Bravo to this woman

I'm sorry, Olga that this asshole called you but I must give you kudos for doing what any responsible woman would do. Put it on the internet as a warning for other women.


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This man is the only man in the vicinity to not have issues? Right. You sound like it.

The Vixen's Playlist

On the play list, a lot of my ideas come from the fact that I listen to my satellite radio during work. I have Sirius and I love the Super Shuffle. I do not like the fact that Sirius has taken Super Shuffle off the radio and have it as Internet only now. That sucks. Well, this week I was listening to the channel and several songs came on that when I look at who actually sings the songs, I was shocked. I had always thought they were done by someone else. So in no short order are the songs I thought were done by someone else and just found out who really sings them.


1.Rescue Me by Fontella Bass
If you put me up for a bet, I would have told you this song was sung by Aretha Franklin. Color me surprised that it is actually done by Fontella Bass. Forgive me Fontella. Ms. Bass is still going strong and is still singing great soul music. You can check her out at her website, FontellaBass.com

2.Rock You Baby by George McCrae
It's not surprising that I thought this was KC & The Sunshine Band once you learn that the people who created KC gave this song to George. The beats to many of KC's songs and this one are similar. Although, how you could confuse KC with George's falsetto is my mistake. Goes to show you that even though I claim a lot of musical knowledge, I still don't know jack shit.

3.Fantasy by Aldo Nova
I have no idea who I thought this song was done by but I wouldn't have believed you if you'd told me it was Aldo Nova. I would have asked you who the hell is Aldo Nova? This comes from watching a lot of MTV2. Late at night. Usually drunk. They play the best videos then. Seriously. If you are a student of the 80's or a student of music and the influence of the music video, you must watch endless hours of MTV2 when they are actually showing videos. Or, if you want something fun to do and you're having a party, don't worry about a soundtrack. Wait for MTV2 to start playing videos late at night and you'll have an instant winner.

Short list this week because every other song I heard this week, I knew who sung it or I didn't care. Yeah. Music wise, I'm not much for the new pop American Idol-esque crap. Metro Station? Ugh. I won't even go into what thought instantly comes to mind the second I hear this song. It's inappropriate and I'm trying to keep it clean.

Spring...make that Summer Cleaning.

If you notice, I'm deleting a lot of stuff from the website. I'm also moving the archives so some of them going back to 2003 may be unavailable for a while.

Or I may decide to just delete them. I haven't figured that out yet.

List of stuff to do today.

I've started making lists of things to do. Not that it really helps me but I do like the focus I can have when I do make the list.

So today, here are the things I either want to accomplish or get started. They don't all have to get done today.

1. I will start knitting the Muscari Socks from Knitty on two circular needles with my Cherry Tree Hill yarn. It will be my first sock with an actual lace pattern and it will also be my first Knitty pattern ever attempted. Sort of scared but feeling sort of bold at the same time.

2. I want to start thinking about remodeling the deck. I am not a carpenter nor do I play one on TV. I'd really like if someone came and gave me a free remodel of the deck. That'd be great. Perhaps Mike Holmes could do it?

3. I will finally start writing my novel without the assistance and pushing of doing it for NaNoWriMo. No laughing.

4. I'm going to get rid of these freaking ants in my house.

5. Finish Purdue Course. Before June ends. Because you've had like almost a year.

So there's other things I'd really like to get done but right now, those are the only things I can think of.

Oh, 6. Go to the store. Get bacon and milk. And other stuff.

That's officially it. For today

Watching movies

During my break between school and the holiday I've been spending a lot of time watching movies. I love movies. I have to admit that I'm a bit of a movie snob. If I have zero interest in the person in the film or the topic, I will not watch it. I don't care how many people tell me it's fantastic.

Examples? The 40 Year Old Virgin and Wedding Crashers. I can't count how many people love those films. I've watched time once. I have no desire to ever watch them again. I could name a million more movies.

On the other hand, there's movies I will watch over and over again. Lately, it's been Marie Antoinette with Kristen Dunst. I don't actually own it but I will watch it whenever it's on. I need to just go and buy it. Another one is Under The Tuscan Sun. Watch it religiously at least once a month. Usually around a certain time of the month that will remain nameless.

