| Edwardian Ball Coming Up!! |
[07 Jan 2010|08:29pm] |
It's true!
The Edwardian Ball is soon upon us!
( Cut for larger flyer )
For more information on the events of the whole ball, you can view the official site page here and (hopefully!) are convinced enough to purchase several tickets from here!
Do let us know if you have any questions! We're quite excited to be headlining the Friday Night events!
We feature full music samples on our website here so you at least know partially of what you're getting yourselves into.
Caio!
~VO
(x-posted to bayareamusic)
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| She Lost Her Name But Found A New One |
[07 Jan 2010|07:31pm] |
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I don't know why anyone ever says California is good. It's a bunch of sunshine and roses with an enormously pricey expiration date.
When I look at Texas, even pricey big cities like Houston/Austin/Dallas, I realise now more than ever that my birthmother SCREWED me, in SO many ways.
I still would very much like to hit her. By hit, I of course mean BLUDGEON.
Really? Who bothers to go through nine months of bullshit only to doom their child? Texans, apparently.
I also found out that they didn't divorce until 1988, my birthparents.
So much for what my adoptive mother told me about my being given up because the relationship was rocky.
I can live without sunshine and roses. I think roses suck and much prefer lillies, anyway.
I am using my tax return to move. I don't make much now, but screw it, I am getting the hell out. Did you know that a luxury condo in Astoria, with two bedrooms, is around $700 a month? I know this. I've looked into it deeply. That is what I want.
I am also fond of the whole no-sales-tax existence, as well as the "OR folks make .40 more than CA folks" mentality. I make more here, true, but I could move there and still be fine because 1) it is not psychotically expensive and 2) even if I got a SHIT job, I would be more ok THERE with a shit job than HERE.
I'm just waiting for my documents to come in. I know I am late in life for it, but I am going to school.
Had my parents ever mentioned that starving students got free money from the government, I would have tried a little harder.
Had my parents ever mentioned that children of injured vets could go to school free and clear, I might have cared.
As it stands, I am a California zero.
5000
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Word to the nerd.
2010: Live WellProvidence AS220 WoWPS Qualifier |
[07 Jan 2010|10:13pm] |
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Joined Alex Charalambides on his trek to Providence for their WoW slot slam. It's the coolest competition I've seen in a long time. Three competitors! Megan Thoma, Morgan French, and Corrina Bain! Wicked!
My kind of poetry slam. The crux. Or as Bain used earlier, "Croosh" = abbreviation for crucial. LOVE it.
I don't care who wins. Providence will be well represented.
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| JOURNAL POST CHALLENGE [1/365] |
[07 Jan 2010|04:40pm] |
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I generally write when I want to. I have never "believed" in writer's block. I feel I must really live life fully to have anything to write about.
Here's a list that clarifies my heart, mind and soul:
PRIORITIES (ties are listed with the same number)
1. the education of my life and the actual living of and through it
1. love (getting and giving of)
3. humor (getting and giving of)
3. socializing (family/friends; communicating everything through the obstacles of distance, difference and distraction)
3. creativity/writing (all forms of art; screenplays, crafts, short stories, design, essays, journal entries)
6. poetry (writing and performing of)
7. food and entertainment
8. snacks
9. politics
10. everything else except violence, apathy and indifference (no room for them on my list or in my life)
My on-line social networking began in 2001 with Friendster, then I added LiveJournal to the mix in 2003. Then there was the Myspace era (c. 2003 to 2007?) which quickly replaced Friendster, but was resoundingly trumped by Facebook. The one constant I've had is my LiveJournal. I enjoy going through and seeing what I've done in the last 7 years. I almost despise the recent automated Twitter re-posts of last year.
The ONLY reason I've remained "loyal" to LJ is the sheer numbers of awesome people acquainted with my account. The amount of people who readily read and comment on my real posts is so beneficial. LiveJournal is a good conduit toward developing and making good on the above list of priorities – or at least as good as I am honest in my posts.
I feel I have not been very honest with my journal lately. I've let it sit on the back burner for the last couple of years. No more Twitter re-posts from now on.
I am challenging myself to post every day.
MY 365 POST RULES
1. must post every day
2. must be more than 160 characters
3. must respond to comments that require a response
In this, I think I will read more about what my friends are doing. One negative aspect to having "too many" friends on FB or MS is the fact that you cannot truly catch up and keep in touch with everyone on an actual personal basis. It's too easy to "like" a status update. It's like only nodding at a friend in a café when you both know you should be having a conversation.
There is so much love in my heart for so many people. Even strangers it seems. I want to get it out there. I want to put it on the table and let everyone see it and have it if they deserve it. I see in myself that I am able to communicate these feelings well to people when I am on stage and when I am writing from my very being. I think this post alone is a good example of that.
So this is just a start.
–––––––––
Word to the nerd.
2010: Live well.
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| Mi2N Opens 2010 With Revamped Music Newswire Website |
[07 Jan 2010|11:12am] |
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Website: http://www.mi2n.com/
Music Industry News Network (Mi2N), the largest online music industry newswire, opened the new decade with a new site design delivering more news, easier navigation and new categories. Launched in 1998, Mi2N is the most comprehensive online music industry newswire, having kept professionals worldwide informed on the latest developments shaping nearly every facet of the industry.
Music Genre-Based Categories
Global Reach
More RSS Feeds
Full-Service PR
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[01 Jan 2010|09:41am] |
It's the New Year and this will be the year I will make life interesting. I will also need to make money because an interesting life don't come cheap. Gotta make a lot of cake.
