I haven't been on here in a while, but I got "nudged" by someone so I thought, "meh, what the heck".

I do not have much to say; must return to job searching & such.

Happy Birthday to all Leo's out there.

from Haiti from 1995, on facebook-- I remembered that was 1 of the things livejournal was always stingy about, posting pix.

Ok I thought someone had taken over this account-- like they did my yahoo mail acct.-- but it turned out to just be LJ being slow.

bitches!

i've given up on everything else.

I haven't been able to write about her yet-- too many deaths, computer malfunctions, general chaos and malaise-- but I did want to alert anyone who knew her, (or if you are interested anyway), that a short film she starred in, on ShowTime, is re-airing July 23, 2009 at 4:35 a.m. It's called "Dysmorphia," a type of body-image disorder that causes excessive, obsessive exercise. Ironically-- or, perhaps, sadly, not so-- she plays an anorexic who works out at the same gym as the main character.

http://dysmorphia-movie.blogspot.com/

Follows is an overly long photo essay of my experience, peppered with the occaisional commentary.

1st pic I took: La Familia Divina Shrine, daytime



2nd" the "Do Lab", where there was lots of different performance art throughout the evening, and water floors and misters during the day:




Here it is later @ nite; with the artists 'the Lucent Dossier Experience':




And the REALLY COOL moone-trapeeze chick whose name I don't know!:




The "Sphae", which looked to me like a giant cotton bloom, at day & then night (it rotated colours but the purple was my fave!):







I think this was called the "Flakwall", but can't quite find it on the map. It was made of recycled/ non-potable water tubes, and provided a modicum of shade--at day, and then night:







Now: the best part of the day (except for Chemical Bros, but I was too busy dancing and could not get any pix at that point), 'Amanda Fucking Palmer'!, for her "Who Killed Amanda Palmer?" new cd release (In case you don't know, that's a reference to Twin Peaks, btw):

1st, how it looked when she entered stage, from my far place in the back:




She did an AWESOME show, including "Coin Operated Boy", and some tune that was banned from the U.K. because it discussed abortion; then, she did the coolest thing, crowd surfed towards the back, right where we were! Yay! So I got a couple up close shots...




Then she did a version of 'Creep' which had us all singing and ecstatic:




That's the 2nd time I've seen here there, but the 1st was with the full Dresden Dolls entourage.

Oh yeah, this was amusing... several golf carts were decorated in various themese, this was Amy Winehouses; there's a sex doll in her image and the licsence plate says "GOTO R3HAB":




This was called the "Bamboo Starscraper", and was quite impressive @ night, felt like the Disneyland magic castle-- 2 views, from afar and from underneath:






Finally, the "Serpent Mother", at night:




Other interesting anecdotes could follow (including, how I got home!)but this is most likely too long already so I'll let you be!

We were originially planning to go Saturday, for the Chemical Bros; however, I noticed there aren't really many other bands I like that day.

Oddly enough, my MOM is going Friday, for Paul McCartney, of course! I told her to avoid the most of the day and just go at night since he will be the headliner and last. But Crystal Method is also that day,... and Sunday looks like some good options, too.

Anyone going? What days? Need places to stay, etc? Email me.

Here's what's been happening, in visual form:

St. Louis Park, on a beautiful spring day. The ducks were very tame and didn't mind me approaching them @ all.















Rocket & Garfield, cave cats and siblings.


Pix from the Venice cafe, one of the coolest bars I've seen, great decor.








Set up of the cave party site, from before it started last night. (There will be more but I forogt my camera. And a quite a story to go with it!)

If I hadany $ I would donate...

March 23, 2009

It began at 5:48 Eastern time this morning.

The sealers stormed into the once-peaceful seal nursery with their hakapiks raised. Within a matter of seconds, defenseless baby seals were clubbed and their blood spilled onto the ice. This year the Canadian government will allow commercial sealers to slaughter 280,000 seals for their fur.

Please, make a donation now of whatever you can afford to help end the cruel seal hunt once and for all.

Because of the previous support of hundreds of thousands of compassionate people like you, there is a ray of hope amidst the horror.

The European Union will consider banning its trade in seal products in a few weeks. But the fishing industry and the Canadian government are lobbying furiously to fight the ban. Just last week, Russia announced it would halt the killing of baby seals. It's clear the world community is condemning such killing -- increasingly Canada stands alone in defending the slaughter.

That's why it's crucial that we're here now, so we can broadcast the truth to the countries in the European Union and ask them to help us bring these atrocities to an end. Please help sustain our work on the ice -- together we'll raise our voices over the din of those who profit from the slaughter.

Thank you for standing with us -- having so many of you behind us at home makes all the difference.

I look forward to the day when seals will be safe from the hunt.


Sincerely,

Rebecca Aldworth
Director of Canadian Wildlife Issues
The Humane Society of the United States

No-- I'm not complaining about the bailout and the bonuses, as bogus as all that is and as much as I hate them all for it. But, in the midst of all that drama, I received an invitation to be insured by them, for the 1st time ever. The restrictions on what exactly can and can not be insured crack me the hell up-- basically, nothing is actually insured! It's so ridiculous, I almost wonder if it is a joke. Check out the "exceptions" on what they will cover:

1. suicide, including accidental-- also including autoerotic asphixiation! (yes, they HAD to detail that 1 I guess!)
2. sickness, disease, mental disability or bodily infirmity (what?)
3. the injury occurs while the person is in the midst of commiting a felony (!)
4. infections of almost any type except like two (botulism, etc.) again, WHAT???
5. declared or undeclared war
6. anything resulting from an athletic team or event
7. full time duty in the armed forces
8. travel or flight, if the person is learing, or has any ownership of the plane, etc.
9. & 10 the injured person is under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs
11. injury resluting from surgeries or medical treatments
12. stroke, heart attack, coronary thrombosis, aneurysm (!) ( REALLY???)
13. anything which anyone else might cover-- like worker's comp.
14. the injured person was engaged in any sort of race in a vehicle, and
15. anything that happens outside rhe U.S. or Canada.

So, I was thinking of writing them a letter back, something like this:

Dear AIG:

I am a professional race car driver with NASCAR. I live dangerously and I have sometimes suicidal thoughts, because of a previously botched surgery in which the doctor left a sponge inside me and caused me partial impotence. My doctor has prescribed me anti-depressants, but I ran out that day and was borrowing someone else's perscription. I was driving too fast during an important race and decided that whacking off while holding my breath might calm me down, since I have a pre-existing heart condition, and recently sustained a cut from a small piece of metal while working on my car which is slightly infected. Just then, war broke out suddenly, and since I also serve in the National Reserves, I performed my duty and chased the enemy across the border into Mexico, but unfortunately I was driving over the speed limit and police followed me, not realizing I was in fact a national hero, and because of a warrant for old speeding tickets I had not paid and a previous DUI arrest. I crashed, miraculously, at a nearby airport, but, since I have done this sort of thing before (I am taking piloting lessons) I jumped and ran to the nearest small bird I could find and acsended, meanwhile evading both American and Mexican police- who were too busy fighting drug cartels anyway to really care too much about my predicament. I took a swig of whiskey that someone had conveniently left in the cockpit for the pain from the accident, waited for it to fade and then everything went blank... I suffered a simultaneous heart attack, stroke, and anueryism, which I later learned had occured because of a deep vein thrombosis I was unaware of-- a condition resulting from long period of sitting, as I am required to do because of my job, and so I am unsure as to whether or not my Worker's Compensation will cover it.

So, my question is, am I entitled to any benefits from this accident? Perhaps your CEO's can answer this more accurately.

Sincerely-

Screw U. Verymuch