas, listening to the following albums over and over again
...Death to Sexy: the eagles of death metal
...wincing the night away: the shins
....Cast of Thousands: elbow
.... ringleader of the tormentors: Morrissey
....Era Vulgaris: Queens of the stone age
....Live from the bug house: Vic Ruggierro
....stranger on the sofa: Barry Adamson...

Otherwise, things we did ... Saw Morrissey finally, after having him cancell one show and reschedule another... read a million books on my list to finally get through..with a minimum of terror involved... felt gyped by the Harry Potter book..thanks so much JK... gave up trying to excercise for now, and have accepted the innevitableness of my current physique...zoftig is the term i'll use.   I'm in the estranged lover collumn again, for the only reason that I can give.. none and that's how I like it. Feeling firm on the fact that i'm not interrested in anyone who uses drugs other than the good ole pal to me .. booze. He's a good pal, he treats me mean sometimes but as pacifiers go it's been a good deal.   I made a kick ass chocolate cake with a mint chocolate icing that I think is made of evil indeed...and while I love to create I think i'm using my new found baking skills for evil instead of good which makes me the Swiss Mystery...and I think i'm in love with my tattoos..thats all from this peanut gallery.
L

These are a few of my Favorite things!

2007-08-01T18:15:52Z

So apparently the best thing ever is playing non- stop gore and violence games ( my main man seems to be God of War 2...just love being able to make a little man on screen rip a Roman's head off...great) while pumping the Queens of the Stone Age on my mp3 player. Now, I live at home so there's the occassional time that my Mother decides to have a good long conversation with me about something deep and introspective or the cat jumps on my lap unexpectedly and scares the living bejeweled Jesus out of me, but it's still good. If you have the ability to download..in the pirateing way...Era Vulgaris..my friends it's the very glue that holds my most unstable soul together. I spend all day shlepping insanely heavy box's, I go to the gym (a fat load it's not converting, but what can you do?) and then inevitably curl up fetal style on the couch, the clawed grip dead around the controller. Sometimes, i'm classy and I have a straw from my mouth to the booze bottle. It's wrong to call booze pain go bye bye juice, right? But just in case you have no clue who the Queens are...well here's a good little video.. warning, not so much for the faint of heart, but cute lead singer indeed. Great song as well, it's probably one of my favorites from the album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcXCaXz0GbU

Science and Honor

2007-04-21T20:09:38Z

                                                             ....Last night a robot saved my life.....
    I'm used to Slackers shows, I go ,I dance til I can't walk , sweat til I can't stand myself and then I usually go home with a sense of how much i'll hate to peel off my clothes for the night. Last nights show was no real exception, except that the Slackers are on tour with the Phenomenauts, a band that kind of took me by surprise. I wasn't expecting to like them, even want to stand through them..usually it's at least one to two bands with the loud loud horn section of doom and all the kiddies circle jerking themselves into oblivion. But then, after the rubble clears the boys in blue take it down a peg and play they're relaxed version of the music I love so.   I have to say that the very few times that a truly great opening band has bookended my usual sure bet could probably be counted on one hand, but the Phenomenauts just uped the anty to my esteemed second set of digits. They were a sort of mix between Devo, the Stray Cats and Social Distortion all in one and yet the kitsch never tires you out and the robots never get old. I enjoyed the set too much, and od'd a little on all the merch. If it's one thing that I love it's when a band can sell me lots of things to sew to my portfolio case and myriad of jackets.
    While even the hippest of the youngsters jumping up and down still didn't get the blinding white streak in the leaders hair, and the van being painted up and customized like the Mystery Science Theater 3000 planet, it wasn't at all lost on my friends, or myself. It got me dancing and slapping my hip happily. So I checked they're tour roster and they'll be back in Rochester in May...I couldn't be happier...what an awesome opportunity to wear my most spacey of gear. Plus, it's a second chance to see my favorite boys play as well...what could be better! Everyone should check these guys out...they had me at "Rocket Roll".
                           http://www.myspace.com/thephenomenauts

This Week in Pictures

2007-04-12T18:02:49Z

So I did post a few really bad photos to my scrapbook..here's my time to share them with y'all.

