Songs To Stalk Someone By (love series vol. 3)

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This CD wasn’t originally part of the “Love” series; originally it was supposed to be “kissing”, “love”, and “sex”. But somehow the kissing CD never got off the ground. This CD came about after a dinner-time discussion of Sting’s “Behind the Music” episode on VH-1. He mentioned that couples came up to him and told him they got married to “Every Breath You Take” and it freaked him out because it was a stalker song. From there we started talking about “Stalker” songs in general, and off the top of our heads listed all the songs here.
Apparently there’s a Sarah Maclachlan song we overlooked, but oh well. The first four songs all seem slow and dreamy and romantic, but if you listen closely to the lyrics, they’re pretty creepy. I originally had five Melissa Etheridge songs picked out, but I thought it might go to her head, so I only took three.

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Devil Figurines

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Work went okay; did the prototyping for the store and finished up the design changes on flat files.
Went looking for devil figurines today at lunch and after work; didn’t find any. I did go into a 80% off booksale in Castleton, ran into M., and ended up buying 3 books that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise.
Came home, watched a Friends episode I missed, a Charmed episode I missed, and updated the gayindy.org calendar. Started reading one of the books I bought – Ms. Behavior’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Etiquette.
Boring day.

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Weekend Update 2000-07-05

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Friday – Tuesday were the long Independence Day weekend. It was pretty boring because I forgot to make plans ahead of time, and of course everyone had something to do but me. I read most of the time.
Friday I went to the Fashion mall and bought $52 worth of Aveda shampoo/conditioner/body wash, etc. A lot to spend, but it’s huge bottles and It all smells the same and is better quality stuff. Then I went to see Up At The Villa in Castleton. Not a bad little movie, but pretty slow paced. I guess it’s from a Somerset Maugham novel.
Saturday I went to Future Shock and bought two pairs of shoes; these wicked cool black leather pair with flames on them and a pair of Old Skool Vans. I wore the flame ones to Dan and Doug’s and they didn’t know what to think, obviously, so I guess they’re pretty over the top. But they’re cool and I like them and that’s all that counts. There were a bunch more pairs of shoes I want there, too, so I’ll be going back.
Sunday I went to The Abbey and had a nice Pesto chicken sandwich and iced coffee and hung out and wrote some quite extensive oulines/character studies on the regency novel. I got a lot done, then went to Target and Borders, where I found that five of the Georgette Heyer novels have been reprinted, so I bought four of them, along with Timelines in History, so I can figure out what books/events my characters would have been interested in.
I finished the prototyping I was working on on Friday, and then we reworked the basic site design for regeneration this week. It looks a lot cleaner and cooler, so that’s pretty cool.
Came home to find that Mary had a roofer come in to look at the leaky ceiling. I guess he resealed the roof but will be coming back in the next two weeks to redo the entire roof, which is a good thing, I guess, but I’ll be on pins and needles till then, since I’ll have to keep Idgie away from them, and since there will be strangers in my apt. I’ll have to walk around and put stuff away.

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On the nature of evil

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The difficulty with evil nowadays, is that we no longer recognize it. This isn’t because evil has changed at all, but because we now have a warped understanding of what it is.
Evil isn’t, and never has been, a James Bond (or Austin Powers) villain who twirls his moustaches and threatens to cut our hero in half with a giant band saw while telling him the secret plans for world domination. Evil people in the movies and on television are proud that they’re evil, and they do what they do with malice aforethought, and they articulate their enjoyment at seeing other people in pain. In the movies, the hero never has trouble telling who the bad guy is, even if sometimes they have trouble convincing others.
Real evil people don’t want you to think they’re evil. They don’t want to think they’re evil themselves, so they come up with elaborate rationalizations for why they’re good, or why their bad behavior is someone else’s fault. Have you ever seen a criminal face his victim and apologize? They have a tendency to say things like, “I’m sorry this happened to you” instead of “I’m sorry I did that to you.” They don’t own their mistakes. They might be apologizing, but it’s the apology of an innocent bystander rather than the perpetrator of the crime.
Evil people often do good things to cover up their evil behavior.
Like the Phillip Morris commercials that talk about how the company is donating money to battered women’s shelters and children’s causes when we all know they made their money from a product that kills people. Or the Nike “Mrs. Jones” commercials that talk about supporting women athletes when Nike is under fire for using child labor to make their products.

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What do you want to be when you grow up?

I remember when I was a little kid, I read a book about Camelot and King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table–and because I was reading pretty far above my age level, I understood what I read, but I didn’t understand the context of it… meaning I didn’t really have a concept of history and timelines and things that happened in the past versus things that were happening presently.

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Central Park Attacks letter to the editor

I’m watching Dateline NBC… the special on the attacks in Central Park of women during the Puerto Rican parade.
I was outraged by this special, and not just at what happened, but at the way that you reported it. You blamed the victims and made excuses for the criminals, and that is wrong, plain wrong.
I can walk naked down the street with a rose in my teeth, and no one has a right to touch me without my permission. If they do, they should be arrested, and spend every second of the rest of their lives in jail. It’s as simple as that. The young women who were laughing and flirting before they were attacked were NOT at fault for what happened to them. They have a right to be out in public, enjoying themselves, and enjoying attention paid to them.
You practically apologized for the behavior of the men involved. You cited things like testosterone, beer, marijuana as the causes, not moral bankruptcy and total lack of conscience. Then you had the unmitigated gall to cite the squeaky clean backgrounds of some of the young men.
These young men were criminals. They’re bad and evil, and deserve to spend their lives in jail. I don’t care if his brother is a cop, or if he’s a barber.
Our society has this weird mass delusion that rapists are men that hide in the bushes and just jump out and rape women all day, as though that’s their job.
Rapists are people’s brothers, basketball stars, fathers and sons. They are regular people. The fact that we can’t realize this and deal with it is the reason that we can’t stop rape, and the reason that women can’t get justice when they’re attacked.
Watching this special, I got up several times and walked around my apartment, acting out what I would do if I were caught in this situation. I was raped in 1989, so this isn’t the first time I’m acted out this scene. And every scenario I came up with involves me attacking and hurting, maiming or killing one or more of these men.
I can’t begin to express the rage I feel that this can happen in our society and that we, rather than deal with the issue swiftly and punitively, make rationalizations about why it happened.

