La vie en Short Stack

08 November 2009 @ 12:12 pm

Yeah you totally want more Halloween pictures.

Also some random halloween shots. I joined the off campus and commuter association to represent LGBTQA (i live on campus) and they had a halloween party. I didn't have a costume so my costume was "I am from space".
It worked. And they wrapped me in toilet paper.

Lightning bolt! I am treasurer of Gender Studies Club, Historian of Alpha Phi Omega and LGBTQA, and now I'm with these nutbars. Awesome, but exhausting. And people wonder why I'm skipping the country next fall for a few months.
( more spacey and fisnetty goodness. )

Tags: woot

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06 November 2009 @ 11:49 am

Halloween/ Birthday

All in all, a low-key but enjoyable season. Low-key not referring to the five (count 'em, five) friggin rocky shows I had this year. Dude. That's a lot of rocky. Mike and I went out to awesome Italian food and snuggled and watched muppets for our birthday. Honestly, I don't need to be psycho "MEMEMEMEMEME" on my birthday anymore. I got an Itunes giftcard. Will probably buy repo, mae, and shortbus (if shortbus is on iTunes).
I'm going to see Kate Bornstein right now because I am a geek for trans feminist performance artists.
Some rocky pictures, Including the one that confirms my suspicion that I was a drag queen in a past life:

Screaming. Friggin. Queen.
( Rocky, Rocky, rah rah rah... )

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03 November 2009 @ 02:46 pm

Watch in amazement...

As I turn the clock forward on Edward Cullen!

bahahhahaahahaha

Tags: hehehe twilight.

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03 November 2009 @ 02:07 am

Quick point:

Donatella Versace and Janice from the muppets were in fact separated at birth.

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02 November 2009 @ 03:59 pm

On feeling like a retroactive douche canoe

The West Chester Rocky Horror Show production encouraged us to do AP lines. I did. And now they keep mentioning how the Saturday night show got messed up by all the AP lines. I feel. Like such. A frickin'. Jackass. I know the show is different, but I have AP terets, I apologized to the actors, they said it was ok but I still feel shitty. I rarely get embarrassed, but when I do I feel like crawling into a hole. Also I was in full columbia garb since I had a show later anyway. I feel like such a tool "oh lalala look at me in my fancy costume stepping on your lines every five minutes". Sometimes I forget how culty and weird my obsession is.
I think I'm just moody as hell right now. This too shall pass.

Tags: blehrg

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29 October 2009 @ 04:43 pm

It's rocky horror season...

Tonight I have a show at Rutgers. at 9:15-9:30ish :-D.
Halloween I have a midnight show in South Hampton, PA.
I love Rocky. So much.
I realize I've become a twitter ho. I apologize, livejournal. Not like I'm breaking a long-standing commitment, I don't think I've done this for that long.
Trying to lose weight. I have shot a total of 3 shirt buttons across the room. Bigger boobs are always funny buuut...yeah. This needs to stop. Can't afford new clothes.
I'm playing magenta tonight! That's a first.
Randomly located a bunch of photographs from a performance art thing I was in a long ass time ago.

More thus: (Free trade parade) http://www.mistermetz.com/performances.htm. I'm the giant fluffy blonde wig. You can't really see my face ever.

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13 October 2009 @ 04:07 pm

extra long entry for extra long absence.

I've probably said this several times before but those "obey this simple rule to make you less fat durr" ads have a problem. The girl on the "fat" side is generally a lot more attractive. They also have several feminist issues that I am not going to address (CUT THE HEADS OFF AND DEHUMANIZE WOMEN'S BODIES WHY DON'T YOU STOMP STOMP STOMP) because it is too much like school work to do that.

