ATTENTION EVERYONE WHO LIKES TO LIVE

Lets start with this picture I took in the park while I was reading today:


ITS A LADY BUG ON MY FOOT CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11


I heard some very interesting new today everyone, but I do not know if it is a joke or if it is for real. Honestly if this news turns out to be real, I am a little frightened but the more I think about it, the less I think he really will have a chance to win. Ok so here is the news: STEPHEN COLBERT IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT (OF THE UNITED STATES)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(in south carolina)



COLBERT ON E!

COLBERT ON COMEDY CENTRAL! (DUH)

WIKIALITY?

USA TODAY

COLBERTOCRAT

...and you get the idea, pretty crazy huh? But he is only running in the primary for South Carolina, which is not fair. I want to vote for him ,but I do not live there. But would'nt it be crazy if he actually won the primary, oh man. Its like that horrible movie Man of the Year with Robin Williams.

...it won't happen but it is fun to pretend I guess, but it would be so cool if it did, the country can't get any worse...right?

My next topic of interest today is realted to Buffalo, this fine city in a more direct way (since we are not South Carolina, DAMNIT).
FINALLY SERIOUS DEVEOLPMENT ON SOME OF THE WATERFRONT!
NEWS STORY FROM CHANNEL 7
Honestly, I think that this is a great idea, but the fact that it is in the BlackRock/Riverside area is a little disappointing. I mean obviously everyone deserves a nice area to live in that is safe and all that good stuff, but it seems like kind of a waste to make a big waterfront park in an area of Buffalo that might not appreciate it for all that it is worth. That might sound horrible to a lot of you. And no doubt it will bring a lot of great people into the neighborhood and will bring up property values around it and creat a nicer neighborhood on its own. And I know that if this happens sometime soon, I will be down there enjoying it more than most. I am just saying, hopefully it won't get trashed the first year it is open, but if it really will have all the extra security it wants to have I guess it really shouldn't be a problem. To me homeland security around here is not that big of an issue with me. I know what its like going over the boarder, and I am really confident that our boarder patrol is taking every procaution it can to protect us. As for the open waters, most of the time there is ice in the way and it is freezing cold, and I always see boats protecting the water barrier between Canada and the US, I mean of course we could use more security, and it helps because it is a great selling point to people who might not be happy with the project (but I can see no downside). And it is nice to know that people are thinking about us!! But honestly, this is a great thing and I can not wait to hear more about it. I tried finding some other information on this project quickly but could not come up with anything. If you happen to find something please post it! Thanks I'll keep lookin myself and post what I find!
found something (thanks mark)
OFF OF BUFFALO RISING, WATERFRONT PROJECT IN BLACKROCK


Ok, moving right along, lets talk about...ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND THEM HAVING DRIVER LICENSES. I am pretty liberal in my ideals, but to me this just does not make sense at all. First of all, why are they here, I understand that they might coem from slightly less better living conditions then we have, ok. But honestly, if you really want to live here, then get a job (that pays more than minimum wage so you can actually feed you family and live out of the slums) and apply for citizen ship. People do it all the time, how come the immigrants that are coming from the our south and through California from Asia are allowed to do this. One thing I am not sure of though is if they are able to get welfare and things like that not being citizens, if they can that is bullshit and should be stopped right now because I am not paying taxes so people that are not allowed to be here can eat and live for free/a huge discount. But if I am wrong in my assumption then fine, they are working and making money, but honestly, you can not tell me that someone is not helping them to get aid like a boyfriend or sister or something. I mean my parents work their asses off so they can afford to send me to school (with loans). And I work my ass off at shitty jobs so I can afford to pay for a car and gas etc so I can get to school and buy books etc etc, and I STILL OWED THE GOVERNMENT TAXES THIS YEAR like a hundred dollars, because apparently I make to much money. What the fuck is that? I am a student working my ass off and I owe the government money for taxes, that I am not really using yet, I have my own indepent health insurance, no welfare, no help for school, no public transportation, no social security. The way I look at it, I'm working my ass off so illegal immigrants can live here for free, ILLEGALLY. Come on now, I worked for a company and they had some of these wonderful people working there, and they just let them. They weren't hard workers, they were slackers, and they all left their countries because they had millions of kids there, and now they have tons of kids here that they can't afford to take care of, so we have to. They aren't trying to make a better life for themselves, or their kids. I do not see how they are allowed to stay in this country and work. There apparently aren't enough jobs here for Americans, and yeah I know they just pick grapes or whatever, but I'm sure some Americas would love doing that job to support their family honestly, I really believe that. So no, I do not beleive that we should be giving illegal immigrants a drivers license. Let them drive around uninsurced and unlicensed. I could give a shit. And honestly it is no a matter of national security, or a good way to keep track of them. National security already failed when they were let into the country to live here off of the taxpayers when they do not even pay taxes because they get paid illegally!!!!! Besides they are all to lazy to do anything anyways, nothing to worry about on that end.


