Occupy This !!

OCCUPY THIS  ~~ !

This is not a rant for Republicans or Democrats but rather for We The People.

This will not apply to some of you that have been blessed or fortunate to have not been effected by the down ward spiral of this economy.

This will apply to the hard working middle class that indeed built this country. The people that get up every morning and do the right thang.

The people that have poured what’s left of their life savings into an entrepreneurial venture or a Mom & Pop store.

You know you are! Me, You, Us !!

Us, the ones with guts that don’t have a trust fund. At this point all we may have left is the will, the dream and the drive.

At first when Occupy Wall Street hit the media, I got kinda excited. I thought WOWOW, I real hippie type movement. The shit I saw on TV when I was a kid – Make Love – Not War. By the way the theory still applies today.

But then shit happened. It got all muddied with BS and no real message. Or no real someone leading the brigade.

However the concept has merit!  Government gone Wild ~ think of it. Anthony Weiner ( dat Rat Bastid ) was tossed out on his ass and he still gets a congressional pension and health care for life for his congressional penis.

OMG ! Did any of you get that when you got laid off? Nooooooooo , only the ones who jerk off do..!!

Do we realize how much money we could put back into the system or programs rather than pay these fools.

The lobbyists, the Big Corporations and the BIG ASS BANKS.  They run this country.. It’s like Da Mob going for their weekly payoff and we pay the Vig.

The new thang that has sprung outta this Occupy shit is a grass roots movement to pull out of Big Banks and go to Credit Unions or small local banks. Ya know, the ones that have been on your corner for years. The conservative ones that will remain and not be eatin up by merger and acquisition land.

Bank of America imposed a $5.00 monthly fee to use your debit card? WHAT?

Once we the people heard that shit the cards and letters went flyin and B of A lost 100 accounts per day. Then they said SHIT – Ok, send a letter and email and say sorry, we take it back.  Hhahahahahaah. To late Mooks.

The people pulled their accounts and went to Credit Unions and small local banks. This has no become the new movement and is giving all Da BIG BANKS a bowel movement.

WAY TO GO !!! This has been happening daily all over the country.

You can even find this on Facebook…

So here’s a message to local Banks. Talk your CEO into increasing the marketing budget and get your Asses out there now. Oh and yeah- once you see the balances growin don’t get all frigging greedy.

I was in the banking industry for 15 years in the capacity of VP Sales so I know what I’m tawkin about. I used to work for one bank whose slogan was,“Big enough to service, small enough to care!”

I told them it sounded like a bad porno flick!~ Did they listen? Noooooo. Hence they no longer exist.

So rather than sleep in a park and bang the drum slowly. Do something proactive like pulling your money outta these rat holes and occupy a better attitude about how WE THE PEOPLE  deserve to be heard.

DON’T MAKE ME GET DA SHINE BOX..~~~

SHAKIN OR STIRRED

The east coast had its first fling with tremors of an Earthquake.  I was in the home of some friends and we all felt it, except my friend’s husband did not? I was like WHAT?

You did not feel it? You did not get dizzy? Are you dizzy when the earth does not move!

Being a hopeful romantic for me it was like that feeling when you meet “THE ONE”, minus the dizziness.

Ya know, I feel the earth move unda my feet, I feel the sky come tumbling down, when eva your around.

Just think of the titles of Love songs. Till there was you. Something, Love is a many splendored thing, Hold me – Kiss me. I’ve grown accustomed to your face.

 Then it gets a little weird – songs like, you belong to me? Will you still love me tomorrow? You’re so vain! If ya like it then you betta out a ring on it! I’m just lookin for some Tuch! Then we have the codependent songwriter, Gloria Estefan with her hit-“Don’t wanna lose you now”.

Love songs mimic the roller coaster of how some relationships are. As a songwriter not only do I draw on my own feelings but things that people have told me.

Its funny how some people are afraid of Love. Some people are in love with the idea of Love and then we have the narcissists that just love themselves. They walk around singing. I’ve got a crush on me!!

Today in the NOW I can truly understand the fear of love. I used to be one of those people that were emotionally unavailable. Never let go and always knew I would never be devastated. Ahhhhhh there was the key- don’t open up and let go and ya cant get hurt.

After many years of exploring the WHY”S of this I finally was able to really feel the love and not just write about it in a song.

