My fucking god... how long has it been? Two months at least? I have to be completely honest and say that it actually took a few minutes for me to even see how to post a new blog. Then, I began typing it in the "Title" bar. So, I apologize ahead of time if this looks anything less than stellar.
Went and saw 30 Seconds To Mars and it was a great show. Say what you will about Jared Leto or even the band... but they put on a fantastic performance. Jared Leto has a great ability to have domain over a crowd that I envy. New Politics was rather great as well. However, I almost got into not one, not two... but three fights in the crowd there. I'm beginning to think that I should stay home sometimes. I hate fighting, but somehow, they always happen. I'd go into details, but this paragraph is about the concert, not about fighting. I'd have photos in here, but my MacBook has been toast and I haven't been able to edit any of them. I got some rather good shots...
Which leads me to say that my MacBook AND my iPhone are just toast. Simultaneously. How the shit does THAT happen? In fact, one of the only apps on my phone that I'm able to use is Facebook Messenger, so I've been using that as a means to "text."
Today, congrats to @thanatoz for her new set that came out today in MR, Love And Other Demons
Oddly, I have recently finished a book of the same title, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Although, Marquez was wrong. Love isn't a "Demon." It's a disease. It's a sickness that gets into the blood and poisons it like venom. Dissolving veins like acid, burning you up from the inside, screaming at you to do it's will. Just a thought...
Not a segue, but some sky shots:
Ok, apparently it's not letting me load up the other ones...
A friend came down and we were at a bar when I came up with a new shot. Hurricane Cum!
Hurricane Cum:
1 part Rum (Bacardi O if you can)
1 part Blue Curacao
1 part whipped cream
Add all into a shaker and shake.
I like it because it's blue, but tastes like a creamcicle. Check out the name given to me on the receipt
A fun fortune that I got from a cookie...
Got some more studio time...
Found out that I have a disorder called Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome. Pretty much my internal clock is on a six hour delay or something like that. That's how I understood it. In which I could go to bed at about 10PM, but will lie there until four or five before I start to nod off. Then, getting up is a bitch... especially if I'm doing the whole 9-5 thing. So the feeling most describe is like feeling jet lag all day. I can attest to this. So, what I'm doing at 3AM when I should be sleeping:
On another day...
Some random shots of me... still un-phobia-ising myself:
No... I DON'T wear contacts. If my eyes are ever THIS blue, it's because I'm either hungry or horny. The bluer the more so. It's weird how that happens...
Ok, so on a more serious note, something that I really have to talk about and anyone reading this may have heard this from me already, but humor me. Wait, who am I kidding... pretty sure that most of the people that read these, are gone. Anyhow, although I'm two months too late to make my thoughts known about the "changeover" of the site. I was considering leaving and as per my previous blogs, it's been no big secret that I've been becoming increasingly disenchanted with the site and was waiting for my account to run out, which I thought was soon. That said, the irony is, that when it shut down for three days it REALLY put things into perspective for me. Those three days were torturous and I realize something. That whenever I'm static, I'm on my phone... on here. Whenever I'm in a waiting room or a line I'm on here, whenever I'm at a stoplight (Don't you fucking judge me) or in the passenger side of a car I'm on here. The toilet, waiting for class to start, drowning someone out that's droning on in my ear, I'm on here. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not Instagram... I'm on SuicideGirls. So waiting for the days to count down, I was actually going nuts with excitement for it to come back. I had a renewed sense of enthusiasm for the site and all the things to ensue. And then I came back to THIS. THIS??? Admittedly, what was once a clusterfuck candy bar full of caramel nuts and nougaty fuck... has in the two months since, become a little more easy to navigate and the features have been getting better. Or perhaps my brain is just compensating by way of comparison to make me ok with it, who knows. However, I get that it's the sets that generate business for the site, but it's the community that generates the re-subscribers. Which is why I've re-upped time and again. However, I've only looked at ONE set since the turnover and that was today. I feel that the site has done what they have to promote the sets more, but at the alienation of the "community." The fact that there's been a MAJOR influx of new people and Hopefuls... but so many people have left, is evidence of this. I mean, hooray to @missy and @sean, their gamble paid off... but at what cost. The funny thing is, that yes, I may have 1900 "Friends" on Facebook, but brass tax, I only talk to like 20... seriously, maybe less. However, of the 300+ that I had on here, I actually talked to a majority of them. Regularly. Yes, 300+ is a lot, but most of those were SGs themselves and hey, I get it, they have lives... shooting and blogging... getting tattoos. Things like that, but that's not the point. The point is... a majority of those people are now gone. I'm pretty sure that I've left about as many comments on this site in the two months since the turnover, as probably an average day in the months leading up to it.
Similar subject, but somewhat different. One of the great features is that you can see when you're due for a new payment. Last month, I saw that I was good until Oct 16, 2014. Only to try and check things out on Friday and... I couldn't get into any of the groups or see any of the sets. It kept asking me to join. However, I could see videos, send messages, go to profiles and view photo folders, just not sets. I looked it up and it read the my "Account was canceled." WHAT THE FUCK??? I'm good for almost a whole year and it gets CANCELED? I thought it was because there was something wrong with my credit card, but it wouldn't even take the information. It just kept kicking it back. So yes, I sent a message to Customer Service but to no avail. Being half Puerto Rican, we're not known for our patience, so I called customer service, talked to someone there and they said they'd pass it along and will send me an email by the end of the day. Four days later, no email but what DID happen I found a bit deplorable. They fixed the problem, I'll give them that... by completely kicking me off of the site... but making it able to take my card information. Really SG??? That's the solution? Making it able to resubscribe, despite that I had almost a year left on my account? Yea, I get that it's a business and it doesn't really matter what "I" think as they're making money from thousands of others... but you can't tell me that amongst the many lost, that it hasn't been felt even just a little. That's one of the things I LOVED about this site, that it wasn't at all like a corporation and the owners were just as much a part of the site as the members, that I wasn't "Just one little customer," that we were all part of the same living breathing organism. Thank you... I see how utterly naive I've been about all of that idealistic bullshit. So, I sprung for a single month to see @thanatoz set and crank out at least one more blog. After this, I'm going to need a REALLY GOOD reason to stay. (Later edit*) So I go to my bank and I was actually not only charged $12 for the month that I paid for... but an extra $36... but my account is still only good for this one month?
Moving on, some more photos:
Halloween as Snake Plissken!
Drank some more...
My Dia De Los Muertos gift to myself:
(Isn't she pretty...?)
Then that night, I went to a Birthday/Halloween party.
I was Atlas... but on account of the day, I rocked the Calavera facepaint too. Needless to say, it confused a few people. Admittedly, wearing NOTHING under the "tunic" was perhaps not the best idea.
Annnnnd it snowed recently...
No Shave November ended... it blew my mind the difference.
Before
After
With only a half hour in between
With that... I'll have to end this. The photos are pretty big on here now and those two paragraphs earlier are pretty long. Despite that, I feel as though there is much that I'm missing. Oh oh, oddly, I was on the SG Instagram and saw a photo by @ambz and I have to admit... if I believed in such silly concepts as "Love at first sight" it would definitely be going off on that one.
In closing, my advice is to drive carefully... 90% of everyone are accidents.
P.S. Ladies...
No.
