Garbage Studio Diary #28 October 11th-17th 2004.

Woke up feeling REALLY outraged this morning having spent sunday night at a fundraiser for Women's Rights during which the organizers screened the documentary "A Voice for Choice" which examines the current crisis in women's reproductive freedoms and the systematic attacks being wreaked by the current Bush administration on a woman's right to choose.
The film really affected me profoundly,at one point bringing me to the brink of tears and has left me feeling really anxious and concerned.
I grew up in the UK which is essentially a pretty liberal country for all that we British gripe about it and although I have always been aware that the laws pertaining to women's rights in the US were rather restricitve by comparison I must have been sleeping because I genuinely had no idea just how threatened they have become during this current administration.If Bush and Cheney succeed in their bid for another four years I dread to think how much more fucked up things could become.
Anyways......on a lighter note........I got fitted with my contact lenses today and they're fantastic! I can see everything with stunning clarity!!!! All the fuzzy edges of people and things are as sharp and crisp as they used to be and I no longer have this awful strained feeling behind my left eye.Getting the damned things in and out is a tad problematic but I can wear them for 30 days at a time.....day and night......so I am over the moon.
Oh my god........I've just read a caption on CNN alluding to the fact that Britney Spears is supposedly going to change her name to Britney Federline. Surely not.Has she lost her MIND? What is going ON in poor Britney's head?!?!
And how about Nicky Hilton wanting to annul her marriage after two months? TWO MONTHS?!?!?! Are you KIDDING me?!?!?!? What a complete moron.
Eeesh......i makes me so sad to think about all the seriously commited gay couples who are struggling and fighting for the right to enter into the institution of marriage yet meanwhile silly little girls like Nicky Hilton are able to make an absolute mockery of it and besides the odd raised eyebrow or two totally get away with it just because she's a hetrosexual.It's so unjust.
On another political note.........seeing as Wisconsin is a swing state, all the celebrity activists are turning up in downtown Madison to try and encourage people to utilize their vote.Leonardo De Caprio,Michael Moore and Natalie Portman to name but a few.Oh man this election is going to be INTENSE.
As it happens,we're all going off to hear Michael Moore speak at the University of Wisconsin student union tonight and I am so fucking EXCITED.Never before in my lifetime has an election seemed so desperately important and it's weird.....it feels like we're going to a rock show or something and we're all a titter with excitment and anticipation and the feeling of being united with others.What's adding to the excitement and the sense of occasion is the fact that it's the first time the temperature has dropped below 40 degrees this fall, signalling the beginning of winter and plunging temperatures so we're scrambling around trying to muster enough scarfs and gloves to keep everyone snugglelicious,making it feel like a holiday of some sort!!!
Okay.....so I can't say I'm a big country music fan but right now I'm totally and utterly obsessed with the Warren Brothers in their CMT reality show "Barely Famous".During the last episode they actually had the cameras filming them whilst enduring a colonic irrigation!!!!! I couldn't believe it.I was absolutely hooting my head off.Bravo bravo you cheeky boys.I salut you.Any man who is willing to allow a woman to shove a tube up his arse on national tv and have the shit quite literally sucked out of him is a real man in my books.
Talking of reality shows and cute men....how about good old Flavor Flav on The Surreal Life.How sweet is he??!?!?! He's like a little angel.And mad old,bad old Brigitte is obviously just going to eat him for breakfast before spitting him out into the dust!! OH Brigitte you mad and bad old girl.....don't do it!!
Oh how I loved the whole "cutting a single" episode the other night when that poor girl from American Idol refused to sing on the track that Jordan Knight from New Kids On the BLock had written because she no longer wished to sing pop music and was fighting for her credibility.It was awful to watch her get so upset and start to shake and sob. It did beg the question however as to why.....if she is so desperate to earn herself some cred........... is she is on a show like The Surreal Life in the first place?!?!?! Poor wee lamb.
Went to see the movie "Friday Night Lights" last night and really enjoyed it.It's by far the best football movie I've ever seen and the entire cast is superb including a great, brooding performance by Tim McGraw!!! I've never stopped to think about the intensity of pressure heaped on high school teams.It must be so unbearable at times.How any of the atheletes manage to get through a season without succumbing to a nervous breakdown is quite beyond me.
I am just about to bleed and I can actually feel a distinct and unpleasant change in my brain chemistry and I just want to go and break somebody's balls for sport.Isn't that AWFUL!?!??!?!?!!
Of course I won't actually do so but I am acutely aware that the compulsion is there and that the darkness of mind is fuelled by something that is far beyond my ken.
I will instead eat a large block of chocolate and moan about feeling fat immediately afterwards.
Then I'm going to paint my nails dark purple and order something fabulous to wear online.
Like I said.........I'm so pre-menstrual.