Duh!!!! Music. But really, playing on stage, singing my songs of sadness, love $, & rage-everyone can relate. I was a former gymnast (10 years)-love flipping and tripping, but damn if I didn't break near every bone in my body. Bartending is fun-but being on stage is so way better! Fixing up old homes-just helped my lova' out with a 1925 Bungalow. yes, this wealthy princess bitch got out and painted the entire outside of a house. (and now we have broken up-but oh welli sure did learn a lot) It's good for the soul. If you can do it yourself-why pay someone else to do it? You'll get way more satisfaction by doing it yourself. (a.k.a. self pride) I'm not gonna lie, like every great rock star, I still love to party-but only on down time. When on the road, all I need is an open stage, it gets me higher than any drug I've ever found. "Hello, Is there anybody out there...." David Gilmour or Roger Waters, can you tell me what I may be intersted instead of always having to be the center of attention?
Stevie Nicks, Beth Hart, Sheryl Crow, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Janis, Jim, Hendrix & Kurt all died at 27-my lucky #...(as I was born on the 27th and my mom was in labor for 27 hours and these are my heros that all died at the age of 27) I dont care for actors-they are just good liars! Girls that are white, but sing with black soul,harmony,rhythm and control.
A Few Loose Screws, Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, Janis, Sheryl, Morrison, Hendrix, Kurt, Groove Armada, Thievery Corporation, Dolly Parton, Beth Hart, P-Funk, Led Zep, Dead, pretty much any music from the Lyric and Baby boom generations-that's when music had heart and the music biz wasnt run by business men who only want you for your one hit wonder-what has happend to artist development? Ugh. Clay Evans (formally of Bluestring, until they stupidly kicked him out of the band he started-karma is a bitch!) I love Madonna as an entertainer & pusher of buttons. Gwen may be the new Madonna-but she was better with NO DOUBT! Marvin Gaye-all the live long day-Loretta Lynn & Jack White did a phenomenal album! Shooter Jennings (Waylon and Coulter's son), Cindy Lauper, Cher, more to come-my brain hurts.
Godfather, Goonies, Parenthood, Big Fish, Moulin Rouge, Beauty & the Beast (the black and white french version) Desperately Seeking Susan, Splash, Forest Gump, Thelma & Louise, The Incredibles, The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Ray, About Last Night (yes, you can make a relationship work off a one night stand-just ask my boyfriend-I take this back, as we have now broken up) The Ring 2, The Exorcist, blah, blah, blah. Oh shit-Steel Magnolias-(even though the accents are bad-it still works)
Went 5 years without it-believe it is the devil-it sucks you in and then you dont know where to begin...but, if I must say what I like about TV,it would be... History Channel, Travel Channel-Anthony Bourdain, and my most disgusting indulgence...E Entertainmet and Grey's Anatomy
Valley of the Dolls, The Art of Zen and Motercycle Maintainence (Persig), Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 1984, Brave New World, The Kite Runner, Devil in the White City and above all alse... LOLITA----that book is hot and wrong in so many ways that it evoked this part of me that could not put it down, (mind you, i'm having to look up several words on every page in the dictionary so i can fully grasp what this amazing author, who was born in the former USSR-wrote in English! That means, a Russian dude has/had better knowledge of the english language than myself-i felt like a 3rd grader. In Vladimir Nabokov's own words, "The longer I live the more I become convinced that the only thing that matters in literature is the (more or less irrational) "shamanstvo" of a book, i.e., that the good writer is first of all an enchanter.
My grandmother, Sonia (Mom, Monique's side)is amazing. She's my hero, b/c she met my American grandfather, who was stationed in Brussels, Belgium during WWII and ended up leaving volatile, war-torn Belgium in search for a better life in the States. She thought she was moving to DC, but ended up in SELMA,AL with my grandfather. She didnt speak a lick of english when she moved here, but ended up getting a college degree later and becoming a french teacher. She raised 4 kids and the most important thing is that she had the balls to leave everything behing to start a new life in a new country. Has she not been that brave, I never would have been here, and sadly enough I am the only one that have made an effort to learn her native language-french Thank GOD she wasnt born Flemish-what a weird language.