this is my 100th post guys - wow. a little over a year and 100 posts. groovy.
today, i am dedicating this Flashback Friday to someone who has had MAJORLY HUGE influence on me personally. i would consider her one of my heroes and my mentors. listening to her music and following her since high school has helped me through some tremultuous times in my life....as well as some good times. over the years, her style in music has changed from dark and obscure and sometimes angry to STILL obscure, yet more peaceful and uplifting.
ms. tori amos.
today, i give you guys the video for "baker, baker" from 1994's album "under the pink". this was a life-changing album for me and saw me through a very rough time in my life. i give you the live version off of the tonight show in 1994....
thank you tori for being such an inspiration and such an amazingly strong woman.
i don't usually speak much politics on my blog.....it got me into some trouble once even though this is MY blog to vent as i please....anyway....beside the point....i'm going to say a little something about who i will be voting for in 2008. Dr. Ron Paul.
most people that know me know that i can not stand (being nice here) the current *person* who is in office at the moment and all of his loyal followers that work alongside him.
i never got into politics too much....until roughly about 6 years ago when shit started hitting the preverbial fan. i started doing my research and started to really get concerned as to what the hell was going on in the government world.
i voted for the first time for anything in the presidential election of 2000. i voted for ralph nader - not because i thought he would win...but because i wanted to try and help in the vote to increase the percentage in order for the green party to start receiving federal funding. meh. that didn't happen by several percent.
i voted again in 2004. knowing and thinking that all the other candidates were worth a piece of shit, but just voting for the "other guy" to try and get fuck-face out of office. of course that didn't work.
i'm not familiar with prior presidencies really that occurred in my life time with the exception of clinton and bush sr. and with both of them, i didn't pay much attention, so i have no opinion on either of them to be honest. because i didn't care. which is a VERY bad attitude to take being in this country. and not caring and going along with the sheeple, that's just what we get. for not having a voice of our own.
i'm jumping in this time around. for once, now that i actually care....am doing my research and worry about the future of this country for myself, my daughter and for my unborn grandchildren (who may or may not come about), but IN THEORY...you get the idea.
i am by no means going to be making this a political blog. that's not what this is about for me....BUT when i have something to say...i'm going to say it goddamn it. and i'm not going to be afraid to say what i feel or who i'm going to vote for and why. because i now have my reasons from doing my own work and finding out what i can about these subjects at hand.
all politicians are crooks and liars...we all know that. but for once, i finally think there is someone who is actually worthy of running for the presidency and who i think would benefit our country more than any other candidate could.
and i can honestly say that i am actually surprising myself because i have completely pulled a fast one and will be voting for someone in a party that i NEVER felt i believed in. but he's different. in my eyes, he shouldn't belong to any "party". we have become so divided as a nation in the war of the parties anyway. so i won't look at it that way.
i'm voting for him as the best individual i think that will be up for the task at hand. not because he could be a republican...or a democrat or an independent, etc....but because i believe in what he stands for.
let me also preface this by saying that i don't believe in EVERYTHING that he believes in. some things i feel i am more liberal on....but in general, i think he has the right ideas and the right state of mind to go into a presidency for the american people.
1. he voted AGAINST the war from day one and is STILL against it now and is ready to bring the troops home.
"It's time American soldiers quit being killed and it's time for us to quit killing a lot of other people who have not attacked us" - Ron Paul
2. he believes in going back to the way of restoring The Constitution. what this country was founded upon. we have swayed too far away.
"The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people." - Ron Paul
4. he has been and will be fighting for OUR FREEDOM.
"I don't want us to worry about the borders between North and South Korea and between Iraq and Syria, I want to worry about our own border." - Ron Paul
SAY NO TO WAR, AMNESTY AND TAXES. SAY YES TO LIMITED GOVERNMENT, SECURE BORDERS AND LIBERTY.
i do not say these things to sway anyone's beliefs or their votes. why i posted this is so you can all see with your own eyes that if i can do the research, so can you. i do ask that everyone i know PLEASE make an informed decision this time around. our country is in serious termoil and needs a complete revamping. and whomever you vote for, believe they can do the job and make an educated choice. don't be one of the sheep.
pardon for the lack of posting lately guys. for a number of reasons that you could probably care less about : work has been hectic...haven't felt very creative...my thoughts are too muttled inside me noggin. but you know....why am i sorry really? nothing to be sorry about. it just is.
meh.
thanksgiving was ok. nothing special, but got to have a nice dinner with a few family members at a cafeteria here. that's why it was "ok". but quite honestly, thanksgiving isn't too huge of a deal for me - hasn't ever really been. i probably shouldn't say that and should be more blessed and thankful for what we have because of our forefathers, but why do we have a DAY to do that? i know i know...we have to stop and truly be thankful. so really i'm just talking out of my ass and making excuses. shame on me. next year, i plan on not having a thanksgiving feast and volunteering at a shelter or something of the sort to help feed the homeless. that to me will make it more meaningful.
a lot of the holiday was spent playing ungodly amounts of games of uno. (specifically "harry potter" uno) with The Ladybug (the bebe). the weather was too wretched to do anything other than stay inside in your safe and cozy bungalo. it did snow on thanksgiving for about 2 minutes. which around here is WHOA - a huge amount. ha
i also got to see August Rush. this was such an amazingly beautiful film. if you haven't seen it yet, you must go check out this movie. it's definitely one you want to own, but to get the full effect of the music in this movie, you MUST go see it in the theater first. i won't talk to much about it since i'm sure a lot of people out there haven't seen it and i don't want to spoil too much....just know that you won't be sorry you went and saw this. it literally makes you look at life a little differently every day.
Laura says: have you ever noticed that the closing dept has a stinch of puberty / testostrone to it? Laura says: yuk Laura says: like a teenage boys bedroom St. German says: ummmm St. German says: no St. German says: you have a wierd nose St. German says: what is my "smell"? St. German says: ass? St. German says: lmao Laura says: lol Laura says: nooooooooooooo St. German says: they are all like 20 over there St. German says: running the place Laura says: i have a super sensitive nose St. German says: and im the old lady St. German says: working as a f'ing assistant Laura says: that's why it smells like a teenage boys bedroom Laura says: duh Laura says: you know what i mean when you smell something and it smells like "recess" from when you were a kid? St. German says: yessss Laura says: see i'm not that weird St. German says: katlin sometimes smells like cafeteria/sweat Laura says: lol Laura says: or like when you walk into subway and pick up your order and you walk out with that "subway" smell Laura says: fresh baked bread Laura says: lol St. German says: um well you smell stuff nobody else would St. German says: sweet St. German says: so if i walk into a room full of midgets, will i smell like one? Laura says: yes, i know. i am a little weird then. just a little. St. German says: casue that would be AWESOME Laura says: LOL midgets don't smell St. German says: yeah St. German says: well thats why i like you St. German says: they dont? St. German says: i smell but midgets dont? Laura says: dummy - they don't have a "certain smell" Laura says: like the closing dept - if you walked back there for 30 minutes and walked back out you would probably smell like a teenage boys room too St. German says: thats hot Laura says: that would make me throw up in my mouth Laura says: a LOT St. German says: i want to smell like a hot teen boy Laura says: lol you are a freak show Laura says: i am so putting this convo in my blog. you are gonna be a celebrity again. St. German says: SWEEEEET St. German says: I will have to start doing autographs if you keep it up St. German says: and i can charge $5 each St. German says: then pay my horrific speeding ticket St. German says: and go into midget porn St. German says: then i will smell like a sexy midget Laura says: um...yahhhhhhhhhhhhhh Laura says: haha
Everytime I hear this song, I feel a warmth and overjoyed....so I thought I would share this morning. How can you not just feel completely uplifted everytime you hear this song...no matter where you are....or when. Because in the greater scheme of things, we truly are "one"...all of us....united as one.
(p.s....there will be no Flashback Friday this week you guys - I have a 4 day weekend, so I won't be posting after today - sorry - but I want to wish everyone a joyous thanksgiving spent with family and friends - may love surround you)
my weekend was a complete roller coaster. i wrote about it on my myspace blog and i may cut and paste it later to here, but i definitely don't feel like reiterating what happened over the weekend.
there is one thing that i am TRULY excited about that i did yesterday that's now going to become a really healthy and good thing for me, but i can't broadcast it yet. i will after the holidays are over.
other than that, not too much to say today. last year i became OBSESSED with sarah mclachlan's album - "wintersong" around the holidays. well....it's happening again. i absolutely adore her. have for so long and still do to this day. so i will leave you with the song that has been on continuous play for me in one form or another for several days.
i had to make a birthday post for one of my most favorite jazz vocalists alive today. i adore her. she's ever so sultry and seductive and beautiful and sexy. (and still to this day, i'm baffled by the attraction to elvis costello, but hey....they make a cute couple in a twisted sort of way)
for those of you that know me, know i am a Depeche Mode FREAK to say the least. i'm surprised i haven't done a post for them yet on my flashback fridays, so today i give you 2. (since i skipped last week also - sorry - i'm slackin guys)
even if you aren't a HUGE fan of DM, if you've ever seen them live, you have to admit they put on an amazing show. (i should know, i've seen them live 7 times :) )
for those of you that didn't know, i have pneumonia. YUK.
i was diagnosed wednesday evening and i've been almost bed-ridden since. so i'm still here, but i haven't felt like posting. it will probably be another few days before i'm up and about and feeling back to normal again, so bear with me.
I'd like to take you this morning on a somber journey and let us remember our ancestors who lived through this horrible, trying time in america - the great depression.
1. my daughter 2. my friends & family 3. music 4. soccer 5. reading 6. bettering myself 7. living more naturally 8. my self worth
8 things I want to do before I die:
1. see my baby girl grow into the beautiful woman she will become 2. travel, travel, travel as much as i can 3. get out of debt (which hopefully will allow me to do #2) 4. get married 5. own a house again 6. get back in shape 7. spend as much time with my loved ones as i can 8. feel accomplished
8 things I say often:
1. i love you 2. woop - boosh (don't ask) 3. shibby 4. word to your mama 5. um....i can't think of anymore (i'm say goofy things around my daughter and sister a lot - it's all her fault you know....i really am intelligent sometimes :-p ) 6. 7. 8.
8 Books I’ve read recently (or am still reading):
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 2. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low-Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman 3. Map of Bones by James Rollins 4. The Hiram Key by Knight/Lomas 5. HP : 6 by JK Rowling 6. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown 7. Secrets of the Code by Dan Burstein 8. constantly reading the HUD Handbook 4155.1 for work
8 Songs I Could Listen to Over and Over (And do!)
1. Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix 2. Each Coming Night by Iron & Wine 3. anything by Dave Matthews (been doing a lot of that lately) 4. Zebra by John Butler Trio 5. Corcovado by Stan Getz 6. Baker Baker by Tori Amos 7. Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight by Amos Lee 8. Out of Touch by Hall and Oates
8 Things that Attract Me to My Best Friends:
1. we are there for each other through thick and thin 2. we accept each other for everything that we are without judgment 3. they are so much fun! 4. we can do "nothing" and still have the best time 5. they are my world 6. the little things 7. the i love yous 8. the happiness & differences that each of them bring to my life
i'm not tagging anyone because last time i tried, no one played along, so if you feel like playing, please do :)
so um, yah. we are sitting here at work on the 9th floor workin away when all of a sudden this HORRID smell comes through the air vents. smelled of a mixture of skunk and fire.
our VP immediately tells us all the go downstairs until they find out what it is...he was afraid it was a natural gas leak.
so we all pour into the elevators and the stairwells and get the hell out of dodge.
spend a few minutes down on the 1st floor - amazingly enough we were the only floor evacutatd AND you couldn't even smell it down there. they tell us it's just a skunk and we can go back up. WTF? how does a skunk get to the 9th floor and only the 9th floor of a building.
so roughly about 30 minutes later, we get this email from the receptionist:
"Building management stopped by. They explained that pest control was trying to track down a skunk and OBVIOUSLY upset it, causing it to spray this awful smell directly into the fresh air intake…so there you have it. Have a wonderful and fresh afternoon."
fooking awesome.
