I am so confused right now. I don't know how I feel, how to feel, what I want to say, or what to say. But I don't even know if I want to feel or say anything. Chris Cornell's music has had such a great influence on me, and now this happens and I just I dunno, I don't even want to listen to anything...
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Before I get into some serious dark stuff, I want to give a shot out to these four spectacular women and their sets! They are all beyond incredible!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
This is @matoushka from her set ROCK'N ROLLER COASTER. This has me going gaga right now. Pure AMAZINGNESS!!! Not to mention just the sound of the name Matoushka
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akari:
Omg! Thank you, you're amazing<3 I also really enjoyed this post. Very thought provoking.
You know, each day we grow older, whether we like it or not, whether we even realize it or not, we learn as we go. As they say, experience is indeed the best teacher. But one view about the world that I've always held is that a country's leaders are a reflection of it's society. However, I cannot help but feel so blessed and lucky...
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kaicito:
Friend, just a brief note here as I'm typing with my clumsy fingers on my tablet... much agreement here with much of what you're saying, except I'm a little more bullish on the Constitution. You also may know that I'm probably much more conservative than you or most SGers are, but I must admit Trump is just anathema to me. I feel he is lacking the basic decency that a Mitt Romney or John McCain had, and while he himself is empty of any strong convictions except a yuuge belief in himself, he seems to be surrounding himself with a horrific assortment of ghouls, starting with Pence. It is sickening that people feel emboldened to freely express their racism, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia. Trump will almost certainly jettison any pretense of climate action, he will saddle future generations with additional untold billions of debt, and while he seemed to be the less warmongering candidate, it's a mystery what he will do on the world stage. I'm nostalgic for Obama already...
Recently, I've been listening to a lot of Nirvana Unplugged. It's becoming my favorite material to listen to from them. For me, this album is what defines Nirvana. This band was very in tune with the definition of the word 'spontaneous'. Just by listening to various bootleg cd's of concerts and recordings over the years, the song title might have been the same, but I...
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arielscout:
Best blog ever!! Thank you so much for the love and support!
sertraline:
@forestgirl @arielscout @chalk You are all awesome!!! Many hugs to ya!!
I'm going to do at least one of my goals, because everything else has been a disaster. Writing a blog about a passage from the GA book is in fact a hypocrisy in terms of me doing it because I do not wish to stop gambling. I'm looking at this goal as an attempt to gather psychological information, rather than trying to stop gambling because...
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vulnerability is not weakness-emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage. To create something that has never existed before-that's vulnerability. Adaptability to change is all about vulnerability.
Walk through and find your way around the 'swamp of shame', not to build a home there. This reminds me of a comment somoene had made during a GA meeting, "You got to walk...
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Lot's of information in this particular video. I understood all of it, but I didn't connect with all of it. Here is just some notes and comments on the whole video:
Connection- Is why we are here. It gives purpose and meaning in our lives. The ability to feel connected, is how we are wired.
You know, my initial definition to the phrase "we are...
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It's all because I live in Greece. It's all because I have a gambling problem. It's all because I'm a fat fuck. It's all because I smoke two packs a day. It's all because I have little or no self-esteem. It's all because I'm too good of a person to stick up for myself. It's all because it's been six years since I've had any...
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In the first part of this, I'm going to be referring to music. The word alternative, and this is just my opinion, maybe it's true maybe not, was a marketing phrase created in the early 90's directed at kids who were buying/listening to rock style music, that was strictly about art and not associated with image, or the exploitation of women, or testosterone. Regarding the...
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user1023247879:
How do you get each lighting style? You get hard light with 1 really small light source, and far away. Nothing beats direct sunlight on a sunny day because the sun is super bright and really far away, so in perspective, it's tiny. Or one light bulb in a room... Not always the most flattering. Soft light is the opposite. On a cloudy day, the clouds disperse the light across the entire sky so it's nice and soft. Fuzzy shadow edges. Indoors, you can use window light, so it acts as a barrier to soften the light of the sun, or use a big box to make the light source bigger than just a light bulb. It's called a softbox. You can also use an umbrella, as they spread light everywere, but you have less control over the direction od the light than a softbox... It literall just goes everywhere, so it ends up being a soft light source.... I could talk alllllllll day about lighting and why things are called what they are called and how you do it. Hahahaha 😛
sertraline:
@kezia thank you so much for that! I personally prefer the whole 'soft light' way...@coolicio There is so much I want to know about your experiences on this site. Your first set on here is one in which you are posing with a plush unicorn and in every picture, the background is black. How was that done? Also, what are your views on how the sets have changed in style/attitude/camera technology, today vs ten years ago?
I've always known of Alice In Chains. Dirt is one of my favorite albums ever! But their first album, Facelift, I'm not familiar with except for Man In The Box. I came across this video today,
and I was speechless. Speechless, not only because this is a very haunting and awesome song, but speechless because....Layne, what the fuck man!!!!!!????????????????????????????????????????????? The first thought that always comes...
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