Was it scary? Shit yea! However I knew I would rather take that chance and have Love then to just write about Love.

I wanted to take risks with my emotions so that I would evolve and learn how to manage my own insecurities rather then have them manage me. I guess that’s being a control freak but in a good way.

I think that anyone who is in Love and has indeed let go of his or her shit to allow all of the goodness in is a Hero. It takes guts to give it all up to someone else and not feel the need to protect.

What’s the worse that can happen? Ya get hurt? So get over it and know that maybe that person was sent to you for a reason. Maybe you would have spent the rest of your life holding back and never letting love in. Trust me, you will find it again. The magic and passion inside will draw you to the ONE that will fulfill all your dreams.

Look, I’m not living in LA LA land where I am telling you that its all a bed of roses. It takes work to have a relationship.

But here is the trick! shushhhh don’t tell everyone. Here goes.

There are 3 people in your relationship! Ok Wise Ass, that’s not what I mean. Three meaning you, your person and the relationship.

If you look at it that way you will always make sure you treat the relationship as a person, one that needs attention, to be nurtured and to be loved. If you don’t you will just let life take over and fall into the doldrums of ho-hum.

Before you know it the magic and passion is gone and you are living with your best friend. Hey don’t get me wrong; you should be living with your best friend, your Honey and your lover. However they should all be the same personJ

If you are single and dealing with all the games and shit that is out there – DON’T GIVE UP! It’s a test, I swear. Just make sure you keep your eyes open for red flags and the first time you see one, Run Forest Run. Don’t keep making the flag different colors because you want to give it more chance. Don’t settle, don’t allow someone to change whom your core person is or what you stand for. If they don’t love you for who and what you are you don’t need um. You don’t have to lose yourself to be in a relationship, you just have lose yourself in the relationship.

The last thing ya need is to fall in love with Jimmy 2 Times and be checkin his cell phone for Gumada’s. However if the only thing Jimmy 2 Times does is do everything twice it could be a good deal J

So I felt all of this because I felt the earth move unda my feet.. As for me I wasn’t Shakin, I was StirredJ

So claim your love song!

I cant help fallin in love with you!

Baby I’m yours!

Every breath you take!

Do ya think I’m sexy!

You can leave your hat on!

Mine is, I saw you, in a dark and crowded room, an illusive glance you gave, in the City of Light!

NEXT

What’s in a name? Names are extremely important especially if it’s regarding your business. It then becomes your Brand.

So why is it some comedy clubs name the place, Funny Bones or LOL’s and so on. I neva got that! I mean think about it, are you gonna call your friends laughing on the phone going, OMG lets go to Funny Bones, hahahahhahaa  OK?

What if all clubs named them for what they are?

Like “ One Night Stand” or “BANG” or STD’s. Would ya go?

Names can also create an inference in our minds about things. We find ourselves acting differently because we have set it up that way based on what ya head branded it as.

I remember back in my dating days I had this wooden box and I used a magic maker and wrote across the top of the box, “NEXT!”

Any time I was dating I would take the cards or letters or what eva they gave me and put it in this box called, next.

Every time I broke up with someone I then went to the garbage opened the NEXT box and emptied it.

When the next one came along all there shit went back into the Next box.

I suppose this was not a very optimistic approach to have because in my mind they were all NEXT!

I think sometime we are the wooden box! We lock all of our fears, baggage and insecurities in it and assume that it will protect us if we just remain closed.

One day after giving up on the notion of ever meaning anyone that could be “THE ONE”, I took the next box and tossed it in the garbage.

Then the work began~ my motto was ~ “If you continue to do the same things everyday expecting different results, Slap yourself now!”

If you think you are gonna change someone, forget it~ It aint happening.

So after I did all this self-discovery I was really kinda cool with it all.

I was content with just hangin out with me rather than settling.

Then for a birthday a friend of mine gave me a new box. This one was cardboard with Moons and Stars on it. No room to label it.

I month after I got that box, I found the Love of my Life.

So get rid of all the old garbage and open yourself and your heart and BOOM – no more Next. And neva go to a comedy club called LOL..

To Be or Not ~ Reality,, Mob What?

To Be or Not ~ Reality,, Mob What?

