The Cleanliest Communist

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Michael Jackson!! *white glove of solidarity*

RIP!!

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I am just posting to post. I am full of thoughts but too many to condense to bite-sized chunks.

Things that make me happy:

- Seeing Misha and having breakfast/lunch (no it wasn't brunch =( ) with her at Busboys and Poets.

- Going to Hana, the Japanese market at 17th and .... Florida (?) lol

- watching lots of anime like Bleach, Eden of the East, and FMA: Brotherhood

- in_the_blue visiting D.C. for a few days =DDD

- blue skies with fluffy white clouds like what is outside my upper-floor window now

- the internet

- trying to do a sit-up for the first time in 8 years, failing, and trying again

- ditto with pushups

- keeping the hair short(er)

- facebook

- Going to a TCM doctor and having my blood pulled for the first time without me freaking out considerably and for a very long time/hyperventilating about it


Things that make me sad:

- the internet going really really really slow.

- Art-O-Matic being closed when we tried to go after leaving Busboys and Poets

- Iran.

- train collisions on the Metro

- people

- feeling much less attracted to men recently.

- feeling like that's not the only delusion that I'm waking up from =(

- feeling like I much prefer alone time above all

- feeling like that's only because I've spent so much time alone that it's become a habit

- feeling like habit or not, it best suits me


Things that perk my interest:

- starting up a group based on the Avatar - the movie boycott I will be organizing

- starting up a website for said group, writing out content for it, contacting people

- writing at outpost_12

- writing my book(s)


Things that bring me down:

- having to deal with my parents constant carping about college

- reading an amazing story on the AIM homepage about a young woman who graduated 4th in her class and is going to Harvard despite being homeless all her life, then reading about half the user comments bitching about the achievement because she is black. Or because they hate the Obamas and liberalism and that they are black. And not being able to pretend that they're saying anything other than what they are saying because they're so straightforward about it. i.e. "Just another black girl who's going to rip off the American tax payer and suck them dry for whatever they can get." o_o...

- Avatar - the movie

- acceptance of ignorant and bigotry as ideals


Things that make me hopeful:

- Misha's work with her GLBT group in NC, including starting a small farm that will donate the food they grow and collect to the city homeless

- The E^2 documentary marathon on PBS the other day, showing how worldwide efforts are being made to "green" the way we use energy and use transportation. I literally cried when they did the one on the stream in South Korea that had been paved over in the 70s, then amazingly restored a few years ago, causing no huge traffic jams or disasters when the highway was torn down, only relief and love from the citizens for their new city park and clean stream running through it.

- My own feeling of burning passion towards getting diversity promoted in television and on film

- Miles' rising star - soon to move to NY, go to Acting School.

- The initiative from the White House on Health Care.

- The movie "Sicko" by Michael Moore - if only hopeful because someone has pointed out what a disaster the American health care system is, and what it could be.

- Iran.


Things I plan to do in the future:

- Beach! I need the sand in between my toes.

- France! Mom's always but always talked about it and has never been.

- Japan! It got put on standby when Alex and I broke up, but I want to go with or without him.

- Publish!

- Dance!

- Make 'em laaaaugh... Make 'em laaaaaugh......

So, I just finished watching "Avatar: The Last Airbender". Amazing series, btw, go out and watch it all now if you like anime at all.

But, then I made the mistake of checking out the progress on the live action remake by M. Night Shyamalan.

Wow. I... I'm so shocked that they're still doing this shit. It... it's like "Kung Fu" and Bruce Lee all over again =((((((

As much as I love the show, nearly to the point of obsession, I'm boycotting the movie, no doubts about that. I might not be so very angry if it hadn't been that this is based off a children's show. There was a great opportunity to promote diversity, and instead it turned into the message that whitewashing is okay. This is just completely unacceptable.

In honor of the Avatar casting...

This guy posted a list of Yellowface moments in Hollywood history.

