There a lot of things in the world that are despicable. That’s a fun way to start a blog, but come on, if you’re any person worth knowing you can admit that there things in life which no one wants to go through.  If we name all of them this blog will get sad and be a red herring instead of what I mean to say.

A lot things in the world are awful, but to me you can be nothing worse in the world if you are a liar or if you’re full of hot air.

After my stint in Montreal for years I realized something humbling and sad.  I was a douchebag and I was surrounded by douchebags.  All the artists around me myself included continuously “campaigned” for their fame.  Montreal was THE place to be and all of us could smell fame but couldn’t taste it.  Dancers, musicians painters, people that do drugs and hang around those people, flute players at McGill you name it, aspiration and desperation and a little bit of inspiration was in the air.

It was humbling to realize that few of us lived on food stamps, we couldn’t get a lot of money from promoters to work and often dealt with shady shady people, selling our own tickets, begging our friends to come to shows, using anyone to help us grow our “BRAND” that we were the next ones to win the Montreal music lottery and open for Arcade Fire.

It is easy to get imprisoned in Montreal, it is notoriously, and sadly accepted that all cops can be paid off in Montreal and I have seen them myself take down young francophone youth, because.. they have nothing to protect them. none the less shady and a lack of integrity flooded Montreal.   Win Butler may be a good man s there is good and bad, but my ex drummer was incarcerated during a recording session and my demo to Pop Montreal went in with only violins, bass and piano and NO drums for my indy-pop submission.  Though the promoter and I hated each other so all is fair in love war and music festival application administration.

Later at another festival a Pop Montreal administrator came up to me and said, “Wow, weird you didn’t get in, I mean your music is totally up our alley, maybe you just screwed up your admission or maybe one of the judges came to work high or something.”   I wanted to tell the b*&%# that no… no ,… it was beause my drummer went to jail during recording.

Musicians can be good and they can be bad, but there is nothing like the seeking of fame to make them soulless.

I realized quickly as artistic and well formed as we were, and we were, Montreal is an education in all way shape and form, we couldn’t necessarily, in my circle at least get our needs met.  I realized at one point when I had a health problem that I would have no one to tell that I would go to the hospital, scared and uncampanied, because even though I appeared to be a good leader, some people admired me and some competed against me I was not able to just take care of myself.   And the image of admiration and success, artistic success, is more important than the reality.

Even when I spoke up and was real, the fact that people admired me meant that I was not deserving of having basic needs met, like food, health sanity or any friends who actually cared about my well being and not my images well being.

So I left.

Calgary was a bit better, people can ask to be paid here, musicians, plumbers, tack makers?  Why, because there is money here.   People say that there is no culture in Calgary.  As long as they make excuses to not have opinion on live music there will be no culture in Calgary.  And all the fraudulant artists know it.

People who can’t sing, people who have never been devoted to anything bigger than being popular in highschool.  Songwriters who sell t-shirts and have their music on campaign for Naheed Nenshi but can’t figure out how to write a verse and lyrics that people can remember or identify.

Hacks.  And in Calgary new money is more important than art right? Is it more important than integrity?  Is it more important than a mother-f*&^cking awesome song that inspires you?  Are you worth inspiring or is everything including music just about getting money out of your pockets.

Good artists Good art is the voice for people who don’t have one. Victims, minorities, rich people who are sad. Men who can’t express their love for their kids, the voice of regret, the feelings of lust, the sadness of loss, the excitement of prosperity, and courage to speak up.

To create for yourself is one of the most enlightened things you can do, it helps you know yourself and know who you are and who you like, so why Calgary, do you buy crappy art and listen to souless singers who are nothing more than used car salesmen? Your off key… what you don’t know what off key means.  God please stop singing your killing anything of good in this world.

