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| Thursday, October 19th, 2006 | | 12:00 pm |
sting is not an idiot
from CNN.com BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- British rock star Sting said contemporary rock music is so stagnant that he prefers to sing 16th-century English ballads. The former teacher who shot to fame as lead singer, bassist and composer in the 1970s and '80s for The Police told German newspaper Die Zeit that he prefers singing songs of Elizabethan lutenist and composer John Dowland to the rock music of today. "Rock music has come to a standstill, it's not going forward anymore, it only bores me," Die Zeit quoted Sting as saying. ************************ apparently the stingmeister's new album is of 16th century music. which probably isn't all bad. except that I am really f*cking tired of hearing his voice. It's like billy joel. i am over it. it is mind numbing, emblematic of those soccer mommy stations that have come to populate the clear channel-osphere. which leads me to the letter below, which I have sent to aforementioned evil empire: I am writing you to express my complete shock and disgust at the format changes that have taken place at your radio stations here in Raleigh, NC recently. I was a huge fan of 100.7 The River, WRVA, when it debuted about a year ago. It was an innovative "Jack" format station that kept me interested with its broad spectrum of programing including Big Head Todd (who I never liked until hearing them here), The Beatles, Depeche Mode, the Cure, and random 80s new wave bands I hadn't thought of in years. It wasn't lame oldies or that adult easy listening crap, but something I could listen to for more than one commercial break. Now it is a rather bland classic rock station, and we have a couple of those already. While I liked the classic rock on WRDU and understood the station had a history here, it had some really misogynistic DJs. Now your company has changed it to a country format called The Rooster, whose name I can only think of as continuing that boys' club reputation it had before. Not to mention we already have a virtually identical station on the dial. The music choice in this market is extremely limited due to your changes. I urge your company to reconsider and bring back something for hip, intelligent 21-45 year olds who don't want to drown in either Led Zepellin or mind-numbingly inoffensive soccer mom music. For now, I have changed my radio settings to the college rock station & NPR. ******************** that NPR threat won't last long though. Where do they engineer robots to sound like dead human DJs that work on that station?!?! Current Mood: lavender | | Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 | | 10:02 am |
a short flick....
http://popsugar.com/48830from the Dove soap people (whose products I really don't like for some reason - smell, absorbtion, whathaveu). quite "informative". return to your own insecurities now. | | Friday, October 13th, 2006 | | 1:22 pm |
irritability
grrr. just total lethargy. alllllllllllweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek. headachy - icky, blah. too much effort to type....ack. vacation was ok, not great, not bad, stressful and large and small ways. one thing learned. now is not the time to buy east coast beachfront property, as the east coast is disappearing muy rapido. at least the kittens were proud to have me back. I was worried that I might get some attitude, or rather, cattitude from squeaker, but all seems to be ok. slumping back to lethargy, love ~ Moi | | Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 | | 11:43 am |
yuh damn right...
"I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the U.S.,' he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team," Hillary Clinton charged. Current Mood: itchy | | 11:42 am |
The Killers
Does anyone get the premise of their "when You Were Young" video? She meets the guy, he cheats on her and.....at the end of the video in the bar, is it her again or a new girl? and what's with the hussy in the bkground? is she the same chick who was in bed the the bad guy? and why are the killers in the video named Pedro's Teeth (in Spanish, on the drum kit)? I guess I will not be naming my imaginary band after that one, like the Killers did with new order. bummer. would have been a great legacy. did i even mention the so called meaning of the song? and what's with that devil's water part and dipping your feet? i love their guitar sound, could be the next The Edge. too many "The"s alas. | | 10:04 am |
oy freakin' vey...
