Not Your Average Jane

School sucks, but its nessacity.... I mean come on how teachers do you know withOUT a bachelor's degree in something or another? At least I get the hell gone in May... Speaking of graduation.... I'm pretty sure I'm skipping my own and going to Lauren's in Ft. Worth... To me its only a walking across a stage and getting a little piece of paper a few monthes later to prove you've survived the college experience.... I've got enough memories to do that thank you very much... I think in college I can honestly say I learned most of what I know about the world in college.... Kinda ironic since I grew up in Houston, and then went to college in small towns, that just happened to be in 'dry' counties *throat clearing* "Yeah, right..." ANYWAY... even though I grew up in H-town (aren't I o so ghetto now?) I was fairly sheltered, by my family and then by my friends... I had to get out in order to discover the true me... The oxymoron that is me that is... Or walking contradiction as Brody likes to say.... Its always been true and I suppose it may always be true... Cuz if it wasn't I'd be a schizo, in which case that would just suck... Speaking of college and high school and friends I got to thinking today about how I've burned alot of bridges with people I was friends with or at least friendly with in both locations... And now that I look back and realize that it makes me a bit sad because some of them were awesome people in their own right. And ya know I love awesome peeps... And not so awesome ones on occasion... Though I think everyone can be awesome in some way... Whether it be in the looks department or in some facet of their personality that is just soooo.... unique you just can't help but want to be around them you know? Which kind of but not really leads me to birthdays.... Mines not till the 6th of December... A Saturday this year.... But James's B-day is Sunday so we're gathering around ye old hot tub hopefully with some cocktails Saturday night to celebrate.... I need it after the week I've had... But I digress, So anyway Heather and I are going to look for wedding dresses tommorrow in Russellville and sort of make a day of that and then go to James' so she can do laundry too... She can't seem to find what shes looking for and I personally think she's just going to wind up making it anyway, since shes so handy dandy with a needle and thread and stuff... And while we're out and about we'll see if I can find the pieces to complete my pirate outfit.... If worse comes to worse I can always look for something if I go home next weekend, which seems to be looking like more and more of what I want to do, since not just Linz will be there, but Lauren's driving down from Wort Forth.... Oops I meant Ft. Worth.. hehehe.... I watched on the edge of country tonight and the first video I see is Charlie Robison's 'Right Man for the Job', where he's doing nothing more than walking around a town looking like a pimp, cane and all... Good name for ol' Charlie, Pimp Charlie Char char.... Hardy har har.... :0) Then at one point in the video he joins a break dancing group... Either very scary or very funny depending on your point of view I'm leaning toward the scary side... Music television leads me into the subject of sellouts... The listypoo goes like this: #1 Toby Queer, #2 Kenny Chesney, and #3 Green Day (though I love the fact they made punk more popular). Toby becase he made the ultimate insult to a song or truck and appeared, playing his guitar in a Ford commmercial singing one of his songs.... Its one thing for Fowler's, Cooder Graw's, or Cross Canadian Ragweed's songs to be used for a Dodge truck commercial, but Queerish's song for Ford? Its an insult to Ford! I drove one for 3 years and sure we had issues, but it survived my whole family, 3 beginning drivers and my mom, as well as my aunt and one of my cousins... Not alot of people can say that about anything! As for Kenny Chesney.... He needs 4 or 5 other guys to write his shitey little ditties a 1st grader could write.... Though y a 1st grader would I shudder to think... Female singers in modern country music are simply overplayed.... Faith Hill's ok in small doses, Shania Twain I can't stand anymore, and I love Reba, but the Nashvegas isn't putting out a lot of her stuff her lately, maybe because she's been on Broadway and TV and stuff, but who really knows for sure? Sure I envy them all their success, but I still can't stand the Nashville sound. Though if a guy is hot like Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley or Andy Griggs, I'll give him half a chance if only to stare at them.... I'm not ashamed to admit that, I'm a woman and I enjoy men, so whatcha gonna do? Sue me for all two dollars I currently have? That'd just be wrong... :0)But anyway back to female singers... I think that chicks like Fannin Franklin and Miranda Lambert deserve more props than they're getting... Though Miranda WAS on Nashville Star... However successful that was... That guy sucks too... A demo singer for 10 years and still plugging away? And he had a family to support too! Also wrong... Unless his wife was an independantly wealthy woman or something... I've dated musicians, they don't make a lot and most of what they make goes to traveling expenses (food, hotel, equipment), recording, and probably what seems to me the biggest expense, alcohol... I mean how much Jager can you possibly drink? On that note, I think I'd better wind this down and go to bed, so I'm more fully prepared to shop till I drop tommorrow, though if I do it till I drop, then I'll be gone till Christmas... Although, wedding dress shopping seems to take more out of me than that, even though I'm not doing more than just giving my opinion on the stuff Heather's trys on... Oh, well... Laters....

posted by Ali @ 12:20 AM