Recently I went to see a singer sing who was in the same scene of musicians I was in her name is Jocelyn Alice.  When I first met her I immediately didn’t trust her, I was at a fundraiser that the Kinjo brothers had put on to raise money for Japanese Tsunami victims.  Around her was Kirby Sewell and watching the two of them encourage and pump up each others egos with words that acted like bicycle pumps was obnoxious.  THe musician vibe was in the air, insecurity, self absorption and a feeling of “I support you, you better support me” . A trade, an inauthentic trade.

But time past and questioned my suspicion of Jocelyn Alice.  Musicians around me who I respected vouched for her and told me about about her own struggles as a musician, who own stories of things falling apart, of betrayal… I am exaggerating, in that I never heard any exact details.  But none the less, I suddenly saw Jocelyn Alice as real person, someone who had to handle achieving her dreams and making a go with her life with shady managers or whatever… and so then I realized… wow…

I’m an asshole.  I was totally prejudicial.

I went to her show at Classic Jacks one she said she’d had done for the past 3 years.  All of the musicians complain about the cliental at classic jacks as … well I need not write more I know you know what I’m talking about.  And the night I went there were actually more cooler people than usual.  I saw one awkward girl I had known in the show choir youth singers, a singer 40 year old guy who felt lonely and had enough courage to come out to a bar and people who wanted to support their cool musician friend (okay that’s pretentious) but one of them had big curly hair so.. they’ve got to be more soulful right?

Jocelyn sang her heart and throat out and was actually pretty entertaining, she at times looked like a pretty housewife all hopped up and speed who couldn’t stop singing, but I like that. I like that she pushed her comfort zone to entertain people and became something other than herself, it was relatable.  I like when artists take the risk to be embarrassed, because when you take a risk as an artist, you create something more important than yourself.

At the end of her set she said, “I’ve been doing this gig for the past 3 years and thank you for a night like this, because nights like this don’t often happen and it’s this kind of night that makes it all worthwhile.” and she was right and not only that but showed that she was hardworking, showed that being a msuician isn’t easy (financially) or emotionally.. or you know with that whole ability to play music thing. It takes work just like anything else.  Maybe music doesn’t have to be about morality.. well good work is.

Great now I’m the b*^%$ I’m the one who never gave her a chance.  But you know maybe that’s okay maybe after being around people who’d rather look good than do good I had reason to have my guard up.

My point is there is a lot of TOP DOWN art being made in Calgary, a forcefulness of realtors to make Inglewood cool has in many ways made it a very tense neighborhood to be around, journalist, hipsters city council are trying to make it cool instead of letting it just be f*&^ING cool .  There is a narcissism to all this, an attempt to take a kid and make her talk like a grown up an insincerity and inauthentic nature that grows in Calgary’s mainstream which calls itself an underground.   Let it grow by itself.. let it grow out of the positive development of lots of restaurants sprouting up in Calgary that offer a diverse range of cultures and entertainment.  So there isn’t just cowboy covers, but maybe original songwriting, or entertainment for gay bars, or ethnic specific entertainment.  Guz the vintage California vibe, it’s old.  The hipster house bands just copy catted 5 years after the fact from Toronto and New York.  And the  Johnny Cash open makes are just.. male mid-life crisis night at the Ironwood.

This city has talent and ideas, it just doesn’t have the courage to take the risk to say anything deeper than what’s on the surface.

You see frauds aren’t the devil incarnating, frauds are just people, neighborhoods, cities even believing that appearance in more important than authenticity.  An attitude that is I look successful I am successful, an a machiavellian attitude towards friends, that if they’re cool, than I’m cool and sad sad sad desperation.

Art has always been about the courage to be oneself, ask Beethoven, ask Balzac, ask Prince, or the formerly artist known as… whatever.  None of these people are particularly likeable… well Prince is if you like moody, but they never created to impress their friends, or corporate crowds, they did it to express things that are hard to say, to reflect on human life to believe in higher morals or appreciate spontaneous beauty.

There is nothing more tacky than a fraud, nothing more desperate than someone who doesn’t know who they are and what they’re doing but knows that the scene their in thinks their cool.

So have some integrity and listen to what truly inspires you versus what inspires your friends.

