Winners And Losers, Which One Will You Be Today?

Howdy Bloggy peeps. I have a sick kid and will be Mondaying at home with her. Half of her German class is down with the sickness currently and it looks like Kidlet and the BFF are the lastest.

Let's see, Football game was fun, her school lost. Someone needs to beat the line coaches. From what I could see Special Teams were dandy it was everybody else that had issues.

The dance was hysterical. All the girls running around in packs beating up on the guys they liked and all the guys in little huddles watching one dude texting. It's so weird.

One wonders just how all this text messaging and 24/7 availablity is going to effect how these kids navigate adult relationships. If 90% of communication is non-verbal it becomes rather clear why this generation seems somewhat tactless.

Whip It was really really good. It was a nice to see Ellen Page *not* play yet another version of Juno. She carried the movie quite well I thought and I love Juliette Lewis. She's bonkers. Let's see, good soundtrack, a few uber twee scenes that kinda made me roll my eyes a bit, but other than that it was just a really sweet story. I think that is what I liked about it the most. It was storytelling. Plus her dad was funny as shit. And our free T-Shirts were pretty damn cool too.

I am pondering another mix CD. Possibly tomorrow. We shall see. Today people pissed me off and it was a Con Red Agro day.

Speaking of music, this has floated around Facebook for a good while but I just got around to doing this one. Mostly because I resent limits on my choices. The purpose was to list out 25 albums that mean something to you. They might mark a time, place or person in your life. You get the jist, in some way they mark YOU. Consider yourselves tagged or leave a few choices of your own in the comment section =)

1. U2 - Joshua Tree
2. U2 - Achtung Baby
3. Iron and Wine - The Shepard's Dog
4. Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
5. Black Crowes - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
6. The Clash - London Calling
7. Hole - Celebrity Skin
8. Metallica - Metallica (Black Album)
9. INXS - Listen Like Thieves
10 Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
11 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
12 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
13.Moby - Play
14 Nirvana - Nevermind
15 Nirvana - In Utero
16.Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
17.Social Distortion - Social Distortion
18.Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock and Roll
19.Green Day - Dookie
20 The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
21 The Cure - Disintegration
22 R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
23 Sugar - Copper Blue
24 Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
25.The Smiths - Meat Is Murder

26 - Yes I know :P - Urban Hymns - The Verve

No Pink Floyd available on Playlist so use your imagination and listen to Us and Them and Wish You Were Here on your own ;)

Mommy's Little Monster Broke All The Rules

OMFG did that concert kick some ass. Whole huge HEAPS of ass. Social D was just fucking awesome. The concert was outdoors, the weather was perfect, and they played their version of Under My Thumb and Six More Miles. It was beautiful. We had a huge fucking mosh pit with much slam dancing and body surfing. And a shit ton of kids were there. Mike Ness called for all the little ones to come on stage and then said he called them up there to give thanks to the Old School crowd for passing on the torch. Kidlet didn't go up cause frankly Kidlet looks about as 12 as I do!

She got a killer t-shirt and I got a gray Social D hoodie. It was awesome cause while I do so love me some Green Day, Social D is old school punk. When you have bad ass mofo's in spiked Motorhead jackets beating the shit out of each other in the pit, you know you are at a punk concert. Plaid pants from Lip Services does not a punk rocker make. Kidlet got a kick out of it cause we were all moshing our asses off, including her geriatric mother. I do so love their version of Under My Thumb. More so than the original. Sorry Mick! They saved Ring of Fire for the encore and last song of the night.

Much fun was made of the hippies right down the road at the Oregon Country Fair. Funny part is? Kidlet's dad, aunt and uncle, and dad's girlfriend are at the fair. I do Social D, they do Hippie fair. I grew up Hippie, what the fuck do I wanna go hang out with a bunch of smelly poser hippies for?

Went to IHOP after the show cause it is a tradition. You must eat breakfast at at dinner of some sorts after a concert. This IHOP happens to be down the street from my old dorm at U of O. Talk about flashbacks.

Kidlet be sleeping still. We got a king sized bed. What luxury, my god. I want one at home! We are off to Florence for lunch at Mo's and then off to Newport and then maybe to tour Haceta Lighthouse. It's haunted ya, know. And we LOVE haunted places. One of the things we plan to do on our road trip next summer is visit haunted places along the way. Alrighty time for me to go hit the showers and wake the Kidlet. Doubtful we will have net connection for the remainder of the trip so this is it for me until Monday!

Thirteen Is My Lucky Number

Social Distortion Time!!

Today is the day Kidlet and I pack up and take off for our Weekend Road Trip. She is still sleeping and I am doing laundry. Gonna wake her up at 9:30ish and get us both showered and packed and out the door. Me with my new leopard skinned laptop bag and 520 (yes Sparky....520) count CD case. Her with her new Hot Pink laptop case that she plans to graffiti all to hell.

We need to hit Hot Topic for an Emily the Strange T Shirt and the Mall for a Proactive refill and then the open road for Eugene, Oregon. The concert is tonight at 7 at Secret House Winery in Veneta but our hotel is in Eugene. Not like we are talking a huge distance. And I did grow up in Eugene. Oh the joy of driving down memory lane.

Never go to your high school in the middle of summer when it is nice and quiet and take your kid with you. It will FUCK with your head. That is all.

Tomorrow we head to Florence Oregon and then drive up the coast to Depoe Bay. The weather has cooled off which makes me most happy. 104 sucked.

We shall try to achieve net connection this weekend but if we don't, everyone be safe and happy and have a great weekend!

Starr out

I Fell In To A Burning Ring Of Fire

Whoo hoo! Me and Cleo baby! Ok, I brought the marshmallows, who has the Hershey's and the Graham Crackers?!

