In my readings for my class (Gender and Music Video) this week, I found an awesome phrase used to describe a music video: "rock-and-roll shamans." This was referring to ZZ Top, and their habit of magically materializing in their videos to help transform some poor young schmuck into a cool, sexy man with the use of sleazy women and a hot red car ( Read more... )

I went to a cello recital last night, and it was absolutely divine. I mean that in its literal sense, I felt reconnected somehow to my soul'd purpose, remembering why I've clung so stubbornly to the long-term plan of going through years of grad school in order to be a college music professor. Music is truly one of my greatest loves in my life, ( Read more... )

Lately, I hate people. Not specific people, just in general. I'm so tired of looking for the best, trying to be optimistic, and then just have people's worst traits come to the forefront. I'm tired of feeling naive and stupid because I actually believe that people want to "do the right thing" and care about others. My experience has shown ( Read more... )

As my life is getting mildly more intense, it's pretty much a mixed bag. I'm finally getting major dental work done, but the overwhelming bills and song-and-dance act with the insurance company is wearing me down. I'm FINALLY starting graduate school classes part-time this fall to start working slowly towards my master's degree, but that comes ( Read more... )

So, those ninjas I suggested were trying to break into my office suite at work? They may have found a way in, around all of our conscientiously locked doors. There are two long ropes hanging from hooks on the edge of the roof outside the building. I can see one through my window, and any minute now, I expect to see some lithe warrior in black ( Read more... )

My score on The Greek Mythology Personality Test:

Dionysus
(0% Extroversion, 46% Intuition, 72% Emotiveness, 80% Perceptiveness)


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5 days till Christmas!

For those of you who have seen "Wonderfalls", with the inanimate objects speaking to Jaye, I had something similar happen to me the other day. Eris appeared to me in the form of a deliriously happy fish in one of my paintings, and explained the origins of the universe-as-we-know-it. Once there was only the Creator, Eris, and the Sacred Chao ( Read more... )

I was grumpy again this morning, there's all this silly bullshit going on again at work, and to add to that, I didn't get my coffee right away. I just need to stop letting myself take all this stuff so seriously and personally, it'll lead to an early death, ...maybe even mine. From a more objective viewpoint, it's just too ridiculous. No one in ( Read more... )

My "readership" being as small as it is, I don't suppose this is an extremely vital issue, but I suppose I rarely write anything of substance on here for two reasons. One, is that I tend to be very private, especially about anything inspiring strong feelings or intense thinking, and those are the topics of greatest interest to others. I just have ( Read more... )