Take the risk.  Say something different, be the voice for the people who don’t have one.  Say something meaningful, don’t follow the crowd.

Don’t let your artists be sleazy business people hiding in neat clothing, because then your politicians will be sleazy business people hiding in neat clothing, and then your lovers, your employers and then you finally the final tragedy, will be that you are someone who is easily controlled.

Take that Jessica Simpson brand clothing sold at Sears

I hate frauds

LOVE

Jaimee

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I must apologize quickly to anyone who regularly reads my blog, after having a bad December I  had a bad case of writers block.  Like I usually do during stressful months, aka December and June, I started fantasizing that December would be much more bearable if I just had been someone else. Self Acceptance is hard and can make you feel like Charlie Brown during the Holidays.

During Christmas, like most people I was overwhelmed with pressure and marketed characterized fixtures  in models or in commercials.  The hot models in a Tommy Hilfiger add, partying, safely in a bra was so charming and she appeared so much like the person I hoped I was in Highschool but who I wasn’t. But instead of being simple, instead of saying, “Parent’s I don’t know what I think, but I do know I’m thinking of Tommy Hilfiger Hat. Can I have a hat for Christmas” I instead of being simple, materialistic and accepting marketing’s demand on me to want to be someone else my crazy imagination messed up the message in a dream.

In the dream a model  had overdosed and blamed her stress on the designer over working her to hard.  Every time I saw the house party add of Hilfigers I kept thinking, bad man. Bad.  How could he get away with that?

It never happened, but it did in my head and now it’s a memory that never happened.

But when you have a mind that likes to create things this is daily life.  It’s not simple and it’s not predictable but BOY is it fun to be a character in my head.

Like musicians and writers before me, to better describe the different kind of thoughts and perspectives, stories and moods, I have genre-ed myself into different characters that describe my different moods.  This creative tool has been usedby a variety of different kinds of creatives and is often linked to artists who experience bi-polar disorder or multiple personality disorder, PSHH disorder, what a word, the writers are entirely dissimilar from each other.  From Carrie Fisher to Robert Chumann the dead composer.  And they are 2 examples in this blog

Carrie Fisher has Roy who is personification of her  happy and easy going mood and Pam who is sullen, defeated, lethargic and can’t get up off the couch.  Robert Shumann a romantic composer who lived around 1850 wrote critical music reviews and also compositions, (kind of like me, but obviously  he was more well known and successful) often would write reviews as one character or another and different kinds of music in one mood or another,  justifying that once again he was 1 of 2 people;  Florestan was the person he became when he wrote passionately and boisterously in prose or in music. Eusebius was the person he became when his songs and moods were more melancholic, ballad like sad, wise or dreamy.

So the question is, why?  Why change your identity so much?  Why do artists have the need to feel 100 congruent with their emotion reality and their identity.  Aka why is it when they are sad… they literally change into a different person.  Strange statement, think of Micheal Jackson who was so eager to change his appearance his identity his look into something that wasn’t completely natural. Why was Prince so eager to be recognized as the artist formerly known as Prince

Is identity something you create or something you are born with?  And if it is something so solid and un-alatered that what the hell is facebook.

My 4 different moods and characters are the following; Lilly the 3rd World Citizen, Sid the Entertainer, Johanna the Mom and Hazel.

Lilly and Sid are good friends, although Sid is an alocholic misery loves company and Lilly loves to complain in Sid’s company.  Sid, the entertainer is willing to say and be and think anything to get ahead and be popular amongst the scene.  She is cool, she’s trendy, she’s thought of everything before you, but her use of excuses and avoiding any really work prevent her from realizing much of her dreams.  More importantly she isn’t exactly desperate to be popular, she jsut wants an excuse to entertain. Often all the egos and personalities of other entertainers take her over and she doesn’t know what she truly believes or feels anymore.