I knew hollywood was a freakin' whorehouse but this is desperate. and creepy. for those with a charming sense of naivete, www.urbandictionary.com can help you with the "graphic details". I read part of the "q" section and am learning lots if new scrabble words that begin with "q" but don't need a "u" after it. anyways, on with the show........ from ny daily news: Porn star's name may ring a 'Bell' Sex education Dustin (Screech) Diamond will be appearing in a way many of his fans hoped never ever to see him. He may have played nerdy eighth-grader Samuel (Screech) Powers in the sitcom "Saved by the Bell." But former TV geek Dustin Diamond can now take his place with Colin Farrell, Tommy Lee and Kid Rock as the star of his very own sex tape. Everyone who remembers Diamond as a lovable putz is in for a shock once they see a 40-minute video in which he engages in a kinky three-way with two women, sources tell us. We can't get too graphic here, but word is that the action includes some bodily functions and an act known as a "Dirty Sanchez." Phoenix-based agent David Hans Schmidt, who has brokered some of Hollywood's biggest celebrity-skin deals, confirms that he's acquired the rights to a tape featuring Diamond. "Just when you think you have seen everything in this business," he tells us, "mankind has raised the bar another notch. Or lowered it." Schmidt is in L.A., shopping the tape to Hustler's Larry Flynt, Vivid's Steven Hirsch and other major distributors of adult video. Now age 29, the 6-foot Diamond is much brawnier than you may remember him. He's a black belt in karate, and, four years ago, he defeated Ron Palillo (Horshack on "Welcome Back, Kotter") on Fox's "Celebrity Boxing 2." Diamond's manager, Roger Paul, said his client has become a successful standup comic and will appear on the ABC sitcom "The Knights of Prosperity." "I haven't seen the tape," Paul told us. "I've heard rumors. Dustin has been trying to escape the Screech typecast. So this may help me get more bookings." In 1996, former "Saved by the Bell" sweetheart Elizabeth Berkley bared all in the Paul Verhoeven-Joe Eszterhas trashterpiece, "Show Girls." The sex vid's working title is "Saved by the Smell." Ewwwww. Current Mood: cola-esque | | Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 | | 11:07 am |
the itis....vacation-itis
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I NEED TO GO ON VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FRIDAY IS TOO FAR AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!! needless to say, it is never a god idea to leave me alone in the office for a week. it's only tuesday and i'm a bit squirmy. took a nap under my desk for an hour.have caught up on all my gossip pages, page six, ny daily news, jeanette walls, perez hilton, salon, etc - and have downloaded my air america rachel maddow installment. could do some work i reckon. maybe i'll fantasize about lunch. mmmmmmm. | | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 | | 11:47 am |
| | Monday, September 11th, 2006 | | 9:54 am |
it may not be the popular view...
But i think Steve Irwin got what was coming to him. Sure, he may have been a great conservationist, but what image of him do you remember? Wrestling crocadiles? Feeding one while holding his baby? PETA seems to agree.... Current Mood: 9/11-ish | | Friday, September 8th, 2006 | | 11:14 am |
journaling
I get these ideas for all this stuff I want to put in here always at the most inconvienent times. Not to mention that work sometimes intrudes. For now, It is a peaceful friday in cackalacky, boss out of the office on work. A paycheck waiting for deposit. and drag bingo tomorrow. yes, a work related endeavor, we sponsor Drag bingo in Durham... www.dragbingo.com I think... the theme this time is TV Land. So DQs will dress up as....carol Brady & Elvira? I dunno. All I know is I am charged with making 250-300 tootsie rolls lollipops with a cute biz card attached. queertastic! i am bringing Mark Anthony who just moved up from Vero to start his illustrious hairdressing career. and my boss & his wife are bringing some friends, plus Jared, our former staffer & his man are coming also. should be wild. i should bring a camera. on second thought, I should get some film. maybe i should get a battery for the camera too. grr. I think I have lost my sh*t, I have that damn Paris Hilton song in my head. I tell ya, the man is co-opting my brain & keeping me down! Viva La Revolucion~moi | | Tuesday, September 5th, 2006 | | 1:56 pm |
my so called life, with pharmaceuticals
hi all~ been away from the LJ for awhile. Was quite ill last week. sinusitis and an eye infection. because when i don't show up for work, i want 2 excuses, not just one. still taking these ginormous antibiotics, like the ones you got when you were 8, and yucky tasting too. mmm, mmm good. so me & the kitties had some quality time. and then there was tropical whatever Ernesto. mom freaked out, so I packed up the kittens and stayed with her. I wound up sharing her bed, big mistake. Shoulda stuck with the original plan of sleeping on the dog bed with the kittens. didn't sleep at all. grrrr. happy to go back home though. made some excellent manicotti with a sun dried tomato blush bechamel sauce last night and finished it up with the greatest sorbets ever invented, ciao bella's Blackberry with cabernet wine and raspberry. yippeee.... went to the home despot and got some sweet goods. a little wheelbarrowish contraption for the fall foliage raking. and some bamboo fencing to attached to the lovely chainlink fence of my previous owner's taste. also last week, i discovered I think I may have had a past life in Lerida, Spain. details to follow. spiffy, eh? | | 12:02 pm |
| | Thursday, August 10th, 2006 | | 10:30 am |
funny.....
