1.  I saw a homeless man on roller skates pushing his grocery cart in Daisy Duke denim shorts.  The tiny shorts go with roller skates but skates don’t really seem to go with homelessness. 

2.  I think The Steve Miller Band made up the word pompitous.  As in “Some people call me Maurice, cause I speak of the pompitious of love.”

3.  The Science of Sleep.

4.  Full frontal nudity in the aforementioned movie.  Why?  There was no need, I got the idea, I knew he was naked, I didn’t need to see the whole package.

5.  A chain of restaurants called The Pink Taco…again, I ask why?

6.  My husband feels that members of the so called “Club Brown” are intrinsically more high-maintenance than other women, however, women from my family could potentially be the highest maintenance of all.

7.  As we drove to San Antonio this weekend, my husband and I had a conversation with my friend and her fiance about the morality of Meredith and Derek and the raw talent of Michael and Kayne.  I have officially crossed over into the sad sad realm of people who talk about TV show characters as if they are people I actually know and interact with enough to call them by only their first names.

I had never heard the of the word meme until I was looking up Danity Kane.  If you have any idea who Danity Kane is, you should be hanging you head in shame like I am.  If you are normal adult you and have never heard of Danity Kane, it’s an all girl band that P. Diddy put together through 3 seasons of Making the Band 3.  They have single out called Show Stopper and I was looking for critiques on the band. I know, I know…embarrassing.

But that’s not the point.  I found this thing called a meme and I looked it up and then I found a Book Meme, which I thought was really cool so I’m going to share it.

1book that changed your life: El Alquimista (The Alchemist) by Paulo Coehlo for two reasons.  First, the book is written very simply in an almost Little Prince type manner but the ideas are profound and thought provoking.  Second, I read the book in Spanish which was an accomplishment in getting through the words but also in thinking on a deeper level in another language. 

1 Book you have read more than once: The Secret of the Unicorn Queen by Josepha Sherman and Gwen Hansen.  It’s a series I read when I was younger, but I read it over and over.  It’s about this teenaged girl who time travels and a band of women warriors take her in.  She eventually takes on the evil sorcerer and outwits him with objects from her backpack like her walkman.  How cool is that?

1 book you would want on a desert island:   Is a desert island automatically  deserted?  Because that would change my answer, but if it’s just a desert and not deserted, then I pick A Culture of Desert Survival: Bedouin Proverbs from Sinai and the Negev by Clinton Bailey.  If it’s deserted then I choose Dopamine Addict by Zachary Forrest so it would be like my (used to be man-whore)  husband was there too.

1 Book that made you laugh: Me Talk Pretty One

Day, by David Sedaris.  Laugh out loud funny, but in a weird twisted way.  Here’s a little piece of one of the most well known stories, “You can’t Kill the Rooster.”

 ”The Rooster” is what Paul calls himself when he’s feeling threatened. Asked how he came up with that name, he says only, “Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can’t kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up sometimes, but, bitch, nobody kills the motherfucking Rooster. You know what I’m saying?”

1 Book that made you cry: Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes.  Not to be  confused by the bastardized version, Charlie.  It’s an amazing story that does the reverse of most books.You experience the triumph in the middle and you’ll pour out tears with the tragic end.

1 Book you wish you had written:   I wish I would have written either, He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Truccillo  or  Be Honest–You’re Not That Into Him Either by Ian Kerner.  Both are  indispensable books for the relationship challenged or the women who just keep wondering why “all the jerks seem to find me.”  Right.   That’s because it’s your own freaking fault.  Read these two books and work on manifesting a spine.

1 Book you wish had never been written: The Rules by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, this ties in exactly with the previous comment.  People who end up with messed up relationships have “The Rules” mentality.  If you think people’s feeling are to be played with, and that relationships are a game, you’re a sick sick monkey.

1 Book you are currently reading: This Present Darkness by  Frank Peretti, my husband is making me read it.  It’s all dark and goth-ish on the cover but it starts with an amazing verse.  Ok, I’ve only read the amazing verse and the first page. More than loving the book, I think this is Zach’s nicer version of duct tape so he can read in silence.

1 Book you have been meaning to read: Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.  I’m only about a quarter of the way into it, and to say it’s well written would be woefully inadequate.  You are so creeped out by the protagonist but awed by his pubertal fixation. Verbose doesn’t even begin to cover it, which of course means I love it, so I get to learn about 3 new words per page, i.e., manque, cabal, minatory.

So my husband and I have a different perspective on music. Ok, music and humor. Well, music and humor and family. Fine. We differ or just about everything but my point here is music since it is a particular passion of both of ours.

I love music, but I mostly love music as a catalyst for something else. Emotion. I don’t particularly care what type of music it is as long as I can somehow get behind it. Zach on the other hand is looking for something very different. He wants originality, creativity, complexity of lyrics, intricacy of music, and overall talent. I couldn’t care less about these things. (more…)

No..NO, I am not talking about American Idol.  I’m talking about her song Opposites Attract. 

It’s a catchy little ditty from the 80s.  The video had her and an animated cat dancing together.  While one might think the song was about two opposite species being attracted to each other, it was in fact about how she “takes two steps forward� and the cat “takes two steps back.� Don’t worry though, “when they get together they have nothing but fun.�

My question is…how did it work out for her and the cat? 

There was a previous video where she swore that she was “Forever Your Girl� to this little boy (Elijah Wood) in a suit.  And even if another boy “promised the moon and the stars above� he should “remember that she’s forever his girl.�  But given that the cat video came later, I’m wondering what happened.

Perhaps the little boy owned the cat or maybe she was just overtaken by the opposites that attracted her to the cat and she had to dump the 6 year old boy?  Whatever the beginning of the cat/lady relationship, I’ve been left to wonder, do opposites really attract?

So I saw this phrase and I instantly knew it embodied all that is Zachary Forrest.  It just takes his personality and his demeanor and sums it up in 6 little words.

“I’m pretty much a big deal.�

It makes him sound really pompous and pretty much like a jerkass, but he’s not.  I swear.  He is, however, very talented and has a way of making even the worst emotions, the most terrible circumstances, and the most heartbreaking scenarios sound downright poetic.  That may be because he is a poet.

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