Britney Spears is a no talent ass-clown. Not only is she joining the reality TV craze/phase/does anybody care anymore? But she lip-synched the entire show to people who paid quite a pretty penny to see her live (£30 how ever much that is in U.S. Dollars, but I am assuming quite a price for seeing a no talent ass-clown miming her whole show, as if it wasn’t shitty enough to begin with. I don’t really watch television much anymore because it pisses me off to no end. People who have no right or need to be famous are now the biggest names in the “biz”. On the Saturdays that I work at the library I look over People Magazine just as time filler and 99% of the time I have no idea who the people in the magazine are. There have been several occasions that the people on the cover of the magazine have been total strangers to me. Apparently if you are genuinely talented no one wants anything to do with you, but if you are an obnoxious no talent ass-clown, then you will be famous and get large sums of money and all the hot chicks you can fit into a dating show like ElimaDate, or the Bachelor, or the Fifth Wheel or some other asinine show that the 20th Century Fox Corporation is soiling our minds with. And everyone is yelling about gay marriage soiling what the institute of marriage is supposed to be. Have you turned on the television lately? Damn fundamentalists. The word for the day is no talent ass-clown. Try using it in a sentence today, hilarity will ensue.
On to more talented and better things, as I mentioned in my previous post, before I went on a rant, which I tend to do, a lot, Joel had a performance at the Biloxi Grand this past Friday and it was excellent for the most part. I could have done without the dancers, and the little kid, but other than that it was great. It was a fundraiser for KNS, a local theater company that does great things. Hopefully Joel will post the songs when he receives a copy of the show. It was well done. (Applause) David, Joel, Stacy, Karen, and Jacqueline did excellent jobs. Jacqueline and Joel pair up quite nicely if I do say so myself. She is very talented.
I am currently taking an American Women Writers class and we recently read The Awakening by Kate Chopin (pronounced Cho-pan like the composer) and everyone in the class was appalled at my not liking the book. I am a “modern woman” according to a psychology student in the class. The book basically is about a woman who has a sexual awakening, but can’t do anything about it because her husband is an ass and she is a southern lady at the turn of the century and women then can’t do anything about their situations. I say bullshit. You don’t like it, get the hell out. Weak characters like that make me angry and frustrated and I don’t care about the circumstances of the time, that doesn’t stop you from having a mind of your own and breaking free of that cycle. I have been like that for as long as I can remember. I come across as bitter, perhaps, or intimidating, and I guess I could be to an extent, but I don’t mean to be. I don’t consider myself a feminist. I don’t really put gender stereotypes on people. People are people and yes their gender has a lot to do with how they behave, but at the same time people can get characteristics of both sexes, and I think that’s what I have. Outward appearances I am an innocent girl, even placid perhaps, but inwardly I am strong and independent and if I don’t like a situation I will change it, quit it, or be damned. Unfortunately I have the hard headedness to think that everyone else is like that, too.
Joel had a show this past weekend; his first show with me there as his wife. Oh the questions of whether I was a singer as well because he has such a beautiful voice and surely I would sing, too. Oh, does he serenade you at night?
No.
Just in case anyone else is wondering:
Married life is wonderful.
No, I do not singe, act, dance, etc. I am a writer, thank you very much,
No I am not used to being Mrs. Herr yet, but I will get used to it eventually,
We are not planning on having any children anytime soon,
Yes, we will let you know as soon as we start giving it some serious thought,
I still go to school at the University Of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, I will be graduating next May, Joel has a wonderful job and loves it,
Did I mention we aren’t having kids anytime soon?
And that married life is wonderful? Well, we aren’t and it is.
Not that I don’t appreciate the concern and congratulations and everything that everyone has done for us, and I don’t mean to be bitter on screen, but damn I didn’t realize that when you get married people ask you the same stupid questions over and over again. Sheesh.
Okay, rant and venting over. Thank you for your support.
I am having a conflict of interest. I am currently an English major. I have just two more semesters to go (I really should be working on my masters by now, but hey, I took my time and moved around and made a few mistakes so I am still an undergrad at the age of 23, don't judge me, I do enough of that myself) and I really don't want to be a waitress with a degree, which is pretty much all a bachelor's degree in English can get you, that and a lot of questions of "Are you going to teach?" No.
