MUSIC NIGHT (and lemon cake to boot)

I just had to post because I found another Black Lips song that is marvelous. Simply put, this post is basically a playlist for you fine folks/fuckers to listen to.

Oh, as far as life: it's all good right now. I'm spending two off days doing whatever and relaxing. Ate the hell out of some lemon cake with lemon frosting earlier. It was yummy.

Now, the tunes:

Here's one of my all-time favorite songs, City of Angels by the Distillers. Love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_p7IO7esBA

My recent favorite Black Lips song, Body Combat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hr3p7CgS-8

And now, the finale:

Bone Marrow by the Black Lips (huzzaaaaaaaaaaaaah!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Y2eTh1kiC2E&feature=endscreen



Comment below and tell me what you think of my favorite band, the Black Lips. :)

HeliumI

I got my job back. I had a post on here about loosing my job (I quit. It was my fault on the whole loosing my job end...)

Yay.

All is right with the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLXnllBfSmI Have a listen to this badass shit, biznatches. (lol...)

Have you caught the Fever yet?

I first heard of Dengue Fever many years ago on a late-night tv show about music that I watched religiously. That show is where I heard of several bands and musicians including four that I really enjoy: Dengue Fever, Cobra Starship, M.I.A and The Duke Spirit.

Of course, M.I.A is one of my all-time favorite musicians. Mathangi Arulpragasm (or Maya as she likes to be called) is a lyric goddess and is the only music considered by many to be 'rap' that I actually enjoy.

Dengue Fever, the subject of this post, is a band from California with a Cambodian lead singer named Chhom Nimol. She is AMAZING. (Keep in mind when listening to these guys that they also have a guy who sings lead sometimes. He's good, but Chhom is better.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4feSrteIeY&feature=g-vrec&context=G21d7905RVAAAAAAAACQ (Chhom in  Khmer language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH7dbO8PpQc (amazing song by them. One of my faves.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzyPuX9f4_U&feature=relmfu (he sings here.)

The purpose of this post it to spread the word about Dengue Fever. Love them.

Are you an April Fool?

I forgot all about the first of this month being April Fool's Day until my coworker got a phone call from one of her three sons claiming that her eldest son had fallen down some stairs and broken his arm or something like that...? She said "bring him down here", knowing that the boys were pranking her.

I had totally forgotten about the day...

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On another note, can you believe how fast this year is going? It's already April... I'll have been at my job a year and one month this month. That seems like an awfully long time to me.

I'm ready for May to get here because it holds some surprises for me but I am also sad to see 2012 fly by in such a hurry! It's sad on one hand but on the other, I may be going to school in the spring of 2013. *^_^*

I have decided to go back to school for video game design and the like. I think it will be a challenging course but I would have fun doing the work, creating characters and the like (seeing as how I loveee making up characters.)

I believe with all of my heart that I have picked a career path that best suits me. From a young age, I've been interested in creative fields. I wanted to be a toy maker in kindergarten, an astronaut (not so much on the creative side), a film director, a writer and many other things but I think I have chosen perfectly. (Nothing is set in stone just yet, just in case...but I really have no doubts.)

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RANT TIME! :D

I have this former friend who is so selfish. Here's some examples of what she's done.

1. comes over and eats whatever

2. charged me for three people's worth of food from a restaraunt when she was only supposed to charge me for 2...

3. taken an entire pack of toothbrushes that she thought I bought for her when I only got them for her to take one out of the package!

There's more that's not in the same category as the above stuff.

1. No matter when it is, if she's off of work, she has a damn beer in her hand....

2. she's flip-floppy with her personality

3. she's easy to offend but does not give a shit about others' feelings

4. she's so annoying

I have ahad to rant about all of this for a while now but I have not had any ideas as to where to put it. As far as her selfish points that I brough up go, yes, I could have said something but see section 2 point 3. I am tired of people like that! I don't want anything to do with people like this any more! EVER again!!!! I am done with the bullshit!