I've been waiting for HIM to come out of the closet for years!!! Even back in the day, I thought he was way too cute to be str8. (heh heh) Lisa was always a big fan of his brother Jon. The youngest one - Joey?- the one on Broadway - also a little too cute in a young Leo DiCaprio way, could have been a friend of Dorothy (heh - old school). The Wahlbergs, a tad too Dorchester/Southie for my tastes. And then there was the ugly one. Kinda Bensonhursty. feh. anyways....from the NY Daily news.
Singer Jordan's cutting remarks
Former New Kids on the Block singer Jordan Knight sees an unexpected benefit in former 'N Sync member Lance Bass' decision to announce that he's gay — one that could help everybody out. "I think it's pretty cool," the 36-year-old Knight told Lowdown Tuesday after singing some 1980s hits at the Cutting Room, complete with NKOTB's patented choreography. "I'm looking forward to a boy band that comes out, and right off the box they say one of them is gay. I think that would be the best thing. They'll get all the girls and all the gay guys, know what I mean? It'll be perfect!" Knight, promoting his upcoming solo CD, "Love Songs," was joined onstage by fellow '80s idol Deborah (used to be "Debbie") Gibson for the album's duet, "Say Goodbye." Current Mood: ok | | Monday, August 7th, 2006 | | 2:48 pm |
classy mtv generation
while Salon has a snarky letter about how much MTV at 25 sucks (well, duh!): http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/08/04/mtv_25/index.htmlthe LA Times has a surprisingly accurate summation of this "demographic" in its feature on the head of Girls Gone Wild (BTW - the rest of the article is f*cking scary....): http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/w est/la-tm-gonewild32aug06,0,2664370.stor y?coll=la-home-headlines " I follow Francis and his bodyguard through the crowd to find Kaitlyn Bultema. She's dancing on a podium and leaps off at the sight of Francis. She's wearing a skirt-and-shirt ensemble that exposes her stomach, most of her breasts and much of her bottom. I ask her why she wants to appear on "Girls Gone Wild" and she looks me in the eye and says, "I want everybody to see me because I'm hot." It's then that it hits me: This is so much bigger than Francis. In a culture where cheap and portable video technology lets everyone play at stardom, and where America's voyeuristic appetite for reality television seems insatiable, teenagers, like the ones in this club, see cameras as validation. "Most guys want to have sex with me and maybe I could meet one new guy, but if I get filmed everyone could see me," Bultema says. "If you do this, you might get noticed by somebody—to be an actress or a model." I ask her why she wants to get noticed. "You want people to say, 'Hey, I saw you.' Everybody wants to be famous in some way. Getting famous will get me anything I want. If I walk into somebody's house and said, 'Give me this,' I could have it." ...sorry baby girl, you ain't walking into my house with your pre-stripper cooties and taking my tv. I want my MTV. .....uh, MTV 2. eh....nevermind. And Mr. Francis should be neutered. | | Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 | | 2:14 pm |
i'm dealing with nutballs here
so this lady calls about drawing up a document for some property she owns in another state (I'll spare you the legal details). long story short, she faxes over some paperwork, I look at it and it would appear that she has 2 properties (timeshares - which they have on an alternate year basis - I never heard of this!). I ask her to clarify and she say "We're old people...." and we shouldn't have done this....yadda yadda. Hello?!? Do you or do you not have 2 properties - I'm not a mind reader here. And of course that might mean 2 documents - double the fee...would be nice to know. So she's going to get back to me...heh heh. time for another round of solitaire:) Current Mood: getting hungry | | 12:41 pm |
NYTimes prints the word....
