Ramble On: Spring 2025 Edition

 To whom it may concern:

 Playlist Link: Ramble On Spring 2025 Edition

1. “I told her I swim for an hour every day, so she’ll do it for two.” - Sean Connery as Robert MacDougal, ‘Entrapment’

2. I’m just getting started.

3. I will be forever laughing at anyone who says that they love the sound of their own voice. #gross

4. 80s movies are my guilty pleasure.

5. Dancing in vineyards, under a full moon, at midnight.

6. If your woman doesn’t own a bone saw, what is she even doing with her life?

7. People tend to look at all the classes, schools, certifications, experiences, jobs and whateverthehellelse I’ve been through and tell me that I “don’t know what I want to do with my life” — and I tell them that they couldn’t be more wrong…I want to do everything with my life. #dontlimitme

8. Fresh chapstick <3

9. When it now takes two people to do my old job…

10. Givers vs. Takers

11. “Everything, Sam Peebles decided later, was the fault of the god damn acrobat.” —Stephen King, “The Library Policeman”

12. “There’s a whole lot of ‘fuck you’ in that tiny woman.”

13. Men taste better when they’re scared.

14. Here’s to wellness and wealth.

15. “Your stars have already let you come quite a long way since you left your mother’s womb and whimpered at the cold air of the world.” — Ian Fleming “Live and Let Die”

16. White roses and gypsophila.

17. “For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean, or glide over the highest cloud.” — Albus Dumbledore, JK Rowling

18. Listen, as someone whose pre-teen and teenage body was irreversibly and unforgivably fucked up by doctors, medications, and my own parent’s consent, please just leave the kids alone. I started college at 15 years old and by 17, I couldn’t stand up for more than 5 seconds (let alone walk on my own) because I was so poisoned by this bullshit. I was hospitalized for weeks while fighting for my life. And even prior to that, I was having every single negative side effect every single time they put me on a new medication. And despite having the wherewithal to be in college so young, I wasn’t allowed to make my own medical decisions as a minor. To this day, I’m still dealing with the repercussions from the irresponsible decisions of adults. There is a reason most of these medications are listed for “only people over 18” — listen to that and listen to your children. Moreover, these medications only work properly on a very small amount of the adult population, if at all — never mind adding them to a body that hasn’t settled down from growth stages yet. Nobody should ever have to live in fear of their own body shutting down because of other people’s decisions. Do your due diligence and do the research. Educate yourselves. Let your children’s bodies and brains fully develop. Let them make their own decisions about it all when they’re old enough. Look, I get it, you want to listen to the doctors, you want to help your kids, but please trust me when I tell you that this is most likely not the way. Learn to say no to doctors. Learn to question them. They do not deserve your blind faith. Doctors are not gods. Most of what doctors do is designed to save their own asses, not help you or your child. Quit making your own offspring medical Guinea pigs. Your children deserve better. And if you really want to put someone on pills so badly, consider poisoning yourself instead. (And I’m hard pressed to even name another country that medicates their population this much, regardless of age.)

19. You read to me, and I’ll read to you.

20. This is your sign to change your pillowcases and sheets to clean ones <3

21. Total sobriety is a blessing and a curse — I’m thinking too much, but I’m also making soups that take 26 hours to complete — and it is also much much easier to completely maintain than originally thought. (And no, I will not be joining your 12-step program. I am the only thing on this planet with control over my habits and I intend to keep it that way. 12-Step programs seem to be some of the greatest enablers for relapse — otherwise, why would one of the first steps of a program that is designed for people who already feel helpless be to take even more power away from them? Just give them their strength back instead of stripping away even more of it and creating another dependency. Don’t even get me started on the proven 7-12% “success” rate of these programs...)

