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Wednesday, November 12th, 2003
11:41 pm	Wow, I've been doing a pretty bad job at keeping up with my LJ recently! I went to see the Cruxshadows play with The Last Dace with Stefanie and Natalie on Sunday...it was an excellent performance. I'll post pictures as soon as I get a new dock for my digital camera. The Last Dance was perfect to open up for the Cruxshadows, and ya gotta love Rick Joyce's hair :O) Haha he's so pretty, and an excellent guitarist!! In the middle of the show though there were some hijinks outside which ended up on one car rolling up on another, causing a total scene and an abrupt stop in the middle of the show....only in Columbia, South Carolina...only in Columbia lol Training at Starbucks is going good, my boss is a scatterbrain but as far as corporate America goes it is the best pay and best policies I could find around here. Plus I'm already a coffee addict, it suits perfectly. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, October 20th, 2003
2:21 pm	Random Stuff About Me I was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the only ghetto of Connecticut!, for some reason the doctors thought that I was going to be a girl, I was a baby that kept it's legs crossed so it wasn't from physical evidence that they drew this conclusion, I really don't even know how they came to it. So I went home in a pink outfit and my room was painted purple, my parents didn't have enough money to buy new stuff so all I had for the first few months of my life to play with were girl toys, and I had to wear baby girl clothes. Lol so the first few months of my life I spent as a crossdresser. When I was 3 I used to put on sunglasses, pick up my mother's acoustic guitar, and play it to the only George Michael CD in the house while jumping up and down on the couch singing. The first time I cussed someone out was when I Was 4 in a small hardware store down the road, I had overheard my parents fighting in the other room one day and told a lady to go "f**k herself". I learned to talk from watching the movies The Labyrinth and some weird movie that I think was called Project X (?), my mom eventually had to hide our copy of The Labyrinth because it got out of hand. Before I turned 6, I was so out of control that my mother thought of putting me up for adoption (no lie). In elementary school, I became the teacher's pet and didn't get in trouble once, neither did I miss a single day 1-5 grade. I was a a gymnast for 7 years. I surprisingly have no fetishes, whatsoever. In 5th grade I won the state chess tournament for my age group. I used to be obsessed with Strawberry SHortcake, I have the board game, figurines, you name it. I came out of the closet and became openly gay towards the end of my 8th grade year. I had my first boyfriend by the time I was in 9th grade. I've fallen out of 3 windows. I have birthday parties for both of my dogs and my cat. I've been totally naked twice in public, neither were my fault! After 9th grade my parents sent me away because of "emotional problems" they supposably saw that did not exist. I spent about 7-8 months in hospitals. I never got to go to 10th, 11th, or 12th grade. (hehe ok just to prove I'm not a deadbeat this has to come next) I was the first individual in my class to drop out of school given that I wasn't able to finish because of my parents sending me off, etc, yet now I'm way ahead of my class with 53 college credits at the age of 18, I've never even taken the SAT's (long story, and yes that is the 100% truth). I'm terrified of Gremlins, they are just horrifying to me!! I took piano lessons for 6 and a half years. I've moved 14 times, 8 different houses, 3 diferent apartments, 3 "residential centers for teens". Before I was goth I hung out with punk girls, skater boys at the mall and the small pagan community where I lived. When I first moved to Charleston I only hung out with a washed up heroin and cocaine addict named Gene. My hair has only been dyed once. The most western state I have been to is Tennessee. I have never been out of the country, only once when I was 2. I've had 5 boyfriends, the longest one lasted a year and 2 months, the shortest was a month and a half, I still talk to all of them today except one. I am fascinated with Greek, Roman, Norse and Egyptian mythology. I was 6 foot when I was 14 and I still have not reached beyond 6'1. I think pouring or rubbing anything besides massage oil/lotion onto someone during making out, sex, etc, is disgusting and I have told people to clean it up before. I won't eat from a buffet bar, only certain salad bars. I flush the toilet with my foot. I have given myself a black eye by missing my ear when picking up the phone, I think I saw this in a movie too once and didn't feel so alone all of a sudden. My grandmother in Florida on my mother's side modeled the Hope Diamond when she was younger (I have pictures in old family albums to prove it!), and remains a very self absorbed and stuck up individual now due to her incredibly huge ego she developed from being a succesful model during her younger years. She sent me a candle snuffer for Christmas and my sister an Egyptian penny, psh! My great grandfather on my father's side lived in small village in Italy and thought he was a werewolf, no not a wolf, a werewolf. For those of you who know or know of my