Just so that you can see what i'm putting into the show when it comes to it. I still haven't really heard any news about that so i'm a little bit confused but still optimistic that I will have the most (to say the least) unique entry. It's the most tame of some of the things that i've been working on at this time. I'm also no virtuoso with my mom's camera and the cats kept getting in the way so I had to put up a new one of Benny...my child in the scrapbook too.
Tomorrow night taking miss Silvie to dinner for her birthday with all the gang...should be a very good time indeed. Maybe i'll take the camera and try my hand at the whole process of making mementos .. not the scary can't remember who I am kind.

L
ps...ha .. that's funny..driving Miss Silvie...ha

Lacey Baldwin Smith and the Tudors

2007-04-05T15:59:58Z

So i've been totally ensconced in the Riches this season, because anything that Eddie Izzard touches is grand and wonderful. And that show has already surprised me with what they've been allowed to get away with on tv. But the Tudors is killing me. I am a normal girl who likes to just watch Jonathan Rhys Meyers, he's man pretty and it's hard to deny that. While the show's first episode reminded me more of a baudy romance novel, i'm just sort of sitting on the couch with the cats thinking..that man can do no wrong. And to top it all off, i'm reading a book called "Fools, Maryrs and Traitors" by Lacey Baldwin Smith and it's contents are agreeing with the historical facts in the show. I love the book, and am soaking it up daily (the chapter on Socrates was like a treat)
so to see it cooberate is sort of cementing the Thomas Moore chapter in my minds eye. I had a few Professors attempt to relate the schism between the Catholic church and the Protestant church to me before and sort of understood it..but now, i'll just picture Sam Neil and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and all will be right with the world.
Otherwise, I still don't have any set in stone dates for the art thingy..i'm still mostly just confused about the details of it. But as soon as I get a good idea of the details and all that, i'll let everyone know... . Also, im considering going for my usual hair cut tomorrow and telling that Leslie that It needs to be short again...i'm a little more than just slightly annoyed by the length it's at...I feel as though i'm in post hippy stage, with a touch of the David Cassidy today considering that not only are my roots showing but my color is fading to more of a dirty dusky color. Gross! I've been knitting up a storm and also finally finished the video game Okami last night which has become my absolute favorite all time game. It's just right in tone, characters, colors and pace. None of the monsters are all that difficult as long as you follow all the clues and work out the puzzles. Absolutely beautiful and frustrating at times but perfect for anyone who's just looking for a first person game to play that involves Bamboo brushes, spirit dogs and feeding the local wildlife. When the trees burst into cherry blossom's it's so beautiful so much so that you become obsessed with getting it to happen. I just purchased the first God of War so i'm sure that that'll be a new obsession soon.
I suppose I should get back to work...damn

Paintings, Ebay and the right to Video Games

2007-04-01T19:44:16Z

When feeling under the weather at work, it's my usual preference to take on the joy's of slacking off but since the store's director is here it's just not the best plan ever. Otherwise, i'm entering a campus art show thing, which means my painting of Little Red Riding Hood will be on the wall next to say a needlepoint of two kitties. Speaking of which, it's even harder to leave your said felines when they are comfy on your lap while your watching Mysteries of the Bible and feeling crappy. But back to the painting thing, i'm not biased but I know mine will be the most unique thing entered...but hey, I suppose you just never really know. Someone could surprise me and throw in a little pizazz. Either way, looks as though Morrissey is in the works this year which makes me a happy child, considering that I wasn't really sure if I could go. But i'm bucking the "I don't have any time off left" odds and going for broke. Probably literally.
And then there are the usual things in life, like pinning down what i'm going to be when I grow up. Will I move out ever or die in my parents house, or worse out live them and then take over the house. Horrors. But in the truest form of Scarlet O'Harra i'm just not thinking about that until tomorrow. And then the next day and so on... today is raining and now i'm sad at work.
le sigh

