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[17 Nov 2007|08:41am] |
HALLOWEEN: For halloween I spent the earlier part of the evening at my place, it was the first Halloween in a while I've been single, not having Brian there to go out and dress up with, I stayed in and handed out candy to the mini trick or treaters of Los Angeles. I feel like kids are really losing touch on the whole Halloween spirit. I saw so many kids not bothering to dress up, lugging around pillow cases for candy and not bothering to say trick or treat. I also got a lot of kids who were probably a little too old to be trick or treating but I'm a bit of a softy so I gave them candy too, but I didn't give them the good stuff! When the hordes of children started to thin out and I noticed my neighbors lights going out, I slipped into something a little more dangerous. That's right, I strapped some holsters to my thighs, donned the booty shorts from hell and braided my hair in what I'd like to think made a very realistic Lara Croft costume, aside perhaps from the plastic guns in my oh so sassy holsters. The rest of the night was spent booty shaking and downing illicit substances with some of the hottest ladies and gents I know. And why not? We all know that Halloween is no longer the spooky children's festival it used to be. It's been taken over by adults playing dress-up and pretty much ANY costume can be called "sexy" now. The sexy devil, sexy cat, sexy witch, sexy nurse. Bobbing for apples is out and glow in the dark condoms seem to find their way into most over-sized handbags making their way downtown.
THANKSGIVING: The holiday of giving thanks for the food and land we stole from the Native Americans , actually, being part Native I don't need to give thanks for stealing land but I will give thanks to everybody else for bringing starvation and malaria to my people. Corn thieves! All joking aside Thanksgiving is a great holiday. The only holiday devoted solely to being thankful for everything we have, have had and possibly will have. Even if it's been taken over by Turkey dinners and football parties. The thought it represents is still valid and unlike more religious holidays, this is one that all Americans can take part in. Even if your family doesn't get involved in the big dinners or superbowl parties, taking some time out of that day just to think of everything we have in our lives and all the privileges we've overlooked that others might not be entitled to is what the holiday should really reflect. I haven't completely made my mind up as to what I'm going to be doing this year for Thanksgiving, I'm a culprit of Turkey and stuffing loving myself so I might make my way home to Florida for some of my mother's cooking and come back to LA 10 lbs heavier. I haven't seen my older sister in about a year now, which is hard because we were always pretty close, so it would be nice to see the family again. As a kid Thanksgiving always consisted of boardgames and good food, I didn't grow up as privileged as I happen to be now and I think that's a good thing. It keeps me down to earth now when people start throwing compliments and invitations in my direction. Remembering your roots is important and another reason to give thanks for everything I have in my life now.
CHRISTMAS: I find that even though Thanksgiving hasn't made it's grand debut for the year, the commercialism of the impending Christmas season is already wrapping it's talons around my heart and squeezing. I'm not just referring to my daily rendezvous with Christmas flavors at Starbucks either. I found some construction paper in my storage closet while I was cleaning a while back. It was thrown in among a bunch of Brian's old shit he forgot to take when he moved out. Now normally I'm not what you might call "Crafty" or artistic on any level other than the theater arts, but after my paper snowflake incident earlier in the week I thought I might try my hand at some paper chains. needless to say my living room carpet still has bits of red and green paper sticking to it and I got more glitter on myself than I did on the chain but at least it's up and the miracle of Christmas mid-November may commence! Shaant, you should count yourself lucky I haven't been able to find scissors and glue on your bus or you might have a problem.
