POP Revolution Begins!

2:01PM - I'm a girl!

Interesting since I've always thought of myself as the counseling type!

Another interesting fact is that oneloveonelight is most like Will Riker! Deanna and Will were pretty much into each other the entire series. That's quite cool!!

Your results:
You are Deanna Troi

Deanna Troi 80% Geordi LaForge 75% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 65% Mr. Scott 60% Will Riker 60% Worf 60% Spock 59% James T. Kirk (Captain) 55% Chekov 55% Uhura 50% Beverly Crusher 50% Mr. Sulu 40% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 40% Data 38% Jean-Luc Picard 30%

You are a caring and loving individual. You understand people's emotions and you are able to comfort and counsel them.

Click here to take the "Which Star Trek character are you?" quiz...

8:39PM - Happy Birthday Lisa!

Hope you had a wonderful Birthday!! I love you SO much! I had a great time Saturday night and Saturday night night;P Hope you like your gifts that aren't really gifts since you asked me not to buy you any. LMAO

2:30PM

Prince and K-Flo!

4:48PM

It's my Freakin Birthday and I will write what's on my mind because I get a get out of jail free card today. Yeah Baby!

Haven't had much time to LJ lately with the biz going on and the insanity that goes with. I just wanted to throw out there the "Obama is the new Jesus" thing. First of all, US society is in DEEP starvation for a savior "another Reagan", “JFK”, “FDR” or Jesus-like hero.

The thing is this:

Obama is NOT saying or proposing anything spectacularly different than any other Democrat that has run for office in the last 30 freaking years. The same speeches can be heard from Mondale, Dukakis, and John Kerry as that of Obama. What is the difference between them and Obama? When Obama speaks the audience feels something different in his/her hearts than when any other candidate has thrown us the same old blah, blah, blah rhetoric the liberals have been campaigning with the last 30 years. Why? What is it about Obama that makes his supporters feel like he really means what he is saying?

My answer: John Kerry and other Democrats like him are (or appear to be) elitists in the eyes of the poor and middle-class so when they talk change or anything of the sort it seems to come off as just rhetoric bs that is being read off a prompter. But, when Obama speaks of change it is generally perceived as if he actually believes what he is saying. This is because Obama HAS suffered. You may argue that he has not, but I’m not talking about the suffrage of being poor. I’m talking about being a black man in America. No other serious candidate can ever make that claim. Also, no other American other than a Black American can know the baggage that is carried in a society that fears you. Just imagine waking up tomorrow and suddenly millions of strangers that wouldn’t have paid two cents of a who-ha to you yesterday were suddenly giving you paranoid glances and acting all squirrely shifty EVERYWHERE you go. Imagine that feeling for a lifetime!

There I said it! Obama knows suffering so based on that and that alone, I trust him and believe that he WILL fight for change.

So who am I going to vote for?

I started listing all of the positives for both Obama and McCain. Other than bore everyone with my entire list, I thought I'd list my two favorites:

Obama: Being able to say the American Dream is still real and can still happen if you work at it hard enough. No matter how much Britney Spears makes the American Dream look and feel like a damnation, I'll be able to say "A Black Guy is President" making the dream feel real again instead of an affliction.

McCain: MORE TINA FEY!!!!

I can't make up my mind: Obama to preserve and re-glorify the American Dream or more Tina Palin impersonations?

AH! Dreams are for suckers anyway! Hey Tina can you say "You Betcha" again? Mmmm! Vote McC……

FINE! VOTE OBAMA YA TINA FEY HATERS!!!!

2:36PM

How much do you know about the US energy system?

Let's find out! I got an 86%

http://quiz.wecansolveit.org/

1:31PM

Went to the dentist today for a cleaning/checkup! Keeping in mind that I haven't been to the dentist since 1999 when I had insurance, I had NO cavities!

Unfortunately I feel like I've been punched in the mouth! 45 minutes to non-stop scraping to get all the tartar out from under my permanent lower retainer that NO ONE CAN SEEM TO REMOVE FOR ME! I F**KING HATE THAT THING!!!!

NO CAVITIES YEAH YEAH YEAH

7:14PM

Your result for The Sexuality Spectrum Test...

Straight

You scored 43 (-52 being completely gay, 0 being bisexual, and 52 being completely straight)

Take The Sexuality Spectrum Test at HelloQuizzy

5:51PM - More Funny Pics

 

5:26PM

Your result for The Attachment Style Test...