For once I had a crisis about my life direction that ended up with me going "no wait, I am doing the right thing" instead of me going "OH SHIT EVERYTHING IS BAD LET ME DROP EVERYTHING AND JOIN THE CIRCUS". It's like the movie Chocolat; I have stopped feeling the wind change and have no need to drag along my daughter with her imaginary kangaroo. So yeah, I'm going to grad school for Gender Studies because studying this stuff is the most important thing I have ever done.
But not before I get an internship at code pink for the summer in DC and then study abroad in Florence. Because if the apocalypse happens in 2012 I want to be tired enough to sleep forever. It's not so much that I think it's going to happen that I just don't care. I've lived enough. Living more would be fun, but I've done plenty of absurd shit that's worth some notches on belts. My dad and I agree that the Mayans just ran out of space on whatever they were drawing the calendar on.

I've started reading recreationally again. I blame that one on tai chi-it's making me concentrate a lot more on me.

I have a little for alpha phi omega. We went to the same high school. I introduced her to thai food.
I have also recently spent some time talking to a girl who has no morals. Not like "oh, she has no morals because she is a bitch" no seriously this woman feels no remorse. She is very cheery and bubbly despite the fact that she killed a dude with a bat. She told me this in the same sentence that she told me she likes feeding ducks. Mental note-re-evaluate policy on being friends with everyone.

What I want for my birthday that I really shouldn't get because it's so exorbidently expensive and semi-useless: Black latex skirt with ruffles from babyloves latex (L), timeless trends black and white pinstriped cincher in a 28, Polymorphe latex riding blouse in black (XL), knee length Gangsta Pranksta dress from lip service (shut up, not all of their stuff is awful) in XL red with black pinstripe, a bicycle, finish off paying for my latex corset layaway, stockings, and more new rocks. And a Bicycle. Passional Brainwashed me to actually want things. It kind of sucks.

Carrie Fisher can write really well! As in Princess Leia Her books are fucking amazing! Read them!

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17 September 2009 @ 06:56 am

Tmi?

Yeah so this UTI can go fuck a goat. Seriously I am in so much goddamn pain right now I want to shoot something.
Despite my better judgment I am going to hobble to Enter the Haggis tonight. Hopefully the antibiotics will have kicked in by then, By the way, I handed my urine sample to the health center lady and she said "oh wow" in a Sarah Palin voice. Really? It's piss in a cup. Don't patronize me, lady. Because this is really getting old. Galaxy of pain. Really.
At least I have a legit discharge slip to get me outta classes. I need to go photocopy that sucker.
In other news, my apartment fucking rules and everyone on this list is invited to visit. We are installing a ball pit ala xkcd. In a sense, we are filling an inflatable pool with playpen balls.
In a few days I am hitting two years with mike. Still as infatuated as ever :-).
I miss him. My schedule is being such a raping my ability to enjoy life. While I'm having insane amounts of fun being a cuddle slut with cute girls, I really just want to see him. He's still the one I'm in love with.
I need to post more in here. I might use this as my tai chi assignment journal, pfft. My tai chi teacher is awesome and loopy as hell.
"You know, it's really good to just do something you normally think is impossible. Like last week I started brushing my teeth with my left hand! At first I got toothpaste in my eyes, but now I can do it! I can really do it!".
Go golden rams. Keep hiring maniacs and this maniac will keep showing up.

Tags: stupid peehole.

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07 August 2009 @ 10:54 pm

you are my destino..

Hell yeah finally found a clear copy of Destino online.
http://vodpod.com/watch/1750229-destino-on-vimeo
So pretty. Dali was one hell of a deranged genius.
Emphasis on deranged, with symbolic fish.
Starting to tweak slightly at the fact that after this month I may never live with my parents again. Awesome, but I sometimes wonder if I age myself too quickly. Still-feel like it's time I shuffled out of this place for good, as much as I love my parents.
I've been spending a lot of time hanging out with women who do not make me feel as though I need to pound a beer and blow something up after I talk to them. I don't feel like this all the time when hanging out with girlfriends; just sometimes when the experience gets really Jane Austen-he-said-she-said-I-bought-this-at-target-OMG in nature and I suddenly feel like an action, like screaming an obscenity or putting a spaghetti pot on my head and running into a wall, is necessary for me to re-obtain my equilibrium. People I have been hanging out recently do not inspire this feeling. This is kind of great! I need more of this in my life. It's good for my feminism.

