walk into splintered sunlight

I want to Rock with you !!

2009-06-25T22:41:44Z

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett both passed on today :(

My mom was a HUGE Michael Jackson fan, so much so that on Monday April, 25 in 1988 my mom flew me and my younger brother the Houston for his concert !! I will NEVER forget when he sang Billie Jean and the floor lit up just like it did in the video ..

Rest in Peace MJ

It's that time of year again !!

2009-01-28T23:33:00Z

My Mardi Gras annual post !!!!!!!

here we go !

FEBRUARY 7TH
Krewe du Vieux
Theme: Stimulus Package !! YES
French Quarter 6:30 pm (or whenever) start drinking early
NOT NOT kid friendly

* I think we should do some sort of costume .. think ~~naughty~~

Feel free to meet at my house between 5:30-6:00. We can have a few drinks and head on out. I have contract parking in the French Quarter so as many people as we can squeeze into my car can ride with me !! um .. just let me know first *_*

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13TH
Krewe of Hercules
Houma 6:00 pm (downtown between 9:00 and 9:30)
kid friendly

we (jess and I) will be watching the parade in downtown Houma on the Lafayette St. Bridge, stop by and say Hi.. also if you have kids they will catch LOADS at this parade !!

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14TH
Krewe of Ceaser
Theme: Caesar's Got Game
Metairie 6:00 pm
kid friendly

wear your RED !! happy valentines day <3
i have never been to this parade but my new boss rides in it, so I will bring Veda. If anyone wants to join me let me know !!

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15TH
Mystic Krewe of Barkus
Theme: BatMutt: The Bark Knight
French Quarter 2:00
Krewe of Carrollton
Uptown
Krewe of King Arthur
Uptown
kid friendly

We park and walk to Friend's bar to get a Bloody Mary, Then walk down to the St. Louis Cathedral to watch all of the doggy's walk by !! It is a very cute parade, the kids LOVE it. After we walk over to Canal Street in front of Palace Cafe and watch the other two.
Nice fun day, good day to bring the kids the the French Quarter. It's never really crowed on this Sunday in the afternoon.

take a break .. you only have two days off !!
If you have never been here or lived in New Orleans before, a word from the experienced.
TAKE IT EASY this first week.. It is FUN, yes we know.. But this is just a appetizer a starter course, the Entree and Dessert are loads better, So take your time and eat slow the real fun is about to begin

here we GO !!

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 19TH
Krewe of Muses
Theme: Secret until Parade (Satirical)
Uptown 6:00 pm
Krewe of Chaos
Theme: Secret until parade (satirical)
Uptown 6:30pm
(downtown around 8:30-9:00)
kid friendly

YEA !!! SHOESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! with sparkles on them
Muses is a ALL LADIES parade !!
And Chaos is one of my favorite parades !! I LOVE THERE FLOATS, you will laugh your ass off, and they have some unusual throws
We watch the parades in front of Palace Cafe

Friday we work on costumes instead of going downtown..

Friday night I get a chair, a blanket, a book, and some drinks and head out to mid city to grab a spot for ENDYMION !!

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21ST
ENDYMION
Theme: Tales of Sleep and Dreams
Mid-City 4:15
kid friendly

We will be at the corner of Canal and S. Cortez, we will have a nice big spot. Tent, tables a blanket or two, I think we will have a pitt to cook food. Anyone is welcome, it is THE BEST PARADE !!!

Bring your own :
chairs
beer
stuff for the grill

We will have soft drinks,chips and stuff, or call and if you would rather throw in money for food and just show up to eat and drink that is fine by us *_*

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 22ND
Bacchus
Uptown 5:15
not really kid friendly with us *_*

Bacchus is a little up in the air this year for me, I have a ticket to the Ball. BUT every year Me Jessica Nicole and Mya all get funky with some wigs and stuff and go downtown in front of Palace Cafe. So I will edit later when I decide what I am doing.