LIFE AND TATTOOS: I get compared to Angelina Jolie a lot but I don't personally see a big resemblance, maybe the dark hair and blue eyes accompanied by the fact that my lips always seem to be pushing themselves out into what I lovingly refer to as a duck mouth. She of course doesn't have a duck mouth, her lips are pretty damn perfect. Another reason may be the tattoos that line our skin, we're both "bad girls" of the industry, though I feel she's more than redeemed her reckless ways by adopting half of the world's needy children. If I had the time, money, patience and selflessness to do so I might try it myself, but unfortunately I wasn't blessed with any of those virtues, just a little talent in the field of words and fantasy. Getting onto the topic of tattoos, I've had a lot of people asking me how many I have and of what and the number one question concerning anything to do with a needle and your skin "Did it hurt?". The only one that caused any kind of real pain I'd have to say would be the poem on my ribs that says "there once was a girl who never knew love until a boy broke her heart". The Shakespeare quote from King Lear "We will all laugh at gilded butterflies" stung a little being over my shoulder blade. I also have a portrait of Marilyn Monroe on my forearm, a symbol for strength on my opposite wrist, a star and crescent moon on my ankle and the most infamous, my ex-fiance's name just below my hip. I hear a lot about the whole name tattoos thing. Most people disapprove of it or ask me if I regret that I've got a man's name on my body that I'm no longer seeing. I don't regret it, I don't regret any of them that one included. It's just like any other tattoo. I think the reason many people get so psyched out over the name tattoos is that they see them as brands rather than memories, it's not a symbol of ownership, it's not a wedding ring, it's just words on skin to remind me of an important time in my life. I'm still really close with Brian but if I weren't I wouldn't want to forget that time in my life. We shared a lot and I learned a lot and that tattoo means a lot to me.
SPENDING MY TIME: I've spent the last few days hanging out with my good pal Shaant who sings lead for Cute Is What We Aim For and flips his hair for a living. He invited me out for a lovely evening filled with blood guts and gore aka we went to see the new Saw movie. We didn't really see it though, well he saw part of it and I saw a little bit from between my fingers but eventually we just zipped out of the theater because really it wasn't worth the money and I wasn't watching it anyway. After that I got the grand tour of his bus which was impressively on the clean side and I got to meet his band-mates who are all very cool. Today I made him find me a Starbucks and froze my booty off in Ontario, Canada. We walked there from where we were parked and talked to the Canadian's who actually don't have as strong of accents as I stereotyped them.
UPDATE IDEAS: I asked people to comment and give me update topics, I got a lot of IM's about it, which is a little sad because I'm forgetful and I don't remember what everybody told me to talk about anymore. But here is what I got from the comments that were left.
adzfron
2007-11-16 15:38 (link) Select
braces
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fdenisem
2007-11-16 16:06 (link) Select
ihy! gimme a good topic
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adzfron
2007-11-16 18:31 (link) Select
your fav kinda cheese bc that's what i'm gonna update about
BRACES AND CHEESE: MY TEETH ARE PERFECT ZAC GO AWAY. AND AS FOR CHEESE
hacik
2007-11-16 16:37 (link) Select
Oprah, zig-zags, cheetos, highlighters, teeth.
OPRAH, ZIG ZAGS, CHEETOS, HIGHLIGHTERS AND THAT WHICH MUST NOT BE SAID ANYMORE: I'm not a huge Oprah fan. I probably should be because I know she does so much for people but I actually don't watch a lot of tv. I get heck for it sometimes because people are always talking about Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, House and any other show that's hot right now, I've caught an episode or two of each but I don't usually find myself with enough time to watch anything religiously. Zig Zags are a different story. I do enjoy zig zags for all my illegal drug rolling purposes they come in quite handy. Cheetos kind of fall under the cheese topic because they're covered in cheese powder, but I don't mind them as much. I eat them sometimes. I really just like to squish them into the floor of Shaant's bus and watch him have a heart attack trying to find a broom. Highlighters....I have no idea what to even say about that. Where did you come up with that? An finally teeth. My teeth are nice :[ everybody needs to stop making fun of them.
jrant
2007-11-16 17:18 (link) Select
mmc
MICKEY MOUSE CLUB: The Mickey Mouse Club was a very cute show but that curly haired kid was a bit annoying as we've already discussed. Just kidding, you were very cute on the show and I do remember watching it a bit as a kid. I'm not cool enough to be considered a real "Disney kid" but I WAS in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, which was a Disney movie, so i should be an honorary Disney kid!
jp
2007-11-16 19:09 (link) Select
homelessness.
