I know I disappear for years at a time. Well I'm back again.

I'm learning to drive. I've gone a very long time without it, and I wish I didn't have to, but it's such a pain in the ass to get around this city without a car and I'm sick of it. No more $50 cab rides! No more stinky bus! I'm hoping to take the test some time this week, and hopefully I pass it.Then freedom. I can actually start going places. I can have a social life outside of work. It will be glorious. Hey maybe I can even take a new set at last since I'll be able to actually meet up with a photographer. I haven't been in Austin long and I work graveyard shift, so I still hardly know anyone. It's tough to get around without a car or friends.

Now my only problem is how the hell to get to the DMV to take the test if I can't legally drive by myself yet. I need to take my car there to take the test, but I can't drive it. Are you supposed to sucker someone into going with you and sitting around at the DMV on a day off? What kind of psycho would go for that? I'm trying to figure out how someone could ride with you there and possibly ride with you back if you fail the test, without actually having to stay there. I've got nothing.

Obligatory yearly "I'm not dead" post.

I hardly ever log on to SG these days, so I'm sorry if I haven't kept in touch. I play too much WoW and have been moving and working a lot, so my time gets eaten up pretty easily. I just moved to Austin, so if you're around, say hello. I haven't met any photographers on my journey, so I haven't kept up with sets. I still don't drive, so it's just easier for me to stay home. It's hot as fuck out.

OH YEAH, one thing I did want to mention, I was living in Houston for a year until recently. For the past few months before I moved, I had this terrible wracking cough that wouldn't go away. It hurt and made me gag. Now that I'm out of there, it's gone. Coincidence? Or maybe that gray haze surrounding the city wasn't fog.

Now that I don't feel like I'm dying anymore, maybe I'll socialize again.

I'm so bad at updating. I'm just not a lady of empty words. I don't like to talk (or write) when I don't have anything particularly stimulating to say. It's funny in person, because most people can't stand "uncomfortable silence". I don't find silence the least bit uncomfortable. Mindless space-filling chatter is what makes me feel awkward. True story. Can anyone here relate?


I come bearing photos. It's been so long since many of you last saw me, and my hair is much longer now, in addition to newly dyed. I'm going to try my damnedest to shoot a new set soon, but you know how it goes. I need to find a photographer now and I don't know this area well enough yet.





I went out to get ice cream with my boy the other night, and we encountered along the way a healthy number of well-endowed statues.




Check out that rack

And because I never got a chance to show anyone, here's what appears to be a porcelain stumbling drunken Jesus from a grocery store Nativity Display:



Glorious.

I've been without internet (and power) for a while. Power comes on tomorrow, finally. Internet and phone should be on Thursday. I'm at a cafe right now, so not enough time to accomplish much, but if I owe you a response of any sort to a comment or email, I'll get back to you soon. <3

Hahaha what the hell. I haven't been on SG in a while so I've missed a ton of new sets. Went back to browse through them just now and noticed Amina had 15k comments. I couldn't even begin to fathom such an absurd number, so I checked out the comments to see what all the fuss was about and it turns out there are hundreds upon hundreds of pages of the same people spamming like 500 I Loved Its. lol.

Hey guys, do me a favor and spam my sets with comments so I'll look better, please. <-- sarcasm

Oh, and I'm in Houston now. Been a long trip. Still in a hotel until my apartment is available on Friday. It smells like dirt in here.

I'll update more later.

I'm selling the "time I've spent playing World of Warcraft", in the form of a full epic 70 undead mage (SOLD), 70 BE warlock, 60 BE Paladin. We can say I'm selling you a personal letter sealed with a kiss and giving you my account for free so Blizzard can't QQ.

I'm not quitting, just re-rolling on a new server. An ex plays on this one, and he makes me want to vomit. (Can't afford name changes or xfers right now)

I don't want drama. I just want to enjoy my game on a new server and make some cash to go towards moving to Houston. Message me if you're interested. Transfers are up for both to PVP or PVE servers.

There's something I want to discuss, and I'd like to hear your opinions on the matter, but before I get into it, I just want to make a quick update.

I'm moving to Houston, TX, and here's why:

In short, Orlando is too hot, boring, expensive. The personalities here are lacking, the alternative community is lame. Downtown is lame. There's not enough to do unless you want to spend a ton of cash and drive 20+ minutes to get to it. The traffic is horrendous. Rush hour lasts from roughly 3 to 7. Above all else, I'm SICK of living in these ugly sprawling apartment complexes, when I'm used to real apartment buildings or houses. It's great for vacationing, Inadequate for living. I think my vacation is over.

