JessicaRigby

It’s one of those nice quiet nights in and I’m all nice and cozy on my couch after watching Beowoulf with Topanga.  It was a good movie but I think possibly just because of the other movies we watched beforehand.  I have a feeling tonight’s going to be a night full of writing but we shall see.  The night is still young, who knows what might happen! 

I keep a notebook with my in my bag pretty much all the time.  I’m not sure if it’s a habit I picked up from my mother, a product of my overactive ADHD mind, or the journalist inside of me.  But having it around means that I’m able to jot things down to blog about and look over my notes later.  Here are a few random ones as of late::

• “Sometimes I wish I was a giant.  So that  I could see the circumference of the world!”- Topanga out at The Park In the Sky
• Q:Why didn’t the Skeleton cross the Road?
  A: Because he didn’t have the guts!
• Taylor: (gasping in awe) “The last muffin!”
• Try to remember which Dylan song Joan Boaz did a cover of that I liked.  It was badass and I want to hear it again!
• Add “Beautiful Disaster,” “Put Your Lights On,” and “Rescue Blues” to the My Soundtrack project.
• Books I still need to read: Blade Runner, Trainspotting, American Psycho, and Minority Report.  Also, possibly The Spiderwick Chronicles?
• Movies to add to my Netflix que: “Falling Down,” “House On Haunted Hill,” “Margot At the Wedding,” “Beloved”… Also “The Point” with Ringo Star and “Equalibrium.”
• “Do you ever think about how lazy people in other countries must think we Americans are?  We go outside just to run.  Like what?  We’re all sitting at home playing our video games and we stand up and say “Oh man!  I need to excercise my legs because I’ve been sitting on my ass all day long!  Man… I bet some dude in Zimbabwe is all, ‘Bitch please! I have to run from lions daily!”- My friends crack my shit up!

By the way… I’d like to clear up something I realized after reading my last entry.  It’s not about “addiction” in the terms of drugs, booze, sex, and rock n roll.  It’s not about those things at all.  In retrospect I realize that some may view it that way, but I’m not going to change something honest for fear of how someone else might interpret it.  I’m writing this blog in the way that I am because if I’m going to try to write again, it needs to be honest and true.  I can’t censor myself or hold anything back.  This is my release, and I’d be cheating myself by keeping my mouth shut.  I give myself and my friends psuedonames and most of my entries are posted at least a few weeks after they were originally written so that dates and times mean nothing.  I also keep a private blog where I experiment with pieces and hide the ones I’m not brave enough to publish here.  That’s why sometimes things I write come and go, or show up out of order or retroactively.  In a way, being Jessica Rigby is a chance for me to be someone else.  Someone honest and real, who doesn’t hide from anything but protects herself and her loved ones all the same.  I’m not asking for anything but a chance to express myself and let out all these crazy thoughts swirling around in my mind.  If you want to read it, go ahead.  Just don’t expect me to explain, or apologize for, or edit anything.

It’s the perfect lazy Sunday.  I’m sitting next to the open window in my comfy chair smoking a bong and watching a History Channel show on Pirates.  Argh!  I slept late and had ice cream for breakfast just because I can.  I have homework to do, but I can start late tonight.  Haha I feel like a total college kid loser… which is what I am really.  I’m a bum.  But right now the storm outside sounds so amazing and the drizzle of rain down the drainpipes is fun!  I could sit here forever and watch TV and listen to the storm and hang out with some MJ for a while because hey… life is just that great right now!

Things I’ve Learned From Watching TV:
-50 cent has way too much money.  MTV Cribs had to devote an entire 1 hour show just to showcase his massive mansion.  It’s so huge, it has 6 different, fully functional kitchens.  His house is so big all his friends could be camped out all over the place and you’d never even have to see them.  I can’t imagine having that kind of money.  Life would be so boring, don’t you think?  Sure, it must be nice being able to afford just about anything you can think of.  But then again, really?  What do you have to work for?  He lives with nothing out of reach and it seems to me that a life like that would be no fun at all.  Isn’t that what makes living interesting, after all?  Always knowing there’s something more to do, to get, to try, to taste, to feel, to hear? 

- President Roosevelt once gave an entire speech with a bullet in his chest.   At least that’s what Uncle Junior said.  God I love the Sopranos!

- Bear Grylls and I should probably get married someday.  Or maybe Les Stroud.  Honestly I wouldn’t care which because they’re both pretty badass.  If there is a job that’s more bamf then going around the country and “surviving” in the wilderness for any period of time with next to nothing, all the while capturing it all on film, you tell me what that job is and I will sign up.  Besides you know they’re totally chiefin out too.  Ok I guess maybe not Bear since he’s in the British Navy or something.  But with a name like Bear, how do you possibly not have a good time living life, right?  His parents had to have been hippies!  Still… the point of the story is, thus: any dude crazy enough to pull of the stunts they do is definately crazy enough to marry me.   And it’d be so much fun!

The History Channel is seriously one of the best ideas ever!  Right now I’m watching this documentary of Pablo Escobar, a Columbian Drug Lord in the 70s and 90s who was HUGE!  This guy was so powerful that when he was arrested and put in prision, they let him build his own prison including a strip club and pool.  It was just a vacation home!  Yeah… Roomie is sleeping and so I am sooooo watching this whole thing, even if it is like 4 hours! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar)

No, I didn’t fall off the face of the interweb.  I just took the summer off.  In my abscence I’ve collected quite a collection of stories, ideas, and pictures. 

 Here’s a few things I’ve recently stumbled upon.  Enjoy!

Funny Clip #1:http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1759736

Note to Self: “I’ve also heard of Rubix Cube parties where you show up wearing six different colors (red shirt, blue pants, yellow socks, etc) and by the end of the night you need to be wearing only one (blue shirt, blue socks, etc).”

Funny Clip #2: http://vimeo.com/261212.  Streeter Seidell is my secret lover!  Coupled with a great song… pure laughterness!

Also I want this teeshirt: http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/finderskeepers/male

That is all!