Friday, May 22, 2009

 Another Friday Shuffle

So my shuffle today is pretty random, as usual. No Dar, which is very unusual, but 2 Susan Werners to make up for her. And thing about these two is they were cowritten by Greg Simon who happens to be a friend of a friend of mine. Weird he cowrote two songs, and that they both showed up here. Both are phenomenal songs that really can make one think, I recommend doing your best to find both of them. Or if you can't find them, ask me and I'll email them to you. Susan Werner is an AMAZING artist and I recommmend that each and every one of you find her stuff and learn to love it as much as I have :) Anyway, I was going to do memories, but none of these songs trigger significant ones, so I'll go with lyrics this week.

I see no theme going on, anyone else see one?

Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
I've got a restless spirit that nobody can own.
Every picture tells a story
won't you listen to mine ?
I'm searching for the answer but it's so hard to find.
You'll see much deeper when you read between the lines

Like Bonsai - Susan Werner
Some trees were meant to reach
Reach up for the sky
Some trees we trim to keep them pretty
Like bonsai, like bonsai

Baby Give it Up - KC and the Sunshine Band
Everybody wants you
Everybody wants your love
I'd just like to make you mine all mine
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na,
Baby give it up
Give it up, Baby give it up

Heart of Lothian/Wide Boys/Curtain Call - Marillion
It's six o'clock in the tower blocks
Stalagmites of culture shock
And the trippers of the light fantastic, bow down, hoe-down
Spray their pheromones on this perfume uniform

And anarchy smiles in the Royal Mile
And they're waiting on the slyboys, flyboys, wideboys
Rooting, tooting cowboys
Lucky little ladies at the watering holes
They'll score the Friday night goals

Raspberry Beret - Prince
Seems that I was busy doing something close to nothing
But different than the day before
That's when I saw her, ooh, I saw her
She walked in through the out door, out door

Forever Young - Alphaville
Let's dance in style, lets dance for a while
Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you going to drop the bomb or not?

Surfin Safari - Beach Boys
Early in the morning we'll be startin out
Some honeys will be comin' along
We're loadin' up my woody
with the boards inside
and heading out singing our song

The Great Out There - Susan Werner
Oh when you get there, is there a there there?
Do people care there, are people aware there?
Do the boys and girls do more than
Break their toys and perm their hair there?

I'll Tumble 4 Ya - Culture Club
I get a crazy feeling
That chases in my head
Its nothing that you do to me
Its nothing that you said
Its love in stereo

Paper Bag - Anna Nalick
But someday we'll all be old
And I'll be so damn beautiful
Meanwhile I'll hide my head
Here in this paper bag
Cause if I can't see you then you can't see me

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

 18 things I figured people would know....but I thought wrong

So the latest facebook thing is these quizzes about oneself for friends to take. the first one I did nobody got over 50% and most got like 12%. The second one people did better, but nobody got 100% yet. SO here I will give all the answers to both and then if you haven't already taken them, you can go and impress the hell out of everyone...

I have lived in 10 states. NJ, NY, PA, MA, GA, AZ, MD, VT, NC and TX.

I went through 4 different majors- Psych, CDFR, and Education at IUP and then Nuclear Medicine at LGC.

My first kitten's name was Mittens. We had him (her? I don't remember) for a very short time. She scratched the crap out of everything in the house, including me, so my mom gave her away.

My first celeb crush was on Mr. Rogers. I loved when he sang "You Can Never Go Down the Drain"

I have only been to 2 other countries other than the US- Canada and Mexico. I still don't have a passport. I wish I had traveled more and hopefully someday I will.

I do not have a middle name.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Garnets. Not only are they my birthstone, but they are my "power stone". I wear them every day, and I carry some in my pocket when I feel like I need extra strength.

I have a purple Saturn. I fell in love with it because it was Purple.

I have a travelling Teddy Bear named Oatmeal. I also refer to him often as "The Oatster". He rawks. Not only does he travel with me anywhere I go, but I sleep with him every night.