dad, this is no surprise! My main role models are Siouxsie Sioux and Peter Murphy. I still sleep with stuffed animals. My main petpeeve is people who dye their hair bleach blonde and leave their eyebrows dark. I've had kidney problems for most of my life, I have passed 3 kidney stones. I have an absolute weakness for skittles, red licorice and oreos. I admire anyone with any artistic or expressive capability, I have always loved to write and have written ever since I Was 12. My first crush was on Elmo when I was 6. I don't know, I had issues. My first real crush was on Seth Green when I was 13 (When he was on Buffy as Oz, talk about some real issues). I hate beer!!! Yes, I despise it, I only drink it when there is nothing else to drink whatsoever. The first time I saw Nightmare on Elm Street I was 8, I cried when Freddie died. My house contains a bass guitar, 2 acoustic guitars, an electric guitar, a flute, a piano, and a drum machine. I only play the bass, and in the past I have also played the violin, piano, and the saxophone in the middle school band. When I was younger I had to take speech classes for a bad stutter and a horrible mispronunciation of certain letters. At the end of the only year of high school I went to, some of my classmates made me a little crown/tiara/ with a rainbow on it with a card attached that read "Most likely to still not care what you think in 10 years". Hehe, I still have it in my room. My first time at a gay bar was when I Was 14, the doorman had a crush on me...blehck! Helllooo, I was 14. I've only been drunk 3 times. Not tipsy, I mean drunk. And all of those 3 times ended up in interesting, interesting stories, some of you might know of one or two. Hehe ok those are random facts about Jonathan. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
2:13 pm	I'm Back :O) Whoa, crazy past couple of weeks with moving and road trips and all. I went to Purgatory last weekend, it was great, had fun with some friends, finally got to dance to good music and met some new people. On the other side, I went to Savannah to check out their new goth night on Wednesday (usually it is Thursday), it was fun until afterwards lol...Amy somehow ended up with a 6 inch gash on her leg, Natalie puked twice, I got stopped and harassed by a cop on the way home, and me and Stef were so tired we had to crash at Andrew's house at 6 AM because we couldn't make it home, to make it better we all got sick lol. As strange as it is though, I still had fun, go figure! I guess the whole thing in detail will make a good story down the road... Me and Stef are going to Tampa in a couple of days, it's gonna be fun fun fun, can't wait, it's always nice to get out of Charleston. As for everything else, I have been doing pretty good with the cold that I have and moving and all. I quit doing the halloween activities at Boone Hall because the guy who runs it is so disorganized that it is way too hard to keep up with him, after paying me a week late on Friday I have had enough. Plus with the new job offer from Starbucks (they're gonna give me benefits, yay), I don't really have to be doing that anyways. I'm going to be sporatic and post a bunch of random facts about me that most people do not know, it's an idea I got from Blu. Well I'm out I'm going to be posting some new poems soon too (Comment on this)
Monday, September 22nd, 2003
2:08 am	Well its been a couple of days since I've posted, I've just been busy I guess!! Me and Natalie went out tonight, although it was Sunday night and the club didn't have too many people we still had fun...the show tonight was awesome, and we still danced a little bit by ourselves since no one was dancing lol Then we headed on over to upper deck, it's such a nice little homely place. Also saw Underworld today...I dont know, too many guns and not enough plot but still I would reccomend seeing it. It reminded me of a Matrix and The Crow hybrid, but still reccomended. Well I'm tired, this is just announcing my coming out of the shadows (lol whatever) since I haven't posted in a bit!! I haven't died I'm still alive :O) (Comment on this)
Monday, September 15th, 2003
2:36 am	You are "Kalidescope". You are unique and creative to boot, but if anyone calls you weird, kick 'em square in the ass because you'll be a revolutionary some years later. What Siouxsie and the Banshees Album are you? brought to you by Quizilla (1 Comment |Comment on this)
2:18 am	I'm a little bit nervous about hurricane Isabell, and living in a house that is 5 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean doesn't really help that either! Supposably they do not know for sure though right now where it is going to hit, I have heard so many different locations that it isn't even funny. I guess for this one we'll just have to wait it out and see where the wind blows, literally. *rant warning lol* Chad and Brian are totally out of the picture now as far as a band goes, I don't even have any interest in talking to either of them anymore. Stef came over there tonight, given that me and Stef want to form our own project, to check out the disaster and she totally agrees with me...it's AWFUL. Chad barely remembers the music we came up with when we do play, and tonight he was on something so his fingers were shaking the whole time. And while I'm tryin to at least muster something up during the boring, monotonous sounds