Garbage Studio Diary #29 October 18th-24th 2004.

Okay so it's a MIRACLE but yes it's true........we started mixing this afternoon!! Can you believe it?!?
I keep thinking that perhaps I must be dreaming but nope......looks like I'm not.
I can barely stand it.Am I to finally emerge from this hellish groundhog day afterall?
Oh sweet merciful power above.......thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!!!
I am eating like a pig again.I can't seem to help myself.It doesn't help matters either when Butch insists on bringing Paul Newman's Ginger O cookies into the studio which I am completely addicted to and simply powerless against. If I know there is an open pack of them in the cupboard I find myself thinking about them constantly and I'm forever wandering into the kitchen and ramming them into my mouth two at a time.
Lord it's getting cold.I can feel it when I rise in the morning.That ghastly chill that permeates thebones.I was talking to my wee sister this afternoon and she said that even the UK is to have a cold winter this year.Normally when i return from Madison in December it feels positively balmy by comparison but I fear that I am not going to be able to avoid the cold this time.
I can't believe I'm talking about the weather.My god what's wrong with me? Surely I can do better than that?!?!?
Check out this quote I read from the testimony of Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials not long before he killed himself:
"... It is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
Rather chilling and pertinent to our times wouldn't you say?
Anyways.....no more political despair!!!! Let's focus on fashion instead. I'm wearing such a great outfit today if I do say so myself.I love it when you put something together and it actually looks so HOT you can barely stand it.That so rarely happens to me though as I'm always in a rush when I'm getting dressed.It's only much later I will look down at what I'm wearing and realise I have gotten it terribly wrong but I'm already halfway through my day and it's too late to go back home and start all over again.
But today........no doubt about it.......I'm looking sharp.
Whoop WHoop WHooop.....the Red Sox just beat the Yankees in game 7 to move on to the World Series.The curse has been broken.There is hope for all humankind!!! Yippppppppppeeeeeeee......ring out the bells.If the Red Sox can triumph against the odds,we all can.
Eeeeecccch.........how about the shortage of flu shots in the US? How creepy is that? I feel like I'm living in the middle-ages all of a sudden.People queuing and scrambling for the last few shots that are left.It's really weird and unbelievably worrisome and leaves me with a very uneasy feeling in my stomach.Talking of worrisome.....how about all the provisional and absentee ballots being screwed up in some of the battleground states already? I mean ........this is truly outrageous.We're not talking about a third world country here.We're talking about the richest nation in the whole wide world and it's not as though the current administration haven't had four years to fix the problems during the last electorial debacle.
Oh.
Oh wait a minute........now I get it.
They didn't WANT to fix it.
How about Prince Harry getting into a scuffle with a paparazzi photographer outside a nightclub.Way to go Harry! They should know better than to mess with a redhead.Our fuses are short!
OH MY GOD.OH MY GOD............someone just sent me a clip of Ashlee Simpson's perfomance on SNL last night.OH MY GOD OH MY GOD.Oh the horror and the shame.She must be freaking OUT.I mean....how many millions of people watch that show?!?!?!? Holy shit.
Talking of which.....read a really funny article in Jane Magazine this month on BIMBO ROCK CON 2005.A "conference" for aspiring " bimbo rockers".
One of the pointers in the article was: "Know this: Angst is the new airhead.People used to look at Alanis Morrisette like she was icky.Now her 'tude is the norm! If you can't prove that your life has been painfully sucky even though you weigh 100 pounds and have perfect hair,aweome clothes and a pied-a-terre in a half-dozen major metropolitan areas,you don't belong here."
Another one was: "If no one likes your music,shed some clothes.That didn't help Mariah Carey but it usually works."
And my favourite: "Disregard any criticism you may hear from crusty fans of Patti Smith,Ani DiFranco or other so-called women in rock.They're just jealous haters without any talent."
Oh I do so love Jane Magazine.