Well, what can I say? I think honestly Sabrina's going to make it to the finals, but I don't know. I notice how everyone complains about her being there and being a little ghetto-bitch. But you know what? She always manages to impress Chef Ramsay! People in her team seriously underestimate her! And for no other reason other than the fact that they just don't like her. Proves a point, I say! I admit she is a bitch, but she's a darn good chef too! Just because someone doesn't like somebody else does not mean that that person does not have talent. I get underestimated all the time because I am fat, and I speak my mind. People think because I am fat, that I am stupid and lazy. But those people who say that, have also never met me either! I'm a very different person in life than I am on the internet. I may be fat and I may be ugly, but I can do anything I set my mind to do. I have limits though, I must admit. But they are not important. I don't let those things stop me from doing the basic things I love to do.
A few weeks ago, one of my subscribers on YouTube made a challenge to his viewers. He told them to name anything they wanted him to eat on video and he would do it. He talked about ReverendBurn eating whole boxes of Twinkies. So I asked him why doesn't he eat a whole box of Twinkies, and if he does on camera, I will eat a whole box of Suzie-Qs on camera. LOL! I must admit after I gave him that challenge, I did get a wee bit worried. There is no way on Earth I can chug down a whole box of Suzie Qs!!!! That's one of those things where I reach a limit on. I can eat some, but not a whole box. Well, he never rose to the challenge, and it looks like he deleted his YouTube account! What a shame too. I actually liked him, and I was kinda looking foreward a little bit to seeing him taking me up on my challenge. I didn't want to sound like I was making fun of him, I just suggested it to see if he would actually do it. But as for me, I love Suzie-Qs, but really not THAT much!! Not enough to eat a whole box of them in one sitting. Have you ever seen the size of those things?? They're HUGE!! Much bigger than Twinkies!! And with more cream filling!! LOL! But it all proves though that if I had put my mind to it, I could have probably pulled it off.
Tonight was exciting for the winners in the first episode, they got to go to Vegas. I saw their suite, it was fantastic!! I haven't seen anything like it either. I was surprised that during the first episode, no one was eliminated. But during the second episode, Boris got eliminated. That was kinda sad really. He tried so hard. But now, we have a shocker for an ending, Chef Ramsay called Trev to the chopping block! I was like "Uh oh!!" and that was where the program cut off. Ooooh! So, is Trev going to make it to next week? Who knows? I have a feeling he's going to basically get the bawling out of his life. Chef Ramsay kicked him out of the kitchen to get some air. And he did! He also came back, at the tail-end of the dinner service. He was angry, and I could not blame him. I don't think Chef Ramsay meant for Trev to take that long of a break! Now, if it were me, I would probably have went outside for about say 30 seconds, took a deep breath, turn around and go back into the kitchen, ready to roll! But Trev, who knows how long he stood out there! Needless to say, I believe Chef will be bringing that up to Trev. He's probably going to be eliminated too. He's been on both teams, and both have complained about him being dead weight. We will see though.
I've got my eyes on Sabrina though. I know I didn't much like her at the beginning of the series, but it looks like she is at least going to make it to the finals. Even though her team mates always put her up for elimination, I think they seriously underestimate her. I just kinda wonder how many times Chef Ramsay is going to bail her out? Really. All her team mates want her gone, but she does cooking so well. They constantly complain about her, but she always pulls through for them. Chef Ramsay obviously sees potential in her, or she would have been gone by now. But then I dunno. It could probably be all chalked up again to ratings. Because Sabrina is such a "ghetto-bitch" according to her team mates, maybe that is the only real reason why she is still on. But she and Noma are like a mongoose and cobra! Before it was Emily, now it's Noma. LOL! The battle will not stop until one of them are eliminated. I can just picture the day if Sabrina gets eliminated before Noma! LOL! Noma will be going "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! The bitch is gone!!!!" But I don't think that will happen. Sabrina is a much better cook than Noma is, and does a lot better in the kitchen. If either of them, Noma will most likely be eliminated first.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Nurse to A Mouse
I don't think of these mice as pets, but when they have pups and they have some problems, I as an animal lover, would have to interfere. Misty is a young female that I got not too long ago, and she's had a litter before, all of which she ate. So, I tried breeding her again. She was getting big, and I do mean BIG!! For her, any amount of weight is a load, because she is a tiny mouse. I mean, tinier than normal. She is much smaller than any of my other mice. Well, I knew she would be having the pups possibly tonight because she was slowing down today, and I noticed her breathing was getting labored, which happens to all living things when they are about to have babies. I remember that from my days of breeding chihuahuas, I learned to read the signs of labor. They show up just as much in mice as they do in dogs. But you have to know about a mouse's metabolism. Mice always breath fast, but today, Misty was breathing faster than usual.
Well, I left her alone in my bedroom for a while, while I came out to the living room and worked on another story. A couple hours later, I went back into my bedroom and Misty had her babies. She had some in a cluster underneath her, and there were 3 of them that were not under her where they belonged. And 2 of them still had the placenta attached to them. That is not a good sign! They were not moving at first so I thought they were already dead, and I was about to freeze them for my snakes, until I picked them up and they began to twitch their feet and heads. I know Misty is inexperienced, so I had to help her with these babies. When I picked them up they were barely alive, and freezing cold! So I held them in my hand and warmed them up. The babies seemed to appreciate that. Then I had to try and remove the placentas. I was going to get my scissors, but I remember that using scissors for something like that is never a good idea. The baby could bleed to death. I had to figure out a way to simulate Misty cutting the umbilical cord and I thought the best way to do that was with my fingernails.
I had to hold the babies in such a way that I could use my thumbs and index fingers on both hands to cut it. It's tougher than you think! But I managed it, and then both babies were OK. I put them down in the group with Misty's other babies, which were nursing fine. I had to coax them to grab on to a nipple, and coax Misty to lie in such a way that she can nurse them and keep them all warm at the same time. It took her a while to catch on. I thought about putting Melissa, who is a great mommy, in with Misty, but then that might have caused Misty to want to eat her babies like she did last time. So, this time I thought to just help her out until she gets the hang of taking care of her young, and I moved her cage into the living room where I can watch her and see that she keeps doing what she is supposed to be doing. That was 2 hours ago. The babies, I think were about 30 minutes old when I discovered them. Though I cannot be sure, as I didn't see the actual births. And babies, even though they are cold, can last a surprising amount of time with no food or heat from the mother!
Well, now Misty seems to be taking good care of her babies. For the time being anyway. Looking at her right in front of me now, and she has all her young jostling up under her suckling. Even the babies I rescued 2 hours ago seem to be doing fine now. They are all suckling, and she is cleaning them, being an average good mom. I'm just hoping that once my back is turned that she doesn't start eating the babies! Some mice do that when they have other mice in the cage with them. Rats, rabbits, gerbils, and hamsters are exactly the same way. They do it basically to "save" their babies from intruders. Strange as it may sound, it's a defensive tactic for them. Especially if it is a nervous female, as I think Misty is. So, this time I left her in a cage all alone to have her babies.
I know, I've fed young mice to my snakes before, and I could have done it with these 3 babies who were already cold and dying. But that's not how I am. Not that I think of these guys as pets, and basically I did get them just to have snake food available when I need it. But I never take babies away from their mother on the first day. They need to suckle. Especially within the first hour after birth. That's when the mother has the most nutritious milk to give. This gives the babies essential vitamins, which can then be passed on to my snakes. I remember this from my dog-breeding days. No, I never fed puppies to any snakes!!!! I'm not that heartless and barbaric! But the principle of birth, feeding and nutrients is the same. Good thing I still have all this pent-up knowledge! hehe! I need all the baby mice I can possibly get. Gotta keep my snakes well fed. They've all shed now, and for some it's getting close to hybernation time, so they need to be fed and fed a lot! Snakes often stop eating when they are about to shed, and after they shed, they can be hungry as a bear!!
Well, Misty is still cleaning her babies. So, all seems to be well, even now. I think from here on out she's going to be just fine. But I just never thought I would see the day come when I would play nursemaid to a mouse!!
Well, I left her alone in my bedroom for a while, while I came out to the living room and worked on another story. A couple hours later, I went back into my bedroom and Misty had her babies. She had some in a cluster underneath her, and there were 3 of them that were not under her where they belonged. And 2 of them still had the placenta attached to them. That is not a good sign! They were not moving at first so I thought they were already dead, and I was about to freeze them for my snakes, until I picked them up and they began to twitch their feet and heads. I know Misty is inexperienced, so I had to help her with these babies. When I picked them up they were barely alive, and freezing cold! So I held them in my hand and warmed them up. The babies seemed to appreciate that. Then I had to try and remove the placentas. I was going to get my scissors, but I remember that using scissors for something like that is never a good idea. The baby could bleed to death. I had to figure out a way to simulate Misty cutting the umbilical cord and I thought the best way to do that was with my fingernails.
I had to hold the babies in such a way that I could use my thumbs and index fingers on both hands to cut it. It's tougher than you think! But I managed it, and then both babies were OK. I put them down in the group with Misty's other babies, which were nursing fine. I had to coax them to grab on to a nipple, and coax Misty to lie in such a way that she can nurse them and keep them all warm at the same time. It took her a while to catch on. I thought about putting Melissa, who is a great mommy, in with Misty, but then that might have caused Misty to want to eat her babies like she did last time. So, this time I thought to just help her out until she gets the hang of taking care of her young, and I moved her cage into the living room where I can watch her and see that she keeps doing what she is supposed to be doing. That was 2 hours ago. The babies, I think were about 30 minutes old when I discovered them. Though I cannot be sure, as I didn't see the actual births. And babies, even though they are cold, can last a surprising amount of time with no food or heat from the mother!
Well, now Misty seems to be taking good care of her babies. For the time being anyway. Looking at her right in front of me now, and she has all her young jostling up under her suckling. Even the babies I rescued 2 hours ago seem to be doing fine now. They are all suckling, and she is cleaning them, being an average good mom. I'm just hoping that once my back is turned that she doesn't start eating the babies! Some mice do that when they have other mice in the cage with them. Rats, rabbits, gerbils, and hamsters are exactly the same way. They do it basically to "save" their babies from intruders. Strange as it may sound, it's a defensive tactic for them. Especially if it is a nervous female, as I think Misty is. So, this time I left her in a cage all alone to have her babies.
I know, I've fed young mice to my snakes before, and I could have done it with these 3 babies who were already cold and dying. But that's not how I am. Not that I think of these guys as pets, and basically I did get them just to have snake food available when I need it. But I never take babies away from their mother on the first day. They need to suckle. Especially within the first hour after birth. That's when the mother has the most nutritious milk to give. This gives the babies essential vitamins, which can then be passed on to my snakes. I remember this from my dog-breeding days. No, I never fed puppies to any snakes!!!! I'm not that heartless and barbaric! But the principle of birth, feeding and nutrients is the same. Good thing I still have all this pent-up knowledge! hehe! I need all the baby mice I can possibly get. Gotta keep my snakes well fed. They've all shed now, and for some it's getting close to hybernation time, so they need to be fed and fed a lot! Snakes often stop eating when they are about to shed, and after they shed, they can be hungry as a bear!!
Well, Misty is still cleaning her babies. So, all seems to be well, even now. I think from here on out she's going to be just fine. But I just never thought I would see the day come when I would play nursemaid to a mouse!!
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Short But Sweet
I just have some wonderful news I want to share. I shared it on Facebook already, then I took a bit of a nap. In the midst of all that, I had a headache. But today, I am too excited for a headache. Anyway, with it comes good news and bad news. The good news is I have just been made a partner in a CEO company! It means a lot more money coming in, possibly even I get to stay here in Ocean Shores. The bad news is I won't be getting my first paycheck right away. Not until next week! Not this next week, the following week. And I need the money NOW!! But oh well! Come the week after I will be able to take care of a lot of things around here that needs it. I'll just have to battle the water company a tiny bit longer. LOL!
Friday, October 8, 2010
INXS New World Tour?
Maybe! Let's hope! At leastwise that's what Tim said today. Oh, just thinking about it is making me feel as excited as a worm that has come across a 5-pound apple! I sure do hope INXS comes to this state. And I hope it will be before I have to move to Montana! Or maybe I won't have to move to Montana? Who knows right now. But Anna won't be here to watch the dogs. I might have to take them with me to the concert. If we will be in a parking garage again, and it's during the winter months, I won't worry too much about the dogs. Just have to let them go out every now and then.
Well, someone mentioned that Timmy had said that and I was so glad just to hear they may be coming back. Now, whether I get to go may be a separate story. But if I do, it depends on when we have to leave here. But one thing about living in Montana, I have better access to the eastern states, where INXS always seems to go every time they tour this country! If they don't go anywhere else, they will always be going to the eastern states. Funny thing though, Timmy once said (according to another fan) that he's never heard of the state of Montana! Even though he has a recording studio of his own that he calls "Montana Studios". Well, we'll see. Don't expect any meetings though. And as for the dream of a live interview with the guys, it may remain just a dream. But I haven't asked yet! I want to wait and see where they will be touring to. Or at least get some kind of idea. But I highly doubt, since they've never heard of the state before, that they will be showing up there! But that is OK! I can meet them in Reno, or even Las Vegas. Who knows?
I also managed to collect another pic of the guys! This is the one that was presented in the article that made the announcement:
Anyone else would see 4 men standing there in this picture. But this is all I see:
I miss him so much! Haven't seen him in so long, I've almost forgotten how good it feels to go to an INXS concert. Hopefully I can get some shows under my belt this time around.