The reason why I bring all this up is I'm trying to fill up my Netflix cue and I honestly wonder what that thing would say about me. I also can not fill it up because for the last year or so, there have been zero movies I've actually wanted to put down hard American cash to see. I'm sorry. I just really don't care for the conspiracy, innuendo, Bush is bad tone that Hollywood has been shoveling out lately. And I have no desire to watch lame attempts at humor. So I guess it's just movies I like and zombie films.

The Vixen's Playlist

This week, for some odd reason I've been listening to a lot of Ringo Starr songs. I like The Beatles to being with. I have this idea that you can love The Beatles and like Elvis and vice versa. You can't love both of them. I'm sure someone will bust that theory for me but honestly, you have to admit you like one of them just a little bit more than the other. I'm a fan of The Beatles. I like Elvis but I prefer The Beatles. Anyway, let's focus on Ringo because I think he's occasionally overshadowed by John and Paul. This week's list is my favorite Ringo Starr songs.


1.The No-No Song.
Just a fun song to sing along with. Besides, how can you not love a song that tells you to just say no but also Ringo admits he smokes pot, snorts coke and drinks. He also stops not because of anything more than he wakes up in a weird spot and he can't find the door. Logical.

2.Snookeroo
You can tell the influence from Elton John on this one. Don't laugh. Just listen. You have to admit it's a fun song.

3.Back Off Boogaloo
You know. There's rumors that Boogaloo is a reference to Paul McCartney but I honestly don't know how much truth there is to that. Beats me. I don't know if I buy into most of the innuendo behind the Beatles. I know that Paul and John didn't like each other towards the end but this song? Don't think so.

4.You're Sixteen
Yes. It's a cover. But it's a good cover.

5.It Don't Come Easy.
If you read the notes on this video, you'll get a lot of background information about the writing of the song and how Ringo came to record it. Doesn't really matter to me. I sing along with this song all the time when I need a song to vent.

There are the five Ringo Starr songs. Next week's playlist, who knows. Just depends on what I'm listening to on the radio this week.

Oh yeah! Me and Kathy Griffin!

Yes. I am officially a D-List Blogger. All hail Radiovixen! Yes. All three of you. Even you mom.

You know, back in the early beginnings of this blog I would be pretty upset about being a D Lister. Isn't that sad? It's not like I'm saying anything earth shattering or vastly important on here. Now it's sort of an honor to have even one person comment or even read. Otherwise I just blather on about nothing like I always do.

Of course, if I did get any publicity from this blog and turned into Dooce or something, I'd be embarrassed about a vast majority of this blog.I'd learn to laugh it off. That's all you can do. Do I really care what people think? Sure. I think anyone that says they don't is lying. Sort of like why emo people act like emo people. They say they don't want any attention and enjoy being melancholy all the time. Okay. So don't draw attention to yourself by looking like you were raised by wolves that shop at Hot Topic. See, emo kids, if you want to truly not draw attention to yourself, take some pointers from the psycho people. They blend in with everyone. That's why people don't know they are psycho till they have a massive freak out.

There was a point there somewhere. I'm not going back in to find it.

Anyway, your blog or journal is yours. Write what you want, when you want. If people read, cool. If you get some notoriety because of it, hey that's fantastic but it ain't everything.

The farmer's market...

was a bust.

I originally was going to the Farmer's market for one reason. I wanted to sign up for a CSA. CSA or Community Supported Agriculture are these neat little contracts with local farmers and gardeners. Basically, you buy a share of their land and in return for buying that share, you get a portion of the food grown. Your average share can feed a family of three or four or a vegetarian couple that eats at home a lot.

Plus, there are benefits to buying local. You are supporting local farmers. You know where your food is coming from and from who. You know what's going into it and how it's grown if you're into that sort of thing. I think it's just better for you if you have some roots to your local farming community. You might not be effected by food problems like the salmonella scare if you're buying local.

Anyway, I went to the farmer's market to pick out some food from this CSA and see how things tasted. Just to see what they had, did I like it and would I want to drop a good chunk of change for their product on a regular basis? No luck. They weren't there. I did get some nice tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini. I also bought a pie, some bread and local honey. There wasn't much variety and there wasn't much of a "community" feel. Like you were excited to be there. It was sort of pretentious and tedious. Which was odd because the majority of people selling were Mennonites. Maybe it was just me. I'm going to try going to another farmer's market this coming weekend and see how that goes. The sweet corn may be there soon too. Yum.

And I'm done

woo hoo!!! I'm done with class till July 7th! I'm so excited. I have a break. Plus, my next classes are just downtown so I won't have to drive too far. Squee.