Sh*t. For the first time. whoa. the seventh seal has opened. Thank you, open mouth food chewer, bad-mannered dickhead who runs this union, El Senyor Bush. How embarrasing is this? Old money, former president's son, grandson of a senator. Didn't these WASPy pricks take etiquette at Yale? Speaking of style, I highly recommend "ALT" the autobiography of Andre Leon Talley. It's more of a memoir about the 2 women who shaped his life and who had more in common than one would think: his grandma who raised him in Durham, NC and Vogue editor/style icon Diana Vreeland. -- Elle, I think you in particular would love this book. Very easy to read, I read it in a day and passed it on to Mom. I once saw ALT in NYC, walking down 56th. There's nothing quite like a 6'5'' black dude in a sweeping military style overcoat with gold braiding sweeping down the grimy streets of midtown. The man should have descended from a Russian imperial chariot. Current Mood: same | | 12:35 pm |
I heart Rachel Maddow
I don't listen to Air America as often as I used to - something about them going "premium" (f*in expensive) & the scheduling of Jerry Springer & Al Franken for hours on end (I like them both, just in smaller quantities). But the saving grace is being able to stream Rachel Maddow's morning show, held at some ungodly early time, at anytime throughout the day that the broadcast airs. You do have to wait a few hours, til 11am or so, for it to go online, but it is worth it. Between her and Greg Palast (book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy") and Jon Stewart, I have no use for mass media. http://www.airamerica.com/maddow/ www.gregpalast.com Current Mood: mildly twitchy | | Friday, July 14th, 2006 | | 1:22 pm |
karma is a b*tch
from the Miami Herald....looks like Repubs are not loyal friends, esp. for ones who have fixed elections for them. oops.
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U.S. SENATE RACEStory of 'Joe's dead intern' began Harris' slide, insiders sayWhen Katherine Harris attacked a TV pundit, insiders say the incident revealed the depth of problems with her campaign -- which was hit again by six staff departures.BY MARC CAPUTOmcaputo@herald.com
TALLAHASSEE - Katherine Harris' floundering U.S. Senate campaign lost its high-level staff again this week and is groping for a message -- which doesn't surprise Republican insiders who trace the seeds of her trouble to the story of ``Joe's dead intern.''
This wasn't any old Joe.
It was Joe Scarborough, host of the prime-time MSNBC show Scarborough Country and a former Pensacola Republican congressman who was courted last summer by national Republicans to run against Harris. But before he could announce he wouldn't, Harris called major donors and suggested Scarborough would have to answer questions about the strange death of a former staff member in 2001, according to two former high-level Harris staff members, a GOP donor and Scarborough.
''That was the first clue that something wasn't right with Katherine Harris,'' Scarborough told The Miami Herald in a recent interview, noting that a medical examiner found his staff member's death was natural and not the result of foul play.
Harris, through a spokeswoman, denied Scarborough's account, saying she ''would never insinuate publicly or privately'' that he did anything untoward.
But her former staff members say they expected her to deny the previously untold anecdote, which they say marked the beginning of the Harris campaign's tailspin. Since then, Harris has been dogged by her connections to an indicted defense contractor and by heavy staff turnover from last fall through Thursday, when five top aides announced their departure a day after her spokesman quit. Her campaign had issued a news release Wednesday suggesting only spokesman Chris Ingram was leaving.
SIMILAR COMPLAINTS
In explaining his decision to leave, campaign manager Glenn Hodas echoed predecessors Jamie Miller and Jim Dornan. Miller had said the campaign wasn't good for Harris' health. Dornan said Harris had been erratic, temperamental and sometimes unfair -- and tried to blame him for the ''Joe's dead intern'' story when a furious Scarborough called, demanding to know what happened.
''This [story] encapsulates everything wrong with her as a candidate,'' Dornan said. 'She reacted without thinking. She made stuff up. She called people she had no business calling. And when confronted with the insanity of her -- I use this term lightly -- `strategy,' she denied it and tried to blame someone else.''
Dornan left the campaign in November. Miller, Republican heavyweight Ed Rollins and media guru Adam Goodman departed in April with a few others.
The latest to leave Thursday with Hodas and Ingram: field director Pat Thomas, deputy field director John Byers, political director Brian Brooks and staff member Stephen Gately. Ingram said he needed to get back to his family and private business, and Hodas said he needed to go home to Illinois-based Hodas and Associates.
''I wish Katherine Harris the best,'' Hodas said, ``but it appears all the old patterns are repeating themselves: Tantrums. Minor things cause her to blow. She doesn't take advice. Micromanaging to the Nth degree. It's nothing new. But I didn't have the energy to move on with the campaign, considering everything.''