that emit from the amps, Brian decided to go off on solo's out of nowhere...and the echo, THE ECHO they keep on their instruments, it just sounds like noise. And the funny thing is that Stef noticed all of this. After 10-15 minutes I put down my bass. I don't want to be associated with that kind of playing, and that is the only kind they really do....boring, monotonous noise. Luckily for me, Stef knows better than to judge my playing based on that shit. Ty is getting Lasik eye surgery tomorrow, I hope everything goes okay! It's supposed to be not dangerous at all but still, I just think the procedure is a little weird...how they peel back that part of the eye and everything, just kinda creeps me out. I don't want the poor guy to be scared so I'm gonna go over there after he gets it done tomorrow to keep him some company before he drifts off to sleep (you are supposed to sleep afterwards). Well I'm off to bed, it's getting to be about that time anyways. I'm taking suggestions on what to do with my hair next, given that I shaved it all off 3 weeks ago and now I have grown weary of that! Time to grow it out into something. Current Mood: naughty Current Music: Siouxsie (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 14th, 2003
4:57 am	Tampa Bound Me and Stef were talkin tonight about movin to Tampa next year, sounds like a plan so far, I'm actually excited...I don't want to stay in the bible belt for any longer than I have to, I am so sick of it, and while Florida is the south it is not the bible belt AT ALL. While it seems random, we've been talkin about it for a bit now, Charleston does not have a damn thing going on....definitely not the place I want to stay. Anyways, Florida is just a cool place to live and my Grandmother lives an hour away from Tampa so I could visit her more often too, she has lived alone for so long and she's old and I'm sure she'd love to have her grandson visit her once in a while. Well I'm off to bed, just updating everyone with that hehe :O) (look at the damn time, I really need to quit the coffe! ha like that shall happen) Current Mood: creative Current Music: Clan of Xymox (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 13th, 2003
1:15 pm	Me and Stef went to go see Once Upon a Time in Mexico last night with one of her friends, it was very good yet very messed up lol, and I mean that on more than one level...for a bit in the beginning the sound barely was on and the screen was skewed so that everyone looked smushed. And I'm not just saying it's a good movie because it has Johnny Depp in it, everyone already knows that he has a talent for selecting the right movies to act in and his acting ability is superb, as well as his hair and face that doesn't seem to age! We were gonna go to a gathering at Shane's but with Dad in New York City and Mom here all alone, I came home to spend some time with her so she wouldn't be all alone, it was fun we watched Flatliners for like the billionth time. I don't know WHAT it is with me and Kiefer Sutherland. I also came to one other conclusion today....LIP SERVICE CLOTHES ARE NOW OFFICIALLY OVER FREAKIN PRICED! lol They have some really cool clothes, I've been buying stuff from them for quite a while, but the mark-up on their clothes has become (and actually always has been) quite outrageous. KMFDM and Pig are playing on November 7th, not November 17th, I dont know where I heard the 17th but just to clarify any confusion its the 17th. Personally you shall see me there for KMFDM, I've never been a huge fan of industrial but KMFDM, please, no need to say anything else! Hopefully once someone teaches me how to put pics on my live journal and I can find a decent scanner, I can have some pictures up from Purgatory and some other shows I've gone to in the past couple of months. Well fingers are getting tired, gotta get goin Current Mood: awake Current Music: Black Tape for a Blue Girl (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 11th, 2003
12:43 pm	On a more positive note, Manifest Music is carrying some really good CD's all of a sudden. I am talking about the one off of Savannah Highway near the mall (for those of you who live in Charleston). I found CD's by bands from Black Tape for a Blue Girl to London After Midnight to Cruxshadows to Faith and the Muse, Clan of Xymox to early early Depeche Mode to Dead Can Dance, you get the point. I might go by there today and see what they have got, while they still mainly carry mainstream music, it still is a rarity to find any store in Charleston that will sell some of the stuff I just listed. I usually resort to the internet for most, if not all, of my CD shopping. I am thinking of getting a tattoo done and I know I want to get a piercing in my right ear, anyone have any suggestions about the tattoo? hehe, I already have designs picked out that I've been thinking about for a while. Don't know for sure though yet...it will be there for the rest of my life but it isn't some spontaneous thing, I've wanted one ever since me and my sis went to North Carolina to get her tattoo's when I was 15. She got both her ankles done for the first time around. Well I'm off, you all take care. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
