amazed, and thankful!!

Many thanks to those who are actually reading my posts and showing support. and here i was thinking i was completely alone.
today, i am feeling very despondent, especially after watching cnn for a while, they're reporting on obama/mcsame. it seems people are seeming to lean more towards mcsame. WE CANNOT LET THIS HAPPEN!! I think 4 more years of the same policy, and even worse [regarding women's possible loss of right to choose,especially in the case of rape/incest] would be a real leap backwards for women. What about teaching young teens and preteens the importance of using condoms; not only to protect against pregnancy but actual life threatening diseases? sure, teach abstinence as well. but where there are hormones running wild between young nubile teens, there will be sex!!! to pretend it does not or will not happen is worse than being naive, it's being in DENIAL!! case in point, our one and only, republican vice presidential candidate, sarah palin, aka, ted nugent in a skirt. if she had taught her daughter about sex education, she wouldn't be in the situation she's in and would not have been forced to marry her boyfriend who clearly states on his myspace page: "i just want to f*** as many girls as possible" and "i don't want kids". wow, it's so irresponsible to me to not educate them. and to want to teach creationism in school? what happened to separation of church and state? also, what if you are not "christian"???? i don't want anyone's religion shoved down my throat. i know i said this before, but now I'm getting really angry. Our forefather's came here to escape religious persecution. I now feel like I am being forced to listen to someone else's claims about their God, and it, to me, is a form of persecution and force.
I do hope that we as Americans will not be so misinformed and ignorant yet again, as to elect the same kind of administration we've been dealing with for the last 8 years. I'm so ashamed also of some of my countrymen who have said they will note vote for a good man, an intelligent man, a man of honor and dignity, eloquence and knowledge, simply because of the color of his skin.

I pray everyone will realize the error of their ways......

tearfully;

marcy

racism

wow, had an interesting chat today with a sweet guy named alex dixon. alex is the grandson of the incredibly prolific blues man willie dixon. we starting talking politics [which can be a dangerous thing, depending on who you're talking to!], but he brought it up!! lucky for both of us, we're both Obama supporters. He was telling me that he's helping the Obama campaign by volunteering to enlist new potential voters. On more than a few occasions he's had people, point blank, say to him that they won't be voting for obama because he's black! phewwwwwwwwwwww....i could not believe my ears. now i feel like i'm tearing up, you know the kind of tearing that almost burns your eyes. i think it's so sad that people are still thinking this way. no matter what obama does he can't really win, in a sense. he's been criticized for being too smart and a bit uppity. then, if he were uneducated, he would be condemned for that. meanwhile, it's ok for sarah palin to have a 17 year old daughter who is unmarried and pregnant but if would have been obama's daughter, consider what the repercussions might have been. sure, it's best to leave personal issues out of this election; my firm and sad belief is that racism is still alive and well in our culture today even though bill o'reilly et all were so terribly shocked about reverend wright's comments. c'mon, are you really going to pretend racism does not exist in any camp??? that's very naive. i personally don't condone it; but there are many others who are using it as an excuse to continue to hate... that's my story. and i'm stickin' to it.....

love, love, peace and love..

marcy xoxoxo

OPR-Other People's Religions

Okay, I am getting very, very annoyed with the Republican nominee for Vice President, Sarah Palin. I've seen this same clip from youtube, several times, where she says, "the iraq war is from God, it's his plan..." excuse me, but HOW DOES SHE KNOW THAT??? Has she personally heard from God himself? Did he come down to her or G.W. and say, "now listen, I want you to go over to Iraq and get them evil doers!"?? If so, can they prove this???? Hah, I bet they cannot. I find it extremely ARROGANT that she even says the Iraq war is "God's Plan". Wow, very, very arrogant. It is/was MAN'S Plan, and a bad one at that. I do not want her or anyone else's religion shoved down my throat, it has no business in politics. Also her stance on teaching "creationism" in schools is just insane!! Sarah, keep your religion to yourself, in your own home, or in your church, or with your family and friends but leave me and everyone else out of it!! I find it extremely offensive and I want no part of it.

Blog 2 addendum

After reading my first blog about scary phone calls, I wanted to add that, after sending the ceo [who I was nervous about contacting] an email with my song, he personally got back to me which was amazing. so cool that he was familiar with me and my work and said he would pass my info and song onto to person who could actually help: the creative director of the company I want to get my music to. Funny how as we get a bit older, we become more afraid of doing things. At least for me I've found if I don't get an immediate or good reaction, I retreat, go back in the shell and come out again when it seems safe or I get rehyped up on whatever it is I want to achieve-typical cancer the crab behavior and probably normal for anyone who's feeling rejected. When I was in my teens, I had pictures of an interesting recording artist named Leon Russell, keyboardist from Oklahoma that I adored plastered all over my bedroom walls. I told my mother in no uncertain terms: "One day I'm going to sing with him". She just said, "yeah, ok, right" and darned if i didn't end up in his band a few years later. I think the lesson is, you can get what you really want if you just focus on it and set your mind to it, PERIOD!!!! I'm living proof, and that's also happened to me with some other things which I'll talk about in a later blog. I think the most important thing is to KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT IS YOU WANT!! Without that, you can flounder around for eternity. It's all about FOCUS, something that I am becoming very conscious of. So, excuse me while I get my "focus on"....

mwah!! xoxoxo

Marcella Detroit's Blog #2

So, tired and wasted and I don't even drink! But I am a night owl and can stay up longer than most without medication. That's a good and a bad thing really. Made a few more scary phone calls and am getting some results which is good. It's not as scary as I thought and what the heck, you're a long time dead so you might as well freakin' go for it. Got a big week ahead of me, photos to be done, music to be made and things to learn, learn, learn! So, that's it for now, I'm off to seize the day.

Love, always;

Marcy xoxo

Scary Phone Calls

IT's today. yesterday, I created a whole plan with goals and what I wanted to achieve. One of my main goals was to contact an adverstising agency to listen to a song of mine that I think could be great for a certain product. So, this morning, I found myself dreading making the "phone call". I thought up every excuse not to, "waaah, I can't do it, why would they want to talk to me, I need someone to help me" and I realized what a big baby voice that is inside of me. So, I pulled up my bootstraps so tight they gave me a huge wedgie and made the first call, just trying to find the ceo of the company. The girl on the end of the phone in nyc was very nice and when I asked if he had an office there, she said, "he certainly does!" with enthusiasm. Wow, so then I asked if I could be connected to his office and she said, "Of course!" with equal enthusiasm. Then, his office secretary answered the phone and I was petrified, I froze for a second and really, truly, honestly just wanted to hang up!!! but, i didn't......I explained who I was briefly and said I had a wonderful creative idea for one of his clients and she gave me his freakin' email address. I was shocked and at the same time very proud of myself that I had the nerve or ["noive" as the lion in the wizard of oz would have said] to do it. Ok, you might say, "oh, chances are, he won't get back to you anyway" [you're saying this to me in a really nasal, know-it-all voice; i have one of those voices in my head too, so i know how it sounds, thank you very much!]. That may be true. But at least, I did it. And I've been wanting to do it for quite some time, since April, this has been my idea and as we all know, the only way to get a job done is to do it yourself.
So, it's a "feel the fear and do it anyway" kind of day, i mean, year, i mean life. hopefully it will get easier. at least i tried and i won't have died thinking, "if only i would have, blah, blah blah".....
oh, gotta go and make some more phone calls...ciao for now...
lots of love;

m xo