Sorrority Whore Challenge

2007-02-26T00:48:45Z

        It seems that there aren't enough things in life that you can truly say inspire you to think... "Wow, people are really stupid sometimes" but this weekend I happened to see just such a sight. Apparently it's rush week, which means that the showboat society of "unique in an a-like way" girls all trot out in there uber trendy leggings and Alpha Crappa Delta whatever tee's that are deisgned to show off the eating dissorder they're proudest of at that time stand to the side of the coveted abode and watch the newest inductee wannabe's perform feats of foolish abandon to garner they're sad idea of respect. So this year, the new girls were asked to run through one of the busiest intersections while joyless denizens whizzed towards them in they're speedy SUV's. Of course, they were screaming ..and double dog of course, the boys were standing off to the sides chanting for they're favorite to "make it" across. Like gads of greyhounds vyying for the biggest piece of meat as a reward, they ran emitting they're high pitched howls to the rousing sounds of hoots and hollers by peers.  Strangest of all were last years inductees who were beating tin cans of a sort harkening back to the noises that nearly sent Elizabeth Taylor off of her nut in "Suddenly Last Summer".   While it's possible that these girls would be asked to procure for the other girls, is hard to tell.
   The most telling of the entire spectacle were the slowest of the "pack" , the portly and heavy set were seen to drop off like flies to the sides of the street huffing and puffing and straining to watch the eyes of the ones judging with the silent resignation that they although always sheltered in the lime light of daddy's gleaming eye, they now were losers. For me, I was early for work a little disturbed by the lemming like quality of the spectacle but yet entertained. Personally, I spent that morning in the below zero weather well bundled watching the herd of ugg boots and chanel glasses race towards death and secretly hoping for one to fall under the tires of a joyless citizen of Syracuse. For myself, I kept writing the plug for the nightly news commercial that was sure to follow at eleven. "tragic accident on campus, SU student struck..more news after this.."
   I laughed to myself until the security guards shut down the dog and pony show and the newbies were chosen with great glee. What was saddest of all was that not one of the girls said "hey .. .you know what.. No", even sadder still was the fact that they wanted to do it. My mp3 player was stuck on Barry Adamson and while he crooned out "Still I Rise" I was watching with half entertainment and half saddness. Life is funny stuff some times.

Birthday Cheer!

2007-02-06T19:15:29Z

I'm spoiled rotten, in more ways than one. I have one of the best groups of friends who spared no expense to give me the best for my thirtieth and now I feel satieted. Although, I did catch the flu i'm basically losing weight the cheaters way, it's a win win situation. Thanks to all who sent love, and showed up with it by the arm loads for both my sister and myself.

Thanks to

silviecleo, and scar_let for handmade joy that i've since then put directly up on my wall.. silviecleodid you know that my old DJ headgear has bees all over it..it's like you knew.., and scar_let I love that you go to the ends of the earth to scare me. Thanks man. I put up your story in glass over the bed. Ed and Craig are the greatest and know just what to get for the girl who has it all...a gift certificate to her favorite store... which brings up Helen and Mikes ability to stick it out after being at the store for a full day. Thanks for the handmade shirt, no doubt i'll be wearing it as soon as my stomach filth subsides. Gregg, your a good friend and have been through thick and thin or is that better put through Wilhelms...? Thanks for coming out! It's always a good time when your around. Hey wrench_monkey, don't ever change, you always make a party just that..thanks for the gifts and not to mention the cupcakes. yum!

hatorisohma and scinan, you two are the best not only did you trek up through the minor snowish hell that was going on you put up with me all weekend long. Your presents are always thoughtfull and amazing. hatorisohmahow did you know that I wanted a copy of the Spirit Mediums book? And scinan, that stuffed animal has been attached to my hip for the duration of my nasty nasty flu bug.

Now for

divine_debris, my pervayor of cool, bringer of comic joy even though it's killing you... and all around best friend of mine you always out do yourself and i've never felt adept at keeping up. Never you change. 1000yearasana...you rock, and I still can't believe that you gave me your measuring cup plus some very amazing books that i'll no doubt be pouring over this week. Your always so thoughtfull..i'll have to come up with something pretty amazing for your birthday to top it all.

Last but not least, to all my friends in Cali who flew in there love from afar. I'm listening to

moonlightnrainawesome mix right now and remembering how many mix's i've been stalling out on making for friends lately. aelfsciene, you always know just how far to take my Elvis love...I took that right out of the bag and have been using it to hopefully suck the sickness right out of me. Plus, I needed a new change purse thanks indeed! ebonlock...you rock for getting me the Klimt tarot and the Colbert love that I needed. And to misfitroxy for a lovely e-greeting on the day that I turned 30, thanks a bunch for the ever so adorable kitty.

thanks everyone, i'm very spoiled indeed

The End of the New Old Year...?