The Cuddleslut

Take The Attachment Style Test at HelloQuizzy

2:19PM - Call to Artists

 

Summer at the Station

Food and Art Festival 2008

 
 

Call to Artists: August 9^th 2008

 

Tylersville Station and Sweet Art of Mine are Now Accepting Applications for the “1^st Annual Summer at the Station Food and Art Festival”. This is a one day event held on August 9^th from 10am – 9pm at Tylersville Station Shopping Center.

 

Eligibility                    Event is open to local artists interested in exhibiting and selling his/her works of art. All styles and media are eligible. This is an outside event so proper accommodations will be needed, Booths, Tents, Shelters, etc. There is no cost to artists to set up and participate in the event! We do require that all participants donate 10% of all proceeds to “Komen for the Cure” Breast Cancer Research.  

 

Submissions             Work can be submitted by slide, photograph, jpeg on CD, email, or website url.

 

Deadline                    All submissions must be turned in no later than July 25^th 2008 in order to be qualified for participation

 

 

Questions                  For more information please call 513-777-0052 or email us at sweetartofmine@zoomtown.com

1:56PM

 I usually don't give a crap about what Prince does since he's obviously proved himself over and over again, but WTF!  

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/06/prince-sues-to.html

Why didn't he sue the Foo Fighters when they re-made "Darling Nikki"? Instead, he told US Weekly that "David needs to focus on creating his own originals" and "Too many musical acts are relying too heavily on resurecting classics instead of moving into new creative skies above." 

Mmm Hmm!

Happy FUCKING 50th! Guess that Jehovah's Witnesses are into the whole personal glory thing! Guess you still don't have enough fame, glory, and riches huh Prince?

1:38PM - Stolen From Sparks27

The Big Read says the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well, let's see. 

SWEET! I've read 8.5! All but Harry Potter I HAD to read in grade school. OOH! No, I read the Hitchhiker's Guide in college. I tried to swindle out of reading the book by playing the old DOS game on PC, but ended up reading it anyway because I got into it. VERY good book!

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.


1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling (read 1/2)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy Hate.
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie 

1:36PM

Stolen from Oneloveonelight

English Genius

You scored 93% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 93% Expert!

You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!

Result of being married to an English Major! I know which questions I missed without the answer guide. I always miss the I or Me thing in basic language because everyone ALWAYS says it wrong in conversation and conversation is the only exposure I have to the English language. I never learned the rules in school because I was too busy looking at naked pictures of girls in class (see previous LJ entry for details) and laughing at FARTS!

Thanks for all of the English knowledge Oneloveonelight!

Gotta share!
http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-commonly-confused-words-test

2:49PM

The most important statement GC ever made in his career was his speach on the "American Dream"! When I was leading the band "Expendable" I wrote a song called An American Dream that I attributed to this mind opening speach by Carlin.

Enjoy!

9:00AM - Miss You

I'm going to miss you George! Bad heart or not man, it's all a conspiracy.

Not another person, except maybe John Lennon, summed up my views of the world and everything around me as well as Carlin. From religion, obscenity, government conspiracy, he was always DEAD ON for me. I will miss the comic genius of Carlin so very much. I loved this man and everything that he inspired from Kevin Smith to Eddie Murphy. Maybe they have unlimited supply of that "Organic Fuel" wherever it is that you are now George.

Thank you for being my icon for so many years!

Here is a post dedicated to your "Seven Words of Obscenity"

1:15PM - Writer's Block: My Userpics

First usericon is/was my self portrait photograph with my hair in "Coolio" braids. Why did I choose this icon? Because it's a good example of my "Residual Self-Image". The way I see myself is the Rockstar Artist type. My ideal lifestyle is to create art and music everyday and be loved for it. My Rock and Roll Artist hero is John Lennon so the closer I come to being John Lennon the better. Hell, we share the same birthday as it is so why not?

5:33PM

This pic is just priceless!

http://a408.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/40/l_caa3051d1613ebbf3d838932185d39ef.jpg

10:19AM - Save Saturday Night Live!!!!

I don't know how many of you are snl fans, but I'm sure that most of you that watch snl regularly have noticed an obvious decline in originality and twisted humor these past 2 seasons. One reason is quite obvious, Tina Fey is no longer an actor nor a writer on the show. She's moved on to star in and create 30 Rock which is a kick ass show and deserves MUCH attention! However, without the brain of Fey aiding in the creation of snl the show has lost SO MUCH of what made it great.