So I was on this mountain a couple of weeks ago. And on this mountain I met a man who is trying to save the world - like literally. Left a great job to do something that will make a difference and clean up the environment and all that jazz. Before that, he use to work for CNN going on secret missions behind enemy lines and so forth. Anyways, this one time he got caught behind said enemy lines and and spent two weeks living off frogs and puddles and I don't know if any of you ever tried doing that, but it's not so much fun, especially when the border is five miles away through minefields. At CNN, they give you a grenade and teach you how to commit suicide should you ever be in danger of being caught since being tortured is something one should try to avoid at any cost. You pull the pin and hold the grenade to your throat and grab the back of your belt with the other and concentrate on the hand grabbing your belt as the natural reaction is to get that grenade as far from your throat as possible. As he was doing that, a breeze of mountain air blew on his face and he thought to himself, "I don't want to die. I'm not a bad guy. Sure, I maybe lied to a few times, but other than that, I'm a pretty nice guy." So he he pointed to a barrier-like form in the land and brought that arm back as his other arm launched the grenade away. He meditated for a few minutes then got up and proceeded to run through the minefield in a zigzag pattern. Keep in mind that these are the kind of mines that shoot up and cut you in half, so step on one and you get very dead. But he ran through it and survived. After months of therapy, he came away with it with this single thought, "Once you have reached your limits, you will discover that you are capable of ten times what you thought you could do."
So no more stressing about making rent or funding projects or even about maintaining a healthy level of cardioascular fitness. That's some easy shit compared to being stuck between eating frogs until capture and subsequent torture, a grenade to the throat, or five miles of land mines.
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[29 Dec 2009|10:33am] |
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For Christmas I got a sewing machine. Finally. I haven't made a single stitch yet, still struggling with the upper & lower thread... but, I'm getting there with a little help from this site & this book.
My Goal is to sew a dress that I'm willing to wear out, by the end of 2010. My New Years Resolution (plus: taking more photos. And post them).
First and way too early step is heading to Berlin tomorrow, buying fabric and buttons. Ach, the excitment.
What are yr new years resolutions? If yr willing to tell.
Anyway, i hope you guys have a bombastic new years eve, fireworks and shit!
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| Best of 2009: The Pictures |
[28 Dec 2009|06:27pm] |
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...and just like that, another year is drawing to a close. Whatever may have been lacking in terms of happiness and want for this year did not get in the way of my far and away favorite hobby - getting away from things and accidentally taking some decent pictures in the process.
I say, and will always say "accidentally" because I happen to be in the acquaintance of people who take pictures for actual money, and because of that I don't think I can hold a candle to them. On top of that I use a point-and-shoot and I don't even know what an F-Stop is.
In any event, this year came and went with 665 new pictures being added to the gallery, spread out across 19 different sets. That continues the upward trend in number of pictures (2008: 591, 2007: 491, 2006: 390, 2005: 150) - which impresses me since job and school make for less time than ever.
If you have a moment, please vote for your favorite pictures of the year. It's not really for anything other than my curiosity and appreciation that somebody's looking after all. Thank you to the friends who continue their well wishes and encouragement that I'm better at this than I'll admit, and here's to another year full of escapes, and photographic documentation of those escapes.
Poll #1504513 Picture of the Year: 2009 Edition
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9 What are your favorite pictures from 2009?
Thanks again for voting! :)
Wayback Machine!
2008's poll: http://aerojad.livejournal.com/815129.html
2007's poll: http://aerojad.livejournal.com/737597.html
2006's poll: http://aerojad.livejournal.com/668169.html
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| Bittersweet Christmas |
[26 Dec 2009|02:43pm] |
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What a sad and joyous x-mas we hve had in the last few days.
The weekend before, we have our annual x-mas gift exchange party at my grandparents house in washington. That was a wonderful night of games, family, food, and laughing babies.
Then on x-mas eve, a man came to our door with papers to inform us that we are to be foreclosed and must be out of our home by april. At least now we know how long we have. At least we have a bit of time to figure out where we will be going to live. Honestly, I feel for the guy who had to deliver the bad news. He had a large enough stack of papers in his hand, he looked like he had to evict half the neighborhood that day. ( Which isnt far off the mark ) He of all people had a terrible day ahead of him.
X-mas morning was beautiful. When I opened the shades to look outside, everything was completely covered with white frost. The view was breathtaking. We had a white x-mas without the snow!
Yuna, (9months old now,) wasted no time opening her stocking from santa. Once we showed her how to open the presents for her, she did very well at that too. She was so sxcited about the new toys, she couldn't decide what to play with first. It was soo cute and funny to watch her go from toy to toy to toy.
That evening we went to my husbands parents house. That didn't go so well. His dad refused to hold his own temper when I asked him to stop delibrately yelling and scareing my baby. I was even polite about it. He then yelled at me that it was his house and he could do what he wanted. That he wasnt yelling at me, I should mind my own business. Since my daughters welfare is my business I had plenty to say to that. Luckily, My husband stepped in before it could get too ugly. He simply said thats it, we are leaving. So we packed up evrything we had brought and left. His Dad glareing at me the whole time.
All in all, our first x-mas with Yuna has been a mixed bag, but I want to look at it as having been a joyous day. I want to remember Yuna's excitement in opening her first presents.
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