So I sort of fell into the library profession. Still public service, without the mess of food, with the same customers, but now they are renting videos (for free) and asking asinine questions about tax forms and computers and “Do you have books here?" but we call them "patrons". I like it okay. Stress level is on the low side. There are the cool patrons and kids that come in and tell you crazy stories or do crazy things. It is amusing. I just don't know if I want to do that 40 hours a week. 20 hours are plenty right now. With my graduation slowly, but surely, getting closer, I decide to look around at leisure at graduate programs that are somewhat close to home, but not at the current institution of higher learning I am attending. A program for creative writing has come to my attention and I have once again considered it. I considered it a while back, but then changed my mind for some reason or another and now it is back nagging at me. My only problem is confidence. I don't think I have the confidence or the skill to even get into a program like that. I know it never hurts to try, but those programs only take the best due to the want of keeping the teacher/student ratio at equilibrium and I am not sure I can live up to those expectations. I would like to try though. I know, I know. There is no try, only do or do not. I hear Yoda and my father telling me this and I can’t deny either my father or Yoda, no matter how much George Lucas sucks.
Perhaps I will do. I will work my ass off this summer reading and writing and exercising my brain and see how it shapes up. If by the beginning of fall I am still discouraged then a shushing librarian I will be, but if I have a little more confidence in myself and have proved to myself that I can do it, then I shall be filling out applications for creative writing school. Yes, I think that sounds quite nice. Sounds like a good plan.
If George Lucas taught us how to count: 4,5,6,1,2,3...
I have come across a couple of cool things. I have been listening to PRM for the last couple of days (radio sucks, television sucks, thank the japanese for video games and publishing companies for books) and I heard about this project to archive the internet. It is archive.org and it has a plethra of any information you would ever want to know. You can download books to read, movies and news clips, music, open source stuff, and the list goes on. it is free information as well. I think it is a cool idea to do, no matter how incredible the job may be. It is worth checking out. It will most definitely kill time.
In the odd news department there was a white zebra born in Kenya. Who knows what that means to some African tribe somewhere. Reminds me of the white buffalo legend from Native American lore.
These people will clone your beloved cat for only $50,000. Like I would want another Willy. Have you seen him? He is a big cat.
It has been two years since X-Files went off the air. That show was my life for the longest time. It had everything I was ever interested in and things that I didn't know I was interested in. I have some news about it, though. There is a new game out called The X-Files: Resist or Serve. I have yet to play it, but it is on our list from Gamefly. (plug: Gamefly is awesome) There is also news of a movie coming out, possibly this year, but talk has died down. There are a couple of Chris Carter and David Duchovny (the ass that he is) interviews and both say that the movie is a go. I bet so, considering everyone from that show fell off the face of the earth after it was over. But no news of when it is going to come out, what the title is, who is in it...so far all i know is that David will be Mulder, Gillian will be Scully, there is the posibility of an A-list star to be in it, and Chris Carter will write it.
I am excited. I will keep an eye on it most definitely. Yay.
Random dreams from the past two nights:
My ear was stone because of Medusa's whispers. I was held captive with another woman. I felt sorry for the man, wanted to be his friend, but at the same time I was terrified and had the urge to escape. I wasn't bound, so why didn't I run? May be the other woman, the other side of me, was content to stay. He got rid of everything that smelled like me in a tearful rage.
I have had the strangest dreams lately. I don't know if it is what I am eating before going to bed or what. The dreams have been more vivid as well. Not only can i see what is going on, I can hear, smell, feel, and taste it as well. Makes for interesting perspectives when I wake up and I am suddenly back in my bed, my husband by my side.
I was informed by my sister-in-law that Spring is not her favorite season by any means. She said this while sniffling and coughing and tilting her head at all angles trying to get her nose un-stuffed. Pollen, mosquitoes, gnats...I am inclined to agree with her as I sneeze and wheeze and try to see through my blurred vision. It makes one quite miserable.
I gave her John Cleese's How to Irritate People. She is a budding Monty Python fan. I must expose her to as much of it as I can, which isn't too much for the time being since she is 13 and is probably better off waiting to see most of their skits and movies. She will appreciate them more and actually get the majority of the jokes when she is older, perhaps in 2-3 years her first foray into the movies will come. But I have educated her well thus far with Parrot Sketch Not Included, And Now For Something Completely Different and How to Irritate People. Her induction to Python fandom was, of course, Holy Grail through her best friend's father. Meaning of Life will have to wait, I am not too sure about Life of Brian, I haven't watched it in quite some time, but i am sure that will have to wait as well, for the full appreciation of the movie. I enjoy them more now than I did when i first watched them when i was a couple years older than she. I watch them now and have that "Ohhhhh. That's what that means" feeling. I was a sheltered child until the age of 16. With a great car comes great responsibiltiy, or something like that.