Rainbowhandgranade

Heya boys and girls!

As I'm writing this a workman is outside my window drilling into the house wall... it's going over the top of my Jay Brannan song... and the guy isn't even cute. Fail.



It's my boyfriend's graduation tomorrow... which I am totally excited about it. It's not a big ceremony, but I'm just glad there's no issue with me being there as his partner. I should point out that he's at technical college (for those in the US) here it's called TAFE. So that makes it easier, because it's a much more relaxed environment.

Anyway... enjoy the Jay Brannan.

Love Eric.
CUTSLEEVE boys

And remember boys and girls - you are what you eat, which is why I keep eating superheros figurines.

Heya Boys and Girlies,

Beauty is a strange and wonderous thing. But as such it is also dangerous. Think of all the women who feel it nessecary to get plastic surgery to appeal to an "ideal standard" of beauty. Research is now showing that syemmtry is less important to beauty than we thought. Apparently we judge beauty on the smoothness and luminosity of the skin.

Another problem I have with beauty is these women who feel it is nesseary to cake make up on to hide their natural features. Trying to make their face a blank canvas on which they can remake themselves. No. This. Is. Wrong. The idea of make up is to be used sparringly, to highlight your natural features. The only two times caking makeup on is okay is when you're a drag queen or youre on t.v..



That's Edward Cullen's excuse and he's sticking to it. Although I must admit I am rather guilty of finding him rather beautiful. His finely chiseled features loo... and this is what I mean about beauty being dangerous, from my rant on make up I hae slid down a slippery sloap into thinking about the finely chiselled features of a movie star.

What is our obession with fame anyway? I mean I know I'm totally guilty of spending too much time on the internet looking for genuine pictures of Daniel Radcliffe nude... (I regret nothing). For some strantge reason as a society we idolise these people for what? Their contribution to a better world? No, we idolise them because they provide welcome distraction from our tiresome lives. We follow developments in their lives, such as their engagements, weddings etc with an unabashed curisoity. And then the marriage breaks up, turns out the man's a wife beater... the woman is a drug addict and then we have the nerve to complain that these are the role models for our children. News flash. Your. Fault. It is our job as a society (and the media has a lot to answer for in regards to this) to provide role models. Instead we chose models, the kind that your jaw drops when she walks in the room. The same woman who was throwing up in the bathroom before.

It's a sad state of affairs when an attractive woman looks at a picture of herself in a magazine and wishes she could naturally achieve that beauty. Natural beauty is no longer enough. We're going to have to learn how to photoshop ourselves in our daily lives.

Love Eric.
CUTSLEEVE boys

And remember boys and girls - anorexia and drinking alcohol can both induce vommiting, but only one of them is fun.

Heya Boys and Girls,

So I'm on the bus having a conversation with a friend about his neighbour offering him something. He was complaining about how they woke him up at six am. To which my response was "at least you got some", he then said "no, I turned them down.", I remembered that he disliked knowing his neighbours due to a few past incidences where knowing them had turned out bad. So I replied "Of course, that would mean you had to speak to them again.".

I don't know what you took out of that conversation, but then I realised what the people on the bus would think, considering they would have only heard my side of the conversation.

It's amazing in the English language as to how one setence can mean so many different things. Take for example the sentence "woman, without her man, is nothing". Simple it means that a woman is useless without a man. BUT chenage the punctuation "woman: without her, man is nothing" it now reads that a man is useless without a woman.

Our preconceptions colour how we understand what people say. Firstly it is our perceptions of the world that colour how we see the world - and thus when we hear people speak we hear it through the filters of our notions of what we know of this person, the context of the situation and what we would expect them to say in that particular situation...

When I write things I am often surprised when I've written something and someone comes back to me and says "this says xyz to me" and it is so far from what I was saying that it confuses me, until I anaylise it in a bipartisan way.

The moral of this insane and confusing rant is that despite what people tell you, English is important.

And that's about it.

Love Eric
CUTSLEEVE boys

And remember boys and girls - Miley Cyrus may be shit, but Avril Lavigne paved the way for her. The moral of this story is kill both of them.