Lilly is a 38 year old asian immigrant to Canada. She is part Tiger Mom part politically incorrect, tenacious and difficult, she doesn’t want people to to see her softer side, she doesn’t remember know what that is.  But she isn’t just a bag of sadness she’s also quick witted loves to argue and gets oddly competitive around people in the grocery store.  She acts like she knows better but she often just doesn’t want to look like the fool. She and Sid are besties and often make fun of Joanna the Mom and Hazel.

Joanna the Mom doesn’t know she’s one of my personalities, disassociated and far away, she often wears a big white sweater and has gained weight in recent years.  Although she’s around chaos she looks like one of those out to lunch Mom’s on a plane. She generally likes all kinds of music and is happy when everyone else is happy.

Hazel, secretly Hazel is my favorite of my different moods.  Sometimes if you breathe too loudly it’s as though Hazel will blow away. Delicate a bit nervous, partially insecure Hazel thinks she looks doughty, she watches the O network and dreams of being married one day to a guy who really is in charge and knows what he’s doing.  Hazel was named after he Grandmother, trendy hipsters who are way too fast moving for her like her name and tell her it’s ironically cool, she’s happy to have friends but doesn’t know what that means and often Hazel appears lost.

Other than having 4 different Facebook it’s hard to demonstrate to people how many perspectives, even though some of them or contradictory I have in my head.  In the day and age where getting a PhD in psychology is the new A-personality achievement for kids to want to have I do worry that over labeling people will deter creative people from letting our their ideas.   so I’ve decided to let you in on this inner world that I have, perhaps it’s ill, perhaps it’s genius, Lilly is telling me it’s not genius, Sid and Joanna are too self absorbed to have read my blog and Hazel is impressed but very skeptical so she’s just gives me a dirty look for being different.

Never has self been so difficult, I mean there are too many selves…

It is said that too be a talented artist you have to go through pain, well, I guess you’ll have to ask one of my many different personalities, they may all have a different answer for you.  I do know though that talent can not be taught and I’d like to think  a tricky mind full of ideas and sometimes other people can help you get there.

But just to let you know, Sid disagrees.

Jaimee….Jaimee? Yep, Jaimee

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• When King Richard and his lover/cousin King Phillip of France had a lovers quarrel they ended fighting the crusades. #
• Two gay Kings fighting was the reason why the Crusades, which was a religious war came to an end. Phillip then attacked King Richard #
• All true. And I ate a sandwich today…. not true #

Is it wrong to admit that I was attracted to Brendan Fraser in the Mummy movie franchise?

Why is Brendan Fraser not bigger or more admired than he is?

In the 3 movies I’ve seen him in, he had a specific acting style and yet could play a diverse group of people.  Encino man he was a DUDE, a buffoon. A super foolish man.  In  school ties, he played a Jewish prep school boy he was systematically discriminated against for being Jewish by Matt Damon and in the Mummy movie, he played a Harrison-Ford, big barrel chested tough and ironic Adventure hero.

Clearly the man has range.

And I’ll go on the record to admit I think he’s kind of sexually attracted.  He has strong and bigger masculine features, of the Mad Man quality versus the James Van Der Beak (Spelling?) thin- sensitive metrosexual girly-man.

I love Brendan Fraser, I respect your privacy but I don’t know why you aren’t a bigger star.

Brendan Fraser is under rated.

Jaimee

Pop Annoying as heck Princess Katie Perry isn’t just a pest she’s a thief.

Case in point.

Rihanna’s pink hair… oh surprising, a couple months later and Katie’s died her hair pink

Dita Von Teese’s Style… black hair, blue eyes and vintage fair fair fair skin with red lips… Not Katie’s Ditta’s

Edgy lyrics… only once did she do this, “You’re so Gay” a small stint in the musical comedy genre, which then quickly changed to techno beat, screamy loud over done vocal pop which seems to be the way of fame-hoes.

Rihanna is always seen visibly annoyed when she shows up, Lily Allen herself criticized Perry for being a white washed version of her.  Lily Allen actually has depth and creativity you see.

