8.29.2009

Why I love Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, in short




Tom Petty's music is my perfect version of Americana. It's just plain, honest, casual, no-bullshit music that makes me want to slap my thighs in rhythm and croon along in over-sized sunglasses while driving into blinding sunlight in a bigass American car.

8.27.2009

Change is constant and good, but not constantly good.


It is so hard to be confident in this world, where most of us are struggling to be who we are. Generally, by the time I gain confidence in a certain thing, it has invariably changed. By the time I am fully confident in myself, I'm a different me. Fuck. Right?

8.26.2009

On sex and sexual attraction




My attractions oscillate between genders and sexes. Although I'm tempted over and over again to make a decision and be straight or gay, I think I'm approaching a place where the temptation may be less and less visible to me.

Falling in between the extremes of gay and straight is a niche that I've found suits me. A loved one recently expressed his struggle to identify with this position emotionally (intellectually, he's a smart cookie, and gets it). I laughed and shrugged--- I don't think you can identify emotionally with me in this way unless you share in it. Sorry!

He went on to say that if his future mate had this same fluid sense of sexual orientation, he might find it very hard to find peace with. I concede his point but offered, “The person I'm going to be with will be fine with it.” Or, they won't be, but that ain't my issue!

I told him: to say I'm lesbian is as much of a lie as to say I'm straight. I'm just not. And I won't chose or make any declarations until I'm sure-- to do so would put me right back in a closet out of which I already came.

So to the whomevers of my future: I'm glad you're cool with me being me.

Thanks for letting me fly my freak flag.

And no, I don't miss wo/men.
Yes, you're exactly enough.

8.25.2009

I miss the 90s but never want to go back


I just finished watching My So-Called Life on DVD. It made me:


-desperately want to wear hipster flannel

-remember the first time I heard Jane's Addiction

-want to watch Hackers and Foxfire

-miss, temporarily, adolescence