21 posts tagged “music is love”
Waitress is a lovely movie. Apparently specifically made to make me both laugh my ass off and cry my eyes out. You should watch it. And perhaps listen to this song first, as you will need to sing it to yourself throughout a good portion of the movie. Also how is Nathan Fillion so charming?
I have no reason to be in anything other than a good mood today and yet ridiculousness at work seems to be getting the best of me. I just spent ten minutes on the porch trying to talk myself into a positive mental attitude.
It's lovely outside, not quite blue-skied, but warm and lovely and scented of spring and joy. I am dressed for it: black a-line skirt, bright green top, white cardigan, black satin ballet flats printed all over with cherries.
Right now T-Rider is driving through the Arizona desert, which I suspect is kind of boring for him and certainly not one of my favorite things to do, but man, I wish I was there. I am instead making a list of insanely urgent work things that I can't solve myself and can't seem to pin anyone else down to approve. The huge desert sky, the possibilty of stopping for excellent food and riding along with my feet propped up in the corner of the open window seems exceptionally perfect right now. But perhaps that's an "anywhere but here" feeling.
HA! In further proof the universe does not want me to be in a bad mood, our accounting person just called me to tell me that they were retroactively extending my raised back to Mar 24, instead of Apr 1. Apparently this makes accounting easier, but more importantly, pays me more for a whole extra week. Woo!
Birthday is now 22 days away. That's three weeks, people. Hope you've all been pooling your cash to buy me that one-way ticket to Barcelona. And perhaps set me up with someone to marry there, so I can stay. *sigh* Yeah, that would better than work today.
Okay. I should be working. Solving problems. Reducing my own panic about what isn't going to get done.
I am working, it's boring, easy, addition of long columns of numbers, putting together donation reports from the last three years. Mindless and so I am obsessing over The Time Traveler's Wife while I do it. I lent my last copy out. I might seriously have to buy a new one on my way home so I can read it again tonight. And then in Rhi's blog she was listening to "Propane" which is one of my most favoritist songs ever and somehow in my my mind inexplicably tied to The Time Traveler's Wife (perhaps they stir up the same emotions in me?), so I am sharing the song with you in honor of my current mental obsession.
and some of the rest of you might care too. Dolly:
Continuing what seems to be a trend, after a fairly unproductive weekend, I got a shit-ton of stuff done yesterday. I guess I should just face it, no matter what I think of Saturday and Sunday, Monday is really my getting stuff done day. All laundry is done, I got a bunch of new jewelry made--not as much as I wanted because the muscle movement needed to wrap wire turned out to be fairly painful on my scabby tattoo. Talked to my mom who recc'ed some movies, as she does, and did not sound at all thrilled that I got another tattoo, as she also does. Finished and uploaded a website for work. Cleaned my room and put away the clean laundry. Watched Scrubs.
This morning I stopped at the good store to stock up on snacky and lunch-like things for work. I got whole grain rye crackers and hummus instead of potato chips and mayo-dip. Am feeling superior about my recent eating habits. Now if I can just remember to drink a river's worth of water today I should be in excellent shape.
My mood so far is far cry from yesterday's hormonal destructomatic. I updated my Pandora station and it is giving me all love right now. So barring any work absurdity (which is always imminent) I should be a-okay today. (And if I can manage to continue to ignore the cold, beating wind and dreary grey. Go away, winter! I don't want you!)
And now for something completely different:
Why I will vote Ralph, an essay by Miss Adventures in the 37206
Ralph Nader has tossed his hat in the presidential ring again. I am not ashamed to say that I voted for him twice before and if he comes up with the cash and is on the ballot again, I will cast a third vote for him. I can already hear all my friends, the good Democrats among them anyway, declaring that I am either throwing away my vote, or worse that I am damaging the party's chance of winning. So let me explain, right here, why no matter how strong the argument, I can't be swayed from my opinion.
I love my country and to some extent I love the political process here. But I am very much and idealist. Obama's idealism does appeal to me, as do his emotional speeches. However, the political process here has become very limited by the strict two party system, choked with party platforms that I am not wholly behind. Both parties I find crooked and not representative of your average American. So while the Green Party does not necessarily entirely represent my beliefs, the idea of a system containing more parties/points of view is so important to me that I will back it every time.