Well, someone mentioned that Timmy had said that and I was so glad just to hear they may be coming back. Now, whether I get to go may be a separate story. But if I do, it depends on when we have to leave here. But one thing about living in Montana, I have better access to the eastern states, where INXS always seems to go every time they tour this country! If they don't go anywhere else, they will always be going to the eastern states. Funny thing though, Timmy once said (according to another fan) that he's never heard of the state of Montana! Even though he has a recording studio of his own that he calls "Montana Studios". Well, we'll see. Don't expect any meetings though. And as for the dream of a live interview with the guys, it may remain just a dream. But I haven't asked yet! I want to wait and see where they will be touring to. Or at least get some kind of idea. But I highly doubt, since they've never heard of the state before, that they will be showing up there! But that is OK! I can meet them in Reno, or even Las Vegas. Who knows?
I also managed to collect another pic of the guys! This is the one that was presented in the article that made the announcement:
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Funny Comments
I gotta say I saw one of the funniest comments ever on YouTube yesterday when I was viewing a video. There is this guy who calls himself "The Archfeind" he seems to hate fat people, but he does make some pretty valid points in some of his videos. For example, a video of a woman who actually wants to weigh 1000 pounds!! I couldn't believe it!! I could not believe any woman would want to weigh 1000 pounds!! She's already halfway there. I'm fat, but I'm happy where I am! I'd never want to weigh no 1000 pounds!! And I pray to GOD I never do! I keep myself fairly active enough so I don't get that big.
Well anyway, I went to one of his videos and I saw a comment from someone and it has to be the funniest dang comment I've ever seen on YouTube in all the years I've been visiting there!! I don't remember the name of the person who posted the comment, and it looks like TheArchfiend deleted that comment because I could not find it when I tried to look for it again. But I remember how it went. He said that TheArchfiend has an extremely annoying voice. He said "You sound like an old queen. But I know that you can't be an old queen because old queens have sex." LOLOL!!! Nothing personal against TheArchfiend, but that was a fricken funny comment!! I know I shouldn't laugh, but I cannot help it! I saw that comment and I wonder "Why don't I ever get creative comments like that??!!" All people want to say to me when they comment is "You're FAT!" or "You're ugly!" and stuff like that. I'm like "Really? DUH!!" Nobody ever comes to my videos and says anything creative!! They always repeat the same shit that other people have told me in the past. Gets little more than yawn-worthy after a while. That conversation that I posted that I had a week ago with that guy who calls himself MrBullworthBully, that was about as creative as it's ever gotten, and even his comments are what I consider to be at a retarded level! Sorry, but it's true!
I have it rigged to where I have to approve all comments on my videos. But in general, I approve them all. Unless I happen to know they have been made by stalkers. My friends' comments get approved right away. If I even suspect the poster is a stalker, I usually do not accept the comment, and the poster gets his butt blocked! And I have a knack for knowing! :) I won't tolerate stalkers!! But average people, I do not mind commenting, even if their comments slam me. Doesn't matter to me. I believe in the rights of free speech. Sometimes I respond, especially if I am in a giddy mood, and sometimes I don't if I just don't feel like it.
Well, tonight I am a happy camper! I found one of my old buddies from the old INXS chatroom. I was sure glad to have her back as a contact. She used to live in Canada, and moved to Australia and married this guy who also used to get into the old chatroom. Now, she also has 3 lovely children! I liked her a lot! She was a great buddy, and there when I really needed someone the most. She is an awesome person! She called herself Brat in the chatroom, her real name is Sherrianne. I saw a comment she made on a friend's status, and the only person I ever knew who has that name was her, and I looked at some of her pictures in her album, and I wondered if she was the same person. Believe me when I say it took me 30 minutes to even build up the courage to write to her and ask her if she is that person. I wasn't sure how she would respond to me. I didn't even know how to begin the message. Finally I said I was just going to bite the bullet and ask her. If she doesn't respond, then she just doesn't respond! At least then I could say I tried it.
Happily, she responded very nicely and we started sending messages to each other. I had to quit though when I had to leave the house. I promised a friend I would go to a potluck at the church with him. I had fun there, and they want me to do the baking for their annual baking sale. I told them I'd be glad to. I love baking! And I think I do it really well. My signature dish was a smash there at the potluck! I thought I would try making my chicken and dumplings next time. We'll see! Well, I like Brat a lot! And I am so glad to have her on Facebook as a buddy. I'd love to get reconnected with all the old chatroom buddies I had again. Some I barely remember! Not a personal thing, just my memory is not that great. But I remember Brat especially because she was there when I really needed someone. It's a long story there.
Well anyway, I went to one of his videos and I saw a comment from someone and it has to be the funniest dang comment I've ever seen on YouTube in all the years I've been visiting there!! I don't remember the name of the person who posted the comment, and it looks like TheArchfiend deleted that comment because I could not find it when I tried to look for it again. But I remember how it went. He said that TheArchfiend has an extremely annoying voice. He said "You sound like an old queen. But I know that you can't be an old queen because old queens have sex." LOLOL!!! Nothing personal against TheArchfiend, but that was a fricken funny comment!! I know I shouldn't laugh, but I cannot help it! I saw that comment and I wonder "Why don't I ever get creative comments like that??!!" All people want to say to me when they comment is "You're FAT!" or "You're ugly!" and stuff like that. I'm like "Really? DUH!!" Nobody ever comes to my videos and says anything creative!! They always repeat the same shit that other people have told me in the past. Gets little more than yawn-worthy after a while. That conversation that I posted that I had a week ago with that guy who calls himself MrBullworthBully, that was about as creative as it's ever gotten, and even his comments are what I consider to be at a retarded level! Sorry, but it's true!
I have it rigged to where I have to approve all comments on my videos. But in general, I approve them all. Unless I happen to know they have been made by stalkers. My friends' comments get approved right away. If I even suspect the poster is a stalker, I usually do not accept the comment, and the poster gets his butt blocked! And I have a knack for knowing! :) I won't tolerate stalkers!! But average people, I do not mind commenting, even if their comments slam me. Doesn't matter to me. I believe in the rights of free speech. Sometimes I respond, especially if I am in a giddy mood, and sometimes I don't if I just don't feel like it.
Well, tonight I am a happy camper! I found one of my old buddies from the old INXS chatroom. I was sure glad to have her back as a contact. She used to live in Canada, and moved to Australia and married this guy who also used to get into the old chatroom. Now, she also has 3 lovely children! I liked her a lot! She was a great buddy, and there when I really needed someone the most. She is an awesome person! She called herself Brat in the chatroom, her real name is Sherrianne. I saw a comment she made on a friend's status, and the only person I ever knew who has that name was her, and I looked at some of her pictures in her album, and I wondered if she was the same person. Believe me when I say it took me 30 minutes to even build up the courage to write to her and ask her if she is that person. I wasn't sure how she would respond to me. I didn't even know how to begin the message. Finally I said I was just going to bite the bullet and ask her. If she doesn't respond, then she just doesn't respond! At least then I could say I tried it.
Happily, she responded very nicely and we started sending messages to each other. I had to quit though when I had to leave the house. I promised a friend I would go to a potluck at the church with him. I had fun there, and they want me to do the baking for their annual baking sale. I told them I'd be glad to. I love baking! And I think I do it really well. My signature dish was a smash there at the potluck! I thought I would try making my chicken and dumplings next time. We'll see! Well, I like Brat a lot! And I am so glad to have her on Facebook as a buddy. I'd love to get reconnected with all the old chatroom buddies I had again. Some I barely remember! Not a personal thing, just my memory is not that great. But I remember Brat especially because she was there when I really needed someone. It's a long story there.
King Of All Diets
Well, this is fascinating! If you are fat, like I am, and you love junk food, as--let's face it--I do, then this is the diet for you! I love to cook! And I especially love to cook pastries and soup and stuff. Losing weight is probably something I am never destined to accomplish. But on a diet like this, who could not succeed? Of course I have to mention the person who did this is a man, and their metabolism is faster than that of a woman's. That's why men burn calories better than women. That and the hormones. Men are designed to run, while women are more designed to stay home, cook and have kids. But this diet seems like the way to go if you just cannot stay away from the really good stuff!
So what is this remarkable diet? Well, it's the Hostess diet! One man lost 15 pounds in one month by eating nothing but Twinkies, Ho-hos, and brownies! He did it to prove a point. He's a university professor, and he did it to prove a point to his students, that any diet and training could work. And that weight should not be the sole standard for good health! He not only lost weight and feels great, but his bad cholesterol is down and his good cholesterol is up. So what do you skinnies have to say about that? Those that gripe all the time about us fatties? I guess eating Twinkies is not such a bad thing. Actually when I was thinner, I ate Twinkies all the time, and it never had any effect on me! Well, of course it didn't, I used to go hiking and mountain-climbing every weekend! It was my weekend thing to go with my buddies! That all stopped after my surgery. And then the snack I used to enjoy so much, suddenly became inappropriate all the time. You could say Twinkies and Cherry Garcias is what got me this way to begin with. Then dieting (the wrong way) took it from there.
This article that I got this story from, is amazing! It even lists this guy's everyday menu! Looking at it, if someone like me were to be caught eating this stuff, outsiders who didn't know what was going on would think "She's eating all that junk and look at how fat she is!" When in fact, I could be losing weight right under their eyes and they'd never know it! All they'd see is a fat woman eating Twinkies, Suzie Q's (I don't like Ho-ho's), and brownies!! HAHA!! I love Suzie Qs, but around here, the only places to get them is the Hostess thrift store, and the Walmart in Lacey! It is very unfortunate that no other places carry those anymore. You know what I wish every place would take off the shelves? Zingers!! I can't stand those things!!!! I wish every store would remove those and replace them with Suzie Qs!!!!!!! I tried Hostess Zingers before, the chocolate ones, I thought I would like those the most, as I HATE raspberry anything, and I was never too fond of the vanilla Zingers. The chocolate Zingers totally unimpressed me! The so-called frosting tasted like it was made with cocoa, sugar and cough syrup!! The kind of cough syrup that has the codeine as it's main ingredient. Those things were DISGUSTING!!!!! And they seem to be so popular now. You cannot pass by a Hostess section without coming across Zingers of some kind, and I HATE that!!! It totally pisses me off that no other stores carry Suzie Qs anymore, but every store in the World carries that Zingers crap now!
Why do stores always get rid of the good stuff now and keep the shitty stuff? I can't even get my butterflake rolls anymore. All the stores carry now is those stupid dinner rolls that look like miniature hamburger buns! I can't stand those either! I tried them and they are disgusting!!! That's as shitty as shitty gets!! This could be caused by these dumb budget cuts. But why get rid of the good stuff and keep the shitty stuff?? Probably because the world likes shitty now. I've said it before and I will say it again, people are disgusting!!!
Anyway, here is the article that talks about this guy and his unusual diet:
http://health.msn.com/mens-health/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100264421>1=31060
So what is this remarkable diet? Well, it's the Hostess diet! One man lost 15 pounds in one month by eating nothing but Twinkies, Ho-hos, and brownies! He did it to prove a point. He's a university professor, and he did it to prove a point to his students, that any diet and training could work. And that weight should not be the sole standard for good health! He not only lost weight and feels great, but his bad cholesterol is down and his good cholesterol is up. So what do you skinnies have to say about that? Those that gripe all the time about us fatties? I guess eating Twinkies is not such a bad thing. Actually when I was thinner, I ate Twinkies all the time, and it never had any effect on me! Well, of course it didn't, I used to go hiking and mountain-climbing every weekend! It was my weekend thing to go with my buddies! That all stopped after my surgery. And then the snack I used to enjoy so much, suddenly became inappropriate all the time. You could say Twinkies and Cherry Garcias is what got me this way to begin with. Then dieting (the wrong way) took it from there.
This article that I got this story from, is amazing! It even lists this guy's everyday menu! Looking at it, if someone like me were to be caught eating this stuff, outsiders who didn't know what was going on would think "She's eating all that junk and look at how fat she is!" When in fact, I could be losing weight right under their eyes and they'd never know it! All they'd see is a fat woman eating Twinkies, Suzie Q's (I don't like Ho-ho's), and brownies!! HAHA!! I love Suzie Qs, but around here, the only places to get them is the Hostess thrift store, and the Walmart in Lacey! It is very unfortunate that no other places carry those anymore. You know what I wish every place would take off the shelves? Zingers!! I can't stand those things!!!! I wish every store would remove those and replace them with Suzie Qs!!!!!!! I tried Hostess Zingers before, the chocolate ones, I thought I would like those the most, as I HATE raspberry anything, and I was never too fond of the vanilla Zingers. The chocolate Zingers totally unimpressed me! The so-called frosting tasted like it was made with cocoa, sugar and cough syrup!! The kind of cough syrup that has the codeine as it's main ingredient. Those things were DISGUSTING!!!!! And they seem to be so popular now. You cannot pass by a Hostess section without coming across Zingers of some kind, and I HATE that!!! It totally pisses me off that no other stores carry Suzie Qs anymore, but every store in the World carries that Zingers crap now!
Why do stores always get rid of the good stuff now and keep the shitty stuff? I can't even get my butterflake rolls anymore. All the stores carry now is those stupid dinner rolls that look like miniature hamburger buns! I can't stand those either! I tried them and they are disgusting!!! That's as shitty as shitty gets!! This could be caused by these dumb budget cuts. But why get rid of the good stuff and keep the shitty stuff?? Probably because the world likes shitty now. I've said it before and I will say it again, people are disgusting!!!
