Treasure Island Music Festival 2012, Sunday

My memory in bullet point form (minus the bullets):

Awesome parking. $30 bucks well spent.

Eating chimichurrie fries from 4505. Reeeeally gooood.

Hospitality! Although, I prefer bands that have fun and act slightly more humble (wow, do I sound like douche! but...), especially with this kind of fun music. The band seemed kind of, I don't know, cunty.  Example: in a vaguely bored and subtle foreign accent "We're so excited to be playing on this beautiful vessel."  Dooon't doooo thaat.  Motherfucker, it's an island. Treasure Island Music Festival.  Separate thought, but a concurring moment: The sit down seduction. Boys hitting on girls. You come and sit down, very very close to single girls and you settle into a sensual reclining pose. Is this what the kids are doing now a days?

Intense people watching. Stylish, weird, Wearing.Those.Boots/Middrift/Stockings/Leggings/etc., boobs.

Naked lady statue shade

+ waiting for someone to fall off the tiny trampolines 

+ bananas & chocolate 

funnel cake

= best funnel cake ever.

Korean 

bbq 

tacos, ehhhh.

Posting up in the intermittent shade of the ferris wheel. 
Coffee, orange juice, water, snap.
Orange juice + mango = delicious.
Mango juice + orange juice = why would you do that?
Disgusting.

Blonde bitchhh. let. me. tell. you. Hust. ling. us. for. some. water. She was cool. Until she drank straight out of Dom's water bottle without asking. What is wrong with you?

Bumping into co workers. Work talk. But, fuuuuuun.

Other bands.


 Porto potty theory. Go where no one else goes. So walk to the farthest porto potties. But what if everyone else is thinking the same thing? Pee and poo particles. Kitty litter for humans.








I noticed, the mohawk hairdo is big with fem/hip seemingly gay dudes and lesbian asian chicks. I'm somewhere in between.  I'm asian, I like dudes and I have a vagina.  It is only slightly narcissistic to hit on me when we look exactly the same, girl washing your hands across from me. And no, I didn't just make up that husband story to let you down easy. 
I am married to a dude with a pre op penis, who chooses to live his life as a man.
Got it.

BEST COAST!!! 

Dance dance dance dance dance, 

sit down, 

slow dance, 

DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE.

I think it was Silent Disco next. Weird, but cool. Submerged in music, but dancing in silence. Don't yell over the music ya dummy! Take the headphones off and talk at a normal volume. Me, waack. Just a lil.

M83. Chill. Music made visual. Perfect at moments.

Gossip. Waaaackin. Shamefully. People. Looking. Me. Feel Weird.

The XX. Yes. Awesome. Minimal. Perfect. Smooth. Ughhhhh. That's that shit I DO like. Feelings. Emotions in music form. And influenced by dance music. They make that statement make sense.

Last porto potty experience at the end of the night. SQUAT! Don't sit down. Thank God for portable sinks! And I forgot to mention the dance that goes with pumping the foot pedal for water. There's a dance.
 
Merch table to buy the Best Coast and Hospitality albums. Sold out. Impulsed bought a $25 dollar tshirt instead. No Jenny. Don't do that. I'm gonna have to wear the shit out of this shirt.




Doin hipster things with mah frenzz.
Jenny





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Movies

Movies that I'm finally fully appreciating.  Watched in this order this week, starting from the most recently watched...

1. When Harry Met Sally
2. Something's Gotta Give
3. Casino
4. Sense and Sensibility

Great acting all around.  Great dialogue.  Great stories.




Jenny

True Heartbreak

Did I ever tell you the story about Mikey cutting my favorite pair of sweatpants into shorts?

I was devastated.



Jenny

Can I Be a Professional Kids Stylist Now Please?

I found my dream job.  Friggin Zara Kids Clothing.... SO CUTE!!!


Jenny

Marriage Means Something to Me

One year has gone by since I tied the knot to a Mr. Michael Morales.  Back in September, I reported that our married life is pretty much the same as our dating life, and not much has changed.  So why get married?  It wasn't a money thing, I can't even tell you the difference between my taxes now and before we got married.  And it's not a legal thing, we have nothing to legally fight over if we split except Nathan, and married or not, legal stuff would ensue if we were to split.  So the question is why then?  My answer?

This is honestly why I wanted to get married, and is still how I reasoned my desire to get married:

If legal marriage is the way you can show the one you love that you love them the most and want everyone to know that you love them that much, then I wanted to marry Mikey.

If that doesn't make sense, let me clarify.

You know how some people get promotions, but their job doesn't change?  It's like that.  It's tangible proof that the people around you, your superiors and possibly your equals depending on if there is a peer review, know and believe that you are doing a great job and want to show you that they appreciate your hard work and that you deserve a higher status so that everyone else will instantly know you're good.  That's what marriage is to me.

The big wedding that goes along with getting married is just a way to get people happily through celebrating you and your love of each other.  Makes sense why some people hate weddings, because it can get very self congratulatory very fast.  "Look at what we have and how great our lives are!!!"  BLEH!  But I've noticed that the most enjoyable weddings to attend, the ones where you can't hate the bride and groom no matter how cheesy things get, are those that are insanely genuine.  You can just look at that bride and groom and see the love that they have for each other, and yes, their wedding day and marriage means exactly what I believe it to mean.  A way to show the person you have chosen to marry that you love them the most and you want everyone to know it.

When I call Mikey my husband, I have just designated that I love him the most to people that may not know that.