Maybe everyone who is like this will read the above statements and never meet me or befriend me. :)

Winter was really non-existant and "starships were meant to fly!!!!"

PHEW!
Today was dreadfully hot and it makes me worry about what summer's gonna be like this year. We had practically NO winter whatsoever. Ticks, mosquitoes, the heat... everything's going to be raging an all-out war on us this summer. :(

It makes me sad.

Some good news: I am off from work for two days in a row! Woot! I bet you that these days won't end up as anything productive. In fact, I'm willing to bet that I won't get anything done!

Bet me. You know you want to!

Have a listen to my favorite song of the moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-8MagxjOrE

It's Nicki Minaj's Starships. I never thought I'd like a song by her until I heard this. It is marvelous!

Religion.........kills?

If you keep up with the news, I'm sure you've heard of the 23 year old Muslim man that killed four Jewish people, including 3 children, and some soldiers in France. Oh yeah, he video taped the murders, too.

8 year old Miriam Monsonego: He chased her through a shool and grabbed her by the hair. He tried to shoot her in the temple but his gun jammed, so he switched to a .45 and shot her point blank in the temple.

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/03/24/why_videotape_t.html

Look up the rest of the victims and tell me why religion kills children. Why do people do things like this in the name of their religion? (This guy's reasons were: honor of Islam, revenge on France for taking part in the Afghanistan war and revenge for dead Pakistani children.)

Stuck?

I feel weird inside.

Things in my life need to change. I need a change of scenery and I need it quickly. It's pretty bad that I have this thing where I don't stay put long. It's unfortunate. I move to one place and then, without hesitation, I leave it.

Until now.

I'm in a SMALL town and this August(ish) will be my four year mark. Something is off with this. Something is keeping me here and I don't want to be here. Does that make sense? I am thinking of many different ways that I could just leave but all of them require money and that's just something that I don't have a lot of at this time. Ya know, Florida is really calling me for some reason.

Maybe I'll be seeing some ocean soon. Who knows?

One Year

Yesterday, 3-1-12 was my one year anniversary working for the company that I work for. It's been a year full of many different emotions and lots of experiences. I've made good connections with a few of my co-workers and I can actually say that I've been with a company for a year now... lol...

Yay!

Here's to mroe time there. :)

A Few Thoughts

1. Playboy and Virgin Galactic are making plans for a gentleman's club in space. Weird but if it gets us up there quicker, I'm all for it. There are conceptual art pictures for a restaraunt and a dance area on Space.com. Go there and check it out.

2. I recently read that a sixteen year old killed his mother over a Playstation. Isn't that so stupid?! He hit her with a claw hammer while she was sleeping and that didn't kill her, so he tried to burn her in the oven. Messed up world we live in. And that kid is so fucked up.

3. Anorexia and boys. How did this go without some sort of attention for as long as it did? When I was in high school, my doctor told me that I was anorexic. I starved myself and walked for hours on end and I still thought I was fat....

4. Whitney Houston was buried in gold shoes? Like real gold? Can anyone confirm this? It's on the cover of a magazine we sell at work and I'd like to see these gold shoes... lol.

5. I am addicted to a new game series for the PS3. I'll divulge more on this topic in May when the final game in the PS3 trilogy is released. :) HURRY UP MAY!

6. Arizona southern style sweet tea in the 23 ounce can is good. I miss Milo's tea but things change. :( If you drink the Arizona brand, do NOT get the amber bottle of it. It does NOT taste as good as it does in the can. Don't ask me why because I have no clue.

7. Tennessee weather is strange. It's February but shorts are a total possibility for outdoor wear today.... Hmmm...

8. Even numbers are better than odd ones. There really isn't an eighth point but I thought I'd add one instead of leaving this piost at 7 points.... lol.