Anyway, here is the article that talks about this guy and his unusual diet:
http://health.msn.com/mens-health/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100264421>1=31060
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Such Jerks!
I felt so bad for a friend yesterday, she's having such a hard time with someone at work. The man she's having trouble with is a total air-headed jerk!! A complete asshole! He's a co-worker, and he just doesn't like her for some unknown reason. Sometimes that happens, I know it. But he won't even try to coexist with her at their workplace! Yesterday, according to my friend, he got really threatening. He got so irrational that it made this friend of mine cry all morning. I felt bad for her. I know how she feels. I remember in school, I was always taunted, harassed and hounded, that was where I learned to just not rely at all on other people, and look out for myself. If it wasn't for having met my boyfriend, Paul, I would never have learned to even like people, in any way, shape or form. Sometimes I still feel that way. But only towards strangers. That way if they shit-talk me, I can be like "They were never my friend in the first place", and go on my merry way. I haven't cried because of something someone else has done to me since I was in the 4th grade. I'm not saying this friend was wrong, I mean, for her it's just been building up from the beginning. Yesterday for her was like the straw the broke the camel's back, and he just got so emotional and she felt very threatened. And when my friend confronted this jerk about his actions later on, you know what he gave her as an excuse for his behavior? He just said "Well, I'm Scottish." The idiot is using his heritage as an excuse for being rude!! BULLSHIT!!!! One of my very best friends is 100% Scottish, and he never behaves like that!!! I'd be telling that moron, "Don't even try to pull that argument on me, buddy!"
I told this friend yesterday about all the hatred and evil going around in the INXS community towards me now, but I don't let it bother me at all. Because I'm there for INXS, no one else. I couldn't give two rabbit's shits less about anyone else! I have my circle of friends, most of them I have on Facebook, and I do appreciate them. But anyone else outside of my circle of friends, I don't care anything about. I learned a lot by watching Sonia on Operation Repo. My friend and I both had a good laugh over that one, because we both watch the show (I introduced it to her, and now she loves the show) and we both know what Sonia is like. She is totally her own person. Her attitude is like "I go to the job, I'm not there to make friends, I'm just there to do my job and get out!" Of course it is nice when I can make friends, but if I don't I'm not going to feel bad about not doing it. I even have people among my Facebook friends that I haven't actually become friends with. They are the ones who have never spoken to me, and frankly I think they just added me for the numbers. I'll probably get rid of them soon. But me being the kind of person I am, I like to give everyone a chance. One person, when I met him he was so nice. I think he got rid of his Facebook. He's been gone for so long! I haven't seen him on anyone else's Facebook friends list. He's gone from mine, been gone for about a week now. I tuned into Facebook one day, and I discovered I was missing about 3 people from my friends list. And I wasn't the only one. I saw a couple other people were missing 3-4 other friends. I wondered what was wrong with Facebook?! But they've been gone now for about a week. The only one I really miss is this nice young man. The others I don't miss, probably because I never had any good communication with them.
I can even have a bad incident with someone on the internet. It might make me feel bad, depending on who it is. But by the end of the day, or even by the next hour, the incident can be completely forgotten. If the incident is with a person I perceive to be a troll, they cannot possibly make me feel bad! There is no way! I usually only feel bad about it if it's a bad incident with a friend. Trolls don't like anyone except other trolls. So, I couldn't care less what they think of me. And that is my whole philosophy in life. I don't even get on YouTube to make friends, but I'm not going to be rude either. That's just not who I am! I never say anything on the internet that I would not say to someone's face. I don't hide behind masks either, only cowards do that! If someone calls me fat, well that's what I am! LOL! I don't care! Usually it makes me smile anyway. If someone says I'm disgusting, I don't care about that either! LOL!
You should see what this one person came into my video last week and said. I told my sis, ma and a few friends about the incident because it is soooo funny!! This idiot calls himself MrBullworthBully, and he came to my "I Hate Jerks" video and got so pissed off and flustered, his comments made me laugh so loud! Made all my friends and family laugh too! He started off with this comment:
"You Are Completely Disgusting. I HATE FAT/OBESE. HEY AMERICA YOUR LOOKING GOOD. you guys are really skinny/smart."
To which my response was:
"Hate yourself do ya? hehehe! :P"
Then he wrote:
"its funny you say his girlfriend eats pizza???? there not making fun of her BECAUSE SHES NOT FAT. SOOO ITS DOSNT MATTER HOW MUCH "GUSTO" NO NO NO IF YOUR FAT YOOOOOOOOU ARE FAT. YOU CAN NOT BE OBECE WITHOUT EATING YOU FAT BITCH"
My response to that was:
"Honestly, if you're going to try and insult fat people, learn to spell the word obese. hehehe!"
I was tugging his chain, because I wanted to get him more pissed off! People with anger-management problems are so funny when they get so pissed off!! I know I should not tease them, but it's so much FUN!!!! May be immature to intentionally get them aroused, but it's so FUN!!! This was his response to my last post:
"." I HATE FAT/OBESE. " I CAN'T SPELL OBESE? LOOK AT THE COMMENT under yours or are you so fat your jaw cant lower than low???hmmmm obese... obese.... good come back. nothing to say but spelling errors."
"Your jaw cant lower than low!?" LOL!! That didn't make sense at all, but then people don't usually when they get flustered like that. And apparently he's not even fat. Heck! He probably is! hehehe! I laughed so loud when I saw this comment! I still look at it and laugh to this day! This was my response to him:
"Awesome! hehehe! The fact that I piss you off so much makes my fat rolls feel tickly inside. hehehe!! ;)"
Sometimes when I feel bad, I go back to that video and look at this conversation again, and it makes me feel better again! hehehe! I love it when they get all pissed off!! I could just see this dude shitting his pants over this little conversation. And I love how I kept my cool with him. I never heard back from him again. But it makes for such good conversation! LOL! You know you kick-ass when people you don't even know hates you. Especially when you don't do anything to that person, on a personal level. hehe! All I did was make a video, that had NOTHING to do with this guy. Except the fact that he's a jerk. LOL! But apparently he already knew that if he took my video as a personal attack on him. Well, who cares? I sure don't! As one of my subscribers pointed out, it won't be long before that dude's girlfriend will be as fat as the woman they were making fun of if she continues to eat pizza the way she did in the video! Then I will again have the last laugh! It happens. And there are some thin people you couldn't pay me to look like! I've seen some women who had a good figure, but an ugly face!! FAR uglier than anyone could ever think mine is. I saw one woman who I have mutual friends with on Facebook, I looked at her face and it nearly made me puke!! She's not my friend, so I can speak freely about her. She had the face of a lion, ugly, skinny, wrinkly, with her skinny neck showing, and a big mouth, and big, ugly eyes. UGH!!! To me, that was disgusting. I don't want to look like that! I'm happy the way I am. If I never again get back down to 109 pounds, I'm fine with that!
I told this friend yesterday about all the hatred and evil going around in the INXS community towards me now, but I don't let it bother me at all. Because I'm there for INXS, no one else. I couldn't give two rabbit's shits less about anyone else! I have my circle of friends, most of them I have on Facebook, and I do appreciate them. But anyone else outside of my circle of friends, I don't care anything about. I learned a lot by watching Sonia on Operation Repo. My friend and I both had a good laugh over that one, because we both watch the show (I introduced it to her, and now she loves the show) and we both know what Sonia is like. She is totally her own person. Her attitude is like "I go to the job, I'm not there to make friends, I'm just there to do my job and get out!" Of course it is nice when I can make friends, but if I don't I'm not going to feel bad about not doing it. I even have people among my Facebook friends that I haven't actually become friends with. They are the ones who have never spoken to me, and frankly I think they just added me for the numbers. I'll probably get rid of them soon. But me being the kind of person I am, I like to give everyone a chance. One person, when I met him he was so nice. I think he got rid of his Facebook. He's been gone for so long! I haven't seen him on anyone else's Facebook friends list. He's gone from mine, been gone for about a week now. I tuned into Facebook one day, and I discovered I was missing about 3 people from my friends list. And I wasn't the only one. I saw a couple other people were missing 3-4 other friends. I wondered what was wrong with Facebook?! But they've been gone now for about a week. The only one I really miss is this nice young man. The others I don't miss, probably because I never had any good communication with them.
I can even have a bad incident with someone on the internet. It might make me feel bad, depending on who it is. But by the end of the day, or even by the next hour, the incident can be completely forgotten. If the incident is with a person I perceive to be a troll, they cannot possibly make me feel bad! There is no way! I usually only feel bad about it if it's a bad incident with a friend. Trolls don't like anyone except other trolls. So, I couldn't care less what they think of me. And that is my whole philosophy in life. I don't even get on YouTube to make friends, but I'm not going to be rude either. That's just not who I am! I never say anything on the internet that I would not say to someone's face. I don't hide behind masks either, only cowards do that! If someone calls me fat, well that's what I am! LOL! I don't care! Usually it makes me smile anyway. If someone says I'm disgusting, I don't care about that either! LOL!
You should see what this one person came into my video last week and said. I told my sis, ma and a few friends about the incident because it is soooo funny!! This idiot calls himself MrBullworthBully, and he came to my "I Hate Jerks" video and got so pissed off and flustered, his comments made me laugh so loud! Made all my friends and family laugh too! He started off with this comment:
"You Are Completely Disgusting. I HATE FAT/OBESE. HEY AMERICA YOUR LOOKING GOOD. you guys are really skinny/smart."
To which my response was:
"Hate yourself do ya? hehehe! :P"
Then he wrote:
"its funny you say his girlfriend eats pizza???? there not making fun of her BECAUSE SHES NOT FAT. SOOO ITS DOSNT MATTER HOW MUCH "GUSTO" NO NO NO IF YOUR FAT YOOOOOOOOU ARE FAT. YOU CAN NOT BE OBECE WITHOUT EATING YOU FAT BITCH"
My response to that was:
"Honestly, if you're going to try and insult fat people, learn to spell the word obese. hehehe!"
I was tugging his chain, because I wanted to get him more pissed off! People with anger-management problems are so funny when they get so pissed off!! I know I should not tease them, but it's so much FUN!!!! May be immature to intentionally get them aroused, but it's so FUN!!! This was his response to my last post:
"." I HATE FAT/OBESE. " I CAN'T SPELL OBESE? LOOK AT THE COMMENT under yours or are you so fat your jaw cant lower than low???hmmmm obese... obese.... good come back. nothing to say but spelling errors."
"Your jaw cant lower than low!?" LOL!! That didn't make sense at all, but then people don't usually when they get flustered like that. And apparently he's not even fat. Heck! He probably is! hehehe! I laughed so loud when I saw this comment! I still look at it and laugh to this day! This was my response to him:
"Awesome! hehehe! The fact that I piss you off so much makes my fat rolls feel tickly inside. hehehe!! ;)"
Sometimes when I feel bad, I go back to that video and look at this conversation again, and it makes me feel better again! hehehe! I love it when they get all pissed off!! I could just see this dude shitting his pants over this little conversation. And I love how I kept my cool with him. I never heard back from him again. But it makes for such good conversation! LOL! You know you kick-ass when people you don't even know hates you. Especially when you don't do anything to that person, on a personal level. hehe! All I did was make a video, that had NOTHING to do with this guy. Except the fact that he's a jerk. LOL! But apparently he already knew that if he took my video as a personal attack on him. Well, who cares? I sure don't! As one of my subscribers pointed out, it won't be long before that dude's girlfriend will be as fat as the woman they were making fun of if she continues to eat pizza the way she did in the video! Then I will again have the last laugh! It happens. And there are some thin people you couldn't pay me to look like! I've seen some women who had a good figure, but an ugly face!! FAR uglier than anyone could ever think mine is. I saw one woman who I have mutual friends with on Facebook, I looked at her face and it nearly made me puke!! She's not my friend, so I can speak freely about her. She had the face of a lion, ugly, skinny, wrinkly, with her skinny neck showing, and a big mouth, and big, ugly eyes. UGH!!! To me, that was disgusting. I don't want to look like that! I'm happy the way I am. If I never again get back down to 109 pounds, I'm fine with that!
Monday, October 4, 2010
New Halloween Theme
So what should I do this year for Halloween? Last year I talked about the different phobias, from common to rare. That was kinda fun. What should I do this year in honor of Halloween? It'd have to be something pertaining to the season. I'm sure I will think of something, I must make this blog fun. I mean more fun than it already is. Of course I love supplying new INXS news! Now that more is coming out. But now that it is the holiday season, I have to think of new and interesting ideas for subjects about the holidays. If anyone has any suggestions, post them below in the comments section. For now, I can just think of some scary ghost stories that I've experienced and heard over the years.
I remember when I was about 10 years old, we had a neighbor who passed away. We were good friends with her too. I remember her name was Mrs. Beagle. LOL! Well, about a week or so after she passed away, I was home alone in the house. My ma and pa had gone out to dinner, and my sis was visiting a friend. So I was alone in the house, and I was sitting in my bedroom drawing and coloring a story. All of a sudden I heard what sounded like the TV on in the living room. I thought maybe Anna or ma or pa had come home, so I went downstairs to see. When I got down to the living room, I called out and no one was there. The TV was on, but it was tuned to a channel that I didn't recognize. The indicator on the box read "-57", which I thought was odd, because back then, our town didn't have a channel 57, and I didn't understand why there was a minus sign before the number! But there it was! The TV was on, and the picture was clear, no snow, nothing. Just as clear as if it were a regular channel. I didn't even recognize the programming!