MONDAY FEDBUARY 23
Lundi Gras !!!
Krewe of Orpheus
Uptown 5:45

When we were younger we would go out and Party this night, It is a very festive evening the Parade is BEAUTIFUL !!! the floats or just amazing. But we would always Miss FAT TUESDAY, we would sleep all day.
We are now dedicated to Mardi Gras day, so on this day people start gathering at our house and our party still begins but at home.
We eat a good meal and have a few drinks and work on costumes!

FAT TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24TH
MARDI GRAS DAY
6:00 AM
it's up to you if you bring the kids..

Up at 5:30-6:00, make breakfast for our Krewe have a few of Jessica's famous awesome Jello Shots and get ready.
Stop at my mom's to show off and take a few pictures.
Get downtown (the time differs every year)
Walk up the almost deserted French Quarter, it is SO quiet because it is so early.
Meet up with Societe of Sainte Anne !!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a link to my post made last year about Mardi Gras Day , and what it means to me http://zerone45.livejournal.com/14133.html

This is my MY FAVORITE TIME of year.. I wish EVERYDAY was Mardi Gras Day

Anyone is welcome to join us on Mardi Gras Day; however we do have some rules:

You MUST have a costume !! and make it good people !!
if you don't have a costume you CANNOT and will NOT let YOU come with us ..

You MUST either sleep at my house or arrive between 6:00 am and 6:30 am, we will NOT wait for anyone.

You MUST be your own ADULT !!! we are not there to babysit anyone, you are responsible for yourself, If you get to drunk (or whatever) you need to take care of it yourself.

Be Prepared !!! we will be doing A LOT of walking, drinking and picture taking. Make sure to bring some water, and WEAR shoes that you can walk in ALL DAY !! (I have made the shoe mistake and it sucks) We bring our our drinks and this year we WILL NOT have the BAR *inset sad face* But will still bring drinks; however the space is limited so maybe a ice chest with wheels (it makes for a great seat)

Bring your children/pets/ill behaved teenagers at your own risk !!
everyone is welcome, but I am not watching them *_*
and prepared the children for the ungodly sites they will see !! ~~Breast, LOTS of ASS and of course the infamous Penis~~ !!!

BE NICE !!
if you don't know what this means - don't come

HAVE FUN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everything we do is FREE (besides drinking and some food) and anyone is welcome to join us.. This is just a list of things that we do; however there are lots of things .. follow this link for parade listings http://www.mardigrasparadeschedule.com/krewes/

YAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-01-20T19:15:33Z

Today is a awesome day... YAY !!!! *_*

My Friend Nicole is lucky enough to be there today !!

She was behind the Washington Monument and said the feeling was amazing !!

This is all she could see ... people

she was on the plane between a lady from Dubai and man from Japan, also going to Washington !!

Mailing List

2008-12-16T16:58:20Z

Mailing out Holiday cards today *_* , if you would like to receive one, leave me your address..

thanks

zerone45@gmail.com

hjdksahfjkdlsahfjkls !!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-12-11T15:10:11Z

IT IS SNOWING !!!!!!!! *_* *_* *_*

IN NEW ORLEANS !!!!!! SNOW ?!?!?!??!

YAYYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

think i will stay home from work *_* and play

Barry and Veda just knocked on the door... I opened it and they throw a SNOWBALL at me *_* this is just awesome *_*

YAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYA !!!!

............. august 29th ..............................

2008-08-29T21:36:35Z

.............................. a moment of silence for all that were lost .......

Deciding what to do, we are planing as of now, to stay home. we got about two & 1/2 feet of water for Katrina (my house is three feet off the ground), but we are high, and have no trees in our surrounding area. We have a generator, and east jefferson doesn't have a voluntary or mandatory evacuation as of yet.

GUSTAV is NOT even in the gulf yet... so we will wait and see, I think that is best for now, no need to go to texas as the store could go there, or anywhere else..

