tgwstw Blog Post: Tue Jul 7, 2009 8:37 PM CST

tgwstw Cork, Cork Ireland
Posted:Tue Jul 7, 2009 8:37 PM CST

You, remind me of the babe…. What babe?!

The Babe with the power. What power?!
Power of Voodoo. Who do?
You do.
Do what?!
Remind me of the babe.

I remember first watching this movie and noticing that David Bowie was packing something extra than to what I knew girls had.
This was the start of my fascination with the male species.

I mean, why did they have an outtie bottom and why did we girls have an innie?

And why, oh why were boys always more fun to play with than girls?
Don’t get me wrong, I had my fair share of Barbies. Most had custom hair cuts, a few Mohawks, skin heads. I even magic marker-ed in some tattoos.

My Barbies were bitchin as fuck!

But I always found the games that the boys played to be way more adventurous. Like my neighbours were always trying to exclude me from their “boys only club“, until I promised I would gain entry by some form of initiation and of course, them being Dumb and Dumber came up with a rather risky venture.

I had to take a tyre that we had around the house, roll it up the hill by the main road and leave it go upon their command, whenever that was.

An old Toyota starlet comes humming up the road, I stand at the top of this huge hill. Well huge to a 6 year old. Butterflies flittered in my tummy and I felt the flip of a wave of acid, churn and bubble.
“Now, Do it Now!!!”
Almost instinctively I rolled the tyre, to give it a good momentum in hopes it would be to the other side of the road before the car made it.

All my hopes were crashed when I heard the screech of the Toyotas brakes as the car had to hault as my vigilante tyre bounced across the road like a roundy rubber gymnast, effortlessly vaulting into the ditch, at the farther side of the road. At least it didn’t hit the car I told myself, no harm had really been done. Heart thudding, adrenaline pumping, the boys and I get going. Running as fast as we could through the higher growth at the top of the hill. Nettles burned the flesh of my bare legs, briars scraped at my shorts, a temporary discomfort until we cleared the ditch. Having safely gotten to the other side, we sat there panting. Cheeks reddened by the summer sun that had shone down on our mischievous trio. Our faces were flushed with panic, excitement, fear.

Then they looked at me, with an odd acceptance. No words were said, I knew I was in. An allegiance amongst Tyre Terrorists.

This mentality followed me to recent years. Not that I’d do anything to fit in but I knew for me to be seen differently through a boys eyes, I had to project something they didn’t expect. This façade didn’t last long, soon it became apart of who I was.

I am too far gone to ever be a lady. I don’t mind if I get some mud on my jeans, I always have a scrape or bruise somewhere. I sink Heineken better than most men I know and I’m pretty strong.
I brought the way I’m treated by boys, on myself. They say things to me, thinking I can take it and I do. Outwardly. If they say I’ve gotten chubby, I’ll laugh it off. They tell me things about their sex-ploits that they daren’t tell another female. I am pretty much always the friend, but if they’re super drunk I’m good for a grope apparently. I laugh that off too.

Little do they know, spiders terrify me. Aside from my Rebel song obsession, all my favorite artists are females that sing about broken hearts and insecurities. I love the Ellen Show. I cried watching the Color Purple and I tell each of my pets I love them every night before bed. I even kiss Ozzies belly.
(Continued in Comments, you know the drill)

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tgwstw Cork, Cork Ireland
Tue Jul 7, 2009 8:38 PM CST
Now I’m getting to a stage in my life, where I’m not exactly the girl I used to be. Nor am I the tom boy I’ve been since that day of the tyre incident. I’m somewhere caught in the middle.

Not that I think I have to be either or. But once again, reflection is bouncing back an image of myself that doesn’t make perfect sense, I am not particularly fussed but due to this self assessment I’ve been putting myself through lately it’s definitely something I have to work on and figure out.

I want to be seen for all that I am. I don’t just want to be multi faceted depending on who I’m with if that makes any sense. Everyday I see people behave differently with family, than they do their friends, than they do their spouse, than they do their work colleagues. I have to really take this armour I’ve self constructed in regarding boys, they only ever want to be friends! I’m a great drinking buddy by all accounts but girls don’t act the way I do, apparently.

It makes no sense to me anymore, I want to be an un-edited version of me to all people. I wonder if such a think occurs to many people, or if it’s simply a fact of human nature that we are different things to different people.

At home, around my family I am me. Alone I am me. With men? I am me, but tougher. Because I think I have to be. At work? If I was working, I am awfully subdued. I don’t think I was meant to be born into greatness but I sure wasn’t born to listen to a Spotty jawed, PMS-ed out bitch who speaks to me as if I’m just another number.

Do any of us ever really present our true selves any more? To everyone?

I may be an idealist but I’m pretty much done adjusting myself and who I am for the ease of others.
So, I’ve decided I’m going to be a fucking rockstar.

Who wants to join my band, come on tour and live the wild life? There’s always room for one more and if there isn’t we’ll simply just sit on top of one another.

There is a point to this blog, but I’ve missed it. I’m mesmerized by David Bowies bulbous bulge.

Oh fuck, this was it…….. Think about who you are. I realize I have way more time on my hands that is healthy, but if you’re reading this, then maybe I can make you think about relationships, individuality, personality and who you really want to be.

I’m not who I want to be yet. But I’m not someone I don’t want to be. I’m on the road, not to recovery but to discovery. Whora the Explora!

That makes sense in my head anyway!

Hessmeister signing out!

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handymanrichie lexington, Kentucky USA
Tue Jul 7, 2009 9:52 PM CST
My mom used to make me watch that movie with her. She was obsessed with David Bowie.laugh
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tgwstw Cork, Cork Ireland
Tue Jul 7, 2009 9:59 PM CST
Hey, David Bowie is a legend!
With an apparently big banana .
Don't knock him!
jfk2005 dublin, Dublin Ireland
Wed Jul 8, 2009 7:57 PM CST
at 40 i'm still trying to discover who i am ,who i was ,and who the hell i will be so girl i think we will never really understand who we are.so the search goes on................
and on and on and on.................
and i'm in the band too peace
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amahlala Las Vegas, Nevada USA
Wed Jul 8, 2009 8:05 PM CST
Labyrinth! David Bowie! I hooked myself and my daughter on that movie and David Bowie! Thanks for the great reminder!
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MrTKing Winchester VA, Virginia USA
Thu Jul 9, 2009 2:01 PM CST
That is my fav movie. Well that and Clerks.







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