So, Planet Cafe last night

Was amazing!

When I first arrived there I was nervous to the point where I was shaking. A drink (red headed slut) and a change into drag eased me a little. The fact that I was sharing the stage with seasoned queens, title holders and pageant winners did also make me nervous.

I did 2 performances last night. The first was to Call Me When You're Sober by Evanesence. The crowd loved it. They loved me doing it. I felt so good. I felt like a rock star. And I got so many compliments afterwards.



I was not expecting to do a second performance, good thing I travel with my laptop. between the laptop and my Zen, I've got a rather large music collection. I did Enjoy the Silence again. Still a great performance, but not as well received as my first that night.

Pictures soon to come, if anything you have got to see the huge red & black yarn/rexlace falls I made.

So the industrial-goth cyber-punk goddess may have a new home.

I paid my holding deposit and application fee on a new place. All good until i found out this morning that I'm going to need a co-signer. Yeah my credit is still jacked up. I may be able to get in without it with a higher deposit. I can afford that. The place is cheaper than where I'm at and in a really nice complex. It's a studio. And that's fine. The 2 bedroom I'm in seems huge with just me living there. I want to be out of the ghetto and this looks like a major move up. There's a fitness center there too and that will help me stop being so fat. I'll be saving myself at least $100/month. Which is pretty awesome.

Life is good.

I just need to find a co-signer.

I will not be at Planet Cafe tonight

mainly because of the weather and some transportation issues.


But I will be there Saturday night.

Performing with the cast.


My first time not performing in an amateur show.


You really need to come see me.


Seriously.

Be there.


Or I'll slap a small child.

And take his candy.

I'm but a tiny, insignificant, ignorant bit of carbon...

...dodging a sniper using bollocks for ammunition.




Required viewing for anyone that is not an atheist.

I found it in this blog, which has a lot of other really interesting things as well.

Things have been happening lately, mostly happy fun things.

Friday I jumped on the scale and saw that in the last week I've dropped 10 pounds. Awesome!

I may have partially ruined that with my trip to Sweet Tomatoes later on that day, but I'm glad I went there. They were replacing their chairs and giving away the old ones. I took 2. Now I have a little more in the way of furniture in my rather empty apartment.

Speaking of my apartment, I'm looking for a new one. I want to downsize. I want something smaller and cheaper. I may have found it too. There a few places I'm looking at soon. And my lease is up in July, I'm not renewing. I want out of this ghetto I live in.

Another thing about the apartment. Those annoying neighbor in the other half of the dplex might be out soon. I overheard a conversation between them and the landlord that did not sound very good for them. About time. My last month there might be pretty nice.

I've been playing with Hydrogen and Sprial Synth Modular. I might have to record some of the horrid noise I'm making and post it here. I've been watching this video for an idea for using the 2 together. I'm not looking to do the same thing, just getting idea. Take a wicked drum beat and turn it into something just sick. I'm also going to look into adding some new sounds to the drum machine. Cool noisey stuffs - breaking glass and metal bashing into metal type noises. It's fun. I have to say, a real modular looks more fun to mess with than a soft modular.

So yeah, that's about all. Life is pretty damned awesome.

And so I have written a letter to WND

I'm finding myself to be extremely annoyed with the lies they are spreading about the hate crimes bill. Here's what I had to say -

Subject: I'm quite disturbed at the references being made to HR 1913.

"The Pedophile Protection Act" as it is being referred to on your site. I suggest you read the actual text of the bill, here is an address to find it -

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1913

In no place in the text of the bill is the word pedophile being used. In no way does it legalize or protect pedophilia. What the bill does do is attach a stiffer penalty to violent crimes that are motivated by hate and prejudice. This bill is not limited to sexual preference and gender identity, but also extends to race, color, religion, national origin and disability. Which means it also protects Christians from having violent crimes committed against them. And that's all it is about is violent crimes. In no sense is it going to put you in jail for what you say or what you think.

I want to bring this to your attention as I know quite a few people that consider WND to be a source of truth and yet what is being presented on this matter is anything but. I do understand you beliefs tell you that that homosexuality is immoral. I am not arguing that nor am I suggesting you stifle that. I am, however, suggesting that you fight and honest fight. If spreading you beliefs are part of your agenda, that's cool. Spreading lies to further your agenda isn't. I want to believe you are better than that.