I just don't want to be gone from my home for three/four months again :(

I hope everyone is safe.

Gustav you should just disappear ... really

i was just thinking

2008-06-30T14:52:38Z

good lorddddddddddddddddddd really

i think i am STILL drunk from last night ..... :|
and now i am at work jezzzz. and was almost an hour late *bites nails*

anyway, when is the wrock concert ??
i think i got a text from patty.. asking about it but i really don't have anyone's number so patty, elise, and jen get me your numbers PLEASE ...
court.. i still have yours *___* my phone spared you
srsly only you and jess

anyone up for a movie soon ??

a little history

2008-02-04T18:35:45Z

I used to be that person who dreaded the two weeks of mardi gras.. the puking and peeing in the street, the ridiculous of drinking, and the stupidity of doing whatever it took to get those plastic beads.. I never understood the locals who stayed, I always wanted to take a vacation at that time but working in the service industry always prevented me from doing that.

Then on one Mardi Gras day in 1998 a friend of mine from New York wanted to walk around the Quarter so after much huffing and puffing we decided to walk around, and I saw the most wonderful thing ever ... many many people (locals) with these elaborate gorgeous costumes, the air was filled with bubbles and glitter and streamers, so we decided to follow the group, they were headed to the river. What I saw and heard was just magical to me, I cried, and I cry every year now. That was the day that Mardi Gras came into my heart and soul, and I think the city did also, I really knew what it meant to be a part of something. I now truly LOVE this time of year, there is no other place in the world that I would rather be ...

I have come to love all of it really ... the song say's it all .. if you have any sorrows or burdens please bring them with you and leave them in the river .. cleanse yourself .. you will feel it move you

I'm gonna lay down my burden,
down by the riverside,
Down by the riverside, down by the riverside
I'm gonna lay down my burden,
down by the riverside,
I'm gonna study war no more
I ain't a gonna study war no more,
I ain't a gonna study war no more
I ain't a gonna study war no more,
I ain't a gonna study war no more
I ain't a gonna study war no more,
I ain't a gonna study war no more

Well, I'm gonna put on my long white robe,
(Where?) down by the riverside (Oh)
Down by the riverside, down by the riverside
I'm gonna put on my long white robe,
(Where?) down by the riverside
I'm gonna study war no more
I ain't a gonna study war no more,
I ain't a gonna study war no more
I ain't a gonna study war no more,
I ain't a gonna study war no more
I ain't a gonna study war no more,
I ain't a gonna study war no more
Well, I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield,
(Where?) down by the riverside
Down by the riverside, down by the riverside
I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield,
(A-ha) down by the riverside
I'm gonna study war no more
I ain't a gonna study war no more,
I ain't a gonna study war no more
I ain't a gonna study war no more,
I ain't a gonna study war no more
I ain't a gonna study war no more,
I ain't a gonna study war no more

this is what it is all about ...

Societé de Sainte Anne
[excerpted from Gambit Feb 2003
"One of Schindler's and Poché's most intriguing collaborations, however, is the Societé de Sainte Anne, a Carnival walking club, which they started in 1969 along with their friend Jon Newlin, a freelance writer whose work is published in The Times-Picayune and Ambush Magazine. Ste. Anne appears in the Infancy Gospel of St. James, a text denoted by the Vatican as apocryphal, as the mother of the Virgin Mary. "So, I like to think of Sainte Anne as the grandmother of God," says Schindler, who recalls his own grandmother as a Mardi Gras devotee.

Hanging in Schindler's dining room is an enormous portrait of Paul Poché, costumed as The Whore of Babylon for the Ste. Anne parade. He wears a cape, through which protrude opulent, swelling prosthetic breasts and belly, and the rest of him appears to be covered in silver body paint. He also wears a traditional full-face mask to which he has added false eyelashes and a black curly wig. Poché, against a lush green background of palms, leans back his head back in apparent ecstasy. It's quite an eyeful, this painting. And it conveys perfectly the je ne sais quoi of the Ste. Anne parade.