What to do?

Of course it's not possible to replace the beautiful geek chic of Tina Fey, but it wouldn't be to off the wall to light a fire under the seats of the writers of the legendary show. I would like to suggest that every week A DIFFERENT "guest" writer should help give creative insight to the snl writers. For example, why not invite Dave Chappelle to coach the writers one week? Next week, Carlos Mencia could give his 10 cents to the writers and so on until you've built a new larger audience. Once the sponsorship goes up and the show is making the big bucks let's bring in the BIG guns like Mel Brooks, etc.

What to do part deux...

Now for the HUGE next big snl media extravaganza! We take the best things about American Idol and Last Comic Standing and create a show that the audience chooses the next snl cast member! Think about it! It would work! We've all seen what can happen with American Idol via Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and OMG Jennifer Hudson. What if snl were to bring that same magic to America's favorite late night comedy show?

I've been watching Last Comic Standing this season, and the thoughts just will NOT stop on this. Even most of the comics that win the big prize on LCS do not go on to do spectacular things. Seen anything from John Reep lately? NO and that SUCKS! I think that John Reep would be an upbelievable addition to snl. Why not? He writes his own material. Great, two for one!

The problem with snl is NOT the actors! Pretty much ALL of the snl cast is wonderful. Most snl actors could easily go independant and make movies or go on a stand up comedy tour and bring down the house. The problem with snl is that when a NEW cast member is added, the public does not know the actor. I remember when Will Ferrell came to snl back in the 90's just after Farley, Rock, Sandler, Meyers, Spade left the show. Guess what? I didn't think he was funny, but my love of the show and my NEVER having anything to do on Sat. night kept me watching. After his first season, I was hooked and Will became my favorite cast member along with Fey. The problem is that I had NO idea who Ferrell was so his comic style had to grow on me as it does with pretty much all comics and actors.

By producing a show that the pubic and QUALIFIED!!!! judges choose the next snl cast member, the mystery of the "New Actor" is GONE. Once the new season of snl starts, the viewers (both new and die-hard) will know what to expect with their new superstar creation. It also give the feeling of "Hey, I helped create this show" to the entire audience.

Repeat this snl competition each year (just like Idol) and I guarantee that snl will be new and improved! The world is moving in another direction so it's time for the second oldest American TV show (Price is Right still #1) to follow suit.

If anyone knows anyone who can make this happen, please forward this LJ entry to he/she! Just remember, copyright Ben Jason Neal, June, 16th 2008! SWEET!

6:00PM

Damn, I guess I asked for it. Just found out that Tim Russert collapsed and died a few hours ago just before taping "Meet the Press". Although I'm an avid Stewart/Colbert dude, I had a soft spot for Russert. I liked his style. Sucks that he died so mysteriously. Nobody knows what happened. Just fell over dead from what I've heard so far.

I loved the interview Russert did with Obama earlier this year.



Obama called him "The Greatest Interviewer of his lifetime"

Fucking Friday the 13th! Damn

L8R SK8RS

4:24PM - Rainy Friday the 13th!

I was hoping for lots of trouble and major shocking behavior, but today hasn't come through for me yet. So far, all that's happened is that Turtle Creek Flea Market has burned 50% down leaving all vendors to fend for themselves. That's right TC does not provide ANY insurance or HELL even responsibility for anything that happens there. So, when a faulty electric plug arches and sets a whole building ablaze destroying peoples businesses and in some cases, he/she's only means of income, what do you do? NOTHING! Oops sorry about your luck! You will need to review your contract with the flea market. Yes, see that small part right there above your signature that says NEVER responsible for ANYTHING! Even if the owner himself pours gas on the building and burns it to the ground for a party trick, we are not responsible for anything at all!

Sorry to all of those whom lost his/her means to support themselves! Although I can't stand the majority of the white trash bullshit that occurs at this particular flea market, I wouldn't have wished this upon them. This sucks and is BULLSHIT! Greed Blows!

Here is a post for Friday the 13th since I have little to talk about and I'm bored as hell. I thought this was quite funny since I rented this game back in the day and hated it. This guy nails all of my frustrations with this game. (especially the laws of left and right not applying)