Politics are incredibly corrupt in this country. Perhaps it's necessary to get things done because of the size of the country. I don't know. I do know that I am more interested in what is good for the American people, the average worker, the new immigrant, the elderly, than for corporations and already rich white guys. From my point of view, Nader speaks more to that than any of the other current candidates. He is driven, he does have an agenda, but I hear in his words that he cares more about individuals than about money and power.
It's an exciting time to be alive. I am genuinely thrilled by the prospect of our first female or black president. However, neither candidate has in any way shown me that if elected they will really change our country (more than the obvious advancement for women's rights or racial equality). As I said, I am an idealist. I want change. Academically I have a strong education in movements of extreme change. Revolutions. France. America. The former Soviet bloc countries. It does seem impossible and potentially dangerous in modern day America, but we need change, we need to shake things up. I declare myself completely unsatisfied with the current party choices, with the current party system, with the way things have been done in the last 25+ years, with the way beloved country is slowly being driven into the ground.
My voice is small in this huge nation, but it still works. All I can do is use it to say, no I don't want this, I want something different. Right now, Nader is my choice for that. Ron Paul is that man for many people, and I respect that. I encourage it, in the sense that I hope people will stand behind someone they feel really represents their beliefs, ideals and needs. If Obama or Clinton is that person for you, great!
I know the potential consequences of my decision and I stubbornly stand behind it. If you're interested, there is a great interview with Nader here. I'd like to definitively say that this isn't an arguable point for me. If you feel differently than I do, I fully support you in that, so please respect my choice. My mind can't be changed. If you know me at all, you know how stubborn I can be.
And hey, no matter what you think, go vote, it's the loudest voice you have, no matter how you use it.
And in the vein of every single little thing in this entire post, here is a song for you--
Only two songs recs? C'mon people!
Operation: Be Nice to Me (subsequently known as O:BNM) has thus far resulted in me using fancy fig & lavendar body wash instead of plain old soap and today I am wearing a lovely skirt that I got in Amsterdam a couple years ago and my sexier pair of knee-high boots. I smell good and I feel all chic and cosmopolitan (despite the fact that I couldn't sleep again last night and was thus super late for work and didn't bother to brush my hair or anything). I've also changed the name of this blog to "vivat crescat floreat," the Latin for "may it live, grow, and flourish!" In the interest of positivity and my maintaining a general great outlook. And in the vein, here is a song for me:
Validated: quotative like.
I just got a message from a vague acquaintance (a friend of an old fling), asking if she had heard correctly that I was doing the booking at the Station Inn. Um, no? And if someone is perpetuating such rumours about me can they please make an equivalent job materialize with it?
Breszny-scope:
Week beginning January 24
Copyright 2008 by Rob Brezsny
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "In the human heart new passions are forever being born," said French writer Francois de La Rochefoucauld. "The overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another." I suppose that's true. We all have longings that come and go as we evolve. But I'd also like to propose an equally valid and contradictory truth: In every human heart there are a few passions that last a lifetime. They're with us from the moment we're born, and nothing can dilute their intensity. Our destiny revolves around them. These are the passions I hope you will define with precision and nurture with alacrity during the next eight weeks.
What does that even mean?
Don't you hate it when you hear a song and and think, "Oh yeah, baby, yeah, that's good!" Then you get the album and that song is the only good one on it. Boo. Anyway I like this song:
I'm feeling fairly old and frumpy today. Timmy Mac tells me my new MySpace picture (taken today) makes me look like a pretty British girl. He flatters, as he always does, however, I'm so full of my own frumpiness that I can't help but wonder if he means I'm hiding bad teeth or something. Then again maybe it's because I tried to set it as my profile pic and it scrunched up funny and made me look all distorted and that's unhappy making. (eta - I've decided I hate it and thus have taken it down and replaced it with a much better one.)
Yesterday I resolved to do more nice things for myself. I have this weird habit of buying things for myself, like fancy body wash, or jewelry, or clothes that are nice and then not ever using/wearing them. It's like I think I need to save them for some special occasion which never arrives. So I am resolving to use all the nice bath products, wear the lovely clothes etc. for no reason at all other than I like to look good and smell pretty. No point in having nice things if they just gather dust, yeah?
I have 4 eMusic downloads left for the month. Everyone rec me a song you think I might like and might not have. Go!
This just about sums it up for me:
