so i was headed out to seattle for a little excursion. on the plane, the battery for my computer died. so i pulled out the usairways magazine and quickly shuffled back to the crossword and puzzle pages.
my qotd was the answer to one of the letter drop puzzles. it was an unexpected laugh. i love that!
“I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.”
--Lily Tomlin
ps: i heart lily tomlin!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
...its too easy to wish you harm... qotd(092307)
Smokey Joe by Tori Amos has been in my head for a solid week. so really this should be my quote of the week. however, in an attempt to exorcize this demon, i put it on paper.
well, figuratively anyway.
if you are unfamiliar with Tori and her current album American Doll Posse (and quite frankly, out of the loop...), she often takes on the guise of the women who are (yes, are) her songs. in this album she just spelled it out for everyone. there are sides of her identity that present themselves when the situation warrants. these women are her posse, and they are
Pip
Santa
Tori
and Clyde.
they all have their own special talents, and their own blogs. for more info, ask me or check out the toriphoria page http://www.yessaid.com/ also: http://toriamos.com and http://www.undented.com/ .
Santa
Tori
Isabel
and Clyde.
they all have their own special talents, and their own blogs. for more info, ask me or check out the toriphoria page http://www.yessaid.com/ also: http://toriamos.com and http://www.undented.com/ .
Pip sings this one. check out her blog at http://pipolitics.livejournal.com/
Smokey Joe you're calling at the station
"if I kill him there are complications"
i did not ask for this
"oh, but Love, yes you did"
maybe it terrifies me
this quiet siege
maybe it terrifies me
it's too easy
it's too easy
to wish you harm
you through black ice
at the bottom of the river
Smokey Joe, hey, what's a revelation
"that one's past is not a destination
it is a road for fools
who need empty approvals"
my dark twin
the annihilating Feminine
does not need
civilizing
...maybe it terrifies me
it's too easy to wish you harm...
...Smokey Joe is calling at the station...
for a reason, coincidence or otherwise, i started my walk with Smokey Joe shortly after my annoying, needy, self-centered ex text me yet again. every time i think of him or hear of him it makes me smile to think of his misery. and “maybe it terrifies me” that i can imagine such cruelty. or maybe i revel in it? either way i can’t really spend the time worrying about him and that past.
its time to work on my own karma... and if that means to stop wishing a pox on his head... guess i could try?
bonus download: Cruel by Tori Amos from the album From the Choirgirl Hotel (also sung by Pip years before Pip had a name) “...i can be cruel. i don’t know why...”
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
...and start again... (qotd:090507)
then i was unpacking stuff from boxes from my move... found this bit of music history (!)... used to love this song... still do...sometimes you have to stop "walking around in circles"... and drop everything... start again... and start again... and start again... and start again... and start again... and start again...
"when the ghostly dust of violence traces everything
and when the gas runs out
just wreck it
you insured the thing.
i don't need to walk around in circles
well i know what i'm doin'
but i can't sigh now that you made the move
it has gone and gone to dogs
lay down on the floor
for the right price i can get everything
slip into the car.
go driving to the farthest star
i don't need to walk around in circles..."
walk around in circles
by soul coughing
album: el oso
...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again ...and start again...
Saturday, August 11, 2007
she said, "you have a bad attitude..." (qotd:081107)
continuing in the vein of yesterday’s quote of the day, i came across another song i love. i have diana krall’s version of this (from her disc when i look in your eyes). its a song called “devil may care.”
while that may sound rude. sometimes you have to take that attitude. even if just for the sake of your own personal sanity.
i just wish i could really take this attitude all the time. especially the part about having no regrets. that’s tough! i wish i could live my life wholly and honestly enough to never have a day end wishing it was different.
while that may sound rude. sometimes you have to take that attitude. even if just for the sake of your own personal sanity.
i just wish i could really take this attitude all the time. especially the part about having no regrets. that’s tough! i wish i could live my life wholly and honestly enough to never have a day end wishing it was different.
“no cares for me
i'm happy as i can be
i learn to love and to live
devil may care
no cares and woes
whatever comes later goes
that's how i'll take and i'll give
devil may care
when the day is through, i suffer no regrets
i know that he who frets, loses the night
for only a fool, thinks he can hold back the dawn
he was wise to never tries to revise what's past and gone
live love today, let come tomorrow what may
don't even stop for a sigh, it doesn't help if you cry
that's how i’ll live and i'll die
devil may care”
if you are unfamiliar with the amazing voice of diana krall, please check her out. totally worth a spin even if you aren't into jazz/blues. which why aren't you? it the bee's knees, the cat's pajamas, the quick train from squaresville to hiptown kid-o! (translation: all the cool kids are doing it)
Friday, August 10, 2007
different drummer (qotd:081007)
i have the incredible fortune to have found the most supportive, amazing man on the planet. i’ve found he’d likely do anything for me. but it took half a lifetime to find him. and i had to wade through a lot of muck to get to him.
sometimes the road to your goals can be very lonely. they are very few people on this planet that will understand your need to do something away from the main stream. even those who profess sides with the deviants all seem to eventually sell their dreams for a small salary amongst the rat-racers.
in all my short life experiences i have found one thing to be true: that salary won’t bring happiness. the people i know in those jobs are still unhappy wit their lives and themselves. i left corporate america for a reason, and intend to never return. never look back.
and no one has ever accused me of the travesty of being normal...
so the only choice is obvious. live life. CREATE your happiness. do YOUR thing. LEAD! never follow. MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC!
and if you can make a buck doing it, it will be that much sweeter!