Have a listen to the following! :D

Chasing Ghosts by Drive Like Red 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shtY-miVlcE

My Heart is Broken by Evanescence (One of my top musical loves)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1QGnq9jUU0&ob=av2e

Dark Paradise by Lana Del Rey (LOVE her.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLS8YGWC2iA 

Cottonmouth by Sam Sparro (ADORE him!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxVq4y-n-0Y

The Travel Channel

I have to rant about this online in hopes that some higher up at the Travel Channel HQ will see this and do something about it.

I love the travel channel........when they're showing travel shows only.

Why all of this Man vs Food and ghost hunting crap?!!?!

Look, TC, Samantha Brown, Tony Bourdain, Andrew Zimmern, Marcus Sakey and even Bridget Marquardt are WAY better than the ghost crap and almost all of those I listed are better than Man vs Food. Maybe if Man vs Food guy were to travel around the WORLD and eat, then I could see the show being on your network.

Food is important but TRAVEL doesn't make me think of food first and foremost...as your line-up is kind of making it. (Minus the ghost junk on this note. It just doesn't even belong on your channel. Give that crap to the SCI FI channel. Let them have it and cancel it. Or NBC.)

Here are some important notes for ya, TC.

1. Samantha Brown is your best commodity. RUN HER SHOWS INTO THE GROUND!!!! Make her go everywhere! Samantha Brown's Asia was amazing. Make her do other stuff like that!

2. When it comes to food, Tony Bourdain has the PERFECT mix of it and travel. He's even got some points OVER Zimmern! (Andrew's an eater. Tony, though a food guy, shows so much culture and history before, during and while pigging out!)

3. Let me win one of your travel contests! (This one is more of a joke but I seriously entered almost all of your contests back in the day and I stopped because like with the lottery, it really is a slim chance.... :(

4. Even thought I used her name, Bridget Marquardt doesn't need a show on your channel UNLESS you are bringing her back to replace the ghost crap. She's obviously way sluttier than you want your channel portrayed to be.

5. Here's some ideas for shows for your network. Use them. Don't credit me. I don't care.
   1. Have more Samantha Brown shows.
   2. Have more Tony Bourdain shows but more Samantha than Tony.
   3. Cancel everything with the word GHOST in the title unless it's some sort of psychic traveling and telling you about 'ghosts' while showing you a place....instead of hunting ghosts...
   4. Look at number 3. Have a show where the hosts travels and shares mythological information. There's plenty of that crap in the  world.
   5. Have a series dedicated to Native peoples. Maybe.
   6. INUIT stuff is nifty. Show more of that.
   7. I saw some show you guys had with a dark haired woman on a boat and I tried to remember her name but I cannot. She went crab fishing if that helps. Well, that woman needs her own hour long program! Give it to her!!!!
   8. Do a series of shows for select places, like Tony Bourdain in Russia for a Month or something like that. Have them live there for a bit and let us see it! That is such an interesting idea!!!! GO FOR THAT! Have brown haird chick from number 7 do a place, Tony in another and Sam in another!!!

Now, TC, you've got some thinking to do. Hope the outcome is marvelous. :)

Be a Good Baby, Do What I Want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bag1gUxuU0g&ob=av2e


We were born to die.





I love Lana Del Rey (real name is Elizabeth Grant....) but she's taking a lot of heat due to her odd SNL performance. She is nervous on stage, you hate mongers.... Gawd.

Listen to her and love her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t-I-Lqy06g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhmYrjObXY (my old man is a bad man but I can't deny the way he holds my hand!)

my cait sith just cast this bullshit all over my blog.

I have the next two days off from work and I find that to be so good. This week hasn't really been full of work hours but at the same time, I can't wait until tomorrow and what's more, we get paid on Friday!

I think that I will work on my script tomorrow and maybe even on Friday. I've been doing so much on it lately and it is really coming along. I've stopped adding new characters and finally decided on a set of 10, though some of them don't make it to the end.