In closing I do want you to know that I will be spreading what I have communicated to you through every means I have available to me. This include publicly posting it in the blog that I keep at http://persephone66.blogspot.com/

I never in any sense considered WND to be a reliable souce of news, not even close. I do know some fundamentalists that believe it like its the Gospel. Here is a link to one of their reports where that are bombarding the Senate with their hate and lies -

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97238

Here's another telling of the deviancy they think it promotes.

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97957

Finally here is a copy of the bill itself.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1913

I urge anyone reading this that agrees with this bill to contact your senator and spread the word. I guess I could resort to stooping to WND's level and refer to them as bigots, racists and gay-bashers, but I don't know how true that may or may not be.

Got something pretty damned cool in the mail today

That being the cosmetics I ordered from Miss-X.

I ordered 3 items from them - Cult Leader, Mund auf Augen zu, and Purple Death Faerie. I cannot wait to try these on. Unfortunately that's most likely going to be on my day off. I do have a feeling that I'm going to order more, especially if this blog is any indication. That's all her product on her eyes. I'm thinking more colors than what I allready ordered - reds, purples, blues, teals, maybe even greens. Glitters too!

Also included was a post card of Destroyx, autographed by Zoog!

I'm also thinking about going with some anime and Japanese street fashion inspired looks. I did have a few people say I looked Asian at my last performance and I wasn't intending on it, just how it turned out.

I still can't believe it happened.

Last night I won my first amateur drag talent show.

I'm still quite ecstatic.

And I'll be back at Planet Cafe performing with the cast in a week and a half.

Just wow.

Here's the tune you missed me doing.

So if I think I can sing....

.....Should I try it in a drag show?


I don't really sing when I do drag. I've been toying with the idea of it though.

If anything just to do something a little different.

Any thoughts?

Love thy neighbor? Love to see them evicted.

I'm going to have a talk with my landlord. I've about had it with these scrubs in the other half of the duplex.

While I was getting ready for work tonight, my power just cut off. Less than a minute later it was back on. I stepped outside to see if there was an obvious problem and it my neighbor's power was out. I find my neighbor's live-in boyfriend out there monkeying around in both my breaker box and his. He was having a problem with his stove and because it didn't shut off when he popped his main breaker, then it must be wired in to mine according to him.

It's not.

The stove is on it's own circuit, separate from the main, just like in my place. I had to reset it for them a few weeks ago. I know it's on a separate breaker, I just don't remember which one. But he wanted to argue with me about it. I didn't have time to jelly-dick around with his bullshit. I just padlocked my breaker box (really fucked up that I had to do that), and left for work. When I was leaving I heard him saying to her that it's on my power. Some people just don't listen and really need to get a clue. She was arguing with him to call the landlord. Had I not been going to work, I would have been talking to the landlord.

And so instead I wait until morning. And if I find that he has done anything to the breaker box when I get home, I'm just calling the police. I'm sick of this shit. Bad enough I had to wrap my outside water taps in duct tape to keep them from stealing water, there's has been off for the last month. She did say she would pay me the difference in the water bill, but I have as much faith in that as I do in the holy spirit. Only reason I have not turned them in for that is because I'm trying not amke their situation any worse. Cut them a break, so to speak. I know they are having troubles. But I think enough is enough. You just go and turn off someone's electric with out saying anything.

I'm feeling a bit like Voltaire in this tune -

JUSTICE FOR PEANUT! PUPPY MUTILATED/TORTURED TO DEATH!

Sign the petition here please.

It just boggles me how sick people can be. Those guys deserve nothing less than what they did to that puppy.

Hotel advice: I'll rip your spleen out and feed it to you edition

Just a few do's and don't's, mostly don't's

When walking in to a hotel with out a reservation, don't immediately stick you frequent stay program card in the face of the desk guy and say "I need a room." Especially if you are a bottom tier member that just got your card. You are not a big shot of any kind, and even if you are, acting like one gets on anyone's nerves real quick. It's all too easy for me to tell you that the hotel is sold out or to charge you the highest rate I have for the most expensive room and tell you it's the only room available. I'm just a rotten bitch that way. Also if you do decide to stick your card in my face, don't at any point be so brazen to say "Hook a brother up." At that point I'd like to put you on a meat hook.

