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Love Lockdown

This post is gonna feature my Kanye West video of the week, as well as my beauty product recommendation of the week.  Then some idle chit chat.

If you haven’t seen Kanye’s “Love Lockdown” video yet, check it out, I think it’s pretty badass and beautiful.  I like the contrast between Kanye in the sterile white, modern environment… and then the earthy tribal savageness that I think represents an uncontrollable love, passion, desire.  Especially the screenshot shown above where he is sitting, exhausted and frustrated in the corner, with his “savage love” standing there- scary, intimidating, undeniable, the elephant in the room.

I used to write a blog only about beauty products cause I just love telling people about lotions and potions I find that work.  That impulse hasn’t been fully squelched out of me yet, so here is my recommended product of the week: Herbal Essences “Set Me Up” Spray Gel.  I found this under the bathroom counter in the condo from some girl in days past… this shiz, when sprayed on my damp hair, makes my bangs do what I want, and the rest of it straight, shiny, and nice.  Maybe a little dry at the ends, but that is what my all time favorite product, Bed Head Afterparty, is here to remedy. Afterparty is the best hair cream ever, period, and worth every penny.  Yes, the bottle looks like a dildo, but that only adds to it’s charm in my opinion.

So last night I pulled myself out of the man-hating blues (from my previous post) by surrounding myself with love-able brainiac geeks at a physics lecture here at the Opera Hall: Nature’s Exquisite Nanomachines: The Dynamic and Varied City Plan of Living Cells. 

 It was awesome and interesting, and I don’t particularly feel like describing it all right now, but if you want to know about the little motors (myosins) in your cells that walk, like they have 2 feet, just like us, along these roadways (actin filaments) to carry shiz from one place to another, read this.  It’s fascinating.  Oh, and don’t forget to stretch before and after exercise, to give your actin filaments a break.

The lecture was so soothing to me because the speaker reminded me of my dad- smart as hell, humble, interesting.  He even looked like him a little bit.  It also fascinated me how these little motors…. trillions of them… walk around in our cells and get things done.  It makes me feel like WE are the nanomotors on this cell called earth.  And then I thought about how our neural impulses tell the myosins what to do- we are their “god”.  So if our brainwaves direct them…. is that kinda like how God directs us?

I was running late for the lecture and missed the last bus to get their on time, and this handsome older man in a nice SUV gave me a ride.  Normally I’d never hitchhike, but it seemed safe enough.  On the short drive there he told me he’d lived there 10+ years and had worked at a restaurant as a bartender.  The place had shut down last season after 51 years of being open!  The owner was in his 70s and ready to retire to Crested Butte (sp?).  I was surprised that this nice looking man with the nice car was a bartender… you really can’t judge a book by its cover.  He complained about how Aspen had changed.  I asked him “How has it changed?” as we pulled up to my destination. 

“Well,” he said with a sigh, “They’ve got all these lights on all these trees now…”.

I said thanks and waved goodbye.  I thought I’d agree with him on how awful whatever change that had occurred was… but you know what… all these lights on these trees is one of my favorite parts of this pretty place.  Go figure…..