Sadly one of America's 1970s bombshell passes away. She was only 62. Died of anal cancer. that must have been a painful death. :( We all shall miss her.
Ever since Susan Boyle turned heads, apparently "Britain's Got Talent" has found a new amazing contestant every single week since.
Last week it was the little girl in the tutu singing, and this week it was some guy who apparently chopped off his nuts to get on the show: Click here to see for yourself, it'll open a new window.
Ok, BGT, this is getting old. Susan Boyle shocked us. Yes, I'll agree there. But enough is enough already. Not all of these people are worthy of the same acclaim and the whole deal is really just getting on our nerves.
There was a cross-post saved here that never made it onto this journal. Instead, I've decided to take the title that made no good sense with the existing post (which is why it was titled differently elsewhere) and make something memorable (for me) out of it.
Life is back on its common roller coaster track. I'm up, I'm down and on and off again. One day I'm flying high on creativity or blissfully suffocating a crush for greater morality, and the next I'm sitting under a two ton boa of debt. Over the course of a few quick hours I'm helping other people get placed into school-to-work programs, figuring out I've fucked myself on ticket recovery, scarfing down left-overs, nearly breaking down and deciding to cancel on Columbia, talking to my sister about the unfloatable nature of our feasts-on-anxiety family, and then calmly absorbing Coronas and NPH while trying to fix a computer for some chick I've never met. And then a too-hot becandled bath lets the flesh drag off the bone and rest loosely over a bent frame as I devour a few pages of Friedman's assessment of our future.
In all this overwhelming (cue themes from movie) minute-by-minute redefinition of reality, I managed to drop the anxiety. That stuff doesn't stick the way it did. Oh, I can drag it out of the grave in my father's name and give it the consideration he would see due, but it throws itself back into the earth. I hear a voice (oddly Jay-Z's) telling me to buckle the fuck down. Matt Mahaffey reminds me of all my damned potential and the fact that just now, just for the first time, it's being realized. Finally, someone halfway between Daniel Johns and Kenna Zemedkun reminds me that things are sometimes bad, but always beautiful.
The unsought optimism is at least welcomed. Part of me knows that the upswing keeps coming, must keep coming, if slowly. There's not really any other possibility. Life gets better and better and better until you die. Even when it's getting harder, it's getting better.
Back in the day, I was a No Doubt fan. Not a huge fan, but I liked the music. Enough of a fan to own the Tragic Kingdom, and later Rock Steady, albums. And now that Gwen Stefani has a successful solo career, I'm still a fan. In fact, I may be the biggest fan of her song "The Sweet Escape." I haven't heard any other songs on the album so I can't render a complete judgment, but this song makes me so happy. Whenever I hear it, wherever I am, I start instinctively bobbing my head. I can't help it. It doesn't matter if I'm at home or driving in the car. As soon as that music comes on, my head's a-bobbin'.
This is, of course, shortly followed by the singing. My singing. Or at least, as much as I can handle.
My version seems to go more like:
If I could escape I would, but first of all let me say I must apologize for acting, stinking, treating you this way Cause I've been dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah Dah dah dah dah dah dah the refridgeratoooorrrrrrr Maybe that's the reason I've been acting so coooolllddd
Hey, I can't help it if I can't keep up when she starts going fast.
Needless to say, I was ecstatic when Gwen performed on American Idol. Hot and talented. What more can you ask for?
Current Mood: bouncy
Current Entertainment: Gwen Stefani, "The Sweet Escape"
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