And this is why it means something to me that gay/lesbian/transgender people should have the right to legally marry their spouse.  They grew up with the same understanding of marriage as me (assuming), and to not let them get married is taking away a way for them to show their love for their favorite person.  It's discrimination.  Would you be able to deny a promotion of an outstanding worker based on a lifestyle choice you did not agree with?  No, that would be illegal.  And that's why denying a gay/lesbian/transgender person from getting married to the person they love is so wrong and should be illegal.

And divorce carries the same opposite meaning to me.  It's about showing the world that the person you are divorcing is no longer your favorite person.  And that I understand.  It happens, and I'm very sympathetic.  Everyone should be allowed to marry and divorce as they see fit.

I'm not sure how I got to this point in my post, but my initial intention was to say, happy first wedding anniversary to me and Mikey.  Nothing has changed, and I'm glad.



Jenny

Why Money is the Source of Happiness and Evil

We live in a world where money buys you everything.  It is also the reason that most people do bad things.  I say most because some people are just plain fucked up and do bad things because they like doing bad things.

Your average person will do petty bad things to save money.

Your rich person will do bad things to make more money.

Your evil person will do really bad things for easy money.

Examples.

Your average person will download pirated music and movies, not pay for food or other small items if they know they will not be prosecuted for it, and will shortchange anyone that won't make a fuss over it.  These are bad things to do because they are stealing.  You didn't pay for that album, you didn't pay for that movie, you didn't pay for that food, you didn't pay for that jacket, you didn't do the work that you said you would for that money.  If it was cash you were stealing, you probably wouldn't do it.

Your rich person will scheme and scheme to increase profits, no matter what the cost is to others.  The mortgage crisis is one of these schemes.  They sold houses to people they knew could not afford it in order to sell stocks to foreign investors and bought stocks betting on their failure.  The people who bought the houses have poor credit now, the economy is not so hot and almost completely collapsed, and none of these schemers had to pay for what they did. 
The whole food industry is another one.  America is getting fatter and unhealthier.  More shit is put into our food to make it more delicious so we eat more.  And more money is spent on advertising than the cost is to make the food that is being eaten.  No one is making us eat this food, true.  But they damn sure aren't telling us the whole fucking truth either, not about the cost, not about the content, not about profits.
Oil.  This one is too easy and far reaching that if you don't know, I don't know what to say.  Cars, hybrids, tires, wars, roads.  I don't know, just everything about that industry is full of selfish business people who don't give a fuck about anything and only care about the bottom line: money.
Big corporations that lay off their workers to increase profits.  They give pay cuts, and give themselves raises.  Bad.

Your evil person will do bad things for easy money.  Human trafficking is pretty bad.  Anyone on the scheming side are evil for sure.  Drug dealing.  I know the small drug dealers aren't really evil, it may just be a means to an end to some, but the big wealthy ones are definitely evil.  Pretty much anyone on the top of a pyramid is probably evil because they had to do things to stay on top.  Preying on the naive.  Not cool, evil for obvious reasons.


But money does get good things too.  Advances in technology.  Toys for kids.  Medicine for ailments that can't be cured naturally.  Food.  It's easy to see how money doesn't necessarily equal evil, but people definitely lose morality for this shit.  Is it that hard to make money in honest ways?  Don't ignore how you're making your money.  And how much money do you really need?  Do you need a big big house?  Do you need a really expensive car?  Do you need expensive clothes?  Why?  So that you can appear to be successful while you are not contributing to society, and actually making it worse?  Now I'm not talking about hard working honest people who never harmed anyone, by all means, if you're making money in a very respectable way, buy whatever you want.  No, I'm talking about the Evil people in the world that are rich and became rich by doing whatever evil thing it took.  And I'm sure every single bad thing they did, they validated it by saying "well if I didn't do it, someone else would."



Jenny

Harry Potter and the Puppet Presidents and Going Off On a Tangent

Voldemort's chosen Minister of Magic could be paralleled to today's Presidents
In the last Harry Potter, the appointed Minister of Magic to Voldermort's new regime was just a person who could be controlled by Voldemort.  He didn't make any important decisions.  He was just a puppet.  Just like today's presidents.  It doesn't matter who is elected, we know that a president cannot pass anything without the support of the House or Senate.  And who controls the House and Senate?  Ideally, House and Senate reps are elected by the people.  This is what a democracy is.  But we know that there are a few people who run, that we know close to nothing about, except for their party affiliations and campaign budgets.  And what matter is a party affiliation when a vote is willingly sold and is usually bought by lobbyists, who are funded by big, rich, corporations.  Is it a wonder that more and more legislation is being passed to protect low taxes on big corporations, lower taxes for the individually wealthy, and laws that enforce the wishes of such ridiculous corporations like Monsanto.

I once heard that more and more young voters do not see the point in voting.  Do we really wonder why with the message being - it does not matter who you vote for or what you believe in, but how much money you can throw at people to get them to do what you want?

And sadly, we are a generation of people who really believe this is as good as it's going to be, that it doesn't matter how much we do, or how much we care, but this is the world as we know it.

Why can't we want more?  I want more.  I want equal rights for everyone, equal tax for everyone, less outsourcing and more manufacturing here in America.  I want profits to be smaller and everyone to be paid what they deserve.  I want more money for education, and I want everyone to believe that an education is important.  I want an honest reason that we are going to war, an honest reason we are at war.  I want people to eat healthier.  I want people to be happier with their lives.  Oh and I want an end to lobbying.

Forget what you know about the government and money and imagine an improved world.  I'm starting with this blog here.  I may not do a lot to improve the world around me, but at least I'm saying it.  And hopefully, you're reading it.  And you'll want more fairness in the world, not more money, and you'll ask for more.  And maybe if more of us ask for more and not just more money, politicians will give us more.  And maybe I did something to help improve the world by reaching you.


Best,
Jenny