I also know the dog didn't turn the TV on, he was outside the whole time. I found the remote sitting on the sofa, hadn't been moved or anything. I picked it up and started flipping through the channels, and it went from -57 to channel 16, which was the highest channel we had back then. I tried to make it go back to this channel -57, but I could not do it! I couldn't even figure out how to get the minus sign to pop up. And every time I tried to punch 57 into the remote using the number keys, it wouldn't do anything. The numbers just changed back to 16 and the TV would stay on channel 16. That was weird!! But to this day I often wondered if that was our deceased friend giving me a sign that she was still in the neighborhood. It could have been. But the TV never did that before and it hadn't done it since, and as far as I know, no one else ever had that happen to them.
Well, when that happened, I wouldn't say I was scared. I was more like perplexed! I told ma and pa about that experience, but I didn't mention that I thought it could be our neighbor who had died. My pa thought maybe it was a malfunction in the box. If it was it evidently fixed it's self, because I don't recall pa taking the box back to the cable company. Thinking back on it now, it was kinda cool! I kinda wish I'd had more experiences like that growing up. But that was my last encounter with the supernatural. Of course now I am the kind of person myself that always thinks there is a logical explaination for everything. I don't much believe in spirits anymore. Strange though, because when I was a kid, I believed in them all over the place! We even used to live in a haunted house. My ma said every night around 8PM she could hear the front gate open and shut, and there would be nobody out there. As a kid, I used to hear disembodied footsteps walking in the hall and up the stairs. They used to terrify me! They sounded like whomever it was was dragging chains along too.
Well, I'll think of something for this year's Halloween theme. And this time try not to clutter it up with any DA bullshit. Well, I go to very few videos nowadays on YouTube, and for the most part ignore the trolls and troublemakers. Sometimes, when they seem innocent enough, I have a little fun, but that's rare now. I just have my say now, and let the dumbasses have their's, and go on my merry way. I spend too much money on internet access to let the trolls and troublemakers now take over my visits. Not gonna happen anymore! I've found I can still have a little fun even without the trolls.
I remember when I was about 10 years old, we had a neighbor who passed away. We were good friends with her too. I remember her name was Mrs. Beagle. LOL! Well, about a week or so after she passed away, I was home alone in the house. My ma and pa had gone out to dinner, and my sis was visiting a friend. So I was alone in the house, and I was sitting in my bedroom drawing and coloring a story. All of a sudden I heard what sounded like the TV on in the living room. I thought maybe Anna or ma or pa had come home, so I went downstairs to see. When I got down to the living room, I called out and no one was there. The TV was on, but it was tuned to a channel that I didn't recognize. The indicator on the box read "-57", which I thought was odd, because back then, our town didn't have a channel 57, and I didn't understand why there was a minus sign before the number! But there it was! The TV was on, and the picture was clear, no snow, nothing. Just as clear as if it were a regular channel. I didn't even recognize the programming!
I also know the dog didn't turn the TV on, he was outside the whole time. I found the remote sitting on the sofa, hadn't been moved or anything. I picked it up and started flipping through the channels, and it went from -57 to channel 16, which was the highest channel we had back then. I tried to make it go back to this channel -57, but I could not do it! I couldn't even figure out how to get the minus sign to pop up. And every time I tried to punch 57 into the remote using the number keys, it wouldn't do anything. The numbers just changed back to 16 and the TV would stay on channel 16. That was weird!! But to this day I often wondered if that was our deceased friend giving me a sign that she was still in the neighborhood. It could have been. But the TV never did that before and it hadn't done it since, and as far as I know, no one else ever had that happen to them.
Well, when that happened, I wouldn't say I was scared. I was more like perplexed! I told ma and pa about that experience, but I didn't mention that I thought it could be our neighbor who had died. My pa thought maybe it was a malfunction in the box. If it was it evidently fixed it's self, because I don't recall pa taking the box back to the cable company. Thinking back on it now, it was kinda cool! I kinda wish I'd had more experiences like that growing up. But that was my last encounter with the supernatural. Of course now I am the kind of person myself that always thinks there is a logical explaination for everything. I don't much believe in spirits anymore. Strange though, because when I was a kid, I believed in them all over the place! We even used to live in a haunted house. My ma said every night around 8PM she could hear the front gate open and shut, and there would be nobody out there. As a kid, I used to hear disembodied footsteps walking in the hall and up the stairs. They used to terrify me! They sounded like whomever it was was dragging chains along too.
Well, I'll think of something for this year's Halloween theme. And this time try not to clutter it up with any DA bullshit. Well, I go to very few videos nowadays on YouTube, and for the most part ignore the trolls and troublemakers. Sometimes, when they seem innocent enough, I have a little fun, but that's rare now. I just have my say now, and let the dumbasses have their's, and go on my merry way. I spend too much money on internet access to let the trolls and troublemakers now take over my visits. Not gonna happen anymore! I've found I can still have a little fun even without the trolls.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
No Rockstar Icons From Australia Since Michael Hutchence?
This article might explain why. I got this from Facebook.
Bernard Zuel asks why Australia hasn't produced one strutting god since Michael Hutchence.
The English do them regularly, the Americans do them comfortably but where are the Australian rock stars? The classic rock star, that semi-mythical figure born of bedroom fantasies, fed by music-magazine intensity and crowned in tabloid frenzy.
Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger, you say? Nup. Big-selling but self-effacing and deliberately ordinary. Chris Cheney from the Living End? Workmanlike is not exactly what women like. Shannon Noll? Two words: soul patch. John Butler? You can't be a rock star sitting down. Jimmy Barnes? Too blokey, too matey, too old. Gareth Liddiard from the Drones? Too unknown, too inner-Melbourne.
Michael Hutchence, who knew a thing or two about what it meant to be a rock star, looked at his audience knowingly. ''They fantasise about much more than is really there, don't you think?'' he once said to Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go's.
Whatever truth lies in that comment is somewhat undercut by the fact that this was said to a beautiful, desired woman who was also, for a time, his lover. Carlisle recounts in a recent biography that Hutchence was not really complaining about the life.
He had, after all, chosen it and built a life around his need to be that creature of tantalising distance, desire and decadence.
As his band-mate Jon Farriss puts it: ''Michael became close to friends who allowed him to be a rock star because that was where he was the most comfortable.
''He couldn't pretend not to be [a rock star], otherwise it would be dysfunctional and it was dysfunctional enough already.''
A rock star is not just a lead singer or a big-selling artist or the prettiest one in the room; that is the practical side of music, the tangible, explicable side. And that's boring.
After five decades of mythologising, we know a rock star is the strutting peacock who doesn't ask for your attention but commands it.
The one with the streak of danger you know you'll never have in you but thrill to at a distance.
A rock star is the projection of blatant adolescent aspirations and only partially hidden adult expectations; and is recognised for it by a wider public who wouldn't buy an album or even know a song.
And, let's not pretend otherwise, a rock star reeks of sex: they have it, they're getting it, you're wanting it. Or at least to stand near it.
On those criteria, Chrissie Amphlett came close, Nick Cave would qualify if he hadn't scared so many people off before the hair started receding, Peter Garrett was never in the hunt and Tex Perkins and Tim Rogers didn't sell enough.
But Michael Hutchence, unquestionably, was a rock star. The most intriguing aspects of Hutchence today, as INXS prepare to release an album next month with a dozen guest vocalists, are why is he one of the very few rock stars created in Australia; and why has there not been another since his death in 1997?
Maybe there's the beginning of an answer in Powderfinger, whose guitarist Darren Middleton says the band belatedly began putting on a ''show'' when they realised audiences ''don't want to see themselves or the guy next door doing it, you want to be taken out of your own existence for an hour-and-a-half''.
Bernard Fanning confesses he avoided any classic rock-star behaviour on stage because
''I've had that great Australian fear that my mates are going to give me shit''.
There's the crux, says John O'Donnell, who signed Silverchair when they were monosyllabic ''long-hairs'', and who later ran the Australian arm of EMI.
''No one wants to be a rock star 'wanker', whereas that is celebrated in other countries,'' O'Donnell says.
''In their different ways, the US and UK promote brilliance and celebrate success but we have to be careful not to 'rise above our station' and turn into a wanker.''
The editor of Australian Rolling Stone, Dan Lander, says Australians prefer their rock performers to be the type ''you would have a beer with at the pub and it would seem like a normal thing to do''. ''We don't admire the prancer and the preener, so, therefore, our musicians don't become that,'' says Lander, who applies the theory to international acts who do well here. ''You look at the bands that we have embraced: Dave Grohl is not really a rock star, he's much more in the Aussie mould of what a musician is. We embrace the ones who fit that Aussie mould of the slightly humble performer than the more extravagant ones. Kings of Leon are another one, or Mumford & Sons.''
Robert Forster, these days seen more often as a music critic but in his prime an often flamboyant, smart and sexy frontman with the Go-Betweens, agrees with Lander that the small population could be a factor here.
''In Australia you get lift-off but it's precarious and can always come down, while rock stardom in the UK and America shoots you into outer space and that's when you start strutting about and you lose your mind, walking 10 miles off the Earth,'' Forster says.
But there's also a cultural barrier. ''In the UK, when they get a shot at the top, they live it large,'' Forster says. ''They suddenly just go, 'Yes!' They become lord of the manor and they love it, while in Australia it seems to be, 'I'm so thankful, I will keep to my roots.' There's something wedged in the Australian mind that I think doesn't allow someone to lift off out of that.''
Forster, not a great fan of Hutchence, nominates Jim Keays of '60s band the Masters Apprentices and Marc Hunter, the frontman of Dragon for two decades, as examples of a home-grown rock stars with danger, sex appeal and front.
''Marc Hunter is the full deal: the strutting rooster, the glint in the eye, reckless, camp and selling a lot of records,'' he says. ''Like Jim Keays, he had that bit of a smirk on the mouth, great clothes, great body, voice. A rock star.
''And the other thing about Marc Hunter is he enjoyed it. You could see that look on his face all the time and that is important.''
Do we have any who might have a chance of being an Australian rock star? Abbe May is a dark horse in some quarters, while O'Donnell says he thinks Silverchair's Daniel Johns is the only artist in the past 10 or 15 years who has ''that same sex and glamour appeal; that Hutchence thing, right down to the superstar girlfriends, wives in his life''.
Forster agrees: ''I wish he'd strut around a little bit more.''
The other name that crops up is Dan Sultan - early in his career but already turning heads, including those of INXS, with whom he's recorded Just Keep Walking for the band's upcoming album.
Farriss says, ''He might turn out to be the real thing,'' while Rolling Stone's Lander enthuses that "I haven't seen him perform but I have heard all the reports of girls standing there mesmerised''.
''It's early days but I'm very impressed with the way he's managed to be on the verge of moving from ABC 702 to Triple J and then taking over the world,'' he says.
The question is, though, does Sultan want it? Does he want it the way Michael Hutchence really wanted it? And will we let him?
My input: There have been a few good songs come out of Australia since Michael passed. One of my favorite recent songs came from a band from Sydney I think it is. The song is called I Want You by Savage Garden, it came out after Michael had already passed away, but it was a good song. I still play it a lot and I have it on my MP3 player. I don't keep crap on my MP3 player!!! I only keep songs that I really, truly LOVE!!! Not saying I am a fan of Savage Garden, but that is a good song! Got great rhythm! But have you seen the guys in the band? Not sure they have what it takes to be a memorable rockstar, and in fact, I think they were only a one-hit wonder.
Michael had a lot of sexual appeal, as well as talent for singing. Personally, I think Tim has more sexual appeal than Michael did, but that's just me! LOL! But I'm not saying the appeal wasn't there for Michael! He took a huge chunk of it and took full advantage of it too! It became what he really was. But yes, I think the article is right, he was the last of his kind. Today's artists just don't have it anymore. Maybe it's because most of today's youngsters want to look like rappers and gangsters! Not really like human beings. And yes I make that analogy, because rappers want to look inhuman wearing their pant-tops down to their ankles and flashing their bare butts at the world (were it not for those oversized shirts they wear). My little brother does that, and my oldest sis would too if I'd let her! But I won't! Someone who wears outfits like that has no sexual appeal! I couldn't see myself oogling a guy who wears his pants below his butt! Though I should mention, I wouldn't mind if Timmy did it! hehehe! But he's 50-something now, I don't think that's going to happen!
Another thing I noticed from this article, Michael had some ugly girlfriends!!! Besides Helena Christensen, who is a supermodel-type. But really!! Belinda Carlisle?? You've got to be kidding me! The woman has the eyes of an alligator! The shape of the head to match! She's a good singer, but not attractive like Helena was. Kylie Minogue was cute, like a 6-year old girl, but not really a beauty. And my ma once said that if I were to attract Michael, I'd have to look like a supermodel. LOL! Looking at some of his past girlfriends, I often joke that maybe I would have had a chance with Michael too. Once he got to know me. And the grand-daddy of all, Paula Yates. The woman was hiddeous!! If I were standing next to her, she would have made me look like Helena!! That's how ugly she was. I just find it kinda funny! You'd expect someone like Michael, who everybody refers to as a sex-god, to be surrounded by beautiful, sexually-attractive women! But in real life, it was the opposite. But if Michael was one of those types that goes for personality more than looks then more power to him and his kind!! I like that in anyone, man or woman. Not sure Paula had the personality though because she was crazy as shit!!! Anyone who names human children Fifi, Trixibelle, Peaches, or Tigerlily has got to be crazy!! Looking at those names, anyone besides me get the feeling that Paula more wanted cats than kids?? Those are kitty-names. I wonder if she had another child, if she would have named it Fluffy?
As for other frontmen for INXS, not sure. My little sis Katrina loves JD, so to her JD is a sex-god. I might see him that way if I were 20 years younger and never knew who Michael was. But JD is not an Australian. He's from Canada. Some people say Canadians are sexy. LOL! Sometimes I wish I had lived in Canada. I could have been one of them. Ma says there, everything is so expensive, people can barely afford to eat! Not sure I'd like that as I love to cook. Jon Stevens was Australian (from New Zealand), but he's ugly! I mean he's U-G-L-Y!! I don't like him, but it's not just because he was ugly. I also heard he's a jackass, who is full of himself. I don't like that kind. I never saw Jon Stevens perform, I don't need to. I just don't like him at all. I'd be telling him to get himself the fuck away from me, and stay out of my view of Tim!! hehe! He has no sexual appeal at all.
Katrina is not a big fan of INXS like I am. She likes JD and Jon Farriss but that's about it. She's heard the music, with Michael, and she liked it. But her meat is with Green Day. She likes Billie Armstrong. I told her he has too much make-up to suit my taste! But I do like a few of their songs. Green Day is to me, what INXS is to Katrina, just a minor affliction. But while Katrina finds JD and Jon sexy, I don't see anyone in Green Day that I find sexy. Sorry Katrina.
Bernard Zuel asks why Australia hasn't produced one strutting god since Michael Hutchence.
The English do them regularly, the Americans do them comfortably but where are the Australian rock stars? The classic rock star, that semi-mythical figure born of bedroom fantasies, fed by music-magazine intensity and crowned in tabloid frenzy.
Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger, you say? Nup. Big-selling but self-effacing and deliberately ordinary. Chris Cheney from the Living End? Workmanlike is not exactly what women like. Shannon Noll? Two words: soul patch. John Butler? You can't be a rock star sitting down. Jimmy Barnes? Too blokey, too matey, too old. Gareth Liddiard from the Drones? Too unknown, too inner-Melbourne.
Michael Hutchence, who knew a thing or two about what it meant to be a rock star, looked at his audience knowingly. ''They fantasise about much more than is really there, don't you think?'' he once said to Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go's.
Whatever truth lies in that comment is somewhat undercut by the fact that this was said to a beautiful, desired woman who was also, for a time, his lover. Carlisle recounts in a recent biography that Hutchence was not really complaining about the life.
He had, after all, chosen it and built a life around his need to be that creature of tantalising distance, desire and decadence.
As his band-mate Jon Farriss puts it: ''Michael became close to friends who allowed him to be a rock star because that was where he was the most comfortable.
''He couldn't pretend not to be [a rock star], otherwise it would be dysfunctional and it was dysfunctional enough already.''
A rock star is not just a lead singer or a big-selling artist or the prettiest one in the room; that is the practical side of music, the tangible, explicable side. And that's boring.
After five decades of mythologising, we know a rock star is the strutting peacock who doesn't ask for your attention but commands it.
The one with the streak of danger you know you'll never have in you but thrill to at a distance.
A rock star is the projection of blatant adolescent aspirations and only partially hidden adult expectations; and is recognised for it by a wider public who wouldn't buy an album or even know a song.
And, let's not pretend otherwise, a rock star reeks of sex: they have it, they're getting it, you're wanting it. Or at least to stand near it.
On those criteria, Chrissie Amphlett came close, Nick Cave would qualify if he hadn't scared so many people off before the hair started receding, Peter Garrett was never in the hunt and Tex Perkins and Tim Rogers didn't sell enough.
But Michael Hutchence, unquestionably, was a rock star. The most intriguing aspects of Hutchence today, as INXS prepare to release an album next month with a dozen guest vocalists, are why is he one of the very few rock stars created in Australia; and why has there not been another since his death in 1997?
Maybe there's the beginning of an answer in Powderfinger, whose guitarist Darren Middleton says the band belatedly began putting on a ''show'' when they realised audiences ''don't want to see themselves or the guy next door doing it, you want to be taken out of your own existence for an hour-and-a-half''.
Bernard Fanning confesses he avoided any classic rock-star behaviour on stage because
''I've had that great Australian fear that my mates are going to give me shit''.
There's the crux, says John O'Donnell, who signed Silverchair when they were monosyllabic ''long-hairs'', and who later ran the Australian arm of EMI.
''No one wants to be a rock star 'wanker', whereas that is celebrated in other countries,'' O'Donnell says.
''In their different ways, the US and UK promote brilliance and celebrate success but we have to be careful not to 'rise above our station' and turn into a wanker.''
The editor of Australian Rolling Stone, Dan Lander, says Australians prefer their rock performers to be the type ''you would have a beer with at the pub and it would seem like a normal thing to do''. ''We don't admire the prancer and the preener, so, therefore, our musicians don't become that,'' says Lander, who applies the theory to international acts who do well here. ''You look at the bands that we have embraced: Dave Grohl is not really a rock star, he's much more in the Aussie mould of what a musician is. We embrace the ones who fit that Aussie mould of the slightly humble performer than the more extravagant ones. Kings of Leon are another one, or Mumford & Sons.''
Robert Forster, these days seen more often as a music critic but in his prime an often flamboyant, smart and sexy frontman with the Go-Betweens, agrees with Lander that the small population could be a factor here.
''In Australia you get lift-off but it's precarious and can always come down, while rock stardom in the UK and America shoots you into outer space and that's when you start strutting about and you lose your mind, walking 10 miles off the Earth,'' Forster says.
But there's also a cultural barrier. ''In the UK, when they get a shot at the top, they live it large,'' Forster says. ''They suddenly just go, 'Yes!' They become lord of the manor and they love it, while in Australia it seems to be, 'I'm so thankful, I will keep to my roots.' There's something wedged in the Australian mind that I think doesn't allow someone to lift off out of that.''
Forster, not a great fan of Hutchence, nominates Jim Keays of '60s band the Masters Apprentices and Marc Hunter, the frontman of Dragon for two decades, as examples of a home-grown rock stars with danger, sex appeal and front.
''Marc Hunter is the full deal: the strutting rooster, the glint in the eye, reckless, camp and selling a lot of records,'' he says. ''Like Jim Keays, he had that bit of a smirk on the mouth, great clothes, great body, voice. A rock star.
''And the other thing about Marc Hunter is he enjoyed it. You could see that look on his face all the time and that is important.''
Do we have any who might have a chance of being an Australian rock star? Abbe May is a dark horse in some quarters, while O'Donnell says he thinks Silverchair's Daniel Johns is the only artist in the past 10 or 15 years who has ''that same sex and glamour appeal; that Hutchence thing, right down to the superstar girlfriends, wives in his life''.
Forster agrees: ''I wish he'd strut around a little bit more.''
The other name that crops up is Dan Sultan - early in his career but already turning heads, including those of INXS, with whom he's recorded Just Keep Walking for the band's upcoming album.
Farriss says, ''He might turn out to be the real thing,'' while Rolling Stone's Lander enthuses that "I haven't seen him perform but I have heard all the reports of girls standing there mesmerised''.
''It's early days but I'm very impressed with the way he's managed to be on the verge of moving from ABC 702 to Triple J and then taking over the world,'' he says.
The question is, though, does Sultan want it? Does he want it the way Michael Hutchence really wanted it? And will we let him?
My input: There have been a few good songs come out of Australia since Michael passed. One of my favorite recent songs came from a band from Sydney I think it is. The song is called I Want You by Savage Garden, it came out after Michael had already passed away, but it was a good song. I still play it a lot and I have it on my MP3 player. I don't keep crap on my MP3 player!!! I only keep songs that I really, truly LOVE!!! Not saying I am a fan of Savage Garden, but that is a good song! Got great rhythm! But have you seen the guys in the band? Not sure they have what it takes to be a memorable rockstar, and in fact, I think they were only a one-hit wonder.
Michael had a lot of sexual appeal, as well as talent for singing. Personally, I think Tim has more sexual appeal than Michael did, but that's just me! LOL! But I'm not saying the appeal wasn't there for Michael! He took a huge chunk of it and took full advantage of it too! It became what he really was. But yes, I think the article is right, he was the last of his kind. Today's artists just don't have it anymore. Maybe it's because most of today's youngsters want to look like rappers and gangsters! Not really like human beings. And yes I make that analogy, because rappers want to look inhuman wearing their pant-tops down to their ankles and flashing their bare butts at the world (were it not for those oversized shirts they wear). My little brother does that, and my oldest sis would too if I'd let her! But I won't! Someone who wears outfits like that has no sexual appeal! I couldn't see myself oogling a guy who wears his pants below his butt! Though I should mention, I wouldn't mind if Timmy did it! hehehe! But he's 50-something now, I don't think that's going to happen!
Another thing I noticed from this article, Michael had some ugly girlfriends!!! Besides Helena Christensen, who is a supermodel-type. But really!! Belinda Carlisle?? You've got to be kidding me! The woman has the eyes of an alligator! The shape of the head to match! She's a good singer, but not attractive like Helena was. Kylie Minogue was cute, like a 6-year old girl, but not really a beauty. And my ma once said that if I were to attract Michael, I'd have to look like a supermodel. LOL! Looking at some of his past girlfriends, I often joke that maybe I would have had a chance with Michael too. Once he got to know me. And the grand-daddy of all, Paula Yates. The woman was hiddeous!! If I were standing next to her, she would have made me look like Helena!! That's how ugly she was. I just find it kinda funny! You'd expect someone like Michael, who everybody refers to as a sex-god, to be surrounded by beautiful, sexually-attractive women! But in real life, it was the opposite. But if Michael was one of those types that goes for personality more than looks then more power to him and his kind!! I like that in anyone, man or woman. Not sure Paula had the personality though because she was crazy as shit!!! Anyone who names human children Fifi, Trixibelle, Peaches, or Tigerlily has got to be crazy!! Looking at those names, anyone besides me get the feeling that Paula more wanted cats than kids?? Those are kitty-names. I wonder if she had another child, if she would have named it Fluffy?
As for other frontmen for INXS, not sure. My little sis Katrina loves JD, so to her JD is a sex-god. I might see him that way if I were 20 years younger and never knew who Michael was. But JD is not an Australian. He's from Canada. Some people say Canadians are sexy. LOL! Sometimes I wish I had lived in Canada. I could have been one of them. Ma says there, everything is so expensive, people can barely afford to eat! Not sure I'd like that as I love to cook. Jon Stevens was Australian (from New Zealand), but he's ugly! I mean he's U-G-L-Y!! I don't like him, but it's not just because he was ugly. I also heard he's a jackass, who is full of himself. I don't like that kind. I never saw Jon Stevens perform, I don't need to. I just don't like him at all. I'd be telling him to get himself the fuck away from me, and stay out of my view of Tim!! hehe! He has no sexual appeal at all.
Katrina is not a big fan of INXS like I am. She likes JD and Jon Farriss but that's about it. She's heard the music, with Michael, and she liked it. But her meat is with Green Day. She likes Billie Armstrong. I told her he has too much make-up to suit my taste! But I do like a few of their songs. Green Day is to me, what INXS is to Katrina, just a minor affliction. But while Katrina finds JD and Jon sexy, I don't see anyone in Green Day that I find sexy. Sorry Katrina.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
INXS's Australian Tour
So INXS have decided to go on another tour. Cool! But so far, it seems to only be an Australian tour. Bummer! Has INXS suddenly turned chicken to come to the USA? I hope not. Nah, I don't really believe that. Hopefully they will announce some US tour dates as well. I hope. Not that I am positive I will be able to attend. I mean, I'd like to, but I'm also a very busy person here at home, and very likely the concert (IF they come here) will be in Seattle or Portland. Though I can probably make it to Portland quicker than I can make it to Seattle, a random trip to either of those cities is not really in my schedule. But I might sneak out for a few hours so I can try to make it to the concert. LOL! I mean, I want to get some on film, put it on DVD, and watch it anytime I want. Maybe even offer it to the fans! Those who didn't get a chance to make it or just want to relive the experience. I need a better camera though. Like I said, I would love more than anything to also add an interview with INXS. They could be my first celeb interview since my online interview with Dougal Dixon. He's one of those though that only people who are into science knows. But still, a celebrity in his own right. I'd love INXS to be the next. But I don't know. Though it would make my video quite unique. I can ask, it never hurts to ask! But alas, it may be just a dream. But if I could get it to happen, maybe it would keep the other fans quiet about INXS being for nothing but money. Sad as that may sound, I don't know if it's true. I hope not. In the past it seems that INXS was all for the music, and the fans. But I don't know. Let's see. If I do get to do an interview with INXS, I'd like it to be with all 6 members, including JD. They may only allow big, major companies to interview INXS, like the newspapers or something. How can I explain that I am from a small, friend-based company? LOL! That's why I said this may all be just a dream. But like I also said, it never hurts to ask! I'll keep you all informed on how that goes. But I'm not really expecting it to come out in my favor. hehe!
I personally do not care about which fans will also be attending. I go to these concerts just to see INXS. No one else. But it is always nice when I do make new friends. I remember my concert at the Schnitzer Hall in Portland, I connected with a very sweet young woman. I didn't know her, I don't think I ever got her name. But I remember what she looked like. She had long, blond hair and brown eyes. I never ask anyone's names at these concerts because I know I might never see them again. Concert trolls, I don't give a shit about! That's my new name for people who go to concerts and harass others. Examples would be the delusional mods. They go to concerts, but it is for no other reason than to harass other fans. But that's why it's rare for me to go to a concert and connect with anyone. People are evil. They will be nice to your face, and then shit talk you behind your back. I just ignore them. Of course if I do go to a concert, and happen to come face-to-face with any of the delusional mods again, I have a cute idea! hehehe! I won't mention what it is now, but in the end, I think it'll be funny as heck! It would definitely add some comedy relief to my video. ;) You all will have to wait and see what I'm talking about. But at the very least, maybe it'll keep those dumbasses away from me. Let me go my way, and they can go their's.
Maybe it's a good thing INXS may not be coming here for a while. I need to save some money so I can get that new video camera, and some more battery power. I'd need to find extra batteries! Camcorder batteries are not cheap either! But I don't want to run out of juice mid-way into the concert! That's what I hate most about filming. That's why I never bring my dang digital camera! The darn thing always runs out of juice at the most inopportune moment! I think that's what I want for Christmas, a new video camera, with a good zoom lens. I want to be able to get right up there on stage with INXS, or at least make it seem like I am! I need a new cam and wireless mic. I want to be able to talk into the video and still be heard over the crowd. The wireless mic is going to be the cheapest thing I get. I've seen them on Amazon for only $20. Of course I may have to go with a better model than that if I want it to last me. You can see the kind of film I will be making. An interview with the band will just be extra gravy if I can get it. I don't really like movies that are all concert footage! Though I love INXS and the men in the band dearly, a movie of all concert-footage is dull! I'd like to add a bit of one fan's point of view, and her day before the concert begins. Maybe get some other fans involved if they want to. That's a big maybe though. hehe!
Well, we'll see what happens. If all goes well, it'll be a good video. If all goes the way I'd like it to, it'll be one HELL of a damn great video!!
I personally do not care about which fans will also be attending. I go to these concerts just to see INXS. No one else. But it is always nice when I do make new friends. I remember my concert at the Schnitzer Hall in Portland, I connected with a very sweet young woman. I didn't know her, I don't think I ever got her name. But I remember what she looked like. She had long, blond hair and brown eyes. I never ask anyone's names at these concerts because I know I might never see them again. Concert trolls, I don't give a shit about! That's my new name for people who go to concerts and harass others. Examples would be the delusional mods. They go to concerts, but it is for no other reason than to harass other fans. But that's why it's rare for me to go to a concert and connect with anyone. People are evil. They will be nice to your face, and then shit talk you behind your back. I just ignore them. Of course if I do go to a concert, and happen to come face-to-face with any of the delusional mods again, I have a cute idea! hehehe! I won't mention what it is now, but in the end, I think it'll be funny as heck! It would definitely add some comedy relief to my video. ;) You all will have to wait and see what I'm talking about. But at the very least, maybe it'll keep those dumbasses away from me. Let me go my way, and they can go their's.
Maybe it's a good thing INXS may not be coming here for a while. I need to save some money so I can get that new video camera, and some more battery power. I'd need to find extra batteries! Camcorder batteries are not cheap either! But I don't want to run out of juice mid-way into the concert! That's what I hate most about filming. That's why I never bring my dang digital camera! The darn thing always runs out of juice at the most inopportune moment! I think that's what I want for Christmas, a new video camera, with a good zoom lens. I want to be able to get right up there on stage with INXS, or at least make it seem like I am! I need a new cam and wireless mic. I want to be able to talk into the video and still be heard over the crowd. The wireless mic is going to be the cheapest thing I get. I've seen them on Amazon for only $20. Of course I may have to go with a better model than that if I want it to last me. You can see the kind of film I will be making. An interview with the band will just be extra gravy if I can get it. I don't really like movies that are all concert footage! Though I love INXS and the men in the band dearly, a movie of all concert-footage is dull! I'd like to add a bit of one fan's point of view, and her day before the concert begins. Maybe get some other fans involved if they want to. That's a big maybe though. hehe!
Well, we'll see what happens. If all goes well, it'll be a good video. If all goes the way I'd like it to, it'll be one HELL of a damn great video!!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Lily Not To Attend Patricia's Funeral
I can say I am not at all surprised! I read this morning that T. Lily will not be allowed to attend Patricia Glassop's funeral. And she was Lily's grandma. I feel bad, but knowing Geldof like I have come to over the past years, I am not at all surprised! I had a feeling he would not let her attend the funeral. After all, the big goon would not let her see her father, and that made Michael so upset that he went and did the ultimate stupidest thing he ever could have done. Even though I still believe it was done by accident. Had Michael been in his right mind, I'm sure he would never have pulled such a stunt. I didn't know Michael as an individual, but he did not seem like the kind of person who would do something like that delibrately.
Geldof seems to be sympathetic about the loss to Rhett, Michael's brother. But will not let Lily attend her grandma's funeral because of the press. Which I think is stupid as a shitpile! As usual, Geldof is unloading a lot of bull on Rhett! He let Lily attend his father's funeral this past month, but will not let Lily attend her grandma's funeral this week! Stupid! There would no doubt be just as much media at Geldof's father's funeral as there would be at Patricia's funeral. Is the message getting through yet? I HATE Bob Geldof! I think he sucks. And I don't buy his story! I think there is much more to his story than meets the eye. I will forever believe he is trying to keep Lily from getting to know her real family. I said last week it would be a miracle if Geldof would let Lily attend Patricia's funeral. I said that to my little sis, BTW. She is a partial INXS fan, more of a Green Day fan. Anyway, I think Geldof's reason for not letting Lily attend her grandma's funeral is very petty, and obviously a cover-up of a deeper, darker reason. Someone made a comment on here that Geldof is doing good for Lily and called her grandma a money-grubbing old bitch. I told that person he is being disrespectful. If others think Geldof is doing good by Lily, that's their deal. But I sense more. I won't say I'm never wrong, but I can definitely smell a rat where Geldof is standing. Rhett can believe him all he wants to, but I don't. People in mourning will believe anything. I know.
Now that I have had some time to cool off, I want to focus on some less stressful news. I am allowing a video collection of my vlogs to be released on the UMG Productions website. It's the first in a string of DVDs that will be released by UMG Productions. This one is a collection of my video blogs I made about INXS. I included all of them. It's my first ever DVD to be released. If you enjoyed the videos, you can now see them any time you want on your TV. I'd recommend it because looking back on them now, even I LOL really hard. More details and a buyer link can be found here: http://www.umgproductions.com/2010/09/timmyfans-pillow-talk-inxs-dvd-video.html
Geldof seems to be sympathetic about the loss to Rhett, Michael's brother. But will not let Lily attend her grandma's funeral because of the press. Which I think is stupid as a shitpile! As usual, Geldof is unloading a lot of bull on Rhett! He let Lily attend his father's funeral this past month, but will not let Lily attend her grandma's funeral this week! Stupid! There would no doubt be just as much media at Geldof's father's funeral as there would be at Patricia's funeral. Is the message getting through yet? I HATE Bob Geldof! I think he sucks. And I don't buy his story! I think there is much more to his story than meets the eye. I will forever believe he is trying to keep Lily from getting to know her real family. I said last week it would be a miracle if Geldof would let Lily attend Patricia's funeral. I said that to my little sis, BTW. She is a partial INXS fan, more of a Green Day fan. Anyway, I think Geldof's reason for not letting Lily attend her grandma's funeral is very petty, and obviously a cover-up of a deeper, darker reason. Someone made a comment on here that Geldof is doing good for Lily and called her grandma a money-grubbing old bitch. I told that person he is being disrespectful. If others think Geldof is doing good by Lily, that's their deal. But I sense more. I won't say I'm never wrong, but I can definitely smell a rat where Geldof is standing. Rhett can believe him all he wants to, but I don't. People in mourning will believe anything. I know.
Now that I have had some time to cool off, I want to focus on some less stressful news. I am allowing a video collection of my vlogs to be released on the UMG Productions website. It's the first in a string of DVDs that will be released by UMG Productions. This one is a collection of my video blogs I made about INXS. I included all of them. It's my first ever DVD to be released. If you enjoyed the videos, you can now see them any time you want on your TV. I'd recommend it because looking back on them now, even I LOL really hard. More details and a buyer link can be found here: http://www.umgproductions.com/2010/09/timmyfans-pillow-talk-inxs-dvd-video.html
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
What Happened to Animal Planet?
I hate to say this, but the Animal Planet channel is really beginning to suck lately! It used to have an ample variety of shows I used to love to watch at night. Some I remember is "I'm Alive" and "The Haunted" and there was another about survival that I haven't seen in so long I cannot even remember the name. But they all had animal-related survival stories. I even miss Animal Cops. That doesn't even come on anymore! Nowadays all I ever see on Animal Planet is Pit Boss, River Monsters, and Whale Wars. Except on Wednesday night, when they show Monsters Inside Me, and Untamed and Uncut but even that is in between the other shows I mentioned. And they don't just run those shows once, they run them every hour, one right after another. You would think they would use some of those hours to run something with a little more variety! I like Untamed and Uncut, but I usually switch it off if they show something with any kind of panthers on it. Panthers bore me to death! Even watching a few minutes of them bores me. I just can't stand them! They don't even scare me. I would have a certain amount of respect for them, but they don't scare me. I have an amount of respect for all wild animals, simply because they are wild and don't know how to behave around people. But I don't feel fear around any panthers. I feel more like disgusted. That's why I don't like watching them. And every damn camera person always focuses the camera on the panthers' butt! I remember one time I saw a video on YouTube, and it was about a lion. In the opening frame, I swear the lion's butt was right in the cameraman's face, and he posted it. I saw that and it was like "EWWWW!! I don't want to see some lion's ass-hole!!!" One stupid-ass jerk thought that I was acting like a perv just because that was all I could see, saying "Maybe you'd like to look at a sheep's ass you perv!" As if I wanted to see that frame!! LOL! I said to him if he had any idea how I could not have seen that as it was the only frame mostly visible throughout the whole movie! To let me know. I tuned into that video hoping to see a lion destroyed. Yeah, I know it's sadistic! But it's OK to be sadistic about lions and other panthers. Afterall, people like watching them destroy other animals and people. So, I like watching videos of panthers being defeated. It's like lying to a burglar, saying you don't have a gun when you really do. It's acceptable only under certain conditions.
There are 3 animals panthers should never mess with: rhinos, warthogs and crocodiles. Rhinos always win against any kind of panther. Even tigers have been killed by rhinos. More often than rhinos have been killed by tigers. I've seen lions succeed against warthogs, but less often than warthogs have killed lions and leopards. I've never seen a leopard succeed in a battle between it and a warthog! Crocodiles, I've seen some panthers beat them, but usually only if the crocodile is smaller, or of equal size. I've never known any panther to come up against a 18-20 foot long crocodile and win. Won't happen! Maybe a whole pack of lions might one day, but it hasn't happened so far. There is a video of a tiger defeating a 14-foot crocodile (a measurement that I believe to be totally exaggerated), the croc put up a good battle, but it lost. Someone pointed that video out to me, and I saw it, and I noticed the size of the crocodile, and the size of the tiger. I commented "If that is a 14-foot crocodile then that is a 14-foot tiger!" because to me, they both looked the same size. The only place though where you might have a chance to see a 14-foot long tiger is a place too cold for crocodiles!! Only Siberian tigers even come close to that big! So I think the size of that crocodile was somewhat exaggerated. Could have been a good 10-footer. One thing I noticed over the years, wildlife cinemetographers always want to make panthers out to be bigger and better than they really are. I once saw on YouTube, someone said they have a friend who is a professional wildlife cinematographer, and that person has a video of a cougar being killed by wolves. But he won't sell it or show it on YouTube because he "loves" cougars and doesn't want anyone to see them destroyed. That got me thinking, how many other videos could there be out there that have been cut-off from public view that shows panthers of one kind or another being destroyed by other animals? Could be LOTS!! Panthers are unfortunately WAY overrated and probably the most embellished animals on the planet.
Yes, I admit, panthers are powerful animals. They have to be. They don't have the benefit of numbers to bring down large prey. So like say one tiger has the strength of maybe 5 wolves. Tigers are the largest of the panthers. There have been reports though of tigers being killed by the Asian wild dogs, also known as dholes. A lot of people will say this is an amplified report. Some have even said that it's based on nothing more than legend. Even the most reliable book I have, Walker's Mammals of the World, says that there have been reports of tigers being killed by dholes, but that none of the claims have ever been reliably observed (by western scientists) and reported. However, legends are not there because someone pulled them out of the sky! They had to come from somewhere. Most legends are based on fact, not fiction. Whether they are old claims or not is irrelevant. The fact that the claims exist at all is impressive!! I'd love to see a pack of dholes treeing, or even killing, a tiger! However, western scientists have seen evidence that tigers have eaten dholes. Probably young, bachelor, or simply lone, individuals. I'm sure a tiger would not confront a whole pack of barking dholes. Some people say because dholes only hunt in packs that what they do is not at all impressive. Yet people are fascinated, calling lions the "king of beasts" (which I still think is a laugh!), and lions hunt in packs too. And males do none of the hunting in a pack. It's usually only the females who hunt. The only time a male hunts is when he is in a bachelor group, then he has no choice. The thing is with a pack of dholes, they become one. When they hunt, they are no longer just individuals, they become one big, powerful animal. A single dhole may not be able to bring down a tiger--dholes, BTW, are smaller, but more powerful than wolves. Maybe not even 2 or 3 dholes. But imagine a pack of 10, 15, even 20 dholes, and the tiger has one hell of a problem on it's paws!!! They all become one, like a swarm of bees or ants. Look at groups of army ants! A whole swarm could kill and tear apart a 400-pound anaconda! But a single individual cannot. That's because in a swarm, they all become one, big, formiddible opponent.
I'll tell you all, for real entertainment, watch TruTV! They have some of the best reality shows I've ever seen! I love Operation Repo! Good show! Lyndah seems to be losing weight! Matt is like a pit bull! Even he calls himself that. I was watching Hardcore Pawn last night, Les wanted to buy his family guns. They went into a gun shop. Apparently Les tried to ask for a deal on some holsters, and that clerk at the gun store just went ballistic!!!! That was no joke! No acting! I could tell by the camera angle. And in my research for last night's show, apparently some Detroit residents have been into that gun store before, and said that dude really is a ticking time bomb! Why he's working in a gun store I will never know! People with as quick a temper as he seemed to have should never be allowed near a gun!! But at the same time, Les has no business treating a retail shop like his pawn shop! I've pawned some things in the past. One of the things I HATE when it comes to pawning (which is why I don't do it very often) is the clerk will look at your item, in good condition, and it is what you say it is, they tell you, "I think I can give you $50 for this." Then they turn around and 5 minutes later tell you "I'm sorry, I can only give you $10 for this." I'm like "GEEZ!!! You said $50 before dude!! If I'd have known you were going to change your mind like that I wouldn't have waited!" Oh and my all-time favorite: You take your item in and say you'd like to sell that item. The first damn thing the pawn shop clerk asks you is "How much do you want for this?" I'm thinking "Dude, you should know better than me what it's worth! You've been in this business longer than I have!" I hate when they ask you that, and you give them a price and then they say "I don't think it's worth that." I'm like, "Then why the Hell did you ask me?!"
You can tell, I don't do much pawning! LOL! I think I've only done it maybe 5 times in my whole life. Then only when I am VERY desperate!! Worthless items, I'd rather get my fill of, then perhaps donate them to this thrift store in town that does so much good for so many people. Good items I like to keep. If I have an item that is good, but I don't need anymore, I'd rather wait until I have a big enough collection and have a yard sale. Yard sales are not like pawn shops. The customer fanagles with the price and so can I, and both of us go away happy.
There are 3 animals panthers should never mess with: rhinos, warthogs and crocodiles. Rhinos always win against any kind of panther. Even tigers have been killed by rhinos. More often than rhinos have been killed by tigers. I've seen lions succeed against warthogs, but less often than warthogs have killed lions and leopards. I've never seen a leopard succeed in a battle between it and a warthog! Crocodiles, I've seen some panthers beat them, but usually only if the crocodile is smaller, or of equal size. I've never known any panther to come up against a 18-20 foot long crocodile and win. Won't happen! Maybe a whole pack of lions might one day, but it hasn't happened so far. There is a video of a tiger defeating a 14-foot crocodile (a measurement that I believe to be totally exaggerated), the croc put up a good battle, but it lost. Someone pointed that video out to me, and I saw it, and I noticed the size of the crocodile, and the size of the tiger. I commented "If that is a 14-foot crocodile then that is a 14-foot tiger!" because to me, they both looked the same size. The only place though where you might have a chance to see a 14-foot long tiger is a place too cold for crocodiles!! Only Siberian tigers even come close to that big! So I think the size of that crocodile was somewhat exaggerated. Could have been a good 10-footer. One thing I noticed over the years, wildlife cinemetographers always want to make panthers out to be bigger and better than they really are. I once saw on YouTube, someone said they have a friend who is a professional wildlife cinematographer, and that person has a video of a cougar being killed by wolves. But he won't sell it or show it on YouTube because he "loves" cougars and doesn't want anyone to see them destroyed. That got me thinking, how many other videos could there be out there that have been cut-off from public view that shows panthers of one kind or another being destroyed by other animals? Could be LOTS!! Panthers are unfortunately WAY overrated and probably the most embellished animals on the planet.
Yes, I admit, panthers are powerful animals. They have to be. They don't have the benefit of numbers to bring down large prey. So like say one tiger has the strength of maybe 5 wolves. Tigers are the largest of the panthers. There have been reports though of tigers being killed by the Asian wild dogs, also known as dholes. A lot of people will say this is an amplified report. Some have even said that it's based on nothing more than legend. Even the most reliable book I have, Walker's Mammals of the World, says that there have been reports of tigers being killed by dholes, but that none of the claims have ever been reliably observed (by western scientists) and reported. However, legends are not there because someone pulled them out of the sky! They had to come from somewhere. Most legends are based on fact, not fiction. Whether they are old claims or not is irrelevant. The fact that the claims exist at all is impressive!! I'd love to see a pack of dholes treeing, or even killing, a tiger! However, western scientists have seen evidence that tigers have eaten dholes. Probably young, bachelor, or simply lone, individuals. I'm sure a tiger would not confront a whole pack of barking dholes. Some people say because dholes only hunt in packs that what they do is not at all impressive. Yet people are fascinated, calling lions the "king of beasts" (which I still think is a laugh!), and lions hunt in packs too. And males do none of the hunting in a pack. It's usually only the females who hunt. The only time a male hunts is when he is in a bachelor group, then he has no choice. The thing is with a pack of dholes, they become one. When they hunt, they are no longer just individuals, they become one big, powerful animal. A single dhole may not be able to bring down a tiger--dholes, BTW, are smaller, but more powerful than wolves. Maybe not even 2 or 3 dholes. But imagine a pack of 10, 15, even 20 dholes, and the tiger has one hell of a problem on it's paws!!! They all become one, like a swarm of bees or ants. Look at groups of army ants! A whole swarm could kill and tear apart a 400-pound anaconda! But a single individual cannot. That's because in a swarm, they all become one, big, formiddible opponent.
I'll tell you all, for real entertainment, watch TruTV! They have some of the best reality shows I've ever seen! I love Operation Repo! Good show! Lyndah seems to be losing weight! Matt is like a pit bull! Even he calls himself that. I was watching Hardcore Pawn last night, Les wanted to buy his family guns. They went into a gun shop. Apparently Les tried to ask for a deal on some holsters, and that clerk at the gun store just went ballistic!!!! That was no joke! No acting! I could tell by the camera angle. And in my research for last night's show, apparently some Detroit residents have been into that gun store before, and said that dude really is a ticking time bomb! Why he's working in a gun store I will never know! People with as quick a temper as he seemed to have should never be allowed near a gun!! But at the same time, Les has no business treating a retail shop like his pawn shop! I've pawned some things in the past. One of the things I HATE when it comes to pawning (which is why I don't do it very often) is the clerk will look at your item, in good condition, and it is what you say it is, they tell you, "I think I can give you $50 for this." Then they turn around and 5 minutes later tell you "I'm sorry, I can only give you $10 for this." I'm like "GEEZ!!! You said $50 before dude!! If I'd have known you were going to change your mind like that I wouldn't have waited!" Oh and my all-time favorite: You take your item in and say you'd like to sell that item. The first damn thing the pawn shop clerk asks you is "How much do you want for this?" I'm thinking "Dude, you should know better than me what it's worth! You've been in this business longer than I have!" I hate when they ask you that, and you give them a price and then they say "I don't think it's worth that." I'm like, "Then why the Hell did you ask me?!"
You can tell, I don't do much pawning! LOL! I think I've only done it maybe 5 times in my whole life. Then only when I am VERY desperate!! Worthless items, I'd rather get my fill of, then perhaps donate them to this thrift store in town that does so much good for so many people. Good items I like to keep. If I have an item that is good, but I don't need anymore, I'd rather wait until I have a big enough collection and have a yard sale. Yard sales are not like pawn shops. The customer fanagles with the price and so can I, and both of us go away happy.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Hollywood Caricatures
I've been studying many things this week, but one thing my supervisor is urging me to do finally is finish this story! She doesn't yet know about me having done the horse book and putting it on the site. Well, she didn't until last night. Then she got a little angry and said she wants this story done. The thing that has been stopping me from finishing the story is doing the images of celebrities from the 20s, 30s and 40s. They are not easy to do at all! Not as easy as the old cartoonists make it look! So I had to watch a few cartoons that depict caricaturized celebs, and look on the internet for some drawings and examples and see how other people have done it. I used to be so into the old movie stars from the 20s to 40s! You would think I'd know how to draw them caricaturized! But I don't. I never really practiced that. Well! I can't really say I never practiced it, but before I had some help. So I had to bite the bullet and tell myself that this needs to be done and it's now or never! And if it didn't work out, I was going to put the bullet back into the gun and shoot myself!! I might as well to! Because if I don't get this story done and on the site soon, my supervisor is going to kill me anyway!! LOL! Just kidding there.
Over the years, UMG Productions has been depicting many different celebs in our stories. The first was the Marx Brothers, actually depicted on the cover page of Caroline Falls in Love. That story was created very early in 1984. It's a good story, but I like Caroline, the Sequel that came out a month later. It's funnier! But there are no celebs in that story. From there, we just went on and on with other public figures, including very briefly Lorne Greene, and for one story, Roxette. In 1986, a story was written by Katrina O'hara that included the comedian Ray Walston and the very handsome Bill Bixby. She too loved My Favorite Martian because she had the same last name as the main characters. Funny how people feel that way! Every kid named Ariel loves The Little Mermaid, I had a friend named Veronica and she LOVED the Archies because of Veronica. And Ms. O'hara from our original group loved My Favorite Martian because she had the last name O'hara. I asked Trisha, my supervisor, if she still has a copy of Ms. O'hara's story with Ray Walston and Bill Bixby, she said she'd look, and I know what that means! She'll look when she gets the time to, which may be as soon as Easter, 2012! If I remember it was a funny story about a circus, and Tony the lemur from the story The Discouraged Lemur. Katrina O'hara never finished that story, but she left what she finished with me, and I completed it. I gave it to Trisha when we moved from Toutle. There were other celebs in that circus, but I mostly remember Ray Walston and Bill Bixby.
Also, we've done stories with INXS, with Michael Hutchence, The 3 Stooges, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, countless other celebs from the early days, I even did a story that depicted Bob Hope. I still have his signed pic that he exchanged with me when I was a teenager! It ain't going NOwhere!! I'm keeping that as a momento from when we did a picture exchange. I kinda miss him now that he is gone. That was a real sad day. He told me I look cute in my pic! hehe! Unfortunately that I cannot prove now because his letter was kept in a box in our old family room in Lakewood, and everything in that box was destroyed when we had a flood. I not only lost that letter from him, I lost a lot of my original drawings of Metazoic mammals, and Anna lost a lot of historic Mount St. Helens articles. Those you cannot get anymore! I still have my autographed pic from Bob Hope though, I kept that away in a photo album. Some day I am thinking of having it framed and put up. Anyway, we've even done some stories that have characters who are not so good, like Bin Ladin. hehe! And we treated him like the 1940s cartoons treated Hitler. LOL! We clobbered him!! Well, actually Katrina and Elmer clobbered him. That was from 2003. We've even done a story with people who have been gone for longer than the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Like Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach. The problem with doing caricatures of those people is all we have to go by are paintings and statues. Not always easy!
Some people would argue that this is all fan-art and is bordering on delusional. I have to laugh at that statement!! Because it is FUNNY!!!! If that is so, then a lot of the cartoonists from the 30s and 40s were delusional. That was the "in" thing back then, cartoons with caricatures. I personally do it because it's actually fun. I'm not the best caricature artist on the planet (that's for sure!!) but the more I do it the better I will get. I'm not into adding copious amounts of detail, like the cartoonists do today. I'm not interested in making these guys look scary, like most people seem to enjoy today. I just want to make these caricatures look at least somewhat like the people they are supposed to look like. There is really no right or wrong way to do caricatures, but the best way is to emphasize peoples' most exaggerated features. Like Bing Crosby was famous for his big, blue eyes. His eyes were also very droopy, kinda like those of a hound dog. So most of the time when you see a caricature of him, his eyes are the most indelible features on him. Same with W.C. Fields, and his big, red nose. He was one of the hardest caricatures I've had to do for this story! It was actually quite tough finding a drawing of him because most of the time, when other cartoonists did him, they did him up as a pig! Not a person. But I found a few I could use as a guide, and that was all I needed. I'm still working on this story, in between working on the logos for our company. My partner was not too keen on the ones I did for him last time. He liked them, but he said a logo is supposed to have a transparent background. So I said OK. So that is what I am doing.
In my research, I found another blog of a cartoon fanatic. He stated how the celebs of yesteryear seem to be more caricaturized than the celebs of today. People had more fun doing them back then, and did them more often. You hardly see today's celebs being caricaturized at all, except for a few jabs at Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. I told him I could answer his question why. Because today's celebrities don't have any character. In the 20s and 30s, you had mostly Jewish celebs, and nobody has more in the way of facial features than the old Jewish race!! Not so much now, but then, they were probably more "pure". They had big eyes, big noses, funny hairlines and hair styles, ya know, the works! Plus, today's celebs are not funny! More people are into being dramatic than funny. So, it's not so much fun doing caricatures of today's celebs. Nor cartoons or anything.
Over the years, UMG Productions has been depicting many different celebs in our stories. The first was the Marx Brothers, actually depicted on the cover page of Caroline Falls in Love. That story was created very early in 1984. It's a good story, but I like Caroline, the Sequel that came out a month later. It's funnier! But there are no celebs in that story. From there, we just went on and on with other public figures, including very briefly Lorne Greene, and for one story, Roxette. In 1986, a story was written by Katrina O'hara that included the comedian Ray Walston and the very handsome Bill Bixby. She too loved My Favorite Martian because she had the same last name as the main characters. Funny how people feel that way! Every kid named Ariel loves The Little Mermaid, I had a friend named Veronica and she LOVED the Archies because of Veronica. And Ms. O'hara from our original group loved My Favorite Martian because she had the last name O'hara. I asked Trisha, my supervisor, if she still has a copy of Ms. O'hara's story with Ray Walston and Bill Bixby, she said she'd look, and I know what that means! She'll look when she gets the time to, which may be as soon as Easter, 2012! If I remember it was a funny story about a circus, and Tony the lemur from the story The Discouraged Lemur. Katrina O'hara never finished that story, but she left what she finished with me, and I completed it. I gave it to Trisha when we moved from Toutle. There were other celebs in that circus, but I mostly remember Ray Walston and Bill Bixby.
Also, we've done stories with INXS, with Michael Hutchence, The 3 Stooges, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, countless other celebs from the early days, I even did a story that depicted Bob Hope. I still have his signed pic that he exchanged with me when I was a teenager! It ain't going NOwhere!! I'm keeping that as a momento from when we did a picture exchange. I kinda miss him now that he is gone. That was a real sad day. He told me I look cute in my pic! hehe! Unfortunately that I cannot prove now because his letter was kept in a box in our old family room in Lakewood, and everything in that box was destroyed when we had a flood. I not only lost that letter from him, I lost a lot of my original drawings of Metazoic mammals, and Anna lost a lot of historic Mount St. Helens articles. Those you cannot get anymore! I still have my autographed pic from Bob Hope though, I kept that away in a photo album. Some day I am thinking of having it framed and put up. Anyway, we've even done some stories that have characters who are not so good, like Bin Ladin. hehe! And we treated him like the 1940s cartoons treated Hitler. LOL! We clobbered him!! Well, actually Katrina and Elmer clobbered him. That was from 2003. We've even done a story with people who have been gone for longer than the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Like Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach. The problem with doing caricatures of those people is all we have to go by are paintings and statues. Not always easy!
Some people would argue that this is all fan-art and is bordering on delusional. I have to laugh at that statement!! Because it is FUNNY!!!! If that is so, then a lot of the cartoonists from the 30s and 40s were delusional. That was the "in" thing back then, cartoons with caricatures. I personally do it because it's actually fun. I'm not the best caricature artist on the planet (that's for sure!!) but the more I do it the better I will get. I'm not into adding copious amounts of detail, like the cartoonists do today. I'm not interested in making these guys look scary, like most people seem to enjoy today. I just want to make these caricatures look at least somewhat like the people they are supposed to look like. There is really no right or wrong way to do caricatures, but the best way is to emphasize peoples' most exaggerated features. Like Bing Crosby was famous for his big, blue eyes. His eyes were also very droopy, kinda like those of a hound dog. So most of the time when you see a caricature of him, his eyes are the most indelible features on him. Same with W.C. Fields, and his big, red nose. He was one of the hardest caricatures I've had to do for this story! It was actually quite tough finding a drawing of him because most of the time, when other cartoonists did him, they did him up as a pig! Not a person. But I found a few I could use as a guide, and that was all I needed. I'm still working on this story, in between working on the logos for our company. My partner was not too keen on the ones I did for him last time. He liked them, but he said a logo is supposed to have a transparent background. So I said OK. So that is what I am doing.
In my research, I found another blog of a cartoon fanatic. He stated how the celebs of yesteryear seem to be more caricaturized than the celebs of today. People had more fun doing them back then, and did them more often. You hardly see today's celebs being caricaturized at all, except for a few jabs at Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. I told him I could answer his question why. Because today's celebrities don't have any character. In the 20s and 30s, you had mostly Jewish celebs, and nobody has more in the way of facial features than the old Jewish race!! Not so much now, but then, they were probably more "pure". They had big eyes, big noses, funny hairlines and hair styles, ya know, the works! Plus, today's celebs are not funny! More people are into being dramatic than funny. So, it's not so much fun doing caricatures of today's celebs. Nor cartoons or anything.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Good Changes On The Way
Well, I am going to get into a new business. And I cannot wait! Already we seem to be doing pretty good, and we just started this month. Remember the guy I hired to do my Metazoic site? Well, he wants to go into business for himself, and he wants me to become a partner. I'm still learning how to do my part. I think first I should try to acquire my own CorelDraw or Photoshop program. The trouble is now you can only get those online, and they cost a fortune!! Hopefully we will get more and more jobs, some high-paying, and when that happens then I can get those programs. Then I can really work on these and get good! I knew my instincts about this guy were right on! He's got good vision! Right now, he's just trying to build a suitable clientelle. The toughest part is getting our proverbial foot in the door. We have to attract the clients to us and do everything we can to keep them attracted to us. Then they hire us, and then we're in business.
I told my ma about this last week, and she was afraid it was a scam. But when I told her I got paid for my first job yesterday, she was excited!! Right now, I am just in the learning process. He's showing me how to deal with clients and what to say. He told me the reason he is doing this is simply because he wants to go in business for himself, and he's helping me and I am helping him. Believe me when I say I could really use the help! I don't really want to move from Ocean Shores. Though sometimes I do look forward to moving to Montana, I do not in any way want it to be a permanent deal! I told this partner of mine I want to make enough to someday buy myself a house, land, and move back here and live here forever. Anna can stay in Montana if she wants to, but I want to stay here. I love it here. It only gets hot one or two days a year, lots of animals, I have the ocean right outside my door, and I love the nautical theme I have in the house! I'd miss all that if we moved to Montana. My lighthouses, captain figures, seals and gulls, sea shells, and all that good stuff would not really go over in Billings. It'd just make me homesick for this place. I don't belong there, I belong here. Only I want to have my own place. I told my partner that is my goal. He told me that once our clientelle builds up, and we rake in some excellent ratings, we'll be making literally thousands a week! It could mean a big change for me.
I told this guy I was so lucky to have him in my life! Just thinking about what he's told me is making me feel good! I mean, why shouldn't we succeed? He's great at programming, and I'm good at designing. I just have to work on it to get better. I want to be able to turn out professional-looking templates and logos and stuff. I've been working on it. Well, my prayers go to GOD that this works out. So far, we seem to be doing very well!
I told my ma about this last week, and she was afraid it was a scam. But when I told her I got paid for my first job yesterday, she was excited!! Right now, I am just in the learning process. He's showing me how to deal with clients and what to say. He told me the reason he is doing this is simply because he wants to go in business for himself, and he's helping me and I am helping him. Believe me when I say I could really use the help! I don't really want to move from Ocean Shores. Though sometimes I do look forward to moving to Montana, I do not in any way want it to be a permanent deal! I told this partner of mine I want to make enough to someday buy myself a house, land, and move back here and live here forever. Anna can stay in Montana if she wants to, but I want to stay here. I love it here. It only gets hot one or two days a year, lots of animals, I have the ocean right outside my door, and I love the nautical theme I have in the house! I'd miss all that if we moved to Montana. My lighthouses, captain figures, seals and gulls, sea shells, and all that good stuff would not really go over in Billings. It'd just make me homesick for this place. I don't belong there, I belong here. Only I want to have my own place. I told my partner that is my goal. He told me that once our clientelle builds up, and we rake in some excellent ratings, we'll be making literally thousands a week! It could mean a big change for me.
I told this guy I was so lucky to have him in my life! Just thinking about what he's told me is making me feel good! I mean, why shouldn't we succeed? He's great at programming, and I'm good at designing. I just have to work on it to get better. I want to be able to turn out professional-looking templates and logos and stuff. I've been working on it. Well, my prayers go to GOD that this works out. So far, we seem to be doing very well!
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Night 1 of Hell's Kitchen
I'm glad that Chef Ramsay is back for another season this year. LOL! He does so much cussing, he reminds me of Katrina! If you didn't know Katrina like I do, she loves to cuss! She doesn't do it in front of her kids, thank GOD! But she loves to cuss a lot! Sometimes it's funny to hear her because every other word out of her mouth is "fuck". But anyway, tonight's season premier of Hell's Kitchen was a good one! One of the best I've ever seen! I even like the opening better. It's set up like the story of Gulliver's Travels. Only Chef Ramsay is Gulliver. Anyway, it's funny! Looking at some of the contestants tonight, this is my take of them:
Boris and Raj are both something of smart-asses! Boris was the one who was mocking Chef Ramsay, and it was one of those moments that leaves you holding your breath and hanging on to the edge of your seat!! Chef was PISSED!!! I thought for sure he was going to kick Boris out of there! Raj is like an overgrown child who likes to fool around. I don't think he's going to last long. There is another guy named Vinnie who was playing the Matre 'd tonight and he took it upon himself to tell the guests that there will be no servings of side dishes tonight. Chef asked him what gives him the right. I think Vinnie was just not thinking! He's also very combative. He was ready during the introductory dish preparation to tell Chef to F*** off if he didn't like his signature dish! UGH!! Bad news!!! Chef may be straightforward and he may cuss a lot, but he knows his business! Don't screw with Chef Ramsay!!! I wouldn't!
In fact, this whole bunch seems to be full of very combative people, even among the girls. There is this one girl named Sabrina who is a little snarky bitch. LOL! Leave it to someone named Sabrina to be like that! hehe! I knew a Sabrina when I was in 6th grade and Jr. High school. She was a grade behind me. She was also a weird-ass chick. I mean, weird as in strange! Not weird as in a good thing. She was also always so negative. I never saw her laugh or smile not even with her friends. She always had this angry look on her face. I don't know if she was incapable of smiling, or if she had a lot of problems in her life, or what. But I can honestly tell you all, I knew about that girl for 3 years and never once in any of that time did I ever see a smile on her face. Not even for a split second. I cannot say I knew her, as we were never really friends. Though we did speak a few times. But she was just always so negative about everything. I don't know how it was she had any friends at all.
One person among the contestants gave everyone a scare. Antonia fell mysteriously ill. She passed out on the floor, complaining of a headache. The paramedics were called in and took her away. When they took her she did not look so well! She was sweating and shaking. I wonder what was wrong with her, and hope she will be OK! No one mentioned what happened. It could have been anything. But one thing that was mentioned was that she is no longer in Hell's Kitchen. There seems to be one of those each season that is forced to leave due to some ailment. But this is one of the scariest ones yet! I kinda wonder if this is a put-on by the show to bump up their ratings? Perhaps. But I cannot be sure. We shall see what happens. But I tell you I've never seen a more combative bunch of people on this show in my life!! We'll see who wins. I've got my sights on who I believe will be eliminated! Surely Raj, Boris and Sabrina will not make it to the finals! Not if they keep up their attitudes. But I dunno. They may be kept on just to keep the ratings and views up.
Boris and Raj are both something of smart-asses! Boris was the one who was mocking Chef Ramsay, and it was one of those moments that leaves you holding your breath and hanging on to the edge of your seat!! Chef was PISSED!!! I thought for sure he was going to kick Boris out of there! Raj is like an overgrown child who likes to fool around. I don't think he's going to last long. There is another guy named Vinnie who was playing the Matre 'd tonight and he took it upon himself to tell the guests that there will be no servings of side dishes tonight. Chef asked him what gives him the right. I think Vinnie was just not thinking! He's also very combative. He was ready during the introductory dish preparation to tell Chef to F*** off if he didn't like his signature dish! UGH!! Bad news!!! Chef may be straightforward and he may cuss a lot, but he knows his business! Don't screw with Chef Ramsay!!! I wouldn't!
In fact, this whole bunch seems to be full of very combative people, even among the girls. There is this one girl named Sabrina who is a little snarky bitch. LOL! Leave it to someone named Sabrina to be like that! hehe! I knew a Sabrina when I was in 6th grade and Jr. High school. She was a grade behind me. She was also a weird-ass chick. I mean, weird as in strange! Not weird as in a good thing. She was also always so negative. I never saw her laugh or smile not even with her friends. She always had this angry look on her face. I don't know if she was incapable of smiling, or if she had a lot of problems in her life, or what. But I can honestly tell you all, I knew about that girl for 3 years and never once in any of that time did I ever see a smile on her face. Not even for a split second. I cannot say I knew her, as we were never really friends. Though we did speak a few times. But she was just always so negative about everything. I don't know how it was she had any friends at all.
One person among the contestants gave everyone a scare. Antonia fell mysteriously ill. She passed out on the floor, complaining of a headache. The paramedics were called in and took her away. When they took her she did not look so well! She was sweating and shaking. I wonder what was wrong with her, and hope she will be OK! No one mentioned what happened. It could have been anything. But one thing that was mentioned was that she is no longer in Hell's Kitchen. There seems to be one of those each season that is forced to leave due to some ailment. But this is one of the scariest ones yet! I kinda wonder if this is a put-on by the show to bump up their ratings? Perhaps. But I cannot be sure. We shall see what happens. But I tell you I've never seen a more combative bunch of people on this show in my life!! We'll see who wins. I've got my sights on who I believe will be eliminated! Surely Raj, Boris and Sabrina will not make it to the finals! Not if they keep up their attitudes. But I dunno. They may be kept on just to keep the ratings and views up.
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