Saturday Happy Song - Divinyls - I Touch Myself

The real Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo (Hunter Thompson and Oscar Acosta)

Gonzo: [After cocaine blows away in the wind] Did you see what GOD just did to us man!

Duke: God didn't do that, you did! You're a fucking narcotics agent, I knew it. That was our cocaine you fucking pig, scum [swats at him with fly swatter] Pig, swine, whore!

Article is from here:

It had some interesting stuff. I enjoyed.

The Final Obstacle Is Us

The Final Obstacle Is Us

by: Elizabeth Gilbert

Almost every night during book tour, I end up talking about the same subject with my audience. My audiences are pretty much entirely composed of women (though I love you, too, my emotionally-secure male who dare to come to my events!) and invariably there will be a woman in the crowd who will stand up and ask how to get courage to … well, whatever. Courage to write her book, courage to change her life, courage to travel alone, courage to endure her sorrows, courage to leave her toxic relationship, courage to start her own business, courage to stand up for herself.

Now Is the Time for Women

I always begin my response by saying something along these lines—that it is down to us now. There has never been a better moment in human history than right now to be a woman. While there are still huge stretches of earth where the lot of womankind remains trapped in subjugation, the industrialized modern western world is the best environment women have ever had—the best and only shot we ever got at full personhood.

The life that I was offered, in comparison to the lives of my great-grandmothers, is so radically different that I might as well be a new human species altogether. I am a female with biological, political, financial and emotional autonomy. Such a thing was never heard of before. Ever.

Could things still be better for women? Yes, of course, and I fight for that, as we all must. Do we have perfect parity yet? Maybe in Sweden, but certainly not everywhere. Is there still discrimination and stupidity? Sure. Will there always be? Probably. But the fact remains—nobody in the history of womankind ever had a better chance to manifest his or her own life than us, right now.

The Internal Obstacle

Many of the big external obstacles (political, legislative, cultural) have been cleared for us by the great and brave women who came before us. We stand on their shoulders and we should be grateful.

But now we are left to battle the lingering prejudices in our own minds that convince us we are not worthy—not good enough, not strong enough, not talented enough, not brave enough. We must battle the residual interior voice that says things like:

• We are not important
• We shouldn't raise our hand
• We shouldn't ask to lead the project
• We shouldn't run for office
• We don't deserve a promotion
• We can't set boundaries
• We can't have a child alone
• We can't support ourselves
• We can't defend our vocations
• We can't apply for that grant or that graduate program
• We can’t define our own spiritual and emotional lives
• We shouldn't speak up and say, "No, let's do it my way."

We must battle the interior prejudice that says we aren't perfect yet, in other words, and therefore we must hold ourselves back.

And while it's understandable that about a billion years of being beat down would keep a woman believing she is imperfect, we really have to get past that obstacle in ourselves. Because I've said it before and I'll say it again: Imperfection never stopped men from putting themselves forward. SO DON'T LET IT STOP YOU. (I don’t say that as an insult to men, either; I like that they throw themselves into the arena of life. I want us to do it, too.)

Get out of your own way, women. It's time. And nobody can do this part for you. No act of Congress (no social or political legislation) can get you out of your own way. Gloria Steinem can't get you out of your own way, and neither can Oprah, Brené Brown, Martha Beck, Hilary Clinton, your uncle's dog, your mother's cat, or me.

Don't wait to be rescued or discovered by anyone, and for heaven's sake, don't wait to be given permission from the principal's office to take full ownership of your own destiny. You’ve got to do it yourself.

Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and start doing your thing. Today.

It's down to us now—down to you. And there’s never been a better moment than right now.

Let’s get on it.

OK...don't get overwhelmed. Don't get depressed. You can totally fix your life. You can totally do this.

Robert Plant And Jack White Lollapalooza Argentina

"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past." 
— Charles J. Givens

It's an adventure.

This next month is an adventure, and you will be changed by it and you will grow from it and it will leave an imprint.

Embrace it. Even if you want to grab that co-worker "helping" you by the throat and slam his head into the edge of his desk.

Don't.

It's bad for your job security and your blemish free criminal record.

Meditation breathing.

Meditation has taught you tons.

Use it.

Embrace it.

Embrace this. 

Saturday Happy Song - Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

Ok. I am officially, as of 5pm, covering for a co-workers desk for the next 4 weeks. His client is TVD.

I am terrified I will miss an air date or something and all of television will collapse. Also, I am very nervous about my desk that another co-worker is supposed to be covering (he is currently listening to music and drawing...how, sweet) and so I'll most likely have to babysit him for 4 weeks in addition to covering for TVD coworker.

I'm gonna puke you guys.

Got the tax return. 

Standing at another crossroads. 

Do I act like an adult and pay  the bills, or do I get my next tool to my dream life and work my ass off in that direction and ignore the debt for a while? 

Updates to follow...

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Here's an inspirational Robert Plant quote with a picture of him looking over his shoulder all sexy like because it's the middle of the week, and the middle of the day and I didn't get to go to yoga at lunch because I forgot my work-out pants at home because the time change sucks and don't tell me I'm lame for it affecting me it's lame that it doesn't affect you you lame-o.

Yeah run on sentences!

I'll be fine, I just really want to lay down cause I've realized all is good in my life except I work with a bunch of entitled assholes.

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.”  ~ Brenda Ueland

Saturday Happy Song - Prince Charming - Adam Ant

I stopped at EXACTLY 500 posts!
Here's 501:

One of my favorite songs EVER.



Flashback to Halloween 2009 when I went as Adam Ant's Prince Charming:

 One of my best costumes to date. I loved it. Though most people thought I was a pirate... It made my whole night when walking back up Santa Monica Blvd. through the West Hollywood parade a really fabulous guy touched my arm in passing and said "Hi Prince Charming."