"fresh air intake"? you know what?
i don't even want to know.
i'm gonna smell AWESOME after i leave work today. good thing i don't have a hot date or something. haha - kidding.
Hello my lovelies. As promised today I have a two-fer.
Firstly, we have a little known British band by the name of The Stone Roses. I really like this band and this song by far is my fav song of theirs. It's an oldie but goody, and it's so FUNKY!
The Stone Roses : "Fools Gold"
Secondly, we have a band by the name of The Breeders. Formed by Kim Deal of The Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. They came out with the album "Last Splash" in 1993, which featured the song that I am posting today, "Cannonball". I believe the band is still around, but if I remember correctly, Tanya Donelly is no longer with the band, but Kim recruited her twin sister, Kelley to the band. I could be wrong....I'm going off memory here.
Michael Myers says: when you wanna go to lunch? Jason Voorhees says: in a million years Jason Voorhees says: after i chop up this body...hang on Michael Myers says: well jason, you wont live that long Jason Voorhees says: apparently i have through 36 sequels Jason Voorhees says: so suck it Michael Myers says: suck m left biotch Michael Myers says: my left nut Michael Myers says: dammit Jason Voorhees says: in fact didn't i win in our stand off? Michael Myers says: my bloody left nut Jason Voorhees says: oh wait...did we have a stand off or was that just freddy vs. jason? Michael Myers says: no you died biotch!!!! Michael Myers says: freddy and jason Jason Voorhees says: whatever. yo mama Michael Myers says: no we didnt Michael Myers says: but if we did Michael Myers says: your ass would be toast Michael Myers says: yo mama ate my left bloody nut Michael Myers says: http://www.angryalien.com/0605/freddyjasonbuns.asp
Michael Myers just sent you a nudge.
Michael Myers says: wake up biotch head
You have just sent a nudge.
Michael Myers says: where yo wanna go eat? Michael Myers says: daja has 5 bucks Michael Myers says: so like mickey d's or taco hell or taco bueno or chicfila Michael Myers says: whatchoo want
ok so i'm now officially invite only for a while. had to get rid of my "stalker". ugh.
anyhooooooooooo.....
don't have much to report really. first of all, i totally suck as i skipped my Flashback Friday post this past week. SORRY GUYS - i'll make it up with a double this friday ;-)
weekend was good - my soccer team won first place in our division this sunday - so that was very exciting! go chubby burritos! (yes, that's our real name - you can laugh, cause we do)
the ladybug is terribly sick, so i took off work yesterday to stay home with her. she has a stomach bug and on top of that a cold as well. so she is miserable. and the bad news is that i'm over here feeling some symptoms coming on....zicam to the rescue - i hope it helps, but i'm not too optimistic, unless it was just a regular cold coming on. bugger.
so halloween is tomorrow and i couldn't be less excited. that sucks because usually halloween is my favorite holiday of the year. i'm just not at all into it this year. hopefully next year will be a different story. the only thing i actually have been doing is watching quite a few horror movies recently.
so there is the update on my boring life at the moment.
oh oh oh....i forgot. saturday was interesting. jos and i went to a "meet n' greet" for maroon 5. she won the tickets. it was a huge cluster fuck to say the least.....and dealing with those little teeny boppers - oh my gosh (i'm so scared that i know i will have my very own on my hands in a few years - joy). we got to check out the sound check and then meet the band briefly. we then decided to walk across the street and have a few drinks before the show at this hole in the wall bar, which we met our new favorite bartender. needless to say, we drank a few too many stella artois and didn't make it to the show. haha. ah well. it's not really my thing now-a-days anyway...i just went cuz jos asked me to and we ended up having our own little good time.