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Happy Birthday, Riley (vol. 2)

01 – The Ballad of Davy Crockett – Davy Crockett
02 – H R Pufnstuf – Theme Song
03 – The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams – Theme Song
04 – Land of the Lost – Theme Song
05 – Hong Kong Phooey (Number 1 Super Guy) – Theme Song
06 – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah – Song of the South
07 – Candle on the Water – Pete’s Dragon
08 – Ev’rybody Wants To Be A Cat – The Aristocats
09 – Winnie The Pooh – Winnie The Pooh
10 – Heigh-Ho – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
11 – Someday My Prince Will Come – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
12 – Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo – Cinderella
13 – The Work Song – Cinderella
14 – So This Is Love – Cinderella
15 – Once Upon a Dream – Sleeping Beauty
16 – Something There – Beauty and the Beast
17 – Be Our Guest – Beauty and the Beast
18 – Spoonful of Sugar – Mary Poppins
19 – Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious – Mary Poppins
20 – Let’s Go Fly A Kite – Mary Poppins
21 – I’d Do Anything – Oliver!
22 – Over The Rainbow – The Wizard of Oz
23 – Munchkin Land Sequence – The Wizard of Oz
24 – Ya got Trouble/Seventy Six Trombones – The Music Man
25 – Shipoopi – The Music Man
26 – Do-Re-Mi – Sound of Music
27 – Lonely Goatherd – Sound of Music
28 – So Long, Farewell – Sound of Music

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Happy Birthday, Riley (vol. 1)

01 – Octopus Garden – Beatles
02 – Yellow Submarine – Beatles
03 – Puff the Magic Dragon – Peter, Paul and Mary
04 – Unicorn – The Irish Rovers
05 – Teddy Bear – Elvis Presley
06 – Snoopy and the Red Baron – Royal Guardsmen
07 – The Lion Sleeps Tonight – Robert John
08 – I Am The Lion – Neil Diamond – Tap Root Manuscript
09 – Little Shoemaker – Petula Clark
10 – Witch Doctor – David Saville
11 – Purple People Eater – Sheb Wooley
12 – Joy To The World – Three Dog Night
13 – Banana Boat – Harry Belafonte
14 – Jump In The Line – Harry Belafonte
15 – Splish Splash – Bobby Darin
16 – This Land is Your Land – Peter, Paul and Mary
17 – Weave Me the Sunshine – Peter, Paul and Mary
18 – Put Your Hand In the Hand – Ocean
19 – Spirit in the Sky – Norman Greenbaum
20 – Whole World in His Hands – Odetta
21 – Chapel of Love – The Dixie Cups
22 – I’m a Believer – The Monkees
23 – Daydream Believer – The Monkees
24 – Lone Ranger – The William Tell Overture
25 – Happy Trails – Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

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Questions from my sister

Pontification requested:
1. Is there really good and bad/black and white/ right and wrong in the world, or is everything in shades of grey/gray? (deeds, not people. People would be a whole different discussion)
2. Jealousy: Your thoughts?
Brief update: not yet married. Kittens are healthy. Hair is short.
Thoughts from the pontiff:
1. Ranges from dark, dark greys to very light greys.
2. When I am jealous, it is an indication that:
a) I care deeply about the relationship I’m in.
b) I have an instinctive feeling that someone’s motives aren’t trustworthy. Usually it isn’t the person that I’m involved with, but rather the person who seems to be intruding into the relationship that I feel isn’t trustworthy. In retrospect, my instinct was correct 100% of the time; those persons were indeed trying to intrude.
In these situations, the response I expect from the person that I’m in a relationship is: “I respect your instincts. Therefore, I will tell [intrusive person] to bugger off.” I’ve gotten that response from my partner only once.
Steph

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A Midsummer Night’s Bootleg CD

01 – Tribute to King Tubby – Beats International – The Fatboy Slim/Norman Cook Collection
02 – Renegade Master – Wild Child – The Fatboy Slim/Norman Cook Collection
03 – I See You Baby – Groove Armada – Vertigo
04 – Beng Beng Beng – Femi Kuti – Shoki Shoki
05 – Darkside – Crazy Town – The Gift Of Game
06 – Sound Wars – DJ Shortee – The Dreamer
07 – Better Than The Superbowl – Errortype:Eleven – Amplified To Rock
08 – Head On – Jesus And Mary Chain – Automatic
09 – The Aging Young Rebel (Featuring Ken Nordine) – DJ Food – Kaleidoscope
10 – Point Breeze – Marah – Kids In Philly
11 – Goodbye Earl – Dixie Chicks – Fly
12 – Sometimes I Don’t Mind – Suicide Machine – Designs For Automotion
13 – Before You – Chantal Kreviazuk – Moving And Still
14 – Twist The Knife – Neko Case And Her Boyfriends – Furnace Room Lullaby
15 – Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues – Eels – Daisies of the Galaxy
16 – Peace And Rest – Saturnine – American Kestrel
17 – Playground Love – Air – The Virgin Suicides Soundtrack
18 – Breathe – Faith Hill – Breathe

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