Ste. Anne, like so many of the precious ephemera of Mardi Gras, defies attempts to define it. As a walking club, the only requirement for membership is that you know about it. Every Mardi Gras morning, a large group of people, wearing the most over-the-top costumes imaginable (including the kitchen sink), arrives at someone's house somewhere in the Bywater. Soon the Storyville Stompers show up, and everyone follows the band through the Bywater into the French Quarter up Royal Street, gathering more costumers at various points along the way, until they come to Canal Street where they await the arrival of Rex.

In Ste. Anne, everyone costumes; there are no spectators, only participants. Without any stated doctrine or structure, the Ste. Anne parade, in its spontaneity and disorganization, resembles the old Creole cavalcades that sprawled through New Orleans' streets in the 1830s, Schindler suggests.

The story of Ste. Anne's origins in the 20th century is a little easier to explain. It started as a response to the ordinance that removed the old-line parades from the French Quarter. Schindler, Poché, Newlin and a few more friends wanted to keep the parading tradition alive in the Vieux Carré, so they cooked up this idea for a walking club. Some of them were living on St. Ann Street at the time, so that name seemed to make sense. But then they discovered a tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 that Poché describes as being in "sublime decay, made from that soft mortar and river sand." This tomb was dedicated to the Societé de Sainte Anne, a benevolent society that Poché later learned had been founded by the Sisters of Charity to assist indigent American Indian girls. The nuns taught the girls to sew intricate beadwork. "So there is a connection to our group right there," says Poché, an accomplished sewer of beaded costumes himself.

Soon this group of friends made it an annual rite to gather at this crumbling tomb on All Saints' Day, where they would read aloud the Litany of the Saints in French, and then go to one of their homes to announce that year's Ste. Anne parade theme. They would decide who would host the many parties between Twelfth Night and Mardi Gras, and they would begin the work of making costumes and the ribboned hula-hoops that became a Ste. Anne trademark.

The Babylon theme held strong for a number of years, and they carried a huge gilded papier-mache calf, a representation of the god Marduke with a lapis lazuli beard. "The whole purpose was to antagonize those people who drag a cross on wheels through the Quarter," says Poché. "They were always calling us pagans, so we said we'll show them some real pagans."

True to its mystical origins, all major decisions concerning Ste. Anne were guided by a consultation with the I-Ching, and since the number seven was sacred to the ancient Babylonians, Poché says that when he was sewing costumes, he would group his stitches in clumps of seven. In the past, they would usually attend Ash Wednesday mass at the Chapel of Divine Love to receive the black mark on their foreheads. But mass just hasn't been the same since Vatican II and it was getting harder to get out of bed on Wednesday morning, so they took to burning the palms at home and administering the ashes in their own private ceremony among friends. A few other customs have changed -- Poché says he had to stop having Ste. Anne parties at his house because the place kept catching on fire. "And feathers really stink when they burn," he adds.

Ste. Anne soon became something much bigger. Newlin reports that in the mid-1980s, someone called WTUL-FM on Lundi Gras and gave the home address of the person hosting the Ste. Anne pre-parade party, and the DJ broadcasted this information. The next day, unprecedented numbers of strangers arrived, and the parade continues to mushroom -- a very friendly gathering, but no longer just a gathering of friends.

Another change for this walking club occurred in the mid-1980s. As Newlin puts it, "People were dying like flies." The AIDS crisis took an enormous toll on the Ste. Anne parade. Poché kept a "list of the dead," names of friends who had walked in the parade, that filled two columns in a large ledger book. One year, Schindler had 16 houseguests for Mardi Gras, mostly from San Francisco, many expatriate New Orleanians. "Now they are all dead, all 16 of them. Stuart Baker-Bergen was one of the first. It was the plague." Schindler adds it has become impossible to celebrate Mardi Gras without thinking of them. "The undertone is always there."

