SOTD – Over the Rhine “Daddy Untwisted”

are you my daddy
are you

I don’t wanna cut you up
drink you from a paper cup
I don’t wanna spit you out
or kick you in the shin
I don’t wanna knock you down
be your mother be a clown
I don’t wanna talk about
the shit you’re really in
I don’t wanna take a bow
no one’s clapping anyhow
I don’t wanna sneak around
and pray you’ll understand
I don’t wanna call your bluff
enough’s enough
I don’t wanna see you
chained up

are you my daddy
are you

I don’t wanna ruffle you
cut the deck and shuffle you
don’t wanna come to fisticuffs
or stick you with a pin
I don’t wanna argue
hurt your pride or make you blue
your tongue is forked and clearly
there are scales upon your skin
I don’t wanna help ice crack
give you a surprise attack
I don’t wanna cut you slack
and watch it go to hell
I don’t wanna tell you lies
like presbyterians or spies
I don’t wanna see you chained up

are you my daddy
are you

don’t you run away
leave me like a rainy day
I don’t wanna make you stay
or stand up high above you
don’t want you to see me cry
I’m just trying not to lie
I don’t wanna see you chained up

Funky

Tonight I have:

Freshly washed hair

Freshly shaved legs

Freshly baked cookies

Freshly washed sheets

Freshly painted hot pink fingernails

Somehow the addition of the word “fresh” makes everything better by a thousandfold, does it not? I was not in the mood to do any of those things, the laundry, the cooking, the grooming. But now that they’re all done, I am replete, and life is good. Don’t you wish you could go back and explain to your punk-rock, adventure hungry self that the simplest things are going to bring you the most pleasure?

Or maybe we had to go through the punk rock painful adventures to discover for ourselves what freshly changed sheets will really mean, alone in your quiet house on a Sunday evening.

Review: Room

Room by Emma Donoghue
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was a very delicate subject matter to capture and convey, and deciding to tell the story through the voice of a child was brilliant. Just the right mix of the child’s understanding of the world and the overheard voices of adults to flesh the story out perfectly. Extremely well written.

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Tarte Shining Stars: Slender Tampon

So I promised I’d post about some things I like, and this is that post! (you can refresh yourself on my review system here.)

I’ve been eyeballing Tarte makeup for awhile, but it’s pretty expensive to experiment with, and I haven’t wanted to take the plunge (I really hate returning makeup. I know most places will let you, but I always feel like some kind of scam artist, so the stuff I don’t like usually languishes in a drawer until I throw it away.)

Before Christmas I was at Beauty Brands in a bad mood, and so splurged on several things I’d usually not have purchased. One of them was this Tarte “Shining Stars Limited-Edition Best Sellers Collection”

This set contains:
- full size EmphasEYES™ Waterproof Clay Liner in Black
- deluxe mini Cheek Stain in Flush (sheer berry)
- deluxe mini Lights, Camera, Lashes! Clinically-Proven Natural Mascara in Black
- deluxe mini LipSurgence™ Natural Lip Tint in Enchanted (rose)

It was mostly that cheek stain that I wanted to try, since a full-size tube of it is $30, which was more than I wanted to gamble on not liking it. But I DO like it. I like it lots. It’s sheer and a great color, it stays on all day without looking over-done, and it spreads easily, smells nice and feels awesome when you apply it. Total win!

The other items in the set are decent, but nothing to write home about. The clay eyeliner is good (I had to go buy a special brush just to use it!) it’s tricky to apply until you get the hang of it, but once it’s on that stuff is not going to budge at all. The mascara is nice, it has a good, thickly-bristled brush and it doesn’t seem to flake off too badly, nor does it clump up on the brush. The lip tint is okay. It’s an ok color and it stays on a decent length of time (for the type of product it is) It also has a lovely smell/taste from the peppermint oil in it. However, I don’t like their delivery system. When you combine the odd shape of the stick with the consistency of the product, you end up with this:

Unless you use absolutely no pressure at all when you apply it to your lips.

So, of all the products here, the cheek stain is a definite re-buy item for me. The mascara is a maybe, as it’s only $19 and it seems to perform well. I will give that a longer test run. The eyeliner in that little tub will probably last me the rest of my life, and the lip tint is a “nope” since the individual tubes are $24 for what is basically peppermint flavored sheer gloss. Not worth it.

I am interested to try some of their clay waterproof liners, but the most economical way to do that seems to have been this holiday set, and it’s sadly out of stock. I will wait until next year.

Define Kind

You say he is kind, but it is not kindness to shut down emotionally and force you into the position of figuring out what he needs from you. There is no amount of sad or ill that excuses routinely treating someone badly when you can possibly prevent it.

Once again Captain Awkward knocks it out of the park. Sometimes people have an aura of haplessness/hopelessness about them that makes you think they’re harmless to you. Like, they couldn’t even get it together enough to hurt you if they concentrated on it. They seem “nice.” But seeming nice (not actively being a raging assface) and being nice (taking care of yourself and not harming those around you, even on accident) are two very different beasts.

You can take home a wounded puppy, and it will be cute and break your heart with its antics, but you have to spend a significant amount of time cleaning pee out of your rugs. And men who are wounded puppies will never grow out of pissing on your floor, not as long as they know you will be there to mop it up.

China Glaze Sci-Fi

OK I am enchanted with this color. It’s a metallic lavender-silver from China Glaze, and it’s much prettier in person than this picture can show. I feel like I have cyborg fingers!