AHHHHHH! I played a demo of Final Fantasy XIII-2 today and it was pretty good. As everyone who knows me knows, I'm not the biggest fan of that series but I have played plenty of them... lol. There were lots of things in the demo to XIII-2 that I loved, such as the ability to have monsters as party members. (I had an adorable Cait Sith (a cat in a pod-like floating thing) on the demo. It was a healer and it was CUTE!!! When it did stuff in battle, it made cute meowing noises... It was cute. :3

I had something else to say but I totally forgot what it was...

Oh, as a sidenote, I want to go and see that new Sandra Bullock movie where Tom Hanks is her husband and he dies in 911 or something like that. It looks like it would rip my eyes out and replace them with Niagra Falls but I won't know that for sure until I see the movie.......

OH! I remember what I wanted to write about! I plan on going to school online later on this year since I will turn 25 and my parents' incomes won't be counted towards grants  and stuff but my problem is: I don't know what I want to go for. I've thought about writing, teaching, journalism, game design, fashion design and others but I just don't know. It's a hard decision to make.... :(

Happy New Year and Shitty Laws

Happy New Year readers of mine that don't exist.

Guess what?

The state I live in wants to pass a law that makes it legal for kids with a religious or political viewpoint that clashes with homosexuality to voice whatever they want to on the matter as long as it isn't violent.

This is ridiculous. If they pass this bill, someone is going to get into trouble or much, much worse. This news comes only a few months after a young man a few counties over killed himself after being bullied in school over his sexuality. It's a real messed up thing.

I admittedly read a lot of the comments that people leave on Yahoo posts and I have seen a lot of people say that they don't care about sexuality but they hate when it is brought up or thrown into people's faces. I, for one, have noticed that it isn't gays bringing up the issue again and again, it's politicians.

Another point I have on this whole situation is the fact that sexuality should not be a political ploy. So many people that I know, family included, try to sway my opinions with statements based on sexuality and the way politicians are doing things (or not doing things) involved in the matter.

I just wish that it was a subject that couldn't be bothered by political turmoil and religious mettling. I also think that religion should stay out of politics but it totally doesn't where I live. Last time there was some kind of election for governor or whatever, churches were pushing candidates' names onto their congregations. Just today, some woman on tv was asked about one of the Republican candidates' religious affiliations, him being Mormon and her being Baptist, and she said she would NOT vote for him because he was a Mormon and she didn't agree with that..... So dumb.

No offense to religion or anything but I read somewhere about a world without religion and all of the things that would be different if there wasn't a such thing... Just some food for thought. (I have nothing against religions or practicioners of a religion, unless they bother me first...)

holidayyyyyyyyyyyy

Mine was fantastic. Seeing everyone was a real treat. How was your holiday time? Get any good gifts?

Well, I may do an overview of everything. Why the fuck not, eh?!

12-24-11
I had to work but my awesome Momma came and picked me up. We went back to the house where I finished packing and got a quick shower. I actually wore my amazing Social Collision pants out of the house for the very first time this day. They are the most glorious pants ever to come into existence. They're reddish, skinny jeans made of pure amazing-sauce.

Well, Momma and I went to her huse and on the way there, I had her listen to the Black Lips since she and I have similar music tastes at times and she liked them, though not as much as I do. Skipping ahead to other things, my Grandma had made some tasty things for the get-together. The best food of all was her raw mushroom caps filled with crab salad. OMFG. They were A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!!! (I told her that she had to make them for every family gathering. Once, she and I made tomatoes filled with chicken salad and they were divine...)

I bought my brother-in-law Fast 5 on dvd because I drew his name and that's what he wanted. Get this bullshit. The dvd came in on 12-24 and it looked fake/wrapped in plastic wrap like shit. I was pissed. He's supposed to contact me and tell me how well it plays.

Needless to say, after some time with all of my Momma's side of the family, I wound up drinking Arbor Mist with step brother, playing video games with him and watching a cheesy movie on Showtime with him... lol. It was all fun. Then, I went to bed.