Next subject

Last but not least if you have not heard Kevin Everett released his first personal statement today, and he took his first steps, it really is amazing what kinds of new technology we have to help people with these kinds of injuries and I really do hope for the best for him and his family, he seems to be on a quick road to recovery beleive it or not, who would have ever thought that we would be saying that. In order to help more people with this injury New Era created hats supporting Kevin Everett and proceeds go to spinal reasearch. How cool is this? Finally someone comes with a fundraiser idea that people will actually buy and want to buy and wear all the time. It is so awesome, especially for Buffalo, and I think tons of people are going to go get these hats, I'm getting mine tomorrow!


PS
these are my cousins that found stuff in my car and put it on

THE PARK IN FALL IS BEAUTIFUL

So I started this blog off with a video, well not so much a video but a song that I can not stop listening to because my ex and his friends used to be in love with it. I always wanted to mean as much to him as they did. It is never going to happen, I thought it might, I tried so hard. I think taht this has been the best relationship I have ever been in. It ended so quickly though, honestly I thought it would never end, but surprising I am not that upset. But I want him to know that I am still here for him if he needs anything at all. He knows though, but he'll never take me up on the offer. I will more than likely exapnd on this another day, he drifts through my mind constantl, and has for a good part of five months now.



But this weekend I got to feel Hollywood by helping my friend with his photo project, I will post some pictures of that later. I did the lighting and it came out pretty ok so I was happy with that. PS MY BIRTHCONTROL PILLS I STARTED A MONTH AGO DO NOT HELP WITH MY CRAMPS FYI. This weekend I also got an awesome flannel from the Salv R and I am so excited to wear it tomorrow.
Bob Dylan was ok.Elvis Costello was AMAZING. It was a fun first road trip in my new car. And I also had Amy's Place for the first time and it was DELICIOUS! (could not find a very useful link)
Today I spent the day again with Eric after a lame seminar at Express even though I am quitting. But then the best part was walking for hours with PHIL, he is almost as Hollywood as me ALMOST. Sorry not much to say today, hopefully more tomorrow.
SERIOUS DELIRIUM
Ray


PPS
this is a blog Phil made, YOU BETTER CHECK IT OUT:
http://web.mac.com/plucsok/Site/Blog/Entries/2007/10/9_Shlob_on_my_Blog.html

GO BILLS

First and foremost I would like to make a huge deal about the Bills just almost beating Dallas, an undefeated team this season. Not bad not bad. It is a little scary to think about how the Bills has a better record than the Sabres, but we'll let that slide for a couple more games. Then I want the Sabres to know ITS ASS KICKING TIME. So back to my life. Tons of Hollywood things happend to me today, but they happen everyday so yeah nothing surprising there. A couple talked to me that I didn't know, and then Travis from GCH wanted my body, but you know normal stuff, and some random kid grabbed my ass but again normal stuff. PS me and Dimah and the best dancers ever, and we can catch us ripping on wierd ass verizon guys in front of the union daily. I decided today that when I am old and gray the things I will remember about college is dancing for tshirts, and getting cotton candy/freezerpops for free weekly.
Other major events of the day include finding out that something in my foot is broken (more than likely just a toe) and it really hurts a lot. It is also really swollen, ITS AWESOME. And skipping class to go get a new job at the mall because EXPRESS SUCKS dont ever work there youll want to kill youself. So now I work at Gap hopefully it will be a little better? And then having lunch with Erwic and then skipping another class to see the heros of gym class. The Pack opened for them and they were great, so check them out sometime, like now:



Also what the fuck is with everyone knowing the ridiculous soulja boy dance? I watched like five people do it today so I know some of it now, not by choice. How did I miss this? I'M SUPPOSED TO BE HOLLYWOOD!
If you also need to learn it, here is a lesson:



and here is a GCH videos because I just saw them and it was AWESOME:



I think that if you wanted to be accepted by society, you have to know that dance, and get some vans that look like sneakers.
I might write more later
ps
I see Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello TOMORROW