It seems We, Italian’s have been bombarded with the stereotypical nonsensical BULL SHIT that the so-called TV producers are coming up with.

Have you noticed lately that even movies in the theatre are remakes?

Play’s on Broadway are revivals or depicted from movies?

Where has all the creativity gone?

You mean to tell me that there are no talented people out there writing good scripts or dramas or comedies?

Oh please – there certainly are talented folks out there. It’s just that these Mook’s figured out a way to payless and keep the vig.

That’s what it’s all about - M O N E Y !!!

Look what happened with the Jersey Shore. They found a bunch of Idiots, made them pretend they were from Jersey and even Italian at that and said have at it. Even thought the show is a train wreak I was never that pissed about it. I figured these are kids acting like kids. Even Polish kids would act this way. Its called YOUTH. Remember that! Think about the shit you did as a kid! I remembered seeing movies and documentary’s where parents did not want their kids to listen to rock & roll. They just added the Italian shit so it would have an edge.

 I did however get pissed when they gave them a pay increase to $100.000.00 an episode. OMG! All that money – FOR WHAT?

Not one of them has an ounce of talent. And what did every Italian American group do? They continued to email them and hold summits to fight and demand that they stop production. All that fodder gave them more publicity. Pushed them right ova da edge. THANKS!

Then all the Housewives shows, NJ, NY, Orange County! Minga!

Here, I give u a challenge, do one from rural Kentucky, where peeps have no cars or designer clothes and do the laundry on a rock! You may wind up with a major hit.

So now that have really over stuffed da cannoli. There is a new show called Mob Wives. WOWOWOWOOWOWWOWOWOW

Did I watch the show? Yes !! And today I still can’t close my mouth.

I was shocked!

I never remembered the Mob wanting everyone to know where they lived or this or that. It was always kept quite.

These women are like Capo’s with breasts. Renee Graziano was like DeNiro in drag. She talked like she was the Boss. “We do what the family says”. “We don’t like Rats”. Yelling and screaming. Then Karen Gravano comes back home so she can write a book about her life. Who gives a SHIT ~ Oh Mother of GOD!

There are 2 other women whose husbands and Fathers are in da joint.

One likes to fight and is proud to kick the shit outta people while she is on the phone with her husband in jail taking a food order for him.

The other one told her kids Daddy is away at work, for 10 years ???

And they all live in Mansions !! Guess who is paying their bills now?

Forgive me but I don’t see the value added here! This indeed makes us look like Cavones. I understand this is the way you grew up and perhaps its all you know and it’s hard to change behavior but this is just going to get progressively worse, I feel it. I can see it now, all these young kids in school pretending to be Renee and makin small little Mob families. Hey, You bring her to my locker afta school, she pays up or I kick her ass !!! Instead of callin kids Rats they will now be called Karen’s.

I have a comedy & variety show called, THE ITALIAN CHICKS! We don’t bash Italian’s we celebrate our heritage. We make you feel like you are at a family reunion not a mob hit. We make you remember things that you paid your Shrink to make you forget.

As I am writing this I’m thinking, Hummmmmmmmm maybe not such a good idea to piss of the Mob Wives but, what’s next Mob Kids! Mob Babies.

I think the only Organized Crime left is Reality TV !!!

Now don’t get me wrong, I aint no Saint but as they said on the Mob Wives show ,‘IT’S ABOUT REPECT!” And I don’t see any of that!

So yea- I want a sit down with Da Mob Wives so I can tell them about respect!

And if the Albainian Wife wants at me- so be it.!

R  E  S  P  E  C  T    ~      FIND OUT WHAT IT MEANS TO ME !~

Yo,if none of ya here from me in like 2 days call someone, OK J

THE WONDER OF TWO

Life can be cruel, hard, painful, sad, lonely, happy, and fruitful or what cha make of it :)

I don’t know many people that are sans baggage or hurt and have pain. However I do know that if you live by the things that have damaged you, you will define your destiny.

A self-fulfilling prophecy of a down ward spiral. As for me, I have my moments, sometimes even dayz of being in the sludge and then I yell at myself! Out loud, like a crazy Italian Chick ~ knock if off Mare!!

I was always one to look for the silver lining. Just like the Italian Jiminy Cricket JHello my Baby, Hello my Honey, Hello my ragtime gal ~ remember that cartoon?  The Italian construction worker,Pasquale found a frog in the work site and the frog sang that song but when Pasquale took him to an agents office the frog did nothing but ribbit, ribbit – hummmmmmm?