Don't give a gift card when asked for a credit card. This should be common sense. Gift cards and credit cards are not the same thing. If it doesn't have your name on it and I can't get an imprint of it, forget it. I have never worked for a hotel that would accept one for a room. Also, if said gift card hjas a limit printed on it that is less than the room rate quoted, it's going to be really hard for me not to laugh in your face.

Don't argue when I say something is a hotel policy. Realize this whether it is a real policy or not, when I say hotel policy I mean this is not up for discussion. Telling me they do it somewhere else means nothing. I don't give a shit. It's like a little kid whining to his mother because his friend's parents let him get away with something. Moreso, if I say that I would be putting my job on the line, end it right there. Get a clue, I'm not getting myself fired for you.

Don't threaten the desk clerk. Look we take a lot of bullshit as it is, you thinking you have enough authority to will the management into firing us is laughable. And if it's the night auditor you are threatening, you get nowhere. As an auditor, I have to fail on a pretty epic level to be fired in the first place. You whining to anyone when I really did follow policy gets you nothing. And do you really think being a bottom tier frequent stay member gets you anything in this situation? Try harder. Even a top level member has to have a pretty major problem to get anyone fired, especially an auditor. About the only thing you get is mocked in my blog. Think about that and be thankful I don't give names and membership numbers.

Do be respectful when we ask you to keep it down. Chances are I just had someone bitch at me about you. I don't care how much money you or the people in your party spent, it does not give you the right to wake everyone else up. Nor to I care why you are here. It is no more or less important than why anyone else is here. Shut the fuck up, you don't own the place and I will not hesitate to have you evicted. Don't fucking think about trying me, I have thrown a bride and groom and their family out on their wedding night.

Do realize that when you rent a banquet hall you are renting the space inside it only, not the whole hotel. Unless your party has booked every room in the entire hotel, we need you to be respectful of other guests. You are not the only group of people here.

Don't say you don't care about the other guests. You will find out how fast I don't care about you and I will actively look for a reason to evict you.

the first 4 actually pertain to one person, the last ones pertain to another.

if you loved me you would buy me this

the metasonix kv-100

Seriously, this is on kick ass piece of equipment. From the site -

the metasonix kv-100 is not called the "assblaster" for nothing. we've taken all
of our knowledge of extreme vacuum-tube audio processing and combined it into a
single convenient, easy-to-use package. inevitably, the end of the tm series
will cause shit-eating, ass-fisting guitar players to whine about how
"underappreciated" they are. so, we're feeding them a foot-long fecal sandwich
of audio penis.it's complete with disgusting and juvenile cartoon art by dave
lovelace, of retarded animal babies fame.

I'm just thinking of what it can do for my violin, or some of those instruments I want to make.

I am so doing it wrong

Yet another 4/20 has come and gone and I didn't get stoned.

Oooops

It's not like the opportunity wasn't there, it's just not something I do. Or even would recommend.

And why is marijuana so special that it needs a holiday? Why not a holiday for other drugs? I'm not encouraging it. I'm just posing a question.

I think a smarter thing for the stoners of America to do would be to march on Washington in support of legalization. I'm not for that either, but it's better than breaking the law. And I can actually respect that.

If I was in a management position, I'd have some random drug screens scheduled on 4/21 every year, but that's just me. Unannounced at that. But I'm just a mean, evil person. :P

One thing that gets totally ignored in the wake of this is that on this very day, 10 years ago, a number of high school students lost their lives. If anything should be happening today, it should be in memory of them. And it should be re-examined how to prevent another tragedy like that. Maybe if those boys were not picked on. Maybe if they had someone to look up to. Maybe if they knew it was OK to be different. Maybe if their parents did a better job of being parents. I made a comment on my friend Dani's blog in her post about Columbine. It's good to see that someone is not smoking and is focusing on something a lot more important. A good friend of mine also sent out a bulletin on myspace in regards to Columbine and the fact that today is Hitler's birthday. Without Hitler we would not have Volkswagen or a face to associate with social Darwinism.

Put the drugs down folks, realize the world is falling apart around you, get up off your ass and do something about it.

Can someone reccommend me some music?

Female fronted rock that gets played currently on the radio. The harder and gothier the better.


gothier? is that a word? I think I just made that up.




I love Norwegian symphonic metal and Japanese cyberpunk, but I don't think the crowd at Planet Cafe is going to like it.