To this Katy did not refute the claim and asked “why can’t we all just get along”.  Of course Katy best defense was not taking any responsibility for the accusation, and sucking up to her.  Because she knows she’s not credible and lacks conviction.

BECAUSE YOU STEAL PEOPLE’S IDEAS!  THAT’S WHY!

Now my critics will argue that too be a pop musician you don’t have to have any conviction or respect amongst your colleagues, no one has ethics or morals in the Entertainment world anyway.

Yeah but.. most artists hate trying to copy cat someone else.  They are individualistic by nature.  Katy Perry doesn’t teach girls how to be themselves she teaches them how to be trendy and take ideas from other people.  Artists are suppose to influence you to go beyond trends, to be true to yourself and grow self awareness as to all the things that make you strong, beautiful and unique, and not how to be used cars salesman, cheap, slimy and sleazy.

Real Musicians want nothing to do with this kind of cheapness. Who are we without  to something bigger than ourselves?

Ugh..

Jaimee

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People who have big egos often make me feel uncomfortable.  I don’t think it’s because I don’t have a big ego.  We all have one.  But there’s this feeling of literally hot air, or fake-ness, a desperation yields from ego of people struggling to be genuine or sadly to even know what genuine mean.

Interestingly, in my performance career I have attracted attention from groups of people I never thought get attention from; teenagers, gay girls, gay boys, catholics-(seriously) and transgender people. I have my own personal opinions on all these groups yet I don’t believe in discrimination against your audience. Although I like rock, Indy, girly-ethereal and classical music, it doesn’t always mean that I’ve been received well or received respect or support from those musical circles and for a long time I felt sad that I just didn’t fit in.  That truly in my heart I hate conforming and I think it’s not artistic.

I tried to idenitfy the common thread with these groups of people, catholics and transgender people being the most fascinating group of people to compare and contrast.  What I came up with is that since I share in my music my struggles, my rejections and my own journey to rebuild my life after experiencing abuse, betrayal, after selling my soul to try to be famous, after deceiving myself with my own ego, I believe that other people who have struggled with their own sense of persecution liked to hear about their journey in my songs.  I had to overcome a lot and maybe in my own abstract way I’ve helped others over come the personal trials and tribulations in their lives.

My reason for writing music developed after a very violent assault.  I was so strange and afraid that I turned to writing to music to chronicle my thoughts  I didn’t feel like I could share my experience with other people, I already was considered intense and never felt confident around the opposite sex (men) who I was attracted to, I felt that this would just make me even more eccentric  I talked to myself in my songs because I didn’t think anyone would talk to me.. Although the product was raw I began to meet other people through sharing it that also had secrets or a hidden world they felt they couldn’t share with people.   I then went onto to earn a degree in music.  I had to walk a hard line. I tried to lie about my experience to fit in, but I knew I just couldn’t sell it, on the other side the trump card intensity of talking about abuse is way too much for most people to handle. I felt trapped.  I understood I could simply fade into pretending I was more light hearted and normal than I was or I would have to overcome it.

I was forced to other come it.

Perhaps my new development as a person or my struggle attracted different people, but in general I still couldn’t fit in with entertainers.  Many of them had an interest in impressing people from the outside in, when I wanted to write my soul out on a piece of paper from the inside out.

I cannot say that working or knowing musicians solidifies my confidence in people.  Like me we all seem to have a hidden agenda, a self absorption which comes from practicing a lot, trying to sell ourselves like a product and putting ourselves out there all the time.  Also many of us have learned how to be one person in public and another in public, often out of having turbulent lives, like I had at one point.

It hasn’t been easy to write about my story and I often have received, typically from men (not many one or 2, because  some of them REALLY like my music and me) criticism that I should not  put out my own story in such raw form.  It’s made me all the more strong and determined to be true to my story  and genre of music, whatever it is, and even more appreciative of people who have supported me, of girls and guys who come up to me after a show and say… “I really like listening to your music, it’s different, it gets me right here.”  I have seen in some of my audiences faces, distraction, interest, shock, relaxation or some reaction that isn’t superficial.