Tags: destino

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01 August 2009 @ 01:57 pm

Gay stoned kayaking

Some quotes from my outing today:

Ron: So my mom is like "your husbands is only 7 years younger than me, do you know what that means?" and I'm like "Wow, mom! You're really young!"

Me: (at a duck) HEY! HEY BABY! GET IN MY KAYAK! JUST GOING FOR A RIDE, NO PROBLEM *slaps side of boat*.

Ron: Where is my husband-oh there he is! HEY FEEDBAG, OVER HERE!

Ron: I'm always thinking there's going to be a shark fin or something.
Me: No it's the charles. People pop out of the water and ask you for change.
Ron: Nothing worse than the zombie homeless.
Me: Nono, zombie bourgeois homeless "BUY MY SHARES!!" recession zombie homeless...

Ron: The gay clubs suck here because we're all married now and don't go out.

Me: *crashes into a wall* MY BAD! I'M K.U.I.!

Tags: gay, kayaking, stoned

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29 July 2009 @ 05:04 pm

On becoming me..

Today I presented a paper at Brandeis in front of faculty who have written volumes of books on gender studies. It went beautifully...and I have never been so sure that I've made the right decision of the path I want to go on in life. I will always be the maniac running around in latex and corsets getting into trouble and waking up across state lines, even if only in my heart and not in practice. But it's comforting to know that maybe, just maybe I can find solid ground in my future...

as a Phd. in gender studies, crusading for sexual freedom, educating/corrupting minds, writing volumes until my hands go paralytic and most importantly fighting so that I can continue to be that, and to be everything else that I am.
Whatever you want/ is my command
I'm into S&M/ I'm neither butch or femme
and you can ask my friends/ I'm into any man
But she wont hold me/ and she wont squeeze me
From what she told me/ she'll never please me
But she wont hold me/ and she wont squeeze me
From what she told me/ she'll only tease me
-Datarock

Tags: fuck yeah!, gender studies

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27 July 2009 @ 11:22 pm

In other news..

I am moving in with Mike in December. I am pretty much all over the man. I will learn how to support myself (somewhat) and DRIVE (i mean it this time, no more of this namby-pamby permit bull).
Also, here is a turtle fucking a shoe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z1MygrkDSI

Tags: shoe & turtle forever.

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23 July 2009 @ 11:56 pm

Beautiful disaster

So I've been putting off the New Orleans entry for awhile because MP3panda.com distracted me from everything productive in life.

New Orleans is...breath taking. I have never, never, NEVER in my life thought that a place that was that hot, humid, and south could steal my heart so easily and so profoundly. New Orleans is gorgeous, funky, sleazy, classy, warm, welcoming, musical, flavorful and more than anything? Strong. It's been four years. The 9th ward is still pretty much just...grass since the hurricane hit. Brad Pitt and Harry Connick Junior started a non profit to build houses there, but they can't do it alone. They need the government to clean up the mess they created four years ago. Fixing the part of the wall that broke is not enough. How about, THE WHOLE WALL? How about putting up the money (of which there is still 3 billion left to rebuild?) in advance for people trying to rebuild their lives instead of waiting for people to get the money to rebuild then reimbursing? When I saw how beautiful this city was and how much it had been destroyed (and still was destroyed) I prayed. I honest to god went back to my dorm and on my knees prayed sobbing for the first time in years for a humanity that includes people who could abandon something so beautiful to drown like it was nothing.
But despite being fucked over so profoundly, despite the bitterness and sadness in the eyes I see of every resident here, knowing each one has a story...everyone was so welcoming, hospitable, accepting...I was just blown away. It wasn't everyone mind you..there's a rant that I will go on in person about how touring disaster sites like the 9th ward, where people are just trying to live their lives, makes me really uncomfortable. I don't expect southern hospitality to extend to little white privilege tour buses scooting through what was already a government fucked neighborhood like vultures. Yes I understand the value of seeing historical sites. But there's a difference between respectfully entering and GAWKING fuck dude, people are trying to live. What gives me a gut wrenching feeling in my stomach is that while the former spirit of the city is still so strong, and while the city has banded together after this tragedy, I missed the opportunity to see this city in it's pre-katrina glory. I just wish I had been able to see new orleans the way it was meant to be. The oversexed gorgeous homeland that I was ready to call home in a day and a half...what I wouldn't give to go back and start over. To let these people know that at least one more person thinks that this place is worth fighting for.( can't nobody hold them down... )