In college we were all about the Kool Aid and Purplesaurus Rex is my favorite. It's basically grape lemonade.

I have never seen Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi, the only reason I ever saw Star Wars was because I lost a bet. I have never seen any of the Indiana Jones movies. I also never saw Top Gun. I do LOVE Wizard of Oz and essentially would consider that my favorite movie.

I saw NKOTB in concert at Great Adventure when I took my mom's friend's daughter (who now I consider my friend but back then she was way younger than I was) I saw The Police in 2007, I saw Billy Joel with my friend, her mom, and her grandmom. I always thought it was neat that his music appealed to 3 generations. I saw Bob Dylan when the Alarm opened for him. I only stayed for a few songs cuz he really doesn't do it for me. Plus it was at an outdoor arena and yet I was getting a contact buzz. I have always wanted to see REM but I have either not had the money or someone to go with when they were around, or they didn't come to where I was when I did have the money or people to go with. Perhaps someday.

I have never been to the pacific northwest. I really hope to make it there in the not too distant future. At one point towards the end of college I considered moving to Seattle- hell it was the early 90's, who didn't want to live there then? But I never got around to it. Remember, I am very fickle and have geography ADD.

First job ever was at the Brick Oven Bake Shop. First mall job was at Victoria's Secret. I still have my giant terry robe that I got that first Christmas that I worked there. Seamus has torn it up so there are tons of strings sticking off of it, but I can't bear to give it up. My mom keeps buying me new robes which I will wear, but when they get old I go back to this ancient one. Go figure. I then worked as a manager for Bath and Body Works, and when I wanted to leave there I thought I should choose a job where I wouldn't spend half my paycheck.... so I got a job at Gymboree. Right when my best friend had a baby. She was very well dressed, and I spent a nice chunk of my paycheck there after all. Never worked at the Body Shop.

I just got a brand new cell phone and it's purple. I love love love it! Not just because it's purple, but I do love that about it too. It's QWERTY (which is fun to type, try it!) and I used to hate texting but now I do it daily :)

I think the first time I ever really swooned over guyliner was David Cook. But now I love it. Love Ricarus Alpert's rocking of it, and last night I LOVED Adam Lambert's glass shard looking guyliner. hot! hot! hot!

We all know who the fabulous Lost actor is who left a comment here. YAY Jorge!!

And I actually won't talk about the last one here. I try to keep certain details of my life out of this blog, and that's one of them. Since I work with a local chapter and have mentioned some details of that on here, and wasn't necessarily the most positive about some of the people involved, I am pleading the fifth. If you want to know, go look at my flair on my fb profile.
So there you go! 18 random lame facts about myself. Now go kick booty on the quizzes!! :)

Posted by Acinom @ 5:52 PM :: (1) comments

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

 I totally get it now

So about 2 months ago my friend gave me the first 3 Twilight books to read. I have resisted a bit because I usually can't get on board with something so trendy. Plus I had some resentments towards them using and thus branding the name "Twilight" because that was a name I used on the interwebs back in the early 90's. I felt like they stole it from me!

Plus I liked vampires back during the whole Lestat era and couldn't really see it getting much better than that. I mean c'mon, a rockstar vampire who the author used Sting as inspiration? Plus Anne Rice has some pretty amazing characters even if her writing is wordy as all get out.

I remember in college we read Queen of the Damned and decided it would make an awesome movie and "casted" it. Needless to say when the movie came out our choices were MUCH better than the ones they went with. In fact, I didn't even bother with the movie. I saw Interview and really couldn't get on board with Tom Cruise so it kinda killed the whole series for me.

I did recently stumble across a new book in the series, it was actually Lestat and the Mayfair Witches together. I thought it kinda sucked, but it was an abridged audio version, so perhaps the real one was better. Dunno. Anyway, I figured I was over Vampires.

And then I ran out of stuff to read. So I turned to the Twilight books I'd held on to for a few months.