I suppose that has always been my fascination.  Being different, going a little bit deeper, superficial things are so common, they take no effort and often we use them to avoid speaking our truth, to protect ourselves to shield ourselves.

It’s okay to be different, it is a struggle to feel accepted but it is worth it once it happens and it feels good it is an act of courage to express to others our true selves, dark, different, ugly, beautiful naive, confused… it is this act which makes us overcome all the people who left us, rejected us or called us different.

In the music scene, . I’ve met truly inspiring, humble people who are so devoted to music that they glow. Wonderful people who I am amazed to listen and watch and who, without all the glamor of a stage are truly inspiring, renaissance and accomplished people.  People who are brave and hard working and just cool.

Sadly I’ve met more people in the music scene who lie to themselves, more so than any other group of people Not just the musicians as well some of the promoters or managers too. It can be hard to listen to great music and focus on the task at hand with the amount of ego and BS that floats in the green room before a show.  It’s a scary thing to do with one’s life, though I don’t feel the need to excuse anybody from acting this way. Hype is a drug, there re people who will enable you to have it, you will always crave it and it will never make you, like a drug, truly happy.

Our egos help us avoid true self awareness and honest self expression, arrogance, greed, complete detachment from reality, Goddafi style- sleeziness- it’s all just an excuse to express anything real.

Stereotypical Showmanship and boring cover songs just hinder actually just BEING A GREAT MUSICIAN and being truly original.  We trade our insecurity  in for temporary fame, attention, popularity and fake sense of social acceptance.  You don’t fool others by Lying to yourself

For anyone out there reading this, I am hoping to pass on to you that being yourself and sticking to your values is hard but you are truly a hero in your own movie for being it.   In a world where people would rather look successful (SEE THE US ECONOMY during 2000-2008)  than to admit they are not doing well,  speaking your truth is an act of rebellion, and you must take it!  No matter if your truthfulness is about your personality, your sexuality, your religion or your beliefs. If you lie to no one you are loved and you will be loved by others who are themselves.  Your truth is your song like my truth is mine.

Don’t drink the poison of being superficial or trendy to be around people with big egos.  I keep having to learn this the hard way, but I do want to pass it onto others that it is worth it to be true to yourself.  I will sing a song for you.

Love

Jaimee

According to Backbone magazine Heidi Klum is really important.  Out of personal interest I support this.  Heidi Klum was not a haute couture model, she is a beauty model.  And clearly has an entrepreneur’s instinct as her shot Project Runway has caught on as something important.

According to Backbone magazine Cameron Diaz is also important.  Why, because she’s blond but doesn’t appear racist, but light hearted.

Piers Morgan is third on the list.  As a male and semi-intellect I must have to agree.  He took an opportunity, as sophisticated as taking over Larry King’s top spot and made it his own pace, where he could comfortably ask questions to important people about relevant questions which are answered with watered down responses. Oh Piers, you aren’t sexy but you are something, so I and everyone else will keep on watching you.

Jessica Biel;   racism, racism, racism.   Not an actress who has show herself to be witty, funny, intelligent nor interesting.  She has no hidden mystique not innner fetish for math or 18th century drama.  Jessica Biel is every white guy’s fantasy.   She is tall, she is white, she has big breasts and a small thin nose and she is the colonial white guy’s dream girl. Naturally making her appealing to Justin Timberlakes.  Perhaps in her own life she fought for important things, but to every girl who has a wide nose, dark skin, or short legs she reminds us of all white features we can never prove ourselves to possess, including, intelligent.

Jessica Biel does not have to prove herself.  For all the other females in the world, be us, black, chinese, bi-ricial, nerdy, different, overweight or free spirited, Jessica Biel is the girl who comes before us.  And as such, she needs not to prove herself but still makes us feel like lesser than the norm.As we have to prove ourselves to be transcending beyond the norm, she is just trendy, does Yoga, and dates a pop star from the 90s.