Pasquale depended on the frog to make him money. Aye Pasquale, ma what’s a wrong wit chew. You lazy bastid.

It’s the power of one that draws the power of others to create magic. You need to believe in what you have inside of you and live it and act it and do it.

It’s not always easy and requires extreme self-motivation but “YOU CAN!”

Being a hopeful romantic, for me I believe in the wonder of two.

The person that fills your soul and captures your heart ~ where each time you see them it’s like the first time.

I know some of you are saying oh pleaseeeeeeeeee – Life happens and then ya let shit roll in and before ya now it the passion and magic are only found in a movie and not in your life any more.

Well here is a little secret I use! There are three people in your relationship!  Ok wise asses don’t go there - J 

Meaning its you, your person and the relationship. If you consider your relationship as a separate entity it will require you to pay attention to it and just not let it saunter about like a child lost at the mall.

Now don’t get me wrong, its important that you have your needs met, your persons needs met but you also have to meet the needs of your relationship. Ahhhhhh- so once in a while you have to let go of that selfish part of ME. If not you are truly not taking any responsibility and that is plain and simple a cop out.

When you really let go and let love, it’s then that you discover the wonder of two.

The one that you can count on. The one that makes any hurt feel less than because they are there. The one that make you laugh and the one you can lay your head on and feel all is well with the world.

So if you find yourself in a rut or not connecting have a conversation with your relationship, you’ll be surprised what you can learn.

The first thing you will find out is that you need to get dressed and go out for dinner with the intentions of talking about your dreams not your problems. Like magic you will feel an instant difference. Then take a stroll down memory lane to a time when you both met and relive it again.

OK I know some of you are saying- great Mare but I have not found that person and ya know what? I don’t think it even exists!

SNAP OUT OF IT ~~~

If ya keep thinking like that you never will – remember you draw in what you are. If you believe you are empty you always will be. It took me forever to find my dream and I fight for it all the time.

They say love comes from the most unexpected places and if you need to jump up and down on one leg and chant,” I do believe, I do!” then do it.

Start your quest for the Wonder of two rather then spending your entire live wondering who.

YA SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION?

 I have been in this daze watching the events in the mid East with folks tossing out the Dictators and wanting democracy! It’s watching history in the making. Also realizing that social media and you tube has given these peeps a room with a view to see what the rest of the world is doing.

 In those countries the DIC-tator had all da money. These peeps made like 2 bucks a week! The women are brutalized and I am sure it will take more than just a government turn over to rectify that one!

Yet still these peeps run ragged with rocks and stones and toss them at a friggin tank! We all know ya can’t take a tank out with a rock and yet they continue to follow their dream of democracy.

Here we sit in America with all these freedoms and democracy and some of us are making 2 bucks a week? It was noted in Forbes magazine that there are 400 people in America that have all da money!

FOUR HUNDRED! Then there are da rest of us Mooks ~ they do say however, “da Mooks shall inherit da Earth!”

That poor woman that represents that scale of Justice is gonna be hunchbacked soon!

Look I am not trying to start a debate on Democrats, Republicans or what eva party du jour is out there. All I am trying to say here is that we need to have a sit down with these 400 people and have them crack into their fortune.

Regardless of what party is in, it all turns into a bad CYO dance. Boys on this side Girls on the other. The votes get all skewed because if your not on my side, I aint voting! Like friggin kids in the playground. So guess what ~ nothing gets done. NADA – ZIP! 

Who pays for this BS, US !!

There are some folks out there that do not think we are in a depression/recession, they are calling it a correction? Why – because they are da ones with da money !!

Now look, if you are fortunate to have a job and have some savings and are feeling a bit squeezed – Brava, good for you.

However for those of us that are unemployed or self-employed or singles Mom’s and Dad’s trying to make ends meet this shit at pretty.

In this country we love our celebrities and athletes.

Our Athletes are making 30 million and it now costs you $200.00 to take your kid to a game? Do we really need to pay Tom Cruise 9 million to make a movie movie?

Look me of all people certainly do support the talented and artistic endeavors of peeps but MINGA – create a pay scale will ya!