And now I get it. I cant explain it, but I get it. I think that there is some kind of spell woven into these books. I have never been as invested in characters as I became in these. It was almost as if I was literally feeling the same emotions Bella was having. I was falling in love with a fictional character. Odd. Last night I stayed up till 5am to read the second one. I am completely captivated.

Oh and since I didn't see the movie or even really pay attention to ads for it I don't really see those actors as these characters. For some reason, as I was reading I realized that I started picturing Adam Lambert as Edward. I know Edward's hair is supposed to have more red in it, but can't you see Adam as a hot vampire? Even though I know he prefers to smooch boys instead of girls, he is perfect for the role of Edward in my mind. So there it is.

And even though I don't really care who wins on Idol tonight, I think they are both equally talented and deserving, a sneaking part of me that has a crush on Edward Cullen wants Adam to win because of that. I know, I'm pathetic. I do think that Kris might win though... We shall see!!

And now I'm going to read a bit before the Idol finale :)

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Friday, May 15, 2009

 Friday Shuffle... Multiple Personality Disorder version

So I am in another cycle of insomnia. Kinda sucks. But it could be worse, I could have to get up early tomorrow...

So I decided to write a post, but wasn't really feeling a topic, so since it's technically Friday, I thought I'd go with the old fallback, Friday Shuffle.

I did the shuffling before starting to write because I wanted to see if there as some type of theme that came up that would lead me to a decent topic. The only thing this shows is that I have the most random taste in music, EVER.

One thing surprised me though, TWO (2) songs from the Lost Mix that Barb made me that I have now added to my itunes showed up. Weird, right? And of course 2 Dar Williams songs showed up too, because she likes to be on Friday Shuffles. Also, 2 Frat party dancing songs, 2 Atlanta songs and 2 songs that remind me of concerts I've been to and 2 songs that remind me of jobs I've had...weird so I guess it's the MPD/Noah's Ark version actually :)

Since the lyrics on these songs are so very very random, rather than doing lyric quotes along with each, I'll just do a memory that goes with each song :)

1. And a God Descended - Dar Williams
honestly, no particular memory with this song, just Dar in general makes me think of my friends Amanda and Blakely

2. You All Everybody - Drive Shaft
when I watched the first season of Lost I did it all in one weekend, right before the second season started. That was the best weekend... no commercials, and no waiting for the next episode! I can't believe I have to wait 8 months for it to come back!! NO FAIR!

3. I Need Love - LL Cool J
freshman year at Hofstra, I'd give more details, but I'd rather keep them to myself ;)

4. Wild Wild West - Kool Moe Dee
This song is one of the ultimate beer slop soaked fraternity basement dancing songs.

5. Leavin On Your Mind - Patsy Cline
Another Lost song :) But it actually reminds me more of (going way back here...) yesterday :) I spent most of the day listening to the Lost CD Barb made me then watched the season finale which was pretty damn good...

6. Teen Angst - Cracker
Atlanta. This song was ubiquitous on 99x, the radio station I was devoted to. Saw Cracker 2x in concert too, but not on purpose, once was when they played with the Spin Doctors and Gin Blossoms (aka the Spin, Gin, and Crack tour) and the other time was the WBCN River Rave. They are pretty decent live :)

7. I Can Love You Better - Dixie Chicks
This was a Bath and Body Works song. I was a manager there for several years and we had these tapes we had to play... some months were better than others and got played A LOT. Plus they repeated every few hours so I'd hear the same songs 2-4 times in a shift. It still amazes me that I still love many songs from BBW tapes...

8. Monkey Man - Special Beat
Special Beat opened for Sting one year...It was either the Soul Cages or Ten Sumner's Tales tour, their music makes you want to move.

9. Put Me Down - Cranberries
Atlanta again, but not 99x. I had a great job for a while...I worked for a guy who was an amazing man, but a crappy businessman. The company closed after just a few short months, due to many reasons, but while I was there I had a few CD's I was obsessed with and played constantly, this was on one of them...

