Oh What a World My Parents Gave Me...

"always, travelling...but not in love; still I think I'm doin' fine."

I always forget how much I love Rufus Wainwright. I always liked his Poses and self-titled album, but Want One and Want Two are such freaking brilliant albums. Which makes me think of other albums that I think are PERFECT. 

Regardless of genre, each album (to me) are just perfectly crafted for what the artist was trying to create. 

Speaking of creating, I am at a standstill. And have been for quite some time now. Someone recently gave me this saying and it sadly describes me: "I am a non-practicing artist." I sing, yet do not perform. I act, yet haven't been on a stage in a very long time. I am a writer, with no finished work to submit. 

I brought my laundry in today...does that count for anything?!...No? I didn't think so either.

Enough complaining...

I'm watching Roseanne right now. I was never allowed to watch it when I was younger. My mom thought she was crass and taught bad family  values. But watching it now, I see how GOOD this show was. Yes, they might be lower class and make low brow jokes about burping and other bodily functions. And yes, she may joke about killing the kids and the kids are disrespectful in response. But...it's real. The characters DO love each other so much and I love watching their interaction. Though we weren't trashy, my family and I definitely had/have such a good relationship and we joke/kid around with each other incessantly. Roseanne really put it out there with a family sitcom about complete comfort with the family unit. I don't know...maybe I'm analyzing it too much, but I think it's great. And it makes me laugh and touches me more often than not. 

"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect." 

--Robert Louis Stevenson

"I've Got to Get Back..."

"to the house at Pooh Corner by one." 

Kenny Loggins, you tore me up when you wrote that song. Brought me back to these days:

This blog is in response to Brian.net's blog about his favorite childhood cartoons. In my opinion, he did an okay job bringing back some great shows, but really missed the mark by omitting some.  :):)

For instance,

I think I loved it so much because my parents kept a pretty extensive library when we were little (now it's cluttered with awful Sue Patterson and Nicholas Sparks books), and among them was this huge anthology of Grimms Fairy Tales. I was OBSESSED with the fact that so many scary and bad things happened in them. Not at ALL what adults were portraying fairy tales to be. I felt like a rebel, and more so, I felt like I knew something others didn't. So when they came out with a cartoon!? Done and done.

Here's a REALLY good one that until JUST NOW, I couldn't remember the name. I always just refer to it as "that show with the koala bear and screaming lizard'. NO ONE ever remembers this show. But I loved it. The Noozles!!!! Partly, because it was entertaining....and PARTLYYYYYY....because of what came on after it.

Drum roll please...

My favorite show and one of the best theme songs EVER:

David the Gnome. OH MY GOSH. I was obsessed. His fox, Swift. And he and his wife kissing with their noses! And the mean trolls.

And of course, Gummi Bears, Heathcliff, Inspector Gadget, & Scooby Doo were all pretty awesome too.

But, I must say, Brian.edu mentioned Shirt-Tales and other people commented "Oh yeah, Shirt-Tales..." "loved that show"....

I have never heard of it and I don't know what the hell that show is. Weird.

Anyway, I just looked up and saw that somehow when I was channel surfing, I left it on a cartoon channel. The crap kids are watching today....it just makes me mad. Terrible crap. 

Not all progress is growth in a positive direction.  -- Me. 

"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. "

-- Ambrose Pierce

"Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows." --John Betjeman

"It Doesn't Hurt..."

"unless I walk." Sorry, Katie Thompson--I know you meant those lyrics to be sad and heartwrenching, but I am referring to my sun burn. It still hurts so bad. Worst spots: forehead and tops of my thighs. It really hurts to walk. Dramatic. I know.



Speaking of dramatic...
















It wasn't AWFUL. But that's possibly because the experience was made enjoyable by spending time with such good company.




Something else I watched last night....













It was a very interesting night. To say the least.



Yesterday, I spent all day recording a song with Blake, which I haven't done in awhile. At first, I was getting really frustrated with myself and then we just kept going at it and then kinda just made a breakthrough. It made me really happy. I guess I just have to warm up for five hours every day?!? Kill me.
























I got news that my family is safe from Mr. Gustav. That's good news. After Hurricane Rita a few years back, I think everyone was kind of expecting the worst. Isn't that the way with us humans though? We dream of what good things could happen to us; but in our ordinary day, we assume and expect the very worst.




"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision."-- Gary Collins

I'd Rather Be Sailing...

"on an open sea..." Okay, so I didn't go sailing yesterday Labor Day weekend. I went boating. And had such a good time. I went with Spence and Brian.uk.gov.edu :)
A lot has happened since I last blogged. I was goin to type I hate that we created a verb--'blogging'....but I guess at one point in time, every verb was created. Why not continue the tradition. It's growth, right? ...
Anyway, in my last blog I was sitting at work (Chelsea Studios). Thank goodness, I was fired from that hell hole and I've just been catering for the past few months. Not only that, but I moved out of the Washington Heights apartment and into Sunnyside, Queens...I can't explain how happy I am in my living situation.Kaitlin (one of my two roommates) has a teacup Yorkshire terrier named Ella. And we're obsessed with each other.
That's right. Obsessed.

OH! And I finally bought a computer....at the ripe old age of 25. I am now becoming an adult. Well, as soon as I start making my payments on it. HA....and my student loan. Yikes.

Right now, my family is in Texas evacuating from Hurricane Gustav.

It brings me back to when Hurricane Rita hit a couple of years ago. I was living in San Antonio at the time. I am leading such a completely different life from where I was then. It's crazy to me how quickly and dramatically life can change.
Things are good for me right now. I'm in a really good place.


"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." Alan Cohen