(Listening to Blutengel)
My status should read: wants to immerse herself into darkness and come out pure white snow
Fallen and not sentenced
(In Conversation)
I realize no matter what I'm not going to be attracted to a girl who bakes apple pies or a boy who wears blue jeans. We like the color, the senses, the essence of that, I forgot what it was that attracted me to it all and its all essentially the same.
You didn't know where you fit, you didn't think you fit anywhere, then you embraced a dark aesthetic and suddenly everything makes sense. So ten years here I am still listening to the same music.
When I was a stranger to it all is it the strangers who have the same romanticism of it too?
Maybe but they didn't read Ann Radcliffe or listen to Mephisto Walz.
That's what it comes down to, Interests? Maybe having things in common is overrated but the attraction factor just isn't the same. He likes girls who wear vinyl, corsets and latex; he tells me and I think hell who doesn't?
The guy I'm seeing just kissed a guy last night and I'm actually a little bit proud and it wasn't anything that I convinced him to do. Girls think that guys who are effeminate weirdos are hot, just as much as guys like sluts.
Can I show my new toy off today?
Accept people for who they are, not who you want them to be.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
First Day of Recognition or Reigniting Ambition & Inspiration
Listening to: Proem- Socially Inept off my Jega Last.fm station~~~
Forgive this for being an odd day but what better time to start than now; never a better moment than the present. It's not the past, you are NOT your past mistakes and I know you can do better. You want it, you take it; never been the sit and wait type, no patience is a good thing in this case.
I just wanted to let you know what I really think of you
I wanted to see what you saw and thank you for what you said
More than ever that 3rd perspective needs to be seen... expose it, cultivate it
Downfalls of Procrastination and Inward Anger; come from past behavioral patterns
Reinvention needs to occur; Self-Destruct to reconstruct; Start over in an innovative way
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Interviewing Petunia:
Who are you?
My name is Petunia; I'm a dynamic, assertive, attention-grabbing philanthropist
How did you see yourself?
As just falling short of perfection
Why is that?
Cultivated expectations, that are propagated by inside and outside resources
What do you want to see more of?
Vivaciousness in the environment, Stars in your eyes again, Adoration and Appreciation, Creation in place of Destruction
What is it that you are attempting to accomplish here?
Further exploration and research is needed to finish this unfinished prototype; We are always destined to be the incomplete art project
Forgive this for being an odd day but what better time to start than now; never a better moment than the present. It's not the past, you are NOT your past mistakes and I know you can do better. You want it, you take it; never been the sit and wait type, no patience is a good thing in this case.
I just wanted to let you know what I really think of you
I wanted to see what you saw and thank you for what you said
More than ever that 3rd perspective needs to be seen... expose it, cultivate it
Downfalls of Procrastination and Inward Anger; come from past behavioral patterns
Reinvention needs to occur; Self-Destruct to reconstruct; Start over in an innovative way
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Interviewing Petunia:
Who are you?
My name is Petunia; I'm a dynamic, assertive, attention-grabbing philanthropist
How did you see yourself?
As just falling short of perfection
Why is that?
Cultivated expectations, that are propagated by inside and outside resources
What do you want to see more of?
Vivaciousness in the environment, Stars in your eyes again, Adoration and Appreciation, Creation in place of Destruction
What is it that you are attempting to accomplish here?
Further exploration and research is needed to finish this unfinished prototype; We are always destined to be the incomplete art project
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Free to Good Home?
~Reposted email from Freegan mailing list~
January 6, 2010
About New York
A Clothing Clearance Where More Than Just the Prices Have Been Slashed
By JIM DWYER
In the bitter cold on Monday night, a man and woman picked apart a pyramid of clear trash bags, the discards of the HM clothing store that reigns in blazing plate-glass glory on 34th Street, just east of Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.
At the back entrance on 35th Street, awaiting trash haulers, were bags of garments that appear to have never been worn. And to make sure that they never would be worn or sold, someone had slashed most of them with box cutters or razors, a familiar sight outside H & M’s back door. The man and woman were there to salvage what had not been destroyed.
He worked quickly, never uttering a word. A bag was opened and eyed, and if it held something of promise, was tossed at the feet of the woman. She said her name was Pepa.
Were the clothes usually cut up before they were thrown out?
“A veces,” she said in Spanish. Sometimes.
She packed up a few items that had escaped the blade — a bright green T-shirt that said “Summer of Surf,” and a dark-blue hoodie in size 12, with a Divided label. The rest was returned to the pyramid.
It is winter. A third of the city is poor. And unworn clothing is being destroyed nightly.
A few doors down on 35th Street, hundreds of garments tagged for sale in Wal-Mart — hoodies and T-shirts and pants — were discovered in trash bags the week before Christmas, apparently dumped by a contractor for Wal-Mart that has space on the block.
Each piece of clothing had holes punched through it by a machine.
They were found by Cynthia Magnus, who attends classes at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on Fifth Avenue and noticed the piles of discarded clothing as she walked to the subway station in Herald Square. She was aghast at the waste, and dragged some of the bags home to Brooklyn, hoping that someone would be willing to take on the job of patching the clothes and making them wearable.
A Wal-Mart spokeswoman, Melissa Hill, said the company normally donates all its unworn goods to charities, and would have to investigate why the items found on 35th Street were discarded.
During her walks down 35th Street, Ms. Magnus said, it is more common to find destroyed clothing in the H & M trash. On Dec. 7, during an early cold snap, she said, she saw about 20 bags filled with H & M clothing that had been cut up.
“Gloves with the fingers cut off,” Ms. Magnus said, reciting the inventory of ruined items. “Warm socks. Cute patent leather Mary Jane school shoes, maybe for fourth graders, with the instep cut up with a scissor. Men’s jackets, slashed across the body and the arms. The puffy fiber fill was coming out in big white cotton balls.” The jackets were tagged $59, $79 and $129.
This week, a manager in the H & M store on 34th Street said inquiries about its disposal practices had to be made to its United States headquarters. However, various officials did not respond to 10 inquiries made Tuesday by phone and e-mail.
Directly around the corner from H & M is a big collection point for New York Cares, which conducts an annual coat drive.
“We’d be glad to take unworn coats, and companies often send them to us,” said Colleen Farrell, a spokeswoman for New York Cares.
More than coats were tossed out. “The H & M thing was just ridiculous, not only clothing, but bags and bags of sturdy plastic hangers,” Ms. Magnus said. “I took a dozen of them. A girl can never have enough hangers.”
H & M, which is based in Sweden, has an executive in charge of corporate responsibility who leads the company’s sustainability efforts. On its Web site, H&M reports that to save paper, it has shrunk its shipping labels.
“How about all the solid waste generated by throwing away usable garments and plastic hangers?” Ms. Magnus asked in a letter to the executive, Ingrid Schullstrom. She volunteered to help H & M connect with a charity or agency in New York that could put the unsold items to better use than simply tossing them in the trash. So far, she said, she has gotten no response.
On Monday night, Pepa’s shopping bag held a few items. She pointed to her gray sweatpants. “From here,” she said.
How about coats?
“Maybe tomorrow,” she said.
E-mail: dwyer AT nytimes.com
Copyright 2010 The New York Times Company
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January 6, 2010
About New York
A Clothing Clearance Where More Than Just the Prices Have Been Slashed
By JIM DWYER
In the bitter cold on Monday night, a man and woman picked apart a pyramid of clear trash bags, the discards of the HM clothing store that reigns in blazing plate-glass glory on 34th Street, just east of Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.
At the back entrance on 35th Street, awaiting trash haulers, were bags of garments that appear to have never been worn. And to make sure that they never would be worn or sold, someone had slashed most of them with box cutters or razors, a familiar sight outside H & M’s back door. The man and woman were there to salvage what had not been destroyed.
He worked quickly, never uttering a word. A bag was opened and eyed, and if it held something of promise, was tossed at the feet of the woman. She said her name was Pepa.
Were the clothes usually cut up before they were thrown out?
“A veces,” she said in Spanish. Sometimes.
She packed up a few items that had escaped the blade — a bright green T-shirt that said “Summer of Surf,” and a dark-blue hoodie in size 12, with a Divided label. The rest was returned to the pyramid.
It is winter. A third of the city is poor. And unworn clothing is being destroyed nightly.
A few doors down on 35th Street, hundreds of garments tagged for sale in Wal-Mart — hoodies and T-shirts and pants — were discovered in trash bags the week before Christmas, apparently dumped by a contractor for Wal-Mart that has space on the block.
Each piece of clothing had holes punched through it by a machine.
They were found by Cynthia Magnus, who attends classes at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on Fifth Avenue and noticed the piles of discarded clothing as she walked to the subway station in Herald Square. She was aghast at the waste, and dragged some of the bags home to Brooklyn, hoping that someone would be willing to take on the job of patching the clothes and making them wearable.
A Wal-Mart spokeswoman, Melissa Hill, said the company normally donates all its unworn goods to charities, and would have to investigate why the items found on 35th Street were discarded.
During her walks down 35th Street, Ms. Magnus said, it is more common to find destroyed clothing in the H & M trash. On Dec. 7, during an early cold snap, she said, she saw about 20 bags filled with H & M clothing that had been cut up.
“Gloves with the fingers cut off,” Ms. Magnus said, reciting the inventory of ruined items. “Warm socks. Cute patent leather Mary Jane school shoes, maybe for fourth graders, with the instep cut up with a scissor. Men’s jackets, slashed across the body and the arms. The puffy fiber fill was coming out in big white cotton balls.” The jackets were tagged $59, $79 and $129.
This week, a manager in the H & M store on 34th Street said inquiries about its disposal practices had to be made to its United States headquarters. However, various officials did not respond to 10 inquiries made Tuesday by phone and e-mail.
Directly around the corner from H & M is a big collection point for New York Cares, which conducts an annual coat drive.
“We’d be glad to take unworn coats, and companies often send them to us,” said Colleen Farrell, a spokeswoman for New York Cares.
More than coats were tossed out. “The H & M thing was just ridiculous, not only clothing, but bags and bags of sturdy plastic hangers,” Ms. Magnus said. “I took a dozen of them. A girl can never have enough hangers.”
H & M, which is based in Sweden, has an executive in charge of corporate responsibility who leads the company’s sustainability efforts. On its Web site, H&M reports that to save paper, it has shrunk its shipping labels.
“How about all the solid waste generated by throwing away usable garments and plastic hangers?” Ms. Magnus asked in a letter to the executive, Ingrid Schullstrom. She volunteered to help H & M connect with a charity or agency in New York that could put the unsold items to better use than simply tossing them in the trash. So far, she said, she has gotten no response.
On Monday night, Pepa’s shopping bag held a few items. She pointed to her gray sweatpants. “From here,” she said.
How about coats?
“Maybe tomorrow,” she said.
E-mail: dwyer AT nytimes.com
Copyright 2010 The New York Times Company
* On this discussion list, there are hundreds of people who read our comments. In the interest of inclusiveness and maintaining a welcoming atmosphere, we ask that all who contribute stay respectful to others in language and intent. We request that if you want to express disagreement with others' opinions, you remain civil and express yourself without undue hostility. *
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