22. “I'm not wearing underwear today. /No, I'm not wearing underwear today. /Not that you prob'ly care /Much about my underwear…”

23. Follow the pandas and the penguins. The jellyfish don’t know where they’re going, but they mean well.

24. Get off my case about grammar and punctuation — after editing transcripts for LA Superior Court (where even most of the attorneys rarely used proper English and I still had to make it make sense on paper), my brain is beyond jumbled when it comes to this. Also, Douglas Adams never used an Oxford comma when writing any of the Hitchhiker’s books, so at least I have that going for me. Though he may have been clever enough to realize when it would be funny without them, I should probably go back and research more. (Also, “show” and “shoe” are often the same in my head now after learning legal shorthand — which is horrible and also why I fuck up normal homonyms a lot. And these aren’t the only ones I screw up. Knowing two different forms of English is worse than knowing two completely different languages…imagine knowing your native tongue AND a strictly phonetic version of your native tongue with even more shortcuts and less lettering…good times.)

25. Ew gold-digging manwhores. #notyourmommy

26. Tell me, is it you that’s in love with your therapist, or is it the other way around? Either way I can hear it in your voice and it’s creeping me out. (And I can’t imagine that it’s conducive to your long-awaited therapy. Welcome to the 13th step, my fiend.)

27. When the women scream like banshees, it’s time for change (and traditionally, death).

28. So many moving pieces, my little birds, THIS is what 3D chess boards were made for.

29. I still wonder what Bill Murray said to Scarlett Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation.

30. People’s interpretations of my writing often say more about them than they do me.

31. Too much synchronicity to be coincidence.

32. Everything ends.

33. The false sense of achievement people get from playing video games is a problem. Learning to construct a chair or a fishing rod in real life would be much more rewarding than chopping virtual wood for 400 hours. That’s time you’ll never get back. And for what? So some pixels on a screen can tell you “Good job”? Is that really what you want to look back on your life and see one day? Can’t pass that down to children, that’s for sure. And I get why that feeling of accomplishment is so addicting and that people keep going back to it so they don’t have to address the real problems they have, but damn. Don’t you want more than that for yourself? What are wills going to look like in 50 years? “And to my son, I leave my collection of Minecraft furniture.”

34. The Fisher King.

35. Two plus two doesn’t always equal four, especially if you happen to be talking to a mathematician.

36. I’m sure that for most people, Dennis Hopper’s character and the violent/sexual/psychotic natures associated with him in Blue Velvet were the most memorable/shocking part of the entire film — but when the woman got out and started dancing on top of the car…that was probably the most memorable/shocking thing for me…because what the actual fuck? Hopper’s character was almost predictable after the initial scene with him, but the woman on the car…why? What was that? What movie did she think she was in??? Where was her mind? Fuck, where was the director’s mind??? How much cocaine was involved in shooting that scene alone, never mind the rest of the movie?

37. PSA: Please stop using your religion as an excuse to be a shitty person.

38. Bringing back this little gem: “One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating the obvious... At first Ford formed a theory to account for this human behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.” — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

39. I took those sunny days for granted. I was swayed by peculiarity and perversion. I swooned over the opportunity for something new — something not so docile. And then I went mad with fear when you did the same. But I should have protected you. I should have protected us. Things seem to always have a way of coming full circle. I should have known better. And yet, despite the ebbing anguish, still I thank you for seeing value where I did not and for doing the difficult thing of setting me free. Leaving was the kindest thing you could have done.

40. Matukai > Jedi (but don’t tell the Jedi, their egos are too fragile)

41. Brutal yet refined.

42. 1 Lunar Distance ≈ 225,879,656.83394 Smoots (plus or minus an ear)

43. News should just be news again. No fearmongering. No sales tactics. No worrying about ratings. Just news. Just the facts as we understand them in the moment as a shared community. Boring would be refreshing. Only having the news be on a couple of times a day again would be a miracle.

44. There’s no honor among thieves — and isn’t that all that artists really are?

45. Spending long nights crawling around in every moldy back alley of my brain and rigorously, repetitively, ruefully scrubbing them with bleach until they squeak and reek from chemical sweetness. Fighting poison with poison. A brain so clean you could eat off of it.

