What Your Birthday Color Says About You

COLORSTROLOGY – WHAT YOUR BIRTHDAY COLOR SAYS ABOUT YOU BY MICHELE BERNHARDT. 

The urge for you to communicate is strong. You have a full range of emotions that need to be expressed. Generous and courageous, you are not afraid to lend a helping hand. It is important for you to stay physically active to avoid feeling moody and disconnected from others. Being by the water, especially the ocean, can be healing. 

Your color is: Cherry Tomato, Pantone 17-1563 (or E34132 in Photoshop speak)

Your personal color helps balance any restlessness you may be feeling. Wearing, meditating or surrounding yourself with your color helps integrate the outgoing side of your personality with the spiritual and quiet side. 

Key words: Expressive, Giving, Communicator 

Compatible birthdays: 5 March, 1 June, 24 December

I always was a fiery one. Not much has told me otherwise. That being said, it makes perfect sense that being by the water, "especially the ocean," will do me tons of calming good.

CASTANO x PORTILLO (#1)

Uncomfortable feat. Abi Portillo by carloscastano

Carlos Castano, "Uncomfortable" (feat. Abi Portillo)

It was soooo hard to keep this under wraps for so long and I've been itching itching itching to tell people about this but I didn't want to spoil the surprise. After all, I am only guesting on his album. But it's a huuuuuge relief to finally be able to! I'm so excited about it!

Carlos asked me to be on his album after he and Abi Rode played at the same gig a few moons ago. One stormy afternoon a couple of moons after that, the song was done and recorded in the span of 4 or 5 hours.

Man, if I could just sing for a bloody living...

Anyway, his new album PERMANENCE is now available to download FOR FREE! He's got the fabulous Julianne on it too. So are y'all gonna listen to and download this biznatch or what? :P

Paper Dolls for Big Girls

There is a used-book store by the place where I buy coffee at work (the one that isn't Starbucks). And when I buy coffee I am, naturally, distracted with all the awesome and VERY CHEAP finds: magazines, coffee table books, art and photography books, pocket books, etc.

When I went today, I found myself a Communication Arts book (I'm 3 years too late for the nerding) and this -- an adult paper doll book!!!!!!!

1. The clothes are fabulous.
2. The characters are extremely amusing! They have back stories and everything! The characters that I scanned are the less risque ones, and the cross-dressing and drag is a little too much for the paper dolls that you have in mind, well, let me tell you - there's more extreme ones.
3. I get to color them in. :D
4. They're paper dolls! 

I know it's a stupid thing to waste money on, but I love it! Let's play paper dolls!

Holding on to the Holden

Given that your high school friends are pretty much the most dependable ones that you're ever going to have; and meeting people after school is fated to be difficult, it absolutely sucks to find out that the ones that you do meet and thought that you did like aren't as great as you thought.

They're selfish, manipulative, narrow-minded, self-imposing, kinda stupid, and are as boring as everybody else. It is disappointing and heartbreaking! Obviously my friends aren't perfect and are flawed in more ways than one, but they certainly aren't stupid. And when people whom you liked and respected turn out to be just another couple of ignorant, obnoxious idiots.... ugh.

Maybe I'm just naive. That, or I held on to the Holden too much for too long. Either way, I've maintained a no-bullshit policy, and I'm the first person to sniff out insincerity of any kind.

On the upside, you realize how invaluable your real friends are, and there's a reason why they've been there for so long.

All That Glitters

I was talking to a friend -- a fellow creative mind and a kindred spirit from the same generation both literally and mentally -- the other day about how we're both so ready to move on from our jobs.

Sure, he's been at his for 2 years I think, and I've been at mine for 6 months, but that's the advantage about being 24, I guess. According to my mother, at least.

Anyway, it was then that someone confirmed with me that one of the occupational hazards of what I'm doing is disillusionment. I was blind-sided by it, too, because hello all I thought I'd be doing is watching Koreanovelas for money.

What I didn't foresee was that it would completely crush every notion of "magic" I had left.

Do you know those insane magician/illusionist/mentalist shows? They're breathtaking and amazing and it's cathartic to not understand some things sometimes, and a bit of a relief in a world where pretty much everyone is stupid, because there's somebody who can do something that you absolutely cannot, and for a brief moment you have someone to genuinely look up to. Well, I learned that these supposedly unique abilities can be taught "anywhere, anytime, to any talent" when I was watching a pile of Israeli format screeners that they were selling to us.

And from there, you realize that even things like the Miss Universe pagaent is political. It was probably naive of me to expect otherwise, and it's not like I absolutely believed in it anyway, but the cold, hard reality didn't hit me until I realized that the rumors of China possibly hosting one of these years was probably the reason why that dim lightbulb of a contestant even made it to 4th runner up.

And as happy and proud as I am for Shamcey, I have my conspiracy theories behind her almost-win as well, which I cannot divulge for the sake of my job. She was clearly the best one there and truly deserved her win, but I guess I'm just too jaded now to think that nothing is ever as genuine as it seems anymore.