Gas prices, food prices. Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

By now we should be looking for alternative measures for fuel and then hiring all the unemployed to make it happen.

So maybe we need to get our ASS’es in Times Square or any Square USA and say, Stop, BASTA, ENOUGH.

Stop payin our taxes, I mean really now what are they gona do lock up half the country!

These peeps in the mid East are dying for democracy. Well ya betta watch what you wish for because before ya know it they’re gonna be all broke ass like us. Then the 400 people that have all the money here will move there and become King!

You say you got a real solution

Well, you know

We'd all love to see the plan

You ask me for a contribution

Well, you know

We're doing what we can

But when you want money

for people with minds that hate

All I can tell is brother you have to wait 

C'mon people now

Smile on your brother

Ev'rybody get together

                         Try and love one another right now

DON’T MAKE ME GET DA SHINEBOX !!!

 Great, now Da FBI will have a dacia on me  :)

Three Penny Opera

Has anyone been to the MET lately? If so than God Bless. Because if you have you – you either have more money than Palachi – know a guy – found a guy – or took a distribution from your 401k!

I happen to be one of those very eclectic peeps. The music I listen to varies from- Rock – Blues- Jazz – and Tango!! OMG, I loves me some Tango music…  I love fine art, abstract and yet I can kick back with the best of the blue-collar anywho’s…now that’s a friggin ART!

I despise pretension!!! I mean lets get real Folk’s, unless you were born in the Vanderbilt mansion, knock it off!!! Even Anderson Cooper has a sense of humor ~ well sort of???

Once in a while you have to take the stick out of your coulo! You might even enjoy hangin whit the little folk. Because basically you are just a Lolly Pop kid looking for height.

The world is tough enough, No? --- We are all connected by 6 degree’s of separation. Bet cha pissed off now!!!

And since the recession or depression set in it has made it worse! For me though, traveling around this country of ours – I think it’s worse in NYC.

Think of when your 401k was whole! You would drive thru Chelsea and pass all those foo foo clubs with the velvet ropes and see all those foo foo gurls on line with their little black dresses and their Gucci bags waiting to get in….

Well, ya still seem em, but now they are online with their little dresses, with their cuma-se-chama hangin out, their knock off bag and a sign that says, “ I will date for food and the Philharmonic!

However choosing your friends is way different than being born into your family!!!!

Hey,you know that show called the Locator? On WE TV…

This guy gets letters from people looking for their family’s that gave them up for adoption or friends that have lost friends..

I’m not talking about the lost boyz, that’s a whole other story..

I can see it now. I contact the guy from the Locator. Hi Troy, my name is Maryann Smith. I was adopted when I was 8 years old. All I know from my adopted family is that, they gave me up after I set a Nun’s veil on fire? But I have this desire to connect.

So Troy goes on DA hunt.

He meets me at the Bada Bing Club and says, “I found your family”!

OMG!!!!!!

Yes and I have a video of one of their Christmas dinners.

He plays the video, there are 7 fishes, zepolies, nuts, pastry, and my FAMILY.. They were reenacting the 3 penny opera.. Now rememba – this is an opera "by and for beggars!

So there’s my Brother singing Mack da knife!!! Then my sister starts cuttin hair!!!!! And my other Sister is dressed like a hussy from Berlin????????

IT WAS AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!

I looked at Troy and said – um – tell them you couldn’t find me!!!!!

But cha know what! Families are made up of the good, the bad and the ugly!  Whistle here!!!

My family has never seen an Opera, they don’t need to, they create their own drama. However, this does not make them bad people, or less than.

And those folks that feel that they would never want to mix with the likes of “those folks”! Most likely are covering up some type of dysfunction of their own, That’s why they hid in the orcastra pit!!

Look I have Champaign taste on a beggar’s budget! I loves me some Crème Brulee …However, I am proud to say that I still can crave a Devil Dog too~~~~

So here be da deal!!   Get off your high horse! ~  I always hated that statement!!! Lighten up !!!  See the good in people not what they are wearing. Love your neighbor – but don’t get caught!!!

And NEVER –EVER JUDGE ANY ONE.. ESPECIALY AN ITALIAN!!!

WE know all the judges any way~~~~~

UNKNOWN QUOTE

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”

THE FAT LADY HAS SUNG!!!!!!