1. Go to Venice and drink moon milk! Probably the one made from raw almonds and banana walnut water.
2. God, just read The Marriage Plot every goddamn chance I get. And probably listen to “Blood” by The Middle East about a trillion times and wish I had a chorus of small children to sing the last two minutes. It’s the song at the end of Crazy, Stupid, Love., which I watched on the red-eye home for Christmas and it was the first time I’d ever seen Ryan Gosling in a movie. I get why everyone likes him now! It’s cuz he’s really good-looking and talented and charming.
3. Learn how to use the sparkly hot-pink Urban Decay eyeliner I got in the mail the other day.
4. Finish the thing I’m writing for the next installment of the Let It Be Beautiful zines. It’s “I Wanna Be Your Man” and it’s about using the Rolling Stones for spiritual transcendence and romantic fulfillment.
5. Do my homework! I have homework now. I’m taking a writing class at UCLA and Francesca Lia Block is my teacher. I had my first class last Tuesday and my homework is to write the first paragraph of my novel.
6. Also I will go to dance class. It’s at Heartbeat House. We do ballet to Rihanna and I love it.
7. Eat more dried hibiscus flowers. My housemate brought some home from the grocery store last night. They’re beautiful and they taste like Fruit Roll-Ups.
8. Get me some sequined shorts and then wear them to this thing I’m gonna do next Sunday which I’ll tell you about later. It’s a performance of sorts and I haven’t performed onstage since my last dance recital, in 1994. I wore sequins then so I’ll wear sequins now, but I won’t wear a french braid. Anyway I like these, from Halston Heritage and Shakuhachi:
9. Go to a bar and karaoke a Rolling Stones song, preferably their version of “I Wanna Be Your Man.” Or “Stray Cat Blues,” if a dude sings it with me. In general, I’m trying to do things that “nurture my Leo moon” (i.e., my inner showoff/ham), in preparation for the thing I’m referring to in #8. Suggestions very welcome!
10. I wanna work on getting good at Rolling Stonesy insults. The other night at an ice cream shop I listened to “Ride On, Baby” for the first time in years and got all giddy at the part toward the end when Mick sings, “By the time you’re 30, gonna look 65.” So mean! So good! I will also work on manifesting a t-shirt that says “I Need The Stones to Keep Me Happy,” like this t-shirt, but way better-looking and more like something a woman would wear.
(The pic of Keith and Gram Parsons came from this website. All the rest of the Rolling Stones picks were lifted from rollingstoned.tumblr.com. And the hibiscus flower photo lives here.)
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Tags: hibiscus flowers, Leo moons, Let It Be Beautiful, moon milk, pink eyeliner, Rihanna, Ryan Gosling, sequined shorts, The Rolling Stones, Venice, writing
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