I've just recently discovered this guy - Marc Broussard. Holy freakinmoly does this guy groove. His voice is as soulful as Otis Redding. Not too bad for a white boy.
Enjoy...
p.s....i jumped the gun on the invitation only thing and several people reprimanded me for that, so i am public again for another few days...so hurry up if you want me to add you.
due to the recent changes/events in my life, i've decided to be a little more private for a while. i don't know for how long, but it's just the mood i'm in for now. i've become closed off to certain people in my life as well and focused solely on my closest friends for their love and support. nothing personal, but i need to be selfish and focus on myself right now....i've spread myself too thin for so many years handling other people's problems and being overly kind-hearted, that i just don't have the strength to do so at the moment. not saying that part of me has completely gone away - it never will.....or that i won't return back to the way i was...but for now, this is what i need. please understand that.
with that said, i'm going to make my blog by invitation only for a while. i won't make it that way for about another week, so you will have time to email me with your email address so i can invite you to view it as opposed to the general public being able to see everything i write about.
don't have much time - i'm leaving work early today (WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!), but i had to stop by and post the flashback for today.
taking you back 14 years to 1993, arguably the greatest band on earth - U2. (let me preface that statement with alive and still together....)
i'm not a die-hard U2 fan, but i definitely own a few albums and still think they are freakin awesome.
zooropa was the album, although it did not get much recognition, it wasn't as mainstream as some of the others. my favorite U2 song of all time was on this album though. track #5 : Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (ps. there was also a collaboration on this album - "the wanderer" with U2 & Johnny Cash - great stuff)
me: "errrrrr....do we lend on 142 acres?" VP of operations: laughs.... me: "that's what i thought. it's an estate of some dead guy - house built in 1925...looks haunted...check it out. take a look - in rural michigan and appraiser states 'property contains several older outbuildings in varying conditions' " VP of operations: "yah...that's where they cut up people and their bodies are never found. um....NO"
Butterfly says: vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt Butterfly says: do you have a gun? Natorchen says: yes Butterfly says: shoot me right between the eyeballs please Natorchen says: how 'bout a kiss instead Butterfly says: and don't miss or i will KICK your ass for making me a vegetable Natorchen says: that rough of a day? Butterfly says: i'm just incredibly sick of dumb people Natorchen says: you and me both Butterfly says: let's kill them all and just cohabitate with cool people that aren't dumb Butterfly says: k? Butterfly says: k Natorchen says: word Natorchen says: we would eventually be overrun though Butterfly says: yah you are right....it would be like lord of the flies and we would be eaten Natorchen says: stupid people breed... a lot! Butterfly says: oh well...nice thought while it lasted Natorchen says: hehehe
i've noticed over the years that my music tastes have mellowed out. i think i finally found my niche in the jam bandish / folky type genre. i sway from it some, but if i was to say what was my absolute favorite type of music, that would be it.
in my "new wave" days, i would listen to harder music. i never got into metal or hard rock...but along the lines of ministry, skinny puppy, etc.
i can't handle that much anymore....so like i said, i've mellowed.
but i do have those days (like this morning) that i wake up and i just want to crank the shit out of some kick ass music on my way to work and say fuck the rest of the world. (after i dropped the ladybug off for school of course - i'm not that torturous ;-) )
the band i usually throw in for those moments is 311. (or beastie boys depending on my mood)
today was my 311 morning and i now feel refreshed. apparently i needed that and felt some built up aggression over the past few days expell from my body in doing so.
so i have decided to spread some of my good fortune this morning and leave you with two 311 vids. enjoy :)
"come original"
and a little on the mellower side, but my absolute favorite tune by 311 : "amber"
this is my 100th post guys - wow. a little over a year and 100 posts. groovy..jpg)
well, actually it's from yesterday, but i didn't see it until today, so deal.... 