Busy day at work!! Nummy eats, basketball practice tonight, head doin pretty well.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Bus blog!
Bout to see Kung-Fu panda 2 and bridesmaids!! Totally stoked
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Operation mission: the cleanening
Getting my greyhound on, planning on kicking it at my moms today and my dads tomorrow, in Longview and toutle, respectively.
September 11th was 10 years ago, tomorrow. It brings up the concept of war. It makes me wonder about the bush family and how they raised their children. Patton and the sand pebbles, and John Wayne mythology. Church, and the severe delineation of right and wrong. War has always been an amplification of stupid squabbles to me, that should never be brought to a national level.
God, that is a gross simplification, but better cynical and disillusioned than slaughtering innocent people. Then I think of the Chris hedges book, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, and winder how other families discuss this stuff, or if they do at all. Abstraction is devious, wont to simplification and distance. It has always factored into our thought process though. My brother would read me the world almanac as a child, an we tended to generalize and statisticize to a level of empiricism and extremity that seems quite unnatural. For all of it's accompanying blemishes, this ability to abstract seems so important when we consider the world today, an it seems a shame not to see our leaders discuss it's benefits.
So when we look back at 9/11, and consider the forces that bent our will and anger into all out war on two fronts, you have to wonder. You just do. Wikileaks makes you wonder. The apparent inability of Obama to change who governs our finances is incredibly disturbing. Incredibly. But nearly as or more disturbing is the questions we have to ask ourselves. Could bush have been right about invading Iraq? Not linked at all to 9/11 (most likely), but is there a tie between that and the newest rebellions of the Arab spring? Did we jostle that with the toppling or saddam? We will never truly know, and who is to say yet if things will be better or worse??
Do the power elite think this abstractly? Do they tryst to discuss their maintenance of vast wealth? Would someone actually die if the rich were dethroned? Nobody needs a billion dollars or a private jet. Every single person in the entire world deserves free food, shelter, and medical care. These are what I think about on the days before 9/11. If I think about the specifics, the real people, the families, the heroes who helped (and who are being shafted without help because of medical problems in the aftermath), my eyes well up, and my sincere desires to quantify and abstract fail utterly. My heart goes out to all of you.
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September 11th was 10 years ago, tomorrow. It brings up the concept of war. It makes me wonder about the bush family and how they raised their children. Patton and the sand pebbles, and John Wayne mythology. Church, and the severe delineation of right and wrong. War has always been an amplification of stupid squabbles to me, that should never be brought to a national level.
God, that is a gross simplification, but better cynical and disillusioned than slaughtering innocent people. Then I think of the Chris hedges book, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, and winder how other families discuss this stuff, or if they do at all. Abstraction is devious, wont to simplification and distance. It has always factored into our thought process though. My brother would read me the world almanac as a child, an we tended to generalize and statisticize to a level of empiricism and extremity that seems quite unnatural. For all of it's accompanying blemishes, this ability to abstract seems so important when we consider the world today, an it seems a shame not to see our leaders discuss it's benefits.
So when we look back at 9/11, and consider the forces that bent our will and anger into all out war on two fronts, you have to wonder. You just do. Wikileaks makes you wonder. The apparent inability of Obama to change who governs our finances is incredibly disturbing. Incredibly. But nearly as or more disturbing is the questions we have to ask ourselves. Could bush have been right about invading Iraq? Not linked at all to 9/11 (most likely), but is there a tie between that and the newest rebellions of the Arab spring? Did we jostle that with the toppling or saddam? We will never truly know, and who is to say yet if things will be better or worse??
Do the power elite think this abstractly? Do they tryst to discuss their maintenance of vast wealth? Would someone actually die if the rich were dethroned? Nobody needs a billion dollars or a private jet. Every single person in the entire world deserves free food, shelter, and medical care. These are what I think about on the days before 9/11. If I think about the specifics, the real people, the families, the heroes who helped (and who are being shafted without help because of medical problems in the aftermath), my eyes well up, and my sincere desires to quantify and abstract fail utterly. My heart goes out to all of you.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Work
Was just about to shift to thrice for that early morning kick from the moving mountains first two tracks off of pneuma and then the nicely tempo'd alastika started. Band loyalty reborn.
Location:Tuesdays like mondays
Monday, September 5, 2011
Walking the streets
Destined, autechre, animal collective. All accompany me on this Monday's travels between st Vincent de pauls, Albertsons, and home.
I have got many finds, starting with eye of the tiger by survivor:
Bob Dylan, 7"'s by the dream factory, and some really great reads, including the reluctant fundamentalist (great title that brings to mind the brilliant Abu-Assad film, paradise now, which was discussed as a potential novel to define the post-911 era), and monkeys and apes, a biology tract by uo's own frances white. Now at albies, gonna grab a few groceries and a pumpkin frappuccino!!
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I have got many finds, starting with eye of the tiger by survivor:
Bob Dylan, 7"'s by the dream factory, and some really great reads, including the reluctant fundamentalist (great title that brings to mind the brilliant Abu-Assad film, paradise now, which was discussed as a potential novel to define the post-911 era), and monkeys and apes, a biology tract by uo's own frances white. Now at albies, gonna grab a few groceries and a pumpkin frappuccino!!
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Friday, September 2, 2011
Gaspar Noe
A while back I watched Noe's Enter the Void and was thoroughly impressed. Now, it's on to his I Stand Alone.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
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