FAVORITES
Food: Tacos
Book: The Great Gatsby
Song: Got To Give It Up (Part 1)
Author: David Foster Wallace
TV: Arrested Development
Movie: Coming to America
Band: LCD Soundsystem
Hero: Bill Murray
Quotes I Love
"It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler." - Thom Yorke
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
My Enemies
Passive Agression
Boring Things
Contact:
Mysocalledstory@gmail.com
And Who Am I?
That's one secret I'll never tell, you know you love me. Xoxo
Just kidding! That's a line from "Gossip Girl" and yes, I totally watched that show, don't judge, I swear I'm not basic.
My name is Lindsey and you can call me that or L, L Boogie, The L, Hoodrat, Disco Cleopatra, Squirrel or Noodle because that is what other people call me. When you give nicknames, you get nicknames. It's the law of physics.
So here we go, for 34 years I was living a normal life, obsessed with music and live shows, going to all the fun parties and festivals. My life resume includes a heavy influence of the late 90s/early 2000s rave scene in Detroit & Chicago and beyond. Does anybody remember fat pants and map points?
I also had a serious education in rap and hip hop (yes, I differentiate between the two) that raised me in the young years. Later in life I ended up working for record labels and promoters. Needless to say, I've had a career in partying with the famous & the infamous.
I've been to everything from Coachella (started in 2003 baby), to SXSW, to Burning Man to the Winter Music Conference to Lollapalooza and CMJ in New York and the original DEMF (later "Movement") not to mention Comicon or Scribble Jam (dating myself now) and the full moon festival on the British island of Tortola. Just an amalgamation of wildness. Some of these I ventured to several times. Not to mention the countless concerts and live shows. I feel very junior high listing things out like this, but I'm doing it because I need you to understand where I come from. These are the things that made up my life. I say yes to adventure, I love a good party and I'm obsessed with a good song. I've been photographed by a myriad of known publications from LA Weekly to Vice to [oddly] Sports Illustrated (that's a whole other story) and a handful of blogs acting the part of "the party girl." Not because I'm a model or anything (I love pizza too much) but because I was the girl with the attitude and the cigarette.
My life was fun. It just was. I know how to have a good time.
But like everything in life, there has to be change. You can't resist it. You can stall it for awhile but you can't avoid it. You have to progress. I was getting bored. Partying started to feel like business. Also, I started getting way too drunk and high for my own good. I needed something new. I tried to throw myself into work or projects but that could only hold my interest for so long. Something was missing.
So in January of 2014 I decided that I needed to come to a conclusion on if God was real or not. I prayed a prayer that basically went something like this “Hey God, I need to know if you're real. I want a supernatural experience. I want a story."
Eleven Months later I got that story. And it's a big one. It starts in Thailand.
Someone once asked me if this story was at all like EAT PRAY LOVE? To which I responded ..it's kind of like that except that it has been remixed by a more happy and positive "Stranger Things" meets a Christmas Movie meets "My So Called Life" meets X MEN.
So basically no, not at like EAT, PRAY, LOVE.
Oh and yeah, I totally photoshopped that pic above. I wanted our first time meeting to be epic, fun and a bit ridiculous, it's my favorite combination.