So in conclusion, I'm moving to Houston. I'm going to be staying with a friend in Tallahassee first to make the transition easier, but once I have enough money saved up, goodbye Florida. I want to end up in Austin, not Houston, but it's more convenient at the moment. In the long run, I'd really just like to be back up north. I can't stand the south, honestly. I grew up in the north and I miss seasons. I don't miss shoveling snow, but I do miss seeing it.

I don't have time to write about the other thing I mentioned at the start of this entry, but I will do it later. In the meantime, are any of you in the Houston area? Any suggestions? I'm thinking of moving into an apartment in the Montrose area. I've seen some cheap 1br's online and the wikipedia article I read said it's full of museums, clubs, and alternative culture. Sounds perfect. It's going to be a pain in the ass apartment hunting from here, but I have no choice. I was out there last week, and damn near everything was hiring, but it could just be due to the holiday season. Should be pretty easy to find a job quickly in the heart of the city, right?

I went to see Tori Amos perform at Hard Rock Live this past Friday, but haven't had the opportunity to update until now.

From Undented:
Pip opened the November 16th show at the Orlando's Hard Rock Live, busting out "Heart of Gold" for the first time since the European leg of the tour. Tori's set contained some surprises as well too: "A Case of You" and "Toast" (a tour debut!) were played during T & Bö and "Past The Mission" was debuted as well, but the real corker was during the first encore when "Not David Bowie" was performed for the first time ever!

The show was absolutely amazing. I was so fucking excited when she came out as Pip. She put on a fantastic performance and played my favorite setlist yet.

Act I - Pip

* Cruel
* Heart of Gold
* Fat Slut
* Smokey Joe
* Teenage Hustling
* The Waitress

Interlude

* Professional Widow

Act II - Tori

* Big Wheel
* Space Dog
* Bouncing Off Clouds
* Cornflake Girl
* Doughnut Song
* Caught A Lite Sneeze

T & Bö

* A Case of You
* Toast

Band Returns

* Past the Mission
* God
* Code Red

First Encore

* Precious Things
* Not David Bowie

Second Encore

* Hey Jupiter

Oh man, reading through the songs, I can hardly believe what a fabulous collection of songs I experienced, and yet somehow, I wasn't able to enjoy it as thoroughly as I should have. The venue was AWFUL. General admission, no seats, unless you paid extra to sit in the upstairs balconies, which are located as far from the stage as humanly possible. Yuck. I had gross people breathing down my neck almost the entire time, pressed up against me, singing and even worse- talking. Some rude cunt behind me just refused to SHUT THE FUCK UP. During the Tori+piano quiet songs, no less. Hard Rock also offers a full bar, so plenty of the audience was obnoxiously drunk.This piece of a review on Undented describes it well:

"I do have to say that the crowd was at times annoying (I guess general admission can bring out the worst in people) as it was distracting to hear loud talking during the T & Bo section, and I could have done without some of the drunken, way too loud, singing in my ear…I came to hear Tori, after all!"

Even so, despite the venue being shitty, it also meant the closest I've ever been and probably will ever be to Tori. She also, for the first time, talked to the crowd and introduced the band. As a matter of fact, the entire show sounded VERY similar to the live cd from To Venus and Back, which made me giddy with joy.

Heart of Gold


Space Dog


Bouncing Off Clouds


A Case of You


Toast


Past the Mission

I've gotten a few emails asking when I'm planning a new set, so I'll address that here: When SG accepts them. I submitted a set a couple of months ago, and it's now buried in the Hopefuls album somewhere. I think maybe my set didn't have enough nudity or something, I dunno. I was just trying to be creative and tell a story so you lovely folks would have something invigorating to fap to. I do it for my people.

Anyway, I'm really averse to shooting what I consider the boring, standard Bathroom, Bedroom and/or Plain-White/Patterned-Backdrop, themeless stripping sets. It's just not gonna happen. I'm currently mulling over the possibilities I'm limited to, due to the lack of photoshopping skill that seems so necessary these days. I'm planning to move out of Florida soon, so hopefully I'll have better access to shooting locations as well. I refuse to go near any sort of placid body of water around here. I hate alligators with a passion and I'll be damned if I give them the satisfaction of eating me, or pieces of me.

I started a new job waitressing, so money is slowly becoming less of an issue. I kind of hate it, but it's nothing new. My multitasking abilities have always been subpar at best, my right shoulder hurts, and I really can't stand being around crowds of people for very long, but meh, what can you do. Speaking of work, I have to go get ready to look as cute as possible so people will feel compelled to tip me in spite of their terrible service.

Trust me, it works.