12-25

I woke up and had a healthy/not so healthy breakfast. Momma had homemade sausage and biscuits that I had one of with one strip of turkey bacon from my aunt. In addition to the sausage and bacon, my aunt and I enjoyed fresh fruit from a leftover fruit tray. For the next bit of time, my aunt and I sipped coffee and chatted as the rest of the house awoke. It was really fun talking to her for such a length of time. That being said, I would have loved to have spent more time with Momma but she said "you and Shana were talking and so I figured I'd let you two talk since y'all don't get to see eachother much." She was right but I also don't get to see her a whole lot, either...

Around noonish, Momma and I left for my Granny's house! (I wanted to be the first one there but I wasn't. My aunts Denise (amazzzzing) and Stephanie were there already, seated at the table with Granny and talking.)

After walking around and chatting to everyone as more family arrived every minute, I walked next door to one of my closest cousins lives. She was there cooking with her awesome mom and together, the three of us walked back to Granny's house. Soon, a big dinner ensued and I chatted with my cousin Cody, who usually talks with me for hours. He's awesome! He's a real big movie buff and now, he's got a PS3 which I find amazing. I told him that if he would get more into games we'd have even more to talk about!

At Granny's, the two most delicious things, other than Granny's famous ham that I had been waiting for since early October, were Aunt Denise's cheese ball and Granny's Jack Daniels Whiskey Cake which is sinful-chocolate-orgasmic-sweetness.

Yum.

Well, after we all ate, we had Dirty Christmas where I got a set of screwdrivers... lol. (At Momma's I won a shovel with a can of potted meat taped to it which I later sold to my step-dad for five bucks...) After playing Dirty Christmas, everyone started to leave slowly but surely. After the last person, Cody (who was busy talking to me) had left, Granny, her bf and I began to wind down. We watched some news and soon went off to bed.

12-26

It was the day for me to go back home, sadly. (I had to work 12-27-11, so I had to be home. The crappy part: I didn't realize that I had to be at work at 4:00pm. I could have stayed at Granny's longer!!!!) Granny, her boyfriend and I got ready after a delicious breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes (my favorite food that Granny makes) and we went to the cemetary first to see my grandfather's grave. I like to stop there when I am near the area. As we left, unseen to anyone, I blew a kiss towards his gravestone. I'd like to think he got it. :)

My holiday was fun. I bet I put on some weight eating so much good shit. I brough home a ton of the cheese ball and cake that I mentioned earlier and sad to say, the cake is alread gone... lol.

This post has gone on long enough. M.I.A is jamming in my ears and is now going to get my full attention.

Bye for now....

My leave and current goings-on

Well, it's been some time since I've logged into this blog and posted. Some things have been going on, what with Christmas shopping and the like.

A friend bought Final Fantasy VII on the PS3 market place as a gift for us and we've been playing the hell out of it. I used to think FFVII was overrated but I am in love with it now. Aerith Gainsborough is my favorite character in it and I HATE that she gets killed. (If the graphics were better, I think it would have made me cry but seeing a slightly stiff, big-eyed, blocky girl get impaled as her skirt behind her looked like a boat was sort of weird....)

Other than adventuring around with Cloud, Cait Sith and the ever-fabulous Tifa, I've been Christmas shopping and working a lot. It's almost Christmas time and I do work in a department store of sorts... lol. We've got a lot going on and in this small town that I live in, the store is busy as hell!!! (It's intense this time of year. Back when I first got hired on, I could get the store shelves 'recovered' before my shift was over. Now, I hardly ever get to move from the register...)

Gah. I can't wait for Christmas to be over but there's an upside to this madness: I get to see Granny! I'll be staying the night with her Christmas Day which is a tradition of ours. I'm excited to see her and my Mom. :)

Quote of the day: "Don't want your money....just want your sex!" from Lady Gaga's Teeth

With the Good news comes the Bad

As an update to my last post, Granny is doing a lot better. The doctors found her real issue and have temporarily corrected it. Soon, it will be fixed permenantly and she should be marvelous.