The Second Level of Hell -
You have come to a place mute of all light, where the wind bellows as the sea does in a tempest. This is the realm where the lustful spend eternity. Here, sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine, whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. You have betrayed reason at the behest of your appetite for pleasure, and so here you are doomed to remain. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy are two that share in your fate.

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Moderate
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very Low
Level 7 (Violent)	Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Moderate

Take the Dante Inferno Hell Test

So I am Slut and Glutton and I seem to like the panderers and the fraudulant. I would like the record to show that I answered false on "A Pimp Is A Good Thing To Be." Must have been the fortune tellers and the tarot cards that got me high in that catagory since they are joining the magicians and pagans there :P

In related news, I know why I am a slut. It is all Snapple's Fault. Well they apparently had help from other "Niche Drink" companies. It appears that the veritable bounty of beverages is leading to folks to being less loyal to the big name brands such as Coke , and I quote "The consequence is they become more promiscuous -- people are now drinking dozens of brands." So I am a beverage slut.


It is going to be a busy busy weekend. Taking Kidlet for a professional eyebrow appointment to go with that pink hair. Then the office for a bit. Then home to rest and prepare for our return to Transylvania tonight. It has been ages since I have seen Rocky Horror in a theater so I am pretty jazzed about it. Sunday I have a trip to the mall promised to small child for a Sephora binge and then home when for the day where I will park my ass and rip more cd's to the lap top. I think that is all I have to do tomorrow. I sure hope that is all I have to do tomorrow!

And finally for my last public service of the day, I leave you to find your own "Personality Crisis." Apparently I am slightly histrionic. How many times do I have to say it? The word is quirky people, quirky!

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	Low
Schizoid:	Low
Schizotypal:	Low
Antisocial:	Low
Borderline:	Low
Histrionic:	Moderate
Narcissistic:	Low
Avoidant:	Low
Dependent:	Low
Obsessive-Compulsive:	Low
-- Personality Disorder Test -- -- Personality Disorder Information --

I'm 10 Years Burning Down The Road

Friday! How do I love thee, let me count the ways. Why I actually give a shit when I work most weekends is beyond me. I suppose it is my pathetic attempt at being a "joiner."

Having coffee and reading the entertainment news. I see that yet another asshat is suing Borat the Movie. This time it is the running, hand waving, shrieking guy who totally came off as a massive homophobe trying to get away from being hugged. He is suing because they made money on his embarrassment. Psst.... here is a hint for you Jeffrey, you look like a bigger pussy now that you filed a lawsuit than you did in the movie. And that is saying something. GG!!

July is shaping up all social like. That includes of course the Social Distortion concert on July 13. Kidlet is totally beside herself. She was made to wear her Social D T-shirt inside out at school due to the Dancing Skelly having a martini glass and cigarette. She wisely decided to hold off wearing my other Social D Pin Up T-shirt cause I think the boobies might totally freak out the straights.

Later in July we are heading to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to see The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. I love Shakespeare. Love him to bits. So much so, that my daughter is named after one of his characters. Nobody better bring up that whole Kit Marlowe crap or I will have to beat you with a limp noodle.

Here is a question for you to all ponder. How different are you today from when you were say, 16? I had the most vivid dreams last night about my trip to Europe in 85. It was damn freaky! They were not just fond memory dreams either. I dreamed things that actually did happen and with a level of detail that I couldn't achieve while being awake. The funny part is, that in my dream inhabiting my 16 year old self didn't feel any different that being my 38 year old self. Hell I would still get jacked up on Cuba Libra's and dance on tables to Born In The USA to this day. Ahh, Florence =)

Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa

I admit it. I am a serious Internet quiz 'ho. And LAZY! Yeah I said it. Guess who has NOT worked overtime? That would be me. A three day weekend and I actually took it! Go me! Kidlet and I got a wild hair up our collective asses on Saturday and drove to the beach. We had just purchased new music and we were groovin on Nevermind. Had to keep driving so I said WTF and we hit Mo's for some Clam Chowder and shrimp salad. I mean really. If you are gonna drive around for the sole purpose of listening to music, you might as well spend that 70 minutes in the pursuit of good food, right?

The remainder of my weekend was spent dinking with the template. Yesterday kidlet and I went out for dinner and today we head to Chez MamaSan for Ribs, Chicken, Tater Salad, and PIE! I love pie. Currently I am sitting hear talking to all you fine people and flashing the kidlet. Why? Cause I can and it horrifies her. Scarring your children early and often is fun :P

**Update. Kidlet and Me and Social D. Just got tickets for the Social Distortion concert July 13th!**

Tomorrow we go back to the grind. Yeeehaaaaaaw. In the mean time I here are more useless information for you.


Psycho killer qu'est que c'est

You Are 32% Abnormal

You are at high risk for being a psychopath. It is very likely that you have no soul. You are at low risk for having a borderline personality. It is unlikely that you are a chaotic mess. You are at low risk for having a narcissistic personality. It is unlikely that you are in love with your own reflection. You are at low risk for having a social phobia. It is unlikely that you feel most comfortable in your mom's basement. You are at low risk for obsessive compulsive disorder. It is unlikely that you are addicted to hand sanitizer.

How Abnormal Are You?

Yeah baby, yeah!!

You are Bettie Page

Girl next door with a wild streak You're a famous beauty - with unique look And the people who like you are cultish about it

What Famous Pinup Are You?

Ok this one kinda surprised me. Too bad I can't run it by the Ex :P

Guys Like That You're Sensitive

And not in that "cry at a drop of a hat" sort of way You just get most guys - even if you're not trying to Guys find it is easy to confide in you and tell you their secrets No wonder you tend to get close quickly in relationships!

What Do Guys Like About You?