Maria Callas and Other Just Because Downloads

has a beautiful voice and a beautiful face.

I am listening to her sing "Ave Maria," so very lovely.

I spent the morning downloading some tunes. Here's what I'm digging this morn':

Johnny Cash (I didn't download anything new, but I'm feeling very Johnny Cash-ish myself these days.


I'm still having after-glow from Obama's DNC speech. Did you catch Stevie Wonder on before? It was great! I downloaded a bunch of Stevie like "Superstition," "Overjoyed," "Part Time Lover," and "She's a Bad Mamma Jamma," among others. Man, I am SO EXCITED FOR OBAMA TO BE PRESIDENT ALREADY!!!! He HAS to win. McCain was trying to steal some of Obama's fire this week by announcing Sarah Palin as his running mate. Whatever. Fuck Sarah Palin. I am staunchly pro-choice and I hate how it's actually a boon to conserative rw christians that she carried a child w/ Down's Syndrome to term after a amniocentisis...

She is kinda cute though. See www.fish-scale.blogspot.com

Anyway, Stevie rules! Obama rules!


Let me find out Stevie was kinda a papi chuelo back in the day...

Anyway, what started the dowloading frenzy of the day was a desire to her "Last Dance" by Tom Petty.


It's a great song, along with "Roll Another Joint," "Refugee," and "Zombie Zoo." Tom Petty, I no want to petty.

Enjoy your holiday all!

OMG: Did I just do THAT?!

Today I called my boss a racist. I'm not sorry for it in the true sense (meaning, I simply said what I felt to be true), but I am sorry in the adult "gotta-suck-ass-to-get-ahead" kinda way. I'm kicking myself because I know it was a dumb thing to do, but part of me feels like I've lived out some fantasy...AND IT FEELS FUCKING GREAT! Imagine actually telling your boss the most fuck-uped shit you thought of them...makes you smile like a Cheshire Cat, right?

Anyway, it is not so good for my career that there move, but this is not the career I want to be in anyway...ay, what the fuck am I going to do? BTW, this post is by me for me. Usually I have the wherewithal to try and be witty, but this shit stinks. I basically quit and then asked fools if I could think about it over the weekend. I really want to quit. I mean, I am so fucking unhappy there. I can't stand being in that lightless box working for a Catholic organization and all that entails, FUCK THAT! It's not for me! But how am I going to pay my rent? I'll just have to find another job promto and that means I am more apt to take something I don't really care for...I dunno. I know what I instintually want to do: quit. Now, where do I go from there? I can make some meagre bucks working for my boyfriend's tutoring and copyediting business, but this will not pay the rent. Well, I have all weekend to think about it, but I feel like I've already fully exposed myself and the only thing to do is quit, otherwise I fear the head boss bitch will just a find a way to get rid of me somehow...

I guess I should explain (all names changed to protect fools): The agency, Hypocrisy and Religion, I work for has a computerized clock-in system. This was instituted about a year or so ago and has been making my work even more shitty ever since. I don't take well to be treated overtly differently than my coworkers. I prefer to work someplace where my work, rather than the time it takes for me to do it, is valued. Salaried people are paid to go above and beyond and, yet, they get to come in whenever they want and take 90 minute lunches, they don't have to be as accountable as I have to be and I don't like it. I know I've been an underling pretty much my whole career, but I've never felt that way...I'm not sure if I'm explaining myself well, but I just took what I feel was coming to me. I am this way and it's never been a problem. I simply can't have this kind of work system imposed on me. I can't feel chained to a desk, devoid of natural light, my every little second watched...anyway, I think I should stop bitching and start looking for a new job on the real because I think the conclusion is to quit and let the chips fall where they may, no?

If anyone actually read this, thanks, you are a true friend and fan. Gotta get cracking...

Get Well Soon Morgan Freeman!!!

Did you hear this? Morgan Freeman was in a car accident last night near his home in Tennessee and is in serious condition!!! Here's the dish from MSN:

Morgan Freeman in serious condition after car crash
Aug. 4, 2008, 12:40 PM EST

Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was injured in a car accident late Sunday night and is in a hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Stringer said Freeman, 71, is in serious condition. The hospital is about 90 miles north of the accident scene in rural Tallahatchie County in the Mississippi Delta.

Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Ben Williams confirmed Freeman was in a wreck shortly before midnight Sunday, but said he was still gathering information and had few details Monday.

Clay McFerrin, editor of Sun Sentinel in Charleston, said he arrived at the accident scene on Mississippi Highway 32 soon after it happened about 4 miles west of Charleston, not far from where Freeman owns a home with his wife.

McFerrin said it appeared that Freeman's car was airborne when it left the highway and landed in a ditch.

"They had to use the jaws of life to extract him from the vehicle," McFerrin said. "He was lucid, conscious. He was talking, joking with some of the rescue workers at one point."

McFerrin said bystanders converged on the scene trying to get a glimpse of the actor.

When one person tried to snap a photo with a cell phone camera, Freeman joked, "no freebies, no freebies," McFerrin said.

The hospital where Freeman is being treated is commonly known as The Med, and is an acute-care teaching facility that serves patients within 150 miles of Memphis.


I hope he makes a speedy recovery, otherwise who will play the ol' wise characters that we love him for? Someone's gotta drive Miss Daisy!

I love this video

heartsrevolution "C.Y.O.A." (Choose Your Own Adventure)

Thanks to my Bust subscription, I can keep abreast of the coolest indie shit. It's great! I love you Busty Betches!

Check out the top of my music playlist for the latest shit I'm listening to.

Tonight I want to use the word "shit" a lot (i guess) because shit gets hectic and you need to be getting your shit in order. Whatevs. I'm stupid.

Congratulations Mayor Newsom!

When we last saw our handsome mayor, Gavin Newsom, and his purty actress then-fiancee-now-wife, Jennifer Siebel, they were giving the ol' terrorist fist jab and Nazi salutes to the crowd at SF's LGBT Pride Parade. Yesterday, they tied the knot on Siebel's parents' Montana ranch...and the news made MSN! Go Gavin!

Here's a link to the article:
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Oh Gavin, I never knew a mayorship could be like this! He's young, interesting, and ambitious. He usually wears his hair in an ugly bullet haircut, but I prefer it when he lets his shiny locks go au natural...like in this pic

(sigh...just let your Soul-Glo Gavin, just let your soooouullll glooooooo)

Anyway, I hope he is happier in this marriage than his last (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/06/MANDR.TMP)

here's the happy couple (and his awful bullet hairstyle)

Santogold for Sale

I like Santogold's music and style. I am also keenly aware of the "Everybody's-Gotta-Get-Paid" mantra, but damn girl were you having a two-for-one sale on your songs? Is it just me or has her shit endorsed damn near everything? Here are two I could find...

she's down with Ford


and Bud...



Her "Lights Out" song is endorsing something too. Anyway, I'm not really hating on Santogold. Like I said I enjoy her music and think she's cute, but she's also, obviously, for sale and that is a wee affront to my indie-ass. That's all I'm saying.

Here as a veritable olive branch her "L.E.S. Artistes" video - starring a beautiful black horse and funky colored guts. I was smitten at first site. Her shit is tight. She's from Brooklyn and has a great haircut. Go earn your cheddar...(i guess)

Thank You for Being a Friend: RIP Estelle Getty

Estelle Getty died Tuesday, July 22 at the age of 84 of severe dementia. If ya don't know, Estelle Getty played Sofia on The Golden Girls, a great long-running US TV show (ran from late '80s to mid '90s). Sofia was the cantankerous loving ol Sicilian who loved to give Dorothy shit. I loved her! She was the funniest character on that show, if you ask me. She also had an interesting life. She was very committed to her craft and her story makes me think of how obsessed with youth our culture is...basically once an actress starts showing wrinkles that's pretty much the end of her career. Yet men can be the "older suave gentleman" (i.e., Sean Connery, Harrison Ford - isn't he like 90?)...whatevs. Women are not yet men's equal, at least not in the entertainment industry.

Enough of this idle pandering, check out the article CNN did on her. She was an actress fo' life!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/22/estelle.getty.obit/index.html

Here are a couple of sweet Sofia clips I was able to rassle up


The quality on this one stinks since it's simply someone recording their TV, but it's so dead on Sofia!


short, sweet and simple




My sisters and I would sing along to the theme song and you can too!!! Rest in Peace, Estelle Getty and thanks for the laughs :)