!!DISCLAIMER!! the less you care about what people think of you and your life, the more haters you will attract. they are desperate to bring you down. even your “friends” think its their job to “show you reality.” and get ready to be called crazy!
in the words sung by the diva mama cass (qotd):
“nobody can tell ya
there's only one song worth singin'
they may try and sell ya
'cause it hangs them up
to see someone like you
but you've gotta
make your own kind of music
sing your own special song
make your own kind of music
even if nobody else sings along
you're gonna be knowing
the loneliest kind of lonely
it may be rough going
just to do your thing's
the hardest thing to do
but you've gotta make your own kind of music
sing your own special song
make your own kind of music
even if nobody else sings along
so if you cannot take my hand,
and if you must be goin'
i will understand
you gotta make your own kind of music
sing your own special song
make your own kind of music
even if nobody else sings along”
sometimes the road to your goals can be very lonely. they are very few people on this planet that will understand your need to do something away from the main stream. even those who profess sides with the deviants all seem to eventually sell their dreams for a small salary amongst the rat-racers.
in all my short life experiences i have found one thing to be true: that salary won’t bring happiness. the people i know in those jobs are still unhappy wit their lives and themselves. i left corporate america for a reason, and intend to never return. never look back.
and no one has ever accused me of the travesty of being normal...
so the only choice is obvious. live life. CREATE your happiness. do YOUR thing. LEAD! never follow. MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC!
and if you can make a buck doing it, it will be that much sweeter!
!!DISCLAIMER!! the less you care about what people think of you and your life, the more haters you will attract. they are desperate to bring you down. even your “friends” think its their job to “show you reality.” and get ready to be called crazy!
in the words sung by the diva mama cass (qotd):
“nobody can tell ya
there's only one song worth singin'
they may try and sell ya
'cause it hangs them up
to see someone like you
but you've gotta
make your own kind of music
sing your own special song
make your own kind of music
even if nobody else sings along
you're gonna be knowing
the loneliest kind of lonely
it may be rough going
just to do your thing's
the hardest thing to do
but you've gotta make your own kind of music
sing your own special song
make your own kind of music
even if nobody else sings along
so if you cannot take my hand,
and if you must be goin'
i will understand
you gotta make your own kind of music
sing your own special song
make your own kind of music
even if nobody else sings along”
Friday, July 27, 2007
passing time at fort bragg (qotd:072707)
my brother is at fort bragg preparing with his group to go to the middle east. i guess they have to learn all kinds of stuff this month before they leave. and practice sleeping in tents.
the horror!
i think about him every day and wonder how he is coping. he is very brave about going overseas or puts on a good face about it for sure.
he has seen some drama at the fort. and it is tough place to be. so i’m always anxious to hear news about how things are going.
last night at work i got a text form him. i went into the office to check my phone and see if he was doing alright. maybe he needed something...
it became my quote of the day:
“I am in a brief that would be boring but the woman giving the brief sounds just like Ellen and she’s so far away I can’t tell that she’s not and she’s making me laugh even though it’s not funny. So I could be getting a brief about how not to get killed in Iraq by Ellen. Who knows?”
the visual i got in my head caused me to lmao!
the horror!
i think about him every day and wonder how he is coping. he is very brave about going overseas or puts on a good face about it for sure.
he has seen some drama at the fort. and it is tough place to be. so i’m always anxious to hear news about how things are going.
last night at work i got a text form him. i went into the office to check my phone and see if he was doing alright. maybe he needed something...
it became my quote of the day:
“I am in a brief that would be boring but the woman giving the brief sounds just like Ellen and she’s so far away I can’t tell that she’s not and she’s making me laugh even though it’s not funny. So I could be getting a brief about how not to get killed in Iraq by Ellen. Who knows?”
the visual i got in my head caused me to lmao!
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
intelligent film (qotd:071807)
I recently watched a film called Shortbus directed by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Justin Bond, the proprietor of the underground “salon” by the name Shortbus (“for the gifted and challenged”) is giving Sofia a tour of the place.
“...now here is our performance room. Tonight we’re having a film festival. (whispers to Sofia) They’re boring as hell. But I find the more boring they are, the more intelligent people think they are for watching.” (qotd:071807)
I just wish I had come across that quote while I was still in film school.
“...now here is our performance room. Tonight we’re having a film festival. (whispers to Sofia) They’re boring as hell. But I find the more boring they are, the more intelligent people think they are for watching.” (qotd:071807)
I just wish I had come across that quote while I was still in film school.
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