The time is 222

...and I hope you wish comes true
Do you ever listen to a song when your out somewhere and it absolutely describes what your doing at that moment. That happened to me tonight, it happens a lot though. It wasn't that Juliana Theory song, it was just 222 when I started writing this and I have to sing that song everytime I notice its 222 haha. NO, the song was by the Foo Fighters who I do not even like which sucks, but this song was so amazing. Meh I'll find the song someday.
It was also one of those nights where you have homework to do but you just don't care because you just can't bring youself to do it. Well maybe that is just me. I would much rather relax with my friends then spend the night worrying about a four page paper about somethign I do not want to write about. So it is now 240 ( I got distracted from when I first started) and I have yet to start my paper. But I did gain two boys attention when I went to relax which sucks. Why on Earth do people think I am worth talking to. Maybe it is because im Hollywood. But seriously, I only hurt people, and they do not seem to understand that. But at least I understand that now so I can steer them clear. Plus I am totally in love with my boyfriend, but don't tell him that because he is never going to be in love with me and he likes to pretend that I don't exsist most of the time. :sigh: And yes I know what your thinking, "Well then dump him Rachel" but, alas, it is not that simple. But sometimes I wonder if I want a boyfriend so badly because if we start dating now and end up dating until I move, then they will move with me, because I am so scared to move to NYC by myself. Of course it is going to be AMAZING and the single greastest expierence of my life, but at the same time the thought of having to set up a whole new life for myself with no one there is kind of intimidating. On the other side it is half the reason I want to go. It is so easy to find friends here in Buffalo, they are everyone, and everyone is seperated by one degree of seperation (you will hear me say that a lot) so it isn't like you are really making any new friends anyways, because you already knew them in some way.
I have a feeling that it will end up being the same way in NYC. Only because I wrote a paper on it. It kind of just follows you were you go. You tend to stick to the same group and type of people so it is hard to get away and hard to really meet anyone totally different from yourself, which can be a good and bad thing. But tonight I had a sort of breakthrough, I tend to feel like I have those a lot. I want my life to start being about something, going for something. I'm sick of just hating everything I do, I should do something BECAUSE I LIKE IT. For example, I hate going to school, but I have to because of my parents, and on the plus side I will hopefully be able to get into SVA if I can bring myself to do my work and then I will be happy because that is where I really want to be. And I hate driving, and the only reason I drive is to get to work and school, other wise I would ride one of my TWO BEAUTIFUL BIKES everywhere I went. But I have to go to school, and I have to work so I can pay for my car to get to school and so I can have money to blow with my friends and eventually go to Austrialla with my bestest Jamies and then save up for SVA and NYC because I am going to be broooooooooooooooooooke as all hell. So I do more things I hate so I am able to do other things I hate, I know makes perfect sense. On my way to my frist day of my new job that I was so excited about, I almost started sobbing. I do not want to do this, I do not want to drive anymore, I do not want to waste me time selling expensive clothes to spoiled brats. UGH. I don't want to work PERIOD. I want to drink all day and take walks and take pictures and write and thats it, someday I swear I will get paid for that.
The problem is that I do not know how to make people take me seriously, and I seem to have a problem communicating with them what I really want, and what I really need, and how much I hate my life right now. Sure everything seems to be going good, third year of college at UB, new car, new job at Express. To bad I do not want any of it. I want to live in an apartment by myself and pay my bills and just live. Why is it so difficult for people to accept that they do not want to go throught the stress of college so they can go back to college because no one can geta job with a four year degree anymore. Why is it so against society to just work a stupid job that pays the bills for the rest of your life. WHY IS THAT SO HORRIBLE TO OUR PARENTS. I know, I know, they just want the best for us and for us to have what they never had, so fine I'll go to college, but I won't like it.
So after that crazy tangent, I want to bring up something that shocked me yesterday. I went around the news sites to find something about that women that died while being held at an airport. Now when I looked yesterday, it then would have happened the day before, so about 24 hours later, I could not find anything about this lady. I tooke me a good 15 minutes to locate something on the major news websites about her story, and it was under some abscure link that I would not really ever think to look under. It made me so upset and convinces me that the media is trying to cover it up because something that should not have happened took place and it is going to make our government look bad, obviously. What I took from the story is that she was an alcoholic on her way to getting help to save her family who she loved very much. Her picture is so normal looking I would never even think anything like that. Stories report that she began yelling and screaming because she was late for her flight and they would not let her board. Her family believes that it would have been very uncharaciteristic of her to do that, but I think it is beleivable only because she seemed really set on helping her self to help her family and it can be frustrating when things get in the way. Now I do not know if this is true or not, but I am going to assume that she was not drunk or under any other influences at this time. So it does not make sense why she would try to slip her handcuffs from behind her back over her head while she was chained to a bench leading her to accident choke herself to death. I mean no sane person would do that, and no one is suggesting that she had mental problems other than the drinking are they. I mean her family really seems to care about her so if she had some sort of unstable mind set I want to think that they would not let her travel alone. So what really happened. How does a mother of three die in the holding cell at an airport, and how does the media hush it up so quickly, why isn't anyone else asking more questions about this. It could have happened to anyone and for what reason? Is this what homeland security does, are they really going to stop another terrorist attack? Is another terrorist attack even going to occur on a plane, um no, they already did that four times. But what do I know I'm not the president or one of his amazing cabinet members or anything, like the guy who runs FEMA, I mean he does a GREAT job ( note the sarcasm please).
Well it is now 305 and I must start my Shakespeare paper on the monarchy in Shakespeare plays.
until the weekend!!

