I’m horrible at this

Published on March 20, 2010 in Life. 0 Comments

I know I know. The blogging went so well a little while ago.

Believe it or not I’ve actually been SUPER busy with a whole bunch of other stuff. If you hadn’t noticed before, I’m a writer over at eurOut.org and now I have my own bi-weekly column (once every two weeks if you didn’t get that) and I’m also part of the OML team which is a total dream come true. With both I have been tremendously busy, but I love every second of it.

There’s also another little something special coming up. March 25th is my 27th birthday! I’ll be having fun sleeping late and getting three, if time allows it, new tattoos over at Fine Tattoo Works.

Now getting one tattoo is already a big deal and I triumphed over that immediately when I got my first TWO tattoos in one sitting on October 24 2008, but now I’ll go over that and get three of them. Now for me it isn’t so much the quantitiy of the number three, but more of the HOLY SHIT IT IS NOT AN EVEN NUMBER deal.

You see that OCD thing really comes into play with this as I wanted so badly to have an even number of tattoos, because for some reason I feel more balanced when everything is equal. Since I couldn’t find a fourth design, or at least one that didn’t require A LOT of design work beforehand, I decided to step out of the box, out of my OCD comfort zone and just get the three.

Though, mind you, I’m still getting that fourth one once I’ve saved up again and have the proper design, but for now, the three will have to do.

Pictures will follow….

Soundtrack of my Life Part I don’t know how many

Published on March 13, 2010 in Random. 0 Comments

Yeah, remember how I said I’d do this regularly… apparantly that wasn’t going to happen. Here goes.

Opening Credits: Ronan Keating – The Way You Make Me Feel
Waking Up: Tom Jones – What’s New Pussycat
Falling In Love: Ronan Keating – When You Say Nothing At All
Fight Scene: Nelly Furtado – Let My Hair Down
Breaking Up: Cheryl Crow – All I Wanna DO
Make Up: Brooke Fraser – Epilogue
Secret Love: Vixtrola – Walk Away
Life’s OK: Sarah Mclaughlan – Sweet Surrender
Mental Breakdown: Rihanna – If its loving that you want
Driving Scene: Cindy Lauper – Time After Time
Flashback: Kelly Clarkson – Walk Away
Happy Dance: Girls Aloud – Whole Lotta History
Regretting: Michael Jackson – We Are Here to Change the World
Long Night Alone: Alphabeat – Touch Me Touching You
Final Battle: OneRepublic – Dreaming  Out Loud
Death Scene: Amy MacDonald – L.A.
Final Ending: Mariah Carey – Obsessed (Remix)
End Credits: The Rescues – Crazy Ever After

Vampires don’t *Sparkle*

Published on March 5, 2010 in Movies. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .

David Boreanaz and Sarah Michelle Prinze

Tilikum part 2

Published on February 26, 2010 in In The News. 0 Comments

A bit more facts about Tilikum and his victims.

1991 – A trainer slipped and fell into the tank of Tilikum, Nootka 4 and a pregnant Haida 2. All three Orcas had never had any humans in their tank before and they were presumed to have been playing or being overly protective of a newborn calf.

1999 – An idiot decided to stay behind and swim with the whales. He died of a combination of hypothermia and drowning and was bitten by Tilikum either before or after he died. And evidence suggest Tilikum may not have been in fault.

2010 – According to Chuck Tompkins, SeaWorld, Orlando’s curator for animal behaviour, Brancheau was actually rewarding Tilikum for his good behaviour and performance that day right before he pulled her into the water. Who knows what made the whale decided to grab Brancheau into the water.

Dawn Brancheau was one of less than half of the 28 trainers that were allowed to interact with Tilikum.

Also, MOST of the Orcas currently at SeaWorld were born there.

Now I’m not saying any of you are wrong or correct. I’m just stating some facts.

I don’t think they should destroy Tilikum. I think he should live out his life right where he is, but away from the public eye. His caretakers should be allowed contact with him (OUT of the water obviously) to feed him and interact with him and to stimulate his intelligence.

While I do not agree of having animals locked up in cages, I’d rather see them in their own free habitat in the ocean. I can however understand the need of these animals in these shows. It is a double edge sword really. On the one hand you want them to be free, but on the other hand you want the opportunity of seeing these magical creatures in real life and not everyone is able to spend the money it takes to actually make such a trip.