46. The rest is just commentary.

47. Is it really so wrong to want to feel warmth again?

48. “Mr. Perfect — Your dinner party stinks. Your apartment stinks. Fuck you all.” Héléna (Isabelle Adjani), Subway (Luc Besson).

49. Please stop wearing blue jeans or shorts to go to look at over $500 million worth of art. It’s disrespectful.

50. An absurdly thinking thing is still a thinking thing.

51. Don’t take it personally — I rarely talk to anyone at all anymore unless I absolutely have to.

52. People take pictures of what’s important to them.

53. “He passed a blueberry bush and took the time to strip it before he moved on.” — Eric Nylund, Halo: The Fall of Reach

54. Credit card companies need to cool it with their point systems. 100,000 points sounds good until you realize it equals about $1,000…after you spend $10,000 to get those points. Is assigning arbitrary value systems to things really the gray area when it comes to false advertising, etc.? Because that’s kind of fucking amazing and it takes “you’re not wrong if nobody knows what you’re doing” to an entirely different level.

55. Nothing is certain but death and taxes…and I’m shit at math, so here we go — death it is.

56. Occasionally, it’s just not time to know certain things yet. That is, we aren’t supposed to know them yet. Or we aren’t supposed to have the answer yet. Perhaps sometimes there’s a reason bigger than we can think of (or associate with ourselves) for this, perhaps not. And maybe with some things, we’ll never know no matter what we do. Maybe some things we simply can’t know or aren’t allowed to know.

57. The seagulls are screaming again.

58. Heavy bags should be covered in blood, sweat, and tears by the end of their lifetime. If they’re missing one of those elements, you didn’t use it right.

59. That video of the characters from Charlie Brown dancing to The Cure could not be more accurate.

60. That’s just fine by me darling, take your time. I’ll wait.

61. I can sustain you, but I’m also not afraid to cut down a side of beef after thanking it for its service.

62. Philosophically speaking, do mushrooms/fungi/mycelium have consciousness? Should the ability to produce/send/make use of electrical energies/impulses at all (not just between neurons in our own and similar brain structures) be considered more of a cornerstone not only in determining consciousness in other entities, but in defining consciousness as a whole?

63. In the 80s, Germany had apparently censored some video games so that blood would be green instead of red — prompting Reddit users of today to make comments such as “he’s blasting the night vision juice out of him”.

64. You don’t lack motivation. You lack discipline.

65. Victor Hugo wrote what’s considered to be the shortest letter ever written when he sent a single question mark to his publisher to see how sales were doing. His publisher responded by sending a single exclamation point back to Hugo to indicate that sales were going well.

66. Sauerkraut in the A.M.

67. The honey badger may not “give any fucks,” but it also consistently provides sustenance and does all the work for the scavengers and vultures that seem to always be around it.

68. Watching Red vs. Blue for the 157,743,785,436 time.

69. The mind, body, and soul are all separate things — despite the ancient Greeks having the same word for two of them. I know this because all of them hurt in extraordinarily different ways. Doctors and such may be able to occasionally help the first two of them, but when something people can’t even agree on exists (the soul) is fractured, the other two tend to follow suit in that the pains become concrete and solidify any way they can just to keep you from completely breaking and turning to dust. My mind often tries to distract from the other two (and sometimes it even mostly succeeds), sometimes the physical outweighs the mental, but there’s still always something left. Always nagging. Always something reminding me that things still aren’t quite right. And pain simply meaning you’re still alive and breathing isn’t good enough anymore. I am not equipped to begin mending a soul, nor do I even know if it’s possible, but I can tell you that when that part of you starts to die, it feels like there’s nothing that can ever bring it back again. There’s a black hole that forms inside of you and no matter what you throw into it, it can never be filled. Part of you is just gone and all you can really do is try to stop it from swallowing the rest. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

70. I sing a version of “If You’re Happy and You Know It” to my cat when she’s screaming at me for breakfast in the morning…the lyrics mostly consist of “if you’re tiny and you’re hungry meow meow meow” …and she does in fact usually meow meow meow at me in response.

 

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