Enjoy

clap.

wood.

church.

women. sweat. standing.


the lord. everything, is touched by that hand in here. it smells like tears and embalming fluid and the wailing of young women. clapping. black hands touching. i touch the chair in front of me. the fans flap to and fro. the sermon.

fire, brimstone, heaven. jubilation. wailing, is filling the house of god, wailing of joy and pain and misery and exhilaration. the voices.

the voices of the congregation.


rising, until the stars come to meet the earth, encompassing faith in this small wooden place. worn bibles in the back of benches, feet stamping the ground, flowers wilting in the humidity. clapping, clapping, clapping, clapping, clapping, clapping. ecstasy in the midst of despair. homegoing celebration.

I love that cats wil decide, when they want to, that it is time to Sit On Your Lap, very much in spite of what may be occurring there. Reading a book? Definitely, that cool smooth paper is perfect for sitting on. Working feverishly on your keyboard at a term paper? Hey, you've been working to hard, how about a fuzzy vibrating cat on your hands to relax you? Playing video games? Not engaged in the real world, time for cat. Eating? Nothing is more of a priority than cuddle time!! ...You don't need to eat right now, really.

I love cats o_o!

I joined a book club through a facebook friend.. but i will not be able to attend the first meeting because I will be working. I did read the book, The Kite Runner, quite a doozy. Stirring and uh... deeply... deep.... about ...betrayal... and stuff. And love. And what people need to feel loved... And Afghanistan. in the 70s-present. lot of stuff, that book was about, almost in an "epic" way o_O

The biggest thing in my life recently has been my magickal life... in which I feel as if I have made leaps and bounds and strides concerning what my "identity" is, what I believe about that, what I need, what I need to do here (earth), who I need to connect with to further these explorations, and what I need to do to practice everyday. Is goot. As Tammie said "You're not really a Shaman, [I thought I had been "called to shamanism" as they say, few years back]you're like one but you're not. The way Jolt is to Coca-Cola." Which didn't make sense at the time but makes complete and utter sense now. Yay for sense. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!...

I has short hair again yay. And it's not Spring (well it is, but it's still cold and rainy) but it is almost time for picnics and Spring things! And Hanami and Sakura Matsuri in D.C.!! XDDD and cherry blossom mochi. And just in time for MATSURITIME, we found a Japanese grocery in D.C.! Hiding in plain sight, called Hana, in Adams Morgan. RED BEAN PASTE BUNS... and also I finally found some dumpling wrappers T___T so I can make my dumplings again.

Now for some trailers I like =)))))

( trailers )

I'm thinking of doing a "celebrate Spring/new season" event around Earth Day this year...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. And as it turns out, I am sad to say that other people cannot give you happiness. They can share in it, but it starts in you. I learned this the hard way the last two weeks. Having people and yet alone. That's over. There's a new leaf turning over. Wish me luck, ne

it's hard to make a good cup of green tea. well. it's not really hard. but most people steep it too long. One to two minutes is all you need for green and white. if it's bitter YOU STEEPED IT TOO LONG.

Happy great and wonderful outstanding birthday sff_corgi!! Hope it's a great one!!!!!

I don't understand. I mean, i do? It seems to evade me though from a higher standpoint. The one that makes all the rules, calls all the shots cutes all the strings ...Why is it that "President Bush" is, like............... the worst president ever?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26803347/

?????? What?

TODAY!!!

I treated myself to a lump crab meat enchilada from an artsy fartsy place in D.C. It was good... it was not good also. The crab kinda tasted... disgusting. In larger bites. I had already told them it was delicious (nibbling around the edges) so I felt bad about telling them the meat was ridiculously gross. it didn't taste like it'd gone bad, it just tasted... polluted. Polluted with dirty grimy water, through and through. No joke. I suffered through a lump of meat that had my eyes watering, it was so potently gross. Like they'd set it in the Potomac River (!) for about 3 days. I don't blame them, though. I'm sure their sanitary procedures were up to snuff, I've been going there a long time. I'm pretty sure that if I'd gotten crab meat from anywhere else that night it would've been the same. Shame.

Speaking of the dreadful future, robots are the dreadful future.

"Child-like robot" so fucking creepy!!!!!

That's all I have for you today. Please deposit another quarter.

