an this plzzzhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBM89valaBI
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Permalink Reply by Rage_Proletaire on -
I shouldn’t be surprised at hearing this (still), but apparently long hair is still synonymous with musicianship. People will ask if I play an instrument, and answer on my behalf before I can even muster the wit to reply. When I’m actually afforded time to respond (as in a normal conversation), my favorite reply is usually, “No, not yet,” or “I bloody wish.” It gets humorous when people can’t pronounce “musician” – then you get stuff like “you look like a muhjicia”, as this one older woman said to me.
And sometimes people get upset, or seem to expect an apology when they discover this I have this “long hair for nothing”; I don’t play anything (yet), I don’t write poetry anymore, and I’ve not been up on the latest memos regarding effective ways to “uplift the race” and save every black person on the planet. When I get it from bitter older people who can’t fathom why anyone who isn’t a musician would wear their hair locked, I usually say something like, “Oh, I’m just trying to enjoy the vestiges of my youth…” or “I don’t have the head for a church-boy hair cut.”
When I asked for earplugs, dude in the hardware store asked me what kind of noise I was trying to block out. Then, he interrupted me and said something about me “cranking up the band.” He went even further with his vicarious projections, so I just shut my mouth and let him lead me to the earplugs.
The worst offenders were the guys at a former job who seemed to have little imagination regarding human beings beyond the views afforded by television. Some of the uglier ones seemed disappointed once they could discern that I wasn’t out and about, dicking down anybody or thing that walked by on two legs, with my “fancy rings and shit.” Being called “Eric Benet” was supposed to be a compliment, I suppose, given his “sexaholic” status. The sideways adoration just reeked of some angry, unsexed male telling me all about what he would do if he had long hair, since I’m apparently wasting mine.
I’m reminded of a comment Andrew Eldritch made about starting a band because of his small stature, and then I think of Prince. I’m also starting to think some guys who fawn over Halle Berry (who’s rather boring to look at, imo) because they’d like the chance to cheat on her and up their own so-called stock.
Never thought I’d hear the “Eric Benet” thing again, though. Some stranger just ended up on my shit list. Sorry so long.
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Permalink Reply by Madamoiselle De Sade on -
My mom is always grossing me out by talking about how she's attracted to a nice looking guy with a beard whenever she sees one. The other day, it dawned on me that my Dad always had a beard. I'm even more grossed out than I was before.
I've had other psychologically scarring conversations with her.
Damn typos. Perhaps I should try to get more sleep.
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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on -
That is interesting Mlle. Reminds me of this art talk I went to almost 15 years ago here at work, the lady reading from her recent book talked with the host about how some people from her home state of Hawaii put her down and frowned upon here when she spoke, because she had the "poor locals" accent from the area she grew up in. She said it was sometimes the supposedly richer Hawaiian women, who not only did not want to sound "ethnic" but who also spent a lot of money on plastic surgery so they didn't look Asian either. And when this writer was speaking, I just looooooved hearing her local slang words and the loud sing songy rhythms of the local way they spoke out in the countryside farming areas where she and her family lived, far from the "city" folks as she called them too.
I will never forget her, her name is Lori Ann Yamanaka, and the host of the talk was Marisela Norte and I remember after Mari introduced Lori, she smiled and said "I love Lori, she is so CHA CHA!" which is something we'll say out here, at least among some of the East L.A. folks I know, when you are speaking in admiration of someone that is REAL and very very DOWN TO EARTH and true to their background and very very PROUD of it in spite of whomever tries to put them down in life.
I've never read Catcher in the Rye. Gotta read that book.
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Permalink Reply by LesYpersound on -
So do you have an aversion to nice looking men with beards? :P
Mlle d. Sade said:My mom is always grossing me out by talking about how she's attracted to a nice looking guy with a beard whenever she sees one. The other day, it dawned on me that my Dad always had a beard. I'm even more grossed out than I was before.
I've had other psychologically scarring conversations with her.
Damn typos. Perhaps I should try to get more sleep.
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Permalink Reply by Madamoiselle De Sade on
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Yes. I'm not real big on beards or any facial hair. Most of the guys she thinks are cute are nothing special to me. Despite this aversion to beards, I've had a crush on Mick Foley for years. He's a nice looking man underneath all that hair but the hair isn't bad, either. Puzzling self contradiction.
LesYpersound said:So do you have an aversion to nice looking men with beards? :P
Mlle d. Sade said:My mom is always grossing me out by talking about how she's attracted to a nice looking guy with a beard whenever she sees one. The other day, it dawned on me that my Dad always had a beard. I'm even more grossed out than I was before.
I've had other psychologically scarring conversations with her.
Damn typos. Perhaps I should try to get more sleep.
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Permalink Reply by Madamoiselle De Sade on
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I'd be lying if I said the fact that men who commit statutory rape get to walk around unpunished most of the time and that any underaged lady of the night does get punished for being raped doesn't bother me.
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Permalink Reply by Madamoiselle De Sade on
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^^^^ Whoa. Really?!
chelles said:so bored... off to see what strongbad is up to. its been a few years
lol. I'd forgotten about that.
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Permalink Reply by chelles on -
@mlle yeah lol. the lastest updates were in '09
Mlle d. Sade said:^^^^ Whoa. Really?!
chelles said:so bored... off to see what strongbad is up to. its been a few years
lol. I'd forgotten about that.
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Permalink Reply by Rage_Proletaire on
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jahluv said:...Legos are all over my house - my son is always planning some type of raid, stationing scouts, getting an ambush ready. Cute during the day, not so much at night in bare feet...
I kinda look forward to stuff like this. I could set up my own ambushes, to raid the raiders while he sleeps!
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