Vices

Jimmy Page's prophecy, plus a list of foods that I crave!

Im just gonna go ahead and out myself as one of the most disgusting, deranged, hedonistic, pleasure-seekers to ever walk the face of the earth. Boys, girls, parties, sex, drugs, cigarettes, drugs, fine dining, junk food, fast food, chaos, excitement, love, attention, booze, and more, all disappearing into the black hole, garbage disposal of a girl named Holly. I wanted to go higher, further, and faster, until I traveled beyond the speed of light, as far into the unknown as could be. To see the other side, to be everything in the universe, all while simultaneously disappearing, never having existed at all.

After being seated next to Jimmy Page at a Grammy party, having just signed my first deal at the ripe age of twenty-one, Jimmy said to my manager, “Tell Holly that she can party like a rockstar, when she’s a rockstar.”

Here I am, all these years later, and still not a rockstar. I’m left wondering, would I have been a rockstar by now, had I not been so distracted by my many vices? Was o…