A big consideration: polls. Nearly all predict Harris will lose by 20 to 30 percentage points against the incumbent, Democrat Bill Nelson.
But Harris said Republican Party polls show she will win with 53 percent of the vote if Republicans turn out the way they did in 2004 for now-U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez.
''You hear all of this discussion in the media -- it's designed to discourage you. Don't let it,'' she told a crowd at a June campaign event in Orange Park. ``It's designed to drive our polls down. Don't pay attention.''
The White House, however, has. It wanted Harris off the ticket in 2004. Strategists feared she would excite a Democratic base still bitter over the 2000 elections when she, as Florida secretary of state, certified George W. Bush as the winner in the botched presidential election.
Harris staff members and supporters say they expected White House support this time around. When given the chance last month to endorse Harris, Republican campaign wizard Karl Rove wouldn't, according to a St. Petersburg Times report.
Gov. Jeb Bush has said that Harris ''can't win'' and ``the campaign can't be about her.''
But Bush's prediction might have been self-fulfilling. The governor tried to recruit Allan Bense, speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, to run against Harris in the spring as well as in 2005 -- thereby making it tough to raise the big sums needed from well-heeled Republican Party loyalists.
''It definitely hurt fundraising. It drove her crazy, but it didn't take long to get her there,'' said Rollins, Harris' former advisor and a top Reagan Republican strategist.
QUESTIONS SURFACED
Rollins said he finally resigned after Harris' ''story kept changing'' with regard to two high-price dinners she had with subsequently-convicted defense contractor Mitchell Wade, from whom she unwittingly accepted $32,000 in laundered campaign contributions. Rollins said Harris met Wade through convicted bribe-taking congressman Duke Cunningham. Harris has pledged to donate the $32,000 to charity.
As questions surfaced about Harris' connections to Wade, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, head of Republican senatorial campaigns, approached Scarborough to run because he was one of the few who could match Harris' star power and fundraising in a Republican primary.
Scarborough, Dornan and Rollins gave the same account: The TV personality called the political aides privately to say he wasn't running -- his son didn't want him to -- though he needed a few days to tell supporters personally of the decision before it was publicized.
Not fast enough for Harris, who called donors like Pensacola developer Collier Merrill. Merrill told The Miami Herald that Harris suggested Scarborough was going to have trouble when ''they start asking questions . . . about that dead girl,'' Fort Walton Beach staff member Lori Klausutis.
Dornan said he overheard Harris tell more than one donor: ``I don't know what he's thinking when he's got this whole issue of a dead intern on his hands.''
Klausutis, 28, was a Scarborough staff member who died July 20, 2001, when she hit her head after experiencing heart arrhythmia, according to a medical examiner's report, news reports and family members. Echoing the official findings, one family member told The Miami Herald there was no foul play.
But some observers sought to make Klausutis' death a political issue, comparing it to the Chandra Levy intern scandal tied to former California Democratic Rep. Gary Condit.
Scarborough said he was shocked Harris would cite ''a bunch of hateful left-wing websites'' and that she would repeat ``the slanderous attacks of the same people who attacked her for years.''
He said he thought of suing, but let it go after ''a few heated days,'' and reflected on what he told incumbent Sen. Nelson.
Nelson, a Democrat, drew Clinton-attacking Bill McCollum as an opponent amid the Monica Lewinsky fatigue of 2000, and now faces Harris.
''He's the luckiest man in Washington,'' Scarborough said.
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| | Thursday, July 6th, 2006 | | 10:47 am |
gay people are killing the earth....(satire)
from an email I received....alas, not my original idea. "I would propose that Gay Marriage would increase global warming. HOW you ask? Well, think of the rash of marriages - and then remember what happens to a majority of marriages - Divorce. Then, with a boom in divorce, comes a boom in legal work - i.e a virtual army of lawyers, in fact there would have to be an increase in the lawyer population. No No, I realize the lawyers would come from the population already there, but that is not what I am getting at. With more lawyers working, you have much more hot air and gas! Probably quite a bit of toxic gas. Think of the ozone layer if Gay Marriage/Gay Divorce becomes legal? Of course, I am all for gay people being allowed to suffer equally to their heterosexual counterparts." I would have said everytime a flaming queen opens his mouth to be the fashion police, hot air is trapped in our atmosphere:) Current Mood: same | | 10:44 am |
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