Dannielle Says: 

I feel like my personal post is doomed bc last weekend it was the rapture and that shit is like GOLD. you know?

Basically the only thing that’s going on in my life BESIDES working a billion hours a week for breakoutband.com is looking for an apartment, which, TURNS OUT is a complete pain in the ass. 

APPARENTLY 45% of the apartments in brooklyn are legit gross, and some of them don’t like cats, and some of them hate when you have bad credit (even if you can provide guarantors and 6 months of rent up front which like WHAT THE FUCK). BUT WHATEVER, we have a million more to look at and we’ll find something and it’s not the end of the world. 

In other news, I’m RIDICULOUSLY excited about our stageit.com show with Jenny on Thursday, not only bc I like her music I GUESS, but bc she’s literally one of the best people I know, so like, it’s basically a free hangout session, you know what i mean? PLUS I AM DRIVING HOME TO CHARLESTON IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SHOW TO SPEND THE WEEKEND MY POPS N SOME FRIENDS. 

That is all 

Kristin Says:

Remember that time when I tried to do my work at The Marriott Business Center, and I couldn’t because apparently the word “gay” automatically means “porn”?  YEAH ME TOO, SINCE IT HAPPENED FIVE MINUTES AGO.

Even though most of me wants to rage on and on about how gay isn’t a bad word and how censorship is lame and about how if I want to write about dildos at 10am from a business center I should be able to, I am going to take a deeeeeeeeeep breath and move past this bullshit occurrence.

{deep breath}

So like, I am in San Diego with my family for a wedding, and all of my aunts and uncles are here…including my Uncle Mark, who I have not seen in probably ten years.  Let me tell you something about my Uncle Mark, okay?  He lives on an orchard in Idaho where he grows his own food and has dogs and horses, and when I was ten he gave me the collected works of Mark Twain.  He is kind of my hero. 

I am not sure exactly why he doesn’t hang around many family functions, but I have created a story in my imagination that entails him being so different from the rest of my family that he also feels a similar love/displacement situation when he is with the larger group.  Now, I am pretty sure my Uncle Mark would not be a huge fan of the gays, and I kind of don’t want to find out the details, but what I do think is incredible (if my imaginary story is actually true), is how despite the why, there is a good chance that my Uncle Mark and I share some very similar feelings when we are with our extended families.

This is why “gay rights” or “gay issues” sometimes seems way off-base to me.  It’s like…the world is made up of some people thinking they are right and normal and in control, and some people being pushed to the bottom of the barrel for not aligning.  I don’t know how to do it, but I think that moving toward a place where my Uncle Mark and I could understand the similarity in our positioning would be wayyyyy more powerful than for me to put all my efforts into something like legalizing gay marriage.

Not that I am against gay marriage…but like, you know?

AM I MAKING ANY SENSE?!