And I can actually count on one hand the people I know that visited a SeaWorld, didn’t know any better than that the animals were in a good place before realizing that yes, perhaps they are in a good place and well taken care of but should be in their natural habitat. If nothing else… it makes a lot of people aware that animals should be in their natural habitat.

But like in a lot of cases where animals are concerned… they are in danger of becoming extinct and if not for the breeding programs that a variety of Zoos have… No one would even be aware of that.

Yes it is very much a double edged sword. I too enjoyed my trip to SeaWorld in Orlando and yes I saw the magistic being that is Tilikum, but I also do realize that animals should be in their natural habitat. Not to mention I can actually name a few people in my life who are vehemently against animals in Zoos and yet visit them on a biannually basis.

What should happen to Tillikum?

Published on February 25, 2010 in In The News. 7 Comments

For anyone who hasn’t been following the news: on February 24th 2010, Dawn Brancheau, a whale trainer, died at SeaWorld Orlando, Florida, during an incident involving one of their ‘killer’ whales, Tillikum, lovingly called Tilly.

One witness, Victoria Biniak, told WKMG-TV that it was a violent scene. Tillikum took off really fast, grabbed Brancheau by her waist and “started thrashing around and one of her shoes flew off.”, while another said that the 40-year-old whale trainer was grabbed by her arm and pulled under and subsequently drowned.

Since her first visit to SeaWorld when she was a young girl, Brancheau knew she wanted to be a killer whale trainer and vocalized as such. Everyone knew about her dream to become a trainer and since 1994 she has been contracted by SeaWorld, the same place her dream of being a trainer was visualized.

Dawn Brancheau and friend during a performance on December 30, 2005 / Orlando Sentinel Files

Though this would be a very unfortunate mishap if it happened once, but this mishap wasn’t Tilly’s first; he was one of three Orca’s blamed for the 1991 death of trainer Keltie Byrene, who slipped and fell into the water and was dragged around and pulled under several times by Tillikum, Nootka 4 and Haida 2 at the now defunct Sealand of the Pacific in British Columbia before he was sold to Orlando and on another occasion in 1999, Tilly was found swimming around with a naked man on his back who, according to a report, died of hypothermia, but was bitten and disrobed by Tillikum.

While I can’t really comment on the naked guy and how much Tillikum is really to blame for that one, seeing as naked guy had snuck into his enclosure which, for me, is a clear sign he didn’t seem to be of sound mind, but the other occasions do raise a lot of questions. Not only questions for the safety of the humans, but the safety of the animals as well.

What makes an animal like that, one that has had to put his trust in his trainers hands for survival,  snap like that? By all accounts he wasn’t mistreated by any of is trainers nor did it seem to be stress related. So what is it?

More importantly, what should happen to Tilly now? Most other animals, for instance dogs, would have been destroyed after just one kill, heck they most likely would have been destroyed after just 1 ’simple’ bite that would require stitches and some were not even their fault because they were either a) raised bad or b) were bullied and fought back. This animal was involved in three separate incidents involving human deaths (two of which were undoubtedly his, or partly his fault) and , as reported by staff, was considered an especially dangerous animal.

Dawn Brancheau was one of only less than half of the park’s 28 trainers who were allowed to work with Tillikum.

Though there were reports that Tillikum had been acting strangely, SeaWorld, Orlando’s curator for animal behaviour, Chuck Tompkins was quick to dismiss that notion and in fact, he said that just seconds before Tillikum dragged Brancheau into the water, the trainer was rewarding him for his good behaviour and how well he had performed that day.

So I ask again, if Tillikum was having a good day, what made him snap and kill his strainer, one of only a handful that was allowed to work with him and according to Jack Hanna, a personal friend and colleague, Dawn Brancheau was one of the, if not the best trainer in her field.

Was he just playing around? Did he panic for some unknown reason? Or did he just simply snap?

I can’t even begin to think on how I would deal with the question as to whether Tillikum should be destroyed or if he should be allowed to live out his life away from the public eye (heck, maybe even released back into the wild but that is a whole different ballgame which I won’t get into in this post).

All I know is that, from hearing and reading the reports, Dawn Brancheau was one of a kind.  These animals were her passion, it was her life’s work. She knew the risks of working with these animals, these so-called ‘Killer Whales’ and I personally think that she wouldn’t want him destroyed.