Tags: katrina, new orleans

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14 July 2009 @ 08:56 am

Oh fuck yes

I love the Bendis Board. So much.

Tags: bendis board, ccg, oh my god this rules.

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07 July 2009 @ 09:42 pm

Crawl to me, baby, crawl to me!

I want to use this space to show a little love for Mae West. I re-discovered her during an insomnia attack last night.
This was in 1932. She was a glitzy, curvy, drunk, smoking, oversexed maniac 30 years before my mother was born, let alone before I was even a damn thought.

Here's what makes me happy: I realized suddenly while researching at Radcliffe that I was working in a women's history archive that collected manuscripts, diaries, and primary documents from women through the span of history. I wondered if they would have anything related to Mae West, so I checked the catalog on the way out.

Dude, they have her fucking manuscripts. The original ones. With her scribblings to herself and everything. And I randomly have clearance to be in this library.
Yeah, skipping lunch on friday and flipping through the same papers that one of the most loudmouthed sexy geniuses this earth has ever known crafted over half a century ago, probably while chain smoking.
I am so in love with life right now. And Mae.

Tags: mae west, why is everything cool at harvard

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05 July 2009 @ 11:33 pm

...in a police car from Japan, oh yeah.

Some music addictions.
First off, this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBgXDyewKlU

And these guys. I have been listening to Tally Hall on the order of non stop.
Also I have been watching their internet show non-stop.

Do you like how I dance?
I've got zirconium pants!
Consequential enough
to slip you into a trance

do you like how I walk?
do you like how I talk?
do you like how my face
disintigrates into chalk

Tags: mando diao, tally hall

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27 June 2009 @ 11:47 pm

Architecture, drag, inferiority complex

First off, I have wanted to drag this for ages. Mainly because I want to be this. When I become an old lady, I hope to be able to successfully drag as an old man so I can be just a weensy bit closer to pulling it off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfamPW3Eaw

MIT does cool things like project a live feed of genome sequencing on their window. When you walk by the aeronautics lab, basement level windows are really easy to look into and scientists are constantly rushing around being science-y like in films I used to not believe.
( Acid architecture and ivy league madness! )

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25 June 2009 @ 12:47 am

Just can't wait to be king..

So I went to another swing dance event today, this time early enough to actually take a class. Except it turned out to not be a swing dance class, it was a blues dance class. Blues dance before a lindy hop swing event. Slightly counter productive to my goal of not looking like an ass during the social dance, but I took it anyway....AS A LEAD :-). I feel so much more comfortable piloting people around. I had a flower in my hair and a long skirt so guys kept asking to be my partner...and I felt like I was being such a goofy asshole when I said no. It was like coming out. "Nope, sorry, I'M A LEAD" *whisks away with a girl*. This is halfway fulfilling a sad part of me that realizes I can never be as cool as old blues musicians, jazz musicians, tom waits...I can never be that kind of cool, but I can create my own kind that steals their shit.
Going to another blues dance event tomorrow, first monday in July I'm going to take a class to learn how to lead in Lindy Hop, next wednesday I'm going back for more blues. I jokingly told people at the lindy hop social (I awkwardly tried to follow after leading for 90 minutes) that I was going to leave lindy dancing and come back when I became a real man.
Tomorrow I'm going to the thrift shop to buy some men's pants to hem and to buy me some dancin' shoes. Kick. Ass.

Tags: leading!

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23 June 2009 @ 06:38 pm

Wanderings

Some things I have done recently!