9:55 am	I went to Shane's place again last night with Stefanie, it was fun, we mainly just hung out and listened to music, later on I played chess with Blake and Shane), poor Stefanie was sitting down so she could watch and her boot kicked their glass door in their entertainment center and glass went flying EVERYWHERE, at least 2,000 pieces, crazy stuff but funny as well lol Blake's punk ass tried to cheat, after one hour of playing with that boy he tries to cheat! I'm waiting on my drum machine with a 4-track built into it to arrive and for all you anti-drum machine people out there, trust me I know the disadvantages of not having actual drums, but I need something to go along with my bass. The new movie Cabin Fever comes out on Friday. Supposably, according to my sources, (haha) it is gory and funny, not too scary at all...but then again cheezy scary flicks are the best! Things between me and Ty are goin good, as far as the newfound friendship status of our relationship goes. It really is for the best, and surprisingly we really do just act like best friends now and its been like a week! We had dinner at Ruby Tuesday's last night and there wasn't anything funny or weird or akward, just like when we hung out over the weekend. Well I'm going to go, theatre class got out early today (whoa) but stupid psychological statistics class is at the same time...and I entered the poetry bash that I lost to ONE OTHER FREAKIN PERSON out of SIXTY lol, maybe this month my outcome shall be different ;O) Current Mood: lethargic (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 10th, 2003
3:14 am	Gia I went over Stef's house today and watched Gia (EXCELLENT MOVIE!), also bought 2 new CD's at Manifest earlier on in the day, then later on we went to Alex's then hung out at Shane's place. I also re-entered the poetry bash that I came so close to winning (for those that missed that post, I was second place which gets nothing, and the prize was 250 dollars). That movie Gia has to be one of my favorite movies, I need to buy it, it was so good! My favorite line in the whole movie was the story about the girl with the pretty hair who the villagers always tried to steal, so on that note I shall leave you with a story hehe.... Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a small village in the countryside. She was a beautiful young lady with beautiful golden hair. Every night while she slept, the villagers would sneak into her room to steal her hair to sell to the rest of the village. They figured that since she had so much to give that she could spare more and more until one morning the young lady woke up and realized she had no hair left. Current Mood: tired (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 9th, 2003
4:53 am	Reminders For those of you who forgot or didn't see, Voodou is playing in Columbia South Carolina on September 18th at New Brookyln Tavern. Doors open at 9 and cover charge is only six bucks, it's gonna be a good show so get together some people and head on over! The next Purgatory is going to be on October 11th in Charlotte, go to http://purgatory-theshow.com for more details, it's gonna be good music, cool people, and a good excuse to wear your best fetish attire! hehe Also, KMFDM and Pig are gonna be playing in Charlotte within the next upcoming weeks, I am trying to find out more information at the time so I will keep that posted. (Comment on this)
4:38 am	Which Peter Murphy Song are You? You are "A Strange Kind Of Love" You long for love, yet run from it. You are confused, perhaps even afraid because it seems so black and white to you. But your want overrides your fear. Which Peter Murphy song are you? brought to you by Quizilla (2 Comments |Comment on this)
2:59 am	Single Life and Nights at Alex's Diner Well, so far the break-up has been pretty tough on me...it wasn't under bad terms and we are still best of friends and still talk to eachother but the actual idea is just starting to set in that we're never gonna be like that with eachother. I think that is starting to kind of sink in with him too. With every break-up, whether if it was on the best of the best terms or the worst of the worst, insecurities and fears start to set in about every little thing you could possibly imagine, most of which make no sense. And even though it happened gradually, as of two weeks ago I had no intentions and I dont think he had any intentions of doing anything like this...I mean yea, we always had our doubts because of our age difference, but we always agreed we'd stick with it. It's amazing how one week, one day, one phone call or one conversation can change your whole life completely, and make you re-evaluate your life and where you stand and what you are doing with it. I'm sure Ty would agree that while it was on good terms it was fairly abrupt, and even though both of us agreed on it I still hear those famous lines from Tori Amos "This isn't really happening, you bet your life it is" in my head. He's still my best friend though. On the more positive side, I've been hangin out at Alex's a lot recently with Stefanie, I dont know there is something about lame diners, good coffee and talking with friends while smoking a good cigarette that just brings a smile to the face lol Also I've been playing my bass a lot more recently and I have come up with some material that I think would be great for songs, just need to put it together. I also entered the poetry bash, the same one I lost by ONE PLACE (out of 60 people I placed second, one slot away from winning 250 dollars!) so hopefully this one will go better, I put in the only other poem that I think could stack up really good and impress the editors of the website for the final rounds...while some poems on that thing are dumb and lame, there are some that are very good. Well I'm out I need to get some sleep, or manage to get what I can for tomorrow, long school day ahead of me Current Music: This Mortal Coil (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 5th, 2003