I want to go see The Lion King at Kennedy Center: *check*

I want to go to the beach (NC or FL?? NC or FL????!!!!): *check*

I went to see Rent: *CHECK*

I want to go the the Projekt Revolution tour concert when it comes to Nissan Pavilion. I mostly want to go for "Ashes Divide" - the solo project of the guy who wrote the music for A Perfect Circle: _______?

silent_wispers is in. Come with me?

It's July 27th, $54, many bands, Linkin Park, Atreyu, Chris Cornell...

lololol I said something in the (still going) gun rights thread that cracked me up:

the "gun rights" amendment was added to ensure that the people would never be oppressed by their government.... unless every citizen gets the written right to WMDs I don't see how it will make much difference today.

hahahahah I wish we had that! Amend the Constitution it is way out of date!! How are we supposed to stop our oppressive ruling body ("help! help! I'm being oppressed!") W/O Weapons of Mass Destruction????

Read more. Evil Liberals vs. Evil Conservatives, who will triumph!!??

I had such a ridiculously crazy night last night. It started with seeing "Rent" at Wolf Trap (I uploaded two pics to facebook to demonstrate excitement over this) and ended with me being drunk at home at 3:20 am. The show started at 8 pm in Vienna (hour Metro from my house) ended at 10:30, and the Metro closes at 12 on Sundays. I still ended up *home*, safe, drunk and fucking deliriously happy. *scratches head* I don't know how I pulled that off. Quite possible that I lead a semi-charmed life. There's this place called "Marx Cafe" that I'm thinking about making one of my regular haunts. They have a great vibe, good wines and scotch (I had scotch yesterday -- argh), a decor that's all like... wood. I love it. I first went with my friend Dawn like 5 years ago at 1 am on a Friday and they were having Karaoke.

This time around I ended up having conversations about huge upsets in soccer (football?) that had happened that day (something about, "It's liek if the Redskins had gone undefeated to the Finals. it's like that" to much smiling and interested nodding from me. Something else about Germany and Russia and Albania, but the accents were too heavy to figure everything out), conversation about the Bush White House and the amazing fact that Bush was voted in *twice*, (I honestly thought the first time was a fluke of some kind), and travelling to Europe, hitchhiking around, sleeping out under the stars, drinking free beer in Germany for a month. If that's not motivation to go back I don't know what is.

Also, "Rent" was outstanding as usual, easily my favorite play/musical, and just made the itch to sing that much worse *_*.

To the interested, I am still talking about guns in this post that I just made, much to my surprise. You're welcome to join in for or against or whatever.

I last had a bowl of Corn Pops. Yesterday, before I left for the theater. Um... yeah. Time for food maybe.

is apparently the year (of among many things) large organizations that I trusted in one place or other trying to fuck me over for money. This time it's health insurance. I just got insurace listed under my own name that I am responsible for keeping up with. I'm not too surprised, with the stories you hear. It jsut aggravates me that they seem to be pulling some story out of their ass to keep from having to pay for my health care. (something about "we can't cover injuries incurred on the job" when that is never something I mentioned to the doctor or that is true in any form other than that maybe I first noticed the problem while working. It is not a work injury. Fuck them.) Anyway. I love long boring battles over money and who owes whom what (///SARCASM) so.... I look forward to this. It's going to be fought over *snail mail* too. Cause they need those forms. Joy.

Can I be like this lady someday o_o.... A "trained master" in at least 6 martial arts.... "Samurai Granny!!!" I wanna join that army and get beat up by her.

In other news, the Supreme Court likes D.C.'s guns more than we do. LOL. I wonder if any of the senior members/decision-holders of the NRA have ever been in, near, or thought about a ghetto in their lives.

...I'm just sayin. I can't see some guy straight out the hood being like MY GUN RIGHTS I WANT THEM. ...Rather (if anything) MY GUN RIGHTS WHY DON'T YOU TAKE THEM. LOL. Seriously.


ETA:

OMG WATCH THIS VIDEO thank you hello_jamie for introducing me to this band and their copious amounts of eyeshadow and crack.

MANIC SCREAMING

We should make all spiritual talk
Simple today:

God is trying to sell you something,
But you don't want to buy.

That is what your suffering is:

Your fantastic haggling,
Your manic screaming over the price.
- Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, *I Heard God Laughing*