10. Better Things - Dar Williams
My favorite Dar song... I cannot be in a bad mood when I hear this song, so I have used it MANY MANY times to bring me up, I can't even begin to choose just one, but many times I blasted this on the way to or from work on a bad day.

and a bonus because it made me smile:
Someday I Suppose - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
This song should remind me of an ex boyfriend because he put it on a mix tape for me, but it actually reminds me of another guy who will always hold a place in my heart for many reaswons... most of which I will not get into here, but one being that he was the stop/stayover on my St Louis leg of my cross country drive :D

Ok since I've been writing this, 2 U2 songs and a second Cracker song have played. What is up with all these pairs? Kinda cool though :) The one that's on now, Get Off This, has lyrics that fit a recent post of mine, so I will leave you with those lyrics:

Let's get off this,
And get on with it,
If you wanna change the world
Shut yer mouth and start to spin it
Get off this
Get on with it
If you wanna change the world
Shut your mouth and start this minute


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Monday, May 11, 2009

 I'm so cranky even I don't want to be around me

No big reason, although lots of little reasons I guess.

It just sucks. No more good mood for me.

I may be being overly sensitive, but I'm feeling a bit of hurt feelings over something nonspecific. I hate feeling this way.

Also...

I have been waiting for 3 days (not counting the weekend) for a phone call. I have a hunch it won't happen today either which means tomorrow is another day of waiting. I hate waiting. I'd almost even rather it be bad news than to keep being in this state of limbo.

Ringo just jumped up, stood on my chest and burped in my face. Thank GOD I love him or I'd be even crankier, but he just gave me my first smile of the day. Cat's rock.

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Saturday, May 09, 2009

 Celebrity blog comments and a broken meower...

So as y'all can see, I dedicated my blog post yesterday to the fabulous Jorge Garcia and it worked! Googlebot alerted him and he left a comment!! I like that he took the time to actually reply. It's so nice to see a celebrity who is still down to earth. I was a fan before, but I am a HUGE fan now. It totally made my night and I love that he thanked me for thanking him. So now I am thanking him for thanking me for thanking him. This could be endless ;) I realize I didn't mention that there is an expiration on my invitation...if I do end up moving away from here next June. Since I doubt his visit will ever happen, I don't think it'll be an issue though :)

So regarding the broken meower... poor Ringo Stu Kitty has laryngitis again. So here is where I tell my REALLY BAD JOKE... ready? "When is a kitty not a kitty? When it's hoarse!" HAHAHA! Ok yeah, I warned you it was really bad.

For those of you who have been long time readers, you know that RSK has chronic pancreatitis. For the last 10 days or so he's been having a bit of a flare up. Fortunately he doesn't get REALLY sick, but he does puke a lot. He eats a lot too- he is not a normal cat, but when we first started dealing with this it was because of his ravenous appetite... I thought he might have been hyperthyroid from the volume of food he was eating and the weight loss going along with it....turns out he was puking up everything and that's why he was always hungry. So we just need to make sure he doesn't get dehydrated and is not losing weight, and we can just sorta glide through these flare ups.

Well the plentiful puking leads to him having no voice. Now any of you who have ever met him, or who have ever talked to me on the phone know that he is a TALKATIVE kitty. But after mucho pukes, he gets all raspy and squeaky, but yet he still keeps trying to talk, which is really funny and quite pathetic. I do feel bad laughing at my sick kitty....a bit. But since he seems fine overall, I know he's not really sick (if he gets lethargic we worry) so it's ok to laugh a little.

And he loves when I laugh, he comes up and gives me bonks and stuff and so I have no guilt :)

So that's my story today. I am the coolest blogger ever because Jorge Garcia left me a comment, and I am a quasi mean mom because I laugh at my kitty with the broken meower.

Life's ok :)

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Friday, May 08, 2009

 A blog post about Jorge Garcia

I am going to mention his name more than a few times because he googles himself and I'd love to see if he actually finds this post... this post about Jorge Garcia...

So why is this blog post about Jorge Garcia? Well other than the fact that he's a fabulous actor and plays one of my favoritest characters in the history of TV, it's because I just discovered his blog.