HOMELESSNESS: That's a very sad subject and kind of a difficult one to form an opinion on. There are some people who can't help living on the streets and there are some who could better themselves and don't. I hate that there's homelessness in our country. I feel like I should be doing something more to help my fellow man but there's only so much you can do and dropping spare change into a coffee cup at the end of every block won't fix anything. I used to try and give money to as many people as I passed while downtown if I had the change, but as time's gone on, it's so hard to feel sorry for them when you see the same people day in and day out. That's more referring to the people who bum change on the street than to homelessness in general. It's a terrible thing and I couldn't imagine not having a home, or what it must be like to lose all your possessions or not to have any to begin with. To not be near your family, to maybe not know where they are or if they're ok. It's terrible.
SHOUT OUTS: Number one on my list, because I'm spending so much time with him lately, is Shaant Hacikyan. I've been having a blast living the tour life and aside from the small sleeping spaces and random noises during the night and early mornings I'd definitely do it again. He's just fantastical. I have to make a shout out to the cutie patrol, Frank Iero who talked me into getting a journal here at basement. He's one of the funniest hobbits I know, much funnier than Frodo, that's for sure. I spend most mornings talking to him and his one and only about all sorts of things. The second member of the cutie patrol happens to be his one and only Quinn, who is also hilarious. When talking to them both it gets pretty difficult to keep a straight face especially if one of them is drunk or tired. Quinn helped me through a very hard time in my life aka walking down a very dark street by myself when IT could have come out of a sewer and clowned me to death. I owe you my life, Quinn. Quinn and Frank also stole my ghost for a while, which gave me a rest from my computer problems, he went to see them and scream in the middle of the night for no apparent reason. Unfortunately he came back with a vengeance and now I've had to mail my laptop to Canada for repairs. I was told I had to include Pete Wentz in the cute group even if his broken foot wasn't very cute. He's a very nice fellow and pretty charming. Together they form a cute sandwich, no mayo. If you haven't talked to any of these three I would highly recommend it. Ashley Tisdale needs a shout out, she is probably the most adorable chick I've ever talked to, it's pretty obvious that she's blonde but that's what makes her so lovable. Her man Zac Efron is a little obsessed with my teeth (WHICH ARE PERFECT THANKS >:O) but I guess I still love him for being a nice guy when the time calls for it. Taylor York and I are saving the dolphins by not eating tuna, especially tuna with mayo. We've formed a mayo hate club to try and save the world from the disgustingness that is mayo. You can see here at ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nomayopls that we are very into our cause. Justin Timberlake is my new home boy, he's rekindled my love for the snowy slopes and now all I can think about is going skiing. Who wants to rent a cabin and take a trip to some snowy hilltops? Any takers? Jake Schultz is full of all kinds of southern charm, he's full of deep meaningful conversations about bbq and grits if anybody is interested in exactly what grits are, as I was, you can take a look at www.grits.com, but Jake doesn't recommend you put mayo in your grits and we already know how I feel about the mayo situation. Zack Baker is a new buddy, we were helping each other think of update ideas even if he kept forgetting what he was trying to say. I was kind of intimidated to IM him at first just because his band sings about ripping out peoples hearts, but he's completely approachable and much fun to chat with. I also love his music, it's just the lyrics that are frightening. Jack Marin is just adorable. If I've forgotten anybody I'm so sorry :[ It doesn't mean I don't appreciate you, it just means I'm absent minded and have trouble grouping my thoughts sometimes. Oh, Frank reminded me I can't forget the man of my masturbatory fantasies, so says the gossip crew. Chris Gaylor and his amazing drummer arms are where it's at!
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