Thanks Jessican for standing up for nothing, thanks Justin for standing up for…?

Katherine Heigl… pretty, average, but seems to work to represent something.  Katherine Heigl was the beautiful, virtuous girl left out of all super coo person’s parties in high schools’  .   Katherine Heigl is important as for every role she as portrayed she has let us see a sense of vulnerability.  Vulnerability which is considered important as long as any girl who feels both beautiful and intelligent wants to fight for her day in the sun.   KAtherine Heigl is older than most pop tarts, I saw her in Chikey’s Bride proving that she, at some point in her career had NO IDEA WHAT SHE WAS DOING.

But talented and beautiful none the less, we all would like to think that we are virtuous enough to be her and able to let her bland image develop after her fierce and stronger than you’d like to image image tames us

Mila Kunis

Pretty, pretty pretty.  Exotic, pretty, Damaged after dating McKauly? Caulkin, but still beautiful.  Perhaps it’s the eastern European part of her which makes us see that she is so much smarter than a pretty face.   But here she is none the less, Mila Kunis, beautiful and finally getting a chance to shine.

Anna Paquin, Always had her stuff together.  From the get go she was a Meryl Streep, acting is more important than image and boy did she toll the line.  Congrats my friend.  Anna Paquine has not sold hold.  She has believed in every character she has portrayed.  No one can write why, but that’s because no one can criticize her.

Adriana Lima:  Along with Heidi Klum, Victoria’s Secret starlette.  Since 2002 she has been the face, the body and the attitude of what women in our generation consider beautiful.  High five Lima, high five!

Scarlett Johanson Okay, not so on bored.  Was on bored during Lost in Translation with Bill Murray.  Not lost during horrible performances with The Other Boleyn Girl and the Wrestler?  with that guy, or whatever it was.  Scarlett, as a overly ,ature woman and sensitive woman you were my saving grace.  The woman who appeared to be above her years.  But some how in our endorsement with Dolce and Gabanna you lost your courage.  You were not an old soul in a young body, but a young body lost in Hollywood, come back Scarlett, for me you were my voice in that world.  Please don’t disappear into a stereotype of the 2000 and 10s.   You are more than boobs and skin.

Emma Stone, Brad Pitt and Rachel McAdams…. welll you’re all good looking and caucasion…. so… well… good luck with that, if never turned into a bad formula for success before

Jaimee

• American TV is so bad, as Kim Cavali or whoever she is said "maybe reality TV Stars don't work as hard cause we don't memorize scripts" #
• ..that's right…don't memorize scripts, don't interpret character, don't do anything intellectually stimulating or emotionally courageous #
• Why do reality stars believe they come off as heros…they are picked because they are clearly the bad guys. They depend on voyeurism #
• Ashley Green's PR refused her right to comment on what her thoughts about the message Twilight sends to young girls to a CBC journalist #
• Twilight promotes the idea that young girls and submissive, abstinent and desperate until 18 when at that age they marry and have babies #
• If you're in the film or the producer who made the film and are capitalizing, at least OWN the message you send out to lil' girls #
• The Canadian government funded like 18 into promoting the war of 1812? No one won it. No one knows, wha… who? the what #
• Stephen Harper funding promotion of the war of 1812 is as silly as if he'd funded promoting a dungeons and dragons for old guys #
• Stephen Harper, funding the war of 1812 does not help your image as a creepy out of touch white dude with no street cred. #
• PS Stephen Harper I left my black sock at your house the other night. Could you keep it safe for me….. SEEE Street cred! #

• My friends 2 year old son keep getting Franklin the Turtle's name wrong, he calls him F*^#ing the Turtle not Franklin the Turtle. #
• So when he asks his parents read him the book "Franklin, Hurray Up"… they here instead F*^king Hurray Up. So funny and wrong, wrong-funny #
• Well finally offended my first listener when I sang a song about a miscarriage. Oh well… art isn't a service. #