Before dying, friends asked to participate posthumously in one last Ste. Anne celebration, and so, after Rex passed on Canal Street, the Ste. Anne parade-goers would make a turn and carry their ashes to the river. On the banks of the Mississippi, Schindler, Poché and others would first dip the ribboned hula-hoops in the water and sweep them back over the people gathered behind, sprinkling droplets over the crowd in a kind of baptism. Then they would set the ashes of their friends upon the water.

It was not only AIDS victims whose ashes went to the river in this way. Poché commemorated his sister Sally at the river; Schindler also brought ashes to honor his friend Eugenie Schwartz, as well as their friend Judy Latour. And so now, even though fewer of their friends are falling to AIDS in recent years, the Ste. Anne parade still serves in part as a process of grief, even as it continues to bloom as a magnificent celebration. Back in 1969, the founders of the walking club chose to inaugurate Ste. Anne on All Saints' Day at the tomb, because it was redolent with atmosphere, not because they intended for their walking club to be so intimately linked to death and remembrance. They were young, and they were having fun. And yet in their playfulness, they displayed a remarkable prescience of their future."

SOOOO !! !

2007-12-23T04:59:55Z

thought I made a post for addresses, but alas .. i noticed that i didn't ...

but if anyone would like a holiday card and maybe some cookies :D leave me your address :D:D

THANKS

WHOHOO!!!!

2007-11-17T15:48:47Z

IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! elseinane

*______________________________*

have fun at REN fest today ... i wish i was going, but didn't know i would be off of work :(
have a beautiful day

zerone45 @ 2007-11-06T12:27:00

2007-11-06T18:51:20Z

IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY torn_portfolio

YEA *_____________________*

IF I KNEW HOW TO MAKE IT BIG AND PRETTY ... I WOULD BUT :((

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

2007-11-05T01:41:42Z

tom brady you may be HOT...... yes you are ..... full on HOTNESS really ...

BUT I HATE YOU .................

i think this is pretty neat

2007-11-04T17:07:16Z

if you want to give a gift that truly gives back ... this is the perfect thing..

it would only be better if you could chose the country or person that it could go to, because I believe we all know someone who is not as fortunate as we are, no matter how how much we are struggling at the moment.

ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD .. to buy one for your own child you must buy two, one for you and one for a less fortunate child. The cost for two will be $399.

read more here

I will be buying one for my little VEDA ... i would like a macbook for her, but lets get real for $399 i could only get her a small little piece of a mac. I have heard about this program before this issue of TIME .. on Oprah I think but it was still in the developing stages. Anyway I think it is .... great :D

iso and i made this :)

2007-09-20T04:12:23Z

barry came home with LOTS of good stuff from the market and said he wanted spring rolls .. so what do i do ? CALL ISO ... come over this weekend and lets make spring rolls and ONIGIRI !! yeah ^__^ we keep talking about making them, but of course she comes over and we play on the internet LOOKING at things.. ^o^
there was one request from my husband however.... no computer use ?!? anyway i think it worked out better that way because we really had lots of work to do..
we had a pretty large menu

barry made
cuddle fish balls with a orange gastrique
and fried tofu stir-fry
and jess and I tackled
spring rolls (tofu)
and salmon stuffed onigiri i

um.. it doesn't sound like much, but it involved loads of prep work, i think everything came out great. er.. except the cuddle fish balls (they were weird) , iso said she liked them but i wonder if she was drunk HA !!! @____@

barry also made some very interesting sake drinks ..

to be a better fan girl )

2007-05-15T21:45:21Z

so um .... it's been a log time since i have had a post .. other than private.

I PROMISE TO:

post on my journal
read my FRlist
post comments
finish reading PoT
read bleach
contine to LOVE light
to find my OTP...(other than H/D)
etc.etc.etc.............................................................

PLEASE SPAM ME WITH WHAT EVER YOU HAVE :P