Grown up response to a message board on rollingstone.com

I don’t usually get into the message boards unless I’m in a bitchy mood and need to unload it or I feel the posts are getting out of control as far as meanness or near-slander. A little bit of everything was in the mix here so I posted a longwinded but fair comment.

Here’s the cut and paste of it:

we used to hand out LP’s cassette demos from the parking lot of the whiskey and other places before warner signed them. they are ALL very talented and well trained musicians and very versatile as well (an actual SIGN of good musicianship is the ability to change your genre at a moments notice and still be a good musician). Mike and Joe are also wonderfully talented visual artists (drawing/painting etc).

before Hybrid Theory came out they had a cd demo with all of those songs sung/rapped by mike) the band was named hybrid theory but when they signed with warner (and now also had chester who is a sweetheart and also a painter) they had to change the name for legal reasons and chose linkin park.

i’ve loved them since the first day i met them, told everyone i knew about them because i knew they would rise to the top, and try to keep up with the music biz news to see what they are up to now that they are constantly on tour or writing/recording.

the last album will not go in my collection unless they give it to me because it is not my style. that doesn’t mean the quality is poor it just means they have gone in a different direction artistically and it’s not my thing.

Whether I like a song they did or now has no bearing on the fact that they are still professional musicians with a lot of talent and will now have a new type of following as well as the old ‘nu-metal/rap-rock” people that have been following them since their beginning.

[i'm amused that the capitals are random on this post and i like it like that. you say i'm lazy? i could call it artistic freedom of expression. ]

Bar observation using my Treo 755P and the wireless fullsize keyboard. A computer in my coat pocket. No excuse not to write now is there?

here I am in a bar again. all alone. it’s kind of peaceful that way. If I go with friends I won’t get any writing done. I’m here using my Treo 755P and my Bluetooth collapsable keyboard to travel light and write at the spur of the moment. I did complete about 200 words on my new story and then I got really bored. Writing, as a task, bores the shit out of me. I can come up with ideas but when I. have to actually start writing it’s more like a chore. So I’ve become a professional “Title
Writer”. I’ve got tons of book titles written in journals which are hidden in unknown places all around the house. I find then at the most random time and then I read the ideas and tell myself that I want to write now that I have a good idea. And then I do nothing. So here I am in a bar, all alone, pretending to write fantastic and moving novels. But if I’m honest with myself I will tell you that the keyboard is just something to hide behind so I can remain alone. Alone in my self pity (even though I know that I look pretty today) and my self loathing and my self depreciating my sense that I’m not good enough. I know, when I’m all made up with illusion and makeup and magic, people think I was or could have been a model. But nobody knows how hard the modeling industry was to crack in the early 80’s. I was told of the flaws that I didn’t know I had. So the poor self esteem I had then was sent crashing even lowerwith the new figure grossities that I was made aware of. It’s amazing to me to go to a bar and see women who are way less attractive carrying on like they were the most beautiful woman on the planet. It’s hard to comprehend. I am not, however, surprised when some model comes out and says they have a drug problem or an eating disorder or are just so depressed about their body that they want to commit suicide. you do your own math on that. don’t forget to factor in public humiliation and microscopic flaws made big by agents and photographers and the like. oh and there’s that obsession with perfection that is never up to a models standards of herself.

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Yes people, this will eventually give birth to my Dumpster Diva show.

But for now it’s a modgepodge of ideas that have been flying around with other junk in the back of my head. I’ve decided that the only way to conquer such a catastrophe is in small steps. Every week, or sometimes more often, I commit to reaching in to the dark scary hole of my head and plucking out whatever I can get my hands on without huring myself or allowing all the spinning content to get loose and take over the planet. I’ve been preparing myself for this task by watch reels and reels of cotton candy making demonstrations. I must gently stick the paper cone in the fluff and twirl it just right so as not to overfill and then lose it in the dirt.

As I am a recycle queen I’m not going to buy those paper cones. I’m going to reshape the toilet paper rolls or gift wrap tubes to make my own whimsy catching cones.

I just hope i don’t get any tiny flecks of leftover tissue in my eyes while preforming the delicate extraction procedure cuz that would distract me enough to make me forget my brain door was open and who knows what could happen then. I can forsee the news going on and on about millions of hysterical butterflies and bats flying into things because they don’t know where they are supposed to be and are, of course, still dizzy from all those years of flying cyclone style inside my head. Poor things will be misunderstood and swatted at while some jack ass at the Institute for Hiding Movie Monsters that Really Do Exist (IHMMRDE) begins the process of awakening Godzilla and King Kong so they can jump up and down and pout that they can’t reach the “flaaaayyyying stuuuufffffff” while simultaneously ruining all the cars parked in the vicinity.

Birth control and business cards have something in common

if you or someone you know is taking birth control pills look at the case the pills come in.  these plastic follet style cases are tossed in the trash by the thousands.  next time ask the pharmacist to refrain from sticking the label all the way down so you can easily remove it for its new life as a business card holder. get creative and decorate it with scrapbook brads and/or stickers.

easy, inexpensive cushion makeover

Linen napkin

the fabric should be about 2 or 3 inches larger than your pillow

ok i cheated. to speed things up i threaded the ribbon through a large plastic darning needle. it’s plastic, as in toy, so i don’t really consider that sewing :)

i love to shop the clearance racks at my local Target because the linens are very affordable.  I found a couple packs of linen cloth napkins for use as, well, cloth napkins.  i despise paper napkins unless we are eating out or on the road.  i think that when we are at home we should be responsible earthlings and save our resourses for future generations.  anyway, when i took them out of the package (btw they were marked down from $14 to $4 for a package of two) I realized that the size and decorative hole pattern aro

Linen napkin

the fabric should be about 2 or 3 inches larger than your pillow

ok i cheated. to speed things up i threaded the ribbon through a large plastic darning needle. it’s plastic, as in toy, so i don’t really consider that sewing :)

und the border made them perfect for a quick change of my throw pillows.  true to my “no sew” mantra i grabbed my ribbon box and found that 1/8″ satin ribbon fit perfectly in the holes and i quickly “stitched” a new cover over the pillow.  since i just recovered the pillows with dollar store silk-like covers last month i decided that i would use this as a demo only and then put the napkins back on the table where they are more useful to us.  i admit i am a pack-rat when it comes to clearance items but i usually get around to using the item at a later date or making it part of a last minute gift.  keep your eyes open for those red tags and you may find a bargain that has many uses.

Linen napkin