Happy Halloween everyone! In honor of this day I thought I'd share some Halloween past photos of my outfits. Try not to pig out too much on candy or get too drunk (if of age, that is). Learn some Halloween history as well.
Cheers!
Groucho - I am a big Marx Brothers fan
And here is some music to put you in the Halloween mood. The Cramps, ideal Halloween music.
So while I wallow in the sadness that is my withdrawal from Florence, I began looking through Flickr for pictures of Florence and might I say, some of these photos are beyond amazing. I wish I took photos that were this awesome, but I mostly took pictures with my small digital camera, and only for my own memories and to show family and friends. The photos on Flickr are in an entirely different world, and I thought I'd show you some of the amazing images I found while searching.
If you don't already have a desire to visit this beautiful city, you will now!
And, as good alternative to the "Sexy (fill in the blank)" costumes that are available for women, I'd love to go as Lucy. (Even though it is titled "Sassy I Love Lucy Costume".)
Anyway, hope you have a wonderfully fun and safe Halloween! Here's a photo of my go-to costume over the years, zombie! (I can whip up a zombie costume easily, just buy a huge ugly dress at a Goodwill, sew it to fit, splash some dyed liquid on it, smear some horrible makeup, and you're good to go!)
The name Jon Ronson sound familiar? That's because he also wrote the book The Men Who Stare At Goats which was also made into a movie with many famous actors (an amazing movie, if you haven't already seen it). I originally picked up this book because of the interview I saw Ronson do on The Daily Show. The whole idea of a book being written about "the madness industry" sounded too interesting to pass up because instantly I was struck with images of Rod Blagojevich and Bill O'Reilly, but I wanted to find out more, and specifically more about Ronson's experience with them.
The book is entirely written from Ronson's perspective and his trail of encounters with different people, industries, doctors, and professionals, all having to do with something involved in the world of psychopaths. The book starts with Ronson being requested to investigate into a strange package that academic professionals throughout the world were sent, a handmade book titled Being or Nothingness. From then on Ronson's world entirely revolves around psychopaths, how to determine who is a psychopath, and the many personal worlds of people who can be determined psychopaths. He meets with a man named "Tony," who, according to "Tony" himself, was put into a mental institution because he "faked his way in" to get out of longer prison time. From there, Ronson meets with the famous Robert Hare, the man who created the "Psychopathy Checklist" (or "PCR"), which can rate anyone given certain characteristics on a level, and once you get past a certain number you are clinically titled as a "psychopath."
The entire road that Ronson is lead on creates many questions in the readers minds, because having the power to determine if someone is "sane" or "insane" can be something that can drive someone to become power hungry, a "holier than thou" kind of view of others.
I tend to think that making a career out of classifying weather or not someone is a psychopath, would obviously not be my first choice. There is definitely a difference between someone who acts strange and aggressive towards others and the general population that can live coherently with one another, but it does lead me to question the people who are in the middle. The people who make bad decisions at one point or another, because a single person isn't inherently evil or good, right? At the end of the day, I'm not 100% positive. I've made bad and horrible decisions in my life, while at other times I've made wonderful decisions. So it makes me wonder, what really classifies someone as a psychopath?
Maybe you should take some ideas from Jon Ronson and come to you're own conclusion. Plus, this book also brings up the discussion that many people higher up in our economy's totem pole are borderline or entirely mad with power, therefore classifying them as psychopaths, and Ronson's encounters with many of those people do not disappoint.
This book gets you to think on you're own and I believe that a quality like that is enough to want to pick up a book for no other reason besides that.
Here are some videos relating to the book:
"What is a psychopath?", Jon Ronson's own description of his book in "THE PSYCHOPATH TEST by Jon Ronson", and Jon Ronson's interview on The Daily Show
While going through a playlist I have in my iTunes of unlistened music I came across this Editors' cover of the Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc." I've only ever heard a few Editors songs, but when I heard this I instantly loved it and you might as well.
If there's one place in the world that I know the most, it's obviously my hometown of Los Angeles, California. After being asked by my boyfriend's parents about different places to visit / eat / see in L.A. I thought maybe I should share my knowledge with first time travelers to Los Angeles. Even though I now live in San Diego, I will forever feel more at home in L.A. So I've decided to start a little review of places / shops / eateries in L.A. that I love, and maybe some of you will love whenever you're able to visit the second most populated city (#1 belongs to NYC) in the United States.
Chances are if you've ever had a discussion about Los Angeles, the subject of the beaches, and Venice specifically have come up. Venice beach is a famous beach, known for it's great surfing and of course the boardwalk. Aaron and I, this past weekend, took a short drive while visiting my parents in Los Angeles to the boardwalk, specifically, as Aaron and I put it, "to see the crazies." The Boardwalk is known for it's many eclectic characters, one most famous and well known is this guy.
According to my parents, this guy has been there for years, skating back and forth down the promenade, playing his electric guitar with a portable small amp. He's always got a smile on his face and my guess is that whenever you visit the boardwalk, he will most likely be there.
There are tons and tons of people selling art, jewelry, sugar skulls, paintings, hand crafted things (anything really), "Advice" (only $1), palm readings, fortune telling, skateboarding, rollerblading, Henna tattoos, street dancing, playing music, and plenty of people asking for change. The shop buildings on the other side are full of t-shirts, jewelry, lots and lots of medical marijuana dispensaries (with people all shouting that "the doctor is in!" ready to give you a medical marijuana license), headshops, tattoo parlors, cafes, frozen yogurt stands, restaurants, and anything and everything else you can think of.
There are a million different kinds of attractions on the Venice boardwalk, but there is no way to describe them all. It's a place that defiantly have to be experienced to be understood.
When Aaron and I went over the weekend the only photo I remember to take was this one of totally awesome Predator iron artwork. Loved it so much. (Check out all the little ones too! Alien is in there, along with R2 and more!)
