Savory

    Guys. I can't stop eating cheese.
I need help. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if I turned into a wheel of havarti by the time I'm 70... if I don't devour myself first. And like, 2 weeks ago my body had a bad reaction to my consumption of cheese (I had a LOT.. like an entire package of lunch cheese) but now I think my enzymes are back on track. They got their asses handed to them I guess, I don't know.
Havarti is so good.
SPEAKING OF DEVOURING MYSELF

I don't know why but one of my favorite things to talk about when I meet new people is Armin Meiwes. It's a great ice breaker.

"Hi, I'm Cynthia............................ oh that's fun. did you know about the dude who cut off his lovers' penis and ate it with him? yeah, they couldn't chew it much so they had to fry it."

this is the part where people either stop talking to me or are fascinated, hesitate to comes to terms w/ their fascination, and then finally relax and join in on the commentary.

.... Cynthia.. why do you know this?
WELL, LET ME TELL YOU.

Long time ago I saw this super neato film called Feed. The intro was a scene where these detectives break into a house, walked through the kitchen to find a penis frying in a skillet, and find themselves breaking a door down into the upstairs bathroom exposing two men; one standing in the tub, blood everywhere, cascading out of his groin where his penis used to be, and another kneeling before him with a knife and fork, blood and tissue (body, not toiletry) smeared along his grinning face. The two detectives gasp and cover their mouths in horror, to only be scolded by the man in the tub who screamed "I want to be eaten!!!"


That scene stuck with me (because I'm just really weird) and eventually, out of playful curiosity I googled something along the lines of man eats penis. That's when I learned of the man who inspired that scene in the movie: Armin Meiwes.. and his voluntary muse, Bernd Brandes. I studied all there was to know about Meiwes. He had a shitty upbringing (surprise) and became a favorite I guess you could say 'figure' of mine.

Fun Fact: Armin was a total Trekkie.

Sadly, on our trip to the Museum of Death earlier last year I don't recall seeing anything about Meiwes, but I could've simply just missed it. 

So the other day, out of nowhere,

I think I had brought up Meiwes in conversation again, I was inspired to make cute things. Noob Charm things. so I did.

They're cupcakes! ^_^ YUM! They're Meiwes cupcakes because he ate Brandes after puncturing his throat. Brandes was in the bathtub for 3 hours, bleeding, until Meiwes finally came up and killed him. He dismembered him and stored all of the meat in a freezer for like 6 months, and ate it regularly.
See? that's Brandes' bipper, and his innards, and his braaaaaiin, and the one w/ the maggots is a what if scenario had he survived and his missing bipper hole place would've gotten infected! :D

Is this weird?
lol, the whole thing is just so fascinating to me. I wish I could study their minds. Why Meiwes felt the desires he did, and why Brandes was so set on wanting to have his penis bitten off and eaten. He even offered generous amounts of money to prostitutes, but they could never bring themselves to do it. Don't worry... everything was consensual, believe it or not. Brandes sought Meiwes out! yup yup.

Anywho, that's some backstory on these pieces. I will be selling them very soon. They need to be made into charms, and for that to happen I need to wait for my order to arrive. I will be making more, just like these if these do well. But if they don't, it wouldn't surprise me whatsoever.
Fucked up, huh?
Well, it's easier to see things from a different perspective when you detach yourself from your default settings. The one that makes you wanna say "EW, NO WAY" and reject it immediately. It's a defense mechanism-- it's your brain telling you those images are bad, dangerous. Avoid. but if you push through that reflex and ask questions, you'll discover truths, and learn about things that are seldom understood.
but that's just me. I like asking questions. It's hard to me to just take things at face value..
if something happens I want to know about the catalysts, and analyze the timeline. What led to what and why. Not...
this happened... so THIS. and that's IT.
It's NEVER like that. Not the way the world works. I'm sure many would find that ideal and to their benefit..... ahem...  but that's not how it works. because there are people like me who analyze everything and will figure it out. ;)


MOVING ON

 

 New Years celebration!
Spent it with Fetts' family at his paretns' house. Everyone got drunk (including yours truly, but I was probably the least drunk there-- I'm sure of it) except for Fett. We all played Cards Against Humanity until midnight, and then sang karaoke in their living room. That's was a first for me. Liquid courage, they call it.... accurate. Poor Fett.
Thankfully neither one of us had work the following day, so we got to sleep in forevvveerr and it was soooo goooood, lol.


And!
New piercing things!

 I had off on a Saturday, so I was like dang I'm gonna go do stuff! And I did.
Steve's awesome. He's my go-to piercey guy forever.

 Following that I decided to go to Little Tokyo. It had been a long time since I'd visited, so the treat was nice. First thing I did was go to that.... area. W/ the red pillars. and stuff.
STRAIGHT to the bakery.

 Curry chicken steam bun mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
so gooood
And from there I just walked around for a bit, and eventually made my way over to the square to stop in Marukai and grab some snackies.
That's when Sandy and Brian totally snuck up behind me!

 lol it was the most random thing ever. but what a delight to see them! We chatted a bit, and they invited me to join them for din din. :)

 We went w/ Curry House because mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

curry.

 UGH.

IT'S SO GOOD.

And after that we went into the book store, where I picked up two new manga volumes aaaaaand we called it a night. It was good times, we caught up and got to vent a little. Was nice. 

She gets it, lol. She KNOWS. lol she's been there. It was just really cool.

Trying to get OUT of LT however was a fucking disaster.

 No clue what was happening that evening but I was stuck down there for 2 hours. Not even anywhere near the highways. The traffic was SO backed up they had to have 4 lights directed by those... traffic cop people. 1st street, 2nd street, 3rd and 4th street were all closed off. No where to go, no where to turn, just waiting. Couldn't even move forward when the lights turned green, it was awful. I left LT heading for my car at 5:45. Didn't get home til almost 8. 

but I did go home w/ some stuff that makes me happy ^_^ so, it was okay!

 
And in the following week, Fett, our friend Heather, and I went out for dinner at Ramen Jinya.
 Heather is a big horror movie fan, and I'm always trying to convince him (yes him, don't ask) to cosplay as Julia (Hellraiser) because we're both equally HR fan girls, but he woooon't. Instead he's looking for the entire book collection. I wanna help him find it; he said it's called Hellbound, and it has all of the movies in one book. I've seen the individual volumes, but not the version he was talking about. I was telling him how similarly I was looking for the graphic novels, and he suggested going to the Illiad.

 AND THIS IS WHY HE'S MY HEATHER-PATRICE-NON-BO-BEATHER AND I LOVE HIM.

 Fett and I went the next day and SCORE.

Heather was totally right. Thank you, Heather :*

 And then a few days ago, Fett and I were driving around doing errands when... I don't remember why but I started talking about the 5 taste receptors on your tongue. There was one that I couldn't remember, but was explaining how umami is the japanese word for savory or flavorful. and he goes ".... we can go to umami burger if you want" and I was like
    O___O           yes, dear.

mmmpf. it was pretty awesome. 

garlic mayo, are you kidding me!?!? THAT'S MY LIFE.

GARLIC EVERYTHING PLOX.

garlic in my ramen? HOKAY

garlic in my bread? UH, YA

garlic in my butter for my pizza? ffffffffffffffffffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFYES.

aaaahh I love garlic

garlic and cilantro.

oh god, cilantro. just... a respirator. full of garlic and cilantro. in my face.

agh.

Even Meiwes used garlic to season the penis. black pepper, salt... 

not even kidding.

cooking condiments and spices are so wonderful.

#Spanish

 is everyone sufficiently confused about their appetite right now?