We wrecked today in the rain. It could have been a lot worse. We could have went off the other side of the road which was a big hill/drop off but we just flipped the car onto its side in the mud. The paramedics had to bust the back windshield out to get us out of the car. It sucked. I'm shaken but fine.

:(

Life just keeps getting worse

My granny, who I am very close to, is in the hospital. This is the second time she's been in the hospital in like a two month time frame and I am VERY worried about her. I am not big on country music, though I was when I was a child but Granny loves the following song and I'm listening to it thinking about her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP8lCapcqwM

Please hope with me that she gets better. She's having heart issues and it's really hurting me. I used to live with her some years ago and she's just like another mother to me. I'm not ready for her not to be here on this Earth.

"life wasn't worth the balance or the crumpled paper it was written on..."

Listen to this. Ignore the video. Just listen to the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED5nXs2Nl_0

The song is Bring me the Disco King by David Bowie and Maynard James Keenan. I am loving it. (Heard it before but for some reason, it's enthralled me now.)

Well, life is beginning to take its toll on me. Everything is starting to suck... I think that yesterday and today, my two most recent off days, have really helped me out a lot. I am growing weary of my job, even though I adore most of my co-workers. (Some more than others.)

I feel sort of trapped. I really want to just drop everything and leave the state. Louisiana is really calling to me for some reason. I loved it there when my family (plus a dumbass stepfather) went some years ago. You ever feel trapped? Sure you do.

My friend Miranda wants to go to Italy. I want to go to Italy, too. We actually looked up houses for sale in Italy, France, Russia and to a lesser serious extent, China. We also looked up homes in Bora Bora because my soul yearns for Bora Bora. It looks so gorgeous and inviting. By the way, Russia has a lot of tiny stuff. They have miniature washing machines in the strangest places. One of the homes for sale had a washing machine right beside the toilet. (Add the fabric softner while pinching a loaf!) Another had a washing machine in the kitchen right beside the stove. (No! I said bread in the oven and jacket in the washing machine, you fool!)

Back to the subject at hand: I called out of work on Thursday and I was scheduled off yesterday and today. These three days of shopping, relaxing, DCUO playing and creating have been what the doctor ordered. I feel a bit better. Small bit that is. I still want to leave the state/country.

I need lots and lots of money to do everything that I want to do.... :/

2 am

It's late. I ran my ass off at work today and I am tired but something doesn't want me to lay down just yet. I can't quit thinking of so many stupid things and it is really annoying/sad.

I just wish that there was a way to tune out specific thoughts and ignore them no matter how many things in the day remind you of them.

I would love to grab the headphones and listen to some music right now but I think I may try to get some sleep. I do have to work again tomorrow. Not off again until Thursday, actually.


I........ can't say a word.

Evanescence's New Album

I have been a fan of Amy Lee and her amazing vocals since I first heard her wayyy back in the day. Her band's last album, the Open Door, came out in 2006 and for a long time, I thought that Evanescence was dead for the lack of activity on their end but in 2011, we got a new album finally.

Now, a bit of info for all of you: The Open Door is one of those rare albums that I can listen to every song on without changing it to another song. I love the entire album so going into the new album, I was a bit biased and was looking for incredible-everything.

At first, I was disappointed by the new album. :(

That being said, I have listened to nothing but the new Evanescence album and the Black Lips for like three months straight and I must say that I adore the newest album a lot more than I originally did. There are some songs that I do not like still, particularly those towards the end of the album, but I do have some favorites.

If you are going to listen to the album or already own it, here are my faves: My Heart is Broken, The Other Side, Erase This, Lost in Paradise, Sick, Swimming Home and of course, What you Want. Gah. Amazing Amy Lee. :3

GO HAVE A LI$TEN!!!!!!!!!!!