2:47 am	Finding Nemo I saw Finding Nemo for the second time today with Stef, Shane and some of his friends (some guys we met at Alex's while sipping coffee). It was good, Stef kept relating the forgetful fish Ellen DeGeneres does the voice for to me!! Maybe there is some truth to that though ;O) KMFDM and Pig are going to be playing in Charlotte soon, cant wait to see them, I'm definitely going...more for KMFDM than Pig but still I want to see both. I bought a drum machine the other day (I know I know, but I can't play regular drums!!), it has a 4 track on it which is going to be wonderful for composing songs, the quality is supposed to be good too, it is a Boss DR 5 I filled out the application at Starbucks today, but Blockbuster isn't hiring so I'm just gonna go to Hollywood Video tomorrow and pick up an application, they are better anyways...I also might pick up an application at Hocus Pocus, dont know about that yet though. (Comment on this)
2:28 am	Ty Well, as of yesterday me and Ty are no longer going out... We are still best of friends though, he is one of the greatest, genuine, caring, and loving guys I have ever met and we both agreed that we are still going to talk to eachother. Our age difference just got to us too much, it is a shame because otherwise we were perfect for eachother... I don't regret a single minute of the year we dated because while we had our arguments he was the best hehe even after we broke up we e-mailed eachother and kept on talking like nothing had happened. And the door is "still open" as we both put it, in a couple of months or years who knows, maybe we'll be able to work through our age difference. We both just aren't ready for a relationship this time in our life. I'm content with how it went, we both agreed on everything, it was mutual with no hard feelings, and although a big part of both of us wanted to stay with eachother, the rational side of our minds knew that it couldn't happen. And Ty I know you are reading this hehe, you lil devil you :O) Well anywho I'm sleepy I'll post again in a bit! Current Mood: content Current Music: David Bowie (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003
12:34 am	I was supposed to go see Twelfth Night being performed tonight for theatre class but eh its a college production, how good can it be?!? So I'm just going to read the actual play and do my assignment. This heat is oppressive, during my numerous walks between class todayI think I almost passed out, and to make it better the car wouldn't start and 2 minutes after I found that interesting revelation out my cell phone died. Luckily for me my sister is an angel and she came to pick me up, otherwise I would have been roasting on that roof forever! Current Mood: relaxed Current Music: Siouxsie and the Banshees (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 1st, 2003
2:05 pm	UPCOMING VOODOU SHOW For everyone in the South Carolina, Geogia, or North Carolina area, Voodou will be playing at New Brooklyn Tavern in Columbia, South Carolina on September 18th, it's gonna be an awesome show and I encourage everyone to try to go... For those who aren't terribly familiar with the band go to www.voodou.org to learn more about the band and what kind of music they play. (Comment on this)
1:59 pm	Tori Amos Show Me and Ty went to the Tori show last night, it was AMAZING She opened with my favorite songs off of her new album, A Sorta Fairytale and This Isn't Really Happening....the scenery was nice, the lighting was cool and the sound as well as her poerformance and voice was unforgettable. Lucky for me small cameras were allowed so I got a decent number of pictures. After that me and Ty rented Labyrinth, I must say that David Bowie's voice is still captivating as it was when he first came out, I remember watching that movie when I was 3 and singing along to it! Ty went crazy because I kept repeating lines of the movie right before they came up and singing along to all the songs lol Unfortunately, I had classes today and its LABOR DAY. Oh well. Gotta get goin, got a lot to do Current Mood: relaxed Current Music: Labyrinth Soundtrack (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 31st, 2003
1:17 am	Jeepers Creepers 2 Me and Ty went to go see Jeepers Creepers 2 today... I laughed, I slept, I laughed some more, then slept some more, then came to the realization that beyond the cheezy drawn out plot, there were actually some good parts that had I not partied crazy last night I would have enjoyed. Bottom line, it's worth seeing if you can manage to lower your expectations that low lol I also went to go see a band called Jucifer tonight at the tavern, they were cool although they were a lil too heavy for me....but still, live music just gets me in a mood, regardless if it is something I probably wouldn't play in the car Current Mood: awake Current Music: Lost Boys Soundtrack (4 Comments |Comment on this)