2006-12-29T18:47:32Z

So..we went to Vegas, Baltimore, Toronto, San Francisco, Mountainview Ca, Philadelphia, Washington, Flew through Chicago...which always sucks indeed, saw a good many bands ... Nine Inch Nails, Peaches, TV on the Radio, The Cribs, Franz Ferdinand, Elbow, Queens of the Stone Age, She Wants Revenge, Ok Go and Besnyo are just the ones that I can recall the names of ... I met a dj and made him my boy...your soul belongs to me (insert maniacle laugh here), got to hang out with almost all of my good friends except for the ones that couldn't make it around. Understandable. Jetsetting, creating, finishing my classes of which i'm pissed...only a B+ what the Hell!!!, and met a whole slew of very cool new folks and friends. You all know who you are...many many thanks to Eddy for the start of Republic and his 80's nights, Helen and Mike at Highly Atomic vintage for craft night and just being you..., divine_debrisfor advice, pointers and the usual sister things that get lost in the shuffle, and so much more that my addle brain can't muster.
Thanks to aelfsciene, ebonlock, [info]divine_debris, 1000yearasana, scar_let, and my parents for Christmas joy... Happy New Year Everyone... Check out some photos of the boy in my scrapbook L

Holiday Cheer

2006-12-13T22:19:57Z

"Some Christians believe Jesus will come back to fix this corrupt world. Certain Jewish sects propose that the messiah will soon appear on earth for the first time. Among Muslims, many predict the legendary 12th Imam will return and bring salvation to humanity. In India, devotees of Vishnu expect the avatar Kalki to arrive on the scene and carry out a miraculous redemption. Even the Buddhists prophesy Maitreya, the chosen one who'll establish universal peace. Personally, I suspect that the whole point of our spectacularly confounding moment in history is that each of us must become our own savior. The coming year will be an excellent time, Aquarius, for you to master the art of doing just that: being your own savior. And it all starts now. (P.S. You can perform a great service by being a role model for those who haven't yet figured out how to be their own saviors.) "

Where in Rob Bresny's plan for the next year is my time to knit? I ask you...what ever does this hippy mean? Does he mean that for once my internalised mantra of not overspending weekly will finally sink in and allow my crippled account to heal and mend? Gawd let's hope so. I guess, my upcoming christmas dream is to stop sinking into credit debt, take my vitamins on time, and learn to make my bed. That might be a nice and quirky change for the better considering that after I've gotten out of bed it looks as though a gaggle of ninja were having trouble learning how to square dance in it. Who knows, maybe I thrash in my sleep.
Otherwise, I guess that my hopes and aspirations are to stay at least the same...i'm doing alright, my life is good just the way that it is and work is no more complex than I make it myself...who could ask for anything more.
My familly is supportive and awesome and I get the impression more often than not that they love me so that's right where it should be. Hmm...Rob I don't need to be a personal savior.
That Hippy is full of shit.
L
Happy Holidays everyone!

Good Ole' Fashioned Christmas Freakout!!

2006-12-12T19:32:57Z

As much as I love the holiday, what is it about Christmas that it's sort of like a monster. And by monster I mean "the Grudge" style with that ever so small sized freak out where it's just around the corner, possibly in a bathroom stall, waiting patiently to grab you and shake you until the last five dollars in your world falls into it's open, primed and terrifying maw. Was that a run on?
Anyhoo, it's been a good fun time buying like a mad woman as the crafty side of me seems eaten up whole lately. But my buying power can only go so very far before my bank account cries in desperate anguish, of which it's doing until my paycheck spilleth forth tomorrow. Anyhoo, looking forward to visitors tonight the possibility of cookies and finishing projects that are killing me softly with there songs. By that I mean my Mothers Mp3 player. It's so much fun to load one of those for someone else and to put a few thousand photos on them that will no doubt make them happy until they can't figure out how to look at them then hand it back to me to make me change them. Good times.
Christmas should be fun!!
L

the Gentle Art of Cookies

2006-10-19T17:00:54Z

So my new favorite past time is late night frenzy baking. For no other reason than I can quickly wrap everything up and send it packing to various people. Meta X being my new favorite "friend" to be on the recieving end of Vegan doom...oh yes, kids..I went Vegan for good this time. And for once i've been "seeing" someone who can be also tagged under that title. Strangely theres some truth to the title that the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and especially if he's too skinny. Other things worth note, lately me and my Fiber arts class have been getting along in a productive way and that's interresting considering that I always thought that I would absolutely loathe getting dirty and yet I really like the art of papermaking. I've been playing with dyeing fabrics as well and sincerely considering doing quite a bit of it for christmas presents. But I think that everyone probably knows me best and also knows that most things in my life have the color Magenta attached to it. Gypsy Rose Lee always said to get a gimmick?

just a small note to remind you all i'm here, just playing way too much on the Myspace lately for my own good.