The other day my friend Barb posted a list of songs she was burning onto a Lost themed CD... and I saw that "You All Everybody" was missing from her list. When I asked her about it she told me she couldn't locate it. So of course, being the dork that I am, I had to find it, download it, then email it to her. She was wicked excited and we started emailing back and forth about the show, as we are both HUGE fans. I had commented to her about how much I adore all scenes with Miles and Hurley because I LOVE both of their characters separately, and together they are hysterical :)

So Barb replied and asked if I had seen the pictures he had posted of the two of them on his blog. I hadn't even known Jorge Garcia HAD a blog, so I promptly had to go :)

I spent several hours last night and this morning reading the entire thing, and now I appreciate him more than I even would have expected! Even if you aren't a Lost fan, you should go check it out!

Interestingly enough, last night I was discussing the Topsy Turvey tomato thingies with a friend and Jorge Garcia actually reviews them on his blog. I had always been tempted to get them, because I LOVE LOVE LOVE me some fresh garden tomatoes and being that I live in a second floor penthouse I don't have a yard. I thought that would work nicely on my porch. Sadly though, Jorge Garcia gives them a thumbs down. I am glad though that I never spent my money on them. I'll just have to head up to Jersey this summer and get some tomatoes there. Interestingly enough, my mom's friend has the best tomatoes in the world in her garden. No joke! I assume she has magic dirt or something? Anyway, everyone agrees who's ever tasted one that Wanda has the best. And she always hooks me up whenever I go up to visit my mom.

Ok, enough with the tomato tangent...

Jorge, I hope you found your way here through your googlebot. (I think I wrote your name enough times!) I just wanted to thank you for bringing so much laughter and so many smiles into my life first through Hurley, and now through your blog. You totally rock! And if you're ever in the Triangle Area of NC, drop me a line and I'd love to take you out for some Carolina Barbecue (different from everywhere else in the world!) and a drink at the Best Wine Bar anywhere (ok I'm biased cuz my friend owns it) (but Colin Firth was there last week so it can't suck...(ok he was only there cuz they are filming in the area, and I would have rathered if it had been Andrew McCarthy who had gone, since I've loved him since St Elmo's, but don't tell Colin that he totally doesn't do it for me, but anyway...) and they held the Mammoth Records 21st birthday party at their other location the week before...) Anyway, thanks again for the smiles. Oh and tell your girlfriend I read her blog too and loved her post about driving far far far for a turkey sammich :)


And for everyone else who's interested, here is Barb's fabu Lost CD mix. She's sending me a copy since I hooked her up with Drive Shaft and I can't wait to get it!!


1. Joe Purdy - Wash Away
2. Driveshaft - You All Everybody
3. Damien Rice - Delicate
4. Patsy Cline - Leavin' On Your Mind
5. Bob Marley - Redemption Song
6. Mama Cass - Make Your Own Kind of Music
7. The Drifters - Up On The Roof
8. Dave Matthews Band - Stay (Wasting Time)
9. Staind - Outside
10. Petula Clark - Downtown
11. Sarah McLachlan - Building A Mystery
12. Ryan Adams - Wonderwall (couldn't find the Charlie Pace cover!)
13. The Hollies - Carrie-Anne
14. Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice
15. Buddy Holly - Everyday
16. Pixies - Gouge Away
17. Geronimo Jackson - Dharma Lady
18. Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
19. Albert Hammond - It Never Rains in Southern California
20. Captain & Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together
21. The Fray - You Found Me (Season 5 Promo video: http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index&clipId=156898)

Posted by Acinom @ 4:21 PM :: (5) comments

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

 Here's a pet peeve...

People who bitch and bitch and bitch about things but do nothing to try and fix them.

If you're miserable, fix it.

If you don't like the way the world around you is... do something proactive.

But bitching is not going to get you anywhere but alienated from your friends who are sick of listening to you bitch.

That's all, thanks for letting me vent :)

Posted by Acinom @ 12:33 PM :: (3) comments