Dressed up to the eyes, it's a wonderful surprise, to see your shoes and your spirits rise, throwing out your frown, and just smiling at the sound

I enjoy nothing more than staying in bed alldaylong. I intend to stay right where i am, alone, constructing a pair of flower goggles peut-etre?

<3

For the first time in recent memory I turn on the television to find they're showcasing something on VH1 that I'm interested in watching: a special on "celebreties gone good". It's surprising and refreshing to see VH1 capitalizing on something beyond the reality fad.

It’s bad enough that MTV/VH1 has redirected their programming from music to reality- what's worse is they've supplemented these slots with washed out celebrity versions of “The Bachelor”, blah of love, for love of blah.
Many people argue that these programs are soo bad they're good. In any case, those who follow these shows are among the first to defend them, and the last to realize the stupidity of them. Doesn't anybody else get sick of watching ridiculous people promoting unbelievably materialistic view of both genders, and everything else for that matter?

Soooo in this celebrity special- the spotlight is taken off of celeb rehab and redirected toward individuals who've contributed millions of dollars not toward their "cribs", but rather toward charitable causes worldwide.

Wyclef Jean already had a big spot in my heart as former fu-gee-la member, but moreover, he's brought a troubled country- (his homeland of Haiti) to the forefront of Third World education. After establishing the Yéle Haiti Foundation he's provided scholarships to 6800 children in Gonaïves, Haiti- all of whom are provided opportunities to continue on with secondary education. He has been also been a figurative member in restoration efforts following the devastation of Hurricane Jeanne.

And shakira recently donated more than 40 million dollars viz. the Latin America for Solidarity Foundation (ALAS) - which she co-founded with Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. That's one of the largest private celebrity donations on record. The money will go to repair damages caused by an earthquake in Peru and a hurricane in Nicaragua.
She's also the youngest Goodwill Ambassador that the United Nations charity UNICEF has ever appointed.

Unicef boss Carol Bellamy has said of the latin star:
"I know Shakira will help bring UNICEF's mission to the audience who will have the most impact on our future - young people themselves."

YOUNG PEOPLE. Stop feeding into the negativity of reality TV and bad celebrity behavior. Encourage stations like VH1 to invest their time and energy in just causes- in these champions of charity, the gods and goddesses of goodness.


http://www.dosomething.org/
http://www.moveon.org/
http://www.1sky.org/
http://www.focusthenation.org/
http://www.betterworldclub.com/

stray cat blues

Now that the rain has returned to my habitat and likely intends to make itself comfortable... I've found that nothing makes me happier than curling up under heavy blankets or partaking in ample bathtub downtime. I've been spending spare hours scouring thrift stores, learning to knit and purl, and am thoroughly enjoying One Hundred Years of Solitude. I daydream about Paris this time next year, and mentally grind away at how to realize the reverie.

If I ruled the world

I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one's own family or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.
H.H. The Dalai Lama

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
-Agatha Christie

Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda

Peace is the marriage of the people and the planet, with all attendant vows.
Chief Seattle

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity.
Elise Boulding

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Theresa

One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
Martin Luther King, Jr

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Gladston

Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom.
XIVth Dalai Lama

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
Howard Zinn

jimi; ma beau

I spoke to all my molecules, and they were divided, on if you were invited

Please acquaint yourself with miranda july if you've not already.
A friend recommended i read her short story "swimming lessons"- awesome.



Presently drinking cheap cheap vino and watching mystic pizza in my flannel pajamas. Both of which were purchased after work from GreatWill. That's right. Great.



I love J Roberts, and nearly every movie she graces with her presence, but this movie in particular taught both my sister and I at a premature age how to do the jitterbug, properly utilize a handful of profanities, and foremost that the last person on earth you can trust is a man.

I must admit, all this pizza talk has got me down about living sans-cheese. Hard as I try I can't seem to fall for the raw food-op, I mean, cheese made from nuts? It looks and tastes like gunky-globby-hummus. What I would give for some pineapple-pepperoni buried beneath mozzarella... I did, however, thoroughly enjoy a pesto and sun-dried tomato zucchini ribbon pasta at the Blossoming Lotus this afternoon. So that's something.
All I need is a truckload of vegan cookbook-ing for Christmas and I can work on the whole learning how to use them thing apres ca.

guh.
♥ "all those stars and comets dont come cheap."

bonne soiree

So if you look in my direction and we don't see eye to eye, my heart needs protection and so do I.

peeps pomplamoose:


consists of Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn. cute.
Nataly's vocals are feist-y and fantastic. Jack seems to do most of the instrumentation. Tres original!

et....
i love stop-motion film; particularly when paired with cutie-patootie lyrics and sexy vocal stylings the likes of oren lavie.



eryka's sensibilities in jazz and soul are best described as eccentric, and her take on how to make it in music as a female:


amusing

i fk'n love her so much i'll double the love and direct attention toward one of my fave MV's "honey"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9jpkF1ehD8

i always hated the brangelina deal.
till' i saw these pictures.





























a bientot.