Your body is not in style, miss...

It basically disgusts me how society sets a trend to female bodies. I don't know if that sentence is entirely clear, so allow me to elaborate as best as I can.
Currently, it seems that the indie and hippie trend is back, and I am 100% okay with this. I've loved that outdoorsy, nature-loving, tree-hugging kind of stuff since I was a child. I spent my days in the the trees with journals and books; I think I was kind of a freak, but now I fit right in in that aspect, which is cool, I guess, but I've never been too concerned with fitting in.
However, I have never really picked up on how body shape is a trend that alters throughout time and style changes. Skinny will always be hot, and tall will always be something the short girls want, while the girls with height wish to be short - those things will always be, I think.
With the clothes that are in stores recently, I must say that they favor the twig-leg, flat stomach, and flat chested girls.
Yoga pants are the new comfy trend that all girls wear religiously, along with the black leggings, brown Uggs, and black NorthFace. They make your butt look great, even if you don't really have one, and slender your legs: that is if you have skinny legs. If you have thicker legs, forget it - you won't look good enough for society's expectations.
Next are the cropped shirts, very popular in the summer months for us North Country folks and "going out," despite the cold winter temperatures. These are for those girls with those perfectly flat stomachs that don't have to worry in the about their non-existent college beer gut. If you don't have the time to work off that lower-belly pooch, say goodbye to the trendy crop tops that flood every single store.
If you are "blessed" with a bigger chest but have a flat stomach, congratulations for looking sexy naked, but you probably won't in these crop tops, and flowing shirts. Instead, your boobs will push the shirt outward, shaping you into a teepee kind of shape. You'll basically look like you put on a potato sack. Sorry, ladies, but your big boobs no longer fit into the present trends.

Maybe in a year or two big boobs will be in style.

A variety of old cameras in an antique shop in Sanborn, NY.

Got myself goin'...

not intended to be sexual…this post is in regards to the modern day music business:

nothing ticks me off more (depending on my mood/day) than when i think in-depth about the music business that society has got going up in here (/gangsta talk).

alright, out of all seriousness, it bugs me how hard people bust their asses in order to just book a few local shows and develop a fan base. grouping just a few dozen dedicated fans/listeners is great and rewarding, but that little “club” isn’t going to get you anywhere as an artist, or your band.

meanwhile, as you or your band practice for hours, drop wads of cash for upgraded equipment, venues, transportation, etc. there’s the celebrities who are frolicking through the world and its media with absolutely no talent, but are simply everything they are due to luck or connections.

miley cyrus for example: i’m not sure why she was rewarded for her father having his awful one-hit wonder, “achey breaky heart.” i mean, c’mon, just reading the title makes you want to smash your head into a wall, let alone listening to it and then passing his “talent” and fame down to his daughter. she has little to no talent. her show is cute, or something like that, but she needs to keep her albums off of itunes, the radio, and amongst her close family and friends; save the parents’ ears of those poor, naive children's souls that she is raping via pop songs through their young, developing ears.

then we have selena gomez. where did she even come from? she can’t act well - it sounds like she’s reading off a  teleprompter. she’s not a good singer, and her lyrics are awful. “i love you like a love song.” what does that even mean? people play a love song  on repeat, if it’s good, for a month or two, then they forget about it. is that your intention, selena? not only that, but watching her perform is literally painful. it’s so pathetic, pitiful and weak, i just…i just can’t even handle it.

now i’m brought around to taylor swift, and i go back and forth with her. in general, she shouldn’t really be categorized with these other women. she made it to the top with her own work, so good for her. it’s just my own personal opinion that her songs all sound the same, and i just sometimes cannot stand her. i find it very upsetting that she wins such major awards, especially the cma’s, over much more experienced and talented country artists, like carrie underwood, reba mcentire, etc. however, i love her enthusiasm, and she truly is a fun performer.

more recently, we have the offspring of will smith, willow smith. she is just a damn disappointment. i expected better coming from will’s sperm, but shit. she is eleven years old, and began whipping her damn hair back and forth at least a year ago. she talks about fast cars and some other stupid shit, which i just don’t understand because she should not be riding around in cars with boys (not to be confused with the movie starring drew barrymore). 

i just watched her new music video featuring nicki minaj, “fireball.” now, first off, she’s not a good dancer, and i don’t understand how will can be looking at mtv with a smile on his face seeing his preteen daughter shaking her body, which hasn’t hit puberty yet, all over national television. then, she starts singing, but she’s not really. she’s just bitchin’ and yellin’ how she’s the life of the party. this little girl was born in 2000. eleven year old girls, or boys for that matter, are not out at “da clubs” or house parties at this age. they are in bed at 9 p.m. to get up early to go to school or go play outside. maybe i’m just livin’ the life of a white girl, but in the ’90s, that’s how we ran shit. 

if you go on youtube.com, there are so many people who do covers, or write their own music, and are just phenomenal. and thank god for some celebrities who do all they can to bring those artists to the front, like ellen (love her). but, i mean, they can only do so much. 

i have been supporting a local band inlite for the past few years and it aggravates me when i watch them perform, and they do so well, and then i flip on the radio and hear what so many refer to as "music." it’s so degrading to the art of music, society, and the listeners. 

what makes matters worse, is all of the people who truly enjoy the awful music and spend their money on it.

Open up your ears, folks, and support the true talent and art of music.








[I apologize for the lack of capital letters, incorrect text background color, and small font - I copy, pasted, and edited this "rant" from my other blog, which formats it like this, and I couldn't figure out how to alter it.]