H/B/imbos are a life choice. The pursuit of shiny things.

Lyris recently made something very clear to me about my own propensity to chase glassy eyed after shiny thingspeopleclothesobjectscarsshoesblingbling -- something that has always secretly tortured me and made me feel guilty and like shaking a designer thai idol or hitting my very groovy gong or waving a beautiful 'feng shui' crystal around while dousing myself in some occitane aroma therapy chanting "i must detach from the material world" "i must adopt a non-caring attitude towards the things that don't last" -- you know the drill-- love, humanity, the children, these are what matters not whether or not I have a new pair of PUMA that fit my feet JUST SO or whether my date is the hottest person in the room. Shame on me I have worn a scratchy monk's shirt (designed by gaultier probably) in my imagination and rebuked myself over and over for being pulled awaay from all that is supposedly spiritual to all that is supposedly shallow. So for all you fellow lookist/snobs/designer clothing whores/materialists and wannabes here is a little wisdom from the mind of one rock star named Lyris Hung. She passed it on to me as I wailed on her couch about how I hold onto this idea of hotness wayyyyyy tooo hard. Like Nicole Richies claws wrapped around a fry on her cheat day.
In a nutshell: we are performers. We are artists. We are bon vivants actors comedians musicians all trained and working towards being in the public eye and making work and ourselves into work that is appealing to other people. By the nature of what we do, we care about what other people think .. (gasp appalled silence) yes we are in the business of caring what people think because we work to an audience. So then how do you go from sending your whole life in pursuit of that to a personal life where "it doesnt matter what other people think" I create shiny things as a life choice. And I am supposed to feel like an asshole because I want to surround myself with shiny things??!!
Is this why celeb couples abound and can switch around so much? is this why rock stars date models? Is this some kind of truth to the universe that Lyris has revealed. I dunno. But next time you see me wearing some hot fuckin shades indoors onthe arm of some improbably hot and probably shallow b/h/imbo. Dont sweat me. It's a life choice.