9/11 & Buffalo economy

So I found this video on my friends myspace page. Honestly, I do not find it hard to beleive that the government would do something close to this. I mean, you can not tell me that our government had no way of knowing this was going on, it just seems to me like to big of a thing to just not notice. But I am more than likely wrong on the subject, I just would like to beleive that if our government could not protect us, it was because they were involved in the tragedy in a direct way. You can compare this with Hurricane Katrina. Everybody is convinced that the government knew ahead of time that this was going to happen, and even if they didn't they did a horrible job responding to the thousands (or was it millions) of people that were left homeless and stranded in a flooded town with no way out or food or clean water, or emergency care etc etc etc. I know that everyone already knows this, but is there something that the general public can do to let their government know that they still have not fogotten about these things and we want some answers as to why they happened. Our generation seems to not really be involved in the running of this country at all, we can't even get our acts together and vote. What is going to happend when it is our turn to run the country, are we going to have to be lead by the few that paid attention because they followed in their parents footsteps and are rich republicans that only care about saving money for themselves. Or is someone actually going to step up and say enough is enough, we need universal health care, and free college. Especially in Buffalo. We just got voted the secord poorest city in the country. What a blow to us. I mean yeah, it was not a huge shock, but if we can't even get our city together to finish the waterfront and stop making stupid decisions about our goverment leaders and our policies,then how is our generation ever really going to be able to make a difference in the world when its our turn? We havepoor role models right here are home and our president is not doing a much better job than our control board. We all need to be thinking about the future rather than things we did wrong in the past. Why do we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over? There is not going to be a world for my grandchildren if my generation keeps acting like this.
Its time for some change

Forgot Something

If you have ever seen "Citizen Kane" then maybe you will know what I am talking about and agree.
In the scene where his second wife Susanne is being bored in her palace and she asks Mr. Kane or Charlie if they can go to New York City. But she says it like this. "Can we go to New York Chaaaaarlie, please Charlie can we go to New York Chaaaaaarlie." Just like that flash video where the unicorns want to go to candy mountain.

Candy Mountain with Charlie the Unicorn


vs Citizen Kane
it is about a minute and thirty seconds in



What do you think?

Explanation

You may find youself asking, why is this blog called Hollywood in Buffalo. Well folks it is because everyone calls me Hollywood. Numerous times a week I get phone calls from people I do not know, and people say hi to me that I have never met before, or I just do not remember meeting. It sounds cool too. I love living in Buffalo and it does not surprise me that this happens because everyone is seperated by one degree of seperation around here, I can almost prove that. Sometimes that is the best thing about Buffalo, but sometimes it is the worst, you can not get away from anyone, even if you try as hard as you can. Now what prompted me to make this blog. Yesterday, an away message, on one of my close friends AIM was the following:
You're a needy girl
I can tell when I look in your big brown eyes
It is a song by Chromeo called "Needy Girl". Now naturally me and my bestest Jamie concluded that this was about me. Because he just came home this weekend from school and tried to get me to sleep with him but once again I shut him down. Because people, this boy is one that I care so deeply about. I could not stand to just sleep with him and have that be it. I love him, it would become to complicated, and I know that he does not want a realtionship. So what was the point of sleeping with him? Besides I have a boyfriend that I care a lot about, and I do not want to ruin that relationship just to have sex with someone that used to shut me down all the time. My parents know him as the boy that used to be at my house everyday, but then would not take me to prom. Does that make me needy? Is it so bad that I did not want to have sex with him without something else. Seriously, you can have sex with anyone so what would be the point to making things more akward. Well he would say that it would not make things akward unless I wanted them to be akward or something stupid like that.
Well anyways, I listened to the song and it sucks. It is some like crappy techno dance music that he would like, so whatever. Maybe it was not even about me, but come on, you know it is.
More to come


OMG
more proof im hollywood

sabrefan374: theres a rumor that you might have gotten the gap job
RACHEL G: what?
RACHEL G: rumor
RACHEL G: about me?

Hollywood

I'm making this mainly for my best friend in the entire world, Jamie. She always encourages me to write down my life because she thinks people will get entertainment out of my adventures or lets say, misadventures. I have to go do some homework before I make my first post, I just didn't want to leave it empty.
Until later