Reinvention

Madonna is the queen of reinvention, or so people say. That's why she is so successful.

Sometimes she is a dirty 'virgin' with a 'boy toy' belt.
Then she becomes a live pin up in Dick Tracy.
Then she is an unstoppable nymphomaniac, circa 'satisfy my love' and the Steve Meisel book.
Then a siren/japanese geisha.
Then a cowgirl.
Then a disco queen.
Then a rapper.
And so on and so forth.

Lady Gaga follows big 'M' footsteps, having reinvented her style (copying Madonna relentlessly in the process) more times than one can count with one and only album (The Fame and the Fame monster are one album. Really.)

Every year around my birthday, I think about reinvention. Is reinvention the mother of rejuvenation, in other words do people keep themselves young when they reinvent their style?

I don't know.

I guess I should reinvent myself but I am too bored.
My self works fine for me, for the time being, I guess.

Until one year I wake up and feel this deep need to renew myself and become some sort of aerobic queen or something else equally preposterous.
Till then, let's have cocktails and celebrate our old and boring selves!!

Enjoy the silence

Sitting in the empty house, listening to the rain on the windows.
Doing nothing.
At least nothing that other people would consider important.
I'm calling the bank, the doctor and the tax people to change my address.
I am trying to get a new car insurance.
I am dyeing my hair darker.
I am enjoying the silence in the house, the slowness.
No more lost months in the calendar. September went to November almost directly it seems, I never managed to see the October picture.

But fastness will be no more.
Slowness, silence and calm is the way to go.
I am sure I will not follow my own advice, but if anyone wants to hold me accountable, here is the proof.

The feast of the goat

Tricky was right?

Life doesn't move me - just like a movie
It doesn't move me
Life doesn't move me (Tricky, Bury the evidence)

Sometimes i feel like Tricky: my life goes by and I don't feel it. Good things happen, people come and spend time with me, I talk to friends but i am not 100% there. i live life, i perceive life in a superficial manner: I hear my friends problems and i feel them (sort of), i give advice, i am relatively connected, but not with all my heart, half my mind resides elsewhere. Half my mind travels to stuff i need to do for tomorrow, work that needs done, what i'll cook for dinner etc...

I never thought I lacked empathy, I always thought that I can leave my things aside and just listen to my friends. But this is not even about empathy, this half-hearted involvement with life does not only happen when i listen to people's problems. It happens also with nice things, i am hanging out with a friend and I am not all there. Half my mind is elsewhere.

But where, you will ask, where is a better place to be than in a pub having a drink with people you love/like and make you feel well? I guess in my head, being in work-mode seems to be a better place. But this cannot be true. It's not that I prefer this - i just cannot help it. But this is what I want to, what I have to change. Work and stress and stupid stuff is not something that can dictate my life to such an extent. When I was young(er) I thought that people chose to be stressed. Now that i find myself not being able to help it, I think it is even more important to at least try to.

My life is more important than this.
The love I have for people is more profound than this.

Life needs to move me - not like a movie.
Life needs to move me.
Not like movie.

Music saves

When I am anxious I put on a song loudly and I dance.
And then I feel better.

Militant shoppers and other forms of civil disobedience

This morning I stumbled upon this video from the bbc. It shows Greek 'militant shoppers' pleading with super market managers to lower their prices so that they can do their shopping. In the second part of the video, a driver refuses to pay the tolls and asks (calmly and politely) for the person who works there to get his vehicle number and have the company to sue him, if they so wish.

Various things came to mind when seeing this.

Firstly, needless to say that no greek media, to my knowledge, has discussed this phenomenon. But this is nothing new, that Greek media are corrupt and cheap.

Secondly, it makes me think that there is another way in that stupid country, there must be another way. Ever since the 'austerity measures' came to play, Greeks have done what they know best: they complain with no end, they become passive aggressive to people that are innocent, they moan, and ultimately they do nothing. They keep buying what they bought (especially for their children) and then say they have no money.

I am not sure Greeks can do civil disobedience very well, they are too hot-headed for that. But these people in the video proved me wrong. And I am sure I am not alone. In two old posts, one from me and one from youkali, we discuss what it means to be political and/or an activist in this day and age. It is important to remember that we are not sheep. It is important to remember that, if we live in a western country and are writing/reading this blog, we most probably are well-educated, fairly well off members of society. This, at once, makes us fairly privileged and at this day and age, one cannot take privileges lightly, one has to earn them.

Please vote!

Watch this video carefully.

And then tell me: what is the sluttiest thing about it?

a) Beyonce chewing gum
b) The transparent bra
c) The plastic guns (a classic phallic symbol...)
d) A certain ass movement
e) The lyrics (and their implications)

f) Surprise me...