What do you think happened?

What do you think should happen next?

Testing Windows Live Writer

Published on February 20, 2010 in Random. 0 Comments

And IF everything went as I planned this post should show up on the home page

Dude, what the hell ?!

Published on February 19, 2010 in Random. 1 Comment Tags: .

You know, I’ll be the first to admit it: I haven’t a clue about relationships between people. I am not necessarily talking about the love that is in relationships, but more so the dynamics, the inner workings of it. Don’t get me wrong; I know what I want and especially know what I do not want. I just can’t figure out why people just can’t make a clean break. Why is it that a break up has to go on and on and on?!

A person in my life has broken up, and discusses this vigorously with me, and got together with someone at least a dozen times in the span of six months. First he’s too demanding and wants a lot of things she doesn’t want. Then they get back together because he still makes her laugh – only to break up two months later for the SAME damn problem – and then the circle starts again.

And the funny part of it all? She is a people user and puts it, falsely, on her feelings. Sure, some of the feelings are real and she, like everyone, deserves someone to be happy with, but this is just insane. With the snap of a finger he comes crawling back. He lets himself get used because he doesn’t want to be alone either. Are people THAT desperate to not be alone they’ll be miserable instead?

I get it, I do. I wouldn’t want to be alone for the rest of my life, but I have enough strength in me not to be with someone just for the sake of being with someone. It would destroy me. I’d rather be alone than miserably together.

Movie Preview: Room in Rome

Published on February 19, 2010 in Movies. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

This post was originally written by me and posted on eurOut and re-posted here with permission.

I don’t know about you all, but when I watch lesbian sex, be it in a movie, television show, or the uh, ‘other variety’, I like it hot, I like it sexy, I like it raw, but most of all, I like it realistic.

See how I avoided the ‘real’ word? The on-screen variety of lesbian sex is never real, not even in that ‘other variety’, it is still acting after all, but if there is one thing that I appreciate, it is the effort people put in to make it look realistic, like the people in the situation make it look like they’re really into the other person and are committed in bringing the best they can to the screen.

So when I heard there was a trailer out for the upcoming movie Room in Rome (Habitación en Roma), that had people watching it multiple times before running to the cold shower, I knew I had to check it out.

I can tell you I was not disappointed.

We’ll get back to that a little later. See how I’m building up the tension? Trust me; you’ll thank me for it later. Room in Rome revolves around “two women who meet in Rome and share a night of lust” in one of their hotel rooms.

Room in Rome

While the movie is set in Rome and it is not the actresses’ native language, the movie is mostly shot in English, save for a little dialogue here and there (Russian and Spanish if I heard correctly in the trailer). Something the lovers of accents all around will surely appreciate.

Now, let me tell you a little about this trailer and movie that has everyone so hot and… well, hot and it is absolutely NSFW, or any public place but the privacy of your own room, preferably bathroom, because you’ll need that cold shower right after.

Based on Matias Bize’s ‘In the Bed’, Room in Rome is Julio Médem’s first English-language film. In the Bed tells the story of a man and a woman sharing a night of passion and secrets. And if the trailer is anything to go by, Julio Médem promises us exactly that, except this time it is between two women and the décor is set in Rome.

The women are Natasha, played by Natasha Yarovenko, and Alba, played by Elena Anaya and the two are absolutely gorgeous together.

Room in Rome

You know what; I’ll let you be the judge of that. Remember though… NSFW or uh, any place but your bathroom with the cold shower already running. Or you know, watch it with your girlfriend. Heck, watch it with your boyfriend, I’m sure it’ll have the same effect on him as it has on you.

Click here to watch the trailer.

How We Justify Abuse and Rape

Published on February 16, 2010 in Random. 1 Comment

One, a study of 89 11 and 12 year-old children in several Glasgow schools, showed that in many cases, the children thought a man hitting a woman was justified if she had done something wrong. Virtually all the children thought it was acceptable to hit a woman who had been unfaithful, while 80% of them thought it was justified if she was late getting her husband’s dinner on the table.gaelick.com, How we justify abuse and rape | gaelick, Feb 2010

You should read the whole article.

Now this is how you do Billie Jean

Published on February 12, 2010 in Video. 1 Comment Tags: , .

A threesome of old timers took on the classic Michael Jackson hit ‘Billie Jean’

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