"Our Love is God, now let's go get a slushy" (heathers)
L

While My Price Gun Gently Weeps

2006-09-21T17:15:59Z

So I'm trapped at the downtown store location...what I politely refer to as the warehouse closet, and it's dead dead dead. I miss the main store and i'm very very lonely. There's only Joni Mitchell tapes to keep me company and that's no kind of company at all. Unfortunately I've left the important goodies, like my homework at the other store and now i'm just sitting like a goofball in front of the business computer surfing. Ahhh the joys of retail. I think today i'm leaving early for the sake of my sanity. Tomorrow night is the dance party...heh heh..across the street at the Half Penny and any of my friends will no doubt be there, which is all that I can blindly hope to get excited for. Although, I do have to say that i've put on a few since Leah's departure to Baltimore, considering that everyone and there brother is taking her out to dinner and well ,i'm just tagging along . So i've been eating to take up the time in between.
Can I get an Amen for work is a four letter word!
L

And God Created Candy..day 30

2006-09-18T21:48:42Z

So I found my much beloved Halloween time confectionary delight...the Skull Pop... I bought them at the Kmart on eerie blvd...which begs the question, because I couldn't find them in all the usual places does this mean that they're going away or have something wrong with them (candy laced with coke, news at 11:00)? Would that stop me from seeking out they're patented brand of joy each year? Probably not, but it might make me buy more in fact. Otherwise, I'll just hand them happily out to people...children in particular. Good Times!
L

I Think I've Seen My Doppleganger

2006-09-11T00:46:29Z

I think that I resemble the basist from "A Flock of Seagulls"...but isn't that a guy? Just a question.

It's a little bit eerie right, the tool in the upper right hand corner could be my mirror. Oooh creepy, but yet I kind of still love those guys so it'll be alright in the end, we can just never be in the same room together.
L

The Scariest Thing Yahoo has ever done to Me.

2006-08-09T18:09:23Z

that's it...just this terror-inducing little lady on my front home page when I went to clean out all the myspace stuff and ebay trauma ladden spam. I can't figure out what disturbs me more...the fact that someone made the effort to not only "pretty up" this little lady with delicately well detailed features, and earrings or just that it sort of popped up at me on the screen. I can't quite place my finger on why it's just this side of my nightmare coming to reality...just thought that I should share?
So if you read in the papers that I a). died in my sleep of terror...you'll know what I was dreaming about or b) was stabbed to death with an impossibly small knife you'll know who did it. Although, here's something that I didn't think of...what if it's human sized.
Shiver
sleep well
L
"it's your son, he has the cold dead eyes of a killer" (Bernard Black , Black Books)

Rubella

2006-08-08T17:59:34Z

    I've been getting rather sick of this one commercial on BBC America this week, enough so that I won't watch anything on that channel that I can't just TIVO and fast forward. I've begun to launch a personal campaign against the "Footballers Wives" and their friends the "overtimes". All I want is what any self respecting lady with Cat time on the sofa wants, a little "Cash in the Attic" (that Alistair..he's a pip) and "Life on Mars". Instead cat calls of "greedy Bitch" and "i'm Tanya darling" are all I can focus and rely on to remember at the most in opportune moments. Just this morning i'm in the paints, putting up all the new fixtures for Golden Acrylics and all I can think of to say to them is "Greedy Bitch". Something tells me that while the paints are like plants and that they do like to be talked to they don't like to hear me regurgitate the random outbursts of commercials that spew out of the melange of memory that I have left.

   It's totaly random too, I'll be sitting as I am now in the computer cluster with headphones and twizzlers and minding my own and all I can string together as coherent thoughts are how funny that Geico commercial with Little Richard is... and how much I want a Swiffer. Anyway, I watch too much tv.
Just finished reading through "the Prestige", which divine_debris posted the trailer for the film in her live journal. While i'm concerned about the film in that I don't know what they'll leave out or change and I want them to leave it as is, i'm very excited in the same breath for it considering that it's Christopher Nolan. I do love Memento and Batman Begins and begrudgingly i've given up my shifty eyed look about Christian Bale. Okay...back in the day I was forced to both watch Newsies and Swing Kids as good representations of the Nazis invasion of Europe, and well i've harbored a small time anger management issue against the actor ever since. Even in the magnificent movie that is "Velvet Goldmine" I just couldn't get past the catch phraise "Swing Heil". But after this weekend and watching "the Machinist" i'm now a fan. The man may be insane, but that movie totaly makes up for my earlier pain.

    It's like Mr. Bale looked at me and said, "I know those movies really sucked... I needed the money. Here's a completely awesome get out of jail free card of a flick for you"
Appology accepted Christian.
Otherwise, not much in the land of too many students.... I put away product to feel alive.
Now I must go back to work and toil with masking tape. Maybe i'll just attempt to sell them as I wear them like a Ubangi tribeswoman.

L

"like a rush that never fades..."

Dreaming in Steroid Maximus

2006-07-03T20:25:35Z

      Last night I was reading Sam Harris' book "The End of Faith" which for me is like preaching to the choir of the already converted to the church of satan but anyhoo, I chose to listen to Steroid Maximus for the first time in a long time to go with it. I have to tell you, the night before you are about to get on a flight to California...not the best idea to be listening to post appocalyptic movie themes while reading a book about the utter stupidity of faith. Now, I'm a judging woman (meaning I love to look at others and give a good look in the "what is she wearing" camp) and so I have this feeling that the small ounce of "hey what was that downstairs" paranoia that i've got in the comfort of my own computer chair will be nothing if not outstandingly dwarfed by tomorrows propeller plane good times. We shall see...you can bet that I finished Sam Harris, have moved on to the final book in the Dark Matierials trilogy and have swaped out the usual night time "lullabies" with some good old "Cocteau Twins". Thank god for Sugar hiccup. Wait..no..not God?
     Otherwise, last nights episode of the Venture Bros. made me laugh but somewhat less as hard as the first one..can't all kick in the keister I suppose. But I am revisiting my love for Spaced and Black Books ...BBC america may try to kill my spirit with a thousand fucking commercials for "Footballers Retards" but i'm still standing by my shows. Or as I like to refer to them...my stories. I know i'd love to be like Brian and paint anger, sadness, fear , and rage but i'm really more of a Daisy saying girl power at an interview. Damn. Alright, so i'm going to the land of nod tomorrow morning very very early like and i'm loading up my zen with a good amount of "please don't freak out" ditties for the fun of it. Lots and lots of Peter Murphy..should be good for the soul right? RIGHT???
   I'll send along an update (ha ha) after we get back.  Everybody better damn well go to Republic and shake it (wait now..I want to do this like my homies) ..shake it like a polaroid picture. Dance to everything that I would've danced to and make Eddy a happy man all night long. Not too much to ask right? This means you have to (as my friends) take up the undieing duty of dancing to every Morrissey / Smiths song and also for Leah...every Peter Murphy, Bauhaus..Nine Inch Nails, Cure song.
Talk to you all soon.

"I know he looks like a Dracula but honest injun he's our neighbor"
L

Isn't that Really What You Wanted !

2006-06-20T18:39:59Z

So divinedebris, scinan , hatorishma , and I have been on the Trent tour lately, waiting in line after line through all weather types and with about as many diverse fans as was humanly possible . It's been an honest blast and I'm almost sad that we aren't going to more shows on the tour. I think my favorite on the latest batch of shows was probably Saratoga (even though it was 95 degrees out) just for the sake of Peaches as an opening band..not only did she strip to her hot pink skivies but she also made two security guards chase her during "Fuck the Pain Away". That was a damn good time.  Plus she dresses like Jem and the holograms and who couldn't love that ....

   However, a close second was the Camden NJ show for the sake of getting to see the long lost Crazy Mike who smokes like a stack and talked a good deal about choking women...ahhh good times. But then there was the amazing tour of Eastern State Penitentary (as seen on Ghost Hunters)
http://www.easternstate.org/
http://www.scifi.com/ghosthunters/

this is Jay and Grant in front of one of the many crumbling walls of the reportedly haunted site. It's a self guided tour that's narrated by Steve Buschemi...I don't think that we were allowed in the areas that the hunters investigated...I wonder if jay and grant had to fill out a waiver too?
Anyhoo, Trent and the boys were second only to the cherry street vegetarian restaurant where I had an eating contest that I liken to a strong man competition...who can keep from throwing up for the longest amount of time. I believe the champ was  Scinan on that one.
   The shows have been heart stopping good, and i'm relatively new to the Nine Inch Nails scene and i'm not quite feeling like i'm getting enough Although, I guess I need to qualify that one...I'm not exactly new, when I was in high school I did listen to Pretty Hate Machiene..many an afternoon in the art room listening to it while drawing the odd unicorn was more than likely had. However, it wasnt' the kind of tape that I raced to flip... I think that at the time I had the view point that if it wasn't Morrissey it was crap..and well not much really has changed because I still very dearly love the man but i sort of learned to appreciate the gravity of the live Nails concert.  It's where I was swayed after so many dance club nights where I was disgusted by the gyrations of portly lads and lasses to "closer"...although the song live is so much more.
   In short...that Trent Reznor shakes his butt during "slipping away" and it's fucking dreamy.

"there is no place I can go, there is no way I can hide..."
L

Dude Run!

2006-06-09T18:07:25Z

http://quiz.myyearbook.com/zenhex/quiz.php?
Your Results:
Jason Hawes
You are Jason Hawes! You love to be goofy sometimes, but you're a real hard-ass! You want things done as they should be done. You love to yell at Brian as well! Sometimes there's no need to be such a hard-ass...loosen up a bit and goof around with the TAPS family!

Yes!
he's my favorite... I also scored a 1% Steve and a 1% Grant...
L

Okay So I Had To

2006-06-01T18:06:27Z

Check this mess out...
<table border='0' cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0' width='600'><tr><td><img src="http://images.quizfarm.com/1148545439switch2[1].jpg"></td><td> You scored as <b>Perky Goff</b>. You are a perky goff! You like cute things, glitter, and scary carnivals. You think that the contrast between playful innocence and dark corruption is tantalizing, which is why you like to dress up like an evil dollie.<br><br><table border='0' width='300' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr><td><p><font face='Arial' size='1'>Perky Goff</font></p></td><td><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='63' bgcolor='#dddddd'><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face='Arial' size='1'>63%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face='Arial' size='1'>Old-school Goth</font></p></td><td><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='63' bgcolor='#dddddd'><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face='Arial' size='1'>63%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face='Arial' size='1'>Fantasy Goth</font></p></td><td><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='58' bgcolor='#dddddd'><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face='Arial' size='1'>58%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face='Arial' size='1'>Anything-Goes Goth</font></p></td><td><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='42' bgcolor='#dddddd'><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face='Arial' size='1'>42%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face='Arial' size='1'>Industrial/Rivet-Head</font></p></td><td><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='38' bgcolor='#dddddd'><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face='Arial' size='1'>38%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face='Arial' size='1'>Understanding Outsider</font></p></td><td><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='33' bgcolor='#dddddd'><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face='Arial' size='1'>33%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face='Arial' size='1'>Death Rocker</font></p></td><td><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='29' bgcolor='#dddddd'><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face='Arial' size='1'>29%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face='Arial' size='1'>Cyber-goth</font></p></td><td><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='25' bgcolor='#dddddd'><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face='Arial' size='1'>25%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face='Arial' size='1'>Ethereal Goth</font></p></td><td><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='17' bgcolor='#dddddd'><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face='Arial' size='1'>17%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face='Arial' size='1'>Romantic Goth</font></p></td><td><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='0' bgcolor='#dddddd'><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face='Arial' size='1'>0%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face='Arial' size='1'>Confused Outsider</font></p></td><td><table border='1' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='0' bgcolor='#dddddd'><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face='Arial' size='1'>0%</font></td></tr></td></tr></table><br><a href='http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=194602'>What subcategory of Goth best fits you?</a><br><font face='Arial' size='